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a michael ok so glad you could be with us music fans around the globe have been enjoying a virtual mega concert celebrating health workers the all star lineup included the likes of the rolling stones and multiple grammy winner billy island all performing from home the event called one world together at home was broadcast live on streaming services along with major t.v. networks worldwide. one. that's wrong music with a message. to the global citizen and lady gaga curated the online 6 hour event as a love letter to the world was. last . posted by jimmy fallon and other u.s. talk show hosts the event celebrated those on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus. most of these performance would be used to the stage but it was all filmed in their homes that included paul mccartney stevie wonder celine dion billy eilish and elton john. j. and. j. and there's been just. a moment prayer was eager. 'd to. get into. the. night some of the stars swapped performances for messages of solidarity and african american in large had been so nearly in. those with preexisting conditions. even h

>> ok, i think next on our list, i think we have -- jessica just texted me. michael? michael? ok, jessica, who do you have next? and again, thank you for bearing with us as we have this. >> sorry about this. next question, we have glenda coston. >> hello, brenda? >> yes, i'm here. can you hear me? >> go ahead. >> my question is specifically for representative upton. >> ok, go ahead brenda. >> my question to you is, we had spoken when the virus first was breaking out andy you had mentioned some concern with the threat of the virus. so i just want to hear your thoughts, specifically, on the tradition from then until now with this plan. >> fred? fred, you're muted. three ago, buddy. >> i didn't touch the right buttons on the screen. we all want, as the president does, we wish things were open on easter but that wasn't going to happen. the virus was going to dictate exactly what happening. and we all have to work together. my side of the state has been impacted, but debbie dingell side, it's much harder than the west side. i've spent all my time here. i met my kitchen table. i've b

ok. to michael, lehigh, oklahoma. good morning, michael. go ahead.aller: i don't think anybody ought to be exempt for nothing. i think they should take consideration of everybody around them and stay home and get rid of this thing. it's nobody's fault. it just happened. host: our question for you this morning, should religious organizations be exempt from the stay at home orders? we've got a couple more calls and we'll hear from bob next in marshall, virginia. go ahead. caller: yeah, these people like the woman a couple three callers ago who called up and was literally lecturing us. i'd like to point out three things to her and i hope people listen to what i'm about to say because this is very, very accurate in terms of historically what happened in past pandemics. in the pandemic of the early part of the 1900s there was pushback like this and the result was tense of millions of people dying. during the plague of the late 1340's to the early 1350's, the religious leaders were in charge and they called for the people to congregate and the result was t

even though we don't be sad oh you know the ending i meant michael bloomberg. ok so not with america better no no focus on the best it could be and we sell the. in a matter of the end of that final look at my gala and let me let me say this for them and although you've got a 10 day the rest of unless. we have it more do mass carol in new years well it's more just ask that you can be as they're not there isn't the went out at the workout i don't behave well or not. and other boys in the african ways of where and i'll get your point that i got i thought what matter this would be a russia would be a home with under me less minister when i have a gun i see and know no money. and will not get it 7 either yes or no get out and not or say give us a median and the other hand because they were in a much simpler than i thought another. study but it up a good deal so work to. be so. good no to leave this olivera at all us look to get in your live look borrowed a little media interview with some celebrity what'll be notice most of you know they look good their courses are cap

get even without international just going to that michael kay in moscow ok well let's start with the latest numbers then on the outbreak because confirmed cases have now passed 2300000 more than 159000 people have died from the virus and most of those fatalities are in europe and the u.s. so far just over 591000 patients have recovered from the disease. now the outbreak in germany does appear to be under control half a month long locked down according to the country's health minister germany has a much lower death rate than other major european countries and restrictions on movement are being partially lifted with some shops reopening next week however a government spokesperson has stressed that caution is needed skip. the statistics there are no guarantees that the infection kovel keep flattening out there are also risks when we take these small careful steps into opening up we must keep an eye on the infection curve and what it means for our health system and our hospitals. as in many countries germany shut down has devastated the hospitality sector in dresden restaurant workers se

