Increase of 2 1 2 . There is some positive news. 20 deaths reported after five days in which they ranged from 64 to 87 per day. The total death toll is now more than 5500. Governor newsom gave a briefing and said hospital spaces were up 16 and those in need of intensive care up 11 . Ktvus tom vacar with more on the uptick of casings. Reporter were not a dispersed wave. Were not into the second wave. Were not out of the first wave. Since all this began as of june 20th, california has had almost 174,000 coronavirus pandemic cases up 450 okays, plus from the previous day. The largest increase since april. Those that suggest were out of the woods, those that suggest that somehow it is going to dis appear, these numbers tell a very, very different and sobering story. The cases are essentially balanced between male and female. 95,500 are in the 18 to 49 age group with all other anyone groups accounting for 78,000 cases. In all, 5500 californians have died with males dying more frequently tha
Advance. Everyone needs a chance to prosper. And broadband, the internet, modern communications is to us what pencil and tablet was to my greatgrandparents 100 years ago. Peter lets bring our guest reporter, gopal ratnam, from cq roll call into our conversation. Gopal thank you for having me, peter. And congressman lucas, thank you for taking this time to speak. I want to ask you about the proposal you have, that you put out in january, asking for an increase in spending on federal r d. Among the things that you called for is a boost in spending on Artificial Intelligence, biotech and quantum computing. But given the pandemic we are amidst now, 120,000 plus americans have died, is there anything that you would change in terms of areas of focus, areas of research where such federal spending to be applied . Could be applied . Rep. Lucas i think what we have seen in recent weeks demonstrates not just the need, but the magnitude of the resources that are necessary. When legislation was bei
Vice president pence good afternoon. We just completed a briefing with governor ducey to therizonas response rising number of coronavirus cases. Few reflections on what we have heard and what we are determined to do. Before that, let me take a moment to reflect on another aspect of this day. A huge win for the people of arizona. For american workers, farmers, and ranchers. And that is that as of today, the usmca has taken effect. Told, this state in trade with mexico and canada supports 20 billion annually. I will dig this opportunity particularly to thank governor doug ducey for his efforts in moving the usmca through the congress. President trump committed to renegotiating nafta in a way to put american jobs, american workers, farmers and ranchers first, and we have done that. And that promise was kept when the usmca took affected a. So governor took affect today. So governor ducey, you have our sincere respects. President trump asked us to be here today. With the dramatic rise of co
I am pleased to inform everyone that seattle has an liberated area the capital hill autonomous zone, chaz, was a failed fourweek democrat experiment by the radical left and the results are in. Anarchy is antiamerican. Law and order is essential. Peace in our streets will be secured. While the democrat mayor of seattle proclaimed that chaz was to be, quote, the summer of love, in fact it was not. Another failed democrat politicians remain passive or silent in the face of anarchy. While that happened, President Trump set the tone. Law and order must prevail to preserve peace in our streets. The president has not the democrat governor of the state of washington. The president is not the democrat mayor of seattle. But nevertheless the president must lead by example and be prepared to act in the face of failed democrat leadership which is what we saw in democrat seattle and democrat wisconsin. President trump has stood on the side of law and order and were pleased to report that law and ord
You can describe it, connell. John bolton, the former National Security advisor for President Trump, his book is set to be due out on tuesday and an excerpt has been published, wall street journal, other outlets i believe as it relates to President Trumps meetings with president xi facetoface when it came to hammering out the trade deal between the two countries and it raises some serious questions about those oneonone interactions. In a passage just posted to the wall street journal, bolton writes, in his book, the following, he says, quote, trump then stunningly turned conversation to the coming u. S. President ial election alluding to chinas economic capability and pleading with xi to insure hed win, he, the president , stressed importance of farmers and increased purchases of chinese soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print trumps exact words, bolton writes but the government prepublication review process decided otherwise. On the last sentence, department of just