Hi everyone and welcome back to another vlog if you're new to this channel thank you so so much for tuning in and don't forget to subscribe and like if you want if you don't don't worry about it as always my name is Claire Carmichael I'm a newly qualified nurse working as a GP nurse so today I'm going to be doing a Q&A vlog for you all I've been gathering your questions together and I have my laptop ready I've saved them all of screenshot them all so that I can be prepared let's start with the first question so the first question is all about how to make friends at uni because it can be so lonely and people are already in cliques now this is I feel this absolutely especially as a mature student going into uni it can be very daunting very scary and I think I've said this before in a previous vlog but it took me a couple of months to actually speak to anyone and make friends properly um but I think just go out there say hello to people sit with people talk to people if you feel comfortable if you are that person that you can see someone else that's alone talk to them invite them into your group you know it's yeah one of the things that our program directors said to us was surviving uni and staying successful at uni is all about having friends and having that support network and do you know what it's absolutely absolutely spot on if I didn't have my friends in the end I finally did get some friends I don't know where I would be right now because they were just amazing and they have no idea how much they supported me throughout uni so I think just trying to make friends is always a tough one because it's hard to judge people's reactions and what sort of person they are what sort of sense humor they are but just sit next to people start talking to people make polite conversation maybe ask for some help um like if there's an assignment going on there's a revision ask for some help um maybe post in your university groups as well if you're on a facebook group or something just say does anyone want to get together and do a revision session I think that those little things are going to really really help you bond and make friends hopefully are there any areas you wish you had developed more in oh what a question I think do you know what thinking about it I think I would have even though it terrified me the thought of it I would have liked to have experienced A&E I think I think just for that fast pace that assessment and things like that but then I have had acute surgical wards to have that sort of thing but I think I would have liked to experience that and not only that but a lot more wound management I'm very good at wounds I can dress wounds aseptic technique and all of that I've got my little chart that I follow that are printed out about um what type of dressing to use for which wound and I don't feel like it's enough for some people I'm just like I'm looking at wounds and I'm thinking I have no idea how to manage that and I felt like that as well on my just district nursing placement as well so I definitely feel like I would have liked to have seen a lot more wound management at uni but that's just for me and the area that I'm in so yeah what was the job application like in a nutshell so it was okay I applied to so many jobs I got a lot of knockbacks I got a lot of people just writing me off before even offering me an interview which was really really tough to see on your NHS job applications but the right one came along in the end so I'm very very fortunate of that but you just have to go out there even if they say experienced nurse required apply if it's something you think that you can do you've got the skills to do apply for it that's the biggest tip I can give for that one overall the application process was okay I am we have a careers team at Birmingham City University they were amazing using abuse your careers teams and also the RCN careers teams are just fantastic if you're with the RCN as well go and use them because that's what they're there for and there's such a benefit to help you write your personal statements to write your CVs your covering letters things like that they're fantastic so please use and abuse them was it a scary moving trust from where you studied yes as exciting as it was like I was really excited to move to a different area start a new job and all of that but there was that nerve there because I haven't got I've from Birmingham as some of you know I've moved down south to Portsmouth and I'm just like I've got no idea how it works down here I've got no idea about the CCGs I've got no idea about safeguarding teams who to refer to so I had to look all of this up and I'm still learning now um three weeks into my new post and I'm still learning I'm still googling things about where things are so yeah so it is a little bit scary but you'll get used to it is my tip for anybody else that's going to be moving trust you will get used to it research the area look into it look where to refer people to and you'll be fine can you fail placement due to a lack of knowledge and skills oh what a question so very very fortunately I didn't fail a placement thank god but you do have your most unis I know every uni works differently every placement works differently but most unis have a set criteria you have your placement documents or some some people have changed over to the pad now and it's just a book full of all your skills that you need to get signed off as long as you're signing those competencies off and showing that you are knowledgeable in those areas I don't see how they can fail you on knowledge and skills but it's okay not to know something I've said this before it's okay and even the most qualified nurses will not know it all so I think it's okay not to know things but also you do have that set of competencies and skills that you do need to get signed off and that you do need to know like medications and things so as long as you know those little bits I think you're going to be okay what's the hardest topic you found when studying oh okay so I mean nursing's tough I know I've made it look really easy and it's amazing but it is tough you have to put in so much hard work to get the grades guys you really really do have to knuckle down so the hardest topic for me was mp4 I think that was the final exam I know I did a vlog about it and the revision in in that exam was just so intense it was ridiculous and the amount of depth of knowledge you needed to know for that exam was ridiculous and I just felt like I was just swamped in revision oh I studied I revised daily for that exam hardest topic I think was research purely because I didn't like sitting there listening to research however when it comes to my dissertation I enjoyed actually doing the research I enjoyed that side of it so someone has asked a really good question that I really wanted to cover in another vlog but I'm gonna just briefly mention it here would you work in a nursing home absolutely like I started out in nursing homes the elderly patients have my whole heart I absolutely adore it and I think that's why I like GP so much as well because it is an older population in GP and I just love it I love nursing homes and people are nursing homes are so underrated honest to god you need to experience working in a nursing home if you haven't already because I learned the pure fundamentals of my nursing and my skills in a nursing home that's where I started and I've learned so so much about so so much in a nursing home it's just amazing and you are going to have tough days like everywhere everywhere you're going to have tough days the bad days the the days that you're stressed and your short staffed and all of that but you know what I I just I loved it so yeah so anyway it's too long I love nursing homes please if you're thinking about working at it go and experience it volunteer ring them up have a look into it is amazing but I'm going to do is come in the nursing homes the nursing home side of nursing is coming in a completely separate vlog it's something I've wanted to do for a while and I completely forgot about it until recently and yeah just wait for it if you miss some time after your replacement how do you make up your hours this is quite a common question actually a lot of people are so worried about the hours because the nmc require you to do 2,300 hours over the three years whether you like it or not you have to do those hours so if you're missing time off uni some well I know our uni over compensated a little bit with the placement hours so that if you did miss a day here and there it was okay it didn't really matter so much but if you're having weeks and weeks and mums off then you're going to have to make up those hours I know at Birmingham City University we had a period called the cap period and that's where we made up all of our hours so there is every uni should have their own way of doing things so just inquire with your own university what they do and ask that question with the placement team what routine did you adapt with exams and content so the way I eventually got into it was you break it all down you think about it logically you look at an exam and you think okay what's important what are they realistically going to ask me because you've only got so many questions but they teach you so much so I sort of I looked for clues when they were teaching if they sort of pointed in a direction of a certain thing I would write that down and star it then I would look at the most important things that I thought that doesn't even make any sense but I would look at as a whole I would sort of filter out