, meredith mcgraw. Meredith good morning. Jesse it seems the relationship between the white house and chinas top leader seems to be deteriorating here. Is one of the lowest moments weve seen in terms of the United States and chinas relationship, as you outlined earlier. Weve seen that escalate in the past week, particularly with china asking the u. S. To shut down its consulate in chengdu and the u. S. Shuttering the consulate in houston and this also comes on the heels as weve seen the Trump White House really pick up their public rhetoric against china in the past few weeks. Weve seen a flurry of press conferences, opeds, highprofile speeches like the one from secretary of state pompeo, recently overseas trips, bigit has really been this push from the Trump Administration to outline issues, specific issues they have with china and make the case to the American People for some of the retaliatory things we have seen from the Trump Administration recently like tariffs, sanctions, things
8000. Republicans come your opinions will come in on 202748 8001. Independents, your line will be 202748 8002. You can always text us your always ond we are social media at twitter and on cspan. K. Com tensions have been ratcheting up the last few days, with both countries forcing the other to close a key embassy in that other country. Ae wall street journal has story about that this morning that we will bring to you so i want to bring that story to you. The u. S. And china moved rapidly friday to shut down consulates and evict diplomats, unprecedented steps followed by calls on both sides to ease tension. Flareups between the worlds two biggest economies, even amid the move to avoid further acts of immediate excavation escalation. Aging ordered the shutdown of , describingsulate it as a necessary response after washington ordered china to consulate in houston. U. S. Defended the closure, citing unacceptable espionage and intellectual property theft linked to the outpost. As evidenced
You for having me. Organization. Al we are in 34 states, puerto rico and washington, d. C. There are a lot of things we work on. Fast workers going on strike. There immigrants who are not is working to transform our broken immigration system but who are building the culture and fabric of their communities, black workers and black folks who have been struggling economically in this country who are seeking the opportunity to thrive and not just survive. We are a network of people with great imagination who believe that america can be a place where all of us have what we have what we need, not just a select few. Host we will talk politics in a moment. This is from the Washington Post with regards to the dominant store in our country, the coronavirus issue. It is here. Now what . How do you answer that . Guest first, let me say my own kids, i have two kids in Los Angeles Public schools. Both will be out of School Starting monday. I know what a transition this will be for parents across the
[laughter] [inaudible] everyone pass their temp checks today . All right. [laughter] social distancing. Ok. [inaudible] thank you. Beautiful day outside. I think we have some great things to talk about. The federal reserve, as you know, it just happened 10 minutes ago but to me it makes me very happy and i want to congratulate the federal reserve. For starters, they lowered the federal rate from what it was, from 1 to one point 25 , and 0. 25 . Down to 0 , to so 0 to 0. 25 . Thats a big difference, quite a bit. And in addition, very importantly, the federal reserve, they are going to be purchasing 500 billion of treasuries and 200 billion of mortgagebacked securities, and that number can increase, but they will start with that. Thats really good news. Really great for our country. Something that were very happy, i have to say, im very happy. They did it in one step. They didnt do it in four steps over a long period of time. They did it in one step, and i think people in the market shou
All this is a Democratic National committee is facing pressure to open up the primaries and hold debates and we are on top of all of it. Im sandra smith infer neil cavuto, we have Fox Team Coverage in washington and three more republicans ready for launch. Of Jacqui Heinrich in the white house where pressure is mounting on the president to begin debate. The field of republican candidates is growing fast today, former Vice President mike pence made it official hes good to be challenging his old running mate former President Trump for the revoke a nomination, he will officially unveil the campaign on wednesday he files paperwork today and will be delivering remarks in iowa, the former vp is expected to campaign heavily on his faith, his record and policies he fought for during the trump administration. Im very confident that whatever things look like right now, that republican primary voters are going to look at the field and think very deeply about who can best carry our message and car