michael hayden. ok. i used to be an officer in our directorate of operations before i changed careers and served in another capacity for a number of years and then became director. well yes, you could say that because any of the oss grads. this is directorate of operations meeting cia position. he was a case officer for about 10 years. gates was an analyst. porter goss. he worked in the d. o., had to leave for medical reasons and became a local politician in florida and then a congressional preservative, ran the house oversight committee for a while, then became our director. i am the only person up here who is both director of central intelligence and director of cia. goss again. he was running the agency when the dni position was set up, the intelligence, terrorism -- intelligence reform and prevention act passed in 2004, effective 2005. it abolished the position of dci and for the first time in history created statutory the director of central intelligence agency. we will talk about the effect that ha

scientists today would indicate that this briefing may be going in a slightly different direction ok michael i will let you go for now thank you for that from washington so of course we'll keep an eye out on that briefing and we'll bring you any information that comes out of its. just before we crossed over to washington we were talking about lebanon because a large part of the population there is struggling financially after the government imposed a lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus almost half of the population lives below the poverty line the country's already in the midst of an economic crisis and 12 people have been killed from the virus 470 cases have been confirmed here's and reporting from beirut it's a desperate time for a growing number of lebanese those willing and able to help are stepping in by providing food to the poor a nationwide order to contain the coronavirus is putting further hardship on an already struggling population we have so many calls would imagine people starving there were no we were starving only food but people asking for medication people asking

michael hayden. ok. i used to be an officer in our director ate of operations before i changed careers and served in another capacity for a number of years and then became director. >>>[inaudible]. >> well, yes. you could say that, i guess, of any of the oss grads, if you will, but i'm thinking of someone different. this is director of operations, meaning cia position. he was a case a officer for about ten years. >> gates. >> no. gates was an analyst. porter goss. he worked in the do as a case officer for about 12 years or so, had to leave for medical reasons. then became a local politician in florida and then a congressional representative, ran the house oversight committee for a while and then became our director. i am the only person up here who is both director of central intelligence and director of the c cia. >>>[inaudible]. >> goss again. he was running the agency when the dni position was set up. the intelligence -- terrorism intelligence -- excuse me -- intelligence reform and terrorism pretengs

ok. michael: it is hard to react when everybody is withdrawing their guidance because you don't know exactly where things are going to come out. . i think where you will see more reaction in the markets is when we start getting governors or others telling us what their plans are going to be to restart. any real disappointments, anything that pushes is back into the summertime, is probably going to have a reaction because you're are building your earnings profile on the idea that we will be back to work sometime in may, or at least companies will start producing again sometime in may. i'm watching a company called spirit aerosystems. they make 70% of the boeing 737. we talked about problems with that airplane. this is a company that fell into the fallen angel category after the fed's deadline, so in theory, they are eligible for loans, but stock is down 71% in the last couple of months. if boeing can't get up and running, if the public doesn't return to flying, this is a company that will be in real trouble, so how do you price something like that? alix: good question. i don't think the marke

ok. >> and speaking of lafayette, michael mentioned the painting of the atlas mountains.hat's the only painting that did during the war. and a quick plug, there is a wonderful exhibit of winston's artwork at the art museum on the university of louisiana lafayette campus. it happens to be named the hilliard art museum, and it is a wonderful work. i think seven of his paintings are there. are there any other questions before we have our final break of the day, or? let's give michael bishop a wonderful round of applause for a wonderful talk. mr. bishop: thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this is american history tv, featuring events, interviews, archival films, and visits to classrooms and historic places. exploring our nation's past every weekend on c-span three. watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span three to join the conversation like us on facebook. >> world war ii veteran clinton gardener shares stories of h

interests influence and political decision making here not me decision making ok so let me come to the farmer right here mr michael keeping him because your families you mentioned is over 100 years old suddenly older than the nation of kenya do you feel like you're beholden to the person who began this. absolutely not you do and i believe we need to both the minds and our hearts as it is 6 years after independence we really shouldn't be complaining too much about. let me come back to i want to challenge you basically based on what michael has said that it's been about 5 to 6 years we should be talking about neocon and musician right now look at me and fairview farm we're doing it on our own we're talking about colonization we're talking about imperialism we're not talking about individual experiences we're talking about a systemic issue yes you're able to grow your coffee and run your coffee tours but is the price for example that you're that you're selling your coffee at reflective of the labor that has gone into producing that coffee or is it reflective of political priorities that have been set elsewhere exploi

michael and erin, welcome to the stage. [applause] ok, good morning. thanks to everyone for coming. my name is michael kearns and with my close friend and colleague aaron roth we have co-authored a book, a general artist book called "the ethical algorithm" whose who subtitle e site of socially aware outcome design. we want to do for roughly half an hour so is just take you a high level to what some of the major themes of the book are and then we'll open it up as jeff said to q&a. i think many, many people and certainly this audience is well aware that in the past decade or so wishing learning has gone from a relatively obscure corner of ai to mainstream news and i would characterize the first half of this take it as the glory period when all the news reports were positive and we're hearing about all these amazing advances in areas like deep learning which has applications in speech recognition, image processing, , image categorizatn and many, many other areas. we all enjoyed the great benefits of this technology and advances that were made but the last few years or so have been more

would have been cool if you would have said dr michael jordan michael joyner close can you imagine it coincidence patriots going to it's okbig story today robert kraft the owner chartered his own team plane there the new england patriots team playing to china to pick up 1200000 and 95 mask those very important ones that health care professionals need to protect themselves from the virus especially new york especially new york which by the way of those 1200000 they've dedicated 300000 of the mass to new york they are now in the states from china they picked him up early yesterday morning he spent $2000000.00 out robert half $2000000.00 of his own money to do that that plane that's right that's plenty so russia send supplies china send supplies new york is doing well with those countries we're supposed to hate along right interesting. novak the world number one tennis player i think you said you wanted to play tennis with me this weekend well you know novak djokovic if we can't find a court we could try this we could use frying pans joke of it with his brother in his house that's his brother marco there who is also a tennis

ok. so the question, if i understood michael's translation. sorry, he is closer to the speaker was are there other indicators that are showing that people are starting to respond practice y-at-home, all hygiene, small groups, of those kinds of things. was that the question? [indiscernible] gov. gordon: sure. i'm going to let dr. harrist talk aboutette. if you remember two years ago, and again, the question was you -- what are the the indicators we're seeing and are there testing numbers indicating more positives? we were ago i said providing more tests and we would see more positives and we would see more tests. dr. harrist can speak a little bit to that but what i would say is as far it is a other metrics we're seeing. a lot of it is anecdotal. we're not hearing as much as and the ing wal-mart one that was supposedly happening was debunked. we're hearing from others that people are getting it and they are stopping behaving the way they were. we still see some groups gathered around basketball hoops and things like that. want to make sure thos

michael can you hear us. i can hear you can you hear me yes please groet. ok thank you for taking my call i'm dialing in from british columbia today in a little around 3 weeks from now the holy month of ramadan well commends. of course hundreds of millions of faithful will be partaking in this breaking their fast eating together and sharing food there is the tradition as you know of ramadan tends where large numbers gather i know director general as a former person in that region it's very important to get out and biggest and clear public health messages out early if behaviors are to be changed in any way what would be your message right now to religious leaders to governments in the region in order to prevent a further a break during this very special time of the year thank you. thank you thank you so much. in this sleep early spawns in the fight against despondent meek. the role of political leaders is central the role of business leaders is very very important and central to and the role of really just leaders and community leaders is very very important an