the bits that I knew so there'll be some things that you know and there'll be some things that you really don't know the things that you really don't know that's the bits that I would revise because I already know the other bits so I kind of don't need to revise it if that makes sense so that's the way I sort of broke it down I then made flashcards and just put bullet points diagrams used all these colors put them all over my walls everywhere I could see them and it just kept looking back at them and refreshing my brain also I've said this before but using all of the lobes of the brain so watching videos speaking so quizzing each other in a group or with your friends and family and writing it down using colors using diagrams all these different ways to visualize it and the theory behind that is if you're in the exam and one part of your brain goes blocked and forgetful the other lobes are going to back it up because you've reached those other lobes by the different techniques that you've used and it and honest to god it works it worked for me it'll work for you I'm sure just have to revise in the right ways oh this is such a common thing and I do it as well so I put pressure on myself to know everything to do with nursing do I need to know it all no stop it you're putting so much pressure on yourself I do the same I felt horrendous the last last week about not knowing enough and there's things that I didn't know and it's made me feel so bad about myself but we can't know it all we can't know it all guys nobody knows it all and nobody likes to know it all anyway so even top consultants I've had top consultants ask me advice about something because they don't know a particular thing because that's not their specialty and I was just like after that point I was like that just shows that literally nobody knows it all you can't physically know it all you will specialize when you're qualified you will specialize in your area and you'll get so used to that area that you'll forget about maybe teaching about cancer at uni because you don't work there you'll forget about sexual health if you've had any teaching on that because you don't work there if you're going into sexual health you might forget the management things like that so it's absolutely okay not to know something as long as you're safe and you're keeping your patient safe that's the main thing and you can rationalize and justify all of your actions if that makes sense and go on evidence-based practice always what has been your favorite part of nursing so far including your time at uni placements oh so I've loved if you've been through my journey from day one I've loved every single minute even the bits I didn't like like research I like I loved it it's really hard to narrow down my favorite part but there's been light bulb moments that have really affected me and changed the way that I am if that makes sense and I think I have to put those down as my top favorite so in first year it'll be the staying successful event because that was my turning point for me that was when I was like do you know what I need to do more I need to be more and I need to be my best self on this course and not have any regrets when I finish and that was a massive turning point that's when I started my vlogging and blogging and doing more for other students and I just didn't want to leave with any regrets and that that's just it's got to be my favorite part it's got to be because it was life changing but my other favorite part if I was going to talk about placements it'll be when you make a difference to your patients that has to be top because if you've done something and it can be the slightest little thing like someone's um maybe got feces on them or clean them up and afterwards and they're just so grateful to what you've done for them and it's just the little tiny things that really make a big difference to some people's lives and it just it it touches me so much and I get really emotional about it so I'm not going to go into it because I don't want to end up crying again on this vlog but just those little moments with patients are just the best oh this is a very good question so opinion on trainee nursing associates and would you have chosen the path if given a choice so they just brought out the nursing associate when I got into university so I'd already got into universities so I thought let me just take this path but if I'd known about it before I think I might have chose that route because you get paid for it you're doing a lot of the nursing sort of skills as well as the healthcare assistant skills you're that sort of in between sort of person you've got all this knowledge as well so I think it's an amazing and I'm not just saying this I think it's an absolutely amazing route I think it's fantastic it's only a two-year course as well which is even better although saying that I don't regret doing the nursing degree because I really love I've loved every single minute of my nursing degree the three years has been amazing and I wouldn't be where I am now without that so I don't regret it but I think I might have chosen it if I knew about it at the time and my opinion on them as you can see is they're amazing nursing associates are fantastic they are so knowledgeable they are a massive massive help to the team I have never had any poor experiences with nursing associates and I think anyone that's got that negative opinion needs to stop it because nursing associates are fantastic and they're a massive massive asset to the the healthcare system big love to all my nursing associate friends oh god this is a really long-winded question so I'm going to try and answer it as fast as possible so what's the difference between a gp nurse and working in hospital gp is very much primary care it is that first contact with the patient you are preventing them from the hospital point you're doing everything you can to prevent them from hospital and you will see a whole variety of different ages different conditions different things you see literally everything small long-term conditions asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, you've got wound management, travel vaccines, baby vaccines all the sexual health contraception all these different things like gp you just do everything you are wearing many hats you're not just one type of nurse you are like many types of nurse if that makes sense and that's why I love it however in the hospital nine times out of ten it's more specialized down to certain areas so you'll have orthopedics and then you'll have the renal you'll have respiratory wards and they're just very specific areas you might have um like general medicine wards you might have amu but that is more to me no offense to anybody because I have enjoyed every single time of my placements and I've learned so much from my ward experiences but I was not a ward nurse and I felt like when I was on my placements I was treating the symptoms sending them home treating the symptoms sending them home it was very much like a conveyor belt and I didn't like that I didn't like that I didn't see the patient again and that really troubles me I still think about patients now that I saw in hospital and I always wonder what's happened to them are they okay but with gp you see your patient over and over again you're building that rapport and it's just amazing do you have a morning or evening routine so I'm going to do a whole vlog about a day in a life of a gp nurse and it's going to show all of that how to make the most of placement and first year and finding it hard at the moment oh so sorry you're feeling this I oh big love to you because I know this feeling and I think most of us know this feeling you're not alone I absolutely promise you and if anyone else is feeling like this comment below to show this person because it's hard when you first I went on my first ward placement I hated it and it wasn't the staff or anything like that and I just hated it I hated the layout I hated the routine I hated just everything and I knew from that moment that I wasn't a ward nurse and it made me doubt myself it made me think oh my god I feel so guilty because I'm a nurse I should want to care for patients when they're at their critical times why do I feel like this and I question myself and I thought can I be a nurse can I do this and I honestly I had to push myself through that pace placement I'm not even joking I used to go home crying I know this luckily I didn't vlog then because you would all be put off nursing I hated it but as I went on and my placements went on and it was okay you do get into a routine and you do sort of you have to remind yourself do you know what it's only a placement I don't need to work here if I don't want to I can go and work in GB I can go into the community and go to sexual health I can go into research I can do all these amazing things you don't have to work in that area that you're on placement and it's only for a set period of time so just remember remember that just remember that you're not there for that long just get your head down work hard get your book signed off and make the most of it however if you're having problems bullying harassing anything like that please report it get support if you really really need it don't suffer in silence because it is not nice when should I start applying for positions and where to look so this is dependent on the area you want to work in when I was applying to GP I started applying sort of middle of my third year start of third year sort of time and they said it was way too soon they because they want GP's