>> i'm going to defer to ned on what happens if congress can't meet. in a situation of the 20th amendment but he's the electoral college expert here. let me pick up on the other question. about the heritage foundation's voter fraud database. what we know about absentee fraud? i think this is very poor. this is not an issue that was really on the radar until the president started saying a few weeks ago in the wake of attempt to move to more vote by mail that absentee balloting somehow suspect. the heritage foundation website lists all allegations of voter fraud going back for many years and some of them involve absentee ballots many of them don't many don't involve actual criminal conviction or even prosecution. i'd like to rely on a very good database put together by news 21 an organization out of asu cronkite school for journalism they looked at all election prosecutions across the united states for it to 12 year period. what they found was that absentee ballot fraud made up about 24 percent of the cases by far the largest category of fraud. this is u

the others, ned. what event do you support or not national elections rules and how could they be adopted and if you think they should be i think it's important to think about long-term structural reform on the one hand versus making sure that this election works under the basic architecture that we have in place read and that because of the pandemic and real acute emergencies at the moment, we've got to get through this year that counts as a fair ballot election under the system as we know. and i do think that requires some congressional money but mostly legislative reform at the state level. now, when we think about long-term reform, then i think we could think more about national changes and national rules. and i think there's a lot to be concerned about about our system as it exists. i'mnot a big fan of the electoral college . i'd like to replace it but that's hard to do. you need a constitutional amendment for that. even eight adjusting the electoral college so that it's conformed to its own expec

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phil and ned have the same experience. that is one of the frustrations, is people whoerns with testing, we are not doing it right. gretchen has got it exactly right. it took the federal government a long time to do this. we are neighbors here. the ppe was coming in from china, ready to go get that uber car. phil and i and five other governors, we got together, we are going to purchase as part of a cooperative. like gretchen said, like their christmas trees arriving on september 26, this is going to go on for a while and we are going to make sure that we have what we need this fall. i do resent the idea of a bailout. i heard that phrase mentioned. it was the federal government that stood there and said that you have to slow down significant parts of your economy. we have slowed them down, and 90% of our budget shortfall is related to lost revenues. the revenue has disappeared. think they have to step up. if you want to get the economy going again, you don't want the do theto be -- i hope we right thing over the next few wee

ned price a former special assistant to president obama. ned, kevin hassett answered the question a lot of people had when they heard about the two confirmed cases at the white house. let me play that for you. >> it is scary to go to work. i think that i would be a lot safer if i was sitting at home than i would be going to the west wing. it is a small, crowded place. it is a little bit risky but you have to do it because you have to serve the country. >> you know, ned, what it is like to work in that building. what do you make of what is happen willing and what we just heard from monica about the fear? >> risky chris, that we heard from the economic adviser. those binge watching the old television series the west wing will be left with misimpressions. the subjectiveness impression is that the american president and the team around him are always guided by right and act in the best interests of the american people. that of course hasn't always happened in this trump white house. far from it. the objectiveness is the idea is that this west w

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joining us now is the governor of connecticut, ned lamont. thank you very much for being with us.ing news that the cdc put together these 17 pages of guidelines, really a manual for how businesses and churches and schools and camps can reopen, the white house is blocking it, blocking the release. what is your reaction? >> what do you got to hide? i think it would be very helpful for us. right now, you know, we're convening internally, our higher ed, our k through 12, small business, retail, restaurant groups, trying to figure out the best protocols for reopening. i share that information with andrew cuomo and charlie baker as the governors try to come up with a good solution as well. but i would love to hear what the cdc has to say. maybe they have some interesting protocols they found that worked at other places around the world that we could learn from here. >> what message does this send that the administration doesn't want this information to be made public? >> i want to hear what the cdc has to say. i like to hear what dr. fauci has to say. i would like to hear what dr. birx

allegedly you're right now between the 2 candidates this is something that needs to be answered hey ned what about those who are going to delineate between whatever it is they were looking for in the obama white house and what the justice department or the investigators say they eventually found in other words putting a perhaps more simply yeah we were looking into him at the time didn't find anything but eventually somebody did what are you going to say if they argue that. that it was a witch it was a witch hunt rick i mean come on they were targeting flash my theory has been this we all knew this was going to eventually end up in obama's west wing we know that a lot of people are involved and denied it i mean biden denied that he was in some of these meetings we now know he was lying about it he denied that he knew anything really about the flood investigation we now know he was lying about that as well my question is really what did biden know when do they know and what else is he lying about i think the thing rick that's going to be interesting as we're seeing more and more informat

