surrounding statement. i think with eit, the reason that i am grey, is you have to look at why it's done in the first place. eit wasn't necessarily to gain information. eit was to make people complacent so we could then get it. so, yeah. >> let's just say, i was really interested to see, you are like, i don't think we should torture, torture doesn't work. but -- >> torture and eit are not the same. >> see, nice and grey. so, before we, i want to thank you for coming here. >> thank you for having me. >> and for the book, i mean, for anyone who is not considering checking this book out, you are crazy. it's really one of the most interesting ones. it's, reading it as a narrative is fantastic to kind of get that, i was so mad so many times in this book. the one thing she does and see if you -- she changes all the names. but, god, i just wish you had

publicly shamed some of the people at quantico, as i wanted to get in my car. >> i promised your attorney that was not possible. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. thank you for being here. >> she is going to stay and sign some books afterwards, if you want to take a chance to purchase the book and have it signed afterwards. i implore you, please, don't rush up here to talk to her. we will get her out there to talk to everybody and sign books before midnight tonight. please join me in welcoming tracy welder for taking the time to be here. >> thank you. we join back, she is with the american action forum. you can hear us now, okay? >> i can hear you now. thanks for having me. >> thank you. we did start talking about the issue at least. but i wanted to get your sense, your an analyst at the american action forum, of what the condition of child care here in the u.s. was before covid-19 hit

and how would you describe it today? >> all right. so, before covid-19, we already had a child care capacity problem. there weren't enough centers. there were too many children, conditions were not good. and the quality was just not up to par. so coming into the pandemic, we were seeing a system that was already broken, only exacerbated by this problem. so, where we stand today is post-a whole bunch of state shutdowns, limited capacity, led to 30% of child care workers being laid off. and now we're in a stage where we're trying to, you know, regain some of the economic gains we've had over the last year, get people back to work. parents are going to struggle to be able to find affordable and

available child care as they look to return to work. >> put the phone numbers on the bottom of the screen for our guest, isabel soto, parents called 202-748-8 oo202-748-8000. explain what the american action forum is, what its mission is. how it's funded. >> repeat the question. 202-748-8000. >> your american action forum, tell us about it. >> oh, american action forum, we're a center think tank. we focus on rapid response quality pieces to inform the public as well as policy makers on the hill. in terms of fundings, like i heard you ask the question on funding. i don't know about that, we're a

501(c)(3). that has nothing to do with the work that i do. i stand by everything that i write. >> let's hear from rash i'd malik a senior policy analyst at the center for american progress testified at a hearing this past week on child care and covid-19. he addressed the impact of covid-19 on child care facilities. we'll take a look and come back to talk more. >> one-third of the child care work force lost their jobs in april. those jobs may not come back without a public investment. revenues have been decimated due to lower enrollment, while operating costs associated with reopening have increased dramatically. without new federal funds to support the physical infrastructure of child care facilities, we should expect diminished child care supply, which could inhibit our economic recovery. and to this point, the center for american progress, just yesterday, published and on letter to policy makers, signed by 100 prominent economists who stated that, quote, effective

government response to the child care prooifs crisis will play a vital role in the reopening of workplaces. without major immediate and ongoing investments in our child care infrastructure, we could very well lose as much as half hoff our country's child care capacity. ultimately, we could be left with a child care system that is only accessible for the privileged, limiting access for children for whom benefits of child care are the greatest. we risk economically disastrous outcomes as women take on more and more unpaid child care duties and put their careers on hold or reduce their hours worked. >> so isabel soto, he's saying that child care will be a greatly reduced, available to only a few and lots of economic fallout from all this. what's your take on all this? >> i think that's absolutely right.

the concern is that a lack of child care is going to make it much harder for people to return to work. so as much as we'd like to see a v-shaped economic recovery, we're looking at about 30 million parents who might face this challenge and not go straight back to work because of these child care concerns. the other thing i heard was we need some sort of support. this is an ongoing problem. it's not new. a lot of people have tried to find solutions and the pandemic is really just highlighting that something's needs to be done. the question is what should be done? so the federal government has already given aid to the c.a.r.e.s. act and provided options to the first coronavirus response act. so many my opinion when it comes to policy, we need to be very cautious. we are in a crisis of public health as well as this child care, returning to work crisis. we need to make sure that the policy we put forward doesn't

make things worse long term. >> you mentioned what government can do. we've touched a little bit on the bailout proposal by senators warren and smith, $50 million. we can put back on the screen the main provisions. tell us more about what you know about this particular proposal and is it generating a lot of dialogue on the hill? does it have a chance of passing? >> so, this is one proposal of many. there are a lot of different proposals like this to increase funding by the million, by the billions. we have already done some of this. i mentioned through the c.a.r.e.s. act by allocated -- >> we are live this morning for a hearing of the civil rights and civil liberties subcommittee of the house oversight and reform ". the subcommittee is looking at violent attacks against journalists. congressman jamie raskin of maryland covers this. >> we want to thank you for