"velshi" starts now. good morning. i'm ali velshi. it is sunday august 9th. 86 days until election day. america surpassed 5 million total cases of covid-19. more than 163,000 americans have lost their lives from the disease. on friday, the trump white house rejected a compromise offer from congressional democrats on the next round of coronavirus relief. refusing to meet in the middle or move at all for the betterment of the american people. yesterday the self-described best dealmaker of all-time felt this was one deal he couldn't secure and decided to disregard the legislative branch of government entirely and take unilateral action with questionable constitutional authority. dive into what trump actually did or in some cases is trying to do in four executive orders. number one, extended deferments and the waiver for student loan

interest for the rest of the year. that's a good, helpful plan reportedly easily agreed to by all side during all of the latest negotiations. next, a new federal moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, comes more than a week after allowing it to expire letting literally tense of millions live for days in fear they would be homeless in the coming days or months. in other words the prez used american's worst fears as a bargaining can chip for negotiations. and extending unemployment benefits through no later than december 27th or reduced level $400 instead of the previous $600 a week. a major sticking point during recent negotiations answers the federal government only paying 75% of the costs passing on the rest to already busted states. when they'd get the mun, trump

responded, "soon." it's unclear of his authority to do this since congress has the constitutional authority to determine federal spending. finally, the executive order which does absolutely nothing to help any of the millions upon millions of unemployed americans, something which directly harms the millions upon millions of americans who rely on medicare and social security. the item that trump vowed to veto any relief bill efforts over, something which most congress' democrats and republicans actually oppose, donald trump signed into executive order his pay roll tax holiday. back-dated to august 1st expiring end of the year, the order dates pay roll tax -- on workers earning less than $100,000 a year. if you aren't working, you don't have an employer. no pay roll tax payable for you. does absolutely nothing to help unemploy the americans. speaking about what we all pay for, ar the executive order the

president jetted to the hamptons with fund-raisers with supporters. nothing set fighting for the people taking a private aircraft from a private golf club you own to private fund-raisers in the hamptons with the american people picking up the tab. trumps campaign events rarely start hours earlier in that signs room at his golf club. >> if i'm victorious november 3rd i plan to forgive the taxes and make per nent cuts to the pay roll tax. make them all permanent. now, joe biden and the democrats may not want that. they don't want that. they'll have the option of raising everybody's taxes and taking this away. but if i win, i may extend and terminate. in other words, extend it beyond end of the year and it were ete the text. see what happens. biden probably won't be doing that. you'll have to ask him. i don't think he knows what he's doing.

>> okay. just remember. this rein a campaign event. this was signing of an executive order by the president. that laughter and applause you heard at the end of the clip was from several dozen members of trump's private club. not the normal backdrop for signing of an executive order but the normal backdrop for a campaign event. joining me, council of mick advisers and university of chicago's booth school of business. good morning, austan goolsbee. first, talk about the pay roll tax cuts. not something everybody thinks of all the time. what does it do and why is it important the president decided to do away with it? >> well, you heard the president saying he wants to get rid of that pay roll tax cut. what it does is pays for social scuty. this is literally -- somebody had proposed add legislation, get rid of the pay roll tax cut, we would say the person's trying

to undermine and destroy the social security system. now, that might not be a surprise the president's own budget he's proposed has malt pop ti multiple times tried to cut the social security system, the first time proposing a frontal assault on the way we finance the mainstay of retirement security in the country. so the only thing i'll say is, he knew this. they've been proposing this pay roll tax cut for months, and it's not just democrats. virtually all republicans in congress have opposed this idea. precisely because it's going to undermine social security. you then add on top of it, i've always said that we shouldn't spend more time thinking about donald trump's policy ideas than he spent coming up with them, and that at the end of that sentence we're already gone ahead and violated that rule.

