Says the president is guilty of the same crimes that landed him in jail Michael Cohen prepares to release a tell all memoir further damage the president. A michael oku welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protest against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaign protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the cities of Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the virus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protests have been held across hong kong since june last year. And correspondent phoebe kong joins us from hong kong now phoebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the push phoning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Im not standing at least lloyd have to tell us to Disperse Protesters hours ago and now some skeptics system now they are and also on the street not leading them like in monsey is that they i dont
Seeming to tell us whos who behind the mast. A michael oku its nice to have you with us we start with a massive show of police force in hong kong thousands of officers in riot gear have swooped in on antigovernment protests making nearly 100 arrests demonstrators are furious about a decision to postpone todays planned legislative elections there are also angry about a sweeping National Security law imposed by china that gives beijing unprecedented power to crack down on critics in hong kong. Reclaim hong kong they chant and hong kong people unite. These private democracy. Pain is should be voting today in elections to the citys legislature instead that out on the streets after authorities delayed the poll until next summer citing a spike in coded 19 cases the what was it that protests have been met with an andris bonds with Police Firing pepper balls at some. And using stop and search on others was the was there but the the new National Security law imposed by china bans demonstrations
Longterm commitment to bring you live gaveltogavel coverage of congress. Coming up, the house will debate Foreign Affairs pills with votes late they are afternoon. This week theyll work on an emergency funding bill to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Live coverage of he thousands of the house here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father con you. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of mercy, thank you for giving us another day. Quicken our spirits so that we will know the blessings of living together in unity and peace. Grant that we might know the satisfaction of sharing our Common Concerns and experiencing the joe of mutual accomplishment. Bless the members of this peoples house with success in bringing fruition to all e
We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
Administrations response to the coronavirus and election security. The World Health Organization has now reported there are 79000 cases of coronavirus across at least 30 countries. At least 53 confirmed cases here in the United States. As the virus continues to spread, the Global Economy is already beginning to suffer. All of the warning lights are flashing brightow red. We are staring down a potential pandemic. And the administration has no plan, we have a crisis of coronavirus and President Trump has no plan. Tno urgency, no understanding of the facts or how to coordinate a response. We must to v get a handle on the coronavirus and make sure the United States is fully prepared to deal with its potential lee farreaching consequences. But the Trump Administration has been asleep at the wheel. President trump, good morning, arthere is a pandemic of coronavirus, where are you . Where is your plan . Its just amazing, the crisis grows and grows and we hear nothing. Coronavirus, no coronavi