A plant. Pulling out thousands caught in the flood waters of chinas 100 provinces back on high alert after battling the corona virus outbreak. The u. N. Secretary general has warned that the conflict in libya has entered a new phase with foreign interference reaching unprecedented levels until hugo chavez was addressing a virtual session of the Security Council on the violence the head of the session russias foreign minister said hes in talks with his counterparts in turkey about a possible ceasefire this isnt the 1st time that a cease fire has been proposed while Khalifa Haftar said he would consider one after his forces began losing their major strongholds the libyan conflict has been fueled by a number of International Backers the u. N. Recognize government in tripoli has been backed by turkey all huffed are has had support from russia egypt and the u. A. E. Hes not on our side in libya. The conflict theres a new phase foreign interference reaching and dissident levels very concerne
Suspending programming in person through april that we have a virtual programming go to Commonwealth Club. Org that is updated regularly you can watch while sheltering in place. This is to address the impact of covid19 on our society also part of the future of democracy theories with that Zuckerberg Initiative and then others will follow that example. Im thrilled to be talking to two experts with the effect of covid19 and the effect it is having around the us and around the world the correspondent for the atlantic and has written for the magazine since the seventies. He and his wife deb are the authors of the 100,000mile journey thank you for being her here. And the director of foreign and defense policy studies at aei in washington dc a career defense policy and with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Usa Department and the National Security council. It is a great pleasure spirit thank you to being here and also to the audience for joining us if youre watching on yo
On the community and society at large. Its also part of the clubs future of democracy efforts. With Additional Support from the zuckerberg initiative. We are so grateful for the support and hopefully others will follow the examples. I am personally thrilled to have those two experts on a lot of things including the effects of covid19 and what it may have democracy here in the u. S. With the recent bestseller. James, thank you so much for being here. Corey is the director of the American Enterprise institute. She has have in the press of career which is taking her to the International Institute for strategic studies in london. The hoover institution. Where i remember her from in the bay bay area. Bay area. In the department of defense. Thank you so much for your time. Its a great pleasure. Also to our audience for joining us. We do want into your questions as part of this conversation. You could submit them in the text chat. I will be giving those questions as they work some into the co
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In times of crisis, and with the dow plummeting another 1338 points, s p plunging 5. 8 and nasdaq down 7. 0 were in a doozie of a crisis you simply could not do enough to help make things better our government should always error on the side of doing too much in these situations because you dont beat a pandemic by thinking small not unless you get very, very lucky. So far we weve been about as unlucky as it gets everything is going wrong at once in terms of being constructive let me tell you what i think needs to happen to stop the tsunami of selling in your stocks in your portfolio when i say we need to think big, i mean huge, it was terrific to see a bill pass the senate with massive bipartisan supreme copo that help the cause. The government has said that bars and restaurants should close down payrolls a payrolls hotels, airlines 59 billion, all jobs are in danger and many are already gone we need to write checks directly to the workers we cant afford to tear the fabric of society b