Hi everyone, this is Dr. Nitin Chhoda with an important breaking news alert
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is a very important breaking news alert and I had to bring it to you immediately.
Let's take a look at this important announcement
from Ignition Time.
Today both the democrats and the republicans conducted press conferences.
We're going to analyze these press conferences side by side. Let's take a
look at senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
and senator Cornyn talking about frivolous litigation and
trying to avoid what they called a pandemic of lawsuits
in the wake of this public health emergency. I want to underscore again
today that no bill will be put on the senate floor it does
not have liability protection and I want to make sure everybody
understands here we're not talking about for businesses.
Please do not write that because that is not the entire
story. In the lead on this issue is our colleague Senator Cornyn
and I'm going to ask him to come forward now and explain exactly
what the liability protection measure is about.
What strikes me as a cruel joke to send essential workers
in to treat patients in our hospitals and then to tell them that after the
pandemic's over after you've done your job we're going to
subject you to opportunistic litigation. So we provided
the leaders instruction a liability provision that protects non-profits
protects churches synagogues, mosque, schools
retail establishments from opportunistic litigation. What do I mean by that? Well
anybody who spent any time in courtrooms knows that frequently lawsuits will be
filed not with the intent of actually winning the case on the merits
but extorting a nuisance settlement out of the defendant. In other words you can
actually be on the right side of a lawsuit and
find yourself subjected to ruinous attorneys fees and distraction from what
we would hope people would be more focused on which is reopening safely
their business and helping to grow our economy. What we are proposing is not
blanket immunity if somebody willfully or intentionally
subjects people to harm they will be held accountable in a court
of law but for people who in good faith follow the guidance of
their state or local public health officials
they will have a safe harbor under this new federal law. This will be a temporary
provision that will expire in 2024. It's not our intention to to subject
American court law to a federal jurisdiction exclusively but in this
national emergency during this pandemic and during the time when our economy
needs to safely reopen liability protections are
important for everybody. Now the democrats are clearly not happy
with the HEALS Act. In its first version the senate minority leader Chuck Schumer
ripped apart the HEALS Act right from the very beginning. Let's
watch this. They can't even get 51 votes for anything that's comprehensive
that deals with the very real problems the American people face
paying the rent, putting food on the table and when republicans released
their proposal it was like christmas in July for
defense contractors wealthy CEOs and the Trump organization.
It's as if their lobbyists were allowed to write the bill and give their fat cat
clients. A lot of their dream presence. Just look
what's in and what's left out of their plan.
In tax deductions for three martini lunches $20 billion slush fund for large
agribusiness, corporate immunity, billions for defense
contractors and 2 billion for an FBI headquarters
that helps the Trump hotel. Those all made it in
out help for state and local governments nutrition assistance for families rental
or mortgage assistance to keep people from losing their homes
not in the republican plan. It was very summed up what New Yorkers and Americans
think one of my hometown papers. This is the
daily news picture of Mitch McConnell "Let them eat cake, let them eat cake"
The next video clip gives us direct insight into the senate majority leader
Mitch McConnell's thought processes about
the extent of the internal understanding the internal agreement in the republican
party. He also mentions that the HEALS Act as a
starting point for negotiations with democrats and he
also gives us his point of view on unemployment benefits. Let's watch how
are you going to bring a republican colleagues to support this before you
even negotiate with democrats well look i
think it's a statement the obvious that i have members who are all over the lot
on this uh there are some members who think we've already done enough
of the members who think we need to do more this is a complicated problem
we've done the best we can to develop a consensus among the broadest number
of republican senators and that's just the starting place that's just where we
begin in dealing with the other side and with
the administration
unemployment benefits were excited to um give you any cause when unemployment is
high in the number of the number of available jobs
um outnumber i don't play people numbers available by 4-1
well i can tell what the goal is the goal is to eliminate the prospect
that one could make more not working than working that's the goal of the
proposal that we put forward i think i can speak
for almost every republican in saying that we think it is not
appropriate to reward someone in effect for
staying at home having said that unemployment insurance is extremely
important in a time of high unemployment we're
going to back the states up and try to make sure that we can get through this
