What's up everyone? Happy Monday. Welcome to the young Turks. I'm Anna Casperian joining us today is

Hida Rodriguez. Hida, it's so good to have you. Good to be here. Happy to see you. I'm happy to see you.

It's like one of the few things that keeps me going. I was like really excited when Brett told me

that you're doing the show today and I know our audience is as well. So you guys make sure that you

write in and share your thoughts, your comments, your concerns. We will read some of those comments

we come back from our breaks. Also, just a few notes about programming. We will be covering the

RNC all week long. I want to say fortunately, but I can't because it's a nightmare and I'm sure

that it's going to be a pretty divisive event. But nonetheless, we're going to have a great panel

of hosts covering the RNC throughout the week. So make sure you check us out live at TYT.com

slash live at 8 p.m. I'm sorry 8.30 p.m. Eastern time 5.30 p.m. Pacific. We'll do play by play coverage

of the RNC. And we have a lot of news to get to today. So I'm not going to waste any more time

and get right to it. Give you an update on coronavirus. So following pressure, following pressure

from the Trump administration, the FDA has authorized emergency use of plasma treatments for

coronavirus patients. Now, some people are concerned about the way that this emergency approval

was given by the FDA. Some are worried that Donald Trump's pressure and politicized the fact

that he politicizes the issue is what led them to make this decision possibly hastily. And this

treatment is specifically referred to as convalescent plasma, which is created from the blood of

individuals who have recovered from the coronavirus and has been used to treat other viruses such as

MERS, SARS and Ebola. There have been some promising results, but not promising enough,

especially when you consider the way Donald Trump sold it over the weekend. Take a listen.

The FDA has issued an emergency use of authorization and that's such a powerful term. Emergency

use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma. This is the only possible and

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