Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Trump. [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Please