Coverage. Blake burman at the white house. Edward lawrence in washington. Well start with you, blake. Reporter jackie, last night during the Coronavirus Briefing President Trump first floated this idea of him potentially going down the path of trying to get a cut on capitalgains taxes going forward. Here is what im told according to sources. Right now the white house is exploring that idea, looking into it and doing so via the form of an executive order because there would be little to no appetite within washington, d. C. Right now of doing that legislatively, especially when you consider what the grand picture is with everything. Weve just heard some of it from Mitch Mcconnell within the last half hour or so. Both sides, democrats, republicans, still 2 1 2 trillion dollars apart. Both side right now not even talking. They are also acknowledging that this is going at least for the moment, nowhere. Watch. We are i will two sit down as long as it is a serious negotiation. Thus far it has
Mary, what does ill tell us it tell us about the economy . Mary i think its good news and what we had to say in all of this is we are not getting back to february any time soon because unless we have the virus basically solved, there are lots of economies that are not going to open and the fact that we are doing better than just threading water here, make gains, thats good news. In the in the half halffull camp i would say theres less momentum. We had better momentum in june and may and we are still down 13 million jobs and as we try to get below 10 unemployment, now at 10. 2, thats where it becomes more difficult to restore those jobs short of a vaccine. Paul jason, it would seem on marys momentum point that the flareup in the summer to have virus in the south and South Western States did seem to slow the growth of of jobs, you did see a lot of restaurant jobs, a lot of Leisure Hospitality jobs come back but theres still millions that that are on the sidelines. Bill yeah, striking in
This is a ktvu fox special zip trip. The power of community. Welcome to the oakland zoo. Look at the last picture. Its so nice to see it opened again. Its been part of the community for nearly a century. Today its home to 750 native animals. Its been a long five months for those that were cold in there and for the families that love to learn about the species from around the world. It nearly forced it to close for good. Now, its back open with limited capacity and new Health Guidelines iwelcome to our special zip trip. Elbow, everyone. I am filling in for mike. I am pretty excited here to just see the zoo and have people going in. Its awesome. Yeah, it really is. Heard all on the brink. When you buy a ticket youre supporting the mission of the zoo and the animals at the zoo. I think that the entire community rallied. Were going tuck about that during the zip trip. Yeah, i am actually. Who does not love the sear for crying out loud. 90 of the revenue comes from the gates. When they clos
Cspan radio app. Joining us from the d. C. Bureau of abc news is Jonathan Karl chief white housewh correspondent for abc news. His new book, truck front row at the trump show last year he served as the president of the White House Correspondents Association thank you for coming back to cspan we appreciate it. It want to begin what you wrote with the Washington Post for this last weekend you wrote the following, as a reporter and president of the White House Correspondents Association ive often advocated a return of regular briefings by the White House Press secretary which lasted early 18 america over the years can be debated by think the white house spokesperson has an obligation to regularly answer questions aboutha the policies and pronounces of the executive branch for the whiteus House Press Secretary differs fundamentally from that of a spokesperson for a candidate or Political Party the White House Press secretary serves at the pleasure of the president but also a Public Servant
Cspan. Org. New york Times Economics and tax reporter joins us now via zoom for the conversation about joe bidens campaign you series of economic plants. The first of which was released last week. The second came yesterday. He first explained the pitch that the Biden Campaign was making would these spending and Economic Investment plans. Thank you so much for having me. Its a pleasure to be here. Which will biden is trying to do is counter President Trump on the economy. President won election in part on the string of a very populous pitch for workers who feel left behind and in the current economy and in particular, biden making lots of appeals to the industrial midwest about manufacturing. The first part of joe bidens new plan that he put out last week its called build better back or build back better. It is an alliteration. A little like a little laugh love of the economy. What the vice, the former Vice President wants to do with that plan is to promote much more of a by american et