Thank you for being here. Thank you to the men and women who serve our public. This is not only about the men and women who serve their country every day in the civilian work force and military, it is about the people we serve. We are their Public Servants. Lets be very clear about the shut down. Get three bytes of the apple in our constitutional system. You pass a bill or you defeated. You can challenge it in court. They lost that round out the Supreme Court. And then you can take it to the ballot box. It is over. Let us not hold the American People by defunding their government hostage. Nobody is going to agree to anything when a gun is that there had and that is precisely when a gun is that their heads and that is precisely what the republicans are doing. It will affect the lives of ordinary americans in every corner of this great country. For. Is what we are here we are committed to turning that around. We are inviting republicans who understand the consequences of join us in to pa
Mark. Reporter good evening President Trump is at camp daiftd this weekend hes due back in washington tomorrow only hours before the senate is expected to get back to work as well. The house has postponed its planls to return at least for right now citing Health Concern and last night human and Health Services offered to deploy Rapid Testing kits to hill but now this is rare both parties are say thanks but no thanks we have with a joint statement from leader mcconnell and House Speaker nancy pelosi showing testing capacities scale up nationwide and Congress Want toes direct resources to frontline facilities where they can do most good the most quickly. Now white house spokesperson said today thats fine the administration trying to help and administration defending its decision not to sending dr. Anthony fauci up to capitol hill to testify before the house. Fauci no surprise is has become a household name since the pandemic began, House Democrats say they invited him to testify before a
Government silencing doctors and refusing to provide samples to scientists working a vaccine. The president has traveled to camp david. Its his first time leaving the white house in a month. We begin with Mark Meredith. Mark . Reporter President Trump spent saturday on the phone with World Leaders including those from pan ma and paraguay. The investigation how the pandemic started is a focus. The majority of u. S. Intelligence agencies believe the virus did begin in a lab in china, wuhan. But Officials Say they are still compiling the information and there is no smoking gun just yet. President trump a lot of things are happening with respect to china. This is a bad situation. All over the world 182 countries. But well be having a lot the lot to say about that. Reporter we are expecting to get later this week the jobs report for april. It comes out in early may. There are some predictions from the white house suggesting the Unemployment Rate could jump from 16 to 19 percent. You will se
House Republicans selected Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) to be their fourth speaker-designate in the weeks since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was removed from the speakership.