03/27/20 03/27/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the united states, this is democracy now! >> we are proud of the product. we think we did jiu-jitsu on it. he went from a corporate-first proposal put forth in the senate to a worker-first, democratic workers first legislation. amy: the u.s. becomes number one in the world for coronavirus

infection as it surprpasses chia and italy. congress is voting on a $2 trillion emergency relief package to addressss the economc crisis caused by the pandemic. a record shattering nearly americans have filed for 3.3 million unemplployment benefits.. getting paid. i am the primary w wage earner n my home. i i went ahead and i'll for an employment. we will just ride this out like anybody else, i get. amy: we'll get response from congress number ilhan omar, one of the first two muslim women elected to congress, and also author matt stoller, who argues the "the coronavirus relief bill could turn into a corporate coup if we aren't careful.l." then, shshelter in place? what h happens when you're trapd with your abuser? we looook at domestic violenence during the p pandemic wiwith kae ray-jones, head of the national domestic violence hotline. all that and more, coming up.

welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united statetes of america s become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, overtaking china to lead the world in cases of covid-19. the virus continued its exponential growth thursday, surging to over 85,000 u.s. cases, though the true number is certain to be far higher. over 1300 people across the u.s. have died from the virus, and the death rate is predicted to accelerate in the days ahead. this as president trump continues to defy his scientific advisors and downplay the threat of the endemic. here in new york city, the largest hot spot of the u.s. crisis, 84 covid-19 patients died just thursday as wave after

wave of critically ill people flooded intensive care units and threatened to overwhelm the healthcare system. columbia and new york university medical schools said they will allow medical students to graduate early to join the fight against covid-19 as hospitalizations surged by 40% thursday. with intensive care beds and life-saving ventilators increasingly in short supply, mayor bill de blasio pleaded for federal authorities to ship an additional 15,000 of the life-saving devices -- half of the 30,000 he says are needed to keep c critically ill patients breathing. >> if you have a ventilator, you can save a life and keep someone going, get them through this crisis so they can recover. if you don't have a ventilator, people die who don't need to die. amy: some new york city hospitals have begun splitting ventilators to allow two patients to use a single device as nurses fear a looming shortage will soon force them to

decide whoho lives andhoho dies. new york officials are pleading with the white house to use the defense production act to order companies to manufacture ventilators and other critically-needed medical equipment, but president trump has refused, saying business leaders have promised to meet the challenge without government intervention. "the new york times" reports the white house canceled an agreement with general motors and ventec life systems to produce up to 80,000 desperately-needed ventilatotors over cononcerns about project's1 billion price tag -- or about 0.05% of the cost of the coronavirus relief bill. on thursday, president trump said he doubled new york's doubted -- this is what president trump said, that he doubted the request. pres. trump: i don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000

ventilators. you go into major hospitals and sometimes they will have to ventilators. all they are saying, can we order 30,000 ventilators? amy: that was president trump. politico reports the white house failed to follow hundreds of pandemic response guidelines laid out in a 69-page national security council playbook, squandering more than two months when the federal government should have mobilized to test for new infections while procuring life-saving medical equipment. and propublica has published internal emails detailing how the centers for disesease contrl and prevention underestimated the threreat of the virus and stumbled in communicating policy to local public health officials. elsewhere, louisiana's spike in coronavirus cases measured at the highest rate in the world, with governor john bel edwards

calling on students and retired medical workers to volunteer. louisiana now has over 2300 confirmed cases. detroit has emerged as another hot spot with about 1400 reported cases in michigan's wayne county. chicago has s seen a surge, too, with more than 1400 confirmed covid-19 cases in cook county. chicago mayor lori lightfoot has closed lakefront trail and the riverwalk after crowds of people defied a stay-at-home order. the house of representatives isis voting today on a $2.2 trillion emergency relief bill to address the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. the bill will generate payments to most americans and includes protections for workers, but it is also a massive bailout for a number of industries and corporations. house speaker nancy pelosi said the measure would receive ststrong bipartisan support, but not unanimous consent as it didd

in the senate eaearlier this we. republican congressmember thomas massie of kentucky is considering a procedurural move that could delay passage to the weekend. this vote comes as a record shattering nearly 3.3 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus crisis idled huge sections of the u.s. economy. after headlines, we will get an update on the relief valve from congressmember ilhan omar and matt stoller, who argues "the coronavirus relief bill could turn into a corporate coup if we aren't careful." in immigration news, three unaccompanied immigrant children have tested positive for covid-19 as they remain in custody of the office of refugee resettlement in new york. five staff members and one staff contractor at three separate facilities in new york also recently tested positive for the coronavirus. still, the agency says it will