now we have to do this. totally ill conceived, it was done at a fraternity bender, and on a cocktail napkin, we have to think it through, because they're actually trying to do this. i don't think he has the constitutional authority to change the tax code without the approval of congress, but they're going to try to do it. and i kind of think this is a sign that, if the president loses in november, there's not really any lower bound to what he's going to try to burn down before the biden administration comes in. >> so the pay roll tax is paid. it's a percentage of what an employer pays you and they automatically deduct it from your check. both employees and employers pay it. sort of not relevant to the immediate problem? right? immediate problem, collapse and demand and hence a bunch of people out of work. if you are not employed or employer without employees at the moment or fewer employees

payroll tax is not relevant at this moent? moment? >> 100% right. only pay if receiving pay. you see the fica line that you're paying payroll taxes. if you're one of the 25-plus million people that lost their jobs in this catastrophe, you're not paying payroll tax. so cutting the payroll tax and going through the employers is no benefit to you. so that's another reason why everyone that actually sets policy told the president this was not a good idea. that we should talk about the unemployment insurance gimmick that the president is proposing. people said, let's emphasize money to states so they don't have to lay off millions of workers. let's try to emphasize getting relief to the people hardest hit, and this does none of those.

>> talk to me about the logic? if you take away the payroll tax, which funds things like social security, what's the end game there? is the end game there is no social security or somehow it's funded elsewhere? >> i mean, they haven't said anything about that. you think they would want to, since it's the first thing every person in this country on social security should be thinking. well, whoa. wait a second. what will happen to social security if you take away the source of revenue that pays for it? and i think the answer, we don't know it. they didn't state their motivation, but given they multiple ties proposed to sutting social security and big tax cuts to business conversations and a massive increase in the deficit now, they have already started saying we don't have the money. we need to cut entitlements. i think this is just the first step in coming back and saying,

well, social security's too expensive. and look at how big the deficit is for social security. we need to trim sales of that program. this is just a step on the road to that, i think. >> one of these days, austen, you and i will take a trip down memory lane with the deficit. in fact, the debt in january, divide up those parts caused by what are these so-called entitlement programs and what parts are caused by tax cuts and wars. i think most will find the result very surprising. austen good to see you, as also. thank you for joining me. chairman of the council of economics. i mentioned earlier, the united states surpassed 5 million total cases of coronavirus and more than 164,000 americans died. 5 million by the way, total number of cases we know of in the world are under 20 million. so the united states is under 5% of the world's population and

has one quarter of the world's coronavirus cases. remember, the disease is only thought to have first arrived in the country in january. a new report from the cdc says that not only are children not "almost immune" from covid-19. which had president and other claimed, actually at serious risk developing severe cases requiring admission to an icu. we have instances of children even infants dieing of covid. the number of hispanic and black children are especially concerning. the report reveals hispanic children are eight times as likely as white children to be hospitalized for covid-19. black children are five times as likely. meanwhile, trump says that a vaccine could be right around the corner. right around election day, he says, as usual didn't offer any evidence or scientific backing for that claim. joining me now, former white house health policy adviser for the obama administration, dr. ezekiel emanuel, vice provost of

university of pennsylvania, latest book "which countries has the world's best heft carelet c" you predicted we would have 250 then deaths by end of the year. at the time that was high end of predictions. now a brand new prediction from the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation, one of the most prominent teams working on modeling here, shows the country is on track for 300,000 covid-19 deaths by december 1st. these numbers are unfathomable, zeke. >> yes, they are. that would be a 10% increase in the total number of deaths a year just from this one disease. it is going up and up, and, yes, when i made that prediction, probably two months ago, i was pretty much derided and put off in the camp of, no, that can't be. i have maintained all along we're not getting back to normalcy until, like, november

2021. that the mortality rate is going up and you know the mortality rate going to go up when you can see that the number of cases are going up. because the number of cases just an early indicator of deaths, and we just, you know -- you just need to look at the numbers. the problem is that the president wants to deny the numbers and a lot of his supporters want to retend as if this pandemic doesn't exist. >> right. this is not -- i mean, you are really a professional of these thing, but one doesn't have to know a lot an science, medicine or math to understand that this president, up until this week, with jonathan swan from axios and a couple of weeks ago with chris wallace from fox, he continues to say we have more cases because we have more testing. but that doesn't account for the fact that more people are actually dieing of this thing. nobody dies because you test them. >> no. and the notion that we have more cases because we have more

testing is totally fallacious, as has been shown over and over again. we have more cases. that's just a fact. we test and when you have a very high positivity rate, that is the number of people you test and the positivity rate is over 5% or over 10%, as it is in many states, just shows you have a large number of people with covid-19 and just happen to be testing them. this notion that we're doing too many tests or somehow it's the testing is totally fallacious. we're only doing about 800,000, 850,000 tests a day when every expert for months, since march and april, has talked about the need for at least 3. to 5 million tests. the president is totally wrong on this and has been totally wrong on almost everything related to covid-19. bts going it's going to magically disappear. oh, really? >> we've had a lot of conversations wb vaccines.

