8 00 p. M. Eastern on the communicators on cspan2. President trump spoke in the oval office about another possible coronavirus aid package for the present was joined by Vice President mike pence, treasury secretary steven the newton and were publican leaders Mitch Mcconnell and kevin mccarthy. Thank you very much. You have asked to see what is going on at our meetings and i figured to let you come in and you will look and see that we have a lot of good things happening. We have tremendous progress on vaccines and therapeutics we are getting reports and studying the reports very closely. I think people will be pleasantly surprised with what is going on the vaccine front and the therapeutic front. That is always the first topic. Secondarily, but very importantly, we are working and negotiating with the democrats on trying to get a plan that helps Small Businesses and helps people and helps this country and i think we have made a lot of progress on that in the discussions are going on. St
Promising results from both of them. Later, we are expecting news from astrazeneca, thats a british company. They are going to announce the results of their phase 1 trials of a covid vaccine. Now, positive news on a vaccine usually moves the market. It certainly did last week, and i think its helping futures this morning, too. There is news on a new stimulus plan. The president says he would not approve any plan that did not include a payroll tax cut. All right. Now look at the market. It has turned around. Earlier today we were way on the down side. But now we have moved to the upside i think its on the strength of this vaccine news. The dow held to the 26, 600 level last week. 8,000 points above where it was when President Trump won election. By the way, a new the Washington Post abc news poll showed joe biden with a 15point lead, 5540. This is 106 days before the november vote. We will be talking a lot about election risk on todays program. Then theres this. For the 54th straight da
Steve, do you want to say a few words where we are . Yes, mr. President. Mark and i have been working past few weeks with mitch and kevin what we see is jobs. Cus is kids and the recovery act, cares 4. 0. We spent an unprecedented amount of money. Of it, 3 trillion, we still have left to put in the economy and put back to work. Focused on starting with another 1 trillion. E think that will make a big impact. The focus is, as i said, is jobs and ut kids and vaccines. Were going to make sure we have a vaccine by the end of the year for emergency use. And the plan is we just updated the president and vice president. This. Igned off on mark and i will be meeting tomorrow with the republicans at a full h to give them briefing and then we will also be reaching out to the democrats our discussions. But we are committed that by the make sure month, before the enhanced Unemployment Insurance expires that we pass so that we can protect americans that are unemployed. Number one issue is, we have
Very pleasantly surprised whats going on the vaccine front and the therapeutic front. And that is always the first topic. Secondarily but very importantly, were working and negotiating with the democrats on trying to get a plan that helps small businesses, helps people, helps this country. And i think we made a lot of progress on that and the discussions are going on. Steve, do you want to say a few words where we are . Secretary mnuchin yes, mr. President. Mark and i have been working hard in the past few weeks with mitch and kevin on what we see is the focus, is kids and jobs. The recovery act, cares 4. 0. We spent an unprecedented amount of money. The good news is a lot of the 3 trillion, we still have left to put in the economy and put back to work. Were focused on starting with another 1 trillion. We think that will make a big impact. The focus is, as i said, is really about kids and jobs and vaccines. Were going to make sure we have a vaccine by the end of the year for emergency
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