continue to hold separated children in its custody until quarantines at orr facilities are lifted. this comes as a 52-year-old guatemalalan immigrant heleld ae essex cocounty correctional facility in newark, new jersey, has tested positive. in louisiana, asylum seekers held at the richwood detention center have been on hunger strike for at least four days demanding their release as they fear contracting coronavirus . in georgia, at least 350 immigrants detained at the for-profit stewart detention center, known for its chronic medical neglect, also held a hunger strike demanding their immediate release. in audio recordings, detained immigrants describe cramped conditions, poor planning, and increasing panic among prisoners. >> we are frustrated because of the uncertainty because we don't know in which moment we can be infected with his virus by people who are coming in here from the outside. we could be infected at any

moment. when we go outside, when we go to the yard, would we go eat. we are constantly at risk of infection. so this hunger strike is to come out of humanity, give us our freedom. amy: this comes s as public heah experts, elected officials and advocacy groups are calling on new york governor cuomo to immediately grant clemency to vulnerable incarcerated people, including the sick and the elderly. this is prisoners' rights acactivist laura w whitehorn.. >> anyonone who has any power at this m moment -- the govevernors the e most powerer. he couldld solve this issue immediatately through h his coms he p powers. he has no limit on who he can release. amy: that is laura whitehorn. italy recorded another 662 coronavirus deaths thursday, bringing its death toll to more than 8200 -- more than double the toll ichina where the pandemic began. some italianan patients hahave n transferred d to germany d due o critical shortages of

ventatators and supppplies. spspain recordrded its deadliesy yet, with 769 covid-19 d dths in ththe past 24 hohours. in britain, prime minister boris johnson announced in a video posted on twitter today that he's tested positive for covid-19 and will work from home in self-isolation. and ireland will nationalize its entire healthcare system for the duration of the pandemic. this is irish healththinister simon harris. >atients th this rus will be treed forree and the wille treateas part a sile nationahospital servic today i receivedovernmen apoval thafor the ration of this isis,he state will take ctrol of l privat hospital facilities and managee all of the resourcrces for the,, benefit ofof all of our r peopl. ththere can be no room for a public versus private when n it comes to pandemic. amy: china has announced a ban

on almost all foreigners entering the country in an effort to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections. in japan, prime minister shinzo abe refused calls to lock down cities, citing the severe economic consequences of a stay-at-home order. bars, restaurants, and shops in crowded tokyo remain open, despite a spike in new cases there. officially, japan has over 1400 confirmed cases but the true number is certain to be far higher. in northern syria, civil defense workers known as the " "white helmetets" have pivovoted from responding to government bomb attacks to sanitizing camps for internrnally displaced people. the e head of thee opopposition-controlled idlilib health directorate warns more than 1 100,000 people could dief the coronavirus sweeps through syria's crowded camps, which lack e even basic medical infrastructure. ththis ali hallak, who fled aleo for a camp near the turkish border.

>> you h have seen the situation in the camps. we are afraid. tose tents are not able protect us from the virus. amy: in africa, ethiopia's president has pardoned over 4000 prisoners in an effort to prevent overcrowding in prisons and contain the spread of the coronavirus. this comes as ethiopians are calling on their government to lift months-long internet shutdowns in parts of the country where government forces have clashed with an oromo separatist group. the blackout has left millions unable to access information about the pandemic. in south africa, which began a three-week nationwide lockdown today, two covid-19 deaths have been reported among more than 900 confirmed cases. meanwhile, egyptian authorities have expelled guardian journalist ruth michaelson after she reported egypt has far more coronavirus cases than have been officially reported. in latin america, brazilian president jair bolsonaro has

exexempted churches from coronanavirus-relateted lockdowy classifying rereligious gatheris as essential services, agreeing to dememands from evangelicall leadaders. confirmed coronavirurus cases in brazil have skyrocketeted in the past week to nearly 3000. in mexico, the governor of the state of puebla is facing backlash after claiming poor people are immune to covid-19. meanwhile, the mexican government has temporarily suspended asylum requests as the country attempts to promote social distancing and cancels non-essential services. mexico has confirmed nearly 600 covid-19 cases amid a severe shortage of test kits. back in the united states, the environmental protection agency on thursday announced a sweeping and indefinite suspension of environmental rules, telling companies that will be effectively allowed to regulate themselves during the coronavirus pandemic. under the new rules, big

