ricketts: we look at data to make those decisions. in the city of lincoln, we have tremendous capacity. over 80% of their ventilators are available. while they have had a few more cases coming through the hospital system, it really is not that many. you are talking about 20 or 30 people. the actual case count is 21 or 22 in the lincoln cost -- lincoln hospital system. what we are trying to do is making sure we are balancing out everything. want to make sure we are preserving the hospital system, but also make sure the restrictions we put in place are something we can live with. at some point, our health professionals told us this, if you have two tight restrictions -- if you have too tight restrictions, people will start disobeying those. [inaudible] >> we have gotten questions about medicaid expansion. it has been approved in nebraska, but delayed in implementation. are you rethinking the medicaid expansion plan at all due to this crisis? actually, our plan toto expand -- our expand medicaid has not been delayed. we are working to ma

first, i will speak with governor pete ricketts of nebraska.n, mayor francis zamora's of miami, florida. welcome tornor, washington post live. >> thank you for having me on. >> let's begin with one of the biggest issue in your state, meatpacking. those areas have been hot spot in nebraska. what are the biggest help change -- challenges right now in the industry? environment is a difficult one for social distancing because of how closely together people were. is, to have done universities have published the meat processing covid-19 playbook which is a best practices playbook and focuses on what they should be able to do to take steps to keep workers healthy and safe. it addresses putting up plexiglas barriers between workstations, plastic in the , air handling units, how they put on pp making sure everyone is wearing masks, that sort of thing. of our with all processors here is the state about these test practices. then we have a lot of folks who and bush is not their first like which, so we do twice-weekly press briefings in spanish as well as

with that, i will turn it back over to governor ricketts. governor ricketts: thank you, jason. number ofhave got a other things we want to hit upon here before we get to questions and answers. first, new guidance coming out. we made the announcement -- actually, let me take a step back for a second. changes to our dhm. dark blue counties are the ones that effective this week, may 4, allows new dhm, which for restaurants to open at 50% capacity, you can have salons and barbershops, parlors, massage therapy open backup, the 10% rule restrictions -- the 10 -- with the 10 person rule restrictions. m, just be the same dh starting on may 11. and the green counties, we have those that are currently going to meet 31st. one of the things we talked about with those -- may 31. one of the things we talked about with salons and barbershops is coming up with guidance. there is guidance coming from the state about how they should up or -- operate. the second thing that relates to that is ppe request. the state is purchasing personal protective equipment. we have talked about how much we have

. >>> this week nebraska's republican governor pete ricketts announced that the state would no longerrelease any data on coronavirus case numbers in specific meat processing plants. he said counties would have to get a signoff from the individual plants if they wanted to continue releasing that kind of information. the governor made that announcement, i should say, just as at least one major plant in the state known to have at least dozens of cases was about to receive the results from testing all of its workers. this announcement from governor ricketts drew incoming fire from a bunch of places in the state, including from a state senator named adam morfil who represents parts of lincoln, nebraska. he said that ricketts shutting down public information on the spread of coronavirus inside nebraska's meatpacking plants is, quote, commonly referred to as a political cover-up. quote, there's no legitimacy to this as a privacy concern. understanding where outbreaks are occurring is important from the public and the government to know from a mitigation and public safety point of view. no da

he said that ricketts shutting down public information on the spread of coronavirus inside nebraska'ss quote commonly referred to as a political coverup. quote there is no legitimacy that this is a privacy concern. understanding where outbreak are occurring is important for the public and the government to know and to understand from a public safety and mitigation point of view. no data equals no spread equals victory and will eventually say there is no zero new cases in plants, sort of like the claim that zero nebraskaens in prisons have the virus only because we have tested zero inmates. state senator from nebraska, thanks for being here, thanks for making time to join us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> so i am fixated on your state because i feel like governor ricketts is mounting a response to this epidemic that is troubling to me, and it seems, even though a lot of states have not great responses, but it seems particularly troubling, is the lack of data that's being released to the public, the state is not releasing data on individual nursing homes. it's not releasing dat

