Too close to call come in washington and north dakota. We will get response from naomi. Lein and alicia garza then, as the coronavirus pandemic grows, nurses on the frontlines are holding a national day of action to protest lack of basic protections for nurses and their patients. When something doubles every day, gets to very large number very quickly. So if there are 1000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there can be 64,000 people infected in the state off washington if we dont somehow slow down this epidemic. Amy wellll speak with the president of National Nurses united jean ross. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to new rochelle, a suburb of new york city, ordering a onemile containment zone around a synagogue whose congregation is at the center of the nations biggest single largest coronavirus outbreak. National guard memb
Wash authors april ryan and cal thomas sunday on book tv on cspan2. Health alec cesar health and Human Services secretary azar was in washington. He talked about the federal government response to the outbreak and testifying on the president s 2021 budget request. The second panel on the Coronavirus Response, those questions will be limited to five minutes, which is the usual case. Only 10 members will be able to ask questions during that round. I will have to be strict with the gavel. Since the witnesses have a tight timeframe and i know that you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up and every bit of it is obviously series. The chair recognizes yourself for five and its for an opening statement. Let me begin with this. , mr. Secretary i think that confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of coordination for the Coronavirus
Mr. Jeffries there will be legislation to deal with the epidemic and ecigarettes that are targeting young people, communities of color in a way that has Devastating Health consequences and of course, most importantly, as we will hear from momentarily, we heard from the lobbyists on the importance of the continued fight to protect health care for every day americans. Our fight to protect people with preexisting conditions to Lower Health Care costs to increased access for every single american to high Quality Affordable Health Care is not a paper fight, but a fight with reallife consequences. That is why the presentation from the lobbyists earlier and their presence has been has been so meaningful to us because this is an administration that has attacked the health care of Everyday Americans from day one. And has resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of children from their Health Care Providers in a meaningful way as a recent study just confirmed. Well hear from them momentarily. Bu
Government accountability offices new report which concluded that the White House Budget Office violated the law when it froze u. S. Military aid to ukraine. Ms. Pelosi spook good morning, everyone. How are you. As ive said over and over again, every day that were involved in this impeachment is a sad day for america. Yesterday was one when we were given no choice but to send to the senate two articles of impeachment against donald trump, the president of the united states. For his the president necessitated this by his abuse of power and obstruction of congress and his actions which undermined our National Security , violated his oath of office to protect and defend the constitution, and jeopardized the pinteg i have to our elections. Everyday new and incriminating information comes forward and you are well aware of the hearing and that speaks very clearly the need for the senate to enter the documentation into their discussion. Today and this is the Government Accountability Office C
Was in his hometown of scranton pennsylvania to talk about his economic proposals and other issues facing class families. [inaudible conversations] ima teacher and president of tha federation of teachers. [applause] i would like to say im on the executive board and Vice President of the aflcio said that sort of tells you who i am. [applause] im extremely proud i was asked to do this introduction. I am honored about this happenei to me. I told them that these things could happen but i didnt think that they were going to happen to me. I would like to say how much i am appreciative joe biden entered this race not just because they are friendly, but he absolutely appreciate education, public education. [cheering] my district is and what they inl Financial Recovery which means we are broke. If we were unique that would be all right, but we are not. You know how many times teachers throughout this country have had to fight to get the health care or salaries that they deserve. One of the thin