polluters will no longer be punished for failing to comply with reporting rules and other read. the epa's former of enforcement under president obama told the hill newspaper the move "tells companies across the country they will not face enforcement, even if they emit unlawful air and water pollution in violation of environmental laws so long as they claim that those failures are in amway caused by the virus pandemic. and it allows them and out on monitoring, too, so we may never know how that the violating pollution was," she said. in climate news, extreme ocean temperatures along australia's great barrier reef have sparked the third major coral bleaching event in the last five years. a recent s study by university f hawaii researchers predicts pollution and climate change will destroy 70% to 90% of coral reefs worldwide over the next two decades. in a blow to civil rights, the supreme court issued a unanimous ruling monday that will make it harder for people to sue over racial discrimination in

employment and contract negotiations. the supreme court threw out a lower court's ruling that had given the green light for a $20 billion racial bias lawsuit against comcast, accusing the tv company of discriminating against black-owned channels by refusing to carry their content. the trump administration has indicted venenezuelan president nicolas maduro on charges of narco-terrorism and international cocaine trafficking. attorney general bill barr laid out the charges thursday, claiming maduro's socialists united of venezuela party partnered with dissident factions of colombia's farc rebel movement "to flood the united states with cocaine" while using the drug trade as a "weapon against america." the state department has offered a $15 million reward for information that could lead to maduro's arrest. in a nationwide e address thursday, venezuelan president maduro d dismissed the charges s anotheher attempt by wasashingto stage a coup d'etat. maduro blasted president trump

as a racist cowboy and fired back at the united states' handling of the coronavirus crisis. >> the united states has become . public health threat there is no public health system in the united states. there is no pububc health system. the entire system is private. amy: and 30-year-old indian-american journalist liyna anwar has died after a long battle with an aggressive form of leukemia. her struggle for what might have been a life-saving stem cell transplant exposed racial disparities in the national bone marrow registry and inspired a nationwide campaign urging people of south asian descent to become stem cell donors. to see our coverage of her struggle, go to democracynow.org . and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman.

we are broadcasting from the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in united states will stuff we are broadcasting from new york city. the united states now leads the world in coronavirus cases, overtaking china and italy. the number of cases in the u.s. has surged to 85,000 people. the number i is far higher becae of the lack of testing. as president trump continues to defy his scientific advisors and downplay the threat of the highly contagious disease, at least 1300 people have died across the u.s. and the global death toll is more than 24,000. as much of the united states and the world is under lockdown, the house of representatives is voting today on a $2 trillion emergency relief package to address the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. the bill will generate payments to most americans and includes protections for workers, but it is also a massive bailout for a

number of corporations and industries. the vote comes as a record shattering nearly 3.3 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week amid the coronavirus crisis. this is optician ali nelson, who was laid off amid the pandemic. > we stayed o open as long ae could until it st got to o be too much and o our boss pretty much said,d,e are goining to hae to shutt down until further notice. so that is where w we are at r t now. we are small company s so we are not gettinpapaid. i am the primary wagage earner n my home. fornt ahead and file unemployment. amy: foror more, we go to washington, d., wherere 're joineded by congressssmember iln omar o of minnesota. she is the first of all the american elected to the u.s. house of representatives, one of the first muslim women in congress along with receipted to leave but michigan, and the only

refugee, a refugee from africa. welcome back to democracy now! can you talk about what you u ae voting on today? can you talk about this largest bill, relief bill in the history of united states? what c concerns you most? what arere you supporting? >> thanknk you for havingg me. i i was listenining to you go through h the story and being te epicenter of this pandemicc truy is the w wrong kind of american exceptionalism. we would like to b be on topop f every list. this is s the one list we s shod nevever realllly aspirere to be. i ththink this c crisis and this pandemic really y lays bare the kind of inequalalities that have existed fofor far too long in or country.

and the convnversationons we're haviving right now as we put foh our third relief package shows often athere i is prioritizatition of cocorporate interest and oft not a an interest of the people. today i p plan on voting for ths billll, not because e it is pert are itit is -- for it is sufficient, but i i think in a time where we are facing one o f ththe largest crcrises we hahavd in o our country, it is gogoingo be realllly important for us too everything thahat we can to protect the e lives and d the livelihoods s of the people e of this country.. daysme state just in 10 0 p peoples beeeen 165,00 who o have filed for unemploloyt insurance. nationwide, as y you said, 3 3.3

