Tech, 202 n send a text,03 is that number 202 7488003 is that number. Is day number four of New York Times adding on that story. Heres the focus on todays lead in the publication, cash discovery tipping off spies. Special operations officers in afghanistan alerted superiors as early as january 2 a suspected russian plot to pay bounties to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan host here is the headline from usa today. The president says in this piece that facing strong criticism from democrats, trump on twitter said that neither he nor the Vice President had been briefed on the assessment. So, early in the day on sunday the president tweeted this distinctse are two tweets from the president at opposite ends of the day, yesterday. Reaction has been swift to this story. Here is joe biden, presumed democratic nominee for president. [video clip] a truly shocking revelation ist, if the times report true, i emphasize again, President Trump, the commanderinchief of american troops
Responsible for overseeing Nursing Homes to testify today. She was offered dates and times of her choice this month and next month. She was offered the opportunity to come in person or appear virtually from her desk. Administration, which seems more terrified of transparency and accountability then covid19, has declined to provide any witness with the courage to face the responsibility for the thousands of deaths that have occurred. These were send a crisis that existed long before covid19 occurred. We will learn from a nurse who took it on herself to purchase protective equipment with her own funds for her staff. Including preventing evictions and appropriate settings. Like sending nursing home residents to homeless shelters. Thousands of nursing home residents are being evicted across the country to homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings because there is a natural incentive for some homes to take more lucrative patients. We will get their perspective. Much of this crisis
You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
This is one thing i know many of to hear about today is how have they capitalized on the instability of covid19 . The geopolitical priorities are shifting. One of the areas where we dont see stability but on the same end, we do not see a threat to the homeland. It is clear today many of the American People are united by the fact that they want to see us invest at home but as a new yorker, i can tell you this the memory of 9 11 lives on. Not just 9 11, but the myriad of other terrorists attacks. To move on, i know many of us the importance of coalition building. Proactively and robustly, how do we efficiently and effectively fight the terrorist threat . Particularly the gis terrorist threat. How do we fight it . The terroristt threat of today, not just yesterday. We are certainly seeing a resurgence. Some appear to have escaped. Germany wereis in arrested after they planned to attack a u. S. Air force base. In may, a florida man was arrested who planned and attempted to carry out a mass
John pistole, just weeks before this event. I am pleased that the tsa is undertaking a review to see what lessons to be learned from lac and i look forward to the results. I encourage them to bring in stakeholders. They have a significant role to play. And in addition to the hearing is an opportunity to also exam some of the findings in gaos report on screening passengers by Technique Program. Referred to as spot. I had the opportunity of observing this on 911. I am a fan of the program. I have seen it work firsthand. I have been a strong advocate of this. But the studies have shown less than favorable and show they limit the funding until an accurate study is included and use behavioral indicators to identify behavior. It will be three years before we can begin measuring the effecti effectiveness of spot. I look forward to hearing the argument and the argument that spot is riskbased. I think that is a good premise. I would like to hear the explanation used to support this. I am disapp