The current recommendations to avoid social gatherings and work from home expire. Heres what the president said during yesterdays briefing. I think we can say we have to be on that downside of that slope and heading to a very strong direction that this thing is gone. We could do it in phases. We can go to some areas which are much less affected than others but it would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country, certainly most of our country, and i think well do that soon. I would say were ahead of schedule. You hate to say it too loudly because all of a sudden things dont happen, but i think we will be sooner rather than later. While the president is pushing to reopen the economy, the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, is expressing caution. Watch this. We need to have a plan nationally for reopening the economy. What we all want it to happen as quickly as possible, we all want to avoid a false start where we partially reopen and that results in a spike in c
there in california right now. congressman, thank you for being with us. another mass shooting, this time in your home state, in your district. what s going through your mind right now? ana, it s just an unbelievable tragedy. it was a punch to the gut sickening, outrageous. i know a lot of the people at the vta. they are public servants. they keep our public transportation running. they don t get paid a lot. they show up to work every day. and to have this happen at their workplace is such a devastating, heartbreaking blow to our community. have you been in touch with any of those folks you know over there this morning since this happened? i have. i reached out to glenn hendricks, who is the chair of the vta. we reached out to representatives at the vta. i reached out to mayor liccardo. we ve offered any support. and obviously to the law enforcement who responded and to the health care responders who
overwhelmingly, supported this and peter s party overwhelmingly voted against and every single day on the streets of new york i hear people say why don t you guys have up or down votes. we had one last night. today you voted it down. bill bill that was from july and the debate might end today, july, two lawmakers, peter king and anthony weiner, trying pass the 9/11 bill for the health care responders, which there were 30,000 at ground zero, today that s expected to reach the house floor. here with us, anthony weiner. i think we concluded that interview by saying that s why congress has the approval rating of 11 percent. peter king, have you guys kissed and made up, done a man hug, what s up? this is a pretty serious matter, bill, and peter and i are working hard to get this bill passed. bill: i know you ve made that clear, and i think you had a event recently where you two came together and said you can get this done. will it get done today? i certainly hope so. look, we re going t
there isn t a hurry. we ve been working on this literally all year and we ve had thousands of questions directed to the president by senators that have been answered. we ve taken more time on this treaty than the previous s.t.a.r.t. treat kwa. we had the s.t.a.r.t. i and the reason this is important is we want to keep nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists and get inspectors back on the ground in russia. and we re working with russia to clamp down on iran and if we re going to have an alliance with iran that keeps them from getting nuke war weapons, rehave to operate in good faith with russia. i have to ask you about the 9/11 responders bill. i know there s a mood on the capitol hill that we have to start being more aware of the budget. more aware of what we re spending. if you d ask me five, six, seven years ago whether there up and down would be any division of health care responders i would have predicted no.