Statistics. The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus with more than 1. 5 million. Another 2. 4 million workers filed jobless claims this week, joining the more than 38 million americans have applied for unemployment assistance since the crisis began. Veryl soon our country will reah another grim milestone. We are fast approaching the day when more than 100,000 american lives will have been lost to covid19, the size of a small city erased from the map. Speaker pelosi and i have sent a letter to President Trump this morning requesting that the American Flag be flown at half mast on all public buildings on the day the total reaches 100,000. As families all across the great country mourned the loss of friend, colleagues and loved ones, flying the flag at half mast would be a national expression of grief. And of course this weekend is also memorial day, where we commemorate so Many Americans who through the centuries have lost their lives for
Will record a session and distribute and post the video afterwards to the benefit of everyone. Stay tuned for upcoming discussions former under secretary of defense will join us next thursday may 28 and the Jackson Institute to introduce the special guest. Thanks and welcome everyone. As we grapple with the ramifications of the pandemic we are grateful to have a Wonderful Group of faculty and senior fellows. One such individual is the jackson senior fellow howard dean who is a former physician, six term governor of vermont, president ial candidate share of the National Governors association and the Democratic National committee. With maybe a little less wellknown governor dean is professor dean and teaches an incredibly popular undergraduate seminar. Our distinguished guest senator chris murphy has represented connecticut in the senate for the past seven years following six years in the house and eight years in the connecticut general assembly. In the Foreign Relations committee hes em
Good morning im becky quick along with joe kernen and ars there are some red arrows. You have to look at what has been happening over the last week joe mentioned it is up 3. 5 this week alone watch what has happened. The crazy whip saw market picking up again walking you through the dow. Thank for peter for helping me out with this. The record high 25,551 on november 12. Falling to the low on march 23, 18,591 yesterday, june 3, the dow up 41 back to 26,269 the same story with the s p. Looking at that, you will see it hit a record high 3,386 on february 19. Fell on march 23 to 2,237. Yesterday back to 3,122. It just shows you how rapidly these things have happened and how much ground has been made if you are looking at the nasdaq. Only up 1. 4 from the record close from february 20 treasury yields have picked up the 10year yielding 0. 746 . Crude oil prices are down this morning. Concerns that that opec plus meeting. That there will not be any cuts extended a lot of that comes as you ar
Senator angus king and congressman Mike Gallagher. If i lived further north congressman al gore would be my member of congress. We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Spaulding who ill introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we
Research finds very different experiences of black and white americans when it comes to the economy and the shutdown and the coronavirus. And these different attitudes come from very, very different experiences. Looking at views on the current state of the economy, you can see that 28 nationally see the economy as excellent or good right now. Thats the same number as you have for white americans black americans 5 view the economy right now as excellent or good. Thats reflected in some of the Economic Data weve seen that shows that africanamericans have been hit harder by the shutdown similar attitudes by differences about the outlook. 38 of americans nationwide are confident or somewhat confident in the future. Black americans, 16 are confident or somewhat confident in the future. Perhaps reflecting the differing economic experiences right now a lot of this comes from different experiences with the coronavirus itself 92 of africanamericans are concerned or very concerned about the coro