4. 8 million numbers worldwide confirmed. 1. 5 million of those cases in the United States. 318,000 deaths and over 90,000 deaths in the United States. 28,000 people have recovered. Look at the righthand side of your screen. You can find this on the Johns Hopkins website. Before we get to your thoughts on the confidence level in the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic we want to begin with the president s comments yesterday that are making making news, what he had to say. Bout taking hydroxychloroquine President Trump [video clip] President Trump a lot of good things are coming out. Many oftline workers, them happen to be taking it. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine, you are taking it . Pres. Trump hydroxychloroquine, right now. Ive heard its good. Ive heard a lot of good stories. If its not good, ill tell you right. Im not going to get hurt by. Its been around for 40 years for malaria, lupus. Frontline workers take it, a lot of doctors take it. I think people sho
Its definite. But, and this is a big but, you know what . I think its time that we just shade things i think we should take a little off the table. Why do i say that . Its not just because when i walk around downtown manhattan, im hearing more hey, make me some money cramer catcalls than i am booyah or i love the show sho sho shout outs its all the issues that have dogged the market suddenly seem to have gone away. So im feel like we got to kind of pan gloss moment here pangloss frankly, it means that were in a position let me just say the pangloss sellers, thats not what im talking about, the great vineyard in sonoma i like that. Were not talking about delicious cabernet here. Were talking about voltaires pangloss all is for the best isnt the best of all possible worlds pangloss whenever we start getting that vibe, it makes me want to sell something, because the best of all possible worlds nevertheless first of all, lets talk about whats going on right now, right now because there are
Antisemitism in the u. S. Following the hamas attack on israel. We want to get your reactions to the speech. How do you define antisemitism . Do you think it is on the rise . If you are jewish, how do you define it . Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independent colors can call 202 7488002. You can also text 202 7488003. Welcome to todays washington journal. People get started with a portion of the president s speech from yesterday. [video clip] President Biden we must not give safe harbor to anyone for everyone in our nation. We know that scapegoating and demonizing any minority has affected every minority and our democracy. We had to put these principles into action. I understand people have strong beliefs about the world. In america, we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech. To protest peacefully and make our voices heard. There is no place on any campus in america for antisemitism, hate speech or violence of any kind. [applause] whether
I learned to do that back in class in the fifth grade, so thats the way we are going to do this. I will introduce them individually as they appear. First, we have jeff broome, who i have known for many years. Jeff is very active in not only the academic world, but also the world of popular history, and writes magazine articles for true west, wild west magazine, and belongs to many western organizations. He got his phd at the university of colorado in boulder. Colorado seems to be a theme here today, because of where people are buried, even though they did not want to be buried there. [laughter] that is pretty bad, you know when you kidnap a dead body. , they kept him on ice for like six months and then planted him up there now, where he resides. He could reside here in the vastness and the beauty of the bighorn basin, and towering trees would line his grave. And instead, he now has all of the radio and Television Towers for the city of denver surrounding him. But im sorry, i digress. [
It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american historian. He is an awardswinning author, writer and television permanent. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. He has reach add very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognize