Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Locations. Its an historic morning as the fed injects 2. 3 million in loans into the american economy. Powell has a live webcast in about an hour. We have the opec plus meeting to watch. Jobless claims, 6 million for a second week. But your point a moment ago is the fed is helping to take a credit crunch off the table and all we need at this point is a break on the science the fed is not going to be the reason why we go into a depression they want to stop that they want to make it a recession. Sometimes, i mean look, i was critical just a couple years ago when powell was talking about tightening when the economy was actually getting weaker. He is so far ahead of the curve that it will be studied. We will be studying this period, and we will say, unlike 1937, when the fed got tight and they threw us back into depression, we will say that jerome powell, after being a little unsure about how to handle things, decided to go out front and said we will make it so that if you want to make loa
Zoom, director of Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation and will serve on the coronavirus Recovery Commission. What questions will you try to answer . Guest thank you so much for having me. I have to extend the thanks to my older son amos. Normally we are doing socially distancing math so he gets to skip that. Host i hope you pick it up later in the day. Guest we will say what happens see what happens. We have to prioritize folks getting back to work but only when it is safe, and that is the preponderance of the advice from Economic Experts and literature. There was a study done by m. I. T. Economists looking at the 1918 flu pandemic and they found in city is that instituted Good Public Health policy, the economic recovery was much faster than areas that did not institute Good Public Health policy like social distancing. Not only does Good Public Health policy push down mortality but it negates the longterm effects of the pandemic. Americans and businesses across the country are l
Are accusing trumps republicans of rigging the impeachment trial to cover up his alleged crimes thats after a Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell proposed rules that would trigger a quick trial without new testimony or evidence trump is accused of 2 charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress at the heart of this is his request to ukraine in july and that any it investigates a political rival if this is not a process for a fair trial this is the process were rigged trial this is the process if you do not want the American People to see the evidence this is a process you use if you want to hand in hand work in concert with the president allow the president to continue to obstruct the congress and deny the truth the American People thankfully however we know the truth evidence is already overwhelming and that evidence is that the president abuse the power of his office. Again a live picture of outside the u. S. Congress where this impeachment trial in the senate is d
That previous president s long ago should have ridded the world of the coldblooded killer of american troops in iraq and innocents over much of the middle east hes responsible for a the young people over at walter reed where they lose their arms and legs. Much of that stuff was made in iran. And he should have been taken out a long time ago. We had a shot at it, and we took him out. Were a lot safer now because of it. Lou the president responding as well, willing to bring the full force of our militarys most advanced weapon ri and technology to destroy our enemies. The president tweeted this quote, the United States just spent 2 trillion dollars on military equipment. We are the biggest and by far the best in the world if iran attacks an american base or any american. We will be sending some of that brandnew beautiful equipment their way and without hesitation. As President Trump carries out his responsibilities to protect and defend america, statements by many of the radical dems sugg