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sit down and talk. she's calling coronavirus economic shutdown total insanity and she's here to explain why she believes that las vegas mayor carolyn goodman on this edition ticket. was going to politicking on larry king as the u.s. covert 19 death toll can be as sure rise and the disease invades the white house president trump focuses on reopening the economy with the majority of states following his cue joining me now to talk about her hopes to reopen her city for business is carolyn goodman mayor of las vegas. a position she's held since 2011

she's called the current coronavirus business shut down total insanity and generate a lot of controversy of the photo and the idea of using vegas as a control group for testing whether social distancing actually works the mayor joins us from the view change any of you opinion gowan you know i think what i was trying to get across is we weren't broken you know you don't build a city with such great. tourism and convention numbers if we hadn't already been a very safe place and one that was so proud of its health people won't come to a community or visit a hotel if it isn't absolutely clean and the food healthy and i think what happens from it perhaps a bad choice of words i'm not even sure what the were. the reality as what i was saying it wasn't broken and sco we really were ready to continue as we were and we

would show the whole world that we were safe from wonderful place great entertainment great food great conventions in accra limos for happy less whether you could imagine so it was a turn the entire and the los angeles times survey says the vegas will open in certain degrees over the next month or so will have if they have tables they'll be separated separate from slot machines no nightclubs. restaurants limited capacity isn't that a good start. well you know i don't think much has changed that's the tragedy we still don't have our arms around this very significant virus that really has set at death toll around the world. so we really are where we've always been with that we're very aware of it and everybody's terribly concerned a lot of people are extremely frightened and certainly i understand that but it is

we have no prevention yet. we have no treatment if one's diagnosed yet and we certainly have no vaccine yet so far so i sent them the city if all osa as you say a true why open the city. where people abandon the date jewelry why open it well i don't see that's what i'm trying to say we have been so careful about being a healthy place and operating in the best interests of good health and safety for all of our visitors and our residents of course to and so that i have been asking because we now have $36000000.00 plus out of work we have a lot of people that are waiting for their unemployment compensation their destitute and so we are a service community and so to go ahead and get started is very important but it

could recur in the fall clipper occur over the summer or continue on or if can come back annually and we know that with the flu vaccine some people opt not to take it but we don't have the vaccine yet and so is my sense or sorry. you disagree with your governor says so and he closes all of has seen those in hotels you disagree with that action i am not in a position to agree or really disagree i have the city we are a city of about 700000 were a 155 square miles and i've been very very confident that we operate our city very carefully with great health and great concern for the enjoyment and good health of our visitors and costs our mayor or what to me

what you want to happen what would you like. apple or do you want. well 1st and foremost i want to take care of all the unemployed and get them their compensation that they're due they're devastated they're frightening they're frightened they're down to their very last dollars and they have children i really do want to work to see the schools open i've been passionate about education and especially our little people being in school they don't learn as well by virtual education they need to have teachers qualified teachers and back in the classroom and i know the job of the governor's extremely challenging and if you read some of the things that i have said it's not a criticism of the person it is about getting us back and letting people are let them have the right the dignity to provide for their families and themselves and their parents do you on vegas open all of the mcnish sheens go in the slot

machines in blackjack dealer everybody come in you are you want that now in them and that i will not call in for that i wasn't calling for that i was calling me away from the city of las vegas where i'm very very confident that we have built our city always with the customer and arrests again and to employ a 1st in mine for health and good health and safety all the time with the right transportation and everything we were claiming and we just our lives wonderful wonderful community and i can do the grip what happened with you and anderson cooper i was asked to do it street a 5 minute interview which turned into a 25 minute. enter fail i will call and then no i never regret anything because i'm here to promote our community for most the greatness of

a most diverse community of people and cultures i love it here moved here from the heart of manhattan loved it since 1964 i'm so proud of the people we're all just one group working together to do the same thing and promote the beauty of this fabulous exciting place to live and work and help each other and be a a family of people that believe in what las vegas says here they have of the people surveyed in a recent number of poll said they would be very uncomfortable going into a casino wouldn't you if the casino a wide open and people using slot which is in view of the current pandemic wouldn't you feel uncomfortable walking in that crowd would you. well you know it's an interesting thing i am i really the the yes from what i understand the poll and i really haven't looked at it detail other than how governments interact i was told

by some people in our press that it was taken mostly in the north and nevada area and we are down here in the south were about 6575 percent of the population of course the casinos down here generate the monies that these cities and the governments and the state operate on and so we walked into a hotel if i could be assured the hotel with absolutely healthy and everything everything was clean and i could be assured of good health absolutely if i could be assured it was a good health and clane other than that you know to suppose on something we've never shut this country down we certainly should and that's not even my or all my only concern is a state in nevada where we are a tourism and convention state you know you but you can it with all 'd the things

