so questions according to. hello from rhode island where i live while we're all stricken close to home to starve that virus this is the ocean state which means we're very well ventilated and that's a good thing because early on in the outbreak we set uncomfortably between 2 of the hottest hot spots boston to the north and new york city to the south so we have been taking this very seriously as our governor gina rimando explains barrier only on in this crisis i took what some would say heavy handed approach i actually did use our national guard to monitor cars coming in from other states and including new york to ask them to go into quarantine if they were coming from

a place like new york city that was a hot spot and i did take a little flak at that time for that approach but the truth of it is. like i've said rhode island the only state in america where we've tested 20 percent of the population hospitalizations are going down business has been open for months and i have to do everything that i need to in order to keep commerce flowing in my state without hospitalizations going through the roof. and our station has rolled out the innovative crush kovi a smartphone app which jumpstart its contact tracing and contact tracing is the ballgame ambitious and successful as all of this has been here we are geographically the smallest state imagine a place where people come from all over the world all the time with all kinds of germs i am describing las vegas nevada which got it tough with

unemployment during the shutdown what is the state of affairs in sin city now let's ask the author of cocktail waitress wisdom a life lessons learned while carrying a tray in las vegas she is the voice that's been waking up the valley for years heidi harris from k.m.c. que radio and when i say welcome back i mean good to see you because heidi caught the cove it heidi i'm glad you're on the mend but when you weren't on a scale of one to 10 how bad was it pretty that pretty bad good to see you i literally felt her i don't know days and days like i have been going over viney reeling i gotta tell you x. and shills and no time did i feel like i've. ever done whatever.

it was it was a miserable life. when i heard of this morning it's great to hear you're sounding chipper have you figured out where you picked up the virus. yeah i picked up the work. because i had done it were my house. yeah i can give it away to 0 station right correct i was going to the radio station not knowing and i'm not going to lay this on my employer's feet i'm not blaming there there were other people in the building i did not know had it and it's a small building we're all sharing the same bathroom the same breaker in the same this is that you're not going to ask you try to wash your hands i wasn't aware of it but you know if you're going to most people are going to get it sooner or later on some of those people and here's the difference. but. in this respect there are a lot of companies that. if they're. not.

that's. well while you were down for the count we had our talk radio brother john shaffer here to set the scene for us and he described something that seeing is believing from some of the video during the shutdown you locals who usually go out of your way to avoid the strip were bicycling and skateboarding and strolling down a darkened las vegas boulevard it looked just eerie now that the lights are back on what's the mood there admittedly you're staying home so you're hearing more about it than seeing it but are the crowds back now you know what i think the crowds are back in some places and not so much another's eyes to a quick story that i was leaving work before i got this and i was driving down the street and there was a there were some horses and there was

a big roman guy on the back of the horse was like something out of. walking. or you're crazy. so you know. it's real you know that's going to be. so he threw stink it's a disparity. it's not the sort of like one traffic i think so many conventions that they can't really give you here so. if we. let people here it's not quite an experience it's the choir's. bar so that's. yeah when the shutdown head to las vegas had the u.s.a.'s highest unemployment and obviously they're coming back gradually as is

business overall but i want to pick up on an issue i saw you raised on social media how equitably is the workforce being invited back on the job in the hospitality industry. it's really really tough and i some people with a high seniority are getting called back some people are not getting called back yet they have a notice is that they have to legally send out 60 days before they do mass layoffs they call warfare and says we are going out. over the next ringback. in. your maybe. maybe. you were. right because. this is starting. to wonder. if you. are what they are. now.