million. we have to makake sure w we are doing everything thahat we canao delivever relief. so a few of the thingsgs that ar in thihis packakage really align with the progrgressive vision nt we have had in someme of the bis i have introroduced a as we have gone to this c csis. one is that it will offer cash relief. it is not the kind of univiversl or monthly cashh relief that i champipioned, but it will be helpful to a lot of people. exceptionaleing expansnsion of uneloymyment insurance. as youou know, thahat is thankso senator bernie sandersrs whoho e surere that we h had that in the . for the first titime we sesell republicanss get benent out of shape bebecause americicans whoe poor might be able to get a feww extra d dollars even thouough

theyey're going t to be the mosn need dururing this cririsis. we are also seeing anan expansin of the unemployment insurarae where it w will cover people who inne -- who had aa new intntert the job market. peoplele who are self-employede. s self isolating g or are forcrced to isisolate. so it t is going to be a helpful package in t that regegard. we are going to see real relief in myall businesses district come in the minnesota fiftfth, we are seeing a real byeeze and pain being felt small businenesses. and so i introduced the e able t and i believe ththis package currently allows for the visisin ththat i had to be actualized. we are our -- we also heard soo much frorom our local

municipalities -- big cities and small cities. i represent minneapolis and 15 suburban cities, so we know many of themm need the relief that comes -- that is coming in this package toward states and local municipalities. there are mamany governors and mayors around the country like our governor who are s showing exceptional leadership. we are not downplaying this pandemic. we are doing e erything ththey n to protect the public, provide relief. minnesota is one of the few states that has put a moratororm on evictions. they''re working hard to try to make sure there is support for people. of a lockdown sortt in place that helps curb the spread of this virus.

visions that we h have for ththe country that are being carried out by the leadership in minnesota. amy: congressmember omar, the bill includes a $1200 one-time withnt to most americans $500 in addition for kids. you have called for getting cash in people's hands, it should be universal and monthly. how are people going to get this money, even though they get this one shy deal? people in the gig economy. how w is it dedelivered d to th? is the onee piece that this bill is very divergent frfrom, the e vision t that i hd mamany others had. we expectedd t that it would go through thee irs and social securirity to make sure everyone would be able to get thehe money

that they need. and now we're are hearing that this process is going to go through ee irs foror people who have filed taxes before anand hadle whohoave accounts and direct deposits. so it isis going to bebe a veryy messy process. really disheartenining because e know americans need ththis relif today. so any adminisisative delalay is gogoing to exasperate the kind f economicic anxiety and pain many of our community members are feeling. amy: your fellow congressmember rashida tilly has called for the government to give out debcardse access to momoney right away. >> becauause what t you wantnt o makeke sure you are making itt acacssible as possible and that you are not spending m money on

ththe adminisistrative costs. when we make t this process - -t means when we make itt a procecs that goes throughgh so many hoo, wewe know it is not g going to t into t the hands of the people that need it the m most when t y need it t the most.. that is the peace in this legislation that is really devastating because we know the corporations that are getting the bailout are not going t to have difficulties in extracting thee money they are being promised. but the people will. anand that reaeally is when yout to see howow unjust our systemss can be anand how cruel it is toe and and d disconnected resource-less in this country. amy: you and congress member ayanna pressley have introduced legislation to cancel student

debt as part of the covid-19 emergency stimulus package. was thahat included in the bill? explain. >> we were calling for $ $30,000 cancellatition of studentt debt. the bill currently doeoes not he that and has about $10,000 -- again, it is not as clean as it would have been w with ayanna ad i's bill. i i amne thing that exceptionally excited abouout is perfact thehere is deferment student debt s so that people cn get relief for a few months in regards to that. amy: what about undocumented immigrants? they millions and millions and millions of people who are afraid to come forward, perhaps even to get tested -- which is not only protection for them, but for the whole community?

when president trump was a asked about this, whether they would be gone after if they went to a hospital or if they got a test, he said, no, they concert they do that, it is important, he's adjusted, before they are deported to another coununtry. your resesponse? know there are many people who are e still being susubjtedo ice raids, whwho are being put into ice detention. jujust a fewew weeks ago, alexaa ocasio-cortez ofof new york, one of my sisters in servicece, w wt an airpoport due to a tip where she ststopped young chchildren o are being trafficked by an ice agent,t, transport f from ee state e to another.. it is really inhumane to see us continueue in this process. ice detetention c centers are oy

crowded,d, so we have called foa halt in deportations. h halt in alldd for a immigration court proceeeedings because we know t that could bea hotspot for the spread of the virus. we have called for a stop in hahaving ice come into our communities and terrrrorize people. we want pepeople to feel comfortable enough to seek medical attention when they need it. the reason sanctuary cities exist is because it allows those that are most vulnerablble in or communities to be able to access services that they need. when you have vulnerable communities hiding, not seeking the service they need, you put all of us at risk. lead withnt people to humanityty.

