of the kind the aclu had not seen before.roup of complainers, who were public school teachers who were put on so-called maternity leave when their pregnancy began to show, because the school district worried, "we don't want the little children to think their teacher swallowed a watermelon." [laughter] these women were -- the leave was unpaid, and there was no guaranteed right to return. they began to complain. so it was the two things coming together, the students wanting to learn about women's status under the law and these new complainants coming to the aclu. and for me, it was such a tremendous stroke of good fortune. because up until the start of the 1970's, it simply wasn't possible to move courts in the direction of recognizing women as people of equal citizenship stature. david: when president clinton became president, you were obviously somebody being considered, and president clinton said, "well, women don't want her." justice ginsburg: i had written a comment on roe v. wade, and it % supported, that decision. ♪ ♪ da

joining us now is anthony romero, the executive director of the aclu. mr. i know you are very busy right now. >> it's great to see you, rachel. >> it's great to see you too. well, let me ask you about how i summed that up about prisons and jails. >> yeah. >> i mean i feel like it's easy for a lot of american people to say, well, you know, they're at risk. but what did you expect? you got in trouble. prison staff and jail staff know that they've got those risks. but there is this situation which is both the dire number of cases we're seeing in these facilities. >> yeah. >> and the fact that these will be reservoirs of infection for the entire population. >> volcanos for the pandemic. we have to think about the fact that you can't just wall them off and pretend that let the folks die behind bars. it's first inhumane. it's cruel. it would be unlawful. but it's also not practical. there are 420,000 people who work in our prisons and jails. they're our neighbors. they're people in our churches, in our synagogues, in our mosques. they come in and out of the facil

joining us now is anthony romero who is the executive director of the aclu. thank you for taking time with us this evening. >> it's great to see you rachel. you're a sight for sore eyes. >> great to see you too. let me ask you about how i summed that up about prisons and jails. i feel like it's easy for a lot of american people to say they're at risk, but what did you expect? you got in trouble. prison staff and jail staff know that they've got those risks, but there is this situation which is both the dire number of cases we're seeing in these facilities and the fact that these will be reservoirs of infection for the entire population. >> volcanoes for the pandemic. we have to think about the fact we can't just wall them off and pretend that let the folks die behind bars. it's first inhumane. it's cruel. it would be unlawful. but it's also not practical. the fact there are 420,000 people who work in our prisons and jails, they're our neighbors, they're people in our churches and synagogues and mosques. they come in and out of the facilities. so, the same con

but he was a personal friend literally i met him at 65 retiring from the aclu. he transferred his royalties from domestic civil liberties to international and was a shadow at the united nations everybody loved roger. he had the sense to know that if you are going to grow old gracefully then find friends in every generation. a naturalist, his lawyer was louis brandeis. it was like walking with the row with baldwin. >> and a conscientious objector. we were in prince edward virginia and i was asked to give a statement about world war i to the history class. i said world war i? [laughter] so i will tell you a story of world war i and the personalities of the people. one of them was the greatest hero of that war and one every single battle in country that gave wounded three times the most fearless man i have ever known and described as a great patriot. but also classified as franklin roosevelt so the fact that he was a conservative republican was passed over the other person who was a great friend who became chief justice of the united states appointed by roosevelt 1

it is cool that the aclu was looking out for you. we should say that that is totally fine.ve any problem with it at all, that some kind of paranoid disloyal american. some want bands and measures like this to last indefinitely, at least a year or more. what kind of country are we creating and can we maintain any semblance of last month? ned ryan is founder and ceo. thanks so much for coming up. we really could choose the chinese model here. closing down churches, using technology to track our own citizens. could there have been another model other than the chinese model at and the chinese pandemic? >> i think sweden has taken a responsible approach and said certain people have to be quarantined but we are not going to shut down the entire country. i think the thing that's terrifying about all of this, we are building this orwellian a surveillance state. combining big government and big tech. reagan said some of the most terrifying words in the english language, and even more terrifying version of that is i'm from the government and big tech. i do not trust them. when you he

