About this wonderful book you have written. I want to start with you by the beginning and end of the book. You have two different encounters with donald trump or the first is when you are a young cub reporter and the lasses when youre obviously a big white house hotshot reporter. But described this to different encounters with trump i think that is kind of the ark of the book. It goes between those two. s really incredible book ends. The first was i was in my 20s, working for the New York Post. As actually assigned to city hull there was a guy there a mayor at that time who would just become mayor called rudy giuliani. [laughter] somebody who we might know. Smack yes. There is this absolutely unbelievable story that had gripped new york city at the moment. Its not story is particularly interested as working for the New York Post and its all my editors cared about. News had just broken that Michael Jackson, the king of pop had just married lisa marie presley, Elvis Presleys daughter. Th
Mountain and pacific, thats 202 7488001. We welcome your comments by text. Thats 202 7488003. Nd on twitter we are cspanwj your Facebook Comments are welcome, journal cspan. Org facebook. Com cspan. Members of congress, as we know, saying that the house will be back until may 4. Our capitol hill producer theted yesterday about white house plans, a 10 00 a. M. Conversation with the members of the house. At 11 00 a. M. , president hosting a phone call with members of the senate. Cnbc posting yesterday about the president s briefing and his indication that the u. S. Has passed the pico coronavirus outbreak. Peak of coronavirus outbreak. Host the report says that President Trump says the u. S. Has passed the peak of the infected asich has we mentioned more than 632,000 people in america. We will update those numbers for you momentarily. Heres what the president said yesterday in his briefing. [video clip] American Society is engaged and mobilized in a war against a invisible enemy. We must
Better control. And it significant mitigation, meaning measures at that still have to be pretty strong, is recommended in current or emerging hotspots. Describesl document the various guidance that should be undertaken for each one of these kinds of communities, but for different settings the schools, workplaces, restaurants and bars. And its general guidance ever y jurisdiction will have to decide for itself whether it has met those conditions and whether they should implement them. It is always going to be up to the localities. Host the plan propagated by the cdc, you can read the reporting n, washington post, lena su you have a link in your article to that report. Does that mean cdc will be the lead agency in implementing the plans, or are they guidelines for other agencies . Obviously the, the state governments and obviously, the state governments. Guest and think we may be jumping the gun a little bit because this is the Public Health response of a master plan, as far as i could d
Began. The last count we got was they have gotten back over 61,000 americans who were either stranded overseas because of the virus, or wanting to come back. And there was no way to get or no way for them to get back. That is quite a few. The numbers, there are a million or so outside of the states at any one time, maybe even more. There is not a good estimate because americans are not wired required to register with the u. S. Embassies abroad when they are traveling. So it is hard to get a good estimate of the total number of americans outside of the country, or the total number of americans who are in fact stranded because countries have shut down their borders. But one thing that is eru, whereg, in p there was a sudden decision by the government to close the borders and shut down International Air traffic, the state department had estimated there were about 5000 americans there. But as of tuesday, i believe they have had repatriated over 7000. So, you know, the estimates are not exa