a very small clinic they want someone to start now so you have to apply for GP at the end of your third year that's my tip for GP however I did get a community job offer and that was sort of middle of third year so they were happy to wait for that and the same with wards as well so wards a lot of my friends got their jobs in second year wards are more than happy to keep that position open for you everywhere's desperate for staff so a lot of places are willing to hold the post for you what qualities do employers look for this is a really good question the six C's care compassionate courage all of the buzzwords they want you to be that person so yeah so they're looking for someone that's got good communication skills can be a team player but you can also work on your own initiative you can also use evidence-based practice you're knowledgeable all of those sort of little qualities and also look at the if you're applying for job look at the person spec and the job description because that will tell you everything you need for your interview because whatever's on there they're bound to ask you what are your long-term goals oh so I really want to be an advanced nurse practitioner which I keep saying however just recently this past week I've really missed students I really really miss helping students out and it feels like since I've left university I don't do that as much like I do my blogs and do my blogs and a comment on social media and stuff but I used to do so much at university to help students and I used to do open days and things like that and I really missed that side of it so now I'm thinking what can I do to help more students and that's just long term I'm thinking maybe lecturing or working at university I think I'm going to enjoy that a lot as well as doing clinics obviously keep my patients in clinics this question is all about reflection so what sort of events should be reflected on just started a new module on reflection everyone gets so confused about reflection I don't know why because you do it all the time the way that it was put towards which helped me understand which is what I'm going to tell you now is you reflect daily if something say you have an argument with your partner or your child something happens with your child you and you sort of reflect after the event and you sort of think oh have I been too tough haven't I been too tough should have done this should have done that that's reflection but just because they're bad events doesn't mean that you can't reflect on the good events so something went well you want to reflect on okay what's gone well and how can I make this go well next time how can I keep doing this so it keeps going well and how can I build on that to improve and that's literally it don't overthink it guys oh someone knows that I don't like wards if you had to work on a ward what would it be it would you know what I'm going to say orthopedics because I've been on a couple of orthopedics wards and I've learned so much from that ward they are where I've got my most of my acute skills from I would say because I saw so many patients that deteriorated suddenly from having a hip operation or knee replacement and I've responded accordingly and luckily got it right so I would say orthopedics because yeah just it was really really good for my skills so can you discuss absences and managing your own health as a student there I've briefly talked about absences so I'm going to talk about the health side of things now even the most positive motivating people like me I'm positive I love life I enjoy life to the fullest but that doesn't mean I'm not human it doesn't mean I'm a robot I will feel things I will have a down day I've been on a vlog before and I've just sat there and just cried because I've just had a day and a half and that's normal it's okay to have those days it's there's the hashtag it's okay not to be okay and I think we feel so guilty when I know I do so I'm just gonna talk about something briefly I'm not going to go into too much because I want to do a whole separate vlog on mental health but I have been feeling a little bit low lately and it's a lot of things have just been getting to me and I've felt a bit down but I had to remind myself that that's okay it's okay to feel like that you know a lot has happened I've had a lot of changes in my life and nursing is this every day is a new day every day is learning every day something will happen that impacts you mentally we are human we are going to get emotional um but it's really really important that you recognize it and get help when you need it and sort of do things like spend time with family spend time with friends treat yourself go out do all these things to sort of help your mental health and if you find yourself really really struggling please talk to someone say do you know what I'm not okay I need to speak to someone about it and I think that's a really really important thing I think it's when we don't speak about it and we shy away from it and we we sort of hide those sort of feelings that is just going to get worse and worse and worse and we don't want that so just get yourself some help do the best that you can keep yourself hydrated keep a bottle of water on you if people are refusing your water report it because that's not okay it is a tough job you're 12 hours on your feet and I think it's part of the health and safety and manual handling act that you should be having regular water breaks so stay hydrated guys and that's also really important for your mental health it's really surprising if you don't drink enough how it can affect your mental health your bowel habits your wean habits your whole body system so keep hydrated keep nourished eat the right things don't eat a lot of junk and hopefully you'll be amazing can you prescribe as a gp nurse or does medication still go through gp this is a really oh hi Dylan Dylan wanted to say hi Dylan you can say hi he says hi prescriptions that's what i'm learning right now this is what the pgds are all about patient group directives so as a gp nurse as actually as a nurse in general you will you can give certain things without a prescription from the doctor so this is called a pgd which you are signing to say you understand it the side effects contraindications all of that of medications and you are giving that to the patient so if anything happens that patient is all on you all of it on you that's not the gp's fault he hasn't told you to give it it is all on you however medications have to be prescribed by the doctor things like dressings i can prescribe it's not a prescription i'm just issuing it so i it will print out like a prescription it will go on the doctor's name but i just click issue to issue dressings for patients that's all i can do i can't prescribe medications i can't do any of that however if i want to do that i can do a separate course just like any nurse whether you're an award or whatever no one can prescribe medications unless you do the course you need to do that prescribing course you can't just prescribe medications however things like vaccines i can give under a pgd don't need a prescription for that if that makes sense so yeah i hope that makes sense so the short answer is no no one can prescribe without a course so there are a lot a lot a lot of questions on gp which i've covered in a previous vlog so if you go back and just have a look at my gp application process vlog i did one on the specifics as well of applying to gp and what you need if that makes sense so go and have a look at those vlogs because i've already covered them and i don't i just this vlog's gonna be like hours long if i go through all of these hardest part of nursing and why oh that's a great question now nursing is tough like i said there's so many moments that you're just gonna be like i can't do this and those points for me where more when i don't understand something or when i get something not get something wrong but the knowledge base isn't there so i won't know something and i'll be like oh my god i'm such a bad nurse like we've talked about before put impression on ourselves that's when i start to feel like this is really really hard and i can't do this is when i think that i'm not knowledgeable enough also the emotions of nursing is really really hard so it's really hard because we are only human we're gonna get days where a patient really touches our hearts or a patient suddenly dies on us something like that that's gonna really affect us and we need to be open and honest about those things and seek advice if we're struggling but those those days i think have been really hard for me there has been a couple of times where patients have suddenly died and it's not been expected and that's really affected me because i've built that bond with that patient and i'm constantly asking what happened why why is this happened um life can be so so cruel and that's the hard part i think of nursing so this is a good one i've never covered this so how did you feel the first time you did cpr and the reason why i've never covered it is because i've never thank you god never ever done it i've never had to give cpr and a real person and it's something i'm not gonna lie it terrifies the thought of the thought of doing cpr and a real person because of that knowledge i think that actually a lot of people don't make it and i don't think i'm going to be okay with that if i'm given cpr to somebody and they don't make it i'm going to be that person that has a little bit of a breakdown i think afterwards because for me i want to save lives i want to save that