Welcome you to this primetime edition of washington journal. House Speaker Pelosi outlining a new stimulus plan. The price tag, 3 trillion. Votes this friday. Live on cspan. We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide, the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner
Good morning and welcome to the Peterson Institute for international economics. It is my pleasure and privilege powell,me back jay chairman of the board of governors to the Federal Reserve. Know, jay, his service. I just want to remind people that he previously served as the under secretary of treasury under george h to be bush, working on financial institutions, the treasury, and between that and his joining the board of governors in 2000 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the department of policy center. At the time when fiscal policy is as much or more critical, it is hard to imagine we could have anybody better than jay powell. Chairman powell tanks. Its great to be back. The coronavirus has left a devastating human and economic toll as it has spread. This is a Worldwide Public Health crisis and healthcare care workers have been the First Responders showing courage and determination and earning our lasting gratitude. Othere the legions of central workers who put themselves at risk
The house of representatives prepares to reconvene on friday. We would love to hear from you. Ou live begin as we always do. The numbers are courtesy of Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this pandemic since the beginning. 4. 3 million cases worldwide. The confirmed cases around the globe, 296,000. We will get to your calls across a moment. Joining us from nashville is dr. William schaffner. Preventivefessor of medicine as Vanderbilt University school of medicine. Guest good to be with you. Host i want to begin with some news for the president from the president. Andsenate Health Education Pension Committee hearing, Anthony Fauci said he had concerns about schools reopening potentially too soon. Today, the president had this reaction. Trump to make, donald trump it is not an acceptable answer. The only thing that would be acceptable is professors, teachers, etc. Of a certain age. I think they have to be careful. Because this is a disease that attacks age, that at
Begin as we always do. The numbers are courtesy of Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this pandemic since the beginning. 4. 3 million cases worldwide. The confirmed cases around the globe, 296,000. We will get to your calls across a moment. Joining us from nashville is dr. William schaffner. Preventivefessor of medicine as Vanderbilt University school of medicine. Guest good to be with you. Host i want to begin with some news for the president from the president. Andsenate Health Education Pension Committee hearing, Anthony Fauci said he had concerns about schools reopening potentially too soon. Today, the president had this reaction. Trump to make, donald trump it is not an acceptable answer. The only thing that would be acceptable is professors, teachers, etc. Of a certain age. I think they have to be careful. Because this is a disease that attacks age, that attacks health. If you have a heart problem, diabetes, if you are of a certain age, it certainly is much
There is a new listing on testing, we cracked 10 million tests, which is here. You would like to show that to everybody. A record by far. If you look down here, these are other countries that have not done anywhere near what we are doing. We doubled, if you add them up and double them, we have done more tests. I cannot get the press to print that. They do not want to print that. I want to thank the governors. We appreciate it. We will have thoughtful talks going to the next step. We will try to get you to open up, and you are opening up, you are trying, you are opening up. You are doing an excellent job and it is an honor to have you in the white house. These gentlemen have done a fantastic job. Youre very much involved in your states. How are they doing . I think they are doing a good job, they really are. We are talking about space force, and a lot of states are interested in space force. We are talking to some of them. Colorado is interested in it. We might mention that today in our