do you think they can sur vaf on a few weeks. >> shockey took to twitter begging for help along with so many others. an essential employee rationing seizure meds until the stimulus check comes in. a single mother who needs prescriptions for her family. for each winnowing prescriptions is a deadly game of chance. >> i wake up at 3 a.m. with a blood sugar that's 400, 420. >> brandy titus's blood sugar levels are four times as average. she said it's not if she goes to the emergency room but when. >> i won't have a choice. my body will go into diabetic keto acidosis. >> she won't be getting a stimulus check. she's behind on her child support so like thousands of others, she doesn't qualify. she is on be her own. >> it's hard. $100 might not be that much to me, but it could be my saving grace for tomorrow. >> michael shockey was watching president trump's white house briefing. he says this issue of the president's name on the stimulus check and whether or not that might delay whether he survives, angry isn't the right word. he said hurt. this should not be about anyone other than helping

take an example you and i we go out to the shop to get a snack after the program and we go to the shockey from we say see how much is this chocolate bar and he says negative one your are we going to be thrilled our way because we're going to get our chocolate bar and he's also going to give us a euro it sounds ridiculous but that's effectively the situation that we had with oil futures in the united states yesterday since the start of the year people have been flying they've not been driving factories haven't been working at the same level as they were before and it means that demand for oil has dropped dramatically however the refineries have still been pumping it out to a similar pace to they were before so it means that produces have got this huge backlog of oil to the extent where they know where to put it and they reach the point where they are willing to pay people to take it off their hands so use the costs over there but then the key question here is why did this production continue when clearly demand wasn't there we've heard quite a lot of talk around the world about reducing oi

on to pay for them so this is my last injection a 2 time cancer survivor and crohn's sease patient shockey has insurance and yet what's the co pay for all of that. >>i 500 total like i got all the g. wi taxes fallin here about $500 he was able to afford these lifeugtaining ugs by managing a chain of new york bakriesthat when the coronavirus hit manhattan last month he was laid off. >>now he's raoning what he has le without knowing when his expected stimulus ney will come in each day just gets scarier how dire is this crisis heidi life or death for some people, you know lady for me my fear iif i'm going to cause long-term damage to myse people are ling check to check when the working. we think one net income goes away. you think they're going toe able to survive on a few weeks own shocking took to twitter begging for help along with so many others, an essential employee rationing seizure meds until the stimulus check comes in. >>a single mothewho needs prescriptions for her family for each winnowing their supply of necessary treatment is a deadly game of chance i wake up about 03:00am when

this week is the crossroads for her and michael shockey, whose life depends on life-sieving prescriptionsporter: a two-time cancer survivor and -- what is the co-pay? >> $500 total if i got all these. with taxes, yeah, about $500. >> reporter: he was able to afford these drugs by managing a chain of new york bakeries. when the coronavirus hit manhattan last month, he was laid off. now he's rationing what he has left without knowing when his expected stimulus money will come in. >> each day just gets scarier. >> reporter: how desire is this crisis? >> i think life and death for some people. my fear is if i'm going to cause long-term damage, people are living check to check when they're working. what do you think when that income goes away? you think they'll be able to survive? >> reporter: he took to twitter begging for help along with so many others, an essential employees rationing seizure meds under the stimulus check comes in. a single mother who needs prescription for her family for each winnows supplying is a deadly game of chance. >> i wake up about 3:00 a.m. with a blood sure garr

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i talked with cory shockey who's the head of international relations. she's a veteran of the george w bush administration. she said it looks like a panic move. >>> the u.s. is monitoring intelligence out of north korea. leader kim jong-un is in grave danger after surgery. these are the last images to air on state media ten days ago. mr. kim missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday last week, which is north korea's most important holiday. however, south korea says it's seeing no unusual signs. so paula hancocks is standing by in seoul, south carolina. we begin with will ripley who's reported for us. what do you make of this information? >> reporter: hi, robyn. it's not surprising that the united states is telling one thing and chinese intelligence is saying something else. there is inevitably going to be a lot of confusion where the state of the north korean leader's health is uncertain. if you think back to when kim jong-il died, everything appeared normal before they announced it. fair and accurately, it's all speculation until we get the f

. >> cory shockey, are you on a panel later this afternoon? i suspect this topic will come up because this is something she wrote about. >> it is really great to hear about the inner workings in the white house and what goes on behind the scenes. how did you get into that? did your academic career push you there or you had a colleague there or just luck? >> part of the lottery. i came to the white house after being in the bush administration for a couple of years previously. i joined the bush administration right after 9/11 as part of a wave of people who joined government. i worked at the state department. i then volunteered to go with our military to iraq as a civilian, before the war, and ended up being there for the first 16 or 17 months. when we transferred sovereignty to the iraqis, i normally would've gone back to the state department but at that point, i was offered a job by condi rice to come to the white house. that was a reflection of the fact that iraq was still a very difficult policy issue for the united states with a lot of time

corey shockey here who is technically a political scientist and protege of the great nobel prize winning economistist. frankly, corey is a long time dear friend and former friend from the bush administration as well. has had many important roles and academia and think tanks and runs the international institute for strategic studies in london and a better historian than a lot of card carrying historians. finally, professor andrew preston who is a canadian by birth in citizenship. did much education and studies in the united states and is now a professor in the uk at cambridge university. also a dear friend and also contributor to the book. so with that, we're going to turn oifit over to our panel. each one is reading his or her comments from up here and then we'll have q&a time. so please join me in welcoming our panel. >> goods that podium is set up like it s otherwise, i'm sure that, you know, will would have moved mike up to his level. we would have been jumping up and down to reach it. so let me begin by saying how thrilled i was to join this project to accept jeff's invitation. becau