have to be considered from now very early on ok and we thank you very much michael catch him for joining us from geneva thank you. coming up on the news hour from london at least 14 people are killed in flash flooding in the yemeni city of aides in the government says it needs international help. police crackdown on dozens of activists after some of the capital's worst riots in decades. but 1st the u.s. has condemned iran's successful launch of its military satellite into orbit its 1st one that is on iran's revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space but washington has accused iran of the pasta fusing its space program as a cover for missile development so the reports. on wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth and the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advanta

ok. get up. get up! jordan documentary is on tv. i am a big michael jordan fan. he does not make the varsity team, michael jordan. got knocked on his rear end. he was disappointed. what did he do? he worked harder, practiced more. michael jordan. michael jordan was not just born. the great player that he is. new york, we make ourselves. greatwar i, world war ii, depression, some of the worst circumstances forged the character of this nation. we have to be smart enough to do the same thing here and we will because we are new york tough. it is easy to be tough, it is hard to be smart, disciplined, unified, and loving. .ut, we are all of the above let's take a few questions. i need to go down to washington and everything is a little tight from a scheduling standpoint. visit,he white house what do you see the focus being? gov. cuomo: testing. and hows testing mean can we do it? how can the federal government work in partnership with the states? look, it is a situation that is very difficult and it is a situation where however you do it, it is going to be a blame game

private ok all those stocks and bonds will no longer be publicly traded or publicly listed or the vast majority of them will no longer be they'll be then priced like dell computer remember michael dell the side a few years ago being a public company and so much work and my stocks terrible i'm just going to go private oh ok apply that now to the majority of the s.p. 500 deaths is going to go private so what will be left is a fast penny stock like junk bond market for idiots and casino operators to lose money in every single day for the benefit of the rons yes pretty much that's the future if you notice the stock market is not going down particularly at this very moment as the flood of the wall of the tsunami of money will go flows into the pockets of the billionaires the bond market dwarfs the equity markets the stock market so it's way vastly bigger ordinary people don't know the size of it and the numbers wouldn't even make sense them but the fact that that is the ing nationalized and presumably that's part also bailing out pension funds the mutual market funds like a whole sector of the economy that you're not even looking at you're just looking at the shortage of toilet pape

ok. to michael, lehigh, oklahoma. good morning, michael. go ahead.r: i don't think anybody ought to be exempt for nothing. i think they should take consideration of everybody around them and stay home and get rid of this thing. it's nobody's fault. it just happened. host: our question for you this morning, should religious organizations be exempt from the stay at home orders? we've got a couple more calls and we'll hear from bob next in marshall, virginia. go ahead. caller: yeah, these people like the woman a couple three callers ago who called up and was literally lecturing us. i'd like to point out three things to her and i hope people listen to what i'm about to say because this is very, very accurate in terms of historically what happened in past pandemics. in the pandemic of the early part of the 1900s there was pushback like this and the result was tense of millions of people dying. during the plague of the late 1340's to the early 1350's, the religious leaders were in charge and they called for the people to congregate and the result was the p

bright spots of occurrence in what is an absolutely ongoing dire situation ok mike hanna with the wrap up there in washington d.c. michael. very much so of course italy's health care system has been under enormous strain during this outbreak but it's just announced its 1st drop and the number of patients needing intensive care so let's go to francesca or tony who is in milan so francesca tell us the numbers out of italy. well the number of that you were given about the intensive care units are quite good as the new figures that are coming from italy that seemed relatively positive also for the fatalities 681 people died today and this is the smallest number and more than a week and also the new positive cases are less than 5000 today the increase is just a 4 percent daily base and it's in line with the past day so they the infections confirmed are 125000 since the outbreak. italy has reached the plateau or at least this is what experts are saying the curve is still slightly going after but it's going slower every day and it's almost flat after almost one month of lockdown. florida's are warning citizens not so leave thei

