Washington journal live at 7 00 eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Tonight on cspan, President Trump gives an update on the coronavirus outbreak. That is followed by canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and british Prime Minister Boris Johnson on how their countries are responding to the global pandemic. And later, the World Health Organization provides the latest numbers on confirmed coronavirus cases. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump announced he was invoking defense production act to have American Industries start manufacturing medical equipment but is in short supply. The administration also announced the suspension of foreclosures and evictions until the end of april, and a temporary ban on nonessential travel at the u. S. Canada border. I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the chinese virus. The chinese virus. We will be invoking the defense production act just in case we need it. In other words i
Pres. Trump i would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the chinese virus. We will be invoking the defense production act just in case we need it. In other words, i think you all know what it is, and it can do a lot of good things if we need it. We will have it all completed. Signing it in just a little while right after i am finished with this conference. I will be signing it. It is prepared to go. We will be invoking the defense production act. Last week, i signed an Emergency Declaration under the stafford act, which as you know, we invoked previously and which activated femas National Response coordination center. Fema now is fully engaged at the highest levels. Today, fema is activated in every region. We are at level one, level one being the highest level, which we will work with. Level, which we will work with. We have been working with fema. I have done a lot of work with fema. They are incredible. It has always been on hurricanes it has a
Pres. Trump i would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the chinese virus. We will be invoking the defense production act just in case we need it. I think you all know what it is. It can do a lot of good things if we need it. We will have it all completed. Signing it in just a little while right after i am finished with this conference. I will be signing it. It is prepared to go. So we will be invoking the defense production act. Last week, i signed an Emergency Declaration under the stafford act, which as you know, we invoked previously. And which activated femas National Response coordination center. Fema now is fully engaged at the highest levels. Today, fema is activated in every region. We are at level one, level one being the highest level, which we will work with. We have been working with fema. I have done a lot of work with fema. They are incredible. It has always been on hurricanes or tornadoes. They are right now in tennessee. A large g
Footballs Michel Platini loses his bid for a 90 his bid to remove a 90day ban. Also coming up, Silicon Valleys baby boom is sparking a new debate. First, talks on reaching a climate deal have been extended in next today. Hope to wrap up on saturday. After an allnight session of discussions, the French Foreign minister said that a compromised text is expected tomorrow instead of by 6 00 p. M. Today. You have spoken with environment ministers from both india and china. Lets tell lets put things into context. China is the number one polluter in the world. They met separately and they discussed various issues seemingly to kind of show a front on their positions. China is the country that seems to be the most reticent to sign a climate deal. I asked one of the chinese advisors what he thought of the term Greenhouse Gas emissions neutrality by the second half of the century. He said he did not actually understand the definition. Take a listen. I dont know whether it will to agree onfor us em
Spending programs. This is not theoretical, mr. Speaker. The state of illinois has tried that and it is a mess and its a mess that becomes worse the longer the state waits, the worse the options are. And so what the chairman is saying, lets not get to that point. Weve got options. Weve got time. Weve got choices. Weve got remedies, but we need to act now. So i urge favorable consideration of this budget and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from maryland is recognized. Mr. Van hollen thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I think for the people who may be watching this and for our colleagues, the question is, how do we achieve the priorities that we hope we all want to achieve, which is jobs, growing faster jobs growing faster, the economy growing faster, deal with the longterm deficit and debt in a responsible manner. And the glaring problem with the Congressional Republican budget is that they dont call for any shared responsibi