"Immature & Divisive" -Rep. Tim Ryan on Trump
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Former candidate for president, Ohio's Tim Ryan on how we, as a nation, need to come out of the pandemic respecting and rewarding those frontline workers who keep us safe, healthy and fed. And the need to preserve the spirit of cooperation that we see around us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to the Bill Press pod amid yet another chapter in this dark age of the coronavirus epidemic. |
| 0:15.4 | We muddle through as best we can with no clear direction or realistic hope of a clear endgame. We're growing so impatient to get back to life as |
| 0:24.8 | normal, for example, that almost every state is moving to loosen up restrictions somewhat, |
| 0:30.4 | and yet the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 still increases every day. We're ready to sign up for the vaccination that'll put the coronavirus |
| 0:39.6 | behind us, and yet health professionals tell us that could still be a year away. We look for |
| 0:46.0 | direction from the White House and finding none, look to state governors instead, but some of them |
| 0:52.5 | are as clueless as Donald Trump. |
| 0:54.7 | We turn to Congress, but they can't even agree whether or not it's safe to be in the same |
| 0:59.2 | building at the same time. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, here's one idea we should all be able to get behind, to recognize those workers |
| 1:07.1 | who can't just stay at home, whose jobs require them to be on the front lines and to reward |
| 1:13.9 | them with hazard pay. That's an idea put forth by Congressman Tim Ryan, who joins us from his |
| 1:21.3 | home in Youngstown, Ohio. Congressman, good to talk to. I hope you and your family are safe |
| 1:26.7 | there out in Youngstown. |
| 1:29.1 | Tell us what is the current status of the coronavirus in the state of Ohio? |
| 1:34.5 | Ohio's been one of the states pretty badly hit. |
| 1:37.6 | Yeah, we're stable. |
| 1:40.6 | Mahoning County, which is Youngstown, was the hardest hit in the state. |
| 1:46.3 | But we were in very, |
| 1:52.5 | very early with the stay-at-home orders and Governor DeWine has done a good job of, you know, |
| 2:00.5 | keeping the state prepared and the early intervention. And so things are stabilizing. You know, |
| 2:02.7 | there's still a lot of cases coming in. |
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