Lawmakers sold their stock shares right before the markets crash which was obviously triggered by coronavirus spears well break it all down for you all right its time to boost your news i. Q. All right it is looking like no deal on the Coronavirus Relief bill a bill thats already failed to pass not once but twice and just moments ago senators called it a night and while both sides say a lot of progress has been made today a vote on this much anticipated bill will likely not happen for a while. Back has been following the story all day today all day yesterday so pared what was the final word if they packed it up so in our House Speaker nancy pelosi did say that major progress was made republicans did give some things up but democrats still want more however get ready for this one its been discovered. A high ranking g. O. P. Member that the senate might not even vote on this for about 3 weeks why well next week the senate is on recess for 2 weeks senator roy blunt stressed that the decision is up to Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell but he thinks the chamber will go on recess telling the hill quote my guess is we probably dont come in next week and then dont come in the 2 weeks were scheduled but use those 3 weeks to get ready for whatever is phase 4 now but also believe some senators might stay in town to work on additional coronavirus legislation but likely theyre not going to be in an active daily session another source familiar with these backdoor to go she ations is that once the senate goes on recess quote they plan to be gone for a while now the senate is scheduled to be on session there is he in session till april 3rd which manilla thats the really ironic part the senate was scheduled to have a 2 week recess after april 3rd but the senate was supposed to be out of session last week but the senate actually changed plans to stay in d. C. All to pass a 2nd Coronavirus Response bill this week where all they really did was generate a 3rd version of the bill and then they had the vote fail to pass not once but twice what is also interesting Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats recently brought forward their own Coronavirus Relief bill monday to counter the Republican Senate bill while the senate is allegedly supposed to leave this week for a 2 week hiatus its important to note that the house leaders scheduled for the next 2 weeks were only time will tell if House Democrats push forward their own relief bill manila. So fair and obviously President Trump wants to move this along and many say they want that to what are they telling the country he wants everybody back at work by easter i mean how do you make sense of all of this right to the Coronavirus Task force briefing was not in the White House Press room today rather it was in the rose garden with fox news where the task force had a virtual town hall less than and. Later this afternoon now the president. Action however was actually shot down by top officials at the pentagon who predicted the outbreak could last anywhere from 10 weeks to 3 months now Vice President mike pence he also put rumors to rest the administration they are not considering a nationwide coronavirus lockdown like some states and cities have taken pens also added that the federal government has sent 2000 ventilators from the National Stockpile to new york which has become the epicenter of covert 1000 in the u. S. And that 2000 more will be sent wednesday reporting in washington fair and. All right as the corona virus spreads across the nation millions of people remain confined to their homes but while this pandemic continues to evolve the outbreak is forcing officials to rethink the Justice System the move could bring freedom for thousands of inmates are treated the chavez explains. Corrections officials sounding the alarm over concerns about the rapid spread of the corona virus and the risks it poses to those behind bars with so many people confined together in small spaces many are concerned that jewells imprisons could be socalled incubators for covert 19 to potentially take hold in new york city at least 12 correction employees and 21. 00 in means have tested positive for the virus including disgraced hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein who reportedly contracted the virus that Rikers Island and as a result is now in isolation other high profile inmates like trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen bernie made off lawyer michael of a noddy and rapper to kashi 69 are all launching bids to be released from prison due to the spread of the virus the new york city correction board calling on justice leaders to urgently decrease the prison population and release people who are at high risk of dying of coven 19 amid a growing crisis in jails saying in a letter fewer people in jails will save lives and minimize transmission among people in custody as well as staff. Failure to drastically reduce the jail population threatens to overwhelm the city jails Healthcare System as well as its basic operations now some inmates across new york and new jersey are being released to prevent the spread of the deadly virus in new york city at least 75. 00 prisoners have been released so far and 200. 00 more are being flagged for at least all who are serving sentences of 90 days or less but this process will be ongoing it will be constant to determine what is the right number of people and who are the right people to release and under what conditions meantime the Citys Department of correction has reopened a shuttered facility on Rikers Island to separate inmates showing symptoms of the coronavirus from the rest of the jail population this one new jersey officials are also preparing to release a 1000 inmates chief Justice Stewart radner signing an order to release inmates jailed for probation violations or low level crimes a. C. L. U. New jersey executive director of all things said in a statement im president times call for rethinking the normal way of doing things and in this case it means releasing people who pose a little risk to their communities for the sake of Public Health and the dignity of people who are incarcerated while no other states have yet to take sweeping action to reduce its jail population in response to the coronavirus President Trump is considering an executive order to free older nonviolent offenders from a federal prison reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r t. All right to expand on this topic we are being joined by watching the hawks host tyrrel been to iraq and across so the hawks have