MY LIFE.
>> POLITICIANS SHOULD BE
LISTENING MUCH MORE TO PEOPLE
LIKE THAT THAN THEY CURRENTLY
ARE.
>>> IT HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR MONTHS
WE’RE BARRELLING TOWARDS AN EVER
WORSENING ECONOMIC CRISIS ATOP
THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS.
IF WE GET THIS WRONG IT COULD BE
BAD OR WORSE THAN THE GREAT
DEPRESSION.
THE NUMBER OF NEW JOBLESS CLAIMS
OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS HAS
ALREADY MADE PAST ECONOMIC
CRISES LOOK LIKE BLIPS ON THE
CHART, AND YET WITH JUST TWO
WEEKS UNTIL CORONAVIRUS
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR 30
MILLION AMERICANS EXPIRE, THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS HAVE
BASICALLY KEPT QUIET.
UNTIL TODAY WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE
UNVEILED THEIR SOLUTION TO THIS
ONCE IN A LIFETIME WORKFORCE
DISRUPTION TELLING UNEMPLOYED
AMERICANS TO STRIKE OUT ON THEIR
OWN, AND, QUOTE, FIND SOMETHING
NEW.
THAT’S REALLY THE NEW SLOGAN.
ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT WAS
UNVEILED BY IVANKA TRUMP, A
WOMAN WHO HAS NEVER HAD TO HUNT
FOR A JOB IN HER LIFE BECAUSE OF
WHO HER FATHER IS.
WHILE THE WHITE HOUSE IS
SUGGESTING THAT TENS OF MILLIONS
OF AMERICANS SHOULD SPRUCE UP
THEIR RESUMES AND GET MORE
TRAINING, FORMER PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN UNVEIL AID $2 TRILLION
PLAN TO USE CLIMATE POLICY AS AN
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOL.
HERE’S WHAT TRUMP HAD TO SAY
ABOUT BIDEN’S PLAN IN AN
ABSOLUTELY RAMBLING ROSE GARDEN
APPEARANCE JUST A LITTLE WHILE
AGO.
>> MANDATE ALL 500,000 SCHOOL
BUSES AND ALL 3 MILLION
GOVERNMENT VEHICLES BE CHANGED
TO ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES WITHIN
FIVE YEARS.
I’VE HEARD OF WORSE THAN THAT.
>> YEAH, THAT’S NOT BAD.
JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE ON THE
PRESIDENT’S LACK OF A REAL
ECONOMIC PLAN AND SUGGESTION
UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS SHOULD FIND
SOMETHING NEW, MEDI HASSAN, HOST
OF THE DECONSTRUCTED PODCAST AND
PRESENTER FOR AL JAZEERA
ENGLISH.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED
DURING THE LAST GREAT RECESSION,
YOU HAD VOICES SAYING THERE IS A
SKILLS MISMATCH.
THE PROBLEM IS THE AMERICAN
WORKER DOESN’T HAVE THE RIGHT
SKILLS TO COMPETE IN TODAY’S
ECONOMY.
IT TURNED OUT, NO, THE ECONOMY
IS GARBAGE AND WHEN IT GETS
BETTER, UNEMPLOYMENT GOES AWAY
WHEN THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES.
IT’S CRAZY IN THE MIDST THIS OF
ALL TIMES TO TRY TO BRING THAT
BACK AS, LIKE, THE IDEA OF
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN
ECONOMY.
>> YEAH, CHRIS, IT’S CRAZY TO DO
THAT AT ANY TIME WHEN THE
ECONOMY IS IN A DITCH WHEN IT IS
NOW AND THERE ARE NO JOBS
AROUND.
IT’S EVEN CRAZIER TO PUT IVANKA
TRUMP IN CHARGE OF IT, TO MAKE
HER THE FACE OF THAT FIND
SOMETHING NEW CAMPAIGN.
THIS IS A WOMAN WHO WAS BORN
WITH A SILVER SHOVEL IN HER
MOUTH.