it's still a. period it's. it's like i didn't know that they were shut down again we are speaking with author and las vegas radio host heidi harris last time i saw you i was in town for the massive mind boggling consumer electronics show and i am intrigued that they plan for c e s 2021 to go again in january maybe the world's biggest perennial trade show and not having seen you there then or at the cancelled national association of broadcasters convention in april i'm wondering how long can vegas a limp along without this big convention business because there's such a lean time built into planning these events right it can can survive not some of the hotels the ones that get you know the weekend business fine but the big hotels they can't and we've got 150000 hotel rooms in las vegas because you know 40000000

euro here you know. it's. in the last. you know what i know how it could make the repartee. you had i had were big. hits years 'd ago and over what not here so many of those well. there's no reason. for you to. be. here to. read. what others are where you can recognize those words but there is an. order but. every day. our combat governor here is getting props

a plenty for leadership during the crisis here in rhode island how is nevada's governor rated there how's he doing when. he's our man he's actually horrible to the people who are good workers so that's all over drivers all the entertainers the show people have virtually not been able to get what they call the p u a the pandemic got inflated assistance people are on twitter trashing the governor constantly they can't get through nobody gets your phone calls answer. paid you get appointed. it's not. in the biggest issue or it's we don't know what his plans are for tuesday so you know the boards there we don't know where they're going to be open to us to get anybody at target we human. beings it's. well. and we can. $30000.00 cases that's one per cent of the waste basket the 43 to 60 percent like me.

if it's for certain there are many. many hundreds of thousands of people who are or one percent of the population is getting it far fewer people dying it's. yes they are every life matters but certainly the entire state for that lot of people feels it. i love talking politics with you and i missed a chance to do so when they canceled the national association of broadcasters convention in april so i must ask donald trump did not carry nevada in 2016 i've got about a minute left so wax heidi yes how's he looking for somebody talking to you there in your state well we don't have the best leadership in the nevada g.o.p. that's a big problem but i think that we have a democrat governor a lot of people have lost confidence in here and i think that they possibly heard i think if americans are to look at it you know we can't you know it's terrible and

you know i'm not a kuwait through here times i bring times like this agree i think people in their data they're going to cut her a good start look at a girl who grew the economy then asked. really i think the only thing people why is it not whether they like you know with like to work with the likes of tweet or the joke and it put a sentence together who can bring the economy back aster i think. overriding issue to that of that's to. yeah very understandable heidi harris k.m.c. q radio in las vegas it is great to see you in to know that you're on the mend a coronavirus survivor. most years we can't wait for new year's eve to kiss off the old year have you have enough yet our enthused panel is ready for the 2020 halftime report when we come back this is the big picture on our t. america.

54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as

we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. a duck industry comes to life in los angeles every night. dozens of women sells the bodies on the street many of them under age. los angeles police reveal a taste of the daily challenge though if you're going to exploit a child here in los angeles there are going to come as you'll see officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to find 6 trades. just russia be meddling. according to initial reports the answer is a bit and the usual highly likely report is that also secretary of state mike lee crusade against. minus does anyone outside the beltway really care.

which. going to. the from the. how will you remember the year 2020 and i ask at the risk of you throwing something at your t.v. or stomping all over the tablet or smartphone you're watching or listening to this on it's been a rough year and nobody except perhaps the dog or the guy who sells plexiglas is enjoying all this stay at home time what next you are wondering let's ask a panel whose political views are shall we say asymmetrical. left you see jonathan harris you see him on just press play and on the right you see steve malzberg host of meet the press and no guest has appeared on the big picture since

i took it over 3 years ago more than steve malzberg gentlemen welcome to the half time report. good to be here as we as we are now into the 2nd half of the year let's take a snapshot of the usa millions infected some models have a couple of 100000 deaths as early as the end of this month the president dismissed all this early on the impeach president i should say we have the worst unemployment since the great depression social unrest rest of american people who just can't wait to get out of the house and are jumping the gun we had no 4th of july parade we had no summer olympics the fall semester is on the line jonathan then steve in that order in november how much of this should be the fault of candidate trump. i would lay it completely at the feet of the president ultimately

that's where the buck stops it's his responsibility to make sure that all of these situations are taken care of according to a c. and b. c. poll 30. percent of americans are blaming trump for what's happened here i mean your 10135000 people dead 3 and a half 1000000 cases we're about 4 months into this we're seeing record high spike still that is nothing but poor leadership and hopefully in november with he's got a 38 percent approval rating so it looks like voters will be blaming him in november. yeah these polls are all going in the same direction and stevie a member of the gipper is old proposition are you better off than you were 4 years ago how much of this not do you think they should but do you think they will ascribe to the incumbent i don't think the virus is going to be the main thing in play when push comes to shove in november i think as your previous guest alluded to it might be the economy but i also think it's going to be law and order i think the

