Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] pres. Trump thahank you very much, everybody. So, welcome to our Cabinet Meeting. Every member of my cabinet is working tirelessly to defeat the invisible enemy that should have never happened to our country, should have never happened to the world. It is a disgrace. It could have been stopped at the source but they decided not to do that. We are going to safely reopen our country and our economy and it is happening very rapidly. Interestinglyg when numbers are actually going down. The state of florida, great job. You look at georgia, others, some are doing extremely well, far beyond what people thought. And the numbers are going down. The numbers we have been talking about for the last two months are going down. So it is really terrific. In our drive to crush the virus, the u. S. Has completed nearly 12 million tests, and that number today is almost 14 million. Nobody is close. Germany would be second with approximat
Testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the epas role during the coronavirus pandemic. And two 30, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee holds a confirmation hearing for the Deputy Energy secretary and on cspan two, the centered senate is back at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to consider judicial nominations. As of this morning, about a quarter of the debts are in new york city area, the new york area has been the hardest hit region of the country by this virus. Four v. A. Centers have 26260 debts, but the other deaths are spread out across 110 different v. A. Facilities. This is all over the country. Everyone has been touched by this in some way. Some places it is just two deaths, other places, philadelphia has been hit hard, new orleans has been hit hard, chicago has had around 60 deaths so this is not a regional problem, this is not just one area that has been hit. It is really a nationwide issu if you look at the overall numbers, and these have pr
David hello. Im david rubenstein, and im the president of the Economic Club of washington. And i want to welcome you to our sixth Virtual Event since the corona crisis has begun. We have been trying to give you information about the local community, as well as things going on around the country, and we hope you enjoy these. Today, we have our membership watching. We also have a number of members of the diplomatic corps who are tuning in as well, and a number of invited guests who are not members of the club are also involved in listening and watching as well. We have three special guests today. The first is ted leonsis, who is the founder, chairman, principal partner, and ceo of monumental sports entertainment. The second is the governor of maryland, honorable lawrence hogan, who is also the chair of the National Governors association. And then we have kim ford, who is the president and ceo of marthas table. And we will do them in the order that i just mentioned. I would just like to l
Order your copy today wherever books are sold. Next, marilyn governor larry hogan, Washington Capitals and wizards owner ted leonsis, and kim ford are interviewed about the coronavirus pandemic. The Economic Club of washington hosted this event. David hello. Im david rubenstein, and im the president of the Economic Club of washington. And i want to welcome you to our sixth Virtual Event since the corona crisis has begun. We have been trying to give you information about the local community, as well as things going on around the country, and we hope you enjoy these. Today, we have our membership watching. We also have a number of members of the diplomatic corps who are tuning in as well, and a number of invited guests who are not members of the club are also involved in listening and watching as well. We have three special guests today. The first is ted leonsis, who is the founder, chairman, principal partner, and ceo of monumental sports entertainment. The second is the governor of mar
U. S. iran relations. I should stress these events are strictly nonpartisan and not intended to offer any kind of policy, recommendations, or agendas. Therapy meant to give greater insight into how we got to where we are, which we believe helps us to understand how we can solve problems. A few thanks and then over to allen. The Melon Foundation funds building program. We are grateful to them. The room has been booked by chronicm congressman consequentnellys o. I will turn it over to the moderator of this event. Most of you will find these index cards on your seats. The intent of these is as the discussion proceeds, if you have questions, write them on these cards. We would collect them after formal remarks and use them to initiate the discussion, all right . Think about that as they are giving their remarks. Allen . Thank you, dane. Good morning. In 1941, the influential publisher henry loose declared that, in his view, the 20th century would be the american century. A time when americ