Blake burman as usual following latest from the administration. Well get Lauren Simonetti on the markets as well. Edward lawrence reporting on Small Business from washington. But blake, we start with you. Reporter hi, there, connell, after initially canceling the 5 00 Coronavirus Task force briefing earlier today as the white house did, they put back on the schedule a News Conference with president of the United States in the rose garden next hour to unveil the new testing guide lines that the white house says will be in place come may and june. The white house says that they will be giving all 50 governors everything they need to test at least 2 of that states population. The guidelines call, for example, the acceleration of the research and development of diagnostic tests, the development of Rapid Response programs, the federal government acting as supplier of last resort for the states, implementation of what they say would be a vast monitoring system. Along with Antibody Tests to h
Demand. Ng server taking a look at the csx 300, up three tens of 1 . China unicom out with numbers. It shrank in the First Quarter. Page, take ap the look at where oil is. From the uglylly selloff to below zero. Futures in new york rising. Climbing after falling to a 21 year yield. The old story is about Global Demand shock. About two unveil a supplement fiscal package after the economy suffered its worst contraction since the financial crisis in the First Quarter. Fiscal stimulus our next guest says for skill stimulus plans are ineffective. Turning us now is jim walker. Joining us now is jim walker. Good morning. You say it is about businesses. Jim exactly. Type ofa very different crisis from the ones we have seen under the past where recessions and even the asian crisis you could take as being a downturn in demand. This is really a government mandated cessation of business. While governments are forcing businesses to lucked out and people to stay at home, basically, it is incumbent o
I just connected a dot just by you asking that question and me sitting next to megan. So i did a little bit of work on the 2000 campaign for some of the Foreign Policy advisors. And in exchange the guy said you get one bullet who is an interview with richard hoss. I flubed the interview and he. And it is remarkable how little domestic politics intruded into these clip rations. I have a specific memory, very well, i can remember the president s face exactly in the oval office during this time and i forget what i said exactly, but it was something about the policy in iraq, and then i made a comment about politics and how it would play at home. He was like i dont need your political advice. He said just think in terms of policy. So the domestic piece, i think, was incredible how little it intruded into our deliberations. But it was not a big driver. I didnt feel the burden of putting forward something in a would be domestically palatable. So i had a slightly different role. I had more int
Unique. Take hiv. E, lets we showed hiv was the cause of aids. This was hard because the virus is hard to find, hard to grow, and the disease does not show up until years later. Establishing strong evidence to get people to say, this is it was not easy. Number this virus, sars 2 it is easy to find. It replicates so much that it is obvious and quick to cause disease. You do not argue about whether this is the cause. They present different challenges. People have said they have never seen anything like this. Yes in terms of the social angle but of course there has been epidemics like this. We just have to broaden our Knowledge Base or just read over the course of history of medical science. The great flu of 1918 was worse. It killed a quarter of the world. Rnae are viruses that carry dna that are subject to more mutation. Infectiousways more so each one is a problem. What is unique . The social impact in our lifetime. The magnitude of it. What is unique it is not unique but what a specia
Recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. As ive said, weve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great Public Servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these high positions. Were going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, im going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. As a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. There are going to be questions, discussion, so were going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. H