Government it was instrumental in helping to pass president george w. Bushs 80000000000. 00 package to combat aids in africa and hes now one of 16 leading out the experts calling on congress to fund billions of dollars in coke about team testing before it can safely reopen the country for bush its stormy and i say Senate Majority leader republican from tennessee and a host of the proud care so 2nd opinion rethinking American Health is bill frist he joins us from his art farm in virginia god its good to see you again good larry great to be with you appreciate the chance to have this conversation my pleasure tell me about this letter you and 16 other help that actual you want the government to do. Larry the letter went out last monday and went to the president of the United States and to the United States congress and it basically has 3 parts all of which center on the really critical failure that this country has had in the last month but also the opportunity that its all built around t
A landlord is never ever ever ever ever going to get behind a rent strike no no no President Trump took to twitter to throw his support to the armed lemming hordes protesting in front of the state capitals across the land tweeting the governor of michigan should give a little in and put out the fire these are these are very good people but they are angry they want their lives back again safely see them talk to them make deals with this from the man who an unarmed n. F. L. Players simply took a need during the National Anthem to protest the killing of their Black Brothers and sisters by Police Officers proudly exclaimed the following. Would you love to see one of these n. F. L. Owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out of the sky. I guess that. Logic means that heavily armed protests over being asked to stay at home for a few months during a pandemic is a far greater loss of liberty and far more noble a cause than you know prote
Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Theres hope this morning that we may be starting to flatten the curve of this coronavirus crisis. But experts say were still in the middle of this historic fight. Heres a map this morning. The u. S. Death toll is approaching 11,000 people with more than 4,000 deaths in new york and over 1,000 in new jersey followed by michigan and louisiana. Officials in california say cases there may not peak until next month. This morning the New York Times reports President Trumps trade adviser Peter Navarro warned back in january the virus could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths. Also overnight we lumped a cathedral in new york may be used as an emergency field hospital. But there is some encouraging news. The cdc director says thanks to social distancing hes now expecting a much lower death toll than many feared. Abcs andrea fujii begins our coverage. Reporter a look inside the now largest hospital in the nation. New york citys javits center, once a Convention C
What is the origin of earth day . It been 50 years. How did it start . Have things gotten better or worse . So its been a good 15 years. Earth day originated we had to do something so for future generations, they had the same e environment that we do. Weve done a lot in these 50 years but we still have a long way to go as well. Lets talk about things having gotten better. We saw dramatic video of the water in the venice canal getting clearer, we see a jelly fish going by, a reduction of pollution in new york city, in beijing. Talk about how the shelter in place has dramatically improved the air quality and plewes leve pollution levels everywhere and in the bait area. Weve seen dramatic reductions in the atmosphere. Typically they go up during the traffic times and weve seen a complete flattening of that as a result of us not driving our cars and some factories slowing down. So here in the bay area throughout the country and the world weve seen the air quality improve a lot. You know, t
If you live in the eastern half of the country, those at west, this is your number. Yourt west, this is number. If you are a chicago resident, this is your number. ,e will begin how we always do with the numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Now 2. 4 million cases around the world in 185 countries. The total deaths, one of six 1000 69,000. Joining us from her office in chicago is the mayor, Lori Lightfoot. Thank you for being with here with us here on cspan. My pleasure. I want to begin with some concerns expressed by deborah birx on the White House Coronavirus task force. We have made tremendous progress. There is still a long way to go. When we started out, we saw cases doubling every two or three days. We are now in a cycle where they are doubling every 12 days. We have to get to a place where we see a decline in cases, a decline in hospitalizations and occupied by icu bed covid positive or people under investigation for having covid. We are making progress because people are