well there i'm an electron you're watching in question broadcasting live from our team america national headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from all around the world today on to our top story now coded 19 and how it's taking a toll on a growing number of people and global economies. as of today the total number of global deaths due to the virus is well over 900000

the number of infections now closer 243-0000 china of course still leading the way with about 81000 cases there followed by italy with 69000 and the u.s. rounding out the top 3 with 54000 now taking a closer look at this country some 790 americans have now died due to complications from the virus and here in the nation's capital the white house and congress struck a deal early this morning to deliver a massive 2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package the spending bill which is the biggest relief package ever in u.s. history would alleviate some of the economic impact of kobe $1000.00 such as providing support to businesses and sending checks out to needy families so let's take a look across the pond over to the u.k. where parliament is expected to close a week early due to the pandemic a new reports that prince charles has tested positive. for the virus we're covering

the virus from all angles here with our team george galloway over in london ben swan and farron from jack in studio all standing by let's start with sharon so much has changed overnight here in washington fair and what more can you tell us boy it has mandela after 5 days of intense negotiations and 2 failed votes in the senate democrats and republicans they finally hammered out a deal and came to an agreement around 130 wednesday morning both the senate majority and minority leaders they were very happy about what they were able to put in this coronavirus relief bill so let's take a look at what each side was able to win in this bill so for republicans their main focus was to help corporations and businesses as well as hospitals democrats who are fighting them on this saying that it's about the people not the corporations so republicans were able to keep those emergency loans again to corporations but also small businesses and that's why democrats and republicans they made a compromise democrats won the argument of strict oversight where corporations will be required to lay out how they'll spend their emergency loans and also make it

public not just to congress but to the american people as well democrats also got an oversight board to monitor businesses and their federal aid spending minority leader chuck schumer also calling his workers 1st unemployment compensation on steroids where anyone who has lost their job due to the coronavirus will have their salary plus benefits paid for by the federal government now both sides also agreed on funding for hospitals nursing homes and health care workers along with direct checks to the american people that we've been seeing that $1200.00 per american being thrown out there but as far as who gets what and how much those kinds those actually kings are still being ironed out at the moment right now all the details are being written up to make sure like any other contract they have it all down in writing now the senate is set to vote and pass this 2 trillion dollar stimulus bill wednesday afternoon all in effort to keep the u.s. economy from going into a great depression once it's passed it goes to president donald trump's desk where he's been asking and waiting for it and he is expected to sign it at mediately monella all right turn. to our panel now to expand on this over in london former

u.k. m.p. george galloway and investigative journalist and co-host of boom bust ben swan will weigh in so ben i want to head over to you 1st what do you make of this attempt at relief for the american people. why there's so a lot of questions about it you know fairing it did a great job right now of laying out for us kind of some of the details of this but in reality even though the senate and congress is saying this is about 2 trillion dollars worth of relief which would make it almost 3 times larger than the bailout that we saw in 2008 but in fact there are a lot of insiders who are saying that this number is actually much higher and when we get into the actual numbers of it it's probably going to be closer to 10 trillion dollars in terms of relief now this is not you know just money being doled out some of it will be repaid because some of it's in the form of loans some is in the form of direct payments so that's a big deal but remember this is also separate from the 4 trillion dollars that the fed is trying to pump into the economy right now so we're talking about

a massive amount of money a massive amount of liquidation that's going on in liquidity going into the market the big question will be how many real americans actually get relief from this and how much of this winds up becoming corporate welfare and george you have actually been on the other end of this kind of conversation before are american lawmakers doing the right thing here and well the u.k. parliament consider similar measures to stop the bleeding before parliament is suspended. well i think 1st of all it's about to suspend parliament it was an even suspended when it was literally being bombed the chamber of the house of commons during the blitz in the 2nd world war was destroyed and all the members decamped to the court of door which is where mr churchill gave his great wartime speech as though it wasn't televised then so no one knew they were all huddled in a rather small cottage door i think it sends

a message when lawmakers dig for the hills when there judy is clearly the home of events far as that's possible to be but of course a balance to be struck. politicians can never lie but they can be economical with the actuality i do think that they have to show the people that life goes on that the leaders are leading and some relief in the end will be forthcoming saw lawmakers haggling or poor baal's not good signs wouldn't happen here we don't have the same system. you're haggling where people were dicing with this demand and people were dying and falling sick didn't look good from here manila. you you said that right george i mean pete no matter what these people are going to debate on the hill there are things happening in real time that are not

