Closer to the public but over the past few years specially this year it has been increasingly overshadowed and mired by protests comes at a very precarious time this is one of the last state of the nation address of the president is supposed to step down in 2022 it comes as the biggest Media Network in the country has been shut down forcibly shut down by congress that did not renew its franchise calling in and according to activists anti terror law has taken into effect and just a few days ago when for example local journalists in the southern philippines received Death Threats and another independent online use site north of manila has been raided by police so you know here at this point what theyre saying basically it remains to be seen what the president is saying but they are not very confident that the things that these going to be saying that she needs are real achievements that effect change on the ordinary people the philippines is still struggling to deal with the pandemic sauza as of new cases every day an economy currently in recession and an unknown future for students because according to the government there will be no face to face session or classes in the coming months so at this point you know the president supposed to speak in the coming hours were hearing the kind of state of the nation situation in numerated by activists here they say if they were to give the president a mark it would be a passing one u. S. A shot as consolation the chinese city of chengdu the closure was ordered by china was a return of the americans are asking beijing to shut down its consolation houston to tucson 3 aunts over a range of issues betray you has more from. China says the reason this particular conflict was targeted is because it stopped were both what they say were inconsistent with the real threat is quite significant operation it deals with Many American businesses located in nearby charge it also acts as a significant listening post for any events happening in tibet and because of its location here in southwest china of course beijing says that this is a completely reciprocal move they were furious about the closure of the chinese consulate in texas they deny any charges that they were there was spying involved or intellectual property theft involved in that concert and they say centrally a closure of this question is payback for that. Global coronavirus cosas have passed 16000000 a quarter of those are not in america as infections rise in brazil colombia and argentina there are concerns the actual number of cases in the region is much higher in the u. S. Florida has overtaken new york as the 2nd worst hit state by coronavirus more than 9000 new cases were reported on sunday taking its total to more than 423000. Protests in portland against racism and Police Brutality are underway for another night these are live pictures demonstrators are also angry of the presence of federal agents in the city there were earlier reports of fighting on the streets. John burris one of the most influential figures in the American Civil Rights movement has made a symbolic filed journey his coffin was driven across the Edmund Pettis bridge in selma alabama on the way to his Memorial Service its 55 years since lewis led hundreds of black demonstrations across that very same bridge and was beaten the state police violently violently broke up the march. South korea is my command of the story of the almost since the end of the korean war nearly 70 years ago when 3000000 people were killed in that conflict its never so participants find a formal peace treaty. When you see on aljazeera off to head to head. I made the house and im here in washington d. C. For a special series of shows where were doing things a little differently due to the pandemic ill be going head to head today remotely with not one but 2 guests each with opposing views no panel no audience just 2 guests and me in this 1st episode ill be examining how the United States has handled the biggest story in the world right now the Coronavirus Crisis in part one ill challenge former republican congressman Jack Kingston a trump ally who thinks the president is doing a great job and in part to form a Democratic Party official just so comal will be defending the democrats record during this pandemic. With almost 150000 dead and tens of millions unemployed the worlds richest country seems to suffer the worst from the Global Pandemic so how did it all come to this. Back in january President Donald Trump told us it was all handled we think we have it at the well under control he reassured the American People they will go away and were going to have a great victory. Even as his predictions turned out to be utterly wrong he still refused to test americans in greater numbers i think its ridiculous i dont want to test 350000000 people and peddle dangerous skills in the disinfectant that. In a minute. Way we can do something. Injection all the while trumpeting that he was doing a great job and ready to take. My 1st guess today would agree with the president Jack Kingston is a Republican Party politician and former congressman for the state of georgia as well as a close ally of donald trump he was an advisor and Spokes Person during the trump 2016 Election Campaign and hes now working as a surrogate for the Trump Campaign ahead of november ill go head to head with Jack Kingston and ask him whether President Trump has botched this Public Health crisis has he protected americans from the coronavirus were ultimately has he got blood on his hands. Jack kingston thank you for joining me on head to head glad to be here thanks for having me donald trump said back in february that within a few days thered be 0 cases of the coronavirus and 0 deaths but by april he was predicting between 5060000 deaths today more than 130000 people have died from covert 19 in