thank you for stopping by, andrew yang, entrepreneur and formal presidential candidate.will be talking more about this hearing. it is still happening on capitol hill. we will be speaking with sally hubbard of the open markets institute, former attorney general in the state of new york next. this is bloomberg. ♪ another antitrust expert calling for the derailing of these big tech monopolies is set out -- is sally hubbard. she was also the former assistant attorney general state of new york. take a listen to what she has to say. i was really impressed at how strong and aggressive they were with her questioning. it was like night and day from past tech hearings we have seen. i know in the past, it felt like the tech ceos were the ones in charge. at this hearing, i felt like it was the members of congress who were running the show. and they had done their homework and they had the documents to back up what they were actually saying. emily: you focused on antitrust during your time at the assistant attorney general in new york. what is your take on how anticompetitive these c

let's speak to former presidential candidate, andrew yang.nks so much for taking the time this morning. >> my pleasure. great to be here. >> all right. let's start on the extension, not just unemployment insurance, this enhancement, $600 a week. you ran your campaign on a $1,000 a month paycheck. why is it so important to keep this going through the pandemic? >> if we can look around us and see the impact of covid-19 on our communities, we have 30 to 40 million jobs and 42% are not coming back. all you have to do is look around, the bartenders, the security guards, hairstylists a lot don't have work to come back to. and asking them to go out and find a job in this environment is utterly ridiculous. it's one reason why 74% of americans agree that we should put cash into people's hands and the unemployment benefits have kept 12 million plus americans afloat during this time. that's exactly what we need to continue because if we don't continue some version of these unemployment benefits, desperation will set in like that. since many of the famil

cnn political commentator, the former democratic presidential candidate andrew yang with us right now. thank you so much for joining us. as all of us remember, your signature campaign promise was a $1,000 a month dividend for every american adult from the u.s. government. that was long before any of us knew about this pandemic. as you see americans losing the lifeline right now, $600 weekly check by 25 million americans are going to lose it, and that's a lot of money every month, what goes through your mind? >> i do not understand what the legislators in congress are thinking not extending these benefits, wolf. you can see around us the economy is shutting down in many places instead of reopening and these unemployment benefits have been one of the few things that are keeping the economy afloat during this time. the heroes act was passed in may. what happened between may and now that the senate could not come to the table and get their job done? it infuriates me, it boils my blood because i know how much people are suffering out there. tens of millions of americans don't know how they

. >> joining us is former presidential candidate andrew yang.doesn't refer to it in the vernacular that most refer to it as the coronavirus. why do you think he's branding it as the china virus? >> he's hoping to distract the american public from his administration's epic mishandling of the coronavirus crisis and the fact is now a clear majority of americans, including a growing proportion of republicans, disapprove of how he's handled it. so he's going to his playbook and saying, look, if i can distract the american people and use inflammatory or divisive rhetoric, maybe they'll ignore the fact that we have unfortunately now become the singular example of a country suffering at higher levels than any other country in the world. >> there were those who changed his tone, he didn't change his tone on trying to divide on that type of language which many people look at as racist, andrew. >> yeah, as an asian-american who sensed this surge in hostility against asian-americans it's destructive and heart breaking. i have friends who don't want to go ou

so what do the pope, andrew yang and twitter ceo jack dorsey all have in common?e big fans of that guaranteed income, what they call universal basic income essentially a free economic from the united states treasury with no strings attached. among the fans of the program, democratic presidential aspirant andrew yang who proposed giving all americans 1000 bucks a month. supporting it elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg. but it is not just democrats. coronavirus is spurring interest in the idea on a limited basis for people like senator mitt romney who suggested a one-time 1000-dollar a month payment to americans. ubi getting traction in places like silicon valley where executives increasingly expect robots to take over jobs handled by humans. one time foreclosure capital of the country, stockton, california, experimenting with a limited version of universal basic income which awards 500 bucks a month with a program targeted at low income families. that program bankrolled by twitter's dorsey. the mayor championed the program recently extended as this generation's exten

what do the pope, andrew yang, twitter ceo jack dorsey all have in common? universal basic income. what is that? a monthly check from the federal treasury to americans across the country. no strings attached. among the fans of the program, democratic presidential aspirant andrew yang who proposed giving all americans 1000 bucks a month. he continues to support that idea. both elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg said they're open to the idea. and it is not just democrats. coronavirus spurring interest in the idea on limited basis for people like senator mitt romney, who suggested sending everybody $1000 a month. ubi is getting attraction in places like silicon valley where executives expect robots to take over jobs handled by humans. jack dorsey funding a one time experiment in the country's foreclosure capital, stockton, california. a basic version of the universal income program which awards 500 bucks a month to low income families. the mayor who championed program recently extended as generation's extension to the safety net and moral imperative during the