fact that the president got the endorsement of the national association of police organizations a group that endorsed by obama biden twice and sat out o. 16 i think speaks volumes and i think people get to get sick and tired of no law and order and people getting beaten up in the streets and crime getting out of control and if you don't have your safety and you're a mom and you don't have your safety for your children you can't walk the streets you can't do anything that supersedes just about everything and i think that that said by the way the polls you know that the polls are look what they were you know 16 people are afraid to say they support trump because if they say it to the wrong person on the street they'll get beaten up and then nobody will care so i think they're afraid to tell pollsters that they're for trump i don't think that's what you saw polls and 2016 i think if you paid attention to the polls in 2016 they were actually pretty accurate national polls predicted that hillary clinton would win

and nationally she won 3000000 more votes state by state polls were fairly accurate if you actually paid attention to the polls the 2016 polls are pretty accurate. jonathan you know i know i would mention the word. no but stave steve whenever this comes up i think the polls got it right because she did win the popular vote but they were asking the wrong question and i think they're going to be wiser this time about the electoral map steve how much you think the v.p. choice for joe biden makes usually it's not a big deal bush sr with dan quayle go down the line how big a deal is it this time with aging joe biden oh it's a huge deal there's a you know there's a good chance joe biden won't be able to finish out his term. and people have to realize that and i think also whether it's a african-american or not african-american i think whoever it is you're going to need that person to motivate the african-american base to come out and vote because without that vote you know in that enthusiasm it's going to be tough for joe biden

to win so i think a lot goes into this pick probably it's the most important v.p. pick in maybe ever but certainly in recent history there's a there's a chance even you who i'm sorry there are actually i think that he won't finish out his term what is there like a 4 or 5 age your difference between biden and trump there's a chance he will forever you have you watched him have you watched him john i know you watched him how to put together joe biden can walk down a ramp so i mean yes i watch them. that's that's you know he was saying i ever heard but it's typical doesn't mean it is in better shape than the president out of frankly does that there are demo reels of trim slogans on it's been struggling to throw water and struggling to walk down a ramp i mean it is and i have. no doubt about it but those are a little side by side any day you know military you know what let's do a show on it let's do a show on it please have me on your show. steve i've been trying to get action

safety as the number one issue as opposed to the virus steve malzberg would you today attend to trump rally. has it i i won't drive up to a gas station if the attendant is not wearing a mask that shows me ok and i got turned away from a gas station because i said to signal i had my mask on in the car that's me and i signaled to the guy said and he's like and he went go leave so i left so no i'm not going anywhere with this crowd for anybody's rally or anything that i don't have to leave the house for if only that you will meet jonathan jonathan assuming that you are not so inclined to that particular event let me sort of ask the question a different way what if we had baseball and our world series champion washington nationals path to the stadium would you feel comfortable going to the game well you know i'd actually probably be more inclined to go to a trump earlier than a sporting event or really go to either one but in terms of crowds no i mean i

would definitely try to heed the advice and stay away from crowds and it's a shame that our president doesn't feel the same way and thinks it's appropriate to hold. protests are ok well did the protests spike cases or oh no that is it ok they don't count that you can't catch it is there they've studied the protests and they found cases did not spike because people were wearing masks it's very cerebral and they were outdoor they were not at about an hour ago a miracle are you are you are you are you saying goes that's not true because it's actually true the spikes did not occur obviously we had a spike all over the country saying we had a spike all over the country about 3 weeks after the protest and they tried to blame it on bars opening up in localities so i don't buy they and their studies i buy but i saw with my own eyes and the media ignoring the danger of the guys i know work is not that jungle it was the i wouldn't know new york says. they jumped on with the bars and these pool parties in the ozarks and those kids in michigan the

