Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live i am eugene scott a political reporter of the Washington Post and i would like to welcome our first guest this morning assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force admiral brett, thank you so much for joining me. Good morning it is great to be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to
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[applause] mr. Biden we just voted. Thank you for taking the time to cover it. [indiscernible] that there isis no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence, none whatsoever. To be able to protest is totally legitimate, totally reasonable, but i think the looting, as the victims father said, do not do this. It is not what my son you are not helping me. You are hurting me. You are not helping my son. There are things we will have to do to move along. With theow we deal of lethal prospect shooting . That will be part of the commission i set up to determine how we deal with this, but there is no excuse for looting. [indiscernible] mr. Biden yes on both counts. Yes, i have a bill ready, number one. Number two, yes i will work with the republicans. And, yes, i do have a proposal that pertains to how we can improve the Affordable Care act. What i want us to do is add a public option, allowing people to keep their private insurance, if that is what they choose. Making it more affordab
Be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing th
Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear