i don't think you. greetings and sally you take us here in the united states of america things are definitely starting to get heavy and not only are the numbers of infected rising steadily each and every day but this week also saw a bomb drop on both state and federal governments in the form of unemployment claims according to a recent labor report from the labor department more than 3000000 people filed for unemployment benefits in just the u.s. in the united states just last week breaking all previous records including the one set back in october of 1902 but while millions of u.s.

citizens and thousands of industries are facing massive economic turmoil and hardship there is of course one industry that appears to be immune to the economic fall out to the covert 19 pandemic i am talking of course about our good friends in the military industrial complex yes the washington post is reporting that while stores and factories around the country are shutting down and millions are teleworking from home defense contractors have been by and large required to stay open meaning most of the industry's 2500000 employees have continued to work. why well according to the united states undersecretary depends elen lord those businesses are considered critical infrastructure because while we may be in desperate need for face masks ventilators another life saving medical supplies and equipment we can't stop working on the f.

35 fighter jets or the predator drones or all the other wildly expensive implements of death that our wonderful merchants of death provide merchants of war provide for us this comes despite the united nations secretary general antonio got that us calling on all governments of the world to put down their guns stating the theory of the virus illustrates the folly of war that is why today i'm calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. somehow tragically i don't believe we are going to heed that message because here in the united states the employees and factory workers toiling away in our department of war are not allowed to protect their health and their lives i mean after all there's taxpayer dollars to waste and bombs to continue building as we start watching the hawks. what's going on a city street you want to. see is this joyce

state. great city this lease systemic deception is complete show which i would. feel. welcome everyone watching the hawks i wrote to her and joining me now to discuss just how vital the business of war is to a mation turning a virus crisis is the co-host of r t america's boom bust investigative journalist button swan ben always a pleasure. so ben the excuse is that we need the military factories and businesses to stay open for national defense purposes but isn't sending over 2000000 people into close proximity in factories and offices does not pose a little bit more of a danger given the current enemy that we're fighting. well it absolutely does look you have to go one way or the other with this you either have to believe that yes in fact people need to stay home and therefore create this distance between them

governments are saying that meaning the federal government is saying it state governments are saying it and local governments are saying it so everyone across the board is in agreement about that i don't necessarily agree with them bar owners and restaurant owners don't necessarily agree with them you have you have about 15000000 service workers right now who many of them want to go to work but are being told not only shouldn't you go to work but you cannot go to work you have to stay at home order and yet we're also being told simultaneously as you said about 2500000 defense contract employees are allowed to go to work because they're critical infrastructure and many of those employees are actually saying they don't want to go to work they want to stay home during this time give them a few weeks off so they don't have to be in such close proximity to other people you're exactly right in fact union leaders representing general dynamics workers up at bath iron works in maine. told the media you know most of the workforce is essential to being used as sacrificial lambs to meet our needs of to meet the needs

of our customer you don't here's my thing with the closing of these factories for 3 to 5 weeks actually represent a danger to our national defense i personally don't believe they do what do you feel been no absolutely not i don't think there's any any argument that any coherent person could possibly make this say that 3 or 6 or even 8 weeks of not building new you know fighter jets is going to put the united states in harm's way of an attack that way the bottom line is we have literally the largest as you know military defense budget in the world larger than than everybody else combined and so we're so far ahead of everyone else in the world 8 weeks is really going to have an impact it's absolutely not and what's really ludicrous about this is this is one of the few positions if you work for one of these defense contractors where you absolutely know your job is going to be there when you come back in 6 or 8 weeks there are so many americans right now who are being told you must stay home and

they don't know to if they're going to have a job when the when the into that time comes there are projections right now that as many as 3000000 american jobs will disappear by this summer meaning those are jobs that are not going to come back because the economy will contract so much so if that does take place one of the few groups of people who know that that will not happen to them because they're guaranteed their funding our defense contract employees so give them the time off and then bring them back when the time comes it doesn't make any sense at all it really doesn't matter you know that's one of the scariest things of what happens when you base a bulk of your economy on the service industry as you're saying is that when something comes along to disrupt the service then this is where these problems begin this week it appears that you know hopefully the u.s. congress will pass apparently their 2 trillion dollar stimulus package but i think one of the biggest mysteries. going is where does all this money come from i mean we hear all the time about how we don't have any room in the budget for health care

