holtz-eakin, dr. holtz-eakin. yearcame to you and said a from now, what have we learned, will an we do better that give congressman thompson, blumenauer, and some others who this,ly sort of mentioned expansion of things like, what is telemedicine? is telemedicine facetime on my or e, talking to something, is it the wearables i may have on my body? thehe navajo nation we have broadband satellite that are starting to be launched. house may have access to broadband if we would just be willing to be creative, whatre are we learning our failings are? can we do better? dr. holtz-eakin: i think one of the things we learned is that approach to the internet, specifically which is in general, and ow some restraint regulatory moderation is going in our re successful capacity to hold this hearing, our capacity to do telehealth, away from y to work offices is much, much better than other places. thing.a tremendous in terms of things i think we need to do better, i think one is thathings we learned the american health care deli

that is just so telling, and douglas holtz eakin, let's build on that. the economic pain is not equally shared. it's just not and you see it with african-americans at almost 70% unemployment and hispanics almost 19% in this report. >> yes, there's no question about it. you see big jumps up to over 16% for blacks, almost 19% for hispanics. this is an enormous amount of pain, and we see it spread unequally across the economy so hopefully the recovery will be unequal and we'll get those folks back to work first. i think, you know, this is a staggering report, not unexpected, but trying to digest losses of this magnitude is really very hard. the one thing that stands out to me and i want to echo something that christine touched on, in the report of the 20.5 million lost jobs over 18 were described as temporary layoffs. we want to make sure that turns out to be true, that we get enough support for the economy, that those people can get back to work and relatively quickly. that's the challenge now. >> we're going to bring in john harwood now at the wtev-shaped

douglas eakin, former chief economist of president bush's council of economic advisers.to see you. jason, i tend to think that we know see what the divide is on capitol hill right now. you have a chunk of folks, mostly democrats, who believe there's got to be more urgency, more money pumped in here and we can debate how you do it. and there's a growing consensus among some republicans orrin capitol hill. not everybody. we know some believe there needs to be more action too. who are in a bit of a wait and see mode. i think i have an idea of where you are. do you at all have any empathy toward the wait and see mode? >> we've done quite a lot. i think that's really true. i don't think we need to layer trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions on top of this. but what we're done comes to an end on july 31st for unemployed workers. something needs to be continued after that. and what we've done has been woefully insufficient for states and localities. they're going to start cutting their budgets, laying people off, and making our economic problems worse come the fal

. >> director eakin. >> thank you. christina, director rubke, it's been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. you bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. you are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. i've learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to please, please touch and share your vital thoughts with this board. thank you. >> thank you. are there other directors who would like to speak? i don't see any on the chat. i'll open it up. >> madam chair, can i say awe few words? >> absolutely you can. >> thank you. christina, i, like our chairperson, deeply regret the circumstances that are causing your departure. truth be told, i would regret any circumstances that led to your departure because you've been an excellent colleagues and to me for a short time and my colleagues for a long time.

with that, i would just close by saying to director eakin, i love this idea of just not taking advantage of this crisis, but acknowledging that we have a deep responsibility to ensure that we are directing our very, very limited financial and staff resources to protecting the public health of this crisis and establishing the basis of a strong and resilient and equitable economy coming out of this crisis. thank you. >> so with that, i don't know if there's any final questions -- ors, director brinkman. >> thank you. just one final comment. yes, i think that we do want to be bold. it sounds like we do want some type of nesty, down and dirt workshop scenario that doesn't create extra work for staff, but actually gives staff and gives

the day, concerns among her members pushed her to change course on that. >> all right douglas holtz-eakinsthe economy, nahid bhadelia, and kasie hunt on politics kasie, you're going to stick around >> w four plus one is... 16. (laughter) how many pints of iced tea are left in the pitcher? times... ten... so, wait... (errhhhhh) do you want to show us the continents on the... no. it is not going good. my mom is getting stressed out. (speaks hebrew) momma's tired. i, i'm, like... woooo... (screams) (sighs heavily) so, starting just quickly by breathing in... i never thought i'd say this, but i kind of miss school! the teachers, i mean, y'all are gifted people! i thank you so much for what you're doing. their investment into our children is beyond what we can even imagine. appreciate all that you do. . >>> welcome back data download time as some states begin to reopen, many americans are trying to adapt to this new normal a survey has been asking if americans feel that the worst of the pandemic is behind us or is yet to come. in week one, which was the week starting on march 15th, only 7% of r

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i'm joined by douglas moments eakin president of the american action forum and served on the council of economic advisers under president george h.w. bush and karen mills former administrator of the small business administration under president obama. great to have your perspectives on this day. doug, the jobless claims, 3 million more people filing for benefits, the seven-week total now a staggering 33 million americans which comes out to one in five working americans as i said earlier. what's your take on these numbers and what it might mean for policymakers in washington? >> well, as stephanie said, this is not unexpected. we could see this coming and tomorrow's job report is going to show 21 million people lost their jobs in the month of april, and we don't know where they'll go. they could show up as unemployed, i'll have an unemployment rate over 17% or they may show up as having given up out of the labor force, labor force participation will plummet to about 54%. you know, we knew that, and we knew that it was important as a matter of policy to provide enormous amounts of liqu