is it similar to what we heard from andrew yang? me on and andrew yang brought a lot of publicity to this concept. as you mentioned, this is -- an idea that's been alive for a very long time. something that martin luther king talked about. why wouldn't we establish a basic economic floor so families can have the ability to -- this is something that other mayors and i have said to both advocate -- >> we're having a little tough time with your audio. we're going to keep trying. where will the funding come from and also would people have to be in any specific income brackets to qualify? would they spending be limited in any way? >> we're working right now to do the fund-raising to work with local partners, work with national partners, philanthropic partners. the point of the guaranteed income is that it's a basic universal, and unconditional cash transfer. there would be no demands placed upon it. the people who get -- they do all of those -- >> we know that there's a pilot program right now in california. we examined it here at nbc ne

attention paid to universal basic income, ubi, during the democratic primary in large part because andrew yangas basing his candidacy on that. and they loved the idea. how do you see guaranteed income as being different than ubi? >> i think that it is a question of semantics. we call it quarantined income because we understand that policies that to be based in. so i'd getting to every american would be a goal. but a certain subset are really struggling and there are bills in the house in congress right now that would provide $2,000 a month, a bill co-sponsored that is for americans making $125,000 or less. this is a triage mode. so ideally we'd get to univers l universality. but i think short term guaranteed income makes a lot of sense. >> and so being in triage mode, how long do you think that this is economically feasible? how long would you want to see this going? what does it looks like? >> ideally it would go on in imperpetuity, but it should at least start with covid-19 and realizing that through this pandemic, and three months after which i think the senators harris and sanders bill cal

former press secretary for former president bush, and former democratic presidential candidate andrew yangmes needs to make some real changes. wow. later today, conservative columnist -- dominic andrew sullivan said he will leave the "new york magazine." he didn't give a solid reason, saying only that it was "pretty self-evident," and that he will address it in his final column. jill abramson is with me now, the former executive editor of "the new york times." jill, you and i tend to come together at these moments when there is crisis at the times. talk to me about this particular one, and the importance of now your wider public understanding, potentially, that there is a quiet of centrist and conservative views in the opinion section of "the new york times." >> well, harris, first of all, thanks for having me on. >> harris: always. >> i think that the departure of one junior-level opinion editor at "the new york times" is really a molehill compared to the mountains of news developmes that you've just been talking about on your show. bari weiss' letter was a strong letter, certainly, and i

. >> no question that andrew yang is happy to hear you talking about and experimenting in 11 differentities to see what the impact is. i want to talk about the adverse impact that covid has had on black and latino communities. we knew it was happening from the outset and why and now the data show us from the cdc that black and latino people across the country three times as likely to be infected with covid and as nearly twice as likely to die from it as the white people. 43% of you are black or latino residents. what is being done to help them? >> well, we started off very early and i established a task force here's in the center part of our state. gosh, the last week of february, march and we tried to basically address what we know is an achilles heel and we focused on the access to care and making sure people got good information. the amount of disinformation early on that was bad information and now we see intentional disinformation put out there. it's such a challenge because prior to the pandemic, we had been aggressively studying and in partnership with howard and harvard univers

oz: plus, our next kennedy checkup with andrew yang. what does this mean? mr.g: it stands for make america think harder, which is what we need to do now. dr. oz: coming up. ♪ dr. oz: are you ready for season 11? >> yeah! [applause]

. >>> former democratic presidential candidate andrew yang is launching a new project.idday live about his new program called the data dividend project. it would use privacy laws like ta like pnd let usersumerly tret get paid for saying, kristen, that says data is the new oil, because it's worth more than oil. so tens of billions a year minimum across the united states, which could be hundreds of dollars a person for each of us. >> yang hopes to mobilize more than a million people by the end of the year, focusing on californians. critics say the project is useless. experted say yang's effort could reinforce the existing system that allow data to be extracted and exploited in the first place. >>> a new study shows san francisco is the most intensely gentryified city in america. the national community of reinvestment coalition looked at the numbers. researchers looked at the most vulnerable neighborhoods. san francisco, oakland is number one on the list when it comes to gentrification. followed by denver, boston, miami-ft. lauderdale and new orleans. other cities include

andrew yang has kept someone a public profile as a political commentator but others ritually disappearedded democrats with initial sizzle who then fizzled. >> i will not be our party's nominee. >> some democrats privately complained that michael bloomberg in particular has not pitched in to help and front runner biden as much as promised. a more out of this world occurrence, there was last year's storm area 51 event that began as a tongue-in-cheek online effort to encourage ufo enthusiasts to raid eight u.s. airports site in search of extraterrestrial life. >> i've seen a lot of weird people let's put it that way, they may or may not be aliens i can tell. >> bret: more than 2 million people said they would attend but the event did not amount to much. >> it's a little bit different, but i now know, man. >> bret: the senate intelligence committee has voted to require the defense department and intelligence agencies to disclose ufo related data. that is the story where following. if you have a story you would like to get a update about in the "whatever happened to" segment, let me know on t