Speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin set to talk this morning after House Democrats roll out a new scaled down pandemic aid bill and calling it a propagator of disinformation, why the Biden Campaign is blasting facebook ahead of tonights president ial debate jim, david, good to see you guys, welcome back im taken aback, jim, by your tweet a moment ago about stimulus and sort of a fatalist i can view of what the restaurant sector is facing in this country. I will be candid, we ran out of ppp about three months ago, some of us have just decided to pay lots of employees to do nothing and its been its done they had a chance. I think they made a decision that you would have to keep these people on until we had a vaccine, so Neither Party agreed to anything and its too late. Theres nobody to give ppp to for the most part in restaurants except look, the winners were darden in the Small Business side, we know that they were viewed as nonessential, they never snapped back unless they had someth
Theres a red flag warning so we have to watch out for more fires threats as we go through the weekend more bad air in the bay area and were looking at more damage the entire city of calistoga has been evacuated calistoga still okay but everybody had to get out your kron fours will tran has been driving around there for us this morning giving us boots on the ground, a first person perspective and will what are you seeing this morning. I see the flames are right behind the same house that ive been showing you since 5 oclock in the morning. We have a location the firefighters tell me this is tucker road off a highway 29 about a mile from calistoga so this is your home. It is fine for now they have dozens of firefighters and i just stepped out you can clearly see there your backyard. Right now theyre actually laying down some Fire Fighting fire with fire creating a line and how hunting is this james and darya theyre saying right now the fire is playing nice so theyre keeping a close eye on
Good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. Without objection, declaring a recess of the committee, i recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This morning, we heard the president in his own words recorded in february slam the coronavirus has, quote, deadly stuff. Yet we also heard remarks, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic, end of quote. The Trump Administration did play down the pandemic refusing to level with the American People about the known danger and refusing to develop and implement a National Plan to stop the spread. As a result, 190,000 americans have died, continuing to kill hundreds, tens of thousands every day. Over the last eight weeks, americans will be changing their votes in the midst of this ongoing crisis. A free, fair and safe election under these circumstances is a challenge. Let there be no doubt we do our part, america is up to the challenge. In june the centers for Disease Control and preve
Underestimate senator mcconnell and his ability to corral maybe as many as 20 republican senators who believe that we have a vshaped recovery which of course is what President Trump has been saying. Its the senate that we look to, i think all discussions between secretary mnuchin and Speaker Pelosi have not borne fruit. One of the things i think they havent borne fruit because the republicans simply are not in favor of giving the states money. Speaker flossy wants to give many different businesses and states money because they are all strapped will this matter to that i dont think so i wish it would, i mean, in business i think it would, but not in politics. I feel, david, when i look at these numbers and i look at whats happened to the president , of course, we wish him well, i think that somehow nothing comes together in washington that you would think. Theres not a kind of a sympathetic lets get together, lets stop the war of words. It just doesnt happen like that anymore. No. There
To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th