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Up. We are all in search of the apex. And the other side of the mountain. But we are still headed up the mountain. Number of people tested last night was a near record amount. We tested over 18,000 people. We are testing more people than any state in the country. Im very proud of that. More per capita than china and south korea. Total number of people tested, 200,000. Population of 19 million. Its not going to give you a random sample, but its been helping us track down the positive cases. Numbe...

Jonathan white and im vice chair of the Lincoln Forum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this session. We are on Hallowed Ground and it is altogether fitting and proper that we come to gettysburg every november to commemorate the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. Our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. Peter is the robert c. Flour professor of civil war studies at Gettysburg College and cwi hats around this morning its wonderful to see those here. He holds his, ph. D. From Pen...

This is your fast and easy way to watch unfiltered coverage of the pandemic. Trump in the White House Coronavirus Task Force Made several announcements on the response the pandemic, theuding extending nationwide social distancing guidelines until april 30. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate everybody being here. Beautiful day in the rose garden. Tremendous distance between chairs. Social distancing, you practice it very well. We appreciate it. Thats great. I want to start t...

We dont want to do it that way. We want to go big, go solid. The country is very strong. Weve never been so strong. We dont want, with this invisible enemy, we dont want airlines going out of business, we dont want people losing their jobs or not having money to live when they were doing very well four weeks ago. So we are going big, and that is the way it will be and that is the way everybody seems to like it on the hill. Susan historian and author amity shlaes, that is President Trump and want...

Then, taxpayers for common sense president steve ellis talks about what is in the to trillion dollar coronavirus aid bill recently passed by congress. Washington journal is next. Host with the United States death toll from coronavirus approaching 2500, the president made the announcement he is extending social distancing guidelines until at least april 30. Big news coming out of that briefing with reporters last night. We want to get your reaction this monday morning, march 30, to the president ...

We talked about the health and hospital corporation, one of the new york city public hospitals. It is struggling. We leave the last few minutes of this briefing to take you live to baton rouge where the governor is giving a response to the coronavirus there. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We have some updates around nutrition, particularly snap benefits. We still have dr. Alex review ryu to answer questions about health care and testing, that sort of thing. Thent to thank all of Health...

Will help us win our war against the coronavirus. On friday, the fda authorized a new test developed by abbott labs that delivers lightning fast results in as little as five minutes. That is a whole new ballgame. Labs for thank abbott the incredible work they have done. They have been working around the clock. Normally this approval process from the fda would take 10 months and even longer, but we did it in four weeks. Willt has stated they begin delivering 50,000 tests each day starting this we...

Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We wa...

Ray proctor teaches a class about contributions to the africanamerican theater and the Pulitzer Prize winning play fences. Today were going to look at August Wilsons fences. Well begin with a very brief discussion about who and what August Wilson was, his goal as a playwrig playwright. Im going to repeat some stuff youve heard before from our inclass conversation but theres going to be some stuff im going to talk about in a little bit more depth than we talked about last class. On thursday you g...

Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defens...