that's when governor ricketts decide we're not going to let this data out anymore. this data is now a privacy concern. yeah, heaven forbid people know where the problem is. heaven forbid that the workers and their families know, that the communities know where these facilities are, where the workers all go home at the end of the day. maybe if we don't talk about it, it won't seem that bad. the problem is not information about the spread of the virus. the problem is the spread of the virus, which you can't stop if you don't have any information about where it is. but still, even so, this week that same governor, pete ricketts of nebraska, got up at a press conference and announced that he also will block the release of any data about coronavirus outbreaks in specific nursing homes in his state. he told nebraskans, this is on top of him deciding they'll no longer release data about specific meatpacking plants. there will be no data about nursing homes released, and the way around that if you're concerned is that he told nebraskans that they, as individual citizens, ca

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joe ricketts talks about his book, the harder you work, the luckier you get. watch book tv this weekend, on "c-span2". earlier today in the senate floor, lawmakers spoke about the coronavirus and the 3 trillion-dollar economic aid package taking its way through the house. to start with remarks from minority leader chuck schumer pretty. >> now first met a president, when i speak on the floor, i remove my t mask. but today. is a special reason o keep this mask on. it is made by, and rochester, new york by american laborers, union labor, by a proud and generous company that is been in rochester, in the last three decades. eighteen hundreds and 19 hundreds another 2000 pretty is a wonderful company, they have kept jobs, good paying jobs in america, they make fine clothing. i started making masks given to the local hospital at cost. so i salute to keith, salute the great trades men and women who work there. many continue for hundreds more years. providing jobs in rochester and helping when we need help. [silence]. >> yesterday, house democrats unveiled new legislat

this announcement from governor ricketts, drew incoming fire from a bunch of places in the state, includingadam who represents parts of lincoln, nebraska. he said ri, quote, commonly referred to as a political cover up. quote, there is no legitimacy as a privacy concern. understanding where outbreaks occurring is important for the government to understand from a mitigation and public safety point of view. no data equals no spread equals victory. will eventually say there's zero new cases in plants. kind of like the claim zero nebraskans in prisons have the virus. joining me now, state senator from nebraska. sir, it's nice to have you here. thanks for making time to join us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> so i am fixated on your state because i feel like governor ricketts is mounting a response to this epidemic that is troubling, to me, and it seems even though a lot of states have not-great responses, what seems particularly troubling is the lack of data that's being released to the public. the state's not releasing data on individual nursing homes. it's not releasing data on indivi

take nebraska governor pete ricketts, for his remarkable decision to stop reporting coronavirus case numbers from individual meatpacking plants in his state. just as two big meatpacking plants in his state, with significant outbreaks, were starting to get in test results from their workers. that's what the governor decided we're not going to let this data out anymore. this data is now a privacy concern. heaven forbid people actually know where the problem is. heaven forbid that the workers and their families know. that the communities know where these facilities are. where the workers all go home at the end of the day. you know, maybe if we don't talk about it, it won't seem that bad. the problem is not information about the spread of the virus. the problem is the spread of the virus, which you can't stop if you don't have any information about where it is. but, still, even so, this week, that same governor, pete ricketts in nebraska, got up at a press conference, and announced he will also block the release of any data about coronavirus outbreaks in specific nursing homes, in his st

now that that is happening, governor ricketts now says, "we're having conversations about what they're going to do with regard to staffing." he says he's waiting to see. "if those hospitals are going to go out and get additional staffing services to come in." because of course they're filling up. and they need more staff now to handle the huge volume of coronavirus patients they are getting. because of the huge rise in cases in nebraska that is unabated. i mean what's going to happen though with the governor, wait to see if the hospitals will go out and get additional staff. presumably if they are able to get in more additional staff, then what's he going to do? see what else he can do to get more beds filled to keep those new doctors and nurses hopping? i mean if you're basing your public health policy in your state or lack thereof on the fact that you will be able to handle it because you've got tons of hospital capacity, what do you do next, when your hospital capacity starts to top out? what's plan b? what do you activate then? you can't go back in time. that's what nebraska is goi

