The president s message threw cold water on wall street which was positive in the early going today. The dow ended the day down 375 points, just over 1 . Nasdaq lost 177 points and the s p fell 47. House Speaker Pelosi blasted the president s move saying President Trump is putting himself ahead of the country. The coronavirus continues to impact the United States at the highest levels of government. Today the joint chiefs of staff and top u. S. Military leaders went into quarantine. This after coast guard admiral charles ray tested positive for covid19. General mark milay and the chivas the army, navy, and air force have tested negative for the virus. They attended meetings with admiral ray last week. Its not clear how the admiral contracted the virus, but its not believed to be related to the outbreak at the white house. President trumps Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has tested positive for the virus now. Miller has reportedly been working remotely for the last five days. This comes a
President said we were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us the most important of which has been a long considered to be the selection of. A United States Supreme Court justice. Meanwhile early this month President Trump released a list of potential nominees before heading to a rally tonight in North Carolina reporters pressed President Trump on whether a woman could be a front runner in his nomination to replace ginsburgs seat. I could see most likely it would be a woman yeah i think i could say that it would be a woman i if somebody would ask me now. I would say that a woman would be. In first place at the joyce of a woman i would say would certainly be. Appropriate. The president reiterating that statement during that rally tonight in North Carolina. Meanwhile, despite that move despite has announced that the president still has some folks who says he should slow down one of those republican senator Susan Collins of
As the country mourns the justices death President Trump and other Top Republicans are already making plans to fill her seat on the high court at a raleigh north carolina, the president said he could name his Supreme Court nominee as early as next week. And said it will likely be a woman Kayla Strayer has that story tonight with just 45 days until election day President Donald Trump telling a large crowd in fayetteville tonight that he will quickly nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court justice ruth ginsburg. Josie yet, but we have numbers women on the list i built this incredible list of brilliant people. The crowd chanting fill that seat. The president then taking a poll of the crowd in fayetteville asking if they want him to nominate a man or a woman the crowd shouting louder for a woman disapprove. Democrats want the nomination delayed until after the election, but republican senator thom tillis now locked in a selection battle telling the crowd. The president has the re
Africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one a lot of people are familiar with. We actually had 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house, two in the senate. Its largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war and the in decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like Thaddeus Stevens who was chairman of the ways and Means Committee and a very powerful leader. Also people like henry winter davis. In the Senate People like charles somner and benjamin wade. And they led to not only prosecute the war more vigorously but also to have a reconstruction after the war but was one that was not so lenient towards Southern States and was going to ensure that Political Rights were extended to af
Make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus that will save countless lives the f. D. A. Has issued an emergency use. Authorization and thats such a powerful term emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent. This is a. Powerful therapy transfuse is very very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection set an incredible rate of success todays action will dramatically expand access to this treatment now this comes one day after President Trump took to twitter and slammed the f. D. A. For making it very difficult for Drug Companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics of flu Drug Administration chief steven hahn he said this type of plan its been used with Infectious Diseases for years now. So plasma is the liquid portion of the blood. That liquid portion contains the Natural Immunity that someone develops in response to an infection in this case called