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Said that the evidence suggests that nationwide were at the peak on new cases whats your evidence for that where the numbers well all were doing is looking at the numbers were looking at our graphs were looking at our models were getting a great response from deborah and from tony and from many of the professionals that are working we have great professionals working with us and i think based on that where were doing very well based on that it looks like were headed absolutely in the right direction but some states are looking at other states and theyre saying i cant imagine what theyre going through because theyre not in that position theyre in very good shape i would say that we have 20 states at least but you really have 29 that are an extremely good shape you have others that are getting much better and i think with almost a few exceptions you have every state that is either doing better or on the way to doing better yet place. That one on your threat to adjourn or. Circuit adjourn
Is even there has prevented me from using the Constitutional Authority that were given, that were given under the recess provisions. The senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees or it should formally adjourn so that i can make recess appointments. We have tremendous number of people that have to come into government and now more so than ever before because of the virus and the problem. We have to do it and we have to do whatever we have to do. They have made it very, very difficult to run government. I dont think any administration has done anywhere near what weve done in 3 1 2 years but every block, every week, they put up roadblocks, whether it is russia, russia, russia, or whether its impeachment hoax or whatever it may be it is always roadblocks and a waste of time. If the house will not agree to that adjournment, i will exercise my Constitutional Authority to adjourn both chambers of congress. The Current Practice of leaving town while conducting phony proform
Welcome to the more than 1,000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. This is the fifth of these discussions. These discussions have tapped the Exceptional Leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. Today is no exception. All of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. Our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jacksons founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, john kerry at time, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th under ry of state president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yales many schools. It is my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry. This time, secretary, perhaps ou might offer some initial perspectives on how you ass
Nationwide, we have passed the peak on new cases. Also attending the briefing was sonny perdue, who announced the cdc had created new guidelines for production facilities where workers had tested positive for coronavirus. Rus. Strategy is working, very strongly working. New cases are declining throughout the new york metropolitan area. Cases in detroit, denver metro areas are flat. D. C. , baltimore, philadelphia, and state lewis st. Louis are showing great signs of progress. New cases in new orleans are defining. The battle continues, but the data suggests nationwide, we have passed the peak of new cases. Hopefully that will continue and we will make great progress. These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines on states for reopening the country. We are going to be talking about that tomorrow. We will have a News Conference sometime during the afternoon to announce guidelines. We will be talking about various states. It is very exciting.