A Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. To this newdjusting way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as it goes through and think the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined , you willplatform receive a message shortly from bailey,ur staff, morgan in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website bipartisanpolicy daughter, and a eventsll be on the bpc page under the health section. Later this morning, you will have an opportunity to submit your questions to our Task Force Members vie the q and a function at the bottom of your screen. To the purpose of this event, personally coming from a rural area of indiana with our family farm still operationa
, the president of the National Rural Health Association, here to talk about how the corona pandemic is affecting rural areas. Good morning. Caller good morning. Guest good morning. Thank you for inviting me to be on your show. Host tell us what the National Rural Health Association is and what you do. Rural healthtional association started in the early 1980s as a way of bringing rural providers and people interested together. We have over 21,000 members. It is a notforprofit organization comprised of people from universities, rural health clinics, people in longterm care health centers, and anybody who would like to expand the voice for rural health. We are concerned about education, research, munication. Anything that can advance and support our Rural Communities and activate and increase access for Rural Health Care in our communities. Up theou also head illinois critical access hospital network. Tell us what that is. Ofst yes, it is a network 57 critical access and small rural hosp
Territory. The nasdaq turned into the green the last few minutes. A lot of going on as always. Were waiting for update at this hour from the White House Coronavirus task force that update should come about hour a little more than that from now. Meantime lets get to the top stories as they develop on a monday. Fox Business Team coverage with Lauren Simonetti in the newsroom in new york, blake burman at white house for us. Hillary vaughn on capitol hill. Blake, we start with you. Reporter connell, melissa, the negotiations get nearly two trillion dollar package at going on the white house, treasury secretary steve mnuchin, negotiating with Top Democrats. One of the Top Democrats he is confident this will get done. The white house had been hopeful this would get to the president s desk for signature at some point during this week. The Vice President mike pence reiterated that timeline just a little while ago. President trump and i absolutely believe. Sake of american workers, economy, see
And nasdaq. Strong market gains for the Bluechip Companies. Just using two of them as an example, we have apple up three dollars, microsoft up at 146. They have been higher than that earlier. Microsoft up earlier. Did they hit bottom this week . A lot of people have been buying them. Were asking that question. I hope a bottom for a lot of companies. Oil moving up to 25. Barrel. Its down 15 cents now. The government is buying oil but the petroleum written for the petroleum reserve. Whats he going to do about the russian and saudi attack on american drillers. We will ask that question to him. Gas prices tumbling. The National Averages 2. 17 a gallon falling about two cents a day. In oklahoma the averages a dollar 80. In california its 3. 25. According to gas buddy we will be down to a National Average of well under two dollars very soon. Lets get to the spreading virus. We will show you Street Scenes from around the world. Same story all over. Ghost towns, empty streets. Economists at a
Your fellow citizens at risk. Pompeo also had a question andanswer session with former secretary of state condoleezza rice, his next stop will be in San Francisco late this afternoon at the Commonwealth Club in the which will include a discussion on foreignpolicy challenges and issues of economic security. Than later he will attend a private dinner with tech leaders including Larry Ellison. And iraq, as if Security Forces cracking down a protesters who are angry about the downing of a jetliner. Craig has more from kyiv, ukraine. Reporter a major crackdown is underway in iran, Security Forces firing live rounds and tear gas at protesters and straining against irans accidental shooting down of the ukrainian passenger plane. And the fact that tehran denied it for 3 days after the crash. Reporter the denial and uncovering the truth greatly added to the suffering and pain of the families. Reporter the iranian government says there was no coverup and they are ordering the protesters to go ho