three democratic governors -- michigan's gretchen whitmer, new jersey's phil murphy, and connecticut's ned lamont. most of the discussion was on their responses to the coronavirus pandemic. the former vice president hosted the event from his home in delaware. >> thank you all for joining me today and i do not want to take too much time. i want people to hear directly from you guys. you are living it every day, making the really tough decisions on the ground every day. you have been doing it every day from day one. you know better than i do, there are a lot of scared people across the country, looking for leadership and good guidance. --often, it is all of you this is not a partisan statement, governors, mayors, vocal leaders are all stepping up across the country. alike,cans and democrats filling the vacuum of leadership that i believe the federal government should be having your back, hasn't done enough. and it should be fighting like ppe,to get your state, the the

we have a special guest, the governor of connecticut can't ned lamont.a check on the markets. it looks like risk off. abigail: we switched from choppy , slightly risk off, to more serious selling pressure consistent with what we saw yesterday. a 2% down yesterday. those sellers are back. the court is still holding on a near-term basis, but investors are fearful. the s&p 500 down 1.7%. the russell 2000 sliding more. banks down 5.2%. bonds are confirming this risk off tone. that seems as though one of the powellwas fed chairs jay commentary in terms of the virus. some saying it is dire. i was say it is more realistic.

so, to get directly to general stroup's question, who was ned almond, and what we know about him? he belonged to the generation of senior officers who came of age in world war i. he led 10th corps in the invasion in korea. he is noted for his can-do attitude, his natural aggressiveness, demanding personality, sometimes self-serving nature, qualities that later earned him the nickname, sick'em ned. his early military life differed little from that of his contemporaries. ambition and the drive to excell made almond and his peers stand out as young officers. in a career spanning 35 years in three wars, almond showed strong leadership as a battalion division and corps commander. he also had a reputation for aggressive ambition, impatience, racial prejudice, and insecurity. in every position almond held, he earned the respect of his superiors, including generals george c. marshall, douglas macarthur, and matthew b . ridgeway, hard graders all. ok. there we go. oops. back up. there we go. almond is not quite as well known today as some of his contemporaries, but he has a poor reputation

for now i'm joined by governor ned lamont. thank you for joining us. want to start with a point made by one of our guests in the last month, dr. david shulkin said in his estimation only two states in the country right now that have the testing capacity necessary to begin reopening and that was rhode island and north dakota. i know you have seen a significant drop in cases here, but from a testing standpoint are you confident you're at the capacity you need to be to begin the reopening process? >> hi, steve. i'm confident. we doubled the amount of testing in the last week, we'll double it again in the next week, we're able to go after every single first responder, everybody in our nursing homes, we're testing in the door to the factories. everyone who's going in and out have been tested and they're safe. may 20th, making sure we have the protective gear in place, we have the testing in place and the track trace. >> so may 20th, you're saying this is phase one of the reopening. let me ask it this way, on may 20th, what still can't open in connecticut? >

briefly in the 80s an after the passing shower ned wooex, and next weekend, perhaps a taste of winter like weather coming back to the bay area. unlike mother's day, they are having a pirate party two houses down from me in neighborhood, the kids on this mom's day. you want to keep the umbrella on stand by. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, the flower district in downtown l.a., a spot spot. can shopping there be dangerous? the concern about social distancing? and we are celebrating mother's day, here is rob mayeda, his wife sara. the twin boys, chris and johnny. happy mother's day to all the moms out there. the weather's perfect... family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. how could it get any better than this? dad, i just caught a goldfish! there's no goldfish in this lake. whoa! it's pure gold. we're gonna be rich... we're gonna be rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. >>. thousands of people went to the l.a. flower district. florists were allowed to reopen friday. it was almost impossible to properly socially distance. the

ned lamont thinks forcing nursing homes to take covid positive patients as most states are doing is a path to disaster. >> i'm terrified. >> reporter: covid only facilities are governor lamont's solution this was a 90-bed nursing home until it shut down last november covid only facility. >> connecticut deserves a lot of credit they're testing everyone, staff and residents. they're providing personal protective equipment for the staff and then finally creating these specialized covid facilities. >> reporter: over the weekend, new york's governor cuomo reversed the rule to take back covid patients and that have facilities like this one on stand by back in connecticut the national guard is lending a hand like most of the country, connecticut struggled with the shortage of ppe, especially for nursing homeworkers. some daunting trash bags to protect themselves governor cuomo said it's not him to provide ppe. >> in a crisis, the buck stops here these nurses homes are private enterprises, why didn't they take care of their people forget it. we're in a crisis. >> reporter: here they tell us t