we wanant there to be a jusust sosociety. soso when we are a asking for clememency foror those t that al , that are elderly -- that are ill, that are elderly in our jails s and prisons, we are asag for people to be saved who need safe most of isis devastating to knonow that the party of life reaeally devaluess humaman life, regegards to clasr ethnicityy o or gender. and that, i think, is the center of the conversation. amy: congressmember omar, we had on the former director of ice who is calling for ice, which has the ultimate authority in this particular case, to release thousands of detainees. how is this being addressed right now? >> it's not. we have e put out t a letter. to thefice let a letter

administraration, to thehe department of homeland securiti, asking them to doo p precisely t the former director is calliling for.r. we know there are so many p peoe who are e caught up in this unjt immigration system. not everybody is s the violentnt murderer that the republilicans tatalk about. there are so m many people who have a rigight to seek asylum, o have a right to come anand lookk fofor opportunities to o start a new. we need to give them that opportunitity and w we need to protect their lilife at the momement. like i i said, it isis reaeallye astotonishing to see that t the advocatel life does not for all human life. amy: compass numberr omar, you'e been very critical of the $500

billion, what some people are calling a corporate slush fund, that has very little oversight, was strengthened somewhat in the latest bill. others asked why was it not just sliced out of the $2 trillion package? yet the president saying he will be the oversight on what corporations are billed out. how do you feel there are some now protections and safeguards in this bill your voting on todaday abouwhwho getets this?s? trustss of all, nobody trump p and hiss adminisistratin hahave oversrsight over anythih. lelet alolone this s kind of f e welfarare and wewe k know in pvs many has been misused and it took years t to legislate it a and make sure it was going into the hands of the right people. so there are s some protectionsn place, a and i look forward to

what the follolow-ups are goingo strenengthen the kindnd of check and balalances that we wat to put in place. this is when it is going to bee really importatant for congresso exercise their oversight powers to make sure this i independent agency that wewe are going to pt people atas the right the table to be able to make sure that they are protecting american tax dollars. amy: you are the first african refugee to be elected to congress. you are from somalia. africa has been called a ticking time bomb in the coronavirus pandemic. what needs to happen there? what are youour deepest concerns there? >> it is realllly a privilegwhwn we talk aboutut social distcing,

right? i i recently reread an f from my sister who isis cucurrently living in africa. she set in africa, social distancing is jujust not p poss. we know w they don't havehe privivileges in many spots in africa where t they can go and t a a weeks worth of groceries a d have it be r refrigeted.d. havave theicica doesn't broadband capacity or internet capacity, electricity y capacit, to babable to wowork from home r a mamass population. my hope is that the effortsts tt are being put in place by some of the leaeaders there really do work and t the people try to tae as many precautions as thehey c, and that w we don''t stop thinkg about those that are e in coununtries that are not as

fortrtunate at hours. if we're struggling thisis muchs one of the wealththiest countris in the world in providing urgent and proper health care to peoeoe who need it and providingng financial r relief to people who need it and d stabilizizing our economy and deliverering much-neededd serervices to our t vulnerablele, can you imagininet countries that a are heavily populated but don't t have any f those resources -- amy: congressmember, we have to go, but i wanted to ask your overall assessment of how president trump has handled this. from the egregious lack of tests that are available in this country that go to the core of public health strategies to find hotspots come to know how to deal with people, to the issue of protective gear being available to the bravest in this country -- the doctors and nurses and people who are doing sanitation in hospitals being

protected -- can y you assess wt president trump has done? in ththe expertsts we trusust. and donaldld trump, we don't.t. itit is devastating g to watch w much hee i is downplaying thisis cririsis, how m much he is drivn reallyly by his ll numbersrs and whatat is going to happen in the upcoming election. this is the timime f for bold leadershship. thisis is the timeme to make sue you are ptecting e every sininge american. when we think ababout war, , onf the e first things that happenss that youou are told to leave no one behind. so we wanant this president, ths adadministrationon to stop foolg around, to stop downplaying this crisis, to really take this pandemic s serious and protect -

amy: and president trump saying he's going to try to open the easter whenen the doctors s and the s science - -- resesponsibleremely and dadangerous. we want to make sure that peoeoe are beingg protected. liveves are much morore importat than this economy, regardless of what the president or some of the republicican talking heads mightt say. it is really quite devastatingng to see people have a conversationon about what it los like too prioritize anythingng other than preseserving the livs and thee livelelihoods of the peoplele we were elected to preserve. v vigorously o of every single american to have a conversation about thehe lack of

