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Speaker 1: There were some contentionous points on Dr Anthony Fauci's testimony.

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Speaker 1: But first we go to another DC inside her, Brendan Buck,

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Speaker 1: to how speaker Paul Ryant. You know the Democrats today. Brendan,

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Speaker 1: First of all, how are you. I haven't talked to

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Speaker 1: they're the most reliable voting block that there is. And

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Speaker 1: be had. And if you're and that the president did

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Speaker 1: I don't want to necessarily dive too deep into two

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Speaker 1: a lot of it is related to this response and

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Speaker 1: that older Americans are more concerned about the health aspect

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Speaker 1: of this than than anybody else. Obviously, you know, it

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Speaker 1: disproportionately affects them and the death rates and complications that

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Speaker 1: you've seen. And if there is a perception that the

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Speaker 1: aspect of it, you could see an obvious correlation to

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Speaker 1: a slippage among seniors. Um and if that, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: an you pull out today from Marquette University in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: it's got Joe Biden upon the president only you know,

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Speaker 1: three percent. But uh, you know, if if he loses Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: if he loses Michigan, and you're even staying down in Florida,

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Speaker 1: for the president, but there's obviously a lot of older

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Speaker 1: trouble for us. So, I mean, no one's really seen

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. I mean, he's given some interviews, he was

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Speaker 1: on Good Morning America, etcetera. But no one's really seen him.

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Speaker 1: There doesn't there isn't obviously a traditional campaign. So what

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Speaker 1: does it say that that that Biden is doing pretty

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Speaker 1: well in the States and Trump is is slipping. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think ultimately this election was whether this

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Speaker 1: happened or not. This election was always going to be

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Speaker 1: about Donald Trump. Um. And you know, it's never ideal

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Speaker 1: to be, you know, stuck in your basement during a campaign.

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Speaker 1: But also you know, it really doesn't change the dynamic

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Speaker 1: going to be casting your vote one way or the

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Speaker 1: other on on whether you approve or disapproeve with the president.

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Speaker 1: And Joe Biden was as a candidate, is not someone

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Speaker 1: who's really trying to rock the boat. He's not trying

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Speaker 1: to offer his own revolution. Uh. He really does want

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Speaker 1: this to be a referendum. And in a very strange way,

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Speaker 1: this whole situation is playing right into that. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I assume they would like to have a little more

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Speaker 1: control over over there, their destiny here, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: a interesting irony that the President's ability to respond to

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Speaker 1: this will sort of determine how long Joe Biden is

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Speaker 1: locked in his basement. Um. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, I think he's happy to have the focus

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Speaker 1: on the president in the Rose Garden talking about these

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Speaker 1: things day after day. Partner at seven Letter, and of

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Speaker 1: course the former senior advisor to House Speaker Paul Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming in and checking in with us.

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Speaker 1: Brendan coming up, we check him and Mark Sdriver. I'm

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Speaker 1: Kevin Sarelli. You're listening to Bloomberg and I knew I one.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bloomberg. Sound on with Kevin Surrele on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg and one oh five point seven f m h

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Speaker 1: D two. Let's mix it up a little bit. My

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Speaker 1: name is Kevin Sirelei. I'm the chief Washington correspondent for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Television and for Bloomberg Radio. So much really just

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Speaker 1: heavy news, heavy, heavy news. Especially today, You've got Dr

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Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci testifying virtually on the Hill telling the Senate,

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Speaker 1: hey can't reopen too fast. You've got mixed messages coming

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Speaker 1: on reopening in the d m V region. Governor Northam

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Speaker 1: Democrat Virginia saying Northern Virginia not going to be reopening

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Speaker 1: like the other parts of the states are. We still

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Speaker 1: don't know what Bowser is gonna do. Mayor Marriel Bowser

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Speaker 1: is gonna do here in Washington, d C. We should

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Speaker 1: get an update by the end of the week, uh,

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Speaker 1: in terms of reopening and the social distancing. And then

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Speaker 1: you got what's going on in Maryland sun reopenings, but

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Speaker 1: school closures and whatnot. It's heavy, folks, it's heavy. The

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Speaker 1: market whip selling at tensions with China. I need some hope.

