We put forth that contains some of the features that are now in the senate bill, that will be in the senate bill. I commend Chuck Schumer. Hes done a remarkable job, along with the Senate Democrats in holding the line until some changes were made that reflect both house and senate concerns. One is more funding for state and local governments since you mentioned Governor Cuomo, ill begin with that. Then a robust Unemployment Insurance initiative that is in there. The initiatives for Small Business are very essential so that people can get paid and businesses can stay open and survive. I agree with chuck that its Small Businesses are so important to our economy. I always say theres nothing more optimistic that anyone can do than to start a Small Business with all the challenges that are there. Maybe except get married, but i dont know. Ill leave that there. But in terms of other issues that are there, we have a robust appropriations component of this bill that will be helpful. Theres som
Doctors will come back and say for the rest of our lives, we have to wear masks. The road map also talks about doing gps for social distancing, following peoples phones and hotels for isolation for people. Giving them free hotel rooms. Are those ideas that youre looking at . President trump the gps is a very severe idea. Ive been hearing about it. And what happens . A siren goes off if you get too close to somebody . Thats pretty severe. But he was someone who is with me for a long time, did a great job at the fda so take a look, i just received it a little while ago. He sent it over. Go ahead, lets give it a shot. What do you say to americans who are upset with you over the way you downplayed this crisis over the last couple of months. We have it very much under control in this country, the coronavirus is very much under control and its going to disappear, its like a miracle, it will disappear. March 4th, we have a very small number of people in this country infected. March 10th, were
Reporter with the oil meeting, is the u. S. Willing to cut domestic oil production, what came out of the meeting . President trump it is a great industry, an important industry, a job producing industry, and it is vital. It was also very interesting, because they all were given the tests before they came into the room. So you have the head of exxonmobil, all of the guys taking the test, and they all passed with flying colors. They left happy in that respect. I believe. The overabundance of oil right now, oil and gas. A tremendous overabundance. And it was caused, they were doing a great job. They were producing a lot of energy, but then you had the virus come along, and it knocked another 35 , maybe 40 off of the market. So there is too much oil. There is a glut. And the use of our Great Companies that will figure it out. It is a free market. They will figure it out. Reporter you spoke to president putin. President trump they were having a competition. We will see how it works out. It
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
The United States and around the world. This is new day, its thursday, april 9th. 6 00 here in new york. The thousandyear tradition of shaking hand might be over for good. Thats just one small symbol of how different our society will be when we reopen. This morning, we have new information on the debate over exactly how and when to make that happen. The Trump Administration is targeting early may. Were clearly not there yet. Just yesterday, more than 33,000 new cases were reported. The peak predicted for easter sunday. Overnight the new guidelines saying essential workers can go back to the job even if they have been exposed as long as they take precautions and do not feel sick. It was dr. Anthony fauci, the top Infectious Disease expert who said overnight that he believes people must stop shaking hands permanently, forever. Speaking of tradition lasting thousands of years, this was passed over in the social distancing era and to my mind, i have to say, one of the most poignant seders