Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
To my live, secretary to the governor. To her left, gareth rose who has been working with us through this crisis. Dr. Candace johnson, thank you for the hospitality. We talked about our trip to cuba and your greater accomplishment, it was fun. Always a pleasure to be with my friending, my partners, the great mayor of the city of buffalo, byron brown, the great county executive of erie county, mark, thank you for everything youve been doing to get us through this im pleased to report they took a covid test yesterday and i am negative from that test. So that is good news. Take one of those tests, very easy, i showed people ow easy it was yesterday. And when you find out youre negative its a nice sense of relief. I didnt have any symptoms or anything but you know, you dont need to have symptoms and you can have the covid virus. So you take the test, they tell you youre negative, 24 to 48 hours, and it is peace of mind. Theres no reason why people shouldnt be getting tested. We actually ha
America continues to conduct more tests than any country on earth by far and the money announced by trump isnt new and id already been approved by Congress Last month our White House Correspondent kimberly how can experience. Theres a bit of electioneering going on here because even as you listen carefully to the president s own statement there that money that he was talking about and by the way he blundered his own announcement he said 1000000000 for testing but what he meant to say was 11000000000 that was actually clarified later in the press conference the amount of money that he is announcing if you will was already approved by Congress Late last month in fact the u. S. President signed it into law under another piece of legislation one of the very large among the many coronavirus packages that have been approved by congress this u. S. President in this white house they cant just drum up the money on their own thats Something Congress does the president signs it into law so in ter
And seafood suppliers are forced to look for new ways to get their catch on to peoples plates and in other news a rare trial in the democratic republic of congo the president s chief of staff is accused of corruption. Thank you very much for joining as we begin with another gray milestone in the global coronavirus pandemic the death toll from go over 1000 in the United States has now surpassed 80000 the u. S. Is by far the worst hit country in the world but President Donald Trump says america is on track to defeat the virus speaking at the white house only a tram said his administration had now approved a 1000000000. 00 to boost coronavirus testing capabilities. This afternoon i am announcing that my administration has been and it weve got this all approved its all done is sending 1000000000 dollars to americas states territories and so this is all been approved weve gotten it done completed the money is going out this major investment will ensure that america continues to conduct more
Thank you for being with us on cspan. Guest happy to be here. Host it is friday afternoon your time. Some of the looming questions involve chinas responsibility for this pandemic. What are your looming questions five months after the first outbreak . Guest the thing im focusing on now is how china tries to come out of this and manage this. I think they can see that when the dust settles, there is going to be a lot of fingerpointing. More fingerpointing now. A lot of blame shifting both from the United States, from europe. Tona has been trying rewrite the narrative and pretrade themselves not as the source of the virus but as the savior from it. Not so much on the United States but in europe in particular and africa and other parts of asia. We have seen them donating a lot of masks. Selling a lot of ventilators and other equipment to try to portray themselves as a helpful, responsible, global superpower. In a lot of cases, that has backfired because those masks have turned out to be sub