Rips into Silicon Valley and defends the companys government work and no symptoms, no test. Why the cdc is quietly updating its coronavirus testing guidelines normally, jim, i wouldnt start there, but you were just tweeting a moment ago about how important testing is as the number the sevenday average of new tests in this country is the lowest since early july. I just think that the main gap in the system is you hear people say, well, my daughter just got it from college and weve been all trying to test in the family, its five days, we dont know what to do. I think that that halting nature of what to do has gripped this country and has changed it from a country where you go places to a country where you stay at home its a country where you do not travel overseas, its a country where youre frightened over a five and sevenday period endlessly and we live with the tyranny of it. Testing would end it, but its got to be instant. Cant be a lab a lab is a big, big obstacle. Yeah. We will talk
If you get too much data you actually create a lot of friction in the Decision Making you start shooting a story. Here in moscow now some. Of the headlines stories were tracking this hour 1st pennsylvania avenue guests invited to the white house to donald trump speech at the end of the Republican Convention complained of being heris to as they left the event senator rand paul says he was targeted and wants the f. B. I. To investigate. Senator claims that both he and his wife were set upon by crowds the test was shouted down at them and so pushed the officers with with them ron paul says that he felt their lives are as. They were shouting press you know to stick to killers to hurt us but theyre also saying shouting save her name Briana Taylor. In the black lives matter protesters were demanding that the senate to say the name of Briana Taylor was a black woman who was fatally shot by police in her home it appears they didnt know that ron paul actually sponsored the justice for Briana Ta
Independent and asking a lot ofd republicans. Welcome to Washington Post live. Im bob, nationalst political reporter at the post. This morning i am joined by senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont, former democratic president ial candidate. He joins us from burlington, vermont but good morning, senator. Thank you for being here. Good to be with you. Lets cover a lot of ground. We have 30 minutes here and getting two issues. First up, the pandemic. The death toll continues to rise and millions of americans are out of work and as a u. S. Senator what do you want to see as a priority in the next round of legislation . The first thing we have to appreciate is how unbelievably rare the current moment is. I thank you can argue we are experiencing something that is unprecedented in thern history f this country. Europe has 80000 people that have died from the virus and 30 Million People have left their jobs in the last couple of months. The first thing we have got to do, as a nation an
To have change our way of life is anyways. Is this is our shuttered and millions of americans are teleworking for the first time. Churches and schools are closed. Healthcare workers are working around the clock and just in the last five weeks race on the numbers i sawks this might look like nearly 30 million americans filed for unemployment. Most believe were already approaching the highest percentage of unemployed since the greatye depression. Now more than ever americans need to know that their leaders are working for them, and that they have voices as work to navigate in this pandemic. In a world where its no longer safe to be within six feet of each other, congress has to learn to adapt. Now the first time weve need to ensure the continuity of congress. For example, with the Nuclear Threat during the cold war, u. S. Government constructed a large bunkerrn for congress so we woud be required to meet outside of washington. Area where there is not a physical meeting location at risk,
Necessary and has called for an urgent meeting of the g 20 promised to modi is carrying it to organize i link up between all the g 20 leaders i think thats i think thats a Commendable Initiative the struggle obviously supports that and even more agent maybe that would be needed would be a further meeting of the g 20 finance ministers and Central Bank Governors this is a Health Crisis but it has very serious economic impacts. In new zealand the number of people infected has gone up after a person traveled from australia despite having tested positive for corona virus itself isolation period of 2 weeks to travelers entering new zealand has come into force but those coming from small South Pacific island countries with no reported cases are exempt were going to step out there of course meant things like spot checks to ensure people are self isolating and if you dont like there are quarantine powers to us and on new zealands east coast passengers on a cruise ship docked in akaroa town are