WHO's Fault Is It Anyway?
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify this morning about the economic crisis and response. We preview the hearing.
A biotech company called Moderna reported preliminary results from a phase one trial of their coronavirus vaccine. So far, the results are positive—but the vaccine still has a lot more testing to go. Plus, California starts its program to give out economic relief to people who are undocumented.
And in headlines: embattled politicians scuffle inside Hong Kong’s legislature, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” hates breath, and South Korean pro soccer team gets cheered on by sex dolls.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 19th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Ressnek and this is what a day where we still love the post office, |
| 0:12.3 | even if people aren't really talking about it that much right now. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, I just love post, post cereals, the postal service, the band, and the post office. |
| 0:21.9 | I love making posts online for all my friends to see and respond to as well. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, things get testy at a World Health Organization meeting, then some headlines. |
| 0:39.4 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:41.4 | Every player, unless they're from the same household, has to bring their own tennis balls so that you don't touch other people's tennis balls with your hands. |
| 0:51.7 | You can kick their balls, but you can't touch them. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm gonna blush, sorry. |
| 0:58.0 | If you're playing with someone in your household, you can touch those tennis balls. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, make sure to kick their balls. |
| 1:04.0 | All right, well, that was NASA County, New York executive Laura Curran explaining the rules for tennis courts as they start to reopen. |
| 1:11.4 | But news later this morning, Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary Steve Minuchin, |
| 1:17.9 | will testify to the Senate Banking Committee on the economic crisis and response. |
| 1:22.9 | This comes over a month after the CARES Act was signed into law and Congress is trying to assess |
| 1:27.6 | its impacts. |
| 1:28.6 | It also comes as Congress has stalled out on negotiating the next round of relief money. |
| 1:33.8 | So, Gideon, let's go through some of what we expect to come up today. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah, so Powell has been pretty sober about the trouble that the United States is in when it comes to the economy right now. |
| 1:43.0 | In a prepared statement, he said, quote, |
| 1:44.6 | the scope and speed of this downturn are without modern precedent and are significantly worse than any recession since World War II. |
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