To moderate our panel on Civil Liberties on covid19, we have kristin you of the Hudson Institute and the president of aei, with key Public Policy issues and leading intellectuals. Thank you, welcome one and all. The Civil Liberties issues raised by Government Actions with the coronavirus pandemic. We will hear from more legal scholars in this order, former law time chairman of the Civil Liberties union. Eugene but one of the ucla law school, host of the autonomous website, Julia Mahoney of the university who specializes in property, Public Finance and constitutional law and Mila Versteeg specializes in constitutional law, further information about each is available at the conference website. The run to 90 minutes concluding not later than 5 15 eastern time in the United States, we will have individual presentations and a general panel discussion, questions from attendees. When question time arrives i ask those with questions to click raise hand on your zoom screen for star 9 on your ph
Is not we dont need to be captives or hostage to the idea that in an earlier age there was no physical way, there was no technological way for us to come together and i would suggest that only under the very narrow circumstances anticipated by this resolution could we continue to work on behalf of the american public. I appreciate and yield back you also raised are the point. I dont think theres any constitutional issues revolving revolving around whether or not committees can meet virtually. I mean, the constitution the commit constitution creates the committees. We all agree on that. Miss shalala. Mr. Chairman, i want to make a comment about the suggestion that scientists and Public Health people are making policy in this country. They are not. Were the policymakers. The governors, the mayors are the policymakers. They seek advice during a crisis like this one with a vicious virus from experienced scientists and Public Health officials, and they can take that advice or not take that
Appear such as the effect of reproduction number of the whole country falling below that prison there is still considerable number of new infections the liber of infections is not declining at a sufficient level. Meanwhile white house model numbers just in hours ago they project that number of coronavirus deaths will increase to about 3000 per day by early june now the New York Times reported the data came from an internal document however a white house spokesperson said the document was not presented to the task force so this comes as dozens of states have already begun reopening this is despite an increase in some numbers and the hunt for a vaccine continues on monday the European Commission pledged 1000000000 euros for the pandemics Global Response described as the start of the pledging marathon of the Commission Hopes to raise 7500000000 euros Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged 850000000 euros french president emmanuel mccrone promised 500000000 and german chancellor Angela Merk
Prince mohammed bin solomon that unless the organization of the Petroleum Exporting countries opec started Cutting Oil Production he would be powerless to stop lawmakers from passing legislation to withdraw u. S. Troops in the kingdom for sources familiar say yeah well i dont really understand this all saudi relationship anymore i mean why are we why do we have troops there and saudi arabia anyway why do we have troops and cutter so huge military bases its a waste of money. Why do we have troops in south korea thats a waste of money why do we have troops in germany 50000 american troops in germany thats a waste i want to you know we cause we have is huge military presence all over the world we have a huge cia n. S. A. All these intelligence agencies that we pay you know as taxpayers theyre funded with 1. 00 to 1. 00 trillion dollars a year and when this covert money team thing hits trump is like. We dont know or we think its from china we think its from ohio but what in my opinion the
Advisor gary cohn. And kevin har hark hassett defeg trumps two years of tax cuts. Is this just prfrom two guys who formulated the plan or did the tax cuts really payoff. The tax cuts really paid off. There is always a an anecdote. On machine wh someone maybe dids well, but the majority of americans got tax cuts, if you have a financia 401 k , you pare in that, this year all Asset Classes are up, you have record lows in unemployment across the board, including minorities and women. Overall, this was a great success. You cannot attribute things like unemployment going down, rising markets, and general goodwill in the gdp to tax cuts, those trends were well in place what . Woe let me finish. And wage growth past 2 years 2. 4 . Both slower than it was in 2016. And 17, as in end of obama administration, as you know, i dont think any of it should be attributed to obama or trump. David another fact Federal Reserve had a forecast at beginning of this administration that Unemployment Rate would