Necessity Is The Mother Of Convention
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🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Former vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright will testify before a house subcommittee today—he’s the guy who says he was removed from his job because he didn’t want to push for widespread use of unproven anti-malaria drugs as a treatment for coronavirus. Bright’s pre-released statement said we’ll be in trouble if we keep following Trump off a cliff.
In their latest show of unity, Former VP Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders announced the members of their joint policy task forces. Names include: Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep Pramila Jayapal, and Former Secretary of State John Kerry.
And in headlines: local governments in Brazil are issuing mandatory lockdowns since their president won’t, Flynn’s “unmasking” was normal, and glittery worms of the deep blue sea.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 14th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day, the only daily news podcast that's on the soundtrack of the new Tony Hawk game. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, it's right there next to everything from Blink 182 and a song called Super Man by Goldfinger. You can't miss it. |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, I've always thought of myself as part of the extended alien ant for our universe. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, an update on the 2020 election, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.6 | But first, the latest. Later this morning, Dr. Rick Bright is going to testify before a house subcommittee. |
| 0:44.1 | Now, he's the former vaccine chief that we've talked about who says that he was removed from his job because he didn't want to push for widespread use of anti-malaria drugs to treat COVID-19. |
| 0:53.5 | And that's what Trump has been promoting, but they were never proven to actually fight the virus and its effects and are actually potentially dangerous. |
| 1:00.6 | Bright put out an advanced copy of his statement. Achila, what did he have to say in there? |
| 1:05.0 | Okay, so it is a fire statement. It's all bars. There's no skips. Firstly, he said, and I quote, |
| 1:12.7 | our window of opportunity is closing. If we fail to develop a national coordinated response based in science, |
| 1:19.0 | I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged causing unprecedented illness and fatalities. |
| 1:24.8 | Unprecedented illness and fatalities. That's, I mean, wow. |
| 1:28.4 | He went on to say, quote, without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, |
| 1:36.2 | 2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history. |
| 1:39.4 | You know, Bright says that he warned the health department about coronavirus back in January, |
| 1:43.9 | but they didn't act on his call to ramp up equipment and medical supplies. |
| 1:47.6 | The health department denies this. And now he's basically warning that if we keep following Trump |
| 1:52.4 | off a cliff or going to be in the dark ages again, so wonderful. Please vote. |
| 1:56.6 | Yeah, who I'm interested to see where this all goes with Bright today and into the future. |
| 2:00.9 | This is serious stuff he's talking about. And what else is happening in government? |
| 2:04.2 | All right, a bunch of stuff as usual. So the head of the federal reserve, who was appointed by Trump, |
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