A brief history of its passage and why it is current, now. For havingks so much me, again. I love being on your program to talk with you and your viewers. About this extremely essential amendment that we need to place on the constitution. The constitution needs to be fixed one more time. It has been amended, 20 seven times. The e. R. A. Would be the 28th amendment. It will effectively say that you in factibit it would put into the constitution prohibiting discrimination by sex. That is a major advancement in our constitution. Prohibit this termination. That is why we need it. It would be to put women into the constitution. , it did notitten include women. Women were deliberately left out. Yesterday, we had a huge day in the house of representatives. Delegates and representatives passed a bill by jackie speier, from california, that would dissolve the time limit that was imposed on the e. R. A. Bill, when it was passed by congress in 1972. So, where we are now with the equal rights amen
Well get into that as well. Deirdre bolton has all the fast moving developments from the big board. Neil what a week, what a week indeed. This is the worst week for the dow weve seen since 2018. Just the volatility alone today. As we can see down 470 points. We were down more than 900 points earlier. I want to highlight quickly some of the stocks that are limiting the losses on the dow. You have two pharmaceuticals, not a huge surprise in the backdrop of these fears about the coronavirus spreading and one staple which also does sell face masks. Merck and pfizer, we know merck has had a long history of developing vaccines. So you do have the stock moving higher limiting some of the losses. Pfizer as well, and 3m which does make the face masks. If you look at some drags on the average, part. Reason today, why were seeing so much weight you have apple, microsoft, two Huge Tech Companies that both have exposure to china. Apple in 2019 got 17 of revenue from china, microsoft about 10 . Both
Said the United States overnment must address the spread of this deadly oronavirus in a smart, strategic, and serious way. E stand ready to work in a bipartisan fashion in congress and with the administration to achieve the necessary goal. Lives are at stake. This is not a time for amecalling or playing politics. The first step that Congress Must take is to ensure that the resources has the needed to combat this deadly safe. And keep americans then we go on to some of the that we think we need to go with it, but thats, inbox. In your earlier this week, yesterday, actually, i said that the American People need a of dinated, whole government, fully funded response to keep us safe from threat. Navirus unfortunately, and this is the my telling this unfortunately, up until now, the administration has often chaotic response to this outbreak. Hey left critical positions acant, in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security council and the department of homeland security, them vacant
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Carol jenkins discusses efforts to ratify the equal rights amendment. And at 845 a. M. , brandon judd from the immigration and Border Control to discuss the administrations approach to border host in a network news interview last night, william barr was sharply critical of President Trumps comments, tweets regarding the roger stone case, the prosecutors involved, and the judge as well. 2020. Friday, february 14, we will show you some of that interview in a moment and ask in theut your confidence attorney general and do you agree or disagree of his criticism with President Trump. Here is how to call in. Republicans use 2027488001. Democrat, 2027488000. For independents, that line, 2027488002. Send us a text if you would like. Sure you003 and make include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter, we are cspanwj and our Facebook Page is facebook. Com cspan. Just a quick recap on the roger stone case, he was convicted of a number of federal crimes including lying to congress sc