Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
Clock to show you how much time is remaining. All members and witnesses need to be especially mindful of the fiveminute clock. At 30 seconds remaining ill , gently tap the gavel to remind members their time has expired. To simplify the speaking order process, the commission has decided to order ourselves alphabetically. With that, welcome to this virtual hearing convened by the congressional oversight commission, pursuant to section 4020 of title 4, subtitle of the cares act, the Commission Must conduct oversight of the 500 billion authorized for the Exchange Stabilization fund. As part of our oversight work, the commission has decided to hold this hearing today which will examine the main Street Lending facilities. The Federal Reserve established the main Street Programs to support lending to small and mediumsized businesses, and nonprofit organizations that were sound before the covid pandemic. The program operates through five facilities which we will learn more about this morning.
Value and we find that we take you live now to the white house where the president a newsduled to give conference to reporters. Pres. Trump it seems to me, from what i said, it was a shooting. It was Law Enforcement shot someone. Seems to be the suspect, and the suspect is now on the way to the hospital. I cannot tell you the condition of the suspect. There was nobody else injured, no other Law Enforcement injured. And i just want to i will get onto the press conference, but i want to thank secret service. They are fantastic. The job they did [indiscernible] pres. Trump from what i understand, the answer is yes. With what type of weapon . Pres. Trump i do not know that. Was it a male or female suspect . Pres. Trump they will have a detailed, maybe a briefing for you, outside, later. Anything against you, personally . Pres. Trump i do not know. It may not have had anything to do with me. It may have been something else. But it was on the outside of the premises. As you know, the fencing
Director of the aspen strategy group. I should say good morning to the Prime Minister of australia. And to everybody in australia. It is a real honor for us to welcome scott morrison, the Prime Minister of our great ally australia. He leads one of the strongest and most impressive allies of the United States and arguably in arguably the most important region of the world, the indo pacific. In his two years of Prime Minister he has heard the , country through several crises, the wildfires of last autumn, the covid19 crisis where australia has an , impressive record. In Foreign Policy the Prime Minister led a research and of australias influence in the south pacific. Australia was the first government to exclude huawei from its 5g network. Australia is currently undergoing, as are many other countries in the world, a challenge from china on many fronts. With the United States, india and japan, and others. Prime minister, i have the Great Fortune to spend three weeks and australia. Id wor
19th. 19th news. Org is the upside. A first time guest, welcome to washington journal. Guest thank you so much for having me. I am so happy to be here. Host thank you for watching. We look forward to hearing about your new organization. Tell us about the 19th. How did it get started . What is the mission . Just the 19th began before the iowa caucuses. The idea was born about four years ago right after the 2016 elections. Had anraham shaw election where we saw in juice issues of gender on full display. Nomination and yet the narrative around gender was with that election were the same as they have been for so many cycles. Questions around electability, likability. Four years later, we started to see, even with six women and a certain number of women running for president , the same narratives and tropes again. Factoring their way into the election cycle. Emily felt an urgent need to create a newsroom where women were discussed, not just as a special Interest Group but as the majority of