to date, the aclu secured executive actions in 15 states, not just blue states, either.klahoma governor commuted the sentences of more than 450 oklahoma prisoners, more than 100 of them have been released. still, it seems like every day there are huge, huge numbers of coronavirus cases being reported out of some new prison or jail. anywhere they are testing, numbers are astonishing. just yesterday, a judge ordered the transfer or release of hundreds of elderly and otherwise vulnerable prisoners out of a federal correctional facility in ohio. elkton, ohio. six prisoners have died in the last few weeks. another 52 are known to have the virus. that facility has the highest number of infected staff of any federal prison in the country but those numbers -- i mean, 52 inmates with confirmed infections, they tested less than 100 of the press neisoners that facility and less than 50 positive cases. all these staff who are positive, all these people who are dying already, literally god knows how high the actual infection rate is and what we'll learn if they ultimately test all 24

stated thathe aclu more than 50 detainees have been released. forthcoming in stating that they have identified this week nearly 600 detainees who are vulnerable. as a result it has released more than one hundred 60 detainees due to the coronavirus pandemic. guest: where are they released to? into the u.s.. ? -- u.s. interior? we don't have case-by-case data. some of theted that detainees who have been released due to these lawsuits have been reunited with family members so they can protect their own health and safety. host: one way that members of congress have brought attention to the issue of detainee treatment in the past has been to tour these facilities themselves. are members of congress allowed to do something like that right now? guest: no. right now, ice is trying to limit the amount of people coming in and out. way, every week lawmakers are sending letters to eyes, to trump administration officials request more information about what policies are in place. to ensure the well-being and safety of detainees who may be vulnerable to covid-

the aclu says it will remain vigilant to make sure tracing apps like these remain voluntary. >> tucker: matt finn, great to see you tonight. i voluntary that means you agree to it but doesn't necessarily mean that you have any idea you agree to it. you checked the box sometime ago ago and that's voluntary. by the way, we should say that's totally fine. if you have any problem with it at all, that some kind of paranoid disloyal american. 's some want bands and measures like this to last indefinitely, at least a year or more. what kind of country are we creating and can we maintain any semblance of last month? thanks so much for coming up. we really could choose the chinese model here. closing down churches, using technology to track our own citizens. could there have been another model other than the chinese model at and the chinese pandemic? they've taken a responsible approach and said certain people have to be quarantined but we are not going to shut down the entire country. i think the thing that's terrifying about all of this, we are building this orwellian surveillance s

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>> well, i think the establishment of the aclu was a tremendously important thing for civil rights in this country. left, progressives generally went into a period of considerable hibernation in the 1920's, because the movement was smashed so ruthlessly in 19 18-1920. the iww, for instance, was essentially eviscerated by the government. mosthe most militant labor unio. than 100 top more officials of the iww, raided every single office around the country, confiscated five tons of documents which were later burned by the justice department. put more than 100 wobblies on trial in a four-month show trial and sento in 1918, these folks to prison. the largest mass trial ever in american history. essentially a signal that the government was crushing the most militant wing of the labor movement. in the early 1920's, even the very moderate american federation of labor lost millions of members. the united states, warren harding, calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, was not friendly to the left in any way, and the labor movement didn't really come back to life in a big way until the 1930's under fra

by alanahwe're joined odoms hebert, executive director of the aclu of louisiana.nd with us by phone also is albert woodfox, who served the longest time in solitary confinement of any prisoner in the unitited states. 44 years. known as one of the angola three, along with robert king and herman wallace, woodfox was held in isolation for nearly 44 years in angola prison. convicted of killing a always maintained his innocence, garden prison, but always maintained his innocence, and says he was targeted for co-founding the first black panther chapter in angola. he was released in 2016 and is now 73 yeaears old. his memoir is a 2019 national book award finalist "solitary: , unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement, my story of transformation and hope." we welcome you both to democracy now! albert woodfox, your response to the situation right now in louisiana's prisons with infected prisoners being sent to this area in angola that was called the dungeon, known for its inhumanity? -- louisiana state penitentiary known as angola consists of what is called out camps

. >> so here in new new york, here at the queens borough correctional facility the aclu says 120 inmatest least have died of covid-19 nationwide. some 17,000 inmates have been released in 21 states across the country and ultimately the aclu is calling for all states to free more inmates. and they have done is much present testing, and more than 700 inmates have tested positive there including 80% of inmates at the marion correctional center. those guards have tested positive and to have died. there is concern that they may be inadvertently spreading coronavirus in their community. >> bill: bryan llenas reporting here in new york. the house getting ready to vote on another massive stemless package after the senate passed it. in a moment i will speak with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. how well has the system works so far? welcome missouri becoming the first state to sue china. what legal chance that lawsuit stands and what sort of damages could they win? lem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin... i want that too. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better