reporter: wheat t does not ned insectcts to reproroduce, so e bumblebees are lucky i if they find anylolowers in the vast fields, especially since, unlike honeybees, they can't fly very far. one problem is the growing tendency toward monoculture in morocco as the country modernizes its agriculture. a government agency is cooperating with the f.a.p. team. it says the insect protection model can easily b be integratd into the country's a agricultul planning. malika: i think f.a.p., or the inclusion of wild pollinators sn agriculture, f fits in perfecty with the minisistry's current strategy. it involves making agriculture more intelligent in the face of climate change.. reporter: agriculture in the face of climate change. the agency now offers training based on the f.a.p. model. farmers learn that plalants tht rely on pollinators usually consume less water than wheat, for example. that's useful to know, because in the future water will be even scarcecer. stefanie: we cannot train the farmers now what to do in 2050, but we can educate them in a way that they are able to respond to the re

governor ned lamont, thank you for your time today. good luck. >> thanks, john. >> thank you. >>> president trump now says he's just about finished taking hydroxychloroquine. he takes it to fepd off the coronavirus. he rejects critics and studies and his own fda which says the drug is unproven and has risks. >> it was a fuls study done where they gave it to very sick people, extremely sick people, people who were ready to die. it was given by obviously not friend of the administration. we had great studies come out. italy, france, spain, ourselves. many, many doctors. many doctors came out and said it's great. >> the presumptive democratic nominee said the incumbent is setting a reckless example. >> it's like saying maybe if you injected chllorox into your blo, it might cure you. come on, man, what is he doing? this is absolutely irresponsible. there's no serious medical personnel out there saying to use that drug. >> that doctor leads a multiuniversity study on whether hydroxychloroquine can help ward off covid-19. you just heard the

with me now, connecticut governor ned lamont. thank you very much for joining us again.to have you back on the program. >> good morning, jim. nice to be back. >> i want to play the warning that dr. anthony fauci shared yesterday in the congressional testimony, and get your reaction to it as you make these decisions. have a listen and we'll hear your thoughts. >> my concern that some area, cities, states, what have you, jump over those various checkpoints, and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently, my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks. >> listening to that, there, are you confident that connecticut has the capability to respond to any increases in cases and hospitalizations as you reopen? >> yeah, i'm confident, and i think dr. fauci would be confident as well because we have hit the metrics he laid out as important. hospitalizations down, we have now 40% capacity, virtually all of our hospitals, so if there was a flare-up, we make sure we can take care of peop

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." >> ned campbell's dramatic new film tackling the opioid craisi. >>> all happening on "california live." >> this morning at 11:30 on "california live." >>> today on "ellen," peter lamata, a teacher from oakland, gets a big surprise. let's take a look. >> i am partnering with box tops for education to celebrate incredible teachers like you. they want to give emerson elementary school $25,000. >> oh, my god. >> so now you don't haveo out of pocket yourself to do >> you heard it right there, that is great. ellen there telling mr. lamata that he does not have to buy his own supplies himself. so we didn't give away all of the great surprises you'll see on this show. ellen has another one for mr. lamata, you don't want to miss it, on ellen today at 4:00. >>> it is a special day here at nbc bay area. our very own bob redell marking his 20th year working here. before we bring in bob, let's check out some of his reporting highlights. ♪ [ screaming ] >> my last bite of cricket. you have to be sure you get a dead cricket because once they get into your stomach, there's no way of getting them out

wheeler is if ned flanders was terrifying, that would be the best way to describe it. wheeler has an insane organizational sense and a willingness to, let's just say pressure. if he had been part of the mob, he would have been very successful. it was one of those things where he was able to find just the right person, just the right position and figure out exactly how to persuade that person that there was an enormous popular support for prohibition. even if this involved trying to remove people from office by circulating things that were kind of unsavory by making it appear that people who were merely neutral on the issue actually had a close relationship to the liquor traffic. he was not above such techniques. he did use them quite a bit. that is when we talk about the anti saloon league. it is this idea that, for most historians, we call it the first major pressure. it's something different and special, related to political parties. there was a movement happening at the same time where people were trying to clean up political parties. they were trying to make primar

