Eastern on cspans q a. At his Daily Briefing in albany, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo talked about the possibility of a second wave of Coronavirus Infections in the fall. He also criticized the lack of federal funding for state and local governments. He challenged the Senate Majority leader suggestion that states should be declared bankruptcy. I dont give groomed facts and i dont give happy facts on what you know, facts are facts. When we started this i said the best thing i can do is to give people the truth and give people the facts, separate from an opinion and separate from my spin, separate from what i would like to believe and what i hope. Just facts. The reason i do that is because everything we are doing is basically voluntary, on behalf of people. Right . State government, local government, federal government does not have the power to enforce stayathome orders, if 90 Million People said i will go out today, they would go out. But the belief was if they have the facts and if
State should declare bankruptcy. Facts are facts and when we started this, i said the best thing i can do is give people the truth and the facts separate from an opinion into separate from what i would like to believe and what i hope. The reason i do that is because everything we are givin doing is basically voluntary on behalf of people. State government, local government, federal government doesnt have the power to enforcenforce stayathome orde. 19 Million People that im going out today, they would go out. The leases if they hav belief ie facts and understand they would act prudently. My job is to present the facts as facts if i had an editorial comment i would give it to you but i want you to know that is my editorial comment versus what the data for science will say. Also our muslim brothers and sisters in the observation and we wish them all the best. The number of new cases walking in the door were being diagnosed and its relatively flat. Theyd like to see that going down. Number
Total hospitalizations down again. , we areook at the curve ago. Where we were 21 days 21 days of hell, but we are back to where we were. But we need to find out is when we will be back to the point where only several hundred people showed up at the hospitals every day with the covid infection. Thats what we want to see. Want to know how fast the decline continues and how low the decline gets. We would like to get back to the days of only 400, 5 hundred people showing new infections every day. The numbers are basically saying the same, that we are on the downside of the mountain. Thate always been worried ckup andlittle ti there will be evidence that we are not on decline, but all the evidence says we are on declined. The new cases ticked down yesterday after being stable for a number of days. Cases. 100 new only in this crazy reality with 1100 new cases be relatively good news, right . But 1100 new cases. That, we would like to see in the 200, 300, 400 new cases per day. You think you
That is the reality of what we are dealing with. 56 days of pain. Yes. Yes, relative to the past and what other societies have gone through. It bad, but not the worst people have gone through bad but not the worst people have gone through. Did we accomplish . 100,000 fewer infections in the state of new york, and we actually saved lives. Did, and that is what we are doing. That is inarguable. Personal opinion is i believe everything we did was worth it. Point, butargue that that is what we did. Heck of ant is a accomplishment and want to feel good about, and one new yorkers elll be proud of one to fe good about, and one new yorkers will be proud of, which is what new yorkers are about, being tough, unified, smart, and loving. So maybe the life you saved is not your own, but you saved a life. That is not a bad day spending one day or 56 days. Questions . You mentioned taking a regional approach in new york state to reopening things, but does not not undermined the approach of coordinati
On American History tv on cspan three. Collect snacks, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considers the nomination of John Sullivan to the u. S. Ambassador to russia. Who currently serves as deputy secretary of state was asked several questions about trumps communication with the president of ukraine in july and alleged efforts to have ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. [background sounds] the meeting will come to order. Thank you all for attending today. Today were going to hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. Our nominee today is the honorable john j sullivan, to be the u. S. Investor to the Russian Federation. First we have two distinguished very distinguished, i might add colleagues of ours, was to introduce our nominees and were going to allow them to proceed with introductions. If im going to post on my opening statement. Lets hold that until the nominees had been introduced. Were glad to be joined today by s