Robert next. Announcer this is Washington Week. Corporate funding is provided by life isnt a Straight Line and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today and tomorrow. Kaiser permanente. Additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. The corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. Robert good evening. We start with sobering numbers. An update on the health of the nation. More than 95,000 americans have died due to the coronavirus paemic with nearly 1. 6 million nfirmed cases in the United States. Next, a spike in the joblessness rate, almost 2. 5 million americans filed for unemployment last week, pushing the total to more t
Me read this to you. President trumps responsibility for the events of january 6th is unmistakable. President trumps conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and most unequivocal terms. The Trump Defense team has until noon to respond and they will argue that trying a former president out of office is unconstitutional, a process argument. Lets begin with Manu Raju On Capitol Hill on the legal brief by democrats. And it looks like what theyre trying to do here is connect the events of january 6th to all that preceded it, right, the president claiming the election was stolen and kind of riling up this group that ended up attacking the capitol. Reporter theyre trying to make a drink link to inciting his support erds suggesting there is no question that donald trump acted intentionally that led to the deadly riot on january 6th. Theyre calling this not a routine corruption charge. This is a charge of historic proportions and Impeachable Offense and they break it down into four
Ruiz. Nationwide the country has reported more than 100 deaths in a single day, and pushing the total infected 42,000. Lawmakers in washington are at a stalemate over a third economic aid package, this one with a price tag of 2 trillion or more. This is your opportunity to tell decisionmakers how this is impacting your community. Small business owners, 202 7488000. Medical professionals, 202 7488001. Ll others, 202 7488002 send us a text with your first name and city and state at 202 7488003. Twitter orents on facebook. Com cspan. Joining us on the phone is mike lewis for the hill to talk about what is happening in the senate. Lets begin with the negotiations in the Upper Chamber yesterday. Where did they leave things . Guest good morning. It was a long day yesterday. They left with no deal around midnight. They are very close. We dont know quite what that means because they have been saying that for the better part of the last four days. It is a wait and see moment. The treasury secre
Jim, is it short answer is yes but lets qualify it just because today is a day to buy doesnt mean we cant go lower from here. Look, when you say is it a time to buy, it doesnt mean you pile into the market today. It means over the coming days. There are still Big Questions to be answered. We know theres an Economic Impact and we know theres going to be a profit impact. The question is how long does it last thats one question. Which we just simply dont know the answer to. The second question is what policy response . Now on that second question lets say this theres a heck of a lot of room for improvement and thats a good thing so, yes, it is a time to buy but for Goodness Sake please pace it out over the coming days steve, cramer today i dont want people to buy, cash is king, says he has a huge amount of cash. We would not be buyers until we take out mondays low which on the s p 500 was 2734 market feels very broken to me what do you think . I think hes right. Last week okay it was time
[ t its the timeon bof the season president Trumps Campaign manager last night dismissed the coverage of the impeachment trial saying, its like when love runs high watching paint dry. You know, like you do sometimes after you cover something up [ audience oohs brzezinsktom steyer. K at this. Berman tom steyer. Odonnell surging in nevada. [ laughter ] scarborough this is working for tom steyer. According you better dry soon odonnell surging in south carolina. [ laughter ] smerconish i dont think its just resources. Dry. Why arent you drying . Mitchell surging in two new polls out of nevada and south carolina. [ laughter ] according to senate rules, the wallace polling at double digits. King up eleven points from october. Only drinks permissible in the room during President Trumps impeachment trial will be water that is dramatic. Steyer im saying we have a broken government. And milk, also known as a mike pence martini thats whats going on in washington, dc. [ laughter ] its been bought