being addressed and then what about the president's remarks last night aiming to reopen america by easter sunday i mean good idea bad idea mind you that my new ben that this is against of the recommendation of medical professionals who believe this is going to take a lot more months before it resolves itself yeah well a couple thoughts on that 1st of all i don't think the president is going to get his way of saying we will reopen everything by easter weekend but i think what he will be able to do is say by easter weekend we have a very clear timetable for when things get back to normal but look i've been advocating long before the president said this i actually was advocating court before he did set it which is a similar essentially this we have to get the economy going again and you cannot shut down the entire economy over a virus even though you know yes 790 deaths of taken place but again i want to remind viewers over 22000 people have died from the flu this year in the united states alone and we haven't shut down the economy for them so the idea that we're

shutting down the economy the way that we have and yes i know that the the medical professionals are saying no no no we have to keep it this way but they're looking at this through a vacuum in terms of simply the issue of dealing with the virus there are far more things to take into consideration here including the fact that you have the single largest workforce in america our service jobs related to restaurants and service industries like that the restaurant industry employs over 50000000 people in this country and none of those people are working right now that cannot continue and by the way we as taxpayers can't pay everyone salary and health benefits indefinitely the idea that we could do it even beyond just a few weeks is insane yet george what's your take on that i mean where are the american president's remarks on this are they irresponsible and was he just perhaps too optimistic. well it's about those balance that i was talking about i'm sure he'll have to eat those words but the. doesn't necessarily mean to have spoken up because it's important to give people the sense that this is not for of our

whatever restrictions of our new laws or new disciplines we're applying will not last for of all those hope those light the end of the tunnel i do think that political leaders have to strike that balance because if they were to say to people by the way you're going to be along down and shivering in your homes next winter as a result of the coronavirus that may have entirely unpredictable and unpleasant consequences and george i want to stay with you for one more minute the breaking news this morning was prince charles has come down with a coronavirus of what are you hearing on that side of the pond. where he and his wife brought government structure for the holiday home our castle in scotland and that wasn't popular here no he's managed to get himself tested

a bit like ron paul that we discussed the other day when virtually no one else has been tested and it is positive it's quite serious news he's a man in his seventy's his mother of course in her ninety's his father almost a 100 years old how. it's filled with the symbolism the heir to the throne himself has now gone down with the coronado so as one wag put it it's not the coat or no corona ation he had in mind why that is a sad and kind of scary pine bed george part of a good point we were talking about rand paul earlier this week and how he tested positive and he likely paid for it himself obviously but what do you make of that of of high powered people like rand paul prince charles big money n.b.a. players being able to essentially cut the queue and go take a test when they're not even showing symptoms. yeah well i think what's really

crazy about this is not that this group of people was are have access to tests it's that more people don't have access to tests it's insane that in south korea they have been able to test as many people as they have they're testing more people than anyplace else in the world and in the united states we can't find tests anywhere and part of the problem for that you know is the issue of the f.d.a. that the f.d.a. has a very long arduous guidelines that are set up to prevent private companies from being able to create tests and that those rules were only removed a few days ago but they should have been removed a long time ago to allow private companies to come up with these tests instead the f.d.a. locks it down so i don't think the problem is just that these people get access to tests it's that we should have far more tests in this country every american should be able to access a test anytime they want to check themselves and we would have much better numbers if we knew that we know how many actual cases there are who is most at risk in the areas where we're seeing now the most and we also have

a much better idea of the actual mortality rate which we still don't have a very clear view of and judge what about on your side of the pond how is testing going there and it seems like the brits have more access to these tests than we do stateside. yes but as ben just said. few days in fact nobody had been tested in britain unless they turned up already sick and suspecting that they had the virus if you could run dimly test the population which ought to be scientifically and financially easy to do then we'd have a better handle on how many people have already got this there's an oxford university study just been published which postulates only postulates that half the people in the country have already got this virus which would mean if true that a lot of people shrugged it off and are now immune to it the old herd immunity issue we don't know if that's true because not enough people have been tested

