Benefits expire last night. And the coronavirus keeps surging confirm cases topping four and a half million. More than 150,000 americans died. We have fox team coverage. Alicia acuna in denver but first Mark Meredith live at the white house. Mark. Good evening molly for some nearly 30 million americans debate over next economic stimulus package hits close to home because up until now they were getting additional 6 harks week on top of state jobless benefits. That is no longer the case. Democrats are trying to do all they can to extend the enhance Unemployment Insurance program the program that just wrapped up. White house they are open to extension but not clear for how long. Top democrats say they are making progress but remain far from a final deal. Were not close yet. But it was a productive discussion now each side knows where theyre at. And qoar going work hard to come to an agreement. White house and some republicans have long argued, though, that extending that program could enc
The idea of a comprehensive Coronavirus Relief bill socalled phase four appears to be off the table right now. What the white house and Republican Senate are trying to work on is a smaller module to enact measure with enhanced unemployment for people as well as eviction protection for those hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. The white house chief of staff mark meadows and Steve Mnuchin, the secretary of the treasury says that they met with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer yesterday, they made four proposals including a oneweek extension of the 600 enhanced Unemployment Insurance that is currently in place now and expires today in order to give more time for negotiations, but the nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer rejected all of those proposals, heres what the president said earlier this afternoon. I told my people, the democrats do not care about the people of our country, they do not want to do what you should be doing for the people of our country. Whether it is unemployment or anything
Understand that the president will be meeting with the leadership of the National Association, so we want to get that first, of Police Organizations. He spoke just moments ago. Do we have that yet . I dont believe we have it yet. They are just keeping it up. The event was almost an hour long, so they are queuing it up right now to the question and answer, which i believe will be short. But the president was in with a number of members of the National Association of Police Organization leadership, including from the Florida Police benevolent association. He was on fox friends this morning talking about the reason why those Police Organizations are endorsing President Trump this year. In 2008 and 2012 those organizations endorsed president obama and joe biden. So, thats a big blow to president to Vice President biden, in his reelection. We are told we are just 60 seconds away now from it. Here point, that you said coming into this, the president saying joe biden wants to defend police. I
30 million without that benefit at least for now. Mark meredith is live at the white house with the latest on where the negotiation goes from here. Reporter democrats say the enhanced Unemployment Benefits impact the majority of americans that have been struggling since march. The white house appears morey gear to extend the benefits but its unclear for how long and how much money that may be the case. The negotiations, they are still ongoing. We heard from white house chief of staff mark meadows who spoke right after wrapping up the rare saturday negotiation session. Were a long ways apart. I dont want to suggest that a deal is imminent because it is not. But like with any deal, as you make progress, i think its important to recognize that youre making progress. And not set an unrealistic expectation that were just a few items away. Because theres still substantial differences. Reporter democrats also called todays meeting productive but say they too remain far from a firm deal. Congr
And pelosi and schumer. Missing with that a Mitch Mcconnell. And we will get into the negotiations and whats at stake in a minute. First to a social media storm, tiktok is now responding to President Trumps threats. The popular chineseowned Video App Company saying its quote, not planning on going anywhere. Lucas tomlinson live from the pentagon, there are serious questions about tiktoks security issues. Hi, lucas. Hi, leland. In a move likely to make parents rejoice, but teenagers to freak out, ticktoparticula move to make them share some of their american holders. We may be banning tiktok or a couple of options, a lot is happening. Well see whats happening, but were looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to tiktok. The president later told reporters on air force one he will be banning tiktok as soon as today using emergency economic powers. U. S. Owned microsoft reportedly opened talks to purchase the popular app. U. S. Officials long warned that the Chinese Government uses th