governor of oklahoma is positive after having attended the rally in tulsa so i think the. you're going to see a lot of gov striving to put the toothpaste back in the tube but still there are silver linings that emerge from a moment like this and while she choose the term the new normal our governor is pointed something out here in rhode island anywhere in america pick a state any state if you say division of motor vehicles it sounds like you're setting up a joe you can picture a half a day wasted waiting in line etc and as many states did we moved a lot of things on the line here in rhode island and for the functions you could only transact in person you would make an appointment and go there and guess what after the shutdown is over this is the way it's going to be so instead of us waiting for them they will be waiting for us when you have to go fix your license

plates or whatever what other good do you guys see coming out of this jonathan then steve well ultimately you've got again trump of the 38 percent approval rating 4 months out from the election so one of the best things that can come out of this is him getting out of our white house i think that will be one of the best moments for the country i think it's so interesting that you have him tweeting law and order all this chaos that's happening on his watch it's almost as if he's allowed himself to disconnect himself from what is going on in the country so i think that while the commute in roger stone right it's like roger is like law and order but you can commute sentences where people work and get that fascinating but i think one of the best things going forward will be him getting out of our white house and having the nation heal and come back together under someone who is actually a responsible person who cares to actually govern for the whole country someone said and i don't remember where it was but this is an original thought but they were saying that essentially trump is the one of the 1st presidents that doesn't govern for the whole country he governs for his base which is at this point some of

the country so yes that will be one of the equation going forward yeah it worked steve what do we have to get already going even though i don't. yeah well 1st of all departing roger stone it's his constitutional right to pardon to commute sentences and if you were if that we had an honest media in this country this would be put into context bill clinton pardon the f a l n terrorists 16 of them against the advice of the justice department and the congress voted overwhelmingly after the fact to condemn it barack obama for a pardon the bomb maker of the f.a.l. and terrorist states manning still gave away our secrets and a general who lied to the f.b.i. so don't make it sound like that'll trump parting roger stone but is anything anything stated context of history and facts yes if only there were a t.v. show to critique the news media but back to my question what do we have to look forward to in the new normal. well i think you're going to see

a lot of changes with the way college is done business meetings again as your guests in las vegas alluded to you're not going to see as many conventions you're going to see a lot of shows maybe coming from home of t.v. networks doing things differently everything is going to be done slightly differently on a on a scale some will do everything radically different i think you know to just go from slightly to radically different it depends on the industry it depends on what we're talking about but this will and i don't know that it's good i mean i don't know that any good comes out of these deaths and you know even if you don't like your political candidate to say that that's the good that comes out of of the pandemic and by the way it's state by state the president had no power over opening states are not opening states and it was the fact he said it with a march said you know i don't wear a mask you're dead oh good you got she had seen it touch your face you don't want to wear a mask and he admitted that he lied because they were afraid they'd have

a shortage of bass so how many people die well that because found out she lied about wearing masks that is what i want to total authority over whether or not john and i wrap it up i got 30 seconds just so you know travis did say that a total of 40 over states and whether or not they could reopen and then he had to walk that back when someone reminded him of what his actual job was but on the upside i do think it will be nice to i think we've learned that a lot of us can work from home it's a lot a lot of families to stay together spend more time together so if there is a silver lining to the poor leadership that we've had from a man who thinks that we should be injecting disinfectant go to los angeles or new delhi india look up and you see blue skies so some good will come of this because we've given muddler nature. jonathan harris steve malzberg thank you for stepping into the big picture here and thank you for enduring that shouting match if you see us somewhere else and it's easier for you do you know that r t america has the live stream at youtube dot com slash r

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of. greetings and sal you taishan all right let's start this party off with a bang with one of the most important news stories currently taking place in these united states of america i'm talking of course about the trumpet ministrations deployment of armed fatigue clad teams of identified federal agents to major u.s. cities like portland and chicago under the guise of protecting federal property these agents have snatched u.s. citizens off the streets in the dead of night never used blunt force trauma chemical weapons upon mothers.