The election of the canadian Prime Minister means, not only for that country, but our country as well. That is all tomorrow on the washington journal. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the president obama and a form of Prescription Drug abuse. Mac, john mccain and thornberry talk about defense spending. At noon, we will show you the first part of secretary of state Hillary Clinton p appearance before the house benghazi committee. On wednesday, president obama was in charleston, West Virginia for the Panel Description out of discussion on Prescription Drug abuse. Included in the panel were Law Enforcement and health silvioment officials, burwell, and the director of National Drug control policy. This is just over one hour. President obama thank you, everybody. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you s
Promptly, says he wont follow. And says you dont have to, either. So with the masks, its going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it. You dont have to do it. Im choosing not to do it but some people may do it and thats okay. It may be good. Probably will. Only a recommendation. Its voluntary. I wish he would think, not about his own image but, about setting an example for the country. What would people gain from wearing a mask . And why are you opposed to wearing one yourself . Well, i just dont want to wear one myself. Its a recommendation. They recommend it. Im feeling good. I just dont want to be doing i dont know. Somehow, sitting in the oval office, behind that beautiful, resolute desk, the great, resolute desk, i think wearing a face mask as i greet president s, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, i dont know, somehow i dont see it for myself. I just i just maybe ill change my mind. But this will pass and, hopefully, itll pass very quickly. Now, with that being sai
Bill he accuses them of theres more than a Million Worldwide with more than 27,000 americans dead. We report from this hour on the north lawn at the white house and john roberts is there. Good afternoon to you. A little bit of breaking news, im told by sources that the Treasury Department that the fund for the Small Business association loans, the socalled paycheck protection loans will probably run out by the close of business today. Congress has been deadlocked on putting more money into it. I asked the president about it yesterday on what could be done in the negotiations continue. Secretary mnuchin has been meeting with the minority leader, but in law something breaks loose, the fund will run out of money by the end of the day. A lot of americans have been getting those 1200 Economic Impact payments by direct deposit. When the paper check version of that comes out either the end of this week or beginning of next, as far as we know its unprecedented for a president to put his name o
The masks are important, not to protect yourself, but to protects others if you are asymptomatic and unknowingly carrying the virus. It is really important advice. Advice that could save lives. Advice that the president promptly says he wont follow and says you dont have to either. So, with the masks, its going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it. You dont have to do it. Im choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and thats okay. It may be good. Probably will. Theyre making a recommendation. Its only a recommendation. Its voluntary. I wish he would think not about his own image, but about setting an example for the country. What would people gain from wearing a mask and why are you opposed to wearing one yourself . Well, i just dont want to wear one myself. Its a recommendation. They recommend it. Im feeling good. I just dont want to be doing i dont know, somehow sitting in the oval Office Behind that beautiful resolute desk, the Great Resolute desk, i think
Remember that those deliberation s are taking place inside the white house in full crisis mode over the president s anemic response to russian meddling confirmed by mueller and every member of his security team. Unanswered by any policy change or change in the public messages that the president expresses about his favorite strong leader, Vladimir Putin. With the president s twin irritants, the russia investigation and the predecessor, he lashed out at his attorney general on twitter writing, quote, question, if all of the russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to january 20th, why arent they the subject of the investigation . Why didnt obama do something about the meddling . Why arent dem crimes under investigation . Ask jeff session. No s. Our pal phil rucker at the Washington Post write up the piece titled trumps tougher on russia claim fits a pattern of striving one of obama. Jennifer puts it this way. Trump is personally weaker than obama in dealing w