period of high unemployment without people losing
uh their unemployment benefits so we're trying to hit that sweet spot to
continue unemployment insurance at an adequate
level but not in effect pay people to stay at home that's the
sweet spot that we're trying to hit in this next video clip senate minority
leader chuck schumer talked about the plight of individuals who've lost their
jobs who are at the risk of being evicted
from their homes and in an encouraging sign
he indicated that he and nancy pelosi would be meeting with the u.s treasury
secretary and the white house chief of staff mark
meadows both of whom are the lead negotiators
on behalf of the white house the republic people can't feed their kids
people are losing their homes they get kicked out from their apartment small
business going under and the republican response let them eat
cake i have a suggestion to mitch mcconnell instead of blaming
democrats and calling our plan a socialist manifesto
how about senate republicans and leader mcconnell get their act together roll up
their sleeves and actually get to real work and help us solve these problems
we want to get something done we see the urgency of this crisis
of so many small business people who struggled for years losing their
businesses of hardworking people being thrown off the job through no fault of
their own people who can't feed their kids people who might get evicted
from their homes and so much more we want to get something done
americans cannot afford any more of this hard right
republican ideology we're going to keep negotiating
meeting today with uh senator with uh speaker pelosi
secretary mnuchin and mr meadows mcconnell doesn't want to be at these
meetings i guess because his caucus is so divided but we're going to meet and
continue to work senator stavenow in this part of the
press conference senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was specifically asked
about liability protection for businesses
and whether it had the potential of backfiring on people who went back to
work this is what he had to say what do you
say to workers across the country who worry that your liability protections
basically give their employers license to avoid taking the kinds of precautions
that would keep them safe this is mainly to protect them because the employers
would only be liable if they were grossly negligent or
engaged in intentional misbehavior so that's essentially a mischaracterization
of whose interest this liability protection uh provides
for nurses for doctors for workers for others
uh with this brand new disease that senator cornyn pointed out almost
anybody could become liable for almost anything and there are enterprising
trial lawyers all over the country waiting to take advantage of it 3 500
losses already passed growing by the day and so i think this is totally
fair to everyone who is trying to deal with this
unknown illness john do you want to add
the only thing i would say is that we incentivize businesses to follow the
guidelines and guidance of state local public health
and other officials and if they do in good faith then they get the benefit of
the safe harbor if they don't if they're reckless in the
way they expose their their customers or their employees or
other people to uh to this virus then they will be
they will be uh they will be accountable in the next audio clip let's take a look
at senator ron wyden who's a democrat from the state of oregon he's the one
with the mask and the senate minority leader chuck
schumer and their thoughts on this whole situation
in particular the words of eugene scalia the u.s labor secretary
i actually did an analysis of eugene scalia's interview on fox news earlier
on our channel so let's take a listen to what these folks have to say
today with a negotiable amount of money and i'm just wondering we don't believe
that i don't know what speaker hoyer said but six hundred dollars we believe
in these in the um uh heroes bill extend it till mark until uh
january 31st that 600 has kept millions of people out of poverty
millions of people in their homes millions of people feeding their
families and it's it along with ppp is the number one
reason the economy is beginning to creep back up because consumer spending is
going up and that's because of money in people's pockets we believe we keep it
after we got this passed eugene scalia the labor secretary made one appearance
he went over to fox business and said the big challenge with this unemployment
insurance bill not some of the outdated technology
was that workers were too dependent on government so what
senator brown is talking about this is a time-honored republican principle
blame the worker yes or um what i'm asking really is this um if
senator mcconnell has a large block of his own factors
saying that a trillion dollars is too much
does that potentially pose a challenge for you when it gets down to negotiation
well look you know he's the past three bills the
republicans have said they want to do much less than needed we
held firm and they moved in our direction because the times demanded the
people demanded and uh so i have if we stay strong i
have a good hope a realistic chance that republicans
a decent chance that republicans will move in our direction
will get much of what we want because the choice of doing nothing is just
appalling and while they talk about it i don't
know if they can actually look it in the face so that my dear subscribers
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