John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Virus. Welcome to the show in the last few minutes u. S. President donald trump has left the hospital where he was being treated at for 19 was seen walking out of the Walter Reed Medical Center in maryland where hes been treated since friday and was driven into a waiting helicopter for the short flight of back to the white house the president had earlier tweeted that hell be quote back on the campaign trail soon. Well straight to washington then and our correspondent Stephanie Simons who is standing by for us just on a before leaving hospital a trumpet tweeted dont be afraid of cove ed dont let it dominate your life but this is a disease that has killed over 210000 people in the u. S. And impacted countless others from where you are how exactly is the virus affecting day to day life. From where i am every day between 800 or 700000 americans die from where i am thousands are out of work a 1000000 out of work 60000 people lost work just in the other few days 34 days ago airlines are shut
U. S. President has threatened to pull the u. S. Out of the organization and cut off funding for the director general of the trump improvements based on his criticisms within 30 days he accused the u. N. Agency of being too close to china. Is calling. Into q. Shirking responsibility is to support. Final decision and folly to fund the w. Even before trump had issued his incendiary letter to the World Health Organization it was clear he was about to attack. And i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time and again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of china you know it was those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w. H. O. Of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substan
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Complete we turn to the issue of data breaches. This is not a new issue. The committee has been focused on the Consumer Impact since before i was elected to the senate. The september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first highprofile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. Choice point was a data Aggregation Company originally created by equifax who as fate would have it is represented here today. In terms of the inquiry the major data breaches, we have come full circle. Congress and this committee paid close attention to data breaches big and small. The committee has entertained proposals to strengthen requirements for Companies Across the board and impose federal requirements for companies to notify consumers following discovery of the breach. We are in the air of major data we are in the era of major data breaches, including equifax and yahoo that we are examining. The yahoo breaches are larger, Equifax Breach