. >> director eakin. >> thank you. christina, director rubke, it's been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. you bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. you are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. i've learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to please, please touch and share your vital thoughts with this board. thank you. >> thank you. are there other directors who would like to speak? i don't see any on the chat. i'll open it up. >> madam chair, can i say awe few words? >> absolutely you can. >> thank you. christina, i, like our chairperson, deeply regret the circumstances that are causing your departure. truth be told, i would regret any circumstances that led to your departure because you've been an excellent colleagues and to me for a short time and my colleagues for a long time.

some recent change rituals about what eakins to when something. doesn't mom teach. ins me seeing you. you know i can't speak so much to the various processes in new york right now i know that it's complicated i know that there have been a great deal of barriers and and also that people are were are doing the very best they can to accommodate the structural. in a way that is can grow public health priority is listening listening to my colleagues talk i just i'm reminded of the importance of storytelling as something that is so as a such an essential part of all of these are actual grieving process sees and it's something that i'm really encouraging families that i work with to figure out how to end rather than suppressing those experiences rather than it's so easy right when we're all a home to for that to not to mark the change in time what happened the era that we're all this morning looks the same way as your world this afternoon except there's been this mess of whole ridge in your heart somewhere between then and now and i think it is so deeply important to you i

former congressional budget director douglas holtz-eakin. dr. that henahid bahelia. it's "meet the press" and our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. >>> january 6th the cdc first issued a travel notice for wuhan, china. consider what has happened since. 1.1 million confirmed cases of covid-19 diagnosed in the u.s. 66,000 americans have died. the american economy shrunk by nearly 5% in the first quarter with the worst yet to come. 30 million americans have filed for unemployment in the past six weeks. those are the sobering numbers. but this has not been like other crises. think 9/11, oklahoma city, the "challenger" accident. instead of being united in grief, america is divided by politics. we see it in the anti-social distancing protests and states extending stay-at-home guidelines. we see it in a gallup poll that finds 44% of republicans would be willing to return so normal activities right now if there were no restrictions at all. only 4% of democrats say the same thing. we see it in vice president pence not wearing a face mask in the mayo clinic, whe

. >> director eakin. >> thank you. christina, director rubke, it's been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. you bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. you are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. i've learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to please, please touch and share your vital thoughts with this board. thank you. >> thank you. are there other directors who would like to speak? i don't see any on the chat. i'll open it up. >> madam chair, can i say awe few words? >> absolutely you can. >> thank you. christina, i, like our chairperson, deeply regret the circumstances that are causing your departure. truth be told, i would regret any circumstances that led to your departure because you've been an excellent colleagues and to me for a short time and my colleagues for a long time.

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holtz-eakin? dr. holtz-eakin: i think that's right. mr.e: i have got three counties, you heard me speak about some of the ones in south carolina that are majority african-american. they haven't really seen a higher level of covid than the national average or the average of the state. i haven't seen a demographic for those three counties specifically, but what they have had is lack of opportunity for a long time. the thing that crushes me about all this is that we had made so much progress. along that line in terms of creating opportunity. when i came into office in 2012, the unemployment rate in marion county, south carolina was almost 20%. three months ago, it was under 4%. which is an amazing and fascinating thing. we had made so much progress in providing opportunity that would eventually lift these disparities in health care and education and other things. i just can't wait -- we are on the downside. if you look at the slopes, the numbers are getting better every day nationally. we have absolutely bent the curve. i can't wait until we

director eakin, please. >> thank you, chair. first of all, director tumlin, thank you for your heroic commitment to public service during this time. i know it's more than you bargained for to navigate your way through this challenge to work your way through the position. so please let us know how we as a board can support you and the staff during these difficult times. as to your update, it was, of course, exciting to see the mayor's announcement this morning, taking important steps to make more safe space for walking and biking. and the city has offered to do so in a way that's low cost. i'm glad we'll be monitoring and learning as we go and we can address some of the comments we're hearing today. i wanted to share a few comments as i look at the map. it seems there are definitely some parts of the city that have a great deal of pedestrian traffic and narrow streets that screen out more pedestrian streets and chinatown comes to mind clearly without any slow streets proposed on this map. and i also heard your explains very clear

decisions that will be made and the direction that will be taken and again, i'll agree with you, director eakin doesn't create a responsibility for us to respond to this whole situation is keep things going. so that's it and yes, let's we can figure out a way to do a down and dirty workshop scenario, let's do it. >> director hemmingger. >> dr. bringingman stole the words out of our mouth. our director was challenging us to down and dirty and i think we should accept the challenge. i would remind him the variable toll we had on the bay bridge before covid was something i put in place. [ laughter ] >> so maybe it just needs to be higher. [ laughter ] >> so director, i guess we'll talk off-line about what that means, this down and dirty process. we, obviously, have a june 2nd u anticipate taking that meeting to do part of the process? how do you see that out of curiosity and maybe working through the secretary, as well, to think that through a little bit? >> i think i'll want to make sure we're collaborating with secretary boomer to making sure that my ambition is grounded in reality and one thing