The politicking on larry king with millions of americans hoping for additional stimulus checks and enhanced Unemployment Benefits can the parties agree on another bipartisan call the 19 relief package were talking about that would be honest to Senate Former u. S. Representative from ohio a former mayor of cleveland and a candidate for the democratic president ial nomination in 20042008 ok millions of americans hanging on to this whats going to happen and so theyre going to come to an agreement well they better have a situation where people are worried about being evicted about going into foreclosure they need money the government has no trouble when it comes to propping up wall street we have to do main street and that of course is going to me another stimulus check and it has to me Unemployment Benefits extended as well. If you were in congress what would be your plan well i do a couple things 1st of all i think that we are at the point where we need a bill that i talked about years a
Time for a National Health care program and its its astonishing to me larry that the democrats can take a stand for this in the platform in this election that they cannot say once and for all we have to have health care for all of our people if nothing else but what does it take that you cant even get it with a pandemic i mean come on. Harry truman proposed that in 1946. The year i was born so look i brought its the Democratic Platform Committee in 2000 and i was told by the Gore Campaign then that you know they asked me not to present it and so you have course i presented it anyway but the point is that this is an idea whose time its come again and again and again and now during the pandemic it is urgent that we strengthen the Health Safety net by making sure that everyone has access to health care and that the government plays a significant role in helping to pay for it one quote can President Trump do in this economy cant spend money thats congress can issue an executive order what
Welcome the politicking im larry king should businesses be protected from coronavirus related lawsuits Republican Leaders have said any future economic aid package will pass or fail on this issue will start the conversation with former republican congressman Bill Mccollum of florida he also serves as the attorney general of that state and he joins us from florida all right bill should businesses be protected from future lawsuits well i think most of them should be very because the fact is that we are trying to come out or will be trying to come out of a severe Economic Situation in which Small Businesses particularly are vulnerable d already and i have litigation going on about connections to the virus itself particularly those that may be charged with some aspect of the actual disease or some precipitation or aggravation and it strikes me that that thats wrong the same thing is true with the doctors high. Spittles and all the care givers them out there giving care its not easy in norm
The doctors we and we didnt know how bad the virus was going to be so now we have a lot more we dont have everything we want we dont have all the to discus we dont have all the masks although theyre being produced very rapidly right now but we have enough to be able to save a lot of lives and and handle the situation of people kamil larry this country was based on risk we all took risks as americans years ago our ancestors anyway did when the ohio territory or through us territory was settled incredible number of plagues of diseases if you read back on history that our forefathers withstood lot of people died but a lot of people lived they didnt shut down their businesses they went on they accepted some of that as a reality of life so in things true of war we dont like casualties none of us do but in a way were in a war its not the same exactly but we are so if we can minimize them we save every life we can we take every step we possibly can do which were going to the process of doing
Affected badly yes but we have to get our country open art is that putting economics over health. Actually i think theyre both go together in this case the real reason we went to the shutdown and most of the places around the country had to go there was because we did not have the supplies the equipment the hospitals the doctors we and we didnt know how bad the virus was going to be so now we have a lot more we dont have everything we want we dont have all the to discus we dont have all the masks although theyre being produced very rapidly right now but we have enough to be able to save a lives and and handle the situation of people kamil larry this country was based on risk we all took risks as americans years ago our ancestors anyway did when the ohio territory or through us territory was settled incredible number of plagues of diseases if you read back on history that our forefathers withstood lot of people died but what people lived they didnt shut down their businesses they went o