he was a vice president/ labor relations and the name of this man was lemuel ricketts boulware.oulware believed it did it come with the board pay taxes to the federal government or when it met all together and wrote out big plans. he believed growth took place when a lonely scientist in a dumpy lab had an idea and flaunted the world. ideas like the light bulb. i ge idea. >> the high wages and prices would have ge were competitive nobody could quite imagine japan at this point that was the scope of the imagination of a pristine company like general electric to return to the old capitalism the quote is the rapid train trend are to be changed with everything that we cherish the younger executive at general electric found it ludicrous the superlative irritated them and in the public many agreed with the evaluation to describe this vice president the folksiness kentucky with the fervor of a washing machine salesman. [laughter] they did not worry they were the future but he was approaching retirement and then in his recliner from delray beach. with ge and america he spent millions of

spotted fever and showing it was an infectious disease and it could be by dr.tted by ticks howard ricketts, it would unfortunately died in 2010, but the entire class of bacteria is named for him. orn infectious diseases continued here. in world war ii, all the yellow fever vaccine given to allied -- american armed forces was produced here at rocky mount labs. after that our scientist worked on a variety of bacterial, viral and transmissible spongiform --elf luckily diseases encephalopathy diseases. i can't take credit for any of this work but i take great pride in talking about it. we have one of the highest concentrations of investigators working on emerging infectious diseases anywhere in united states. people working on tularemia, bubonic plague, coronavirus. another thing that is absolutely important for the viewers of the shows like yours to understand is these infectious diseases, they have not gone away. they are not on the front page but they have not gone away. a lot of our scientists are itching to get back to work, to get started on things like lyme disease. another impact of th

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in nebraska, the governor, pete ricketts, is a strong supporter of lifting the lockdown.eopened last week, it's reported more than 2600 new cases of covid—i9. 100 people there have now died from the virus. katty kayjoins us from washington. good to see you. what was your reaction to the comments made by anthony fauci? as he previewed his remarks, he did say he thinks the death toll has been higher than the official 80,000 reported because i may have died and we did not know it was covid—i9. he also says he was warning against states opening up too early. and there are these some states are too early. and there are these some states a re not too early. and there are these some states are not meeting the white house guidelines. the key of which is they should have a 14 day period where the number of cases is declining and he is concerned that they are not meeting what are called those gateways. you mention nebraska there and there is nebraska, iowa and arkansas, all midwestern states people are particularly worried about where they are seeing on the dash an uptick in the nu

governor ricketts spoke about hospital capacity and outbreaks at meatpacking plants.lanssuarez discussed his to reopen miami's beaches and restaurants. this is 45 minutes. >> i think it does give people hope and doctors hope too.

afterwards, joe ricketts talks about his book the harder you work, the luckier you get. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. slate and columnist addie says the coronavirus created a depressed economy, similar to what woodrow wilson faced following the financial crisis -- during the financial crisis following world war i and the spanish flu. guests, i special invite them to turn on their cameras. singlenist at the daily and the cohost of the right side of history podcast. welcome. amity.cial guest is author of the forgotten man graphic. biography of the 13th president. she is the author of a new book, the great society in history. in it, she shows that planning policy hurts both the nation and the individual. she shares the board of the calvin coolidge presidential foundation. will turn the conversation over to gerrit. >> thank you. i really appreciate the introductions. thank you to the audience for tuning in at this time at this very unusual time where we are speaking to you. .hrough these webinars a lot of americans are dealing with these challenges. really, the c