there are numerous cases pending in texas, and other pending decisions, the aclu is fighting about thissenior counsel for the aclu talked about what is going on in texas, the pandemic will not stop at the jail door, people will die if we don't enforce cdc directors to protect those were detained or employed at the jail. depopulate now. what is your response to the argument that people are trapped and helpless if left in a jail where there is covid-19? >> the governor issued an executive order not to release people from jail and i'm thankful the federal judge last night supported that. we have 140,000 inmates in our prison system, one of the largest in the country and so far we've had four deaths, 300 tested positive so that is out of 140,000 - 105 prisons. i don't think that means we should release criminals on the street, the governor doesn't believe that, conservatives don't believe that. there are 3 ways of this pandemic the first wave is the virus, the second is the tremendous cost of business, the third wave turned into chaos and anarchy. if you like criminals out on the street the

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the aclu warns -- "unequivocally, keeping people out of jail saves lives -- both inside the jail and in the surrounding community. lives are at stake. the time to act is now." a top scientist at the department of health and human services says he was removed from his job after resisting president trump's promotion of an untested coronavirus treatment. dr. rick bright directed the biomedical advanced research and development authority, or barda, until he was abruptly removed from his post this week and reassigned to the national institutes of health. in a scathing statement released wednesday, dr. b bright wrote e- "specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, i limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit. while i am prepared to look at all options and to think 'outside the box' for effective treatments, i rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the american public." dr. bright wrote. barda has hired lawyers with the firm katz, marshall & banks, which

. >>> a class action lawsuit was filed by the san francisco public defendanter's office and the aclu today. they're demanding that immigrants detained at two california facilities be immediately released from custody. they say they're being kept in dangerous conditions. they're at the mesa verde and yuba county jail. inmates there recently went on a hunger strike to protest the conditions. >>> and just moments ago, president trump said he'll halt immigration to the u.s. for 60 days. that would prevent green card recipients from moving to the country. natalie brand is live at the white house with more on that, and a deal on a new bailout package. natalie sam the player. >> reporter: yeah, good evening, liz. the president praised lawmakers, including democrats, for the deal, and it heads to the house for a vote later this week. president trump is already looking to the next covid-19 relief bill after the senate passed a nearly half trillion dollar deal to give additional funding to small business relief program, hospitals, and testing. >> they'll be voting on it, i imagine, very soon.

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the aclu is seeking a temporary restraining order against the federal bureau of prisons after the deathsf inmates in louisiana. >>> a new york city pharmacist is accused of price gouging. authorities say they seized thousands of n95 masks when they raided the man's home and office and say he was selling each mask for about $22. they typically sell for $1.50. >>> california is ordering car premiums they charged customers during march and april because fewer people are driving these days. >>> meanwhile, gas prices continue to fall down to 93 cents at one station in kentucky. >>> now to the lingering questions about how to re-open the economy. testing, of course, will be crucial. earlier i spoke with dr. alok patel. he said the lack of testing so far comes down to a supply problem. >>> where we stand right now, i don't have a nice way to put this, a supply chain disaster. we don't run the amount of tests per day we really need. right now estimates are saying we're running about 100,000 tests per day but there are some math models out there saying we heed to be running millions of tests per

the aclu is monitoring that work to protect our privacy. tom? >> kaylee, great to have you back out in the field. thank you. >>> i want to bring in abc chief medical editor dr. jen ashton for a reality check tonight on testing. jen, so many experts are saying testing is the key to recovery, but there still remains chronic problems on conducting widespread mass testing. and now this new reporting by "the new york times" and others about the problems with antibody tests. >> well, tom, there are questions about the ability to scale up quickly to hundreds of millions of tests, and there's still scientific questions that need to be answered, when you talk about past infection testing versus active infection testing. the antibody testing for evidence of past infection, we don't know the accuracy of those tests, whether they can have false positives. we don't know how often to retest someone, whether it should be 14 days, because that's the thought, incubation period of this coronavirus. and we still don't know how to use the results of that test. and