landed in the i. Q. Studio thank you for being here so what do you guys make of the number of inmates who might be released due to coronavirus fears i mean some of these people asking to at least be moved away from their cells include people like Harvey Weinstein who apparently has tested positive for coded 19 himself he wants out to be relocated somewhere else what do you think should some inmates get this get out of jail. I mean i think i think look i look at it like this if there were inmates that tested them merrily releasing them then the have to ask the question did the really belong there in the 1st place you know if these people are a threat to the society if they were some kind of real threat to society now theyre sick and you want to give them care then you have to ask were they where they should be jail in the 1st place thats what so i look at it i think that the overwhelming population should be released back surely over 70 percent of those who reside in jails across this country are low level they are nonviolent they are individuals who are there because they couldnt pay parking tickets right there individuals who are there because maybe they stole a grapefruit from a Grocery Store these are individuals who do not pose any significant threat to the population as we just heard in trinitys report she said these are low level offenders people that are put away for you know 30 to 90 days Something Like that so these are these these are all going to petty theft when it comes to Harvey Weinstein now on the other hand i understand why this and i guess why does he even get a test why why why did harvey even get tested i mean when when you have a we have a country where people arent being able to have access youngsters but were testing Harvey Weinstein and theyre not doing math to thing in jail right either silly Harvey Weinstein is an example of someone who is still privileged even while hes going on right it is a good point so because of people like him though richard not he has tested positive he is i dont i dont know if he is in an isolated area you would hope that since he tested positive but hes quarantined but he poses a threat doesnt he to other inmates to the people that work in the jails because hes contagious i mean should he be moved outside of the prison system going to live or poses a threat but i think that we have to think beyond the context of Harvey Weinstein for me as someone who has worked in criminal justice advocacy for a long time and said sits on boards for National Organizations and my mom was incarcerated she died from cancer in prison so when i think about what can happen the last. Actual access to necessities and medical care and we talk about the importance of hand washing and sanitizer sanitizer is banned in prison because it contains alcohol these individuals how to pay for so they cant just go about it like we can out here there is no way to to social distance in a prison or in a jail so i think that we have to think about this in the humanitarian contact also in terms of the limitations you have if you are someone who is in jail or prison i mean this is totally going to pose a Public Health nightmare here we already know as a minister just highlighted the prison system has atrocious health care if you even want to call it health care if its even available at all what if someone were to die from this new outbreak of coronavirus i mean if they die behind bars because theyre untreated from coronavirus are they just Collateral Damage is it i mean who. We cant look at these people because theyre incarcerated people and look at them and see all the Collateral Damage anyone who dies from a Public Health crisis is never Collateral Damage this is a they died from a lack of infrastructure care or they died from the failure of our prison system to take care of incarcerated people they didnt die just because they got the virus you know that is actually going to punish medically you know and nor should we be we should be treating these people not putting them in solitary you know you have to separate sick from the healthy from the healthy but they should not be punished for being sick its not their fault they got sick right we have seen video footage from several jails where people that are calling for help you know theyre theyre yelling from their cell that theyre you know theyre theyre bleeding or theyre they have some trauma and no one gets help i mean i can only imagine what might happen with a virus you cant see on the inside right so you said you brought up solitary confinement theres folks against this move theyre saying you know if an inmate falls ill with coded 19 then perfect jails are the Perfect Place for them because they have solitary confinement they can be confined there and the virus will be. Kept in solitary confinement how would you respond ive never heard something more ridiculous heard in formal solitary confinement all of the games everything that we know about mandy moore and it increases the level of Mental Health issues because being away and i feel a shit for any period of time is going to cause those types of issues but in addition to that solitary confinement in and of itself is a form of torture the idea that youre going to take someone who is already sick and put them in an area where they get nothing no sunlight no other interaction whatsoever that only makes matters worse and yes we do need to work on containment we do need to make sure that were not spreading this virus but solitary confinement is not the way to do it and its honestly demonstrative leap or for anybody in the American Population or anywhere else to suggest that that would be a solution and you dont like that argument no not at all imo and i agree with michael it was completely a look lets look at what this virus has shown us this virus has shown us that our Health Care System is an abject failure this virus is now showing us that our prison and Justice System is an abject failure lets actually look at this and learn from this and learn from the mistakes that many of us have been sitting up on you know been sitting saying look everybody Pay Attention to this is a major problem well now that virus is bringing all of this right into the right into our from writers and right into our faces and instead of reacting which i fear that we will in this kind of you know post 911 lets pass the patriot act and create more layers of government lets actually look at this and say what do we truly need to reform and big and get back to what it should be not you know what it is today which is an abject