you say with this kind of virus ritu admit is a virulent virus you have with all things and all the hotels of cleanliness and everything you can't guarantee safety health put on a camp. no no i left they were everywhere well the question is on the other hand this hour long show will be a lot of this could have gone on for 234 years then what's happening to our state it's gone what happens to future generations what happens to all these people who've lost their jobs and they'll lose their homes and then what do you have you have not thanks were brave people and what we need to do is be working on and which i am fully in favor of as i said we were not broken in a city a las vegas we were clean we've not had an epidemic we have not had any complaints you not had we have constant inspections we have laws we have ordinances we have

everything to keep everybody as safe as possible right the problem is this as possible and with a virus like this it's not possible mayor you cannot tell me that las vegas would be safe and open right now you cannot would be that would be absurd and oh well in looking at las vegas's you know there was confusion on the part some that the city of las vegas is a confined area and the whole of what's called las vegas is unincorporated clark county and other municipalities i was not referring to them i was referring to our city that prides itself in its cleanliness good health and safety strip is not in your city right no basis not we have no actual issue there's a lot of this. yes a little man. you know had i been they asked there was

a preemptive comment by a person who actually was brand america under one of the previous administrations talking about how the city has no jurisdiction now in this county it's absolutely true we are confined to this city back on trees and i'm very proud of what we do because we do not that i would say anything different anywhere else but we have this area and so to know the pride the excellence of all the people to small businesspeople who sets exciting places where tourists are now flooding the millennial particular love that downtown we have so much whining on and it's wonderfully safe and has been there is a person is trying to recall you have a common. it's america it's simple believe me i thought in

my brain so many times in the middle of the night why i wish that person more in office but that's the rag of the american way. thank you so much for joining us and i hope everything struck. me thank you and everybody staysail what politicking after with us.

rates are coming and a lot of people say well you can't go negative on the world reserve currency they also said you can never print and negative oil futures contract they said you can never print and negative interest rate on a sovereign bond that's already happened and i think about warren buffett for a 2nd i mean i pity him at this point because he says he doesn't like stocks and he's hiding out in cash but his cash is about to go negative returns but negative interest rate on his caps is going to be losing money on his cash pretty soon and he said i would never own gold and i would never own big quite so the only 2 life boats for warren buffett at this point and told him to climb and he's out of pride he's going to stick on his negative interest rate cash and he won't buy stocks so

he's already underperformed the s. and p. for 15 years this is going to help his career as basically a glorified money market fund that was a round trip to nowhere that everyone will just forget it. won't go back to politicking progressive political commentator bill press joins us will dig into the lay of the 20 campaign landscape and we'll discuss of course the colbert 19 pandemic he is the host of the podcast the bill press he is in our nation's capital more than 30 u.s. states are taking steps to ease social distancing you think this is working. i'm afraid it's too much too soon larry. look i'm as it's is anybody to get out of the damn house right now i mean it's. it's been 2

months and. at the same time. i think getting out too soon i'm not ready to go out to some ballgame or out to some concert or even out to some restaurant and the idea. that this thing is behind us i think is a little premature there are 1300000 cases in in ited states 80000 almost 80000 dead now. i think we need to see but let me put it this way i want to agree with donald trump on one thing he said the white house said when you have 14 days with cases going down then we ought to open up not one of those states that you mentioned not one of them has met that criteria yet so i think they stuck to that would be we feel lot safer now the white house is saying anyone entering the west wing has to wear a mask finally it's

a good idea. to about freakin time let me tell you you know i i go to the briefings you know we've talked a lot about it i haven't been to a briefing since march 13 because i saw then that that that that was going to become a coronavirus hot spot it it's there you've been in there many times i have to that that that's like being on a submarine in the west wing the rooms are so small the carters are so small and so close there is no way you can self distance in the west wing and i think they waited far too long to require everybody to wear a mask and now what do you got stephen miller's wife the vice president's press secretary has the coronavirus the president's valet the guy that brings him as i do a diet pepsi and has his. service in his meals in the oval office has

a coronavirus anthony found she and robert redfield the head of the f a c.d.c. ourself quarantine and and donald trump and mike pence who are also exposed refused to quarantine. and refused to wear a mask so i'm afraid it's going to get worse and i tell you the reporters i got a notice today again from the white house press corps and they said unless you absolutely have to be there or do not come to the white house it's too dangerous what's your overall assessment of how trump has handled this. bed lee i think you know the problem is he waited too long we lost 2 months where. we could have been doing some social distancing he could have encouraged states to lock down he didn't so january february were lost because he

