The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
Hospital the other day, i have the mask right here, i carry it. I will use i had gladly, no problem with it. I said. That i say if you can use the mask, when you can, use the mask reporter and President Donald Trump sending treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and his chief of staff to the hill today, with a starting point for cares four of one trillion dollars. The hour long meeting with republicans those there say the administration now may be open to giving 25 billion for states for testing. Republicans also want payroll tax relief. 105 billion to reopen schools safely, business Liability Protections and incentives for going back to work. The american job market needs another shot of adrenaline. Senate republicans are laser focused on getting American Workers their jobs back. Reporter mnuchin also met with Senate Majority leader, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer as well as nancy pelosi while he was up on capitol hill. Both of them criticized the administration that they came to them
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today, i dont think all of you for being here. It is our honor to have the deputy secretary of state here to testify on u. S. Policy regarding peoples republic of china. I originally defaulting back in march, however, our need to focus on the Community Protests from doing that. It is important this committee continue its work on its most committing Foreign Policy challenges, obviously china is one of those. As a complete mistrust correctly recognized, china is a strategic in global competitor of the United States. It would be the greatest Foreign Policy challenge the United States faces in decades to come. Policies of the Chinese Communist party undermine u. S. Interests and values, as we share with partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge the fork front of american life. We now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and partners in t
Time get that much time to speak. Number one, the reason why that is, is not anything about affirmative action. Its all because of one guy we were talking about earlier, scalia. You can you can listen to any oral argument on oyez. Org cspan 3 is live on capitol hill this morning where members of a house subcommittee are holding a hearing on u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Live coverage on cspan 3. Such as subcommittee meetings and hearings and so the expectation is for members and witnesses who are physically present to please wear a mask except when you are speaking. Pursuant to notice and this subcommittees rules of procedure and statement of policy for private immigration bills i call up hr 7572, a private bill for the relief of median. The chair calls the bill for the purpose of requesting an investigative report from the department of Homeland Security and the stay of removal on behalf of the named beneficiary while that report is pending. Without objection i ask unani
Was still there. During an oval office event yesterday, President Trump called the coronavirus the invisible enemy, and said he views the virus like a war in other words, safely from thousands of miles away. Thats right, President Trump called the coronavirus the quote, invisible enemy. But to be fair, thats also what he calls the little piece of lettuce they try to hide in his burgers. Nice try, invisible enemy. After declaring yesterday National Nurses day, President Trump met with a group of nurses in the Oval Office Said trump, i just want you guys to know, you are my favorite category. German chancellor Angela Merkel announced yesterday that the country would begin the next phase of reopening from the coronavirus pandemic and this is cool, she might finally get to see her hairstylist. If we cant i know, but if we cant joke about that now, i dont know what else is there for us . Secretary of state mike pompeo is reportedly planning to travel to israel next week for a 24hour visit a