Coming up next on cspan, newsmakers with agricultural secretary tom vill sack vilsack. Tom vilsack joins us. Two reporters to help us with them from we have bloomberg years news. This week the House Senate Farm bill to go shooters held their first session. House let me what backup a little bit, the treasury secretary said it was important to have a farm bill. Is the white house going to negotiations,he to help settle that issue . The senator has repeatedly said he wants the house to help solve that issue. Is important to not focus on numbers, which in washington dc, we focus on and try to figure out what is the right number, i think that is the wrong question. I think the right question is what is the right policy . Theusda will be engaged to extent that the committees need us to be engaged to try and make sure that the policy is right. Theres obviously some concern on the part of some about the and requirements in snap whether they need to be more stringent or more strict. I think it
And new jersey specifically has instituted a curfew with only essential travel permitted from 5 00 in the evening to 8 00 in the morning. And it is possible many more states will follow suit as sources say the Trump Administration is actively discussing strongly recommending all states establish a curfew, all of this is in an effort to stop the march of the coronavirus across the United States. Quick numbers for you, right now, more than 3800 people in the United States are infected with 68 deaths and at least one case in every single state except west virginia. Just in to cnn now, President Trump is now calling on governors to try to secure additional medical equipment on their own, not to wait for the federal government to intervene. Straight to Kaitlan Collin at the white house for that. Kaitlan, why is he saying that . Reporter so they had this call, the president and all the governors on this telecall and one thing that he did say, according to someone who is familiar with that ca
Lets get straight to Kaitlan Collins at the white house who broke this news. What are you hearing . Reporter President Trump was furious with his attorney general Jeff Sessions yet again yesterday and for those keeping score at home, heres what happened. The president sent this tweet saying the department of justice was acting, and the attorney general were disgraceful for the way they were handling those alleged abuses of surveillance and though Jeff Sessions remained silent over the last years the president attacked him time and time again, calling him weak and beleaguered and saying he regretted picking him as a attorney general, Jeff Sessions finally pushed back and very public pushback at that, because he issued a statement, essentially defending the department of justice, defending those lawyers and his position as attorney general and that is something that did not sit well with President Trump and im told by those familiar with his demeanor he was actually indignant over the wa
Southwest of austin. There was an explosion here on a Conveyor Belt. A medium sized package. We have heard reports that it was sent by somebody in austin, to somebody in austin, the atf has not yet confirmed that to us. Then shortly after 6 00 a. M. This morning, a call went into austin pd of a suspicious package at another fedex sorting facility up near the austin airport. No word on whether that turned out to be a device or just a suspicious package. But as you mentioned, there has been a spree of bombings in austin since march 2nd. Three parcels were left on peoples doorsteps, detonated, killing two people, injuring one woman, and then sunday night there was a trip wire that triggered another device injuring two men. So this is an ever changing investigation. Initially the police, the authorities, the 500 federal agents down here, were looking for somebody hand delivering packages to homes. Then mo changed. There was the trip wire. And now these packages apparently sent through fede
Days ago that the North Koreans are saying it is preposterous to think they would sit down with a condition of talking to the u. S. , which had to include denuclearization. They dropped that now and they say they are willing to talk about denuclearization, that they are also willing, during those talks and also, i should clarify, during the talks with the South Koreans, that they would halt any what they described as strategic provocations, john. And they actually explicitly talked about test missile firing and also Nuclear Weapons tests as well. So very, very clear about that. The caveat is that they said that they would have they were prepared to have a denuclearized Korean Peninsula completely as long as their own security could be guaranteed. We dont know exactly what they mean by that, you could think an example about their security, tens of thousands of u. S. Troops here in south korea. This all comes as the delegation from south korea returned from pyongyang. We know they have g