Alliance for democracy and a senior fellow at the in your moderate for today. With that to introduce our special guest both have had the pleasure of working with. David is the author of race, america russian 100 years of covid interference. Foreignpolicy reporting going the new york times, the new yorker in foreign affairs. Steven is pursuing a doctorate in natural relations at the oxford up as a marshall scholar. He is an associate fellow at Yale University where he received his undergraduate and masters degree i got to know david his interning on Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. John brennan is a distinguished fellow he is a former scholar the university of texas in austin. His director of the Central Intelligence agency where he spent many hours in the situation room and previously served as assistant to the president , Homeland Security and counterterrorism. Specialists in middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john has received cell several awards for his contributio
Now they will be senators. But that is not even the biggest news. Just a few hours ago, biden officials informed us that after almost 65 years of working to build a nuclear weapon, the nation of iran may be just weeks away from getting a bomb. After 65 years of trying. What a coincidence. You all ready know how that story is going to end. Another pointless foreign war. Trillions spent, many dead. The United States gaining g nothing. We have seen that a lot and itt happening again. Joe biden just sent american troops to syria. You didnt know that . Yep. Hours after he became president , american soldiers crossed into the nation of syria. Sending them to syria was one of the first things joe bidenti di. The media forgot to even mention that. In their defense, as noted, theres a lot going on in the news, including a lot of troop mobilization. Syria is not the only place. Washington, d. C. , looks like occupied sarajevo. A small City Overflowing with soldiers. Tens of thousands of troops,
Though still awaits aprooul from the house of rep sentives. That vote expected tomorrow. Jobless claims surging above 3 million americans, far outpacing the record of 700,000 and also well above what economists were looking for around 1. 5 million unemployment claims and the virus itself remains front and center for wall street as italy reports more than 6,000 new cases, the most in five days, the worldwide total now shy of half a Million People wilfred. All of the sectors of the s p higher up 4. 7 . All higher, but one to keep an eye on is energy it has been the best performing. Its now towards the bottom. Still up by 4 oil prices slipped a lot this afternoon. Theyre down 7 , so well hope that doesnt drag the rest of the market lower weve got a huge lineup of gu guesting coming your way, ceo of General Mills, plus peter orszag whether he thinks the stimulus bill is enough to ease the pleading and well speak with the ceo of hertz about their program the give free rentals to new York Ci
Next crucial primary, how Bernie Sanders and joe biden are making the final pitch to voters and this morning a first of its kind move by twitter. How the social Media Company is responding to a message from President Trump. Plus, wrapping up her royal duties, duchess Meghan Markles message to women. And traffic trouble. The astounding amount of time americans are now wasting in traffic and what its costing us. And could it be the new exercise trend . Yoga while drinking beer. There could be a benefit. Well, good monday morning. Im trevor ault in for kenneth moton. And im zohreen shah. We begin with the coronavirus emergency. The number of cases in the u. S. Surging over the weekend spreading to 34 states. At least 22 americans have died. Thousands of people remain stuck on that cruise ship off california. The ship is expected to dock today in oakland. Overnight amtrak confirmed someone who rode a train between chicago and st. Louis last week is likely in infected and the family of a mi
I think its going to be significant, 46,000 or 48,000 but you have the supply chain for gm, all of the construction around gm, so youve got a lot of ancillary folks that have been out of work and manufacturing isnt necessarily what drives the economy, its the consumer primarily and we are a service economy, and even though the numbers might be good, its the manufacturing thats really going tamp down here. Neil john, one one of the thins that im hearing to daniels point, not just 48 to 50,000gm striking workers impacting this but up to 200,000 more in ancillary business suppliers and the rest. What do you think of that . I think the estimate that roughly 75,000 to 80,000 jobs being temporarily lost because of gm strike. Neil okay, so if thats the case and they factored that in, is this just a oneoff, what do you think . A lot of reasons it can be a oneoff, results of slowdown at boeing, census workers who were temporarily hired and maybe are coming off the rolls, a lot of noise in the n