she's represented by attorneys at the national immigrant justice center with support from the aclu and the coalition. in december 2019, i.c.e. denied kelly's request for parole. despite the support that she has waiting in oakland and i.c.e. gave no reason as to why they denied the request. but she was reported to be sent to honduras which has a record of violence against gay and bisexual and transgender people. i ask that we as a board support kelly gonzalez-aguilar and her sponsors and call for i.c.e. to release kelly into the custody of the sponsors. lastly, i have a resolution which -- here we are -- i have a resolution which recognizes and affirms national sexual assault awareness and prevention month. with the current shelter-in-place orders, victims of violence are literally in many cases trapped with their abusers at a time when so many of our city's resources are to solve the overarching pandemic and you can't lose sight of those who are at risk of sexual violence. the national alliance to end sexual violence has seen increased demand in 50% of its programs and we're seeing cal

both apple and google say your personal information will be protected, but tonight the aclu says there's room for improvement. tom? >> will carr with that new reporting tonight for us. will, thank you. >>> next, the staegerring global impact of this outbreak. britain under lockdown as the uk reports its deadliest day. 974 people dieing in 24 hours. at the same time the briti prime minster remains hospitalized but his condition said to be improving. tonight, this image, the pope in a nearly empty st. peter's basilica, marked the eve of easter. >>> much more ahead tonight this saturday. answering your coronavirus questions. could the country see a new round of cases this fall? >>> and the tornado danger this holiday weekend. 100 million americans bracing for severe weather. a tornado watch just issued. rob marciano standing by for us. stay with us. the tremors. but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in. he started believing things that weren't true. i knew something was wrong... but i didn't say a word. during the course of their disease around 5

the aclu of west virginia has reacted fairly negatively to your statements yesterday on the private park situation and out-of-state residents coming in to west virginia. what would you say to their what you are doing would be limiting people's constitutional rights? want to be all, we really respectful of constitutional rights, but people are dying all over this itntry right and left, and is beyond belief what all of us are trying to deal with. we are dealing with a worldwide pandemic, and people are dying all over the place, and i'm trying to do everything i possibly can to protect our people, and i'm going to do that. i'm going to do that to the fullest extent that i possibly can do it and from the standpoint of people coming in from new york or wherever, new jersey, connecticut, italy, china, wherever they may be coming from, if they did not quarantine themselves for 14 days, i will take a big-time issue with it. at the end of the day, i'm going to try to protect our people, and right now, we don't want people coming in from any state, but we especially want people to know that people

who condemn kavanaugh but have been totally silent on biden, plan parenthood emily list women march, aclugoes on and on. it seems like believe all women really means believe certain women. the biden accusation is becoming media scandal and could take the me too movement down with them. here with that martha author of the book unknown valor. do you agree that media is covering up this biden accusation? >> fact that some of the people who ran against joe biden including bernie sanders, and amy klobuchar in interviews have been asked what they think about tara reid accusation but joe biden has done more than 10, 12 interviews since this information came out and he has not been asked once about it. that in and of it jesse just is raises so many questions. but what really strikes me in this whole story more than anything is something that we've been talking about for really long time. and that is is with these accusations which are always troublesome. the idea that you can believe all women or believe all men for that matter is just, is preposterous on it face you need to analyze in evidence a

the aclu filed a class-action lawsuit against ice for the release of detainees they describe as trapped in detention centers in california while covid-19 continues to spread. ice has declined to comment citing litigation. jillian: thank you. rob: coronavirus spreading rapidly among ohio indians, 4000 cases in prisons across the state, 2000 cases at the marion congressional center alone. nine prisoners have died from the virus in the state. ohio's depart of corrections is working on new policies for social distancing. jillian: twee 7 new covid-19 cases linked to in person voting at wisconsin's primary election, the health department says 6 of them are voters and one is a poll worker. all of them in milwaukee. people waited in line for hours to cast ballots on april 7th, many criticized the state's decision to hold in person voting during the pandemic. at least ten nurses are heading back to work after being suspended from a california hospital. they were put on administrative leave after refusing to work without n95 masks at providence st. john's health center in santa monica. the hospit

the aclu has filed a class-action lawsuit against ice for the release of detainees they describe as trappeddetention centers in california while covid-19 continues to spread. ice declined to comment citing pending litigation. rob: thank you so much. the house expected to vote on phase 3.5 of the coronavirus relief package after the senate reaches a deal on this $500 billion plan. >> the noble fight against the invisible enemy is taking a steep toll on the american workforce. >> we want to make sure this money is available to small businesses that need it, we look forward to having a big impact on the economy. rob: small businesses are struggling and our panel of economic experts on deck to offer their advice to business owners trying to stay afloat and it is a struggle. gene marks, former chief economist for the international trade commission, peter morici, partner at weiss is price waterhouse coopers mitch mitchell. we appreciate it this morning. the plan as it is, how do you think this will fare? how long do you think it will last? >> not very long. there are a lot of businesses desperate

