We also welcome distinguished Board Members and selfless fund of middle east programs here at Atlantic Council john de blasio. Finally we welcome u. S. Government officials, private companies and nonprofits. I predict a rich and substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the stage. Open to everyone. This richins of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely superlative interviewer who will draw the kernels of wisdom out of nabeel today. Tom friedman needs no introduction but simply for fun i will remind you can read his analysis of Foreign Affairs in the new york times, analysis for which he has thrice won the pulitzer prize. Tom is the author of several books and one of which was a textbook as an undergraduate. His full bio is available for you and is printed at. Let us turn to our man of the hour nabeel khoury. Hes a nonbrexit senior fellow fellow at the atlantic counsels christopher middle east are in addition to his work on our website you can read o
Loans, slash grants, becoming available right now, to the tune of close to 35, 40 billion thus farce. Conservative estimates. Maybe as high as 75 billion by the end of day. That is buoying the s p 500. The dow is 19 off its bear market low reached a little more than three weeks ago. A similar situation for the s p 500. Now, about 16 or so away from those lows. Whether that holds is anyones guess. But a lot amid talk as well well get more stimulus here or relief, whatever you want to call it. That it could rival the price of last and most recent relief package north of 2. 2 trillion, hard to say. Blake burman has been looking at all of that. Blake . Reporter hi, there, neil, hard to say indeed. Here is what i am seeing speaking to Senior Administration last night, there has not been sizable movement the last couple days next potential steps coming in terms of economic relief. I am told there are some ideas that they are kick around within the white house as of if that does happen, what
Then, taxpayers for common sense president steve ellis talks about what is in the to trillion dollar coronavirus aid bill recently passed by congress. Washington journal is next. Host with the United States death toll from coronavirus approaching 2500, the president made the announcement he is extending social distancing guidelines until at least april 30. Big news coming out of that briefing with reporters last night. We want to get your reaction this monday morning, march 30, to the president s news extending the social distancing guidelines to april 30. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202 7488000. The mountain1 four and pacific time zones. If you are a medical professional, we have a number for you 202 7488002. A couple of other ways to take part in the conversation this morning. Send us a text at 202 7488003. Please leave your name and the city you are calling from. You can also send a tweet. cspanwj is our twitter handle. You can also post a comment on faceb
Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is india. I worked in the 1990s in india and saw firsthand in 1994 how the ague crisis brought the country to its knees. It was mismanaged. There was miscommunication. Fear was created. A reactive mode that started. And so the country shut down. It lost millions if not billions of dollars in tourist revenue. But the Indian Government learned from it. An infectioused Disease Surveillance Program best publicy is the Health Infectious Disease Surveillance Program in the world. Its an amazing story. The other event is haiti. I was Deputy Director of the Panamerican Health organization which is the
Optimism in china no new domestic cases of coded 19 and dangerous air pollution levels are coming down. Also ahead this half hour the execution of 4 men brings to an end a rape and murder case that shocked india plus. Im a mix you are brown in the wet Sunday Islands the gateway to australias Great Barrier reef. Find out why some tourism operators site commenting is putting the race and livelihoods at risk. The coronavirus is now led to the deaths of more people in italy than any place else in the world and at the moment theres no sign of the infection rate slowing just over 3400 people have died in italy suppressing the figure reported by china where the virus 1st emerged chinas death toll stands at more than 3200 but for a. 2nd consecutive day its reported no locally transmitted cases in the u. S. There are now more than 14000 confirmed cases and 205 deaths President Donald Trump says hes pushing regulators to fast track of it 19 treatment including an anti malaria drug but his own of