Sorry to cut it a bit short today, a lot of news today thank you. Meanwhile, welcome everybody, this is squawk alley, were continuing to hunt for indications and clues. Meadows, kudlow, mnuchin all saying mild symptoms, and leader mcconnell says just ahead a great phone call with potus. We talked business and that really has taken over whatevertrack we might have ordinarily spent on the jobs number we wish the president and the first lady well. We wish everyone well who has had a diagnosis of the virus and there are all kinds of questions now about the state of president trumps agenda clearly the Senate Majority leader trying to emphasize that part of things remains on track as far as the Supreme Court nomination and more, carl, but yeah, well just have to see as well how the markets continue to react to this. Amon jabbers, take stock of the information were getting from all areas of washington dc and all branchs of government. Yeah, a massive Contact Tracing around here as officials s
Talked about the rollout of the cares act saint the house and senate are both considering an extension of the eight week time frame for dispersing loans as part of the paycheck protection program. My first guest is democratic senator ben cardin, ringing member of the Senate Small Business and entrepreneurship committee. Our conversation will focus on a singular question, what should america social with workers and businesses be . Senator, great to see it. I know you have had a busy day. Let me just start, we had secretary mnuchin on this morning and we asked him about the ppp, Small Businesses and having oversight into how it is working. He said look, we will get to that discussion later and there is proprietary information that is involved but he gave no headway into what you have been working on it which to get more data and more transparency frankly into that program. What is the state of play as we talk right now . Well, millions of loans have been given out under the ppp program a
Senator, great to see it. I know you have had a busy day. Let me just start, we had secretary mnuchin on this morning and we asked him about the ppp, Small Businesses and having oversight into how it is working. He said look, we will get to that discussion later and there is proprietary information that is involved but he gave no headway into what you have been working on it which to get more data and more transparency frankly into that program. What is the state of play as we talk right now . Well, millions of loans have been given out under the ppp program and still have about one and a billion dollars of leeway with ppp loans. The sba and treasury brought this program up as a new program rather quickly and there certainly have been pains in its growth and things that need to be corrected and fixed but the most important thing right now is to get the data to understand how the program is working and then we have to have transparency to make sure that all Small Businesses have opportu
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Actually in front of that sign youre seeing right there behind me now actually today there were 10 foot fence barriers actually installed yesterday 1st last night in front of Lafayette Park which is directly in front of the white house there is actually the barricade keep shifting back and back and back farther and farther back sara now today whats going on actually is that you know we had crowds young and old black and white all saying that they want to peaceful protest not as much as that we saw yesterday but again its this big photo op that did in front of this 200 year old St Johns Church near the white house the day after it was set on fire by protesters just before his big photo op actually spoke in the rose garden condemning of the rioting in the looting in the cities across the country that have seen and hes been threatening that he would actually deploy the u. S. Military to major cities if he didnt stop now overnight protesters they took to the streets in washington with all