Secretary esper hello, everyone. Im secretary of defense mark esper, im joined by joint chief of staff chair general milley and chairman lopez. Today we want to talk to you about all that d. O. D. Is doing to protect our people, our troop, our families from the coronavirus and what were also doing to support the interagency whole of government efforts to protect the American People. First i want to thank all of you for your patience and commitment to the nation in this time of great challenge. Its a time of great challenge as we face the pandemic upon s. I want to reassure you that the administration, the military are taking all necessary measures to protect our force, to protect our people, to protect our dependents, to protect out contractors and civilians. Ive made protecting our people our top priority. The second priority ive outlined for the past couple of months has been ensuring our ensuring the safeguarding of our National Mission capabilities. In other words, making sure we c
Site. Gov. Cuomo good morning, good to see you all here in masks, related gear. To my right we have general to my left we, have general raymond shields. These are two gentlemen who i have been through many situations with. We have been through hell and back. And if you have to have two professionals dealing with the situation like this, these are the two situations that you these are the two people you want to be with. I thank both generals for being here today. Im private cuomo but ill be your governor today. I want to thank all the army corps of engineer people who are here today who have done an outstanding job. They came in very quickly in setting up this emergency hospital. Which is going to be badly needed. I want to thank all of the people at the javitt center. This is a great exhibition hall. This is not what they normally do, and they have really stepped up and risen to the occasion. So i want to thank them. Let me take you through some facts today because we have some new fac
Theyre really working hard on behalf of their communities throughout the state to handle the covid19 virus as it spreads. And we are so thankful for their leadership at this time. Our projections are that our numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news i have to report today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the United States going over a lot of the federal response to this pandemic across the country and one of the statistics we gave was that one week ago, 50,000 completed tests were processed. Now more than 300,000 have been processed. Thats good news that means that at the federal level and across the country that more of these tests are going through the system and that we fully expect to get rid of the backlog
Enomics. I want to begin with the Federal Reserves move yesterday, before the markets opening up, to buy back unlimited buying of bonds to help businesses. What exactly did they do and how does this help the economy . Guest hi, greta. Thank you to cspan. This is an extraordinary action by the fed the government is taking extraordinary actions in this unusual situation, something we have maybe not seen ever in American History with the combating of this virus. The other day, during his press conference, the president said he is a wartime president and we are fighting an invisible enemy. That is right. We are treating this like it is a war and it is ending invisible enemy, so you are seeing the steps by government. The fed is trying to combat deflation, trying to stabilize the economy by infusing more dollar liquidity into the u. S. Economy. Right now, because you have this global pandemic, whenever there is fear, everyone in the world buys dollars. There has been a run on the dollar, an
U. S. Naval Institute News reporter sam lagrone talks about the role of u. S. Navy hospital ships in the coronavirus response. Washington journal is next. The men and women of the greatest country on earth are going to defeat this coronavirus and reclaim our future. After sleep deprived nights and marathon negotiating sessions, we have a bipartisan rescuent on the largest package in American History. Host republican and Democratic Leaders in the u. S. Senate announcing a deal at 1 30 a. M. This morning on a 2 trillion coronavirus aid package. Good morning. We will get your thoughts on that this morning. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. Youcan join us as well if text us with your first name, city and state that 202 or8003 at 202 7488003 go to twitter at cspan wj. We have learned about what is in the deal the lawmakers have reached. Theres 500 billion for major corporations. 360 7 billion for Small Business loans. 130 billion for hospitals across