senior counsel for the aclu, you talked about what is going on.e will die if we don't enforce cdc rules to protect those who are detained, depopulate now. what is your response? people are basically trapped. >> first of all the governor had an executive order not to let people released from jail. we have 140,000 inmates in the system. we have less than 300. that's out of 140,000 and a hundred and five prisons. i don't think that means that we should release the criminals on the street where the governor doesn't believe that, conservatives don't believe that. there's three ways of this pandemic, the first wave and to the virus, the second wave is the tremendous cost to businesses and to the third wave, the third wave turns into chaos and anarchy. if you like criminals on the straight they. that person is now on suspicion of assault. another person that got out before the executive order has already been arrested again for another crime. business crime is going up because there are no people to protect. we have lost more people being murdered in hou

cecelia want, the aclu deputy legal director said wow, joe biden, trying to out trump trump, this fearmonger is causing violent attacks on asian americans. if you're trying to reform your past history of racist policymaking like in 1994 crime bill you better do some work, the sainted. what do you think? >> 1994, i thought about 1984 because this reminds me of things like the memory hole where the government would switch positions and pretend it wasn't being hypocritical. if you want to look at an administration that guru was extremely friendly to china it was the obama biden administration, they were the ones who thought we could bring in china further into the economy, have a friendly stakeholder country in china. i'm afraid the obama administration was asleep at the switch while china was launching cyber attacks in our country, building artificial islands in the middle of the south china sea, contrast, trump has probably been the most hostile president we've had to china since before president nixon's opening to china in the 1970s, he launched a trade war with china and let me make one las

women smart, aclu. the list goes on.ve all women really means believe certain women. the biden accusation is becoming a media scandal. they could take the need to movement down. with that, author of the book, unknown valor, do you agree that media is covering up this biden accusation? martha: the fact that some of the people who ran against joe biden, including bernie sanders and amy klobuchar and interviews have been asked what they think about these accusations but joe biden has done more than ten, 12 interviews since this information came out. he has not been asked once about it. that in and ofus itself, that raises so many questions butor what really strikes me in this whole story or than anything, something we been talking about for a really long time that is with these accusations, which are always troublesome from the idea that you can believe all women believe all men, for that matter, it is preposterous. what you need to do is analyze the evidence in a situation, the credibility of the claim being made and evalu

. >> laura: what's amazing, victor, the aclu, it's supposed to be this, you know, big advocacy groupor our civil rights, standing up for our rights. here's what what one of these attorneys said covid tracking. has to be those that are demanded by public health officials and experts as opposed to others in government, particularly in security or law enforcement business. medical bureaucrats can give their imprimatur to track you. that's good. law enforcement for the politicians accountable to the people, come up with something? that's bad. >> i'm very wary of people on the left in the national crises because they are supposedly the purported protectors of civil liberties. when you look at woodrow wilson and the suppression of the first amendment in world war ii or earl warren and fdr and the japanese internment, or even abraham lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus in places he shouldn't have done it, it's not a good idea. remember, the pressure on donald trump to enact the war production act and nationalize companies, he was resisting that. that came more from his opponents on the le

in a statement, the aclu says the state should be wary of self-interested privacy invading companies using covid-19 has a chance to market their products and create future business opportunities. and a new surveillance measure that isn't being advocated for by public health professionals and restricted solely for use should be promptly rejected. >> the police department and connecticut says it's still in the testing stage you will be used in the dragonfly for real just yet, but it's possible down the road, your temperature could be taken from above. >> shannon: i have a lot of questions about that. rick leventhal, thank you. breaking tonight, a severe weather outbreak in texas and oklahoma, at least 22 tornadoes. pope county texas, one development getting hammered. we are told 30-40 homes are damaged or completely overturned. texas governor greg abbott sang, "our hearts are with our fellow texans tonight and the state will do everything it can to support those affected b by the severe weather." more twisters and oklahoma earlier this evening, this funnel cloud was spotted outside of

in a statement the aclu says towns and states should be worried about self-interested privacy invaded companies using covid-19 to market their products and create future business opportunities. any new surveillance measured the distance being advocated for by public health professionals and restricted solely for public health use should be promptly rejected. the police department in westport connecticut says is insisting stage at that they be using the dragonfly for real just yet but it is possible down the road your temperature could be taken from above. shannon: i've got a lot of questions about that. thank you for bringing us the update. breaking tonight a severe weather outbreak in texas and oklahoma spawning at least 22 tornadoes. in polk county, texas, one mobile home development getting hammered. we are told 30 to 40 home severely damaged or completely overturned. texas, greg abbott saying our hearts are with our fellow texans tonight and the state will do anything again to affect those affected by the severe weather. were twisters touched down in oklahoma earlier this evening.