the u. S. And Public Health experts say many of them would not have died if this president had acted sooner whats your response to those people who say donald trump has blood on his hands i think that the president has done a very very good solid job even a great job in many respects because you have to remember this is a new virus and youre dealing with it in real time you know we have all as a world come out of our stepped in this thing maybe step by step if you will and learn had to do a lot of the job learning but keep in mind this originated in a country that like secrets in a country that withheld life saving Critical Data right in the beginning and had china been more forthcoming with what was going on. In the womb han laboratories and the derby h. O. Had shared taiwanese data on human to human transmission this would have been entirely different but we did not have that critical back the problem with blaming china and saying well the rest of the world was struggling is that south korea got its 1st case the same day as the us they tested thousands of people that death toll is below 300 vietnam which has an 800 mile land border with china do you know how many deaths they have from covert 190 because they took it seriously here in the Us Columbia University researchers say if donald trump shut down just a week earlier we could have saved 36000 lives 2 weeks earlier 54000 lives and yet he wasnt bothered he was holding rallies he was playing golf he wasnt taking it seriously jack and you know what he did is he banned. Travel from china at a time that joe biden said oh hes in a photo but he moved in front of the dead b. H. O. The deputy chair was supposed to be the world leader in this and they did not even declared a pandemic till a month later they were denying that there was human to human transmission they had withheld the Taiwanese Research and i didnt. Mean its armies or the taiwanese or the japanese from testing and getting their death tolls down the u. S. Death toll went up donald trump you say you restrict to travel from china he did fairpoint and what do you do after that he did nothing in february in february he said you know we said in february it will go away once it gets hot it will disappear like a miracle we have it very much under control its a democratic hoax to suggest otherwise in march he said its not that severe im not concerned at all weve done a great job its like the flu i could go on jackie just didnt take it seriously and tens of thousands of people died here they didnt die in south korea you could go on with there and a lot of people nancy pelosi was given to us in chinatown saying no problem there go out to eat shes got the president the president was playing go. Holding rallies visiting india and saying its like the flu it will disappear and thousands of people die joke at that point that and they can is that there was a lot of misunderstanding of the nature of this disease and how do you contain it when how do you explain south korea and vietnam john just tell me how do you explain south korea testing 10000 people a day while the u. S. Attested 1500 people total how do you explain the joke is that nancy pelosi spelt well and smaller countries where you can make a decision faster and more unilateral us fashion i think that you can have a little better control of it but the truth is as in a democracy like america where everybody is an armchair quarterback saying no you need to do this you need to do that the reason why nancy pelosi and the Health Director of new york citys comments are important and the health or earth the state of pennsylvania among others is that because it shows how difficult it was for trump to get a consensus to get everybody on the same page nancy pelosi wasnt saying its like the flu not easy because he never said its going to disappear when it gets hot she didnt say its a hoax by the republican body. And even now she actually said jack that even now there is no even now if you dont want to hear about what happened in february when trump was golfing even now hes still not taking it seriously in may he said we have prevailed in june he said its a minuscule problem. He said it would disappear in july lets hold on let me finish my question to Louisiana Holding that hes even ill let me finish my question coming in hes still not taking it seriously hes Holding Indoor rallies in oklahoma where secret Service Agents tested positive his own aides tested positive hes not taking it seriously even today nobody else is taking it as one seriously as donald trump is right now nobody else ok thats totally not right 39000000 americans have been tested close in and 40000000 americans the president set up the task force by the way in february with the ambassador. Burks and mr of dr felt see and the Vice President he was holding weekly press conferences and the left got mad that he was holden has cancer nonsensical names of the whole press conference as you know he said things like its a minuscule problem well jack do you believe the coronavirus is a miniscule problem i dont think he was saying anything like that what he does i think he said it wasnt really that youll drop their bridge for example you dont think he did i dont know that he said that minuscule problem jack do you think it was a minuscule problem unlike the president believes and i dont think hes acted in that way and i certainly if you look at the numbers are very minuscule you there its dying out those are trumps words last month jack last month after 100000 people have died he said its a minuscule problem thats as shameful ok pedal to the metal on what he has done lets talk about the air bridge they have brought in 143000000. Brought in about 600000000 normal surgical type mess they brought in 20000000 ice shields for doctors and they brought in millions of gallons and everything