leadership that is being shown and the kind of danger that we are being g put in by a presisit who certainly y doesn't know how -- some haveientists even asked if he knows what t a ventilator i is. and sosoone who clearly doesn't have a clue what it meansns to t country first. amy:y: congress memember ilhan , thank you for b being with us, represesenting the fifth congressional district in minnesota. one of two muslim women, the first two muslim women to serve in congress and the first african refugee to serve there. when we come back, we speak with .uthor matt stoller stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: emmanuel perez. a parody of colombian musician carlos vives's classic hit song: "fresh fruit." i am amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states, new york city. as we look at the massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package -- the largest stimulus bill in u.s. history -- with a guest who argues the country will be unrecognizable after this pandemic if big corporations walk away with trillions of dollars and no strings attached. joining us via video stream is

i-70 guests are representing self-isolating in their homes to protect the larger community and themselves, matt stoller, research director at the american economic liberties project and author of the book "goliath: the hundred year war between monopoly power and democracy." his column for the guardian is headlined "the coronavirus relief bill could turn into a corporate coup if we aren't careful." the house is clearly papassing this unprecedented $2.2 trillion bill today. matt, what are your concerns? >> well, it is not really a $2 trillion bill. it is more like a $6 trillion bill to $10 trillion bill. one reason you can telell is its packed with cocorporate goodiess thatat congress is debating and trying to figure out,, oh, $2 for hospitals or money for cities and meanwhile, couple of days ago, larry kudlow is on a press conference and

says, this is a $6 trilillion bill. it is like, how does it go from $2 trillioion too $60 without anyoyone really noticing? the answerer is, there's a bunch of stuff in there and people on wall street are c chattering abt how it is going to be $10 trillion because what is another fort lee in dollars? that is how you know the bill is packed with stuff for wall street, and it is done through a variety of opaqaque slushsh fun- fefederal reserve, fdic guarante the bank that, a whole bunch off stuff that some of us who work in the financial crisis noticed, paid attention to and said, that is where there stealing the money. there's a bunch of stuff in there that is going to get to boeing and airlines that we know about that has been reported, but also a bunch of stuff that will get to the hedge fund guys that are bunkering down in their underground caves or whatever. meanwhile, the stuff we need for normal people -- the ventilators, the unemployment -- that is going to dribble out. what you will see is the fort

lee dollars to h windows a basically no cost or low guaranteed credit will be used by citibank jp morgan, and then any big monopolists or large companies that can get access to it to buy of their competitors and buy up small business who are honestly now and really distressed state because they don't have any revenue. that is what is going to happen. i look for to the progressives who are supporting this like congress woman ilhan omar supporting a wealth tax later on for all of the well that they are right now transferring to wall street. amamy: cnbc jim cramer said d lt week the economic downturn from the pandemic couldld leave the uniteded states with just three retailers after the crisis ends. >> we come out of this sooner than other small businesses can open -- if we come out of this later, david, they're going to be three retailers. there will be amazon, walmart, and costco. that is something the government cannot afford to have happen.

amy: matt stoller, if you can respond to what cramer said? the white house, president trump singh we are spinning much more time wearing about small business and big business. he did notot say we'rere spendig morere money at small business d big business. >> i don't want to leave e is on trump. this is the fault of f the democrats and nancncy pelosisi d membmbers like ilhan omamar whot spoke e about this not paying attention n to what is in the bill, the fault of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren was the these are the people that had leverage and have the ability to make an a argument ababout what is ill is. ininstead of sayaying this is ad ouout to cocorporate americica d role of a power, they decided to stay quite unlike chuck schumer organize the whole process and do some moral grandstanding. it is really embmbarrassing anda problem becausese they're lyingo the progressivive movement and o the democratic party. so nowow we have no debatate abt what is effectively probably a more significant bill than tarp

in 2008. and all of f the stuff that is happening, the handover of power to wall street is happepening under the really cynical guise of helping people in a pandemic. a lot of this money is going to go -- some of the money is going to go to hospitals and some to help peoplple in the pandemic,co there is some good stuff here. that will dribble out on the ricketety infrastructure on the small business administration and unemployment insurance. this stuff is not going to get out quickly enough. we have to take some responsibility as democrats --, democrat -- as prorogressives, conservatives, republicans, this is a handover of power to wall strereet. and a month either stupid,ing hinder the country r to big business, but that is effectively y what he did. i did not think elizabeth warren was goining to do that. amy: you are a trimming a lot of power to them. looks absolutely.. the leverage point was about the public debate. last week k when mitch mcconnell

