The president and the first lady and rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel and we just learned about senator mike lee and all of this started with hope pics, the mike Lee Development that we are indicating, he sits on the Judiciary Committee, a number of democrats have been calling for delaying the confirmation hearing or knocking altogether as a result of this, we do know that judge barrett has already tested negative but again the news only is going to prompt more calls for him to be tested yet again, among those who have been testing negative besides the judge wilbur ross, the secretary negative, Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, negative, alex azar the health and Human Services secretary, negative, yvonne cattrall, mark meadows, the chief of staff, negative, secretary of state, mike pompeo, negative, the defense secretary, mike esper, negative, bill barr, the attorney general, that was known yesterday, negative, the widespread Contact Tracing to get to the bottom of anyone who was 50
Virus which has claimed more than 207,000 american lives now reaches into the most powerful office in the world. Good morning, america. We want to get right to the major breaking news overnight. At 12 54 a. M. President trump announced he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for covid19. The Stunning Development raises significant questions about the president s health, the stability of the country, our standing in the world and the state of the race for the white house just 32 days before the final votes. We will cover it all this morning, and we begin by wishing the president and the first lady a speedy and full recovery. We certainly do, and with that, we want to show you a live look right now at the white house where the president and first lady are in isolation at this moment. And there are so many Big Questions this morning after the president s jampacked schedule this week. We want to know who else in the white house inner circle could potentially be infected and wh
Hugeace is on to rescue a pod of whales off the coast of tasmania and southern australia. Almost 300 of them have been trapped on a sand bar. At least 90 have alreaeady died. We begin in new york, where the u. N. s First Virtual meeting of world leleaders is about to begn with prerecorded speeches from some of the worlds momost powerful men. The General Assembly has turned into a massive video conference. This those to speak tuesday are u. S. P president donanald trump, brbrazilian president t jair bolsonaro, whoe countrieies have reported the highest and secondhighest covid19 death toll rerespectively. Beeso speaking later will chinas presesident xi jinping d russiaian president vladimimir puputin. Xenophobicse of strongmen around the world, climate change, and a new cold war, facing many challenges. Joining us is our National Affairs interNational Affairs editor. He will be with us to cover this summit. Some of the worlds major powers are due to speak. Israel, the u. S. , turkey, chi
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
The president s message threw cold water on wall street which was positive in the early going today. The dow ended the day down 375 points, just over 1 . Nasdaq lost 177 points and the s p fell 47. House Speaker Pelosi blasted the president s move saying President Trump is putting himself ahead of the country. The coronavirus continues to impact the United States at the highest levels of government. Today the joint chiefs of staff and top u. S. Military leaders went into quarantine. This after coast guard admiral charles ray tested positive for covid19. General mark milay and the chivas the army, navy, and air force have tested negative for the virus. They attended meetings with admiral ray last week. Its not clear how the admiral contracted the virus, but its not believed to be related to the outbreak at the white house. President trumps Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has tested positive for the virus now. Miller has reportedly been working remotely for the last five days. This comes a