Veronica dagher is here from the wall street journal. Joe fami from zor capital. Rob basso from advantage payroll services. Thanks for all three of you joining us. No matter how many times the president said it americans dont believe it. I heard that particular talking point a dozen times, by every metric were better off. What do you think . What facts is he actually talking about, if you look at inflation is outpacing actual money rid americans are taking home. So im not sure where he is getting his statistics. Look at my client base. I serve 5,000 small and mediumsized businesses, their wage increase over the past year has not increased enough to outpace inflation. Melissa no, Median Income has fallen. Thats right. People havent seen wage growth. There is tons of people out there working parttime jobs when they would rather be working full time. Melissa right. Or underemployed in general. Melissa 7. 3 Million People are working part time and wished they were working full time. Wish t
This country as we have seen some states already begin that reopening process despite the advice from Health Experts. Lets get right to Garrett Haake on capitol hill, Kristen Welker is live for us in washington. Also with us claire mccaskill, and dr. Patel, a former staffer on the Senate Health committee. She served as a Health Adviser in the obama white house. A great team of experts as we see what unfolds here for us. This is highly unusual hearing of sorts. Walk us through what we can expect when things get started momentarily here. Reporter this is certainly unusual. Youll have a hearing in which the witnesses are not present and as many as half of the senators on this committee will be attending remotely. Nevertheless this is a highly anticipated hearing. The first opportunity for lawmakers to ask questions directly of the Public Health officials who have been advising the president during this pandemic without the president standing over their shoulder, away from the white house
Good wednesday morning, in case youre wondering, everybody. Its may 13th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Glad to be with you. We have a lot to cover this morning. Were going to begin with that warning from dr. Anthony fauci during yesterdays Senate Hearing. That if the economy reopens prematurely, it could lead to more cases, more deaths and a slower economic recovery. Ive expressed then and again it is my concern that if some areas, cities, states what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability to be able to respond effectively and fishefficiently concern is we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks. So, therefore, ive been being very clear in my message to try to the best extent possible to go by the guidelines which have been very well thought out and very well delineated. There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control, which in fact paradoxically will set you back, n
Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. And im jim sciutto. We want to welcome viewers in the u. S. And around the world this morning. The top doctors set to issue a really strong warning to the president and the public. Any moment now, dr. Fauci will be testifying on the coronavirus outbreak and response. His message, there will be, quote, needless suffering and death if the u. S. Reopens too quickly. Here is the problem. The president pushing, frankly, in the opposite direction to get business back quickly. Thats right, and this time he wont be at a podium with the president over his shoulder. He will be testifying under oath to the American People and the senate. Also happening this hour, two justices set to hear arguments in President Trumps efforts to keep his financial documents, his tax records all hidden. Lets begin, though, with this highly anticipated testimony from dr. Fauci. Manu raju joins us from capitol hill. John harwood is at the white house. Manu, lets begin with you
The president has been pushing and pushing hard for states to reopen. Right now nearly state is easing ri strixs in one way or the other. The headline was warning as dr. Fauci talked about the consequences of statesquick. Theres a real risk you will trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control which will set you back not only leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided but could even set you back on the road to trying to get economic recovery. It would almost turn the clock back rather than going forward. That is my major concern. On the all important question of testing, while theres finally evidence that we are more quickly scaling up our capacity, it was bipartisan agreement at this hearing that the u. S. Still is not doing enough. All roads back to work and back to school run through testing. What our country has done so far on testing is impressive but not nearly enough. We need dramatically more testing. Its unacceptable we still dont have a National Strategic