or student debt forgiveness or all these other things but miraculously we suddenly have billions and billions for corporations and taxpayers in this emergency where does this money come from well the money is really coming out of thin air and this is what's really it's truly terrifying if you think about it type 2 trillion dollars is roughly half the size of the entire federal budget for the year that's how large of an amount this is but that's not all that's coming in it's 2 trillion but the congress is saying we're going to approve as you said about $500000000000.00 is going to go to large corporations about $350000000000.00 to small businesses about $100000000000.00 would be sin and direct checks to 2 american citizens but that's not all the money there is an additional $4.00 trillion dollars that the fed has said it's going to print and begin loaning out to corporations and to businesses as well now the thing that's supposed to make us all feel better is that the fed is saying well these are loans don't worry these will be repaid at some point so but we're talking about in total 6 trillion dollars in

a matter of weeks being dumped into the economy and again it's money that's coming from nowhere it's just being created invented and so when that happens it puts us at significant risk for hyperinflation it got a most definitely does you know better one of the things that i've been bothered by all week is i almost have to ask this question and tragically it took the virus to really expose this is you know is a is a government or an economy worth keeping if it can shut down for a few weeks in order to survive a catastrophe like this i mean you know i mean like what led into this in the sense that i was arcano me really that week but it could not survive allowing citizens to stay home and as our government weak that it cannot provide for citizens and the economy in order for them to stay home and be safe for a few weeks you know it's a really good question i think there's a. a couple of different ways of looking at that i think you can absolutely look at it from the point of view you're stating because that's that's a real question right how is it that you have so little savings in america you have

such a dwindling middle class where people are living paycheck to paycheck that they really can't take a few weeks where they're not working without falling possibly into a spiral of the extreme poverty possibly losing their home or you know being evicted from their apartment so you do have these struggles and there's serious questions about that but i think another question is and this is what really gives me pause is when the calvary comes riding in known as the federal government with their stimulus checks and saying don't worry we're here to save the economy what they're really saying is we're here to save parts of the economy and parts of the economy means that not everybody is going to be saved through this there will be businesses that are shut down and that permanently cannot recover from this there is no way the feds can save everyone and so instead what happens is you find that when money like this comes in that ultimately washington is picking winners and losers and that destroys the free market it means if you're the friend of

a friend you're the one getting the bailout you're the one getting the money and speaking of friends of friends how about boeing we started the segment talking about defense contractors will boeing their defense contracts are still moving forward meanwhile they have 70000 employees they've sat down and said you can't continue to work right now and we're going to lay you off but simultaneously boeing that created that 737 max jet that killed over 300 people last year and has really destroyed its own company is getting a $60000000000.00 bailout by the federal government and their failures to have nothing to do with coronavirus their failures have to do with the fact that they created a jet that killed people and they laughed about it in email saying that the f.a.a. wasn't really monitoring them and they could do whatever they wanted but i'm going to it's crony capitalism at its finest is it not. and it's tragic that is one of the true tragedies come out of this thank you so much for illuminating our audience with what you have to say today always a pleasure having your arms or. thanks. tragically the city that never

sleeps new york city and its surrounding areas have quickly become one of the major epicenters of the covert 19 pandemic with the new york times reporting that the city and its suburbs account for approximately 5 percent of all cases global we are 2 americas trinity chavez is in new york city with the latest on how the big apple is taking on this pandemic. today hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in to get into bed it they die the cycle repeats elmhurst hospital in queens the bureau with the most coronavirus cases in the city in the center of the outbreak the hospital confirming at least 13 patient deaths within 24 hours right now it's every day it's nonstop literally and. unfortunately it's my get to suggestion you have to pick and choose what you're going to do how you're going to do it. as the doctors say a lot of people call it not to be survive to expire and you put the same machine in

the not the 1st time as medical staff operates out their limit hundreds of more people wait lining up outside to get tested for coated 19 but officials say the 545 bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies the systems overwhelmed all over the place the shortage of safety gear out one new york hospital so dire nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags the situation in new york worsening by the hour the state accounting for roughly half the cases across the country this grim video shows teams setting up a makeshift morgue outside of bellevue hospital something that was done during hurricane sandy and 911911 was nothing compared to this we were open waiting for patients to kabul never came. ok now they just keep coming however a small sign of hope governor cuomo announcing that for the past few days the rate of hospitalizations is slowing although he cautions that the peak of the crisis. could still be about 20 days away i closed the schools we closed gathering.

