politics and a professor at bard college here in berlin hi boris good to have you with us we should say that the president does still have a lot of support among republicans so how influential are these dissident republicans actually. think at this point it's hard to tell what we were are witnessing is that the g.o.p. is the new good to let up especially those politicians that have stuck to trump all along and know that the economy's don't you have to go for a code crisis see biomet here's a problem some republicans are starting to think that how will their future look like after trying so they have to do strategic really organizing and we're seeing some political infighting that seems to be growing as a. force you just touch upon this i mean people are asking questions about what the party might look like if president trump isn't reelected so what do you think will happen to the g.o.p. will there have to be a massive restructuring of how it looks. i think that's a great question 2012 there was a similar reckoning with into g.o.p. party the conclusion was that the g.o.p. couldn't remain

program in human rights and the arts a t bard college. when we cocome back, we speak kh ed yong. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "poupayee" by flugen. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman wiwith juan gonzalez. the world has passed a grim milestone -- 2 20 million coronavirus caseses. over 5 million of the confirmed infections have been here in the united states. although the u.s. has just 5% of the world's population, it has more than a quarter of all the coronavirus infections and deaths with the death toll of over 163,000, by far the world's largest. the united states has recorded more t than half of million new cases so far in august. that's s more cases than any european country has recorded since the pandemic began. this comes as millions of parents are now deciding whether it is safe to send their kids back to school. and your report by the american academy of pediatrics found that nearly 100,000 children contracted covid-19 in the last two weeks of july. meanwhile, the centers for disease control reports children of color are disproportionately being hospitalized. lat

associate professor of economics and the director of the economics program at bard college.eserve bankl president robert kaplan weighed in, and exclusive interview. >> it is still our view that we will contract for the year at about 4.5% to 5%. it has been our view after a very sharp decline in the second quarter. rebound in the third and fourth quarter is more muted in the united states. it has caused me to think that the unemployment rate, if we don't do a better job managing the virus, the unemployment rate is likely to be between 9% and 10%. we have moved up our unemployment forecast. i think we have got a rebound but it is much more muted than it was. if we don't do a better job managing the virus, we will have lower growth and a higher unemployment rate. unemploymentxtra bonus and eviction moratorium, they are gone for now. wave ofe expect a defaults that might affect credit markets? >> we have looked at it. is of the things that unusual about this downturn is that incomes is relatively solid, and one of the reasons is the unemployment benefits. normally in a downturn,