People diagnosed with coronavirus. Howardk oh will join us in just a moment. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. The numbers are on the screen. You can also join us on social media on twitter or facebook. Good evening. A lot to get to, including the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Numbers continue increasing. 782,000 confirmed cases around the world and 30,000 deaths. 160,000 162,000 cases in the United States. Of manhattanive positive foris covid19. She says she began to feel under the weather and developed muscle aches, fever, stomach upstate stomach upset and could no longer smell or taste. She was diagnosed with coronavirus. Symptoms are mild. She is isolating herself at home. She is monitoring her symptoms and working remotely. She encourages everyone to stay and continues to practice social distancing. Congressman South Carolina and is also battling the illness. ,oining us is dr. Howard koh the former assistant secretary of health for the oba
Been a long time since i did good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla futures were up and we were up 950 points almost on the dow but were going to start with the market selloff from the highs at least dow is up 243, caterpillar and bogey. Bob pisani is here at post nine to talk about what these internals look like this morning. It all feels tentative, the whole thing. I said this morning, theyre putting an awful lot of faith on fiscal stimulus, not monetary stimulus the traders want to hear fiscal stimulus at this point so theres two camps one is the cam whop said we are so ridiculously oversold there has to be a bounce and they have a point on historical basis. We have extreme oversold conditions we have the largest single day drop on the index since october 2008 90 downside volume. At one point 99 of the s p was down the vix over 50. I dont think people understand what the vix over 50 means its a real number over 50 the market believes theres a 50 chance th
Foreign affairs committee, ted yoho and Gregory Meeks. Later we will hear from the director of iranian studies at Stanford University. At Stanford University. [video clip] our Great American forces are prepared for anything. Appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world. Host from yesterday on u. S. Action toward iran. He discussed the killing of the iranian general and announced sanctions and vowed iran would never possess a nuclear weapon. This is the washington journal for january 9. Our first hour dedicated to your trumpts about president the administrations actions. If you support it, 2027488000 is the number to call and tell us why. If you oppose, you can do so at 2027488001. Perhaps you are not sure at this point, 2027488002 is the number to call. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. And you can cspanwj post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. A 10 minute speech about yesterday from the white hou
E. J. good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Thank you to those who are joining us online. The hashtag for this event for those who want to quot the very distinguished panel or make any comment is impeachment101. I want to thank john allen for those remarks. I think it would show the seriousness of the think tank if john allens remarks alone could make federalist 65 go viral. Perhaps we can publish federalist cyst i5 as a brookings policy brief and turn Alexander Hamilton into a temporary senior fellow but think you so much. We have become almost accustomed to impeachment but this doesnt make it any less serious or complicated. It involves constitutional issues related to accusations of abuse of power and that loaded but illdefined phrase high crimes and misdemeanors our panel will try to define those for us or talk about how they have been defined at different moments in our history. It is also inevitably political in the high sense of that word and there is a high sense of the
Up next, panelists talk about the whistleblower complaint against President Trump and the impeachment inquiry. Columnistgton post moderate the 90 minute discussion hosted by the brookings institution. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Inther you are coming in person or over the webcast, good morning and welcome to the brookings institution. We are very glad to have you with us today. I am the president of the brookings. Today glad to welcome you to this event entitled impeachment what happens now . Extraordinary moment for america. As for the fourth time in our history, u. S. House leadership has launched a formal impeachment inquiry into the president of the United States. Fors also a great moment the stakes are undoubtedly hide. Not just for this country but for the world as well. Constitution of the United States vests in the house of representatives the sole power to impeach a public official. While a further vest the constid States Senate the sole power to try all impeachments. Of ro