Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the advice of the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committee Staff, and everyone all for their hard work to k
Pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from new york city, on laura trevelyan. With more than 90,000 americans died in the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump dials down by taking the drug hydroxychloroquine. President trump this is an individual decision to make, but its had a great reputation. It was someone other than me people would say its smart. Laura swedens unusual coronavirus strategy. Did the country failed to protect the elderly . How coronavirus is making education more unequal. I have been finding out how new york citys neediest students are coping with remote learning. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. United states has crossed to milestones. There are now more than 1. 5 million infections nationwide, and more than 90,000 people have died. The president claims he has been taking the c
Xi and Chinas Communist Party are clearly to blame for their refusal to warn the world of the deadly virus they spread all around the world. What else are they responsible for . Did they engineer the virus in the Wuhan Laboratory . If so, for what purpose . Were they conducting research . Or did they engineer a wave upon of mass destruction. The actions of xi and his government imply guilt and their stream of lies are inexcusable. As are their conscious decision to deny the truth when they could have saved millions of people from sickness and death. The wuhan virus infecting 2. 5 Million People around the world. It killed at least 168,000 more. In this country 141,000 41,000 have been killed and 776,000 infected. The price of crude oil fell 300 as demand if collapsed. And on the final day of the trading contract the price actually turned negative. As the wuhan virus wreaked havoc around the world, within President Trump galvanized its allies to hold child today accountable for this dea
Xi and Chinas Communist Party are clearly to blame for their refusal to warn the world of the deadly virus they spread all around the world. What else are they responsible for . Did they engineer the virus in the Wuhan Laboratory . If so, for what purpose . Were they conducting research . Or did they engineer a wave upon of mass destruction. The actions of xi and his government imply guilt and their stream of lies are inexcusable. As are their conscious decision to deny the truth when they could have saved millions of people from sickness and death. The wuhan virus infecting 2. 5 Million People around the world. It killed at least 168,000 more. In this country 141,000 41,000 have been killed and 776,000 infected. The price of crude oil fell 300 as demand if collapsed. And on the final day of the trading contract the price actually turned negative. As the wuhan virus wreaked havoc around the world, within President Trump galvanized its allies to hold child today accountable for this dea
Project like this . Mr. Ballmer yeah, its an effort we started about four ago with me trying to actually understand our better. Nt by the governments own numbers. How big is the government. Come does the tax base from, what what do things get spent on and what are the outcomes . Said lets use the discipline that a company would shareholders. To the securities and Exchange Commission requires a factual 10k reportled a and we started out on the journey and weve really learned lot by sorting through numbers not only at the federal level local the state and level. And what about the need for realnumbers, real data, facts, in the middle of the kind of situation that the country is the coronavirus epidemic . Mr. Ballmer its more essential ever and well suffer with some of the other problems we see with government data. Timenment data has a hard staying current, staying recent. You look at historical numbers on the Affordable Care act and medicaid. Theyre two, three years out of date. Right n