the aclu and other civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on behalf of those inmates and several otherslast week before being released they have conditions of having diabetes, severe asthma and kidney disease. the number of inmates infected with the coronavirus in santa rita jail sharply increased this week. some people are now demanding that the sheriff's department take drastic steps to take people inside the jail, including releasing all of the inmates.>> at the beginning of the week, it was one person, then three, by thursday at least a dozen inmates in santa rita jail tested positive for covid-19. >> they are not given any information about what is going on with them. >> civil rights attorney said if the number in infections continues to increase it will start to look like a county jail or rikers island. thursday she joined dozens of advocates calling on the sheriff's office and stop booking inmates in jail and begin releasing everyone else. >> these men and women have to be released in whatever ways we can. >> there is a lot to this equation you just can't open the doors and let e

.>> a spokesperson for the aclu said the president appeared "more interested in defending anti- immigrant flames and saving lives." others noted that thousands of essential healthcare workers are foreign-born. for more on this we are joined this afternoon by david levine, constitutional law professor with uc hastings, david, thank you so much for being here this afternoon. nice to see you. first, explain where the president gets the authority to do this. >> well, we haven't seen the executive order yet, so we can't be entirely sure, but broadly speaking we are talking about two different things. one is the president certainly has significant authority in the area of immigration. that was affirmed by the supreme court. and then when you add on top of thatthe president a lot of power to act.>> so what would be the advantage for the president to take a step like this amid the pandemic?>> well, it's not clear, in a way this is more dark rather than bite, because after last night, the president tweeted that he would suspend immigration entirely. now what he is talking about is something very s

dinesh, i have to get into this, the aclu has filed suit in dealing with the coronavirus response. friend of mine said today where have all the civil libertarians gone? when people on the shutdown orders and basically aren't able to exercise many of their constitutional rights. where are the civil libertarians? >> yeah, without minimizing the seriousness of the epidemic, without recognizing that this is a global crisis, recognizing that we've never had medical tents in central park as far as i know,er we are not trying to understate it. at the same time we are a country under a constitution. the right to assemble, the right to free speech, the right to religious freedom. what strikes me as amazing is thes blithe way in which mayors and elected officials are talking about abridging these rights at whim. here is de blasio. you know, fica church having services, i'm not going to just shut it down now, i'm going to shut it down permanently. would he say that if he was talking about planned parenthood? if i see a planned parenthood clinic offering services, i'm going to shut them down e

cecelia long, the aclu deputy legal director tweeted this.w, joe biden, already trying to out-trump trump. this kind of fearmongering is causing attacks on asian-americans. if you're trying to reform your past history of policymaking like you're 1994 crime bill, do your homework. this ink it closed would. have you seen the ad? what do you think? >> i've seen the ad. i didn't think about 1994, i thought about 1984, because this reminds me of things like the memory hole, where the government would immediately switch positions and pretend it wasn't being hypocritical. if you want to look at an administration that for good or ill was externally friendly to china, it was the obama-vitamin administration. they were the ones who thought we should bring china further into the economy, hoping the place will liberalize and have a friendly stakeholder country in china. i'm afraid the obama administration was the one that was asleep at the switch while china was carrying out the theft of ip, launching cyber attacks in our country, building artificial isl

