Loans provided through the c. A. R. E. S. Act during the coronavirus pandemic. The House Small Business Committee held this hearing. I want to thank everyone for joining us this afternoon for our committees First Official remote hearing. I want to make sure to note some important requirements. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceedings. So please keep your cameras on. Also, if you have to participate in another proceeding, please exit this one and log on later. You are recognized to minimize background noise. Over the last few months, the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unpresented Public Health crisis and dire economic crisis. We have lost over 10,000 people to the disease and 30 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the pandemic was getting worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage
a delay or cancellation. it happens quite often. they are too many flights in and out. newark is terrible. i agree. charles watson is live from atlanta at the airport. you aren t in newark. look on the bright side. that s true, julie. hopefully today is the day that flyers can avoid the chaos and the nightmares that they ve experienced for days now here in atlanta things seem to be moving along pretty smoothly. we see a lot of people moving in and out of this airport pretty smoothly this morning. light crowds when you talk about one of the world s busiest airport. the folks here tell us that operations for the most part have been moving along smoothly. that has largely been the case despite all the disruptions for a record number of folks flying during the fourth of july travel period. aaa estimating more than 4.1 million holiday flyers. that seems to be in line with the massive tsa checkpoint numbers. the agency is averaging 2.6 million screenings a day over the last f
multiple magazines in the vest and had a scanner and an ar-style rifle and handgun underneath his body. julie: mike tobin joins us live following the latest. so far the best description is a male in his 40s. no indication for what motivated this mass killing. plenty of indication the killer spent time preparing for it. police say the man was wearing a bullet proof vest, ar-style rifle. multiple magazines, sidearm and police scanner to listen to police traffic. bullet casings stretched over an eight block area. four people killed in the street. five fatality when police were called into the house where one of the victims fled. went inside and found the son laying on the living room floor unresponsive. immediately went outside where he saw the police officer, notified that officer. the officer notified medics. medics pronounced the 31-year-old victim dead on the scene. four dead are male between 21 and 59 years old. one male hasn t been identified. two kids were injured
little to anything against churches and pro life centers. they will get in a lot. senator ted cruz asking garland during his last appearance before the committee about promise he made to keep politics out of the d.o.j. it went like this. i asked you quote, will you commit to this committee that under your leadership the department of justice will not target the political opponents of this administration? your answer, quote, absolutely. it is totally inappropriate for the department to target any individual because of their politics or their position in a campaign. that was your promise just a few months ago. i m sorry to say you have broken that promise. dana: that was more than a year ago. the committee will have plenty of ground to cover today. jason chaffetz ahead with reaction. david spunt starting us off on capitol hill. attorney general taking a seat behind me ready to answer those questions. he said multiple times he wants to keep politics out of the d.o.j. he wi
i m in tennessee on a family vacation, visiting my sister in law, i have been lobbying in d.c. since we survived a mass shooting in july. i have met with lawmakers, how is this still happening? how are our children still dying and why are we failing them? those frustrated comments came following yet another deadly school shooting in america. this time, it was in nashville. where three young children are among the victims. we ll have a live report from the devastated city in just a moment. these tragedies always bring gun legislation and proposals to ban assault-style weapons back into the spotlight but given the current balance of congress any meaningful action remains unlikely. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, march 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville, tennessee. where six people including three children are dead following a school shooting that s left a community shattere