A lot to talk about in the next hour. The Johns Hopkins sobering numbers across the years across the world now, 670,000 confirmed cases, approaching 31,000 deaths around the world. Here in the u. S. , close to 125,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States. We want to get your phone calls. Again, if you are recently unemployed, tell us your situation. That number is 202 7488000. The headline from cnbc, the u. S. Economy has come to a. Ndstill host yesterday on fox news, this conversation with Vice President pence on when the u. S. Economy will reopen. [video clip] re is a risk. If he doesnt open it soon enough, there is another risk. What are you specifically looking at and basing your decision on and then formulating a recommendation to the president on. Right question. Short answer, we are following the data. The president secured with massive commercial labs around the country we are literally doing tens of thousands of tests today and we have gotten a great deal mo
Good morning, everyone, im joanne meyers. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics ar
Please welcome doctor lynne cheney. And our moderator. [applause]. You dont want to follow the steps when you enter. Lindsaycarl, you do know the die between right and left right. Okay. [laughter]. Welcome everybody. I am Susan Eisenhower and is a terrific pleasure to be here today to have a conversation with doctor lynne cheney and karl rove. This is a real honor for me. In a real treat to be able to have a kind of intimate conversation about the executive power in the United States. Alongside the president of the United States and also to talk about what its like to be behind the scenes. Let me just a very quickly by, i am not sick. If i cough i must take. You came back from wuhan without cough . [laughter]. Are you feeling all right. Youre a little warm. [laughter]. I had cam cleanup somebodies fireplace and it was fire smoke. So the way you want if im coughing. Again, its really thrilled to be here. With had some experiences as child with what it is like to be in the company of peo
Democratic and republican members of the House Armed Services committee over the pentagon plan to devote 3. 8 billion to construct more border wall. The pentagon is asking congress to approve a 705 billiondollar budget for fiscal year 2021. This hearing is three hours 35 minutes. We will go ahead and call the committee to order. Good morning, everyone. We are gathered here this morning from secretary of defense doctor mark esper and chairman joint chiefs of staff general to hear about the proposal for the department of defense. I will start with some good news or start by thanking the witnesses for being here and further service to the country. Both served their country in various capacities for a long time, not an easy thing to do. I appreciate that and look forward to continuing to work with you. Unlike last year, we have a budget agreement, and last year we spend a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run while anything in the government but certainly the department of d
General to hear about the proposal for the department of defense. I will start with some good news or start by thanking the witnesses for being here and further service to the country. Both served their country in various capacities for a long time, not an easy thing to do. I appreciate that and look forward to continuing to work with you. Unlike last year, we have a budget agreement, and last year we spend a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run while anything in the government but certainly the department of defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Last year we were off by 3. 5 months, Something Like that thats better than drifting into the next year. We did get appropriation bills done by december of last year which gives some predictability to the department i think that is enormously important. This year we hope to come a little closer to october 1 certainly on the authorizing bill that also the appropriation bill but most importantly, we have a budg