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are in the eastern or central .ime zones, (202) 748-8000 if you re in the mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. send us a text. (202) 748-8003 is that number. a very good wednesday morning. you can start calling you now as we show you part of president trump s speech yesterday in phoenix, arizona, highlighting his administration s response to the coronavirus pandemic. [video clip] we do all of these tests and we find pockets and we find people we find cases and they say that cases have jumped instead of saying what a job we are doing with testing. we did the job with testing and we did ventilators and we came up with tests. we have 70 different types of tests. it is a lot of tests. other countries that have done very well with testing, they call us, and they say nobody has been able to do the job you have done. the l.a. ones who cannot say that are the fake news media people the only ones who cannot say that are the fake news media people. [booing] someday it
us with your first name and city , youate at (202) 748-8003 can also join the conversation on twitter or facebook. yesterday follows the news that the unemployment rate the highest rate since the great depression. we want to hear from all of you. becomingy about unemployed because of the pandemic. we begin with the debate on the floor. here is david schweitzer, the republican from arizona making the argument for the legislation. phone calls last couple weeks talking to that small business person and you could almost hear the tears on the others of the call. you could hear the stress, the almost panic that they are about to hurt the very people they work with. because their business is playing. a promise that payroll protections money that ran out a couple weeks ago. that and we engaged in a type of cruelty because we sat here and engaged, we are better than this. we knew what we had to do. let s never do this again. for arizona, what we are about to vote on is 202,000 jobs. t
facebook. a very good saturday morning to you. columnist for the washington post. he joins us this morning on the phone. do we owe itasks, to society and ourselves to tune out the news? how do you answer that question? guest: good morning. weaid in the article that needed to ask this question about how much time and energy we are giving to the news, particularly to the ego chamber echo chamber of the news that most informed citizens find themselves trapped in. i was taking off from a really provocative longer essay in the guardian written by oliver berkman, who points out that for most of history, it s been relatively hard to find information. it was the duty of the good citizen to seek out that information in order to be informed. because of digital technology, all of a sudden, we find ourselves in the opposite situation. we are drowning in a sea of information. it is everywhere. the people who put information wayshere are competing in overt and sometimes covert to grab an
three new nonfiction books, sunday, 6:20 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. host: jennifer kavanagh is on your screen, a senior political scientist at the rand corporation. she was the lead author of a new report studying news media subjectivity over the past three decades. before we dive into that report , remind us what what the rand corporation is and what you do. guest: rand is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, founded in 1948. most people know us for the work we do on national security. 8. most people know us for national security. we have a strong portfolio of domestic work looking at civil justice, education, health care. our mission is to inform policymakers with research and analysis. we publish 1000 reports each year and they are all available for free on our website. and.org, where you can find this report. report?you do this guest: a couple years ago, last aar actually, we published report on truth decay. we use that term to refer to the diminish