The next 30 minutes egypts president warns libyas you would recognize government against trying to retake the strategic city of sirte at all does his army to be ready for cross Border Missions also convicted of corruption a high profile congolese politician is sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Welcome to the Program Donald Trump has addressed a smaller than expected crowd in the u. S. City of tulsa where the president held his 1st major public rally since the Coronavirus Crisis began its appearance was biden called diversity with some saying the timing is racially insensitive and that it poses a health risk she had pretenses as will. It have been reported that this rally was intended not just to energize the president s supporters but to lift the spirits of a man whose. Crave the adulation of his base during the long months of lock down you are so lucky president thats all i can cook you with the Trump Campaigns hopes of a turnout of 100000 supporters inside and outside this Great Amer
Numbers, 8 30 this morning. We knew it was going to be bad because bricks and Mortar Stores have been largely shut down, and it was bad. April sales down 16. 4 in april after dropping 8 in march. So heres the market, with just minutes to go to the opening bell. Red ink all over the place but not as bad as it was. The dow off about 180, 25 down for the s p, 121 down for the nasdaq. Thats of course inspired by apple, which is way, way down this morning. What were looking for is how fast we can rebound on the other side of this really bad Economic News. Thats the other side of the coin. The great reopening. Which gathers steam this weekend. There are only a handful of states that are still trying to enforce a complete lockdown. This will be a test of our willingness to get out and about, our willingness to travel, eat out and shop. This is important. We need to open the economy. We need to get back to work. This weekend, i think its a prelude to memorial day next weekend which is the unof
A some restrictions to keep the economy moving. And resistance to lebanons Financial Rescue plan as the government turns to the International Monetary fund for help. Hello thanks for joining us an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of the drug death of a year will be distributed to hospitals from monday the f. D. A. Gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the drug shortened patients Recovery Time by about 31 percent. When the president brought the pharmaceutical companies here to the white house you were among them he said we wanted you to move quickly on developing a vaccine but he said develop therapeutics as quickly as you can we were told d that it was possible that by the spring we would have therapeutics and standing here on may the 1st the very 1st therapeutic with the emergency use authorization the good work of f. D. A. Is now available an
We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the conversation. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grade the federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew, around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the he ignored the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Other actions of preparedness, preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for me. I have four siblings they a
Politico playbook. Im here with my colleague jake sherman who writes playbook with me. We are with dnc chairman tom perez. Thank you so much for joining us we will be talking about the response to the coronavirus, the shift to thank you so much for joining us. We are going to be talking about the response to coronavirus. And how democrats are facing the challenges related to voting in the primaries. Mr. Sherman these briefings are among events politico is hosting in the coming weeks with journalism across the newsroom. Ross the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It i