unless they've got the shellings like some top level people have got to somehow a test for themselves so we need random testing in the population and we need to urgently that is a very good point i will have to leave it right there gentlemen ben swan and george galloway thank you for weighing in on this topic. thank you. all right the number of deaths from corona virus in spain has officially surpassed that toll in china as of today spain has had 3434 deaths compared to china's 3281 fatalities just in the last 24 hours spain recorded more than 700 deaths making it the 2nd highest in the world trailing just behind italy who now recorded 6800 deaths so far. and over in china the epicenter of the virus that city now reporting no new cases there china announced it will lift the

lockdown after a significant decrease in the number of infections similar lockdown measures will also be lifted for other cities in the province. take a look at this here as demand for air travel takes a nose dive airlines around the world are grounding higher fleets what you're seeing here are hundreds of commercial planes parked at a remote desert facility in victor bell california just outside of los angeles airlines in the nation continue to struggle with the average flight just over 20 percent full and that figure is expected to drop into the teens by this weekend. and after criticizing china's authoritarian take on covert 1000 europe is now following beijing's footsteps in trying to contain the outbreak a full report on that straight ahead and then later at the sports h.q. we're going to hammer brings us preseason news that spells ballot luck or the new york mets will be right back.

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many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i. wrote while china is witnessing positive results in its fight against covert 19 countries in europe are only at the dawn of their own battle against the virus and only now adopting some of the strict measures china had applied artie's charlotte dubinsky takes a look at how the world is turning to china's methods to defeat coronavirus there are drones monitoring the skies to see who is all know move we are being

tracked so lauren force wind agencies can find us to check our papers i need r u d with me at all will talk only allowed to go for specific restrictive functions my neighbors are ready to report any gatherings as this is now illegal when measures like these were being taken by china the world was shocked. the measures required to stop transmission completely maybe to socially or economically extreme there has to be a balance between protecting people's lives and their livelihoods now these are the decrees being made in democratic countries no socialising limited exercise we are told it is necessary. we are at war. at this

moment of national emergency to stay at home the most difficult course is. could you imagine that just a few weeks ago that a simple war outside would require a permission slip and without one you could land yourself in jail yet despite the fundamental. crackdown on our basic rights the masses are following the rules anyone who wants to raise a debate about this is being shut down very often and the log downs that are imposed. target it sufficiently so that for example letting you need to provide a bit of space who are children to play in parks for people to get a bit of fresh air can be done in a sensible way when i worry about is there many government in a black and white way to stay indoors and i think that going to all kinds of

negative effects and people will eventually go against that more than a 1000000000 people on isolating in more than 50 countries 34 countries have made this compulsory including a to least spain and greece countries in europe the continent that gave birth to democracy and while we are not being sealed in our apartments as people were in china high tech surveillance is being used to ensure we comply mobile phone operators are in talks with governments or health authorities about using geo location data to monitor where we are when epidemiological point of view there's a good argument for using. the g.p.s. systems of understanding the direction and trajectory of the infection and we know the girls but obviously it raises all kinds of issues. and freedoms legislation

is being passed without the normal scrutiny that's because lawmakers also have to abide by social distancing measures emergency bills giving to coney and powers to elected governments all while the guardians of our civil or human rights say cattail mint is ok as long as it's limited right. restrictions. but human rights watch also says a broad quarantines and lock downs of indeterminate length rarely meet the criteria in spain in italy france the u.k. there is no definitive look down duration and what about all right to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health self isolation for weeks or

months is hardly the gold standard so if the price to pay is relative imprisonment economic collapse and the end of liberties and the values that we have been taught to hold on to so tightly so dearly is the q a. disease. paris. over and afghanistan a lone gunman attacked a sikh temple in the heart of kabul killing $25.00 worshippers the incident was confirmed by afghanistan's interior ministry reports say the gunman held many of those worshippers hostage for several hours afghan special forces eventually intervened and rescued at least 80 people. and over to north central africa where boko haram extremists have killed at least $92.00 chatty and soldiers according to the president of chad this is the deadliest attack on the nation's forces the attack took place overnight sunday and into monday morning in the village of boma

the islamic history extremist group also killed 15 nigerian soldiers on monday in a separate attack. right throughout their dark cloud in the distance that is a tornado that tore through mississippi overnight damaging several structures the national weather service says the powerful twister struck the town of go with a population of just 350 according to the town's police chief some residents suffered minor injuries. right here's something you don't see every day you're looking at 12 prisoners jumping a fence and escaping from jail this happened on monday in washington state's yakima county and as you can see someone in a car caught it all of cell phone video officials say the inmates used a table to break open a door and then made their run so far 6 of them caught 6 others still missing. all right let's go over to regina hamm sitting over the sports h.q.