a fascinating topic. a lot of companies are putting out press releases and a vaccine won't be determined by a press release. stocked manipulated and hope securities and exchange commission looks into that stuff. but the president continues to use election day or november as some sort of milestone by which we expect a vaccine. one of the things you've always told me, we have to be very, ve very, very careful that whatever vaccine is released is very safe, because everyone's going to wa to want it first is it safe? "the" greatest developer of vaccines worked for merck, he did not feel comfort about 3 million people got a vaccine and no one got a serious side effect. only 30,000 people getting the vaccine by the time we actually approve a vaccine and nowhere

near enough people to be confident in its safety. second thing, ask, how durable is it? how long does the vaccine actually protect us? only six months, it's not actually going to be all that useful. third and most important thing between actually having a vaccine and you getting a shot in your arm could be a year, because there are many logistical things that need to happen. put it in glass vials, ship it to the doctors' offices, they these needles and surringes to put it into you. a lot of logistics and i don't think this administration has its arms around every step of the way that needs to be done and done efficiently to get 300 million people vaccinated. which is one reason i consistently said -- november 2021. >> yeah. not november 2020. also we have a shortage of ppe. the idea we haven't even gotten gloves, masks and gowns to every hospital we have suggests we may not be as fast on this vaccine as the president suggests.

good to see you. dr. zeke emanuel vice provost at university of pennsylvania former obama policy adviser. anger bubbling in lebanon as a massive explosion tilled more than 158 people and injured thousands more. up next a live report from the ground in beirut. plus president trump claimed the innocent was an attack, yesterday defense officials say no way to back that up. his statement not only misinformed but dangerous. "she "s "velshi," back after this. thi. >> tech: when you've got auto glass damage... ...safelite can come to you.

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anger swelling in the already crippled city of beirut. protesters clashing with forces in the capital. the people in lebanon enraged on the unimaginable loss of life as an explosion shook the city to its core five days ago. at least 158 people are dead, at least 21 still missing and more than 6,000 injured. the death toll is expected to increase. the blast fueled by thousands of tons of emonium nitrate. increedient common in explosives improverly stored in the city's port more than six years. make say the result of a

seemingly corrupt government. calling for a resolution today. the minister resigned, the first cabinet official to step down since the disaster. a reporter joins me now from beirut. looks quiet where you are right now. what have you seen around the city? >> reporter: i'm actually, ali, at the port of beirut where this explosion took place and i just want to show you the absolute devastation behind me. you can see how flattened this area is. those are the grain silos we've been hearing about that held most of the country's supply of wheat. i'm just going to show you, also, this is the mostly residential area behind me. you see the apartments and also some office buildings. just to give you an idea of the scale here, ali. this morning the rescue and cleanup operations are ongoing and they're still hoping to find people underneath the rubble that could have survived since this blast on tuesday and same time there are thousands of

volunteers in the streets picking up rubble, trying to assist the local residents. they're calling for a fresh wave of protests tonight. last night we had wide-scale anti-government protests here in beirut. thousands of people in the streets, clashed with security forces using tear gas, and we've even heard reports of live fire trying to disperse then. as e said, ali, people are so angry and absolutely blame they are government for what happened behind mean on suss saying the kind of incompetence and disruption they've suffered for decades. calling for early elections, but, ali, talked to some protesters and seeing the mood on the streets of beirut, that's just not grog oing to satisfy t >> thank you for your coverage, from beirut, capital of lebanon.

in the hours after the explosion in lebanon, donald trump described the incident as "an attack." colleague shannon pettypiece asked the president if he was sure that was the case. >> reporter: i want to follow-up before i ask a coronavirus question on lebanon. you called this an attack. are you confident that this was an attack and not an accident? >> it would seem like it based on the explosion. i met with some of our great generals and they just seemed to feel that it was. this was not a -- some kind of a -- manufacturing explosion type of event. this was a -- seems to be, according to them, they would know better than i would, they seem to think it was an attack. it was a bottom of some kind. yes. >> this is really interesting. as we learn more in the following hours officials made is clear the blast was none an accident but an accident. nobody at that point had even thought it was an attack.