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Speaker 1: I need some hope. And so I was watching Morning

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Speaker 1: Show just the other day and I saw some hope.

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Speaker 1: I saw Mark Shriver, and I thought, that's the guy

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Speaker 1: who wrote one of my favorite books, My Search for

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Speaker 1: the Real Pope Francis. It's a great book. It's about

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Speaker 1: Pope Francis. Who am I to judge? An iconic line

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Speaker 1: for people like me? And I thought, Mark Shriver's talking

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Speaker 1: about uh, Save the Children Action Network, and he's actually

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Speaker 1: bringing together Republicans and Democrats. And then I check in

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Speaker 1: with Senator Joanie Aren't, Republican from Iowa, and she's tweeting

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Speaker 1: out about how she's leading a bipartisan group of senators

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Speaker 1: pushing for additional support for our child care community as

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Speaker 1: folks combat the virus. Mark Shriver, of course is behind

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Speaker 1: this anywhere there's something going on with to Save the

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Speaker 1: Children Action Network. There he is. Mark, Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us on the program. You very much coming out,

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Speaker 1: a very nice introduction. I don't think I should talk

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Speaker 1: at all. Just let you keep going. My mom always

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Speaker 1: told me I talked too much as a kid. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you got you got the right job in there. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about what you guys are doing in this

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Speaker 1: time of crisis, for for the for the kids. He's

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Speaker 1: the president. By the way, I've saved the Saved the

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Speaker 1: Children Action Network. Yes, thanks Kevin, so yeah. SCAN. Save

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Speaker 1: the Children Action Network is five oh one C four. UM.

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Speaker 1: It is the political arm or political advocacy arm for

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Speaker 1: Save the Children, which, as you know, was started in

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Speaker 1: nineteen nine and the UK came to American nineteen thirty

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Speaker 1: two actually to deal with to try to feed children

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Speaker 1: impacted by the Great Depression, and we were running programs

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Speaker 1: all across the country. Now today, UM, the work that

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Speaker 1: we do through Save the Children Action Network is really

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Speaker 1: to try to create a mobilization effort across America on

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Speaker 1: behalf of children's needs here in the US, including childcare,

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Speaker 1: which is what Senator Earnest and Senator cinema or co

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Speaker 1: about trying to increasing amount of money federal dollars going

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Speaker 1: into childcare. UM. So we we work all across the country.

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Speaker 1: We have about three fifty thousand grassroots volunteers working on

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Speaker 1: the child care issue here in the United States and

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Speaker 1: also trying to increase the commitment for international aid for

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Speaker 1: mothers and children all around the world. So that's what

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Speaker 1: SCAN does, UM. And we're trying to, as you said,

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Speaker 1: work bipartisan, and there is a lot of bipartisans support

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Speaker 1: both in d C but also in state governments for

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Speaker 1: the importance of early childhood education and child care falls

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Speaker 1: under that banner. See Mark, I mean, this is what

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Speaker 1: I was just having. This is what I'm af fair.

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Speaker 1: When I'm off work, unplugged, one of the things that

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Speaker 1: I say to my friends is I can't comprehend this.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying, you know, I'm reporting on it,

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Speaker 1: I'm interviewing people, but I cannot truthfully, I cannot comprehend it.

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Speaker 1: I come from a family of teachers. My mom a teacher,

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Speaker 1: my sister a teacher in Baltimore City Public schools and

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Speaker 1: I hear what what they do and it it I

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Speaker 1: have a speechless and you hear right now kids all

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Speaker 1: over the world. But let's focus on America for right

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Speaker 1: now that are going through just you know hell, and

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Speaker 1: what what is the what is the need mark right

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Speaker 1: now that you guys are because of COVID nineteen that

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Speaker 1: you guys are just number one trying to address. Give

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Speaker 1: us some like quick things. We'll say the children is

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Speaker 1: focused in rural America and the needs in rural America.

