A look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week we are joined by Daniel Strauss, a senior political reporter with the guardian and steve dennis, reporter with bloomberg. Now that supplemental is passed, the money is on his way out the door, what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus p what should we look for on that front . Talking aboutre assorted other things to get done. Everything from paid sick leave for workers, a quarter of the workers the United States on have sick leave and there sort of other things they want including making sure testing is free, the treatments are affordable, that sort of thing. It will be interesting to see if they can get any of this on the floor this week. Theres a lot of other things going on this week. With markets plunging this morning and all the futures, you might hear more talk of doing some kind of stimulus. The last time we had this market shock was 2008. Remember what happened then. There were
And last night, joe was i was al gores cfo and Senior Advisor. I just want to say this, i understandably jubilant. Watch for a just a few days ago the press had declared the just it is very important for us to be very careful when campaign dead. Things pass in the 80s, [booing] and then came South Carolina. 90s, early to thousands, lets remember most of these people were in a room doing their dad gum best to address [cheering] and we are told we got to the situation like he said high crime rates. Super tuesday would be over. While it may be over for the at that moment in time there other guy. Was no mall intense, i agree with you and joe biden has kennedy the main line right said that that crime bill did into sleep joes heart. Not turn out the way showed but joe, me and joe had to up. Kennedy i understand that and have a hilarious gaff watch now hindsight is much easier to say we would have done this. They dont called super tuesday for nothing. By the way, zero no this is my things dif
Understandably jubilant. Watch for a just a few days ago the press had declared the campaign dead. [booing] and then came South Carolina. [cheering] and we are told we got to super tuesday would be over. While it may be over for the other guy. Kennedy the main line right into sleep joes heart. But joe, me and joe had to have a hilarious gaff watch this. They dont called super tuesday for nothing. By the way, zero no this is my wife this is my sister they switched on me. Kennedy sounds like your honeymoon joe, Bernie Sanders on the other hand the democrat machine trying to steal the nomination from him. Watch. What does campaign is increasingly about, is which side are you on . There has been never a campaign in recent history which has taken on the entire political establishment. And that is an establishment that is working frantically to try to defeat us. Kennedy they are, that hes right. That brings us to michigan one of six states of the primary this coming tuesday, four years ago.
Cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Joining us is kim chapman. The executive joining us is kate ackley who covers congress for roll call and daddy or, the house report of politico which is where we will begin. Thanks for joining us today. Bit of a news on this thursday, roger stone a former trump associate was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to federal prosecutors as part of the russia probe, i just wanted to get your take on whether or not thats a fair sentence and whether you agree with some of the statements President Trump is made. Its lower than initially thought. I know the president has some issues with it. Obviously infractions were made, its a felony. I think its a problem and i think the sentence make sense but i will leave it up to the people and Legal Community to figure that out. Do think he received a fair trial . From my vantage point, yes. He is the latest in a series of Trump Campaign officials now facing prison time or in prison, this i
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