ok. erik: thank you for joining us. great to see you -- talk to you. that is michael novogratz, the ceo of galaxy digital.ciate that. coming up, we will look at how markets are stacking up against their five-year averages. that is coming up next in technically speaking. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: time for technically speaking. joining me is mike mcglone. talk to me about oil. halfway seen the bottom? mike: i think we are pretty close to the bottom. you look at crude oil versus its 60 month average, it is at an extreme discount, the most extreme discount in the history of futures over 30 years. 60% below that average, hard to be bearish. a very good resistance in wti. one key significance is oil at an extreme discount, the stock market is not. alix: fairpoint. let's go to the stock market. david coston says the bottom is in. what you see on the charts? mike: it is not at a discount. we had a global heart stopper session yet the s&p 500 is still up 10%. the last two corrections is down 30%. you expect in a global recession you can at least get some form of discount with some people who buy stocks cheap. the

michael jackson had the right idea all along. if he was alive today, he'd be alive today. i'm ok with this. honest, there's something kind of fun about wearing a mask to the store. you're like a superhero. a super hero whose only power is to buy up all the spaghetti o's. and while the cdc figures out what we should do, the president doesn't sound so sure about this plan to wear masks. >> i saw his suggestion on that, so we'll take a look at it. for a period of time. not forever. we want our country back. we're not going to be wearing masks forever, but it could be for a short period of time. >> jimmy: he can't wear a mask. it would mess up all the bronzer on his face. and not only isn't he enthusiastic about masks, after all this talk about being careful about washing your hands, avoiding saliva, etc, etc, he still does a lot of touching the white house community microphone. >> thank you. so, we are in the midst of something. yesterday i announced that we would be -- i have to say, you look at louisiana. for a long teaime, it was just -- i hope it doesn't happen. i'd like to ask seema to co

ok. get up, get up. have the strength to get up, have the wisdom to learn from the experience and be a better person for it. michael jordan documentary was on tv, and i'm a big michael jordan fan. he does not make the varsity team. michael jordan. bad coach, maybe. but he got knocked on his rear end. he was disappointed. what did he do? he works harder, practiced more. michael jordan was not just born -- god did not just say, here is. he made himself the great player that he is. new york, we make ourselves. some of the most tragic situations forged the character and the resolve of this nation. new york state, the same thing. we have to be smart enough to do the same thing here. we will because we are new york tough. we are not just tough. it is hard to be smart and disciplined and unified and loving. that is what is harder. but we are all of the above and that is why we are special. i have to go down to washington and -- everything is a little tight from a scheduling point of you today. >> what do you see the focus being for the white house visit? gov. cuomo: testing. what does testing mean and how can the cover --

ok and you are. as we saw are the current eyes pandemic in different countries around the welsh there are certain similarities that we've gotten used to seeing the michael his actions have the equipment they need when i see house guests tonight how resilient how people handling looked at jamie going to look at those charges in the context of a russian so if you have experiences or stories or questions that you want to ask and i'm not sure you can do that i'm jumping in the each. let me introduce you to our guests 1st of all. welcome to.

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but it's ok, but because it would not be inflation that we are worried about. michaelthat's been a big break for the central banks and for the world, that we didn't come into this with inflation. you will have all these loans out there that the federal reserve and other central banks priced at zero, so it is going to be very hard for them to raise interest rates any in the near future because all of the people with these loans will have a hard time paying the back. expect this kind of thing forever. walks like a duck and >> like a duck, quality platypus. like a duck, call it a platypus. they don't want to spend too much money, so did can use the ecb program and put all those on.s from italy in the long run, that is essentially what you're doing. alix: i love it. and to tie the two worlds together for you, i wonder if the ecb is discussing buying junk bonds today. if that actually happens, how much does that push out to e.m. somewhere? damian: it is going to be really challenging. the emerging market has its work cut out for it. if you look at some of the comments from

