Be part of the National Conversation through washington journal. Cash washington journal. Announcer cspan, brought to you today by your television provider. Next, former National Security advisors Tom Donnellan and steve hadley speak at the aspen security forum. They outlined the main threats to National Security and discuss coronavirus. And, u. S. Policy towards china and russia. This event was held virtually and is about 45 minutes. I will start with a quick introduction. There is tom, hello. Thank you. There is steve. How are you . Introduction, he is currently chairman of Blackrock Investment institute and senior counsel at he served as National Security advisor to barack obama and headed the obamabiden transition. He is a veteran of many democratic campaigns. He of course serves on multiple served as the National Security advisor for george w. Bush from 20052009. Deputy from 20012005. He is now partner at a Great Consulting firm called the chairman of usa ip and involved in just a
Retail sales were down over 13 16. 4 is the most on record. Of the 13 categories, only one was up, internet shopping. What we bought we did buy online. Even Grocery Store sales down 12 on the month. I guess we are still eating the macaroni and cheese we bought in march. The control group, leave out food, cars, gasoline, building materials. That was down and that is also a record. That is the part that goes into gdp and in this case does not go into gdp. Not the only data out. Industrial production down 11 . Manufacturing production down 13. 7 . That was the worst number in the history of the index going back to 1919. Two bits of good news. Empire manufacturing improved. 78. 2. 48. 5 from the Michigan Sentiment number. From 71. 8. To 73. 7 the Current Conditions index rises. Everybody scratches their head, but the folks at the university of michigan say it is because during the month people started getting the checks, the 1200 checks and that made them feel little bit better about thems
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
Result of the pandemic. Jared joins us to discuss changes to alcohol laws in several states amid the coronavirus outbreak. Host good morning, it is tuesday, april 7, 2020. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is now past 10,000. In new york officials expressed hope that the pandemic is in wisconsin voters will head to the polls despite efforts to cancel in person voting over fears of spreading the virus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been diagnosed with the disease and moved to intensive care. We are giving you the chance to talk about all of this this morning on washington journal. Our phone lines are spit up regional ash split up regionally. In the eastern or central time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. If you do include your name and where you are from. Follow us on social media csp anwj. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. You can go ahead and start calling and now as we show you the front pa
Gov. Pritzker good afternoon, everyone. I want to start today by ,nforming you that this morning a member of my Governors Office learned that they had tested positive for covid19. This individual started to feel on thursday, march 26. And immediately went home. That same day, we sent everyone that works in the Governors Office home and had a professional deep cleaning done. March already earlier in significantly reduced our in office staff and directed all of those who could to work at home. Instructions same ive asked offices across the state to follow. Back then, we also implemented temperature checks for anyone still coming into the thompson center. Those temperature checks have continued. Following the staffords exit from the office, we reduced in office staff in the Governors Office even further to a critical few. Asking all of those who are staying at home to selfisolate as the medical professionals advise. We also put in place additional protocols about in office and out of offi