During Todays Supreme Court arguments concerning President Trumps financial records, trumps lawyer jay sekulow argued that trump is, quote, asking for temporary president ial immunity. Temporary . He has seven months left in a fouryear term its like going to work and asking for a sixhour lunch break. During Todays Supreme Court arguments, the lawyer representing House Democrats told justices that lawmakers need access to trumps tax returns to see if hes, quote, subject to foreign leverage. Oh, come on thats just ridiculous, said justice putin. During a Coronavirus Briefing yesterday, President Trump told an Asian American reporter to, quote, ask china in response to a question about coronavirus rates. Okay, im starting to think melanias be best program isnt working. Telling an asianamerican reporter to ask china is like a skit the be best players would do at a school and then say, freeze okay now, who knows what the president should have asked . And then the president would raise his h
Hopefully recovering from covid19 so i want to take this opportunity to address the plight of an extremely vulnerable population, Political Prisoners abroad. In turkey, syria, china, and a lot of other countries, Political Prisoners remain locked away in crowded prisons without adequate medical care. The spread of covid19 among this population dramatically increases the risk of serious medical consequences or even death. Thor authoritarian regiming risk further stabilization of countries by jailing the innocent. Political prisoners ought to be released and they ought to be released now. At the beginning of march we worked to get ahead of the covid pandemic, an amazing thing happened. Congress came together quickly and developed a broad package of measures to provide relief to families, workers, and businesses to weather the covid19 event and the crisis that it is. Coronavirus aid relief and economic security, those words make up the cares act, included a broad range of tools, direct pa
Coronavirus crisis. This is two hours and 30 minutes. I want to begin by thanking our pannestist and esteemed members for joining us. This week our country passed a grim milestone, more than 100,000 americans have lost their lives due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of americans continue to contract this virus every day. Over 150 more here in South Carolina on yesterday. And the day before, wednesday, marked our largest singleday increase of covid19 deaths. Local Community Leaders across the country, democrats, and republic ans need strong federal leadership to help them combat this deadly threat. Communities need federal help to get the protective equipment and testing supplies they need to protect their front line medical workers and essential employees. Unfortunately the administration is leaving it up to the states. Forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector, leading to higher prices and greater shortages. W
A lot of news to cover this morning, marcus. Absolutely. We want to start out with a look at the forecast for you, and meteorologist, kari hall, has been tracking what we havecan et for this thursday. Its going to be another beautiful day. As we head to martinez, we will see temperatures in the 50s and then by noon in the 70s. It will be slightly warmer today. I will talk more about that and also very hot temperatures in our forecast, and thats coming up in a few minutes, marcus. Thank you, kari. Happening today Solano County restaurants are now allowed to reopen their doors. Other businesses will also be able to reopen provided they meet the safety requirements. Todays terry mcsweeney. The long wait is over at downtown joes in napa. Its like we are starting all over again. Joe, who opened the restaurant, 27 years ago, jamie is grateful to be here with her sons. It was nice to not come up with what to do for dinner. Napa is the first bay area county to move into the next phase reopenin
Hopefully recovering from covid19, so i want to take this opportunity to address the plight of an extremely vulnerable population, Political Prisoners abroad. In turkey, syria,hi china, and a lot of other countries, Political Prisoners remain locked away in crowded prisons without adequate medical care. The spread of covid19 among this population dramatically increases the risk of serious medical consequences, or even death. Authoritarian regimes only risk further destabilization of their countries by jailing the innocent. Levitical prisoners ought to be released and they ought to be released now. Political prisoners. At the beginning of march, we worked to get ahead of the covit pandemic, and an amazing thing happened. Congress came together quickly and develop a broad package of measures to provide relief to families, workers, and businesses to whether the covid19 event. And the crisis that it is. Coronavirus aid relief and economic security, those words make up the cares act, includ