baseball season is postponed almost 2 months but one team got bad news before the season even began so who is it what happened it's unfortunate injuries you happen but major league baseball season is currently postponed as officials stating it could start as early as mid may but for the new york mets they find themselves with one of their pitchers done before anything even if it's the field in a statement to the media the mets organization said that the quote right into pitcher noah syndergaard will undergo all medical collateral ligament reconstruction or tommy john surgery on his right elbow on march 26th syndergaard also a victim for where they expect to be a key member of the matter of taste and with his surgery the 27 year old will miss the entire 2020 season with a return potentially odd for april 2021 senators are the hardest 3 guys in the game with a career high 197 and one 3rd pitch last season with a career worth 4.28 he was an instant feet under his rookie season in 2015 regularly reaching 100 mph with his fastball and striking at 166 batters in

a 150 innings for a tommy john surgery is a 2nd announced by high profile pitcher in recent days as the boston red sox also announced that the left hander chris sale also need to undergo the procedure. details are in the works to find a new date for the postponed 2020 tokyo summer olympics but for the time being visitors are getting a rare opportunity to see the flame up close and personal master visitors lie. up in hopes to catch a glimpse of the 2020 olympic flame on the final day of its tour around the fukushima region the display was the end of a 6 day trek for the flame in the area severely affected by a massive earthquake and tsunami 9 years ago this year's flame was brought over from greece and organizers hoped the event gave residents a sign of recovery in the flame organizers sadly cancel the olympic torch relay due to the postponement of the games instead they decided on a smaller scale down 2 of the fukushima province and are still deciding what to do with the flame once the tour is over however for many that attended they hope that

this flame of recovery lights the way for a lympics to be the world's recovery and truly come together. and take a look at this this is wild video paolo pena is a brazilian gymnast with a really impressive that of friends he performs an artistic gymnastics troupe and these 4 guys are incredibly talented they have 4 horizontal bars that are put together and pretty much alternating in and out doing some flips trying not to hit each other i have no idea how they do it pena has a very large following on social media including the popular active tick tock this looks almost like an act of cirque du soleil and manila i don't know if you could do it i most certainly could not do that i used to be a gymnast but i could not do that. no easily easy no for me but that is really cool to watch now i got to go follow him on instagram he's really interesting to watch a lot of the videos are also similar tricks like that where you have the 4 horizontal bars others just slipping in and out and it just looks so effortless but you know you're you're looking at it going ok i'm trying not to hit the other guy playfully right he's not trying to hit me and give you

a concussion because you fall from that or you get i hear you're going to hurt i have never ever seen anything like that i do not even to cirque du soleil i mean this is like just a square where it's very impressive the tick-tock has all those weird sort of video that we're talk to i got to get with the times you know i'm i'm not hip hip with it is that are we still using them in the 20 to 20 twenty's now in the twenty's twenty's i got to get hip with it because over the top words are coming from that's all right. good place to go shopping for something cool to watch me regina have baked you so much and you sit tight we'll be back at 3 pm eastern to talk more news for you florida infection cases continue to surge as covered 1000 testing becomes more and more available in a live report we'll take a closer look at who's most at risk there and the federal government orders people leaving the new york metro area to self isolate for the next 14 days we'll get you all the details there all that and more coming up in about 30 minutes of sit tight we'll be back at 3 o'clock that's it for right now make sure you keep up with everything in question at all times by downloading our brand new free app portable

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hey folks welcome to dennis miller plus one today's guest is comedian will sasso and comedians fall in with each other right away wouldn't sit here before we go on . the commute is that short head we know each other and we know each other's level of needs and we know what what makes people laugh and stuff like that so it's easy to fall in with a good cat well was one of the main cast members on mad t.v. for 5 seasons starting back in 1997 boys clip and by he also came back for the 20th anniversary special series in 2016 where was the long time host of the 10 minute podcast love that concept from 2012 to 2018 and his new film inside game is currently available on v o d and digital platforms like i tunes and amazon prime it is a a great curriculum a welcome will sasso how are you my friend.