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Speaker 1: I work in Baltimore City for you know, six years. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's completely different almost country. Um. You know, if you're

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Speaker 1: working in a public school in Baltimore, you can walk

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Speaker 1: to that school. Uh there's public transportation. If you're in

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Speaker 1: rural America, Um, there aren't. You know, it's a bus ride,

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Speaker 1: it's an our bus ride. It's you know, families don't

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Speaker 1: have cars, can afford gas if they do have cars

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Speaker 1: to drive to the schools. So there's a whole different

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Speaker 1: infrastructure issue going on in rural America than it is

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Speaker 1: in urban settings or suburbans settings. And they're they're all bad,

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Speaker 1: I would say. In rural America, it's a really big

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Speaker 1: challenge right now. So say the children programmatically is supplementing

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Speaker 1: deliver food to families. There were supplying educational resources because

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Speaker 1: in rural America, you know, the broadband UM coverage is

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Speaker 1: roughly six in urban settings it's UM. So we're, you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to distribute twentieth century learning tools, UM, not twenty

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Speaker 1: So we're doing that from a programmatic perspective, filling and

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Speaker 1: the bellies and the minds of kids. We're doing in

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Speaker 1: partnership with No Kid Hungry, which is started by Billy

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Speaker 1: Shore and is doing great work across the country as well.

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Speaker 1: From an advocacy perspective, that's what Center Earns in Center

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Speaker 1: SEMA are asking the federal government to invest in childcare.

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Speaker 1: And we just released a whole Save the Children action

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Speaker 1: results where almost of Americans believe that the federal government

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Speaker 1: As your mom and sister would tell you, the brain

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Speaker 1: growth in those first five years of life. Your brain

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Speaker 1: growth in the first five years of life, But we

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Speaker 1: don't invest in childcare and early education. But it cuts

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Speaker 1: across political parties like Kevin and that's really important. Republicans

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Speaker 1: and Democrats supported and as they said, it's almost had.

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Speaker 1: day seen in their forty years of polling, they've never

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Speaker 1: they have rarely seen an issue that is this good

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Speaker 1: and has much this much bipartisan support. But kids don't vote,

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Speaker 1: and they don't give political campaign contributions, and they don't

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Speaker 1: honestly have a seat at the table. And that's why

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Speaker 1: I Save the Children Action Network was created six years

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Speaker 1: ago and their parents Mark Shivers on the line, president

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Speaker 1: of Save the Children, and you know, I just in

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Speaker 1: two minutes that we have left. You know, you hear

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Speaker 1: about COVID nineteen and kids who are uh in underserved

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Speaker 1: communities and they're at home, you know, just difficult situations.

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Speaker 1: What has been the one what has been the one

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen cry for help that needs action now? Immediately

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Speaker 1: plate to address I think it's can I say, Tom,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, go ahead, say it's we got to

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Speaker 1: do better for our kids by food. And I mean

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Speaker 1: that a lot of schools are in such thin margins

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Speaker 1: with their with their own tax bass that they don't

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Speaker 1: have resources to feed kids in the summer. And there

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Speaker 1: are literally children every summer that are you know, food insecure.

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Speaker 1: They don't, they're starving. And this summer is going to

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Speaker 1: be the longest summer we've ever faced. So you have

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Speaker 1: huge education laws, and you have huge food laws for

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Speaker 1: a lot of these kids. And then you know, for

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Speaker 1: parents that are trying to go back to work, if

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Speaker 1: you don't have childcare, what you can't go back to work.

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Speaker 1: And the federal government is not invested in, you know,

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Speaker 1: supporting childcare businesses, which again are working on such thin

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Speaker 1: margins um So if your listeners are out there are

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Speaker 1: interested in economic stimulation and ECONO on the economy, parents

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Speaker 1: aren't going to go back to work if they don't

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Speaker 1: if their childcare is not open, and you know, schools

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Speaker 1: are all closed, and that's you know, there's over six

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Speaker 1: and a half million children under the age of five

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Speaker 1: those businesses, those childcare businesses are shuttered and the government

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Speaker 1: has not been supporting them to the degree they need to.

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Speaker 1: So those are two big issues. Mark Shivers, thanks so much,

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Speaker 1: the easy answer is The Strength to Love by Martin

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Speaker 1: Luther King. It's a collection of his sermons and they

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Speaker 1: are powerful and beautiful, very good. I needed that today.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you very much to Mark Driver, President

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