Artifacts, the United States holocaust memories museum, historical daniel green, gave us a tour of the exhibit he curated. Americans and the holocaust. Part one focused on the 1930s, and the leadup to world war ii. Part, terrell we learn about the american first movement, and how the United States responded to nazi persecution and murder of jews, as some of the atrocities became public knowledge. This is about 45 minutes. In 1939, september 1st, germany invades poland and world war ii breaks out, that week. Whats on americas mind in 1939 is staying out of lauren. And you see, in this section of the exhibition, deep concern in the United States about spies, nazi spies in the United States. At the time called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallup, do you believe that the americans are organizing a fifth column on this, country and 71 or meghan say yes. And you start to see this fear of spies play out in a popular culture, and in a political culture. The First American movie, big
Crisis. He is in charge of 2. 3 trillion. Relief is on the way for millions of americans meanwhile and has a 2 trilliondollar coronavirus package is expected to help Small Businesses and individuals as soon as next week. It includes funding for public health, Small Businesses, Small Business loans, Unemployment Benefits and direct payment to americans. Steven mnunchin tells me that the new bank Lending Program will be ready by next friday. Chairman powell and i are speaking multiple times a day, every day. Even before this legislation was passed, the fed requested use of 133, those are there emergency powers, the way this works is the fed makes a request to me as treasury secretary, i have to approve it, ive approved all the requests so far, weve announced five of these transactions using existing money that we had before the legislation was passed, and the mechanism works in some of these where the fed is doing certain transactions, vacant credit support from the treasury and money th
Territory. The nasdaq turned into the green the last few minutes. A lot of going on as always. Were waiting for update at this hour from the White House Coronavirus task force that update should come about hour a little more than that from now. Meantime lets get to the top stories as they develop on a monday. Fox Business Team coverage with Lauren Simonetti in the newsroom in new york, blake burman at white house for us. Hillary vaughn on capitol hill. Blake, we start with you. Reporter connell, melissa, the negotiations get nearly two trillion dollar package at going on the white house, treasury secretary steve mnuchin, negotiating with Top Democrats. One of the Top Democrats he is confident this will get done. The white house had been hopeful this would get to the president s desk for signature at some point during this week. The Vice President mike pence reiterated that timeline just a little while ago. President trump and i absolutely believe. Sake of american workers, economy, see
That are compassionate and supportive of working americans. As well as businesses that could be adversely affected by the spread of the coronavirus. The president noted the president s nationwide response has received high praise, even from democratic governors, including gavin newsom. Every single thing he said they followed through on. So im not interested in finding daylight on those statements because every single thing his administration it starts at the top, including the Vice President has been consistent with the expectation that we repatriate the passengers and do it in a way that does justice to the spirit that defines the best of our country and the state of california. Lou here is President Trump obviously pleased with the work his Coronavirus Task force is making and the nationwide response. President trump i think the people are doing a fantastic job. Gavin newsom in california said tremendous an article came out and i showed hip other articles where democrat governors ar
Are asking for. Thats a failing. It is a failing. If i hear of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it. We are not set up for that. Do i think we should be . Yes. But we are not. Lou last night we reported the cdc is telling us 11,000 specimens have been tested for the wuhan virus whether in a cdc lab or u. S. Health laboratory. The cdc has not yet updated that number reporting the last tests were conducted by the u. S. Public health labs last tuesday. Ed the inability to test for the virus rocking the heartland in ohio. That states top 8 official says they have only three kits to test for the virus allowing them to only test for 1,200. We know just the fact of Community Spread says at least 1 at the very least, 1 of our population is carrying this virus in ohio today. We have 11. 7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. That gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and its spreading quickly. Lou there are a lot of other issues to concern you i