failure in our prison systems our Health Care Systems over there and you guys recently did a special on parchment prison and alabama you sent one of your producers down there in death story we see the prison conditions thats a good example right there if somebody somebody fell ill there from coronavirus they can literally die it doesnt matter if theyre 30 years old the prison itself is condemned itself you know his son but its a lot of rating you know somebody exactly like you know these are still people these are still members of society regardless of they committed to. Crime and are being punished for that at the end of the day theyre still human beings theyre still somebody whos wife brother sister mother daughter you know theyre all these Different Things that we have to care about them the narrative that weve created for so long in the media has helped it to this extent around incarcerated people that they are irredeemable that they are castaways that they dont need to be a society has helped people to create this ideology that they dont need to be helped so if there is something that goes on there are millions of people who die from the flu in jails and prisons where every year there are people who dont have clean Running Water in prisons there are people who dont get adequate food in prisons it actually is a copay to see a doctor in prison this is a problem for those on the outside but its a major problem for those on the inside because where do they get the money from and these prisoners were released and lets be clear theyre not you know werewolves and you know were not releasing the worst of the worst of the worst were releasing people who are small time offenders at the end of day who they should be getting help all right guys weve got to leave it right there at a time Tyrone Hunter im sure cross thank you for chime in on this very important topic. 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Am as fears loom over and not just the virus itself but rather this new norm were all experiencing because of it many are wondering whats going to come next all this talk of shelter in place or stay at home orders panic buying quarantine isolation etc this is all new vernacular to a lot of people so joining us to explain all of this the legal jargon attorney and media analyst lionel weighs in on this line on my friend lets get down to the basics here the 1st thing are we looking at potential martial law here and what is martial law ok potential yes everything is potential martial law is the replacement of civilian law the constitution he is score courts and the like with a military tribunal now what happened here the day which precipitated this and im the 1st one to tell you i was on twitter i saw the pictures and videos of seemingly miles of tanks and and military vehicles thousands of troops and people were asking this is for all to do no swabs is or something more so when people are saying martial law its not is far fetched to think that when you are seeing basically an invasion of the entire military is about 450000 National Guardsmen which primarily this was but no this is not mar of martial law and again i see yet no light of what about the technical meanings or the legal meanings to terms such as quarantine in lockdown isolation or are these just semantics for other more normal things that we say in conversation. Terms that are used both by politicians civilians i right now im in new york and were in this this notion of shelter in place now that strew people off because it was normally your term that was used in School Shooting now when or if theres a biological or radiological problem or the sea dont leave you go to a shelter use your home as a shelter but then we have things manila locked down we have quarantine we have isolation schult quarantine now we have social distance all of a sudden overnight and the question is can the Police Officer stop you are rescue or worse if you are violating these lot where were they written where was the statute all of this is brand new but heres the key whenever there is the Health Concern whatever is the normal realm whatever is usually thought of in terms of probable cause goes out the window because the government and the state through Police Powers and express statute comes to health and contagion and pestilence they are given so much should sorry that in any other situation would be considered draconian and frankly unconstitutional but is completely accepted and expected in times like this now why dont. Some of the images we were just looking at while youre talking were images in china some of the streets were you know around and in and around obviously the police really crack down there in china in ways of keeping people sheltered in place whether they wanted to do that or not and some people here freedom loving americans as we are are starting to say a lot of these orders coming down the pike seem unconstitutional at any point does anybody have the power to sort of suspend the constitution. Well the answer is. No because the constitution is always there how ever you can supplement did you can for example pass a law there are for example the u. S. Surgeon general statute which seems rather benign but under federal law the United States code provides that the Surgeon General is there in power and he used to do these enumerated acts then there is this other section as says if the Surgeon General and other Health Departments through police power this notion of acting in the in the best instance or interests of the society but if they were to say were going to enacted this and you violate that then youre subject to criminal and civil sanction now are are you a criminal see you radically yes are you able to afford use of a remained in a lawyer well yes is this administrative perhaps the bottom line is simply this the constitution allows this permits this manilla in the terms of lets see hurricanes has talents do you think there is anything in the constitution that would prevent the government from ordering people to stay put from ordering people off of the beach to bring in the National Guard to bring it up absolutely not there is nothing but the thing is if you dont follow which is normally and understandably ordered then are the repercussions absolutely is it unconstitutional absolutely not ok good to know i think a lot of people are wondering that and lastly lytle over in israel they are looking to technology to track coronavirus through phone surveillance people are worried that that could happen here would that be legal can this be done how would it be