person and that's going to be hard but i've never given cpr and hopefully fingers crossed i will never have to give cpr well this is a random question where were you born i was actually born in scotland that's a very very good question so it's a long-winded explanation but i was basically born in scotland moved down the map i went to school in liverpool and then i lived in runcorn for a beer i lived in liverpool obviously i've lived in cheltonam i lived in syrincester and then i moved to birmingham and then after birmingham i'm now down the map so i've gone top to bottom of the map scotland portsmouth and i've ended at the bottom here i am oh this is a good one because this is another love of mine as well as the elderly is sexual health so how can a nurse get into sexual health apply look on the nhs job site google your local sexual health um gum clinics or the local brook brook brook brook brook um google your local brook clinic sorry google your local brook clinic google sexual health jobs and ring them if there's no jobs online ring them and just say have you got any vacancies they are taking on newly qualified nurses as well so don't think you need experience apply anyway how is it like working autonomously like i really love it i genuinely love being autonomous and that's why i really wanted to be a gp nurse as well because sometimes it can be a little bit much when you've got so many doctors and nurses around you and things going on you can't think i like that i've got my own room it's peaceful i can see my own patience i can do what i want to a certain extent i really like that but i also know when i don't know something which has been a few times in this few weeks i've had to google nice guidelines i've had to go to the doctor i've had to go to the nurse and that's okay so i'm happy working autonomously would you ever be a midwife that's a good question now i did think about midwifery because when i was on my gp placement i spent the day with a midwife and she was amazing and i loved it i loved doing the baby scans and things like that however i i don't want to do the delivering the baby side things i like the um like before care and the aftercare kind of side i don't like the delivering a baby and i say that because i watched my sister give birth and no i know i don't know how people do it i'm really sorry if you're pregnant about to have a baby but it's horrendous no people need to prepare people for these things so yeah it's safe to say i'm never gonna have kids i'm happy with these little fur babies they're enough for me oh someone's asked do you like to meet foreign friends absolutely i've got friends from all over i've got people in canada poland slavakia are canada i've said canada have i i don't know anymore america i've got people i've got friends from all over and i love it i love having foreign friends i love the different cultures i love the different accents oh accents i love accents um i love it so yes absolutely so where were your placements when you were at uni my placements were orthopedics i had a stroke ward i had an abdo surgical ward i had gp placement i had um district nursing and i also had a rehabilitation ward which was amazing again it was mainly elderly and dementia and it was so lovely i a lot of learn i i learned a lot so much at oh yeah it was lovely i needed to decide which direction you wanted to go into so i knew well i didn't know but when i first went into university i wanted to be a sexual health nurse because that's where i'd worked and my head in my head i was like i'm just gonna go to uni get my qualification come back to sexual health nurse because i and i still absolutely love sexual health anything i can do with sexual health and contraception i will do because i just love it it fascinates me and i know that sounds weird but i just yeah it's where my heart is at so yeah and then i got my gp placement and then i completely fell in love with gp and i was like you know what actually i need to be a gp nurse and yeah and then i as the course went on i wanted to do more and more and then now i'm just like i've got so many things that i really want to do it's just a little bit overwhelming sometimes but yeah and it's okay i just want to say it's okay not to know where you want to go a lot of places now do the rotation program so you'll spend so many months in different areas to get a feel for different places but it's just trial or error there's some nurses that have been qualified for years and they still have no idea where they want to specialise and what they want to do so don't panic if you don't know how in detail did you learn a and p oh for the last exam i've said this we needed so much detail in depth to get the marks that was for the final exam as long as you're safe you're keeping your patients safe and you understand what's going on in your patients don't worry about it but for exams you obviously there's a certain depth and level that you need to learn for the exams and understanding so please learn it please pass your exams and understand it that's the main thing they want you to understand the way the body works so that you can put that into practice and i found that really really beneficial doing that as well so all of my revision from uni and understanding the way the body works and the organs work and what does what really really has helped me look at a patient and think oh this is going on in this patient and it's just helped me manage that patient so much better just knowing that little bit of understanding so that is it i've come to the end of the vlog i hope this has been beneficial i'm really sorry if this is like 30 40 minutes long i've tried to narrow it down as much as possible so yeah i hope this has been beneficial if i haven't covered anything that you're really really dying to know inbox me comment below and i will answer it as best as i can i hope you're all getting on amazing i hope that you're not struggling too much please get help if you are there's been a lot of suicide awareness this week with the caroline flak situation and it's just heartbreaking like r.i.p massive love to caroline flak because she didn't deserve that so if you are struggling if there's stuff online that you're not getting on with please speak up please get support and please get help please feel please know that you're not alone and there are people out there that will listen to understand and hopefully help you please don't suffer in silence


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So, do you remember how last year Senator Kirsten Sinema was obstructing the totality of her own party's legislative agenda? Well, turns out, after seeing the fundraising totals for Q4 of 2021, as she was doing that conspicuously, she was getting lots and lots of money from the Republican Party's core base of donors. I'm shocked. Totally shocked. I'm sure you can sense my sarcasm. But this is not surprising. What should stand out to people is the amount of money she took, because we're talking $1.5 million. Yeah. So, they were paying her to do a very specific thing, and she did deliver. In fact, she's still delivering for the Republican Party since she, along with Joe Manchin, just unilaterally killed voting rights legislation. But let's talk about her donors here. So, as Brian Schwartz of CNBC reports, Senator Kirsten Sinema's campaign raised over $1.5 million toward the end of 2021, as she opposed key elements of her own party's agenda according to new Federal Election Commission records. Sinema, who represents Arizona and is up for re-election in 2024, with the possible primary challenge on the way, raised the amount during the October-December period. Sinema's donors in the fourth quarter included wealthy investors who had supported ex-president Donald Trump, Home Depot co-founder and billionaire investor Ken Langone, donated $5,800. Langone backed Trump in 2016 and supported several of his economic policies. The Sinema campaign received an identical amount from another billionaire investor, Nelson Peltz, who hosted a 2020 Trump fundraiser at his Florida home. Tickets for the event went up to over $580,000 per couple and was expected to raise $10 million for Trump's then-joint fundraising committee, which also helped raise cash for the Republican National Committee. Real Estate Executive Harlan Crowe also donated to Sinema's campaign. Crowe has given six figure checks to GOP Super PACs, including over $500,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund in 2018. Sinema also picked up donations from major corporations and business groups, including from the Carlisle Group, Gilead Sciences, Microsoft, Cigna and the American Petroleum Institute. So she happily accepted all this money from some of the GOP and Donald Trump's most prolific fundraisers. She is shameless. And it's funny, after running on lowering the cost of prescription drugs, she opposes it after taking money from pharmaceutical companies. After saying she wants to do something about climate change, well, she takes money from the American Petroleum Institute, and then all of a sudden she's blocking that agenda. Isn't all of this a little bit conspicuous? It's almost as if she's a puppet and her donors are the puppeteers controlling her. But imagine being a Democrat and accepting money from some of Trump's biggest fundraisers in 2020. As he's telling Black Lives Matter activists, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. As he's threatening to use the military against the American people. As he's pushing the big lie, Kyrsten Sinema is saying, you know what, I'll take money from the people who funded that. But believe it or not, it gets worse, because that's just the individual donors in the GOP who contributed to her. So she has a PAC that is called, get this, Getting Stuff Done PAC. That's literally the name of it. So as she is obstructing her own party's agenda and stopping them from getting anything done, she has a PAC called the Getting Things Done PAC. And the individuals and companies organizations who contributed to this PAC is also very telling. Her separate leadership political action committee, which is called Getting Stuff Done PAC, raised over $470,000 in the second half of 2021 FAC record show. Peltz donated another $5,000 in December to the committee. George Roberts, the co-founder of investment Juggernaut KKR and a prolific Republican donor, wrote a check for the same amount a month earlier. Democratic mega donors also flooded her PAC's account, including Jonathan Gray, the president of private equity giant Blackstone, as did corporations. The committee received $5,000 from Fox Corp PAC, the political action committee for Fox News' parent company. That donation came in October. The Fox PAC is financed by Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan. The elder Murdoch contributed $5,000 to the corporate committee in December.  