Peacefully, a number turned it into an opportunity for violence and mayhem, destroying property, looting and attacking police. Hundreds of officers have been hurt and at least one killed. In new york on monday night, terrifying scenes as looters smashed store windows and helping themselves to the content inside. The scenes that weve seen were unlike anything since the riots of the late 1960s. President trump demanded action, calling governors and mayors who didnt use an iron fist to quell the violence weak, dubbing himself the president of law and order and saying hes ready to use thousands of troops to stop the disturbances. But the president s tough message has drawn criticism even from republicans and from some former members of his own cabinet. The president s visible show of force on monday night when, in Lafayette Square throughout the white house, he had the square cleared and walked across to a Famous Church that had been fire bombed. That performance became a flashpoint as did
Coronavirus crisis. This is two hours and 30 minutes. I want to begin by thanking our pannestist and esteemed members for joining us. This week our country passed a grim milestone, more than 100,000 americans have lost their lives due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of americans continue to contract this virus every day. Over 150 more here in South Carolina on yesterday. And the day before, wednesday, marked our largest singleday increase of covid19 deaths. Local Community Leaders across the country, democrats, and republic ans need strong federal leadership to help them combat this deadly threat. Communities need federal help to get the protective equipment and testing supplies they need to protect their front line medical workers and essential employees. Unfortunately the administration is leaving it up to the states. Forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector, leading to higher prices and greater shortages. W
Get 36 million unemployed americans back to work. Youre overseeing historic despair. I think were announcing a plan, opening up our country, just a rude person you are. Were opening up our country, were opening it up very fast. The plan is that each state is opening and it is opening up very effectively and, when you see the numbers i think, even you will be impressed which is pretty hard to impress you. Go ahead. Reporter a lot of these jobs are not coming back. Thank reporter thank you, mr. President canada confirmed the border will be closed until june 21st. Arent you worried about the economy of the border states . We do. We speak to canada all the time. Obviously the relationship is very good with the Prime Minister and myself and two countries. Canada is our neighbor. We have a great relationship. Were talking. At right time that will open up very quickly. Yeah go ahead please. Reporter good happen before june 21st. Yeah it could. Were both doing well. Reporter mr. President you
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
Remain at odds with the pace that is going on in many hospitals. And for the Health Care Work on the line every day to save the lives of others. As expected michigans , governor expanded her stayathome order. Public Health Experts agree, but others wonder if the Small Business owners devastated by this crisis will recover, and those seeking help by the government too many times here this. Questions remain. Is the federal government targeting the help in the right places and if the curve is flat income how do we begin to emerge from a long dark night of covid 19 . Tonight we renew team efforts for a conversation with michigan , it is the live town hall. Town hall. Good evening and welcome to tonights town hall. This is the second in a unique Partnership Economy know were all proud to be taking part. It is certainly a great pleasure to be with you tonight. I know weve all received a lot of questions from viewers all over michigan. We sure did. We are delighted to have with us this evenin