that you need and yet despite all that he said earlier this month 99 percent of coronavirus case in the us are totally harmless thats a lie thats just not true thats an insult to the dead and the people elsewhere that salute i think the number right now the spike is with younger people where its less harmful but i think what you may be doing is pick and choose and some of the states are you jack you didnt say thats awful he said 99 percent of which are totally harmless that is false is it not would you not agree that they are a bridge was significant and a Major Medical operation that the worlds ever seen before in the d testing 40000000 people more than any other nation with really money that way theres a reason i ask you a question not the other way around im asking you are 99 percent of cases totally harmless given 4 and a half percent of cases have ended in death and 15 to 20 percent of ended up in hoss. But all how is 99 percent of cases totally harmless if were fly speck in everything he said lets all agree ok the president has said some things that arent accurate but lets also agree there is no killer savageness who has a tie to the air bridge which we would agree that is very significant operation warp speed thats going to put a vaccine out there hopefully by the 1st of the year but maybe even sooner than that lets talk about Food Production america has not had Food Shortages back in february when we all close down ok a lot of people are saying were not going to get me were not going to get the poultry that we need we have not had any Food Shortages and our fair point let me ask you this we agree that totally homeless is false its a false word by the president but its not just trump of course who seems to have not taken this seriously you now have massive increases in coronavirus cases hospitalizations and deaths mostly in republican led states with the exception of california which is also seeing the same which seem to have reopened their economies too soon texas florida arizona between those 3 states theyve had more coronavirus cases them all of the European Union member countries put together shocking numbers you yourself are a big supporter of your own home state of georgia also a republican controlled reopening back in april you said i say keep on rolling governor those are your words about georgia georgia is now seeing a big spike in cases in hospitalisations its pausing its own reopening you got it wrong the republicans in georgia arizona texas got it wrong no not really because if you look at georgia and i look at the georgia numbers every day the big growth really has happened because of 3 things and this is a medical fact but because of protests because of memorial day weekend and because the bars were reopened and now in georgia were all wearing face masks we have to be the dog a governor has refused to mandate mosques even now actually on july night brian can shoot a tweet and said we all have to wear masks jackie hasnt mandated it putting out a tweet is. Not an executive order its not governing tweet you cant tweet your way out of 3000 deaths i know that some of you commentators like government mandates and believe that people will only do so the right thing if theyre told by the nanny state but it is possible that people like me in the state of georgia hard call hard core conservatives who like personal freedom are going to do the right thing and not only have mess i have rubber gloves and i keep my social distances and i wash the heck out of my hands or the yard but the state itself is in crisis right now i want to make another point though along with the keeping the food supply open the president has done Something Like 160. Emergency use waivers on medical therapeutic so that he can get it out there the f. D. A. Has expedited getting these things to the population they set up famer so that they can work with all the health and Human Services a stunt but even donald trump whats so hilarious is evil donald trump said Governor Kemp of georgia got it wrong he said at the time i disagree with him on what hes doing on opening up i think its too soon trump weirdly was right for once you and the governor of georgia were wrong 3000 georgians a debt and i want to go into it i want to hear the georgia numbers right now the georgia numbers are 15 percent of cases where your talent tell me the numbers but lets lets split out the people the tween a 18 and 40 because i know thats where the the bulk of it is and those are why because those are the people who have gone to bars and celebrated memorial days and went out the straight and protested and did not wear mess why did you reopen the bars in the gyms in the end of april that was a huge mistake or part of people because of its own aura you can do like joe biden and hide literally in the basement and not engage and be afraid of your shadow are you can say you know what we have 50 states we have thousands of local health the rectors and we can make some decisions about reopening the decision was wrong jordaan it lays it out. I think its wrong even the governor is now poised to reopening thats a confession the Texas Governor greg abbott republican says we got it wrong we were too quick on the bars the Texas Governor saying they got it wrong i dont know why you are defending people who are not defending themselves you have to reopen know there are a lot of people in laptop world who have the luxury of working at home and then passing judgment on all those down that dont but youve got to get the economy really reopened jack the republican governors of texas are saying and i resign are saying we got it wrong were slowing down our reopening people are dying what are you saying about the legislation and we are going to have 4 coronavirus packages over trillions of dollars spare thats got nothing to do with the fact that pe