To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
That is seniors adviser, Stephen Miller. In a statement miller said over the last 5 days hes been working remotely and selfisolating testing negative every day through yesterday today he tested positive for covid19 and he says he is in quarantine is just the latest white house official to get sick after at least 10 others have tested positive and this just in minutes ago president ial candidate by joe biden says quote we should not have the debate next week if the president is still testing positive for the coronavirus. So there is a lot to process tonight our washington dc correspondent Trevor Shirley joins us now live with the very latest travel, lets start with the president s condition and the latest on whos getting sick. Hey good evening. So at this point the president s team of doctors say that he is responding to their treatment but hes not out of the woods just yet weve also learned today that there are more people close to the president who are either suspecting theyve exposed
Answering phone calls and should say it was not done according to what i would have recommended. Doct us virus expert and a member of the Coronavirus Task force today saying that President Trump has not handled his Covid Recovery the way that fauci would have recommended that includes driving around Walter Reed Medical Center to wave to supporters and leaving the Medical Center after just 3 days tonight, trump remains under quarantine isolated in the white house residence and he remains under treatment. This morning, the president posted on social media downplaying the virus said hes currently battling. He said covid is far less lethal than the flu. Which is not true. According to the data that we have on both facebook removed the post twitter flagged it as misinformation accompanied by Public Interest notice. The president s downplay of the virus as many survivors and people who have lost loved ones to the pandemic quite frankly angry tonight as you can imagine and well President Trum
President also tweeted the house and senate should immediately approved 25 billion dollars for Airline Payroll support and 135 billion dollars for Paycheck Protection Program for small business. Both of these will be fully paid for with unused funds from the cares act have this money i will sign now president is now appearing walk back. Comments that he made earlier when. President trump tweeted that House Speaker nancy pelosi is not negotiating in good faith adding that the speaker is asking for 2. 4 trillion dollars to bail out what he calls poorly run high crime democratic states he then asked that Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, direct all his before the election into confirming his u. S. Supreme court nominee, amy coney barrett. And tonight, another persons surrounding the president has tested positive for covid19 Stephen Miller, trump Senior Adviser and speechwriter is the latest to be added to that list in a statement miller said over the last 5 days that he had been wor
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