Washington provided little assurance to worried americans over the weekend. The president rejected call toes use wartime powers to address ventilators, masks and other equipment. The senate failed to pass a stimulus bill aimed at boosting workers and the filtering economy. That news sent stock futures tumbling once again. Mitch mcconnell tried to set another vote for 9 45 this morning, 15 minutes oofr the opening bell hoping a tanking market would put pressure on democrats. The vote is now scheduled for noon. The work was xlicomplicated aft senator rand paul announced this morning that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. Paul is now in quarantine. Meanwhile, as the number of cases spiked over the weekend, now at nearly 35,000, more states and cities are announcing variations of lockdown orders. Louisianas state mandated lockdown starts at 5 00 p. M. Today. With hospitals across the country desperately in need of protective equipment, 3m says it is shipping half a Million Masks
Wealthiest americans have but by how many children climb out of poverty. How many startups and Small Businesses open and thrive. How many young people go to College Without drowning in debt. How many people find a good job . How many families get ahead and stay ahead. Lets be very clear. If the primaries were held today, clinton would have the democratic nomination in the bag. She leaves her closest competitor competitor, selfproclaimed senator Bernie Sanders by 34 points. She leads jeb bush by 10 points scott walker by 8, marco rubio and rand paul by four points apiece. But heres the thing about elections. For democrats, its all about turnout. Its less about convincing people to vote for them over the other guy, and it is more about getting people excited enough to cast a vote over all. President clintobama won in 2008 and 2012 because young voters and latinos came out in big numbers. And in 2012 a High Percentage of africanamericans turned out to vote than white americans. 70 of blac
Replaced the guy who got kicked out of congress for cocaine possession, theres sort of nothing that you can do to be more embarrassing than the coke guy, right . But that shouldnt stop you from trying and god bless curt clawson, he is trying his best after getting sworn in as a member of Congress Just late last month, congressman clawson landed a plum assignment, he was assigned to the House Foreign Affairs committee. The Foreign Affairs committee is a big deal especially if you have a freshman member of congress. Arms control, diplomatic relationship with countries around the world. Its a big deal. Yesterday, congressman clawsons subcommittee held a big hearing on u. S. Relations with india. And india is a big and influential country. Our relationship with them is always important. Our relationship with them is particularly important right now because they just elected a whole new government and a whole new prime minister. So the Foreign Affairs committee called to testify two top off
Clawson, he is trying his best after getting sworn in as a member of Congress Just late last month, congressman clawson landed an assignment, he was assigned to the House Foreign Affairs committee. The Foreign Affairs committee is a big deal especially if you have arefreshman member of congress. Arms control, diplomatic relationship with countries around the world. Its a big deal. Yesterday, congressman clawsons subcommittee held a big hearing on u. S. Relations with india. And india is a big and influential country. Our relationship with them is always important. Our relationship with them is particularly important right now because they just elected a whole new government and a whole new prime minister. So the Foreign Affairs committee called to testify two top officials of the u. S. Government. The guy you see on the right is an official in the u. S. Commerce department. The woman you see on the left is an official at the u. S. State department. These are both senior members of the
Indonesia that have actually been banned from flying into the European Union because of either safety or regulatory concerns. Most airlines that come out of indonesia with the exception of the National Carrier and a handful of others are on this eu blacklist because of safety concerns. Many people are asking the same questions that you are, about the safety of these airlines, about the training of the pilots. The other thing theyre dealing with is this very rugged terrain. Theyre saying this is a very mountainous area, wooded area. Theyre working on the assumption based on reports that the plane did come down in the mountainous area. So they will be out this morning with six aircraft looking for any debris, for any signs of wood burning. But the area is 12,000 feet above sea level. Very difficult. We also know planes have come down in this region before and wreckage has never been found. We havent heard about any potential victims or if anybody made it through alive. Kathie thank you v