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Hello to all fans of smart and reasoned argument.

I'm John Don Van, host and moderator of intelligence squared US debates,

with our first ever at home debate, by which I mean,

I'm home, your home, and the debaters are going to be hearing from in a couple of minutes.

They are home also, and all because of a virus known as COVID-19.

And this virus, it is harming many of us, but it's also dividing most of us

over how we view and grade the White House for its response to the threat so far.

And one of the questions that has caused a division of opinion concerns a law

that most of us probably never heard of before this, the Defense Production Act.

And that's a law that's been around since Harry Truman was in the White House.

And it gives the president extraordinary powers to force private companies to manufacture

and sell to the government what the government says it needs in order to guarantee national security.

Like the time during World War II, under a predecessor law,

when General Motors stopped making cars and began turning out jeeps and tanks instead

because the government told it that's what it was expected to do.

Only now what's needed are ventilators and face masks, both in short supply, as I'm sure you've heard.

So given that shortage and given the manufacturing potential of American firms to fill it

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