They're donating to the PAC of a Democrat. It doesn't make sense, but I thought that all Democrats were evil. Well, for some reason, they really have taken a liking to Kiersten Sinema. Rupert Murdoch's PAC is donating to a Democrat, Kiersten Sinema. And she happily accepted that. Is anyone surprised by any of this?  But to be fair to Kiersten Sinema, she's not alone because Joe Manchin also raked into cash as he killed the Democratic Party's agenda. Manchin has also received a wave of support from wealthy financiers and corporations, including Langone. Manchin's campaign also previously saw contributions from the Fox Corp PAC. Manchin's campaign raised a similar amount to Sinema's during the fourth quarter, including nearly $300,000 from executives and companies after he spoke against Biden's 1.75 trillion social and climate spending package known as Build Back Better. Like Sinema, Manchin is not up for reelection until 2024. So for anyone who's still claiming that you can't criticize Joe Manchin and Kiersten Sinema, because, you know, we need them because Democrats only have a really slim majority. And so if they flip teams and they join the Republican Party, then Democrats are screwed, except they've already flipped teams. They've switched sides. They're taking money from the GOP's donors and they're doing the bidding of the Republican Party, even aiding them in their effort to kill democracy because they just blocked voting rights legislation. So for people worried about the prospect of them switching teams, they've already done it. These are Republicans. These aren't Democrats. These are Republicans. And anyone who still purports that these are moderate Democrats is delusional because ideologically, they are indistinguishable from elected Republicans. They've already switched sides. They are Republicans. Democrats have already lost the slim majority that they have. In fact, you could argue they never had it. But what is left of, you know, an agenda getting passed, they killed it. They both killed it. So they're already Republicans. The only different, the only functional difference I should say that would be made if they literally changed their registration to Republicans would be that Mitch McConnell would become the Senate majority leader again instead of Chuck Schumer. But I mean, the effect will be the same. Nothing will be passed. Mitch McConnell will not allow any legislation from the House that gets passed to be voted on.  So it doesn't matter how many Democrats are in Congress. What matters is that we have people in Congress who actually care about the right policies. And these individuals are, functionally speaking, de facto Republicans. And for anyone who doesn't see that, they just have the blinders on. But I mean, when you have members of the Democratic Party taking money, this much money from GOP donors, and you still have members of the Democratic Party afraid to call them out, you have the President of the United States refusing to exert even a minimal amount of pressure on them and call them out by name. That shows you that the Democratic Party is just incredibly, pathetically weak. And they should be embarrassed, but they have absolutely no shame whatsoever.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a full case of 2023 Bowman's best baseball brand You released just dropped a couple nights ago eight box pick your team number four all card ship a lot of great stuff To chase here and a very big. Thank you, too This group right here for making it happen pick your team for you're on Friday the 19th the rare Friday For Joe Jaspy switch with Jason who helped me out Covering for me last weekend big. Thanks everybody here You have up four next year and that means you won that spot in update box number four You won those teams in that filler Official last Bob Mojo goes to Evan with the Minnesota Twins and there's everybody right here nice Good luck everybody and next at Lakers on in the background Lakers up 56 56 44 six minutes left in The first half Good luck everybody. You know, what's the what's the latest in baseball? I guess the big transaction news is Josh Hader Astros agreeing to a five-year 95 million dollar deal a lot of money for a guy in the back end of the rotation or the pitching staff Closer as important I guess. Oh I did not I missed this story from what? earlier today new details on wander Franco Investigation in Dominican Republic Maybe some sensitive content So beware you're rewatching the replay if you have Sensitive ears next to him When everything was falling apart for one of the incandescent star in shorts after Tampa is a Jeff pass not a graph along with Juan Arturo Rick yield Star short top of him a raise prosecutors in the main currently alleged He opened WhatsApp on his phone and sent a message to a teenage girl With whom he carried on a month-long relationship and paid to remain quiet about it. So are they saying it's true I guess it's all alleged my girl Franco allegedly wrote in Spanish my team realized this it could cause problems for me It is a rule for all teams that we cannot talk to minors yet. I took the risk and I loved it he After after a near allegedly after a nearly six-month investigation He was arrested on New Year's Day for not appearing in court to answer a summons Well prosecutors later accused him of having intimate relationships with this girl when he was 21 This is not looking good for him presented charge of commercial Sexual exploitation money laundering could face up to 20 years in prison. Wow. There's a nearly 600 page document presented to the judge blah blah blah blah blah There's transcripts between her relatives met you this is not good There are well, there are serious questions regarding the authenticity of particular documents and references contained the prosecutors competent in the file It was an appropriately disclosed to certain media outlets the fray goes US based attorney the story goes on but Yeah, it's not it's not good apparently they got an interview with the girl. It's a long story. We're not going to read all this But it's not looking good for a wander Franco. I think It's all alleged there's Yuri Perez to 299, but Seems to be enough Well, we'll see how it plays out, but It's increasing look looking not good for a wander from there's Corbyn Carroll Greg with the diamond backs Yuri Perez mini diamonds Joe with the Marlins Tristan's here thinking thinking it's time for a big Yankees hit Yeah, what are we looking for there's a Corbyn Carroll and a cam collier 50 out of 50 nice shall act Autograph that's gonna be for Robert and Cincinnati Really like the way this parallel looks was Michael Harris Paul Skeens shall act and There's Davison Delos has cam hit in every case Davison Delos Santos for Greg Feel like from what I remember with bowman's best is That the checklist is that the autograph check was actually quite small So you end up seeing you know you end up seeing repeats Fairly often at least that's that's going by previous up a Volpe low-numbered auto. Okay, let's see what we can do There's Paul Skeens to 199 nice one for the Pirates Michael with that one and oh, I thought we did it now They're going to settle for for Yankees prospect Spencer Jones This will have to do Tristan. I think he's supposed to be a Highly-tited prospecting in that Yankees organization Masterpieces yeah, I'll try since I'll take it and take it More shall act celestine and a Brailer Guerrero For Michael and Tampa Bay. All right. Nice first box. We'll do an autograph recap at the end Oh, he is the number one prospect for the Yankees Spencer Jones. Nice. I guess not another I guess Volpe in And especially like Jason Aminga's graduated so what I'm speaking of the Yankees Jeter downs his career with the Yankees could end before it even started Downs was designated for assignment for on Friday today Earlier this afternoon one month after the Yankees claimed the 25 years first off off waivers from the Nationals Now what a long and winding road for Jeter downs kind of rooting for him It'd be kind of cool if he bounces around like this and then figures it out But he was once a highly-tied prospect Then has now been in the in the wild He was the 32nd overall picked by the by the Reds in 2017 named after Derek Jeter Yeah downs was part of that