trump's own defense secretary refuted the claim saying most believe it was an sent begs the question why the president dismisses actual attacks. according to the intelligence community the united states has been under siege from russia for several years now. yet donald trump seems uninterested in doing anything about that. he still refuses to adequately address's case of russia allegedly paying bounties for the heads of u.s. troops. that intel the president said, didn't even make it to his desk except we know for a fact it did. it was in the president's daily briefing. on friday saying russia deliberately meddles in the 2020 race to denigrate joe biden's bid for president. that would be an attack on our democratic process. the "new york times" reports intelligence officials softened reports on vladimir putin's cyber war on our elections struggling to brief the president without provoking his anger on the topic. afraid of losing their jobs if

they upset him. joining us now, victor yar nuia and thank you for being with us. remarkable state of affairs, because we have real attacks that we would just love it. don't even know what the u.s. government is supposed to do about it, but would love it if the administration would admit that there is an attack, an ongoing attack, on our democratic system nap there are bounties paid for heads of american soldiers. that there is new information about attacks to this coming election. and yet the president can call something that's not an attack an attack readily and yet not deal with these things that we are actually dealing with? >> absolutely, ali. the president lives in a fact-free universe or a fact-convenient universe, as you know. he spoke to president putin a couple weeks ago. did he raise these charges that the kremlin is actually funding

the murder of american soldiers in afghanistan? and as you said, the intelligence communities continued belief that the russians are trying to influence the u.s. election in the president's favor? of course he didn't, because those things, he believes that president putin's support has been essential to him. putin is the owned world leader he's never criticized publicly. at the same time that the people of lebanon are suffering an explosion, the largest explosion in an urban area since hiroshima and nagasaki, the president has no support to offer, instead fanning flames of internal dissent and hatred and violence as he does in the united states. >> let me ask you, ambassador, about this new allegations of russian interference in the 2020 election. i spoke with senator richard blumenthal on thursday. senators and members of congress

had been briefed by william ebnina about involvement of russia in the elections. the president continues to refuse to admit this is serious. the intelligence community briefing suggested russia and china and iran are involved in some way in the elections, but democrats who we've spoke ton said, no. this is not russia and china and iran, they're not operating at the same level. russia is once again doing what it was doing in 2016, and they feel it actually is more serious than what was going none 2016. >> absolutely. the russians have the most experience. they have the best capability. and they are extremely sophisticated, because they've been practicing these techniques on their own electorate, on the our cra ukrainians, baltic countries and europe. remember, they tried to throw mack cro macron's election also in 2016. it's not simply trying to change votes at the ballot box,

although they would do that if they could, it's also about influencing the debate, funding extremist groups so there is disunity and desession, and what i'm most afraid about now is if we have a disputed election, the russians will fuel groups that want to create violence and make this as difficult as possible. and, you know, the president has one responsibility in national security, and that's to keep america safe. and he has abrogated this responsibility regularly since 2016. >> i want to ask, talking about richard blumenthal's op zed he put in the "washington post" in which he says the public has a right to know. we all know you know this, that america does have a bit of a reputation overclassifying information and says this week i reviewed classified materials in the senate sensitized compartmental, a skiff and received a similarly classified briefing on malign foreign

threats to u.s. elections and shocked what i learned and appalled swearing congress to secrecy the trump administration is keeping the truth about a grave, looming threat to democracy hidden from the american people. his argument, that folks need to know what's going on and something maligned the information is classified. obviously, you protect sources and methods but there's a way to let americans know how serious this is, how much of a threat to their democratic process this is without breaching confidential sources and methods? >> well, i agree with that, ali. i mean, obviously, you have to protect how you know what you know. your sources and methods, as you said, but the american people need to know the kinds of techniques that the russians employ. how they throw their money around. how they exploit vulnerable american groups and help grow those who are on the extremes and on the fringes, and frankly, again to use the france example,

this is exactly what macron did in 2016 with the french people. he warned them ahead of time of the kind of disinformation the kinds of lie, the kinds of use of money and media that the russians would apply to his election and when election day counted, came around, it was largely discounted by the french people. we could do the same. we don't have to talk about how we know it but can talk clearly and the president should be leading this. about the kinds of things the russians want to do to make this the messiest election possible. >> victoria nuland, former united states ambassador to nato and former u.s. assistant secretary of state for european and you're asra you're asia -- eurasia affairs, thanks for joining us. and legitimate, logistics concerns that need to be worked out before november's election.