up next on book tv, joe ricketts shares his insights on becoming an entrepreneur and reflects on his county of ameritrade. appeared on afterwards possible that was interviewed by former wall street investment banker and other william. afterwards is a weekly interview program. ... ... >> what made it - - motivated you? >> first of all thank you for this interview. but now it was written to appeal to entrepreneurs to let them know how hard it can be and how rewarding it can be. it offers encouragement if i want to start my own business i can do it. the other thing i wanted to do it before i got to walden didn't remember everything because looking at the sec that dictated the new york stock exchange they got rid of fixed commissions and going through all the technology was the inflection point in our financial service industry. i wanted to tell the story from the other side so people could see a human aspect. >>host: so the title of the harder you work the luckier you get, is that tongue-in-cheek or do you believe that? >> i really did believe it because it has happened to me so many ti

on afterwards, timmy founder joe ricketts talks about his book that are in your book, the luckier you get. watch book tv, this weekend on "c-span2". >> seventy-nine on q&a, journalist susanna discusses her book, the great pretender about a 1973 experience loved by a stanford psychologist testing the legitimate of psychiatric hospitals . >> he had such a wide influence on so much of the mental health crisis that we see today. as such in some ways by this guy and a lot of public opinion about psychiatry and about the institution spring they were in part shaped by the study so i think and questioning it, we have to go back and question some of our functions and i hope that this gives us an opportunity to go back and to reassess in a way to move forward. because you can't

governor ricketts has been doing a great job. they works closely with medical experts.al care is one third capacity when it comes to covid-19. we are in a good spot and the hotspots we do have, we are working very hard to help those working in meatpacking plants to provide ppe those folks need to make sure they have higher standards for keeping it clean and wiping down slaughterhouses but that is the main area or the main problem, 2 or 3 meatpacking plants was outside that nebraska has had low numbers of covid-19 infection. jillian: we will see how the election goes. keep us updated. >> thank you, have a great morning. jillian: elon musk opening a tesla factor after being ordered not to and the ceo says if anyone is arrested it should be him. we are live with the escalation in this contentious battle. rob: far left elites viewing the economy shutdown as the perfect opening to promote a radical shift away from american consumerism. fox news contributor says the superwealthy who support the idea should look in the mirror. she joins us with her perspective coming up next.

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but still, even so, this week that same governor, pete pic s ricketts said he'll block the data coming out from certain nursing homes. this is on top of him deciding they will no longer release data about specific meat packing plants. no data about nursing homes released and the way around that if you're concerned is that he told nebraskae people they as individual citizens can call nursing homes one by one and ask if they have a coronavirus outbreak and how many cases and deaths they had. see what they say. that's how we're going to handle the spread of coronavirus in nursing homes in nebraska. individual citizens just calling around and seeing what you can figure out. is that going to help? do you think that's going to make people think nebraska doesn't have people dying in nursing homes? we are far enough into this we're seeing these kinds of dumb shoot the messenger distortions all over the place now. various leaders in various states are figuring out when their epidemic is bad, people will be able to tell that because the numbers are bad and when the numbers are bad, that makes th

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least $100 million even with half a season if no fans here to talk about the path forward is tom ricketts-owner of chicago cubs and great to have you. welcome. >> good to be here as you can see, wrigley field is not quite being used to what we expect it to be used for this year instead of playing the marlins tonight we have turned the ballpark into the largest food pantry in chicago with the partners. >> fantastic yeah we hear so much about food insecurity right now the leans for the food pantries insane so that gives the important community function meantime and everybody, tom, saying what can we expect to be back in the stadium for ball games or can fans expect to be back in the stadium this year? what are the players going to accept there's some big stumbling blocks here. >> there's a lot of questions. i think everyone is intent on getting baseball back on the field even without fans but there's a lot that goes into that first and foremost is the safety of the players and the other people in the park in the games without fans and the league has put together a very thorough safety proto

