miriam hawke is a senior vice president with the national venture capital association which recently issued a warning in the form of a white paper called "startup ecosystem faces capital crunch," capital crunch by the way my least favorite breakfast cereal. you're predicting there won't be enough money to meet startup demand, is that right? >> yes, the idea is startups have not been immune to what's essentially a halt to the u.s. economy. they've been struggling to maintain operations and customers. since the middle of march we've seen more than 300 startups lay off 35,000 employees, and that's just what's been reported. so the situation i think is going to get worse as we see how the impact from covid-19 plays out. startups are, you know, typically younger companies, they are looking for capital from investors to help them reach milestones for growth. but unfortunately with investors also being very careful and cautious with their allocations and how they're committing to new companies over the next few quarters, it's going to be a significant decline in capital investment in startup

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drawn from private capital and venture capital, and many of these were told to prioritize tips from political allies and associates of president trump, tracked on a spreadsheet called vip update, but few of the leads, vip or otherwise, up and down out according to a whistle-blower memo written by one volunteers and sent to an oversight committee. the work that jared kushner has been doing, there's certainly been plenty of criticism of it. it also involving trying to ramp up testing storks what is the status of the work? how much progress has been made? how much problem has left? >> of course, this is the mission that jared kushner declared a fee days ago was a great success story. there has been equipment distributed. the air bridge flights that have come in from other countries. the trick is, as our reporting showed, bringing in these friends of his from private business, as motivated by the idea of getting entrepreneurs who can cut through bureaucratic red tape, the reality is they didn't have the experience to help them figure out what really is necessary and how to move this equipment in a quick and efficient

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