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A text with send us your first name, city and state at 202 7488003. Facebook twitter and to post your comments. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. How was your governor doing . According to a New Washington post poll, governors are getting high marks for their responses to the coronavirus outbreak. With 72 saying their governor is doing an excellent or good job. 26 saying the governor is doing a not so good or poor job. Compare that to the federal government, 49 say is doing excellent or ...

If you live in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000 is the number to call. Dish in thein any mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. The recent column appeared in yesterdays wall street journal. The era of Big Government is back is the title. To show you some of what they wrote. Conversations with a broad crosssection of political figures suggest there is little reason to expect a return of the status quo on federal spending, or the prevailing attitude toward the proper role of govern...

This on top of slight gains yesterday at 4 00 oclock. Markets were up. As you see dow industrials up 33 points and nasdaq up 139. Getting america working once again. President trump announcing plans to reopen the economy in phases. The president went through it yesterday. The Small Business aid program has run dry on capitol hill. The battle is waging on how much money, how much to add to funds to help business and American Workers now. Coronavirus is taking a toll on the chinese economy. It has...

The drug from gilead remdesivir has shown promise in a couple of trials and i think well only of stalemate how soon help is coming, see more of that. Whats the implication of an athome test they are starting to roll it out who gets it. The new outrage that the wealthiest schools, harvard, got today. Millions in aid weeks ago. Is this something that could be scaled up and really make a essential items, toilet paper, difference here . Im biased, my background is paper towels and food. In diagnosti...

We are all in it together, good evening, everyone. I am julie haener, working from home. Im frank somerville. It is tough to gauge progress when the numbers continue to go up. The death toll from the coronavirus is now past 10,000 here in the United States and is approaching 11,000. In california, gov. Newsom said that he expects the outbreak will peak in midmay but he also said there are already indications that the hospitalization rate is slowing down. Signs of progress in the fight against th...

Association of American Railroad president on Railroad Freight and passenger travel during coronavirus. President trump is expected to name a commission on reopening the u. S. As the coronavirus abates. Plans are in place to coordinate reopening. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Who should take the lead in the reopening of the u. S. Here are the lines. Mountain and pacific, send us the reporting this morning of the wall street the two groups of governors said they would coordinate ef...

This situation. Since ween 18 days closed down new york. I know it feels like a lifetime. I tell my daughters every day. Only 18 days since everything closed down. 39 days since the first covid case in new york. It feels like a lifetime. Firsts since we have the covid case in the united states. 80 days. Lifechanginge, 80 days, but thats what it has been. When we started this situation that we are still in the midst of, before people get march,ent, the end of the White House Task force was still ...

Lauren simonetti watching markets for us. Edward lawrence with new reporting from washington. Same story for Hillary Vaughn on capitol hill today for us. Lauren, lets begin with you on the markets . Lauren i cant hear but i can tell you what happened in the markets today. A lot of whiplash. The market was fixing positive news with negative news. The big news today was the fed stimulus, right . Also the numbers from the coronavirus seem to be improving. So at the end of the did i we cannot say th...

Anontributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. A shocking sign of our times. Mass burials in new york signalo th that the outbreak has taken even as signs emerge that infections are leveling off. When social distancing is simply not an option we haveci a sal report on the migrant situation in northern france and in the uk. No virus can touch me until god is through with me. Plus pitting faith against infections. Some churches in the u. S. Plan to stay ope for easter despite...

Emergency Small Business fund, 75 billion for hospitals. The democrats claim its their victory and already, senator schumer is planning another 150 billion package, this one for local governments. Is all this enough . In my opinion, not if we dont get back to work soon. We have to open up the economy to avoid economic disaster. Elsewhere, the president says he will sign an executive order today suspending green card issuing for 60 days. This does not apply to guest workers or agricultural worker...