WHO AS YOU JUST POINTED OUT HAS
NEVER HAD TO FIND A NEW JOB IN
HER ENTIRE LIFE.
SHE SET UP A BUSINESS USING HER
DAD’S BRAND NAME.
SHE WORKS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
TODAY BECAUSE HER DAD HIRED HER
FOR A JOB SHE’S MAN GETLY
UNQUALIFIED FOR.
THIS IS A WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND
AND FATHER’S CATASTROPHIC
MISHANDLING OF THIS VIRUS,
CHRIS, IS THE REASON THE ECONOMY
IS SO BAD RIGHT NOW, MILLIONS OF
AMERICANS LOST THEIR JOBS.
AS YOU SAID, AT THE END OF JULY,
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE GOING
TO LOSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THAT,
AND YET THE TRUMP FAMILY HAS NO
PLAN TO REPLACE THAT FUND.
THERE NO POLICY HERE.
THIS ISN’T A JOBS GUARANTEE.
IT’S NOTHING.
>> HERE’S THE -- HERE’S THE
CRAZIEST DYNAMIC IN AMERICAN
POLITICS AND POLICY RIGHT NOW.
AND IT CONTINUES TO BE.
IS THAT THE DEMOCRATS PASSED
MULTITRILLION DOLLAR RESCUE BILL
THROUGH THE HOUSE CALLED THE
HEROS ACT.
THERE ARE DEMOCRATS CALLING FOR
PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAMS AND
$2,000 A MONTH.
>> YEAH.
>> HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY BEING
PUMPED INTO THE ECONOMY IN THE
-- FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THE
INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN’S UP FOR
RE-ELECTION, WHEN IT -- WHEN A
GROWING ECONOMY WOULD HELP HIM
POLITICALLY, RIGHT?
SO IT’S AGAINST POLITICAL
INTERESTS, BUT THEY’RE PUSHING
FOR IT, AND MITCH McCONNELL AND
DONALD TRUMP IT’S JUST LINE ARE
AWOL ON THIS THING EVEN THOUGH
IT WOULD HELP REPUBLICANS IF
THEY WOULD GET THEIR ACT
TOGETHER TO DO SOMETHING.
BIDEN RUN AGAINST HIM TODAY
SAYING WE NEED A LOT MORE MONEY.
IT’S A BIZARRE DYNAMIC.
>> EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS
PRESIDENCY IS BIZARRE.
AND, YES, AS YOU POINT OUT, THE
IDEA, YOU KNOW, FIGHTING THE
CORONAVIRUS WOULD HELP TRUMP GET
RE-ELECTED.
WEARING A MASK WOULD HELP TRUMP
GET RE-ELECTED.
HE DOESN’T DO THINGS THAT WOULD
EVEN HELP HIMSELF.
FIND JOBS FOR THESE PEOPLE WOULD
HELP HIM BOLSTER HIS BONE FIDES.
MITCH McCONNELL, WHO KNOWS WHAT
HIS PLAN IS.
THE ONLY JOB VACANCIES HE WANTS
TO FILL ARE JOBS IN THE
JUDICIARY.
THAT’S THE ONLY JOBS PLAN MITCH
McCONNELL HAS.
SO IT’S BIZARRE TO SEE THESE
PEOPLE BASICALLY WRECKING THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY, WRECKING
AMERICAN LIVES, YOU KNOW, CHRIS,
FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 12 HOURS
A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT HAS
INHERITED A GROWING ECONOMY FROM
A DEMOCRAT, DROVE IT INTO A
DITCH AND HANDING IT OVER TO A
DEMOCRAT TO FIX IT AGAIN.
CHAOS IS NOT A BUG, IT’S A
FEATURE.
IT’S A PART OF WHO THIS
PRESIDENT IS.
HE CAN’T HANDLE PUBLIC HEALTH
CRISES.
HE CAN’T HANDLE ECONOMIC CRISES.
THE NAME TRUMP IS A BIWORD FOR
NEPOTISM, CORRUPTION AND
INCOMPETENCE.
JUST MAKES NO SENSE.
SHE COMES OUT AND SAYS SHE’S
FIGHTING WITH PEOPLE ON TWITTER
TODAY, CHRIS, DEFENDING THIS
NONSENSE.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE POINTING
OUT IT’S BASTILLE DAY TODAY.
IT’S JULY 14th.
SHE’S BEING HER BEST MARIE
ANTOINETTE IMPRESSION.
LET THEM EAT CAKE.
FIND SOMETHING NEW.
>> THERE IS THIS SORT OF
IDEOLOGICAL PORTION TO THIS THAT
I FIND PRETTY FASCINATING, TOO.
DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE ANY
SORT OF REAL BELIEFS ON ANY OF
THIS.
I THINK HE WANTS TO GET
RE-ELECTED, WHATEVER IT FAKES.
SOME REPUBLICANS, THE $600
CORONAVIRUS BONUS IN
UNEMPLOYMENT YOU TALKED ABOUT.
THEY WANT -- THEY ARE WORRIED
THAT IF THERE IS TOO MUCH RESCUE
MONEY FOR PEOPLE, IT WILL NOT
DISCIPLINE THEM ENOUGH TO GO OUT
AND GET TO WORK.
SO THERE IS REAL -- THEY HAVE
EXPRESSED THIS TIME AND TIME
AGAIN.
IF YOU HAVE RENTAL, YOU
FOREBARNES ON FORECLOSURES OR
EVICTIONS, IF YOU HAVE THE $600
BONUS.
IF YOU’RE TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE,
YOU NEED TO KIND OF, LIKE, SMOKE
THEM OUT OF THEIR HOLES TO GET
THEM BACK INTO THE WORKPLACE.
>> YEAH.
>> WHICH IS PART OF THE DRIVING
LOGIC BEHIND McCONNELL AND THE
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS RIGHT NOW.
>> TO YOU HAVE REPUBLICANS,
CHRIS, TALKING ABOUT, YES, LET’S
NOT GIVE PEOPLE $600.
LET’S NOT GIVE THEM AN INCENTIVE
TO STAY HOME.
YOU CAN’T HAVE PEOPLE HAVING
MORE MONEY THAN WHEN THEY HAD A
JOB.
A RETURN TO WORK BONUS.
WHICH, AGAIN, IS ABSURD.
THERE ARE 1.6 MILLION FEWER JOBS
THAN THERE WERE IN FEBRUARY.
RETURN TO WHICH JOBS?
WHAT WORK.
EVEN IF THERE BEFORE LOTS OF
VACANCIES EMPLOYERS SAYING COME
BACK, COME BACK, WHICH THERE
AREN’T.
WHY SHOULD WE BE INSISTING
PEOPLE GO BACK TO WORK IN
ARIZONA, TEXAS, FLORIDA, WHERE
THE VIRUS IS EXPLODING.
WE SHOULD BE PAYING PEOPLE TO
STAY AT HOME.
SOME OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS
SINCE FEBRUARY.
PAY PEOPLE TO STAY HOME.
THEN YOU BEAT THE VIRUS AND SAVE
THE ECONOMY.
THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.
>> IT’S ALL INCREASINGLY CLEAR
THERE ARE PORTIONS OF THE
ECONOMY WE HAVE TRIED TO BRING
BACK, INDOOR BARS IS AN EXAMPLE.
THAT PROBABLY CAN’T COME BACK
SAFELY.
AND SO THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE
THAT WORK IN THOSE INDUSTRIES
AND THEY SHOULDN’T, YOU KNOW,
THEY SHOULDN’T BE JUST OUT OF
LUCK.
LIKE, WE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF
THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN
MEET THE NEEDS OF THEIR LIVES
AND THEIR FAMILIES.
AND IT’S WILD TO ME TO CONSIDER
THAT WE’RE NOW UP AGAINST THE
DEADLINE ON THIS.
YOU KNOW, HEADING INTO JULY OF
THIS EXPIRATION.
WE STILL BASICALLY HAVE NOTHING