we brought in testing and we have dramatically slowed the increase the governor adds that while only about 15 percent of cases have required hospitalisation the state into supports $140000.00 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have enough beds or lifesaving ventilators so ramp up the hospital capacity to make to be able to handle that apex volume and as medical personnel remain on the front lines we are learning that a member of mt sinai is nursing staff who has been treating coronavirus patients has passed away from coven 19 the hospital saying in a statement today we lost another hero a compassionate colleague friend and selfless caregiver meantime the hospital system initiating a procedure called plasmapheresis where they transfer antibodies from patients who have recovered from co the 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the

procedure could be life saving reporting in new york trinity chavez r t. r as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand or the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on smartphones through google play and at the apple app store by simply searching portable t v or you couldn't stream us to your own t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. and online at portable t.v. the t.v. will be available on more of the biases coming soon and coming up next we delve in to how the 5th biggest economy in the world california is dealing with the unemployment crisis and then we talk about the postponing of the olympics with our 2 sports groups for g.m. stay tuned to watchable.

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as i mentioned earlier in an unprecedented crisis more than 3000000 u.s. workers applied for unemployment in just one week's time the effect of this is send shock waves will be federal and state governments across the united states of america including the golden state of california are 2 of america's natasha's sweet joins us now to bring us the latest on how the state and how the state with the biggest economy in the world is dealing with the covert mind unemployment crisis.

yeah well tyrrell you know california has certainly been impacted by cope with 19 and in the just 2 weeks alone more than a 1000000 californians have filed for unemployment benefits that since march 13th and that's when businesses b.n. shutting down to comply with the state's stay at home order to help lessen the spread of the virus nearly 3300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week almost 5 times the previous record set in 1902 amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the crown of virus a big portion of those claims coming from the state of california a whopping 1000000 within the last 2 weeks stephanie meyers says she's hoping to see a stimulus check arrives soon but can't help but worry about the bills piling up i've been pretty good about whole new together and i just finally broke down and cried. because you have to think about what's in that they can or. are you going to start

paying the bills you know i got home and started making a list you know ok i've got a car payment i've got rent the san francisco area was the 1st region in the country to install a shelter in place order governor given you some signed a stay at home order for the entire state 3 days later new some is praising the proposed chrono virus relief. bill currently california allows up to $450.00 a week for unemployment insurance the relief bill would add an additional $600.00 a week for up to 4 months giving california residents up to 1000 dollars a week liz number of new claims from this is truly unprecedented and it represents the unprecedented nature of what we're going through right now to remember national crisis of great recession the highest or maximum number of new claims or one benefits we saw approaching maceda $700000.00 more so we've done several times over that record number as for banks wells fargo u.s. bank city and j.p.

morgan chase will defer mortgage payments up to 3 months according to a new some everyone is eligible for garlic of how much they make the governor is criticizing bank of america for agreeing to waive mortgage payments for only one month he says he hopes they will reconsider and do the right thing but a spokesman for bank of america says they will consider extending their offer for more than 90 days depending on the crisis meantime cities and counties have begun halting vixens against tenets who cannot afford their rents in the san francisco and sacramento regions cities and municipalities have already passed a vixen moratoriums that prevents anyone financially impacted by the virus from getting kicked out by their landlords. now california is seen an influx of qana virus cases as more testing is being done and we're seeing those numbers doubling every 3 days or so and according to john hopkins we've seen at least $65.00 deaths and at least 3000 infections have been counted so far taro thank you very much

natasha for that. from economic losses to sports losses this week the 2020 olympic games were open surely postponed to 2021 due to the covert my team pandemic of the sports and business about whether competition. have been hit hard by the virus and the measures implemented to stop it spread but that hasn't kept eyebrows from being raised in questions from being asked about how professional athletes and other cultural b. i.p.s. have had such quick and easy access to corona virus testing while the rest of us are stuck in the wind with either no tests at all or a very very very very very long wait for results joining us now to discuss the great 2020 olympic delay on the controversy surrounding crowbars testing is r t america sports producer extraordinary regina regina always a pleasure having you on so we all knew this was going to happen after you know the

training was postponed for their volunteers and countries threatened to send a delegation our athletes responding to this and what did the international olympic committee say about this postponement so you know athletes are there's her there makes you have some athletes who completely understand they're like i'm glad we're doing this for a safety and the safety and health of not only the athletes but the spectators and the organizers because they're also at risk you have some athletes who are happy they're going have been doing all this training you put in months of work you go to these qualifying events they have the marathon qualifiers a few weeks ago in atlanta those are 6 people who probably trained for weeks on end to qualify for the u.s. team and now they're being told you know what great job no wait a few months and that is understandable granted this is a public health emergency but i think you're still allowed as an athlete to feel a little disappointed. because the present the i.o.c. had some interesting thoughts about how he wants the 21 olympics to be take a listen. elsley will have

