Mr. Mcconnell so, mr. President , earlier today, leaders in both chambers and the administration reached a bipartisan agreement to supplement the historic cares act. At the core of our agreement is 320 billion more for the paycheck protection program, which is already saving millions of Small Business jobs and helping americans get paychecks instead of pink slips. Mr. President , this is even more money than we had first requested a while back. In the intervening time and at our request, this new money puts a special focus on Community Banks and credit unions. Separately, thanks to the hard work of senator collins and senator rubio, the bill supplies 60 billion for additional Economic Injury disaster loans, and because of senator roberts, senator daines, and our other colleagues from rural states, it will be clear that farmers and ranchers will be eligible as well. Senate republicans wanted more funding for americans paychecks nearly two weeks ago. Before the program even shut down. Bu
Losses early in the session after the ceo of russias Sovereign Wealth Fund told cnbc and moscow and saudi arabia are very close to an oil deal. Wti and brent are both coming off their best week on record. Not recent records on records ever all the way back to 1983 when they started tracking wti last week wti was up by 31. 7 . Up by 12 on friday alone. A meeting of Major Oil Producing Countries was delayed but still expected later this week that news just being told to cnbc that it looks like they are close to a deal. Andrew, ill send it over to you. Meantime, the latest on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases worldwide now totaling more than 1. 2 million. More than 330,000 of those are right here in the United States and more than a third of the u. S. Cases are in new york state. The death toll in america standing at more than 9600 overseas, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests a spokesman called it a precautionary test the Prime Minister test
Analysis of the day its global headlines its inside story on aljazeera. And youre in the stream today rhythm and recidivism well discuss the new documentary showcasing how music can help the incarcerated adjust to life in and out of jail share your thoughts tweet us at a. J. Stream or leave a comment on our live you tube chat and you too can be in the stream. A new documentary 16 bars chronicles the lives of 4 inmates at the Richmond City jail in the u. S. State of virginia their stories and songs give the audience a raw look into americas criminal Justice System. Development going to be right some music. Behind bars but they still have. To make it in this music is capturing this moment were. Here to discuss the film from los angeles grammy Award Winning rapper speech from the Group Arrested development who you saw the trailer just now and in our studio it sound bath and Lynn Twyman Sam is the director of the film 16 bars and lynn is a regional coordinator for the documentary helping f
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President donald trump made a rare appearance in the White House Briefing room to downplay the threat of coronavirus the risk to the American People remains very low trump the klein told point to socalled corona virus czar as some lawmakers in the u. S. Have urged instead naming Vice President mike pence as the point person to lead the u. S. Response to the growing outbreak were doing really well and mike is going to be in georgia and mike will report back to me Top Public Health officials are warning americans to prepare for more corona virus infections in the United States the degree of risk has the potential to change quickly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States the trajectory of what were looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain but even with those warnings trump continued to contradict the message of Career Health professionals with his all i dont think its inevitable probably will it possibly will it could be at a very small level or could