To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Patrick Lawrence in norfolk he is a Foreign Affairs commentator whos columns appear in Consortium News and other publications and in lake jackson we have Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity all right gentlemen across the polls and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated well its going to patrick in norfolk i read your article the damage russia gate has done with great pleasure because you numerate very clearly in a very well written article the damage this is done to our political discourse as i said in my introduction it seems to be part and parcel of our political discourse now because if youre angry with someone or against an idea you certainly know what to invoke the russians did it even though the hoax was shown to be actually a conspiracy to overthrow. And democratically rightfully elected president but here we are here we are. I mean. Look t
Yet the man brought it. Back. To get it that. Is playing with fire in the sky and postings. And twitter sets its sights on our t. V. Flagging one of our u. S. Election reports as potentially misleading right after the platform itself is accused of anticonservative by. Those your headlines my colleague neil harvey will be here in just under an hour with a full and fresh look at your news this is our international but never with us. Hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered im teetotal about. Even after russia gate was debunked as a hoax this Conspiracy Theory lives on in fact it appears to become part and parcel of our political discourse if you oppose someone or an idea all you have to do is blame putin and russia no fats necessary slurs and in fact was claims now suffice. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Patrick Lawrence in norfolk he is a Foreign Affairs commentator whos columns appear in Consortium News and other publications and in lake jackson we have
Safely socially distanced himself. One of the things we have really enjoyed during the coronavirus lockdown is coming out to ocean beach. Bringing our bikes. Getting to ride up and down. Having that free space. 2 locals who wish to remain anonymous started a website. The started collecting signatures to make this a permanent part. One organizer said that 70 percent of the signatures are from residence. The other 30 percent are from suffers and cyclist. I think that is a great idea. The more we can diversify transportation and provide options for people to safely ride a skateboard or walk, and be able to take in the great views of the ocean are terrific. I do not think we will miss that one. A long flat paved areas at the park the national park. Accessible to people with disabilities. Making it a reality likely will not be easy. There have been complaints of increased traffic. Traffic mitigation would need to be studied. We are used to coming up here. Were kind of shocked today when we
Formally this week from bill bryant, the science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security. He will outline as the president said encouraging news about the impact that heat and sunlight have on the coronavirus which will increase the confidence that we feel about the coming summer. On the subject of testing, at the present moment we have reports of 4. 93 million tests having been performed across america. And encouraging news, as states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across the country. Yesterday our commercial lab system did more than 100,000 tests in a single day. So were beginning to activate all of the capacity. And tomorrow at the president s direction our task force will convene a Conference Call with all of the nations governors to talk about their progress they are making on testing and were going to hear from governors about the practices that, and methods that they are employing to significantly increase testing following our briefi
A broken test a test that didnt work we started with a tested a very few people not millions of people the problem is if we did 350 if we did 350000000 tests one for each person. The media would say oh you should have done 2 for each person no matter what you do it doesnt make any difference its just like the ventilators i talk about it all the time nobody ever mentions ventilate is one of the hardest things of ental letters and that will make in thousands a week thousands of ventilators and theyre calling from mexico theyre calling from many countries ive received today 4 calls would it be possible to send ventilators to get 4 calls today i got 3 calls yesterday no country is equipped like we are we have 11 we have 11 different places making ventilators. Our country as you know doesnt need them now our governors are very happy but thats different than test because with a test you can always say off when it was no i think weve done incredibly well. With obviously with ventilators it wo