governor pete ricketts says that he wants all the plants open. he said yesterday at a press conference that he doesn't actually think these meat processing plants are a problem at all. he was asked why so many meat processing workers are testing positive. he said, quote, they're more likely to pick up an infection outside of the workplace, where these people spend two-thirds of their time. yeah, meat processing workers all have ended up positive, you know, by the hundreds, potentially by the thousands in nebraska, because they all do the same stuff outside of work that exposes them. also i've got wet hair when i get out of a swimming pool, but that might just be because i took a shower this morning before i went swimming. maybe that's why my hair is wet. i mean, yeah, all the meat workers, they're definitely turning up positive in the numbers that they are because of stuff they're doing at home. it's amazing. it must be really different people than all the other people in all the other different kinds of workplaces who don't have those kinds of n

republican governor pete ricketts said wednesday the state will no longer release the numbers, arguing it t is a mattr of worker privacy. meat processing plants are home to some of the largest cocoronavirus hohotspots in the country with thousands of confirmed cases and at least 20 deataths tied to meat plants. in g georgia, the twowo white mn who were cut on camera shooting and killing ahmaud arbery, an unarmed 25 year-old african man, in february were arrested and charged thursday in connection with the e murder, to dadays aer the vidideo was shard with t the public, sparking widespread outrage. gregory mcmichael and his son travis were both charged with murder and aggravated assault and booked in glenn county, georgia, where the killing took place more than two months ago. the video was filmed by a third white man, william bryan, who is travis' neighbor. bryan has reportedly also been charged but has not been arrested. today would have been ahmaud arbery's 26th birthday. after headlines, we'll speak withth family attorney benjamin crump. the justice d department has dropped charges

in nebraska, the governor there, pete ricketts has defended from the very beginning him never issuing any kind of stay-at-home order for his state because he said his reasoning for not doing that, for nebraska not needing that, he said there was plenty of hospital capacity in nebraska, which is sort of unnerving from the very beginning, right? plenty of hospital beds for everyone. so why not fill them up? well now in fact, nebraska hospital beds are filling up. omaha's icu beds are three quarters full and rising. and now that is happening the governor says we are having conversations about what they're going to do with regard to staffing. he said he is waiting to see, quote, if those hospitals are going to go out and get additional staffing services to come in. because of course they're filling up. and they need more staff now to handle the huge volume of coronavirus patients they are getting. because of the huge rise in cases in nebraska that is unabated. i mean what's going to happen though with the governor, wait to see if the hospitals will go out and get additional staff. presuma

in nebraska, for example, we have seen republican governor pete ricketts announcing that the government will no longer announce numbers of meat packing plants. once they started getting big outbreaks in his state, and started doing testing, he announced nobody will be able to see those numbers anymore. in iowa, the governor has a bizarre 10% threshold standard, where no one, including those who work at the plant or local public officials who want to prepare their hospitals in the event of a large outbreak in their city limit, no one in iowa is allowed to know if there is an outbreak at any one plant until at least 10% of the entire work force at that plant is positive. that is the 10% threshold that governor reynolds has set in iowa. so if you're a local official and want to try to act and prepare while the outbreak at your local meat processing plant is still small so you can try to track and test and isolate and contain it under good public health practices, no. iowa's governor says you can't do that. you are not allowed to know what is going on until the outbreak is giant. you have t

in nebraska, for example, we have seen republican governor pete ricketts announcing that the state will no longer release information about coronavirus outbreaks in meatpacking plants. once he started to get? really big outbreaks in his state and they started really doing some testing, he announced that nobody will be allowed to see those numbers anymore. in iowa republican governor kim reynolds applying this bizarre 10% threshold standard where no one including the people who work at the plant, their families, local public officials who might want to prepare, say, their hospitals in the event of a large outbreak within their city limits, no, no one in iowa is allowed know if there is an outbreak at any one plant until at least 10% of the entire workforce at that plant is positive. that's the 10% threshold that governor reynolds has set in iowa. so if you're a local official and you want to try to act and prepare while the outbreak at your local meat processing plant is still small and so you might still be able to test and track and isolate and contain it under good public health pract

