things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y
Chance to be briefed by the u. S. Pacific command and made his way over to the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the first lady. It will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. Now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. A number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats theyre posing, and south korea. The president will be in search of a united front before going to china where hell try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. Ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the Prime Minister of this country shinzo abe. Thats before the president s visit and the stops wont overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. Now, elizabeth. You made an important point
that. here is the inflation cost per u.s. household. these are just staggering numbers. when you look at the inflation that we are currently living through today and the impact on the american pocket book, that s an additional, by some estimates, could be a low number, $327 per month. that s real pain, art. that is real pain. it s terrible, and when you look at what it took to bring inflation down, paul volker especially, we took office on january 20th, 1981, sandra. the prime interest rate was 21.5%. mortgage rates, 17, 18, inflation was running at 15, 16%, catastrophic type of situation. that s what it takes to bring inflation back under control and they are not doing that. this will keep on going until someone gets in there and does something correct. sandra: and we have been talking about housing affordability. exactly. sandra: it s not looking
held hostage for 44 days, november 4th, 1979 until january 20th, 1981, the very moment ronald reagan was inaugurated as president, four decades on diplomatic tensions with iran remain fracture and iran continues to be number one on the state department list of state sponsors of terrorism, let s look back now, retired u.s. navy bob wells, national security adviser to vice president dick cheney, bob, it s gotten worse since then, now guides the regime, some of the young students run the control, what have we learned in this time? we ve learned that iran is going to be continued challenge to the united states ever since the hostage crisis as preview just provided, it really was a point of departure for traditional diplomacy, we have revolutionary iran now, eric, many of those protestors are now
trading. i ve been at this for a long time, no one is going to argue that secretary pompeo isn t tough on iran and no one isn t going to argue that president trump isn t doing the same. the other parties of the nuclear deal continue to defend it and are trying to find a way to keep trade deals with iran alive despite the u.s. sanctions, secretary of state mike pompeo said those countries that try the skirt the sanctions, they ll be targeted by the u.s. as well. heather: yeah, 442 days, january 20th, 1981. thank you very much for joining, appreciate it. nearly 4,000 migrants now traveling through area known as the route of death, migrants pushing north in region of méxico where hundreds of people have disappeared, president trump reinforcing his warning to the group as they march towards our border. i am telling the caravans,