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but it seemed appropriate, is it ok if i sing it for you? michaelng along, yes. he unfortunately can't use the headphones because he has his hearing aids in but he heard everything through the speaker and how incredible, he was having a little sing yes. it is a duet in the making! absolutely! hannah, i think you have been extraordinary, my lovely. he's obviously been a fabulous father for you. it's just been amazing. i think i kept saying that. we knew we had this absolute gem ofa that. we knew we had this absolute gem of a man, that. we knew we had this absolute gem ofa man, we have that. we knew we had this absolute gem of a man, we have loved living with him over the last 12 years. we shared that story, with the nation and the nation has taken them to their hearts and now he has truly become a beacon of hope, not only for us, but around the world. it's simply extraordinary. hannah, can i ask tom, three u, michael gave a lovely rendition of that song that means so much to so many people. can i ask tom what he thought of the song and the words in t

ok you've been listening to steven palace right there he's the n.h.s. the england national medical director for n.h.s. and of course this briefing was started off with michael go the cabinet office minister. many many leads many takeaways from this but one being and that is that the horrible number 4113 people have lost their lives to corona virus in the u.k. that is a 20 percent increase and just one day a mayor in a mafia standing by in london has also been listening to this briefing which we have been following every day merriam water and what are some of the top lines that you're true that you heard there. right so we were hearing there about a number of cases in other parts of the country because we've been speaking about london be larry much the epicenter of the virus here in the u.k. but it's so interesting to hear cabinet office minister michael gove saying that we're also seeing an increasing number of cases in other parts of the country so we'll see got more cases popping up in the west midlands and also in the northeast of the country so far and it has been slightly ahead of the rest of the country which you perhaps would expect because of the de

michael, jason and sean. please call item number one. >> item one, roll call. >> we will come back to you. >> he is trying to log in so he can have a voice. >> ok. [roll call] >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> great. thank you. please call item number two. >> item number two. overvo*u hview of the local, state federal response to the disruption of the covid-19 emergency, discussion and possible action items. today we have the office of economic and workforce director joaquin torres. >> great. director torres, thank you so much for taking the time to present and take some of our questions today. we know your time is short and that you have a hard stop at 11:20. the floor is yours. >> well, thank you very much, commissioner. can everyone hear me ok? >> yeah. >> ok, great. am i on screen? i'm not able to see if i am or not. >> you are. >> great. all right. thanks. i just wanded to say hello, everyone. i hope you and your families are safe and well right now during what we know is an extremely difficult time. that's why our office of economic and workforce development has been just tirelessly working across teams to make sure that we could aff

michael: well, i mean, stocks are down 1200 points in the last two days. they certainly reacted. whether it was the issues in the oil market or just sort of a valuation where people say, ok, we are heading into earnings season, earnings are unpredictable, some of them will be negative, i don't know. stocks went down because more people sold then bought, but there is no question that oil did have in impact. it was such a shock, the decline in price for the may contract was such a shock that i think it through the markets -- threw the markets for a loop. you do wonder whether there is some sort of issue we are going to learn about down the road, marching call, or someone having to raise liquidity. someone mentioned the u.s. oil fund as being a possible culprit. we will find out in due time. nobody should be really surprised by the decline in oil because we have had demand destruction globally. we have shut the u.s. economy down, not to mention most of the rest of the world. people are driving. businesses are not running. the demand for oil will be much lower. it keeps getting produced and it needs to be stored somewhere. so storage issues in the united states on wti are an

michael, jason and sean. please call item number one. >> item one, roll call. >> we will come back to you. >> he is trying to log in so he can have a voice. >> ok.[roll call] >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> great. thank you. please call item number two. >> item number two. overvo*u hview of the local, state federal response to the disruption of the covid-19 emergency, discussion and possible action items. today we have the office of economic and workforce director joaquin torres. >> great. director torres, thank you so much for taking the time to present and take some of our questions today. we know your time is short and that you have a hard stop at 11:20. the floor is yours. >> well, thank you very much, commissioner. can everyone hear me ok? >> yeah. >> ok, great. am i on screen? i'm not able to see if i am or not. >> you are. >> great. all right. thanks. i just wanded to say hello, everyone. i hope you and your families are safe and well right now during what we know is an extremely difficult time. that's why our office of economic and workforce development has been just tirelessly working across teams to make sure that we could affe