Mookie bed steal He was traded from the Dodgers to the Red Sox as part of a package for Mookie bets This is figure team four How that dual case they're looking To left in that Thanks Tristan and another Spencer Jones there we go 64 out of 75 Spencer Jones Yankees double a 22 years old 25th overall pick out of Vanderbilt So We're probably gonna see him sooner rather than later Right he only got 78 plate appearances in double a He might get a cup of coffee by the end of the year All right, so Maybe he'll start and pot probably be in spring training Train with the big club for a little bit This Salastin to 250. He's another nice prospect to for Ryan and the Mariners You know then maybe What are we hoping we see him? Move up to triple eight some point this season Maybe get a maybe get some time with the big club in September Maybe start pushing his way into a Starting role 2025 2026 there's chased a lot her Cleveland. This is for you And Adam government mess Cleveland and he's got he he's got some nice nice grades on his scouting report here nice Eastern solace to 75 Padres Brian Crouch and a shell lacked autograph 11. I love the shell lacked autograph 11 out of 50 That's a Lizardo Montes Ryan There's gunner and wow another nice mariner fell mean Salastin for Ryan and the Mariners base gunner as well for EA and the Orioles And we got another Davis and Dela Santos going to Greg and the Diamondbacks And we do need Jason Dominguez come back strong I feel like he had a really kind of crazy. I guess it speaks to his toughness But I think he was playing through that pain in the Indie elbow Spencer Jones grades though It looks like his game power The ceiling is 70 raw power is 70 speed is 50 if you know your scouting grades, you know how good that is Damn and that's according to the same fan graph that is one of my favorite baseball sites center fielder From Vanderbilt We've got that college experience As a this is according to fan graphs as a SoCal high schooler Spencer Jones was a big ceiling late first-round prospect That's both the hitter and pitcher But a senior year surgery to repair a fracture in his elbow was a bloater's draft stock And so he ended up going to Vanderbilt where he re-injured his elbow as a freshman required Tommy John Then he focused just on hitting Had a rusty sophomore year Then he moved from first base to right field and it became a full-time starter in his junior year tweaked to swing through it through the spring Began to look more comfortable with the pace and difficulty of SEC baseball as well as his gigantic body 66-235 The Yankees took him in the late first round And then put him in center field Then in his double-a season power and strikeout guys Jones has enormous potential with eventual 40-homer power in the tank, and I think over time he's gonna have to So it's gonna have to be able to shorten up and still get And still get to enormous pop So that sounds good You know the cloud what what is he a he's a lefty Throws left bats left. So he's a lefty and like a lot of lefties Well, like a lot of power hitters these days the strikeouts are coming from the top of the zone and then backdoor breaking balls I guess apparently Looks like his development is gonna be a little bit slower But he's got a huge ceiling so it'd be interesting Well met will watch his watch his progress through the years Nice Corbin Carroll and that bowman rainy Johnson Like we're any Johnson taking these photos great photographer Doing some portraits There's Tommy Troy and Johnny Farmello Another Mariners autograph for Ryan when it rains at pores Especially in Seattle it's gonna rain this weekend in LA He mostly overnight though. I hope Nothing soon tomorrow during the day Tommy Troy to 150 Don't jammy up rain, and we got a Davis and Gutierrez That's for Robert and the Mets won the Mets in the filler Greg is a is this it sure is Greg Sure is You have a team of this one cuz Things sounds I don't see your name on here and another Mariner Gabriel Gonzalez. Are we gonna get one of every? Prospect got on the checklist maybe Ryan in this case. We still have an even halfway through this case And you got Roderick Arias to 250 Gunner Henderson and the gunner Henderson shall act that's gonna be for EA and the in the Orioles Oh, sorry. Yeah, you're at the top of the list Arizona Dimebacks. Nothing too crazy. I think a couple Corbin Carroll cards some Davis and Delos Delos Santos A couple of a couple autographs there. That's about it And there's junior Kevin arrow Nice Michael with the rays Yeah, forget about one or Franco Let's root for this guy here. All right box for here and pick your team for Good luck everybody. Remember we are at this break probably will bring us to the Probably bring us to nice that a best university football just sold out Probably bring us to the top of the hour probably the last two hours of the show So if you want to get something going let's At Donner's we should be able to do there's only seven left there and then we got six Left in University of basketball. He's just one or cannot forget about the juniors right the junior Kaminaros Yeah, it's a Jeff Passon. We were weird. We had just touched upon this a little bit earlier, Greg but Jeff Passon and another author had Written a story on ESPN it came out earlier today Kind of along a long piece detailing this whole thing. It's not looking good for one or from I mean, obviously a lot of this is alleged But if the evidence does feel a little damning judging from the from the transcript they've seen Interviews with the victim so on and so forth. All right. We've got Hunter Brown mini diamond I don't think the this insert the mini diamonds are numbered And we got a Jacob Barry that'll be for Joe in the Marlins I wonder how many of those were in production before they're like, yeah, we probably shouldn't do that gunner Henderson mini diamonds shall act We had a Corbin Carroll base. Let's save those base rookie. We need to find some parallels of this, but there's an Amarian void Philly's autograph Brian Crouch Save your Isaac to 99 Nice, that's that's the way to do it dual dual-screen jaspies I Guess you can even pop on the Instagram screen. You can you can you can triple stream jaspies Teddy's live right now On the IG and there's Oswald Osorio for my Dodgers Adam With that Dodger Joe mojo And we got Juan Brito. That's gonna go to Adam the Guardians This is for you All right, we're halfway through the break Next half anyone have one of these GMC or Chevy trucks would be with the multi-function Tailgate, I guess my question is One of those things that like can break easily so many moving parts that you're always having to fix it Does it lose function after a while? You know the more moving parts there are especially on a car. Where does it work fine? Jordan Walker mini diamonds reveals a Wyatt Langford autograph very nice Who a Nguyen with the Rangers? Very nice One of the big prospects right there the tailgate is awesome Tristan's knifes kicking in you're under the weather Tristan feel better the tailgate is awesome. It looks awesome I'm just like You never know Michael Harris Braves that's gonna be for Joey in the bridge The one case you didn't have the Rangers. Isn't that how it goes? Javier Baez green mini diamond 28 out of 99 for Detroit Tristan and Detroit and Roman Anthony that will be for Todd and the Red Sox It is Greg. That's the on the fanatics live stream. There's virtually no lag between Which makes the interactions a little more? Little more lively I guess there's Weldon Francisca for adding clean land this for you Wait on YouTube. There is a bit of a lag. I think They should be able to fix that but they have not all right another box Been a pretty solid case thus far Just a couple more big names and maybe a train whistle to style hit out of five and under or under I think that would that would Really solidify this as being one of the better cases that we've seen of the many that we have done All right, and away we go Cody saying a purple for the Mets reveals a Eddie Beltray Padres that's gonna go to Brian the Kodi for the Mets for Robert's purple. That's gonna be 250 235 out of 250 Corbin Carroll shall act and we've got a Hector Rodriguez 7 out of 25 mini diamond autograph great low number on that Robert with the Reds and Alizarro Montes Ryan with the Mariners Boba shed orange 25 nice Rano Adam and we got Sterling Thompson That would be for the Rocks Chris parent with the Rockies two boxes to go Liggers up 70 to 68. We should be up a little bit more on this Other Nets, I think Here we are. All right, the penultimate box. Good luck everybody pick your team for and nice real to real die-cut autograph 42 out of 50 Joendry Vargas for my Dodgers There you go Adam buying the Dodgers straight up out of Ethan solace aqua to 199 Padres Brian Drew Jones masterpieces going to Greg Kuz And we got Daniel Montero for Brian and the Padres Won that team in the filler. Let's add the rushman shall act mini diamonds and Louise a lot of that's gonna go to Joe and the brew crew Von Grissom purple 250 and an Ethan solace autograph for Brian crouch and the Padres nice One of their top prospects Christian, what's up? So for the bowman bass was their way to contact both winners before rendered for some kind of 50-50 sale That's a good question And my thinking is no, I think we'll just do a randomizer between the letters and then I'll just go to one place because there's the issue of Who holds on to it? I know what you're talking about. Yeah, the brawny and his dad but like Is it our responsibility to hold on to it until a sale is made and then