done. It is being done youre going to hear of drome surveillance youre going to hear about people using phones to make sure that people lets say for example you are known to be to have this and you are the typhoid mary of washington or wherever and i know that you have a tendency of moving about should i as the government be able to track you using reasonable means your phone and by the way you most probably have signed away and waived any privacy rights regarding your phone because the government is not listening manilla to your conversation government is tracking your whereabouts and when you sign up for the various terms of this and you actually pay apple or whoever your carrier is to allow fine my phone and all the g. P. S. Data east you basically give them the ability to do so so again would it be normally wrong yes it would be but under these exit circumstances key words whenever theres an emergency a Health Threat pestilence disease the government is given great Carte Blanche to surveil you as a criminal but for the the public good thats the difference all right lionel as always appreciate all of your expertise in these very confusing and stressful times lytle of my own media my friend thank you. Thank you. All right amazon boss jeff bezos saved himself over 300000000 bucks by dumping 3400000000 in amazon stock just before the coded pandemic hit the u. S. And hes not the only one a number of high profile execs have done the same including us fund manager larry fink and the c. E. O. Of m. G. M. Resorts just under 10000000000. 00 collectively in stock was dumped by corporate bigwigs between february 1st and march 19th according to published reports amazon has declined to comment as to why bezos dumped his stock right before the markets crashed. Right lets head over to regina hamm over at the sports h. Q. Regina you have a guy going viral on social media for taking part in the crazy sport of park or its really a lot of fun to watch him park or stuns those as a sport with wild stunts and sometimes death defying skills its quickly becoming want to stand out movements in the 21st century one latvian is using social media to make his take on the sport go viral stance done is all over instagram and he is absolutely fearless 28 year old has been participating in park or for over 10 years and now takes to streets in the netherlands to practice this sport for those not familiar park or is a sport where athletes try to go from point a to point b. In the most direct way its a pretty good slo mo or a deer that might be overbuilding adjure right off the railing but sounds odd is not slowing down and these are some pretty impressive moves i would not reduce myself. It was a dramatic finish and almost empty shot in resource as the Hong Kong Derby saw one horse and one jockey making a name for themselves most famous race saw gold in 60 and hometown native vincent hole falling behind right out of the gate aussie writer though blake shane made a daring move made race and that went into putting gold sixtys chances of victory in question final to. Meters though and 289 to one odds platell point a pulls away from the pack 200 left gold 60 is coming in hot with the speed can mean only danger the leader 20 hopes still alive until the final 50 meters gold and 60 takes the lead and the up set when its heart attack material here the come from behind win is just separated by inches ringgold 60 and a gold 60 becomes the 2nd of virtue in the 3 legs of the 4 year old classic series and for a hometown guy vincent ho he becomes the 1st homegrown rider to land the b. M. W. Hong kong derby title since toni kroos in 1995 and you know mentally its nice for a sports people to still see some y. Of action the courts might not be getting them for a while but you know over the weekend there was a weird sport than i would be able to america watch called australian rules football think rugby soccer basketball and american football all rolled into one. With no dad for things rolled into one you can dribble the ball that is shaped like an egg you can tackle between the shoulders in the knees with no pads on and its the biggest stadium field out of all professional sports im ive never heard of this i must admit so i have to go look now gently to check that out i cannot imagine this right now its weird but its fun. Something you learn is that the number one sport of our original ham thank you so much for that update we thats it for us right now will be back at 8 oclock with some more news for you im going to attend in the meantime a Free Download our brand new free app its called portable t. V. Had over used their point. 5 or 6 years very aggressively people have sold dollars to buy these emerging market currencies because they can get a better yield on those. Currencies suddenly when all liquidity disappears during heisenberg uncertainty for x. Market schrodingers cat of markets everyone is then short dollars they have to buy those dollars back because theyre losing catastrophic way in all their non dollar plays in the market and this is causing a runaway Freight Train of the us dollar going higher. Welcome to on contact today we discussed the criminalization of rap with author eric testified in a case where the game investigator along with the prosecutor took this kids lyrics notebook but you know page after page and went through lyric by lyric and explained oh this is where he confesses to this and this is where he talks about his game membership in this is it turns out that that that the song that they spent all this time with wasnt his he even had the name of the real artist on the top in the title of the song and they had spent all this time characterizing something that this is just a kid writing the lyrics to artists who like this that happens a lot. The anguish and enraged cry of the dispossessed has been criminalized budge additional system that sees it as an incitement to violence and celebration of lawlessness the lyrics of amateur rappers is often interpreted by the judicial system as confessions of crimes threats of violence evidence of gang affiliation or revelations of criminal intent prosecutors have secured numerous convictions by presenting the lyrics and videos of rappers as de facto confession. Of criminal activity this is led to aspiring young rappers serving lengthy prison sentences in the United States including the rapper mack who was convicted in 2001 of manslaughter after the prosecutor liberally quoted passages from his album shellshocked joining me to discuss what in essence is the criminalization of an art form is eric nielsen