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Hill, chad, what have you seen . Speak with a moment on the floor and the level of tension has been rare until today. It will be witnessed. It was pretty more remarkable to see senators openly brawling with one another shouting across the chamber, getting up in one anothers faces, jabbing fingers at one another, a lot of accusations as the senate for the second time in as many days failed to begin debate on the phase three coronavirus. And some senator sharon brown and tom cotton. That is not th...

Good morning, everyone. Im Ayman Mohyeldin in for hall lee jackson. We have got a lot of breaking news from capitol hill on the response to the coronavirus outbreak. Right now, the senate is coming back into session. We could learn any moment about a deal on a 2 trillion lifeline for workers and the economy. Mitch mcconnell, Chuck Schumer, and the white house all indicating within the last couple of hours that a deal could be reached as early as today. On wall street, stocks are soaring in the e...

Countries, we are behind and the waters are rising. That the the reality right now. In the beginning, President Trump viewed this as a political issue. He told us early on he didnt want to take infected americans off a cruise ship because he didnt want the numbers to go up, which may partially explain why we are so behind on testing. Hes come out day after day in the last week to offer big, bold promises that then prove to not be true. The google site that would help you figure out if you need t...

Very close to a deal. This could provide assistance where numbers of people are struggling and industries and Small Businesses and airlines. They were having a number of disagreements of how some of that language to be structured particularly money going into industries and whether or not the secretary should have as much power determining who gets that money or not. Those are the types of d discussions thats been having intensively over the past days. Motions a emotions are flaring on the senat...

Right. The number of cases growing by the day. The march of the coronavirus across this country is undeniable. As you mentioned, at least 13 states have now issued stayathome orders following in the footsteps of california and new york. That means a quarter of the u. S. Population is being asked to stay home. By midweek, when all these measures have kicked in, it means that four in ten people in america will be staying home. Its shocking to have to say this. Even just a few days ago i thought we...

Deaths in this country will be three weeks from now and if you look at the trajectory on the graph, it is almost too horrible to contemplate what that will mean in three weeks. Of course confirmed cases continue to surge. Now more than 61,000 as weve been telling you for weeks. The u. S. Is seemingly following the trajectory of italy though the u. S. Is about ten days behind italy which has seen the most deaths from coronavirus throughout the world. Today a top official with the World Health Org...

Dramatically increase the Hospital Capacity to meet that highest apex. Now, at least 16 states have issued state athome orders to force social distancing, while other states in major cities have it moved to close nonessential businesses. In the united kingdom, three threatening fines for anyone who ignores the new strict order. 35 on the spot if you are where you are not supposed to be. There will be no olympics this year. The tokyo summer games are officially being postponed for up to a year. G...

Do than to start a Small Business with all of the challenges that are there. Maybe except get married. But i dont know, i will leave that there. In terms of other issues that are there, we have a robust appropriations component of this bill that will be helpful. Theres some things that just are not happening. But i would rather not negotiate on tv on this because, hopefully, some of these issues will go away. My hope is that while were in the red zone here that we get across the finish line and ...

Communities hit hard by the virus as well as Health Care Facilities that are struggling to keep up with the rising number of cases. An effort to get it through quickly appeared to have hit a snag as some republican lawmakers have expressed concerns about one key part of the bill. The legislation also isnt sitting well with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo who says the amount of money his state gets from the bill is a drop in the bucket. I would really be terrible for the state of new york. The 2 t...

Production act, that is a law that was enacted in 1950 during the korean war. It gives the president the authority to mandate that private industry produce and manufacture certain things for the national defense. The president and the white house lurched to the invoication of this. As weve heard, he hasnt triggered it yet. My guess is that when they announced that they were going to be invoking, the president probably heard from his friends in private industry to say please hold off on this. And...