we have to make sure I mean, are we like the escrow company at this point? What if something happens on our end and nobody wins then we're paying out money So it is a real heartbreak. I mean, I think that's how it has to be Excuse me. It's these there, but like yeah, I mean it's a tricky situation because then all of a sudden there's responsibility on us you know to protect that card and I'm not sure if we're interested in doing that You know, like how would we confirm that funds have been transferred? Well, what if I mean there could be bad actors in this You know and and be like, oh, yeah We like who's doing this on do we have to sell it? Who's doing the selling of it? It gets a little Yeah, it gets a little tricky But I think it'll just be a straight randomizer. Yeah, you'd have to buy multiple spots and hope you get those two letters There's a urie Perez 86 out of 99 that's gonna be Miami Joe another Corbin Carroll Yoshida mini diamonds Randy de Jesus for the halos Brian Crouch two more autos to go Got blue Oscar Colas to 150 and And there's the him I'm him Gunnar Hederson nice It's a short print that's gonna go to EA and the O's nice He is him and there's Daniel Guillart a for the Brewers that's gonna be for Joe and the Brewers the brew crew Add the rushman masterpieces We've got another Jackson holiday shall act Yell, it's green and a camcaller. I think we started off with a camcaller We're ending the break with a camcaller Robert Runkel won that team in The filler and to 99 that's the Yellich right there. There you go gang That was Bowman's best baseball eight box pick your team number four from Jaspies case breaks calm Here's a quick little recap. Thanks everybody for getting in That nice Ethan solace The die-cut auto something unique. I haven't seen that Wyatt Langford So a lot of great stuff in here The cellist in the shall act autographs Spencer Jones Start off with a camcaller as well. There you have it. Thanks everybody for watching and breaking with us I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break on Jaspies case breaks calm


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hello everybody, welcome to this special CXO series that I've been running over the past couple of weeks. My name is Dave Vellante, and what I've been doing is bringing in executives from around the industry to try to better understand how they're dealing with this COVID crisis, what some of their fundamental communications principles are. And I'm really pleased to invite in Sree Srinivasan, who's the Senior Vice President and GM of Cisco Collaboration, Sree. Great to see you again. It seems like just a long time ago, actually, but it was just January that we were in Barcelona together. Wow, a lot has changed. A lot has changed, Dave. Dave, thanks for having me on the show. It's always a pleasure to see you, and I'm so happy to see you safe and sound today. Yeah, ditto. We're all in this together, as they say. So I want to go back to, I mean, when we were in January, we were getting glimpses of this thing. We were definitely a little bit worried, but not really fully grasping the impact. You know, at what point did you kind of realize that you were going to have to adjust, and how did you shift your priorities as a leader? Yeah, so Dave, we started seeing this right out of the Chinese New Year, coming out of the Chinese New Year on February 11th, if my memory serves me right. Users out of China started increasing, connecting to their global sites by multiples. They went up as much as 22 times on the 9th of February 11th, and right after that, we started seeing it expand into South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and towards the end of February, we started seeing it go into Europe, in terms of expanded volumes, people working from home. Europe has expanded nearly four times for us. Asia back has expanded nearly three to four times in terms of total usage. And from the second week of March, it's US, our biggest market, which has more than doubled. And as you may have heard, this past month in March, we served 324 million attendees on our meetings platform. We provide a whole slew of collaboration capability set. The fundamental principle for us that we apply is provide customers with business continuity while keeping their employees and their families safe. That is the fundamental principle we apply. And one of my engineers said it really well. He said, for every Webex engineer hour spent, we now keep people safe for 14,000 hours, or 583 days. That is the amount of time through virtual capability set, we're able to bring people together safely and continue their businesses forward as is nearly normal. I mean, the numbers are unbelievable. Chuck Robbins over a month ago said, you guys held in early March, 3.2 million meetings and 5.5 billion minutes. And the numbers have just gone up from them. Guys, I wonder if you could bring up the chart. I want to set up this conversation. And so we, along with our partner ETR, we're one of the first to report sort of the impact of COVID on IT budgets. And what this chart is showing is that that gray bar says 35% of those CIOs that we talked to said, they don't expect any change in spending for 2020. The green side over 20% said they expect to spend more. And then you can see the big red. So overall, we've taken the overall forecast at the beginning of the year was plus 4% was kind of the consensus for IT spend. We're now down to minus 4%. The point though is that it would be a lot worse three were it not for that green, which is being driven by the work from home offset. And it's not just collaboration tools. It's networking, it's security, it's VPN. It's all the infrastructure around that. So I wonder if you could comment and add a little bit of color to what you're seeing in the space. I think we are seeing immense expansion of work from home capabilities. Work from home is new for so many people. Like for people like me, it's the norm, but there's so many people who are coming into it calls for the very first time. It can be daunting. And that requires investments from organizations. I think the IO's, IT infrastructure heads are working to make sure they provide the best secure collaboration canvas for people to work in from home, understanding the challenges of last mile excellence, security challenges and things of that sort. So there is a ton of investment going on in speeding up that investment. And I see something coming out of this, which is recognition that organizations are going to have to fix and modernize their digital infrastructure. Why is that important? I think environmental sustainability has something called lead certification. Very similar to that work from home is going to have some type of certification that says, an organization is ready for this type of a mass upheaval moment where their infrastructures keep their businesses alive, kicking and thriving through any situation. And I think what we have seen is many organizations have struggled through getting to that first step. Now, technology allows them to move very fast these days, but no organization wants to struggle through it in the future, whether it's public sector or commercial enterprise, it's one and the same. I think that's a great point. And one of the things I wanted to ask you was about some of the things that you've learned and maybe some of the things that are going to be permanent. And I think that people didn't expect this, obviously. And so do you feel as though that organizations will kind of rethink and that portions of this will become permanent? Maybe they'll sub-optimize in the near term profitability and try to optimize for business resilience and the flexibility to do things like work from home. Your thoughts? So Dave, I do see some things becoming permanent, right? Do I expect the volumes of collaboration to go down? No, it's never going to go back to the same level. The world as we know it is going to change forever. We are going to have a post-COVID era and that's going to be changed for the better. There's a number of employees who have been skeptical, reticent to working from home. We're suddenly going to say, hmm, just work from home thing is not so bad after all. So you're going to have that moment for sure. And then you're going to also have a set of employers who are going to look at a much wider pool of applicants that are cross time zone, geography, language barriers. It's going to help an organization increase their diversity and inclusiveness portion, making their products and services much better. So I think we are opening up the surface area for innovation as a result. And you will see a lot of the work from home technologies get better and better. We're being forced to be better because we now have to be relatable, discernible, easy to a new class of worker that has never seen these technologies and it is across all kinds of barriers that technology has to adhere itself to. So I do see a lot of goodness coming in. And you know what? At the end of the day, it's really good for the environment too. I want to ask you how you're supporting customers. So the data partner that I mentioned to ETR, the other day I sat in one of their CIO roundtables and it was, it's a private conversation with CSOs and CIOs. And they were asking them, like who's helping you through this and who's not? And they mentioned, for instance, back in the 2009 timeframe, there was one company that I won't mention that was doing audits right after the crisis. That was not a cool thing. But I got to give Cisco some props. It came up that they really