was comingng up with the bill l- amy: not including the democrats in this. >> thehe democrats didid not man argument about w what was inin e billll. c callsaiaid,, sure,e, we will that pandemic really. instead of saying that is trillions of dollars for wall street.. conceded to mitch mcconnell and steve mnuchin that giving one chilelean dollars, $4 trilln to wall street was pandemic really. that is nonsense. even today they are not saying what is i in this bill. they don't even know it is $6 trillion verersus $2 trillion. the whole thing is embarrassing anand dishonest. i can see them saying it is a $6 trillion bill -- i will also say i have to -- - we have to get momoney out to hosostals and s l businesseses and to orordinary people that are suffering right now. and it w will happ.. if the democrats had gotten together and blocked this bill,

--ch mcconnell, n nguyen mnuchin and kevin carthy -- amy: let me play bernie sanders speaking wewednesday night about the unprecedented more than $2 trillion emergency relief bill. >> i am very, very, very concerned about a a $500 billion that will go out to the corporate world without - -- let me u underline, withouout the accountability and transparency that is needed. we do not need at this moment in history to provide a massive amount of corporate welfare to large profitable corporations. i think as many of you are aware, you have industry like the -- industries like the airline induststries, among others, that have provided d for stock buybacacks.

bibillions a and billions of dos for stock buybacacks. ththey spent all of eieir cash rewarding themselves and theheir stockholders. and lo and behold, today they need a major bailout. a, do wencern here is, trust the trumpet administration to effectively decide which company will get the loans or the grants? the answer is, no, i do not. do we thihink these loans and grants durininthe polititical season will be used to benefit the president election prospects? absolutely, i do. amy: that is bernie sanders. i also want to ask about the 0% interest loans and b buy bonds d stocks thatt yield 2% to 6% interest.. who o gets t to do this?s? that $500 of all,, billion he was talking about is more like $4.5 trillion. just an fyi. you have anf

account at a large bank, if you are wealthy invnvestor like goldman sachchs, there are a a e set of programams you can get access to o at the federal resee -- at least, this was ththe case in 2008 and the fed s said they are s setting up sisimilar structures. you cacan borrow from the fefedd gamble with it.. gambling,e in your the fed -- you don't have to pay the loan back to the fed. that i is one of the -- this is one of the programs that thehey say, oh, we need to provide liquidity to the market or super boring things that youu kinda go to sleep and you're like, oh, alphabet s soup programs a and l this kind of jargon. that is what it is.. it is just heads i win, tails yoyou lose. that is what a lot of these programs are. the fed has already hired blackrock to manage this multitrillion dollllar bailout, and they said d blacrorock is goining to be allowed to put dissipate in thehe bailout. so they arare running ththe bait and participating in the bailout. before the vote, the bill has

even passed the house -- this is just like for a lot of us who worked in the financial crisis, this is embarrassing. it is a bad joke to watch it go through with literally no opposition from anyone in power. i'm sorry, but bernie sanders grandstanding about an unapplied provision he did not negotiate that was going to die anyway, that is embarrassssing and dishonest and he should not lie to supporters like that. amy: matt stoller, we're going to continue the discussion post show and look at something that no one is paying attention to the coronavirus pandemic, the issue of the decision around the supreme court making around comcast and racial discrimination. you have written a lot about this. we will do that and post democracynow.org democracynow.org it at. matt stoller is research director at the american economic liberties project and author of the book "goliath: the hundred year war between monopoly power and democracy." when we come back, we will look at what sheltering in place means when you are forced to stay with your abuser. stay witith us.

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amy: "hallelujah" to the empty streets of chicago individual shared on social media. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from new york city, now the center of the pandemic in the united states. shelter in place? what happens when you're trapped at home with your abuser? we turn now to l look at domestc violence during the pandemic. as schools shut, public spaces close, and all but essential workers are ordered to stay indoors, domestic viololence services are scrambling to helep vulnerablele people nanavigate e lilives that they say are increasingly unsafe during the pandemic. more than one in three women in the u.s. has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner according to a 2010 survey. in 2018, more than half the violent crimes in the u.s. were domestic violence cases.

