Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good sign. We are setting to see the beginning of surge
Host good afternoon, all. I am miles coleman. On behalf of the charleston, columbia and greenville, South Carolina chapters of the society, i am delighted to welcome you to our event today. We are excited to be hosting senator graham and a moment. Good afternoon and welcome. Let me make a couple of brief housekeeping announcements and we will get right down to what we are here for. First, we have a pride for cle credit in South Carolina. If you would like credit for attending this event, i ask you submit a record of your attendance. Use the q a function and send a message that will be viewable only by me has your name and South Carolina bar number. About halfway through, i will ask you to do it again to make sure you are still with us. And at the conclusion, i will ask you one last time. I also want to very briefly preview a couple of upcoming events. We would love to see you there. Next week on thursday, we will be having a virtual roundtable. Next week on thursday at 2 00, we will be
Im thrilled to be back at the jupiter inlet. Its a great state, the state of florida. Sit down, everybody. Sunshine state is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth. I love it and we will together preserve its breathtaking natural splendor for generations to come. We are here today to celebrate our incredible record of natural comps conservation. I have been working with your governors. Your current governors fantastic and weve been working very hard. Weve been working hard to make sure everything is perfect. Andrew wheeler, thank you. And Governor Ron Desantis who ran a great campaign, hes a great governor. What a great job he did. We will let you know on november 3 if he did a great job. I want to introduce Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez who is such a fantastic friend and supporter, thank you very much. One of the great attorney generals anywhere in the country, ashley moody, thank you very much. Cfo, jimmy, thank you. Man who everybody loves, hes highly respected in wash
Bill that they passed a couple months ago, but also even smaller than the one that was closer to 1 trillion back in july put over by republicans. It would include some cuts to the cares act to help offset the cost. The whole goal was to coalesce the republican conference around one bill, open to get at least one vote and it seems like you will get that. Host when it comes to the justification of the small figure, go deeper into the majority leaders thinking. A lot of republicans have been concerned about the amount of spending that has taken place, at least 3 trillion. If you take the cares act as a , and a lot of that money had not even been set out yet and so remained in the treasury. A lot of republicans have said lets see and wait until that money is spent first. This particular bill that republicans are putting forward now would sort of fill the gap. Things like the paycheck protection program, for instance. For the people at home, specifically, maybe theyve received a previous st