Does he have the ability to do this, do you agree with the decision . Sen. Schumer i agree with the decision and i know that he will check things out legally. Thank you, everybody. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] a we take you live to discussion on fiscal policy in the Incoming Biden Administration and congress, hosted by the brookings institution. Size i think is ambiguous and policy occur through a political process. I would rather see something that is a little bit smaller but that could pass this week or next week, rather than wait for something that is a little bit until, but will not pass february. If you look at the output gap, i think a trillion dollars is a reasonable figure for the next round of stimulus. I think democrats should be willing to take a couple hundred billion dollars less than that. Republicans should be willing to take a couple hundred billion dollars more
The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
We will get your thoughts on what grade you would give your governor on this pandemic, but lets begin with south dakotas governor. Take a look at the state. This is from nbc news. A 19 increase over the past two weeks. Here is republican south dakota governor kristi noem defending her approach. [video clip] across the country and around the globe, cases are increasing. Over the past week, cases are on the rise in 48 states. Some have said that my refusal to mandate masks is the reason why our cases are rising here in the state of south dakota. That is not true. Others have said that my refusal to advance harsh restrictions like lockdowns is another one of the reasons why our cases are rising, and that is also not true. There are 41 states that have some kind of a mask mandate. Cases are on the rise in 39 of those 41 states. Some in the media are saying that south dakota is the worst in the world right now. That is absolutely false. I would encourage you to look at the Johns Hopkins cor
There was a tongan merchant inine with vessels built europe. The planes will bring more and more tourists to the friendly island. More islanders will leave to study in other countries. Under the leadership of the queen and the prime minister, tongas isolation is disappearing. The latest government has been prudent and progressive. Rule of prosperity without destroying traditional customs. Looking forward to the expansion of trade, the government carefully considered the effective increase of cutbacks to the outside world. It was realized there was a very definite and growing threat to the tongan people. The population was totally unprotected against smallpox. And smallpox is a disease which is rampant throughout southeast asia. This was tongas problem, to vaccinate a vulnerable population of 70,000 against smallpox. To do it immediately and inexpensively. [singing] tonga inrty came to march of 1964 in response to a request by the tongan government. There were five of us from the u. S.
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer we take you live to indiana where Governor Eric Holcomb is giving an update on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. We join this news briefing in common in progress. We need to be there to help answer the calls they have. And i think that our Hospital System is incredibly wellpositioned to do that. They have been amazing partners from the very beginning of this pandemic. Abigail with the brown county democrat. Good afternoon, governor. Happy thanksgiving to both of you. I have two questions. I think they are probably both for dr. Box p i first question is which days data were used to inform the decision to change counties color statuses today . We see for brown county, test results from november 19 to march 4 our preliminary. We know test results were taking as long as a w