a chance and the opportunity of their life to make their olympic dream coming true even in these uncertain times we are all going through together now and we all want to see the olympic flame at the end of this doctrine. that that's a good positive notion coming from the i.o.c. but it's really interesting namely that now that 48 hours after canada was like we're not sending anybody if you're going to hold them absolutely not and they're one of the 10 largest largest delegations in rio in 26000 so having canada pull out and say we're not doing this if you're still going to have this that is the huge thing and the i.o.c. i think didn't have any choice their hand is forced it seems that way you know are there any details on when and how they're going to reschedule reschedule the olympics or is it all up in the air is it still going to happen in japan i mean where was this organ player do you know there are so many questions that us as sports people want to know they're going to have in next year they will still be

title the 2020 olympics i guess you've done all that marketing money why not if it does make a event but they are going to have them in japan they will still be held in tokyo now the time frame is a little iffy they're shooting for summer box so they could be as early as spring this really kind of can be hashed out or the next few weeks we're going to finally see where the i.o.c. is heading because they also have to work with the tokyo government as well and if you think about all these other sports a start in the spring you have track and field events you have baseball that starts so you're going to have an end of the season potentially overlap with the world with the olympics that that's just scheduling headache it's going to be a hot bath it did sounds like it will be no look i have to bring this up and we talked about it actually you know earlier this week privilege kind of has this new meaning with athletes in the age of the group i was about as if to say is there a systemic abuse i mean you're seeing these athletes get these tests like you n.b.a. 58 tests right away you know and yet everyone else is struggling to find it is that because of this well disparity that like you know certain industries get access

before other certain people with a lot of money to get access but for others they tell us it isn't but we both know it that if that's the case of course you have more money of course you can jump the line if your elbow didn't show any symptoms in the eye because he was around a member of a team a cast member he was like i'm going to get tested but if i got around if i was around somebody and didn't have any symptoms i'd go i want to get tested they're like no no no you. you have no symptoms so you're seeing people like really go bare the entire utah jazz including the beat writers that had came with them on this away trip were also tested and they got their results right away mayor de blasio when the brooklyn nets had some of their players test positive going this is ridiculous this should not be about well it should be about the fact that you are sick and you need to get the care you need or you see if you go on twitter you see all of these people lighting up celebrities n.b.a. players n.h.l. players you have 3 of them who tested positive they can't even get their children tested one woman said her some of the i.c.u. by the time rockland county called back and she's like you can't test in an

intensive care was it really just a goal just come down the money and it was there really any of it was it just the n.b.a. was ahead of the game when they bought these test kits that we would do these forget me but i'm like that you know you have to you know what can i got i said i'm going to be these people are tested as they need to care regardless of where you come from whether a celebrity or what else everyone should get tested and get proper treatment but it is terrible that they have this divide and especially when average americans are being turned away people who are dying in their thirty's and forty's now who may not have preexisting condition is absolutely ridiculous that you're seeing these athletes who might have a symptom or who are just around somebody but aren't showing symptoms whereas you see signs up and down in my home signature say no symptoms no test no man regina thank you so much for bringing us in and lightning us on the world of sports right now in these very strange and odd times always a pleasure having you know thank you so much and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told your loved one so i tell you all tomorrow. i am i rolled into a keep on watching all those sparks out there and have

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. on the politicking on larry king my 1st guess you know him for many years on television and radio offering medical addiction and relationship advice he's dr drew pinsky and he's making news lately for his rather controversial remarks regarding the world's reaction to the coronavirus pandemic let's talk to him about that he also hosts the podcast as dr drew and dr drew after dark and he joins me from here in los angeles i want to want to hear what it what are you saying your time right you as a koran the koran a virus doubter what are you doubting you right and i'm not doubting anything that i'm doubting the new york times got its facts correct

because from the beginning what i've been saying is don't let the press panic you the new york times for instance has been continuing to put the imperial college of london doomsday scenarios on our front page until well into last week when as a result of what i've been advocating follow dr pao to the advice of all the c.d.c.'s advice we will be fine it will be nothing like the doomsday scenarios that they're painting. now we are doing what we need to do we are following dr found shape and those ridiculous estimates are being proven to be wrong and based on false assumptions so i was just saying look the panic is going to be worse than the condition and now you've got the president saying something similar the treatment could be worse than the disease again i was just trying to get people to pay attention to the risk reward analysis of course we'll take care of this of course you listen to the c.d.c. and of course you listen to dr foushee but we don't have to have a press making up.