with katie ray jones, chief executive officer of the national domestic violence hotline and love-is-respect. she is joining us from austin, texas. thank you so much for being with us, katie ray-jones. talk about what you are experiencing now. what are your greatest concerns during this pandemic where soso many are shut in, , lock down in their hohomes around t the coun? >> good momorning.g. i think k you'rere speaking very much t to the crux of what we ae most concernrned witith. we note many victimims and survivorors of domestic vienence are currentntly shelterining in place e with h her abusive partr and wewe have started to hear fm any survivors who are explaining about t how covid-19 9 is impacg the relatitionship, how abubuses beginning to e escalate in the homeme or how they are being further isolated from ththeir social networks, their social support systetems, employment,

financial impact is quite a scary y situation for many women across the country. amy: so what are you hearing? what do you tell people? what can you suguggest to those who are terrified at home righgt now? we say the word "sheltlter-in-place," but it is hardly a shehelter. >> you make a reallyy greatat point. this is really a dire e situatin for a a lot of victims across te country. what we hahave been hearing as e have had situauations w where te survivor is trying to leave but shelters are currerently not dog intakes o othey are full. ththey canannot go to their famy memembers or friends house in nr of exposure,e, certainin if ther parents are e elderly they're nt wanting to go and take their children there. wewe are hearing a a lot o of sy stories about how one woman was being prenteted to go to work. she was not in a community where there was a shelteinin-place.. heher partnener brought out a firearm and bebeginn to o load e firearm as a methodod to keep hr

in the h home. she sasaid that had never happed beforere. this is the firstst time she had seen somethingng like ththis escalate. we have heard from women who did up c calling11 and when popolice came out they y said these were lo violent crimes and they were not in a p position to detetaine abusive e partner. that is a scary sitituation fora lot t survivorsrs. what we are hoping to do right now, recognizing it is going g o be very difficult for a survivor to call l the hotline when the perpetrator r is sitting rigight next to thehem or to be a able o enter r into an onlinene chat wh an advocate when theirir abusive partner r is watatching what t'e doing. there could be serioious consequences and no situtuation. we are imploriring friends, family,eighbors to cocontact the nationonal domestic hotline onon behalf of sosomeone elsese becae you mamay be their only l lifele to education, safety information while we are working for situations where people can't flee the home. amy: what is happening to emergency shelters r right now r

domestic violence victims? >> i think we are seeing anan ararray of different stratategis beingsesed, wchch makes itt difficulult for survivors to knw what their options are. we're hearing somome shelters ae stilill operating and putting ia lot of procedudures to keep the current residedence ralplph and healthy. some are usising motels and hots to p place peoeople in emergegey situations but we know many nonprorofit on a good daday aree under resourced d and don't t ha loofof financial resources to leverage hotels andd motelels fr expenses. someme are not doing intake' right now inin ordrder to keep e currentt residents safafe and se are just at capacity. wesurvivors a are callingng us, are workrking within localal communities to try to place them.. we had a pastor r who called us yeststerday y trying to get sher for a victim and had looked into differentt statates and was not being successful i ifinding a location for that inindividual. we know these arare d dire. wew're doioing a lot of safetyty plananning in plac traragedies -

strategies. ifif a fight breaks out in the home, where is the safest place to move in thehe h home? can yoyou take time e for y youf whether it i is a shohower, journaling, taking a ququiet moment to be able t to gather yr strengngth, recogninizing your coururageous, you're strtrong, brave, surviving every day, but there's not a lot of resources out there right now for people to get connected to. amy: i want to thank you so b beingtie ray-jones, for with us chchief executive officr , of the national l domestic violence hotline. 2331800--- amy: it is so critical that in order not to wash our hands of all of this, we simply wash our hands. when you see someone in you're

afraid to step away because you don't want them to feel like you are afraid of them, don't think of them as the vector of disease, think of yourself as possibly one who could infect others because we can't know with this point. step away. be at a safe distance to make the whole community say. and when you wash your hands, to understand why this is so simple water just and soap. i know for many, it is not even possible to get that water. but if you have access and soap, soap is critical. it is the most important weapon because the coronavirus -- corona is the crown on the virus, which is a lipid and the soap cuts through that. 20h your hands for at least seconds. you know how you see doctors on tv shows washing their hands and putting their arms up? this is the way to do it. sing happy birthday twice if you want to. but you have to scrub those hands.

you have to interlace your fingers and scrub. scrub your fingertips attaches, come everything from buttons to elevator buttons, everything else. watch the back and the front of your hands. you're doing it for yourself and your family, doing it for the whole community to stop community spread. we have to keep each other safe in this very dire time of this pandemic. that does it for the show. i want to thank the amazing team that makes democracy now! happen every day. so many of us working from home in isolation to protect everyone else and the team that comes into do this broadcast and also a belated birthday, happy wishes to miriam barnard. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

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