Joining us as the executive director. Of 1995, from april these words by president bill clinton. His first comments about the bombing. [video clip] citye bombing in oklahoma was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. Andas an act of cowardice it was evil. States will not tolerate it. I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards. With our team, which we assembled to deal with this bombing, and i have determined to take the following steps to ensure the strongest response to this situation. First, i have deployed a Crisis Management team under the leadership of the fbi working with the department of justice, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, military and local authorities. We are sending the finest to solve these murders. Second, i have declared an emergency in Oklahoma City and at my direction, the director of the federal Emergency Management agency, is now on his way there to make sure we do everything we can to help the pe
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Of several coming in the coming weeks across the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew come around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Preparedness,of preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for m
Project like this . Mr. Ballmer yeah, its an effort we started about four ago with me trying to actually understand our better. Nt by the governments own numbers. How big is the government. Come does the tax base from, what what do things get spent on and what are the outcomes . Said lets use the discipline that a company would shareholders. To the securities and Exchange Commission requires a factual 10k reportled a and we started out on the journey and weve really learned lot by sorting through numbers not only at the federal level local the state and level. And what about the need for realnumbers, real data, facts, in the middle of the kind of situation that the country is the coronavirus epidemic . Mr. Ballmer its more essential ever and well suffer with some of the other problems we see with government data. Timenment data has a hard staying current, staying recent. You look at historical numbers on the Affordable Care act and medicaid. Theyre two, three years out of date. Right n
Director, kari watkins, discusses the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its sunday, april the 19th. Ahead, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has surpassed 700,000 in the u. S. And the death toll in our country, nearly 39,000. A number of states are beginning to bend the curve, leading to a new debate on how quickly can or should reopen. That is the starting point on this sunday morning. Join in on the conversation. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Ut west, 202 7488001 is your state ready to lift restrictions . Tell us where you live and what you think. You can always send us a text , onage, 202 7488003 twitter, or on facebook. Look at the numbers around the world, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university with total confirmed cases at 2. 3 million and deaths around the world in excess of countries. Ths in 185 yet today at the white house and the Daily Briefing the president at this about sta