Boston. But, we talk first to nancy pelosi. Good friday evening. And you are for being with us. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Worldwide, 3. 9 million confirmed cases of covid19. Globally, 270 4000. Here in the u. S. , the death toll 1. 2surpassed 77,000 with million confirmed cases. Up next, our conversation with House Speaker nancy pelosi. Seen theaker, we have shortterm changes to congress during the pandemic but im wondering if you think this will result in any fundamental, longterm changes to the house of representatives . Speaker pelosi thank you for focusing on how we do our congressional work to represent the people of our country and to bring their views to washington, d. C. We have had quite a challenge. Of ourthe great guidance capitol physician and the sergeant at arms. On two occasions, one with the voice votes and one with the recorded votes when we had a large number of members here to make the decisions necessary to pass legislation. In
Federal agencies. Order your copy online today at cspanstore. Org. Journal. Your questions and comments about the pandemic start now. The economicent of impact this pandemic has had on our country including a record job loss. Unemployment at its highest rate since the great depression. A decade of Economic Growth wiped away in a single month. Friday, may 8, we welcome the you to this addition of washington journal primetime edition of washington journal primetime. Michaele will talk to boston. But, we talk first to nancy pelosi. Good friday evening. And you are for being with us. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Worldwide, 3. 9 million confirmed cases of covid19. Globally, 270 4000. Here in the u. S. , the death toll 1. 2surpassed 77,000 with million confirmed cases. Up next, our conversation with House Speaker nancy pelosi. Seen theaker, we have shortterm changes to congress during the pandemic but im wondering if you think this will result in any fundam
Worst jobs report since the 1930s and the great depression, how do we dig ourselves out of this hole . Michael it will take a variety of things. We have a government ordered supply side shutdown of the economy, so we could not produce a lot of services because people could not go to work. At least substantially for good health reasons. And that morphed into an added demand side problem as people were not getting incomes, etc. The congress and the president have taken action to try to cushion on the income side. The fed and to some extent the congress with various Small Business loans have tried to enable firms to bridge to the other side. Many of whom have retained workers even though demand for their products is way down. But this unprecedented shutdown of the economy has caused a substantial amount of harm. We have got lots of people unemployed. The data that came out today of course is a snapshot of what was going on in the middle of april. Since then, additional people have filed c
Interrupts ashraf ghani as he and the beloved are sworn in as afghanistans president rival inauguration ceremonies. Hello welcome to the program a plunge in oil prices triggered by a dispute between saudi arabia and russia has sent stocks plummeting on Global Markets already spooked by coronavirus billions were wiped off the value of Major Companies on monday londons footsie 100 suffered its biggest one day 4 since the Global Financial crisis of 2008 the index closed 7. 7 percent down hong kongs hang seng index close 4. 2 percent down thats the biggest one they fall in 2 years and that spilled into other asian markets trading was halted on the New York Stock Exchange for 15 minutes when the dow jones tumbled more than 7 percent shortly after it opened well chris islam is monitoring the markets for us joins us live from new york its just close there what are the final numbers looking like kristen. Yeah barbara it was a brutal day for and vaster is a major sell off on wall street all 3 o
Im guy johnson. Here is whats coming up to you. Turkey headed for its first ever direct president ial election. Well be headed do i stan bull. First, our top story, president obama has authorized air strikes against militants in iraq as well as a humanitarian operation. Today i authorize two operations in iraq. Targeted air strikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water anding almost certain death. U. S. Aircraft dropping supplies to iraqis threatened by fighters from Islamic States. 60,000 people have been stranded there after advance fwiss Islamic States. President obama said the u. S. Would proceed with air strikes against islamicbased militants if they move toward the kurdish city of erbil. A significant shift from president obama. Yes, this is definitely something that people will be worried that it would mean reengagement for the u. S. Military in iraq after preside