were helping in three areas. And one of the CIOs just really mentioned this and called it out. He said, collaboration tools, network, you know, we're a Cisco customer. So we're relying more on the network and then the security piece. So specifically, you know, how are you supporting your customers in this crisis? So towards the end of February, what we did is we opened up our collaboration technology and Chuck said something very profound to me. He basically said, let's make sure we do right by our customers and keep them safe through this exercise. What we came out with was a set of free offers. We expanded our free offers by providing unlimited meeting time, up to a hundred participants, total dial-in into our meetings infrastructure in 52 countries. We didn't basically say, hey, only in countries afflicted by the virus, we basically made it as global as we could make it possible. And then we provided enterprise trials through our partner routes to market. That is an enterprise could sign up for a 90-day thing, no strings attached, just take on the collaboration platform and, you know, whether it's calling, meetings or device infrastructure and just take advantage of it in a secure fashion using our security portfolio, using extensions of our network portfolio and just continue to operate. So we've added close to north of 15 million users through our free offers today. That's what this course is contributing to. And no strings attached. We're not asking for a credit card or a contract at the end of it. If you like it and we come out at the other end of it, we are happy that they're safe. And if they stay a long-term customer of ours, we are happy about that too. I mean, that's awesome. We saw recently a lot of talk about big tech and a lot of tax on big tech and you're seeing big tech really step up. So thank you for that. Look, you know us, we're not gotcha media but I feel it's really important to ask you this. Zoom has set some clear issues with security. Eric Yuan was instrumental in developing WebEx. So what assurances can you give your customers and our audience that you're not subjected to similar security gaps and flaws? So let's talk about our security principles, right? Our security principles are very clear. We are open and transparent about the issues we face, the investments we make and we will be very open in terms of our posture. Secondly, we will never rent or sell customers data. Thirdly, we have a growth mindset around security. It's a differentiator. You never get complacent about security, you keep on investing in it. And to be honest with you, WebEx has come a very long way since some of the comments that were made in the press by some of our competitors. Surika 2012 WebEx versus now, there's so much innovation that has happened, Dave. We've had over 100 major software updates in. So I would rather have our competitors focus on their issues rather than give us kudos in public. So our promise to our customers is to be open, transparent and continuously invest in this space because the moment you take your eyes off it, you've opened yourself up for a set of attacks. So we're not going to ever say we are fully secure. You just have to continually invest in the growing threat posture world we live in today.  You got to build it in and it's a hard thing to do. Some of your security pros, G Rittenhouse, TK Keanini would definitely second this. So how you're saying you've spent a lot of time, obviously designing in and I'm inferring, not bolting on. So I wonder if you could add some color to the sort of types of things that you've done to really assure your customers that you're secure. Yeah, so I think security is in the DNA of Cisco. Unintended in many ways. We pride ourselves in our craft and to be honest with you, security starts at the time of design for us. And it's not a checkbox exercise at the end of the ship cycle. You build for security, you build for privacy and compliance and you build with one simple rule. It's your customer's data, we are custodians and we need to be protectors of it all the way through. We do not sacrifice experience for security. We never will. We build high-grade experiences, but we never give up on security capability side. And whether it's a free, whether it's our freemium, whether it's our paid, we have the same levels of security. Yes, we do have additional security add-ons. And finally, we have a culture where there are groups within Cisco that continually test us. They don't report to me, they report to Chuck and the board and they pretty much are continuously measuring our threat posture. These are world-class organizations that keep you on your toes. And I'm so thankful for that. It helps our customers safe. It helps us be better. It helps us take current with the threat postures. And this is years of investment. This is not something you can do in 90 days or 30 days. You'd be doing lip service to it. This is something you've got to do critical, intentional, deliberate investments that pay off in the long-term. Yeah, and things like penetration testing, it's not a one-shot deal. You got to do it on an ongoing basis. I want to come back to productivity. There are some organizations that are concerned, they're struggling a little bit with productivity, particularly with the work from home. What advice would you give to organizations in terms of being able to maintain that productivity? It might take a little bit of hit, but what would you tell them? I think change is difficult, change is not easy. I'll take my own story here, Dave. Two years back when I joined Cisco, work from home was a alien culture to me based on where I came from. For the first month, I did struggle. I had my questions. I had my trepidations of, is this really going to work? Am I going to be able to run thousands of engineers, multi-billion dollar business from home or while traveling on a plane? Because we have so many development centers across the globe, and I'm a remote worker. I really saw this as opening up new horizons for me starting the first month. I took it on with gusto. So I think my guidance to organizations is health and users deal with that change. If you force it down their throats, it's not going to work. You've got to understand their pains. You've got to make it more pleasing. You've got to introduce things like a digital water cooler talk. You've got to make it easy on them. You've got to talk about improvements in a remote work setting, like providing them with a set of accessories that make it easier for you to work from home. One of the core principles we have, and I espouse within my organization is, by working from home, you're intruding into your family's space. I think it's so important to make sure you let your family in on your work. And when kids walk into the door, today, when we work at Cisco, we actually share our family and we share our joys with the wider teams. And we are so proud of such cultures. So be very open and make sure that you understand that you're intruding into somebody else's house when you're working from home. Yeah, we have dogs barking. We have kids who've been playing games and crawling all over us. That's great. The dogs barking we have, we have solved. We have an AI technology that dims it down. It mutes the barking. That's good. I need one. So one of my big takeaways, and you really underscored it here, is we're not going back to 2019. The digital transformation that we talk about and that, frankly, many give lip service to, many are real, but it is now going to be accelerated. And it's ironic. We're starting a new decade, but this digital transformation is going to be accelerated and collaboration is going to be a key underpinning. So I'll ask you to give us some final thoughts, Shree, please. Yeah, I think people-to-people collaboration is so important in this day and age. As such, industry has been changing from a task-based hierarchy-driven world to a group outcome-based synergistic, bring people a long-type culture. And that brings people-time long-type culture is now, thanks to collaboration technology, becoming independent of time zone. You don't have to worry about language barriers anymore or cultural boundaries. Think of the type of ideation you can do by bringing people across the world together with a low-carbon footprint. And what this time has shown us is that businesses can still continue to operate and operate really well when you bring people together using these virtual technologies and capability sets. You're saving people some time by having them work from home. Like you don't have to travel 30 and 40 minutes to get to work.  And that saves so much in costs, in capability sets. And the concept of hoteliering and open spaces within organizations is only gonna sprout even further because not everybody is gonna have a home office, have a set office within the enterprise. CEOs are gonna see that as a cost-saving opportunity that they can funnel back into the growth of the organization, right? So I think it's a plethora of opportunity in front of us and that these technologies are going to get monumentally better in the months to come. Yeah, we're definitely entering a new chapter. Sree, thanks so much for sharing your insights and some of your leadership principles. And thanks to Cisco for all that you guys are doing, some of the pro bono work. I know some of the volunteerism that Chuck has talked about really appreciate your time. Thanks, Dave. Always a pleasure. Stay safe. And thank you for watching, everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. We'll see you next time.