Cspan2. Next, attorney general william barr holding a briefing on the governments response to protests across america after the death of george floyd. He discussed how federal Law Enforcement is continuing to protect americans who are peacefully protesting, but will actively pursue those who loot and cause violence. This is one hour. A. G. Barr good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us at this remote press conference. Over the constitution avenue entrance to this building is a latin inscription that translates, everything is created by law and order. That ancient principal still holds true. Our free Society Depends on the rule of law, the assurance ordinary citizens can go about their lives without being subject to arbitrary violence or fear. When the rule of law breaks down, the promise of america does also. Our nation is confronting two serious challenges to the rule of law. The first is a longstanding one that was recently crystallized and driven home by the killing of geo
Calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Earlier today pennsylvanian tumbled held a News Conference on the protest and civil unrest across the street. He also announced to address Police Misconduct rated build community and encourage transparency. This is half an hour. Good afternoon pretty we could just start with a moment of silence in the honor of george floyd. The service descended in minneapolis. [silence]. Statement thank you. As americans, it is our duty to continuously strive to build a better democracy. Right now a result is being tested. Todays ago, george floyd was murdered. Brutally pinned down by Police Officers buzzing him to suffocate. George was on the First American he was like to be killed by a Police Officer. Far from it. Pennsylvania and the markets are joining together to defend the adult long to change. From testing has been an essential part of democracy. In fact protesters have been occurring, throughout the nation over the last couple of days have do
If you missed any of our live coverage, watch anytime on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held her Weekly Briefing with reporters. She talked about the use of military and federal Law Enforcement agencies in response to protest and feature a just race and future legislation. This is half an hour. Good afternoon. Theres so much going on. Thank you for accommodating our change in schedule today. As you probably are aware, this afternoon i sent a letter to the president expressing concern about the increased militarization and lack of clarity that may increase chaos. I plan to request a full list of the agencies involved and clarifications of the roles and responsibilities of the troops and federal Law Enforcement sources operating in the city. Well, i preface it by saying as you probably saw, the military on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The what is it . Ill read it to you. Soldiers on the steps of the Lincoln Memoria
To make matters worse they didnt provide clarity in terms of what the authority is or is not and thats what unfortunately now we will have to rely a lot on Public Health officials in order to be able to stand up and combat a Global Pandemic on a local level. We are going to be moving forward with rulemaking. Dhs submitted a statement to so today but the court did a great disservice to the state by not providing clarity and somewhat that rule can accomplish. Thank you, emily. Now to jeremy from milwaukee. With confusion around the various regulations, will dhs be doing other than with regard to tracking . Will they be any guidance and what should be included in that . Obviously we start engaging conversations with our local Public Health partners last evening, as folks have looked to us for guidance and help in thinking through those, what they might want to do at the local level and will continue have those conversations as additional local jurisdictions make plans and decisions about
Good afternoon. I have an announcement for you for hospital funding in the third phase of Coronavirus Relief. The trumpet ministration will distribute 12 billion to 395 hospitals across the country that have been hardest hit by the covid19 pandemic. These hospitals have collectively cared for 70 of the 184,000 americans that required hospital inpatient care. 10 billion of the 12 billion will go toward hospitals treating 100 or more covid19 admissions. Hhs is distributive and additional 2 billion to these 300 95 hospitals in proportion to the amount of care they provide to low income and uninsured patients. This is consistent with our effort to ensure americans who need federal government assistance the most receive it. We will be releasing a breakdown of the states receiving this funding and the counties receiving this funding, but new york, new jersey, and illinois received the most funding by state, while new york, new york, the bronx received the most per county as determined by our