There are now more confirmed cases of covid 19 in the United States than in any other country in the world. According to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins university, the us now hasjust over 83,000 cases, overtaking both china, and italy. It comes as the total number of confirmed cases around the world has now passed half a million. In terms of lives lost, countries in europe continue to be worst affected the death total in italy is more than 8,200. There was a jump in deaths in spain too. Meanwhile, another 115 people have died in the uk after testing positive for the virus, taking the total to 578. There are now approaching 12,000 confirmed cases. Lets stay with the total number of us cases though a short while ago, President Trump was asked about the numbers. Its a tribute to the amount of testing that were doing. Were doing tremendous testing, and im sure youre not able to tell what china is testing or not testing. I think thats a little hard. 0ur north america correspondent, p
Plus, florida congresswoman will talk to us about a potential breakthrough in the next round of stimulus negotiations and what she hopes is in the bill. They defund the World Health Organization due to claims it wasnt transparent. Weve just learned today experts from the u. S. Were working at the who and sent the Trump Administration notifications on the coronavirus as early as december. U. S. And International Officials told the Washington Post more than a dozen u. S. Researchers, physicians and Public Health experts were working full time at the geneva headquarters of the w. H. O. As the coronavirus emerged late last year. They discovered it to the Trump Administration. This matters because trum thp week announced hes freezing funds to the who in the middle of a pandemic. Claiming it failed to communicate the extent of the threat in a timely fashion. Lets bring in dr. Sarah lyn mark, former senior medical policy adviser at the white house, h. H. S. And nasa and erin hanes, editor at
This does no longterm entitlement reform. And when i talk to ceos across the country, they tell me that this is leading them to put projects that would create jobs on hold and think it will hurt their Small Business suppliers dramatically, so this is not a win for anyone. The only win, if you can call it that, this gives is those on the republican side who are willing to let all this harm be inflicted just so they can stand by this principle that there should not be one dime of deficit reduction that should ever come from closing loopholes or deductions. Thats just an unreasonable position. As you know, the Republican Leaders say thats not the only option. They say the administration could cushion the blow of these cuts if they wanted to. Heres Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell just the other day. The president is ready to make it bite as hard as possible, all to send a simple message to the public, you want to control washington spending, america, fine, let me show you how much
We will look at our opportunities to do what we have to do to come up with a billion dollars, and 600 million at faa. These things will begin to be phased in. The other point to pin you down on, frankly, is security. Not just lines at the airport but safety when it comes to protecting the traveling public. Can you give us your assurances about that. Tfa and security lines are under Janet Napolitano at the department of homeland security. I will say this. We will never compromise on safety. People are going to be safe flying. Here is the reality. This is 2 of your budget. A billion dollars is a lot of money to anybody, right. But relative to the federal budget, its relatively small. Why, instead of worrying about dire consequences arent you and your managers coming up with the best way to make these cuts that protect essential services. We are going to protect essential services and were going to look at all of our contracts. Were going to look at all nonpersonnel items that we can. In
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