Next, president obama talks congressional action to fund the vaccines for the zika virus. Nd a discussion on efforts to strengthen Libyan Security and fight against isis. President obama met with Top Health Officials at the white house to talk about the zika virus. The centers for Disease Control and prevention released a new eport confirm ing that 157 pregnant women have tested positive for the virus. President obama called on congress to approve funding for treatment and finding a vaccine. Both the house and senate have only approved a portion of what the administration has requested. Minutes. Bout 10 pres. Obama everybody all set . Okay. I just had an opportunity to get a full briefing from secretary c. D. C. Director, as n. I. A. Tony kazi , from about the zika situation and i wanted to give the american eople a quick update on where we are. As has been explained i want to but reemphasize, zika is not like ebola. This is not a human to human transmission, but with one exception tha
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Time. How concerned are you about whats been happening recently . Guest the real risk is to pregnant women. And its unusual to discover a new cause of a major fetal malformation. Last time this happened was 50 years ago. Im quite concerned about what we can do to protect pregnant women and use the number of children born with complications. I think its important to be clear about what is the riskiest situation and whats not likely to be a problem. But its clearly a major concern. And we understand the anxiety of women who are pregnant and traveled to places with zika spreading, or traveling to places or live in a place where zika is spreading. The key is to focus on the funnel most important thing. Protecting pregnant women to reduce the number of infants born with this potentially devastating fetal malformation. Doctor, how confident are you in the cdc . Its a new virus. Theres a lot of situations youre not sure how this virus works. How it can be a concern to particularly pregnant wo
Aligned for you at 202 7488003. You can weigh in online as well. We have a poll at facebook. Com cspan. Send us a tweet this morning. We will get your calls momentarily. A look at how its playing on the union leader this morning. Rubio. E rocks reporting this morning saying republican rivals hit senator marco rubio with a barrage of criticisms about his readiness to be president during the final debate before the New Hampshire primary on tuesday. A moderator of saturday nights debate keyed it up for Chris Christie did it for rubio to defend his time as a senator. Wet becomes about should all rally around joe biden. Governor christie looks to build on rubios surge. He argued rubio had not been involved in any consequential decisions like governors had to confront on the job. A look at 70 back and forth from last nights debate between Chris Christie and marco rubio. [video clip] i think the experience is not just what you did, but how it worked out. Under Chris Christie, they have downgr
Joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful. Also edging out biden. What to make of new poll results in the 2020 race. Plus the new developments this week in the president s legal battle to keep his financial footprint hidden. And breaking news, pro democracy demonstrations in hong kong take a violent turn. But first to the showdown between President Trump and former Vice President joe biden over the president reportedly pressuring in a phone call the ukrainian leader to investigate bidens son. Biden and trump now going after each other on twitter with highly edited videos of news footage to undermine each other. Here is come of that. Natural conflict of interest there. I think joe biden will have to answer for. The president of the United States using his president ial power to go to a Foreign Government to get op o or somebody he thinks he might have to run against. No reason to pay hunter biden 50,000 a month. Its a complete distortion of the facts. A claim that has long since b