. >> laura: what's amazing, victor, is that the aclu, it's supposed to be this big advocacy group forivil rights, standing up for our rights, but here's one of their attorneys set about tracking, whatever decisions or policies or implement it with respect to responding to this catastrophe. has to be those that are demanded by public health officials and experts. as opposed to others in government, particularly people in security or law enforcement businesses. wait a second, so victor, so i get this, medical bureaucrats can give their imprimatur to track you. that's good, but if law enforcement or the politicians, the people come up with something, that's bad. it's crazy. >> i'm very wary of people in the left international crises because they're supposedly the purported protectors of civil liberties. when you look at woodrow wilson and the suppression of the first amendment in world war ii, earl warren and fdr and the japanese internment or even abraham lincoln whose -- habeas corpus in places where he shouldn't have done it. it's not a good idea and remember the pressure on donald tr

the aclu is attempting to force the federal bureau of prisons to release prisoners who are at high risk for serious illness or death due to the outbreak. this comes as authorities in ohio report three prisoners have died from suspected cases of coronavirus at a federal prison in elkton. the ohio national guard has been deployed to work inside the prison. as countries impose lengthy lockdowns to combat the spread of the coronavirus, reported cases of domestic abuse have spiked around the world. u.n. secretary general antonio guterrrres called d for governms to prioritize wowomen's safety s many face mounting risks in- and outside of their homes. , theyany women and girls should be safest in their own homes. lockdowns in court timeses are essential to coronavirus, but they can trap women in abusive apapartments. role -- seen horrifying global search anand domestic violence. amy: to see our discussion on mastech violence in the pandemic, go to democracynow.org . on monday, france reported its highest daily death toll monday after numbers from this weekend appeared to indicate the daily fat

trump loving deplorable's and radical criminal justice performers and this is actually funded by the aclu and koch brothers at the same time. and then to elect a republican governor and that big majority. they are back restoring the voting rights. so they stood up to vote for fairness. i was really inspired by the stories. it's just the way they triumphed over this sense of despair over politics i'm sure we didn't need another book how democracy dies. i wanted to set out to join the quiet revolutionaries. and what we needed the most and that they were high and stout and and then to take them on. and then with voters, not politicians, utah, missouri also a campaign against gerrymandering across the red rock desert of utah and the tribal lands of dakotas in these heroic pushes to determine the street addresses and to make ids to preserve their voices against the voter id bills and the medicaid express across idaho with these millennial activist to dinner stand whether legislature would not take the obama care money back from the federal government to ensure 70000 of their neighbors had heal

>>this demonstration was organized by the service employees international union or aclu, which represents a lot of workers across a diverse number of fields here in san francisco, including janitors clerks librarians nurses employees health care workers and social workers. tonight there are more than 7,000 cases of covid-19 here in the bay area and more than 250 deaths, here's a breakdown of the cases and deaths by county. >>santa clara county still is the hardest hit with more than 2000 cases and almost a 100 deaths for a complete look at cases in the bay area by county and by city go to our website kron 4 dot com. it started weather as we take a live look outside in san francisco. we're told that the gold lighting out there is to honor frontline workers and the hurt on the one building with the sf lit up underneath it very nice pam yeah, our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow tells us what we can expect this weekend was a clear night so we can see all those pretty light set up to honor the workers tonight lawrence. >>and they certainly do deserve that a much much more as they continue

in a statement the aclu says towns in the state should be wary of self-interested privacy invading companiesovid-19 as a chance to market their products and create future business opportunities. any new surveillance measure that isn't being advocated for by public health professionals and restricted solely for public health use should be promptly rejected. the police department in westport, connecticut says it is still in the testing stage and won't be using the dragon fly for real just yet, but it is possible down the road, your temperature will be taken from above. in new york, rick leventhal, fox news. jon: coming up, how therapy dogs are making virtual visits to hospital patients. ♪ ♪ who let the dogs out ♪ ♪ who let the dogs out for nearly 100 years, we've worked to provide you with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. and now it's no different. because helping you through this crisis is what we're made for. trust us. us kids are ready to take things into our own hands. don't think so? hold my pouch. and finding new ways to take of ourselves. but you can still s

. >> reporter: the aclu responded saying any new surveillance measure restricted solely for public health use should be promptly rejected. >> keep a safe distance of six feet from others. >> there's a side of me that would say this is very science fiction. >> i feel like i've seen this movie. >> i feel the same way. but at the same time it's reality. it's our new reality. >> reporter: craig, it's a really strange new world we're entering and it's one that asks this question. do we want research projects like this intended to figure out whether we can track the spread of the virus through the population, find the hot sfots all at a time when we do not have enough testing, maybe this is the way to do it. then again we have to ask ourselves, are we ready to be scanned just for walking outside our houses? as glenn cohen from harvard points out there, is public health necessarily going to require some sort of invasion of privacy in order to do the job of getting us out of this crisis, craig. >> jake ward, thank you, sir. fascinating indeed, my friend. thank you, thank you. >>> let's turn to dr