just to take one example, in nebraska, the governor pete ricketts is a strong supporter of lifting thehe state reopened last week, it's reported more than 2600 new cases of covid—i9. 100 people there have now died from the virus. here's katty kay with more on what dr fauci had to say. as he had previewed in his remarks, he did say he thinks the death toll has been higher than the official 80,000 reported because some may have died and we did not know it was covid—i9. he also was warning against states opening up too early. and there are these signs that some states are not meeting the white house guidelines. the key of which is they should have a 14—day period where the number of cases is declining and he is concerned that they are not meeting what are called those gateways. you mentioned nebraska there, and there is nebraska, iowa and arkansas, all midwestern states that people are particularly worried about where they are seeing an uptick in the number of infections. we covered there some of the states that are opening up and are eager to, is there still a public appetite to keep the

and also lucy rickett, one of the volunteers who has signed up to the scheme.g tangible, sam? good morning. thank you for having us. i was furloughed myself on the 1st of april and while it was great to have the freedom of time at first, i missed my routine and my mission and purpose for getting up every morning andi purpose for getting up every morning and ifigured purpose for getting up every morning and i figured by purpose for getting up every morning and ifigured by the end of this, potentially up to 9 million people that could be furloughed and i know a lot will be feeling the same. i wa nted a lot will be feeling the same. i wanted to turn what could have been quite a negative experience into a positive one and put my hand up to help and contribute to society and a different way. we figured on the one hand we have these amazing furloughed workers with a variety of amazing skills and background sound on the other side we have got charities and good causes who may have had to furloughed the whole of the staff as well or perhaps they need to reach their aud

let's bring in the governor of nebraska, pete ricketts. governor, you are a farm state.od-producing state. i take it you like the sound of billions of dollars to get your food to charities. >> certainly it's going to be important for those charities because i know that many of our food banks are going through ten times the amount of money they normally would during this emergency. it's also going to be important for our farmers and ranchers who are looking for markets to be able to sell their products and especially when commodity prices are so low. stuart: what else do you want to hear from the president? his support for farmers? >> yeah, absolutely. i would love to hear the president talk about his support for our farmers and ranchers and really, would like to hear about additional programs on top of the $16 billion that has already been talked about in direct aid for farmers and ranchers. they are really really struggling right now. the farm economy has really been hurt by a combination of things with regard to this emergency, low commodity prices, impacts on the food

and just a little further down in the same article, quote, nebraska governor pete ricketts says he feels comfortable loosening restrictions in the state. the director of that medical center was actually at a coronavirus town hall event with the governor last night. it was like they were broadcasting from two different planets. he is saying i feel great. everything seems good. let's loosen up and she said, i run this medical center in the largest city in the state and we are filling up, steadily and it is very worrying. she said last night, quote, now is the time to be wearing a mask. did you see this week, these haven't been circulated widely, i think they should be, they are amazing, did you see the wear a mask psas that new york showed off this week. they're not official. as i understand it, new york asked people to submit their own public service announcements about why you should wear a mask and what they circulated this week which is what i believe are the finalists, the best one, according to the state, and they're really good. they're also really, really, really new york. watch th

governor pete ricketts, also republican governor in nebraska, is doing the same thing to working peopletate as well. but this is what's emerging as republican party policy or maybe strategy? now that we've got over 60,000 americans dead. "the new york times" reporting on a, quote, network of conservative leaders, donors and organizations that has launched a legal onslaught against state and local restrictions intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus." the "times" further reporting these conservative groups mounting this effort have become, quote, emboldened in recent days by ever more explicit signs that u.s. attorney william barr and the justice department may take their side to help them legally dismantle public health efforts to slow the virus and to limit the death toll. and they're doing this because -- because, well, i -- they're -- this is what they're doing because that's how the administration and the republican party and the conservative media want to go down in history here? 60,000 americans dead. yeah, sounds like a good start. what else can we do? i mean, it's one thi

