Daily briefing this hour. Chuck schumer announces the senate has finally, nearly a month after the Georgia Senate results has finally reached an agreement to give democrats the gavels in this 50 50 chamber. Public Health Officials at the White House Strike a cautiously optimistic tone at this mornings Covid Briefings as cases and hospitalizations decline but warning about what lies ahead remain dire. Well speak with one of the white house top covid advisers about the road ahead, coming up. Well, welcome to wednesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Wednesdays have been pretty consequential. The sources confirmed that House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy that they will take her off of one committee if they put a resolution not to strip her of all assignments. A moment ago the the democratic Majority Leader rejected the offer saying the house will vote tomorrow on the resolution about stripping her of all of her Committee Assignments even though it will set a dangerous precede
It came before the coronavirus headlines started to impact the u. S. And as a result l brand, which owns victorias secret, bath and body works, has had to close stories, lay off employees and this was sort of a lifeline to l brand to unload it because they werent able to turn it around so if they get stuck with it again, its pressure on the retaile retailers. L brand is a prime example, one of the worst hit. Indeed. Well see you later this afternoon, sara. Welcome to squawk alley, you see the bounce today after two days of losses as we get some progress regarding rescue packages from the senate to the house. Got a bunch of discretionary Companies Raising Capital through various means, secondary and so forth and the earnings not bad when you look at snap, chipotle and netflix last night. Interesting when we look at netflix and snap which had interesting positive metrics in their earnings we had ibm the day before talking about a pause in some customer spending. Were just starting to get
Tackle the outbreak mike hanna has more from washington a number of u. S. Governors have been pleading with the federal government for bowl medical supplies in particular ventilators a state like new york says it needs as many ventilators as possible to stockpile for when the 8 picks of the epidemic hits which current projections show by the end of the month yet President Trump continues to insist that there are enough ventilators being supplied to the various states in fact he says that many odd being produced now so many that at some stage in the future the u. S. Could export a ventilators to countries in need were soon going to have more ventilators that we need were building thousands of ventilators right now takes a period of time to build and. And again nobody could have known a thing like this could happen were building thousands we will fairly soon be at a point where we have far more than we can use even after we stockpile for some future catastrophe which we hope doesnt happe
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