I know, he said i was whole heartedly behind the cup of Tea Party of change though, im off to express my support with a cup of coffee party, almost called a floating voter. Ill be back with more in half an hour the the hi a mash guys or this is be kaiser re port. Well here now, we also coming off different places. I think. Right, well you and i have been covering here on the Kaiser Report for the last decade at least, but especially with the last 6 months of as we lead up to the 50th year of fi out when the us went off the Gold Standard in August 15th 1971, weve been looking at all the problems of the Trip And Dilemma with, you know, all the consequences of the exorbitant privilege. And one of the things you see is, as weve covered in nigeria, where theyve turned to bitcoin, weve seen hyper quantization there because they had no access to dollars during this crisis. During cove it as World Trade shut down, were seeing a similar situation emerge and st mancha. And i believe bitcoin fixe
A summer in which restrictions were widely lifted across the continent and perhaps people are being lulled into a sort of sense of false security which is being absolutely shattered now and of course theres the economy of it all to think about countries have now got to think about what sort of restrictions are put in place now theres a deeper luptons to go back to the sort of measures that were in place earlier in the year because of the sheer cost of them so lots of countries in instituting ranges of measures that they hope will help but short of a full lockdown possibly wont the Czech Republic theyre one of the worst affected countries in europe has in fact gone back to the massive restrictions that we place in the spring that something the government had told the country repeatedly would never happen but the Health Ministry there reporting that the health of the Health Service infrastructure is on the brink of collapse possibly within the next fortnight so they feel they have no cho
Hidden education emergency more on the millions of children will miss out on school because of the pandemic. Im joining with the sports. Played to play next seasons Champions League cup winning their appeal against a 2 year ban. While the political shift towards the right in Eastern Europe has got yet another boost with polands incumbent on to do the nominally winning the president ial runoff he secured just over 51 percent of the vote in a close race against the liberal wausau mayor ruffle toss coffee to this party already controls parliament and this result means it can press ahead with its conservative agenda alexey obrien reports. It was a vote seen as a. Basle for polands future and the results show a country divided but by a tiny margin andrzej duda will stay in office. Hes been there for 5 years propped up by the rightwing law and Justice Party yet for all the control they wield in poland due to filed to secure a comfortable when they are not a bad example i want to make it clea
Starr hopkins. Followed by commentator Armstrong Williams. And john dicken talked about infections in Nursing Homes. Washington journal is next. Join the discussion. Host one week ago today, africanamerican george floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Protests, civil unrest, and violence and reaction to that expanded to some 75 u. S. Cities, building to a crescendo over the weekend. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal for this monday, june 1, 2020. Well start the hour asking you this hour about the president s leadership in response to the unrest, the president largely communicating, commenting on the issue saturday, some at nasa, and largely leaving his response to twitter. What are your thoughts . Republicans, use 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, all others, 2027488002. You can also send us a text, that line is 2027488003. And make sure that you leave us your name, tell us where youre texting from. cspanwj. , were, your comments welcome on
Talk about the reaction to the George Floyd Killing, which has grown exponentially just over the last couple days. What is your reaction to what you have seen in the country . Specifically the d. C. Im from d. C. , i grew up here. My grand i graduated from the first integrated high school. Its personal. We keep seeing shootings, an indifference to black life so i think now were at a tipping point. Were dealing with 400 years of tragedy and i think a combination of factors have come together and theyre not going to allow us to ignore it. Host when you look back at the video to watch of george floyd under arrest, Police Officer with his knee on the nevk of orge floyd for eight or nine minutes, the reaction of the people in the crowd. Obviously theres filming going on. Does it surprise you that these sorts of tactics still exist in American Police forces given the presence of not just social media but media in general, given the presence of changes in leadership including minneapolis and