eastern, td ameritrade founder joe ricketts talks about his book "the harder you work, the luckier youet." watch afterwards on booktv on cspan 2. next, c-span's city tour explores the american story with a look at the great depression era that began after the stock market crash of october 1929. q&a starts at 8:00 p.m., a journalist discusses her book pretender" about a 1973 experiment to test the legitimacy of psychiatric hospitals. and prime minister questions follows at 9:00. now here's some of the stories and places of the greatest economic downturn in u.s. history, the great depression. can 1929, the financial health collapses and the overinflated stock market plunges into a great depression, a financial panic grips the world. >> ♪ this land is your land this land is my land from california to the new york islands ♪ that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity. >> ♪ this land was made for you and me ♪ >>

the governors, mark gordon the governor of wyoming, pete ricketts the governor of nebraska, the governor of arkansas, kim reynolds of iowa, and the governor of missouri. they wrote in the piece that the diversity of the 50 states is what makes the nation's economy great and each state cost response to the novel coronavirus is as diverse as the impact on each of us. in the heartland decisions have been based on sound social and medical science positioning our states to thrive individually as our economies reopen. they write well our approaches made differ we have kept our states open for business and delivered food and other goods. they write that just as our --te we applied the same will to overcome the threat of the coronavirus. we knew it was critical that our state economy kept moving. agriculture, energy, -- our oil, ethanol, coal, and wind fueled the country's businesses. we had to close pieces of our economy temporarily to meet the challenges. our states moved quickly to cut red tape and allow private employers to pivot to do new business models. the relationships our community ban

spotted fever and showing it was an infectious disease and it could be by dr.tted by ticks howard rickettstunately died in 2010, but the entire class of bacteria is named for him. orn infectious diseases continued here. in world war ii, all the yellow fever vaccine given to allied -- american armed forces was produced here at rocky mount labs. after that our scientist worked on a variety of bacterial, viral and transmissible spongiform --elf luckily diseases encephalopathy diseases. i can't take credit for any of this work but i take great pride in talking about it. we have one of the highest concentrations of investigators working on emerging infectious diseases anywhere in united states. people working on tularemia, bubonic plague, coronavirus. another thing that is absolutely important for the viewers of the shows like yours to understand is these infectious diseases, they have not gone away. they are not on the front page but they have not gone away. a lot of our scientists are itching to get back to work, to get started on things like lyme disease. another impact of this pandemic has

and governor ricketts of nebraska, those are all standouts, they care about their jobs, their people.ffective way, you have to take the best public health measures. that's what these governors are doing. but what's going to be really interesting to watch over the next 4-6 weeks is whether you see an acceleration of businesses moving out of those blue states that arthur was just talking about, connecticut, new jersey, my home state of illinois is a disaster area economically. and your now starting to see businessmen and women tell me, hey, if my state doesn't open up, i'm going to move to arizona or tennessee or texas. that's e a big problem for these blue states if they don't get opened up, they're going to lose their jobs and businesses permanently. pete: interesting. could have a i much larger long-term impact. dr. laffer, is there a particular or industry? >> last word -- pete: go ahead. >> to really get this country going, we need a payroll tax waiver right now, and that payroll tax waiver will allow the economy to bounce back as fast as possible. that way we should last until dec

. >> tonight at 9 pm eastern tv ameritrade founder joe ricketts talks about his book the harder you work the luckier you get . watch afterwords on book tv on c-span2. recently new york times columnist outfit argued that american politics and economics have become stagnant. here's a portion of his talk. >> after the last few generations it's become a lot harder to effectively govern western countries and to effectively reform or transform or build new or unbilled government programs and so an age when it was like to program and have a dramatic program of reform from franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson really down through ronald reagan is given weight and age when presidents are lucky they one major piece of regulation across their presidency succeed as obama did with obamacare and they pay a political price for their presidency. and overall politics is dominated by various stalemates, by polarized parties competing with each other without building clear majorities. with in the united states of congressional abdication and an increasing form of government that consists of basically negot