All right, well, I'm the young Turks, Jake, you grant a transparent with you guys. So

what kind of a shore are we gonna have for you guys today?

And awesome one, Avi. So having gotten the Avi out of the way, Casper, I throw it over

to you.

All right, let's get started right away with some updates on the Coronavirus relief package.

Now, some Senate Democrats are in favor of stricter means testing when it comes to determining

which Americans are eligible for the direct $1,400 checks that are proposed by Joe Biden

in his version of the $1.9 trillion relief package. Now, one of those Senate Democrats

happens to be Tim Cain, who does in fact, takes some pretty conservative positions on issues.

And is funded primarily by the types of companies and people who push for austerity and are

definitely in favor of this kind of means testing. Now, in the previous bill, the means testing

would basically indicate that anyone making over $75,000 a year would start to see the amount

of money that they receive from the direct checks taper off. And by the time you get to $99,000

a year, you no longer qualify for those direct checks. Now, there is an orchestrated effort

by the right wing and by corporate Democrats to pursue further means testing, which would

indicate that the path would, where the amount starts to taper off in terms of the direct

relief checks would be $50,000 a year as opposed to $75,000 a year. And as I've mentioned

before, this means testing is determined based on tax filings in 2019 when the pandemic

had not even hit yet, meaning that people were still employed. And the tens of millions

of Americans who were laid off hadn't been laid off yet because the pandemic hadn't

impacted their jobs yet. Now, with that context, I just want to note that I wholeheartedly

agree with Chris Hayes in the exchange that you're about to hear while he's interviewing

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