saw this as some political thing democrat you know whatever blame it on china blame it on obama. and i think we're suffering a lot of people have died because of that last time what number one number 2. i think he made a mistake in not putting forth i think there should have been a national plan for how every state would do their self distancing and a national plan to help every state get all the masks they needed the ventilators and it instead as you know what the president said was hey it's up to you governors you know everybody kind of do their own thing and it's up to you or you know it's not my job you got to go by the masks and all that kind of stuff so i just think we lost or lost the that didn't have the leadership from the white house that you should have in terms of a crisis. oh we have trump economic advisers predicting dire forecasts about unemployment saying it could surpass 20 percent they also say that they're looking

at an economic recovery in the 2nd half of this year who's right. and then that's wishful thinking if i ever heard it back i mean i don't know how larry i don't know how we get out of this we're going to recover you know we've been through bedtimes before not not of bettors this in our lifetime. but we're resilient and creative and a strong people i know we're going to come out of it but it's going to take a long time and right now get this 20000000 jobs were lost in april there are $30.00 to $33000000.00 americans out of a job right now as you said that the unemployment rate is 15 or specs to go to highest 20 percent we haven't seen it since a great depression it's not gone it i'm sorry stephen newton it is not going to turn around overnight it's going to have to be

a gradual recovery and it will be i believe there are some on the right saying that you fell as the democrats you don't want to get better because you wanted to be big trouble for the president in november can you believe that i don't believe it and it's just simply not true that you know that's a typical blame somebody else we're you know. every day the one thing i can do larry living in washington i can get out of my our house we live on capitol hill. and i can go down the washington mall are as far as i can for a long nice walk and it's no problem self distancing because this is nobody else there right on the whole washington mall today i saw 4 people right i didn't get close to any of that my point is on the way back there's a house and in the window it's got a big banner and i see it every day and it says we're all in this together nobody

wants the economy to fail nobody wants more people to die we're all in this together so i think that's just that's just nonsense former president obama in a telephone conversation call the situation chaotic is that a term you would use oh yeah but you know what i think the president was talking about another telephone call was the situation at the department of justice where attorney general bill barr dropped the charges against michael flynn former national security advisor michael flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. admitted that he lied to the vice president and bill barr said i don't think any crime was committed well larry. i think you and i were taught that lying to the

f.b.i. is a crime right. it's certainly the other side it is i don't know i don't either and i think what obama was saying is that that's right it really does undermine our system of justice and we know that flynn even though he fired him flynn was trump's buddy and of bill barr but it was pretty clear it was just doing a big favor for donald trump's buddy do you think joe biden should figure out ways to get out more. yes. i don't know how he does i don't know how he does it i think. they. you know that he's getting out on line for local t.v. stations but this seems to me there's got to be some way they can get him they can get him around more there's another school of thought larry on that by the way i agree he should get out more i'm not i'm not changing my mind but there are others

who say since trump is making such a mess of everything that the best thing to do is just to stay out of the way but you know when the other guy screwing up so badly the you just shut up and let him do it but i'd like to see more i'd like to hear more of joe biden a tape of the latest the latest that i've heard is in the biden camp that there's they see now that if he succeeds he's going to take over a country that's in his bed shape as it was when f.d.r. became president and that he is going to have to be an f.d.r. kind of president and do big things big time on the economy real fast to bring this country back or f.d.r. had the new deal he put the government dorking at people building things like stadiums and highways and yeah yeah yeah yeah and we have talked about

we talked about infrastructure right there that douthat not now's the time for yeah get people to work rebuilding highways bridges do you know water treatment plants stadiums parlett go is now reporting that some of the kemal are harris is in the lead to be biden's running mate i don't know how you know that but what do you make of that. well the guy wrote that christe catalog oh. a friend of mine he's a good reporter 'd he talked to a lot of people around he didn't talk to biden you talk to a lot of people around biden. i thought that was a pretty good story but he remember he also said in the same story that elizabeth warren is a close 2nd. i think that camel harris elizabeth warren and amy club which are the 3 front runners i think i think either one of them would be dynamite but i also want to mention to me that the sleeper candidate

if you will is susan rice you remember her national security adviser under obama suzy ambassador to the u.n. african-american really tough and really knows government knows the white house and obama worked closely with her in the obama white house so i wouldn't be surprised to see her a camel heris lucky's she's our nearest california senator she's great i think the only thing is. biden doesn't need california he's going to win california yeah right but you know one test them point she doesn't help. that if people are torn about vice president remember like. when bill clinton picked al gore another white guy from the south you know some people say you need somebody who can deliver a state. but that's not always the case that hate obama didn't pick joe biden because he could deliver delaware but. 3 you know has 3 votes

so you're right but can harris retitle a lot of a lot of energy you know and. i think she'd be dynamite bill thanks for your time as always hey larry we go back a long way it's good to see you again bill press and thank you for joining the audience on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at king's sayings and don't forget use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race on all fronts clearly

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