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american people of the right to vote except the american people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting. that's a quote from a 1944 radio address given from the white house by fdr. now we get a comment from a president who believes many forms of voting, like mail-in, don't work, unless done in states he's already won, or he thinks he's likely to win in. we get tweets about rigged elections, actions of lawsuits over sending ballots to registered voters. to hear trump talk about it it's as if forms of voting is so diseased even hydroxychloroquine couldn't cure them. actual issues of voting in our country that need solved. legitimate ones. vulnerable to cyber attacks and malfunctions caused by aging

technology. our aging voting infrastructure leaves the united states election system vulnerable to attack and causing long lines that can keep people, in many cases blacks and latinos from even casting a ballot. malfunctioning machines lead to confusion and long lines and sometimes lost votes. of course, all will happen during a serious national health crisis. so what can and should be done about any of this? joining me, michael wallbeen, president of the center for justice at the nyu school of law. for the moment, michael, put aside issues, logistical issues of mail-in voting. we cover that a lot on this show, and the political issues with the suppression of voting, also we cover a lotting on the show. both really important. talk about the mechanics. plain old voting not subject to political suppression, that actually does have logistical problems with it and it slows down sometimes prevents proper casting of a ballot in america. >> you're exactly right.

we have a somewhat rickety system for running elections in this country. it's not one national election. it's not even really 50 state elections. it's thousands of counties, and in 2020 we know, of course, it's an extraordinary important election, and we expected going into this year record-high turnout, and in some ways the system was ready, but in some ways it was not ready. as you described. there are long lines. lines that form. but not everywhere. especially in black and latino neighborhoods. there are voters lists that have been purged in the last two years, the brennan center studied 17 million people removed from voters list, and many we believe were eligible to vote and the rate was actually much higher in states that have a history of racial discrimination in voting, and there is cybersecurity issues and technology issues, as you've described.

all things we face in every election, and they can lead, at times, to millions of people not getting their votes counted or having problems on election day. one reason it's so important for people to check, maic sure you're registered, and this time make sure you know where you're going to be voting and how. >> yeah. and you know, a lot of businesses allow a few hours off to vote on election day. a lot of people on twitter, are you lg to spend 8 or 12 hours in a line to cast your ballot? sadly, may be an expectation we need to create? a lot of other democracies people register how important the vote is, they do, do that. we should have looked at this. people like you have been looking at this at the brennan center for years. in 2016 after the election when the president asked to look into voting he form add voter fraud commission which was shortly thereafter dissolved because it couldn't find lots of examples of voter fraud. didn't fix the thing we should fix because looking for a

boogeyman of voter fraud. >> as you know, you're more likely to be struck by lightning than to impersonate another voter at the polls. that kind of problem is an urban myth, but there is real risk, and i don't think we should expect to have to wait in line in that way. i think we need to run our elections so that more people have the chance to vote. this time, because of the pandemic, one of the risks is that often elderly poll workers won't show up. so one thing that companies can do is not only to encourage their employees to vote, but encourage employees, especially younger employees, to work as poll workers. we're going to actually need a mobilization this fall of people to help make the elections work. it's a great and should be unifying patriot moment, civic moment, for the country. nobody should have to put their

health at risk to cast a ballot. >> spell it out. there may be people watching the show influential in their companies. maybe senior executives in companies maybe officials in companies or customers who can cause their companies to do this patriot thing. what should companies announce in the coming days or weeks to encourage people to vote, to encourage people to support this democratic process? to encourage people to not look at their watch if they're in a polling line that's taking longer than it should be? >> well, there are coalitions of businesses like the one called time to vote that already businesses give their employees time off to vote. we're encourages businesses, as i say, and civic organizations to get people to be poll workers. even places like sports arenas. like the atlanta hawks and others who made arenas available as polling places. the most important thing that can happen, states need money to run safe elections right now, and in the dithering over the

vitally needed stimulus bill that means funds are not going to the states for this. the house passed ample support for states. the senate passed, in their plan, the senate has nothing. it's urgent that the federal government help states run elections or we're not going to have an effective election this fall. >> it is urgent that people, voters, regular people, watching this put pressure to do this, because that is where things are going to fall apart. not on the stuff that the president's talking about, about fraud in mail-in ballots. it's the logistics of getting your vote cast, and counted. michael waldman, thank you. president of the brennan center for justice at the nyu school of law. hey, grown-ups! got to do bet perp thter. this younger generation is putting us to shame. my next guest, a high school student in georgia. i don't know how he woke him up at this hour on a sunday mo

