Then, taxpayers for common sense president steve ellis talks about what is in the to trillion dollar coronavirus aid bill recently passed by congress. Washington journal is next. Host with the United States death toll from coronavirus approaching 2500, the president made the announcement he is extending social distancing guidelines until at least april 30. Big news coming out of that briefing with reporters last night. We want to get your reaction this monday morning, march 30, to the president s news extending the social distancing guidelines to april 30. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202 7488000. The mountain1 four and pacific time zones. If you are a medical professional, we have a number for you 202 7488002. A couple of other ways to take part in the conversation this morning. Send us a text at 202 7488003. Please leave your name and the city you are calling from. You can also send a tweet. cspanwj is our twitter handle. You can also post a comment on faceb
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Facebook. Com cspan. Well start that conversation in a minute. First, lets talk to the ecretary of state yesterday, who talked about the trade pack. Host it is true, so often past have been sold to the American People with rosy scenarios that did not pan out. Hollow omises now ring in many communities across michigan and our country that factories close and jobs disappear. Lobbied for anies trade deals so they could sell abroad. But then, they instead moved back into the United States. It is also true that china and countries have gamed the system for too long. Particularly during the bush administration, has been too lax. Investments at home that would make us more competitive have been completely blocked in congress. And American Workers and communities have paid the price. Is not to rant and rave or cut ourselves off from the world. Would end up killing even more jobs. Finally make to trade work for us, not against us. My message [applause] worker essage to every in michigan and acr
8. It is also a back to work week for members of congress. Lawmakers return tomorrow following the fiveweek august recess. Congress coming back to capitol hill with a growing list of issues to vote on, including the budget, the debt ceiling, and immigration. We be in with more on syria and today we are breaking down the vote and the question this way, for those that support military intervention, the number to call is 2025853880. , 2025853881. If you remain undecided, thats number to call is 2025853882. We are also collecting your e. Ails at journal cspan. Org lets begin with some of the headlines outside of washington dc. The boston sunday globe. From the front page of the Chicago Tribune is this headline times he l. A. He spent the time preparing for his speech and also a golf outing. The president is doing a series of Network Interviews tomorrow. Lets go to the front page of the New York Times a couple of polls over the last few days. A new pew poll showing the majority of americans
I can understand how aggressive theyve gotten in certain areas. The trip to moscow worries me because there are serious things happening in that relationship that would not have happened were it not for the absolute collapse of faith in the United States, and while there may be good things that can come out of it for the saudis to be off on their own, a lot of bad things can come out of that as well potentially. But that is the kind of uncertainty that we are dealing with in the system that i think has led to quite a bit of trouble. I agree in the first place that syria now takes on this huge importance in terms of trying to convince the iranians that we are serious. I think that operation is now going to need to be something that perhaps the president and his team did not think a couple of weeks ago it might have needed to be. It will now need to have real effects on syria and on other adversaries in the region, that they do not want to test the United States in this regard. I do not