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ned stewart, superintendent of the new york military academy. trump's official nickname maker. gonzo aga, the chancellor of gonzaga university. charles potter, premarital fornication activist. jean moran, opa-locka county election official. renee boucher, rand paul's neighbor. gill fredericks carnival cruise pr director. hal pembroke, alamakee county caucus coordinator. he played the balloon boy. he played ruth bader ginsburg. he played george washington's ghost. he played donald trump's father in hell. sometimes he'd be in two bits per monologue. i couldn't choose between them and i'd just say you know what? do a quick costume change, we'll put him on twice. we could not get enough fred. he never had any time to prepare for these bits. we'd call him at noon and say hey, today you're going to be a boat captain. he'd say, aye, aye. he'd be on set by 2:00. we'd do one run-through of the script that was usually not finished yet. and then he and i would do it with no rehearsal live in front of the audience. and he nailed it every time. dozens of tim

report found that infection rates in early may surged by more than 70% in cities like des moines, iowa; nedashville, tennessee, where businesses just began reopening yesterday. >> in other parts of the country republican rand paul. >> and as much as i respect you, dr. fauci, i don't think you're the end all. i don't think you're the one person that gets to make a decision. we can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there's not going to be a surge and we can safely open the economy. >> i have never made myself out to be the end all and only voice on this. and we don't know everything about this virus, and we better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children, because the more and more we learn, we're seeing things about what this virus can do that we didn't see from the studies in china or in europe. >> reporter: democrat bernie sanders pushed fauci and the other health officials on whether the vaccine, when it's available, should be free for all americans. all of them said that's not their call. they don't set drug prices. but they agreed that no

ned duggan is with us, senior vice president at bacardi. ned, welcome to the program, am i right? the fastest growing sector? >> thank you for having me, stuart. yes, that is the fastest growing segment in the category today. stuart: here is a commercial. it is for you. what are you offering in the ready mix cocktails arena? >> bacardi just launched three flavored ready to drink cocktails. we have bacardi lime and soda, lemonade and my favorite, bacardi rum punch, a mix of pineapple juice, mandarin orange, papaya, passion fruit with bacardi premium rum and cain sugar for sweetener. stuart: if i drink one of those drinks, entirely, one of those cans, does it knock me on my back? >> it does not knock you on your back, no. these are 5.9% alcohol by volume. about the same as drinking a glass of wine or a beer but you're drinking a great spirit-based cocktail. stuart: how many calories? >> depends on the flavor. if you're worried about your waistline, i go with bacardi lime and soda which is about 150 calories. stuart: are you just putting them own the market now, or have they been on

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of american majority ned ryan along with our host of news news use scottie hughes scotty let's get started with you can you try and explain to our audience the significance of this development. well rick we told you this is coming yesterday here and the news of her changes are now to happen to get this show that they were looking into michael flynn our intelligence agencies were looking at my concern and even months before we thought that this conversation that happened between him bassett or strip is strictly accurate on december 28th they were all really the only magazine lives nearby 30th i want to help and it shows not just intelligence agents that were asking for the past there were politicians which raises questions in mind something such as a president action that was being requested by so many and why he already bites president aristide's the ultimate question right now need to be answered did biden abuse howards to go with it. you know actually you're right now between the 2 candidates because somebody has to be him ed what about those who are going to delineate between whatever i

medical and -- [indiscernible] >> both in the environmental parts of the hospital as well as providing ned medical staff. they have really have been -- they have been heroes to us whenever we had the need and we step up and what can they do to help. i'm sure they will be glad to get back. but they have truly -- i think they would say and they have found this meaningful particularly at the soldiers' home and the skilled nursing facilities and they did roll out us, it is those three pluses. in chells', they have been zwibting the food. they asked them to step up and it has been a privilege to really work with them. question]ible >> i am certain -- i don't think there is any group that has been immune from testing positive with covid-19. i have not heard that specifically from my daily briefings with the guards. i will ask them, but that has not come up as an issue from the guards. [indiscernible question] . >> can you explain the importance of that and getting on this pediatric syndrome. >> we put out a public health order today and we believe that it was a reportable disease from the depart