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this day in age americans have the world at their fingertips. food, transportation, information, entertainment. now thanks to genx, ppe as well. a new venture by this high school student. the atlanta area teenagers built an impressive nonprofit organization called project paralink connecting small-scale vendors to people, companies in small state agencies that need personal protective gear during the pandemic. using a network of companies to deliver supplies. so far handed out 890,000 units of personal protective equipment. these kids are schooling the federal government how it's

done. according to an ozzy report, in june paralink handed out 200,000 face sheeltsields in georgia. 10,000 more units than fema delivered that month. we need more stories in innovations like this. just last month nbc news received internal documents the u.s. could soon hit another major ppe shortage. edward aguilar joining me, a rising student and senior in georgia founder and ceo of project paralink. thank you for joining us and for what you did. andy hershfield sent me the story he wrote about you. my first response to my team, we got to talk to this guy. tell me how this all got under way. >> i mean, everything started a little -- about five months ago when we realized that our professors at our high school didn't have enough time or resources to make themselves lunch. we realized their only real

alternative under time schedules order delivery, which was too expensive. me and my buddies were like, let's try our hand at it and looked at it as kind of a school project and ended up signing a few contracts with local restaurants and ended up building it out and on launch day were superexcited. 80 teachers signed on and covid shut down the school, completely dissolved what we were doing. the same night covid hit our school district my best friend and co-founder got a call from his cousin, a doctor at the local hospital right here in atlanta, and it was one of the scariest calls i've ever heard. i mean, he was going through all the horrors we were all seeing in the news in the beginning about all the beds are packed, i've been wearing the same ppe for the last week. after that phone call, i was sitting next to him when we got it. we didn't know how we wanted to help but knew he had to.

same night called 15 local hospitals -- we -- a -- >> i think we may have -- his audio may have -- wi-fi frozen. try to get edward back. here's the fascinating thing. he's got a network of drivers to deliver this stuff. edward doesn't have a driver's license. he commutes via skateboard. this guy who doesn't actually have all of these resources at his dispose's along with his friends from the high school managed to deliver, as i said, 890,000 units of personal protective equipment. 810,000 of which are shields. facial shields. just in georgia. more than half a million of them. they have worked in other states. from alfreda, georgia, but worked in a bunch of states. he's delivered to seven other states and has 980 volunteers. this is the web page for the organization. and they have 980 volunteers.

he been trying to get in touch with mayor keisha lance bottoms of atlanta partnering with them and i'm going to talk to her later in the show and i think we've got edward back. just telling viewers while we dealt with this wi-fi issue about some of the stuff you've done including logistics of the financial market you don't actually drive but have a bunch of drivers and deliver stuff outside of georgia. >> uh-huh. i travel mainly by skateboard. for my own personal reasons. mainly because it allows you to really see on a much more personal level how beautiful alfreda is. i love skating around. but at least from a logistical standpoint, more than cars, what's really interesting is how we manage them with our software. from a riding point of view. we have people that actually do,

do deliveries in skateboards. a fun point i've been wanting to talk about for a while. people on bikes, on skateboards, people walking making deliveries. not just in cars. so for us, it's a field day to be able to sit down with it's a figure out how we can get them to be able to help out and be part of the mission. it's been a bit of an interesting battle, but of course, i move slit have decided not to drive. >> you have been trying to contact with atlanta's mayor, i'll be speaking with her soon. is there a message? >> mainly we need to start preparing and producing ourselves for what we have. we have all heard, winter is coming, and we need to prepare as quick le as we can. as of today, a group of high

schoolers let by my team, we are suppliers for a number of hospitals, high schools, retirement homes, all across georgia, and if fall is half as bad 'we think it will be, we need to prepare and start producing p in-house, because lead times when we're trying to procure it from different places are too long. we'll be left with the same shortage we had four months ago if we don't fix it now. >> edward thank you, on behalf of everything for what you are doing. thanks to your friends at the high school, thanks for the folks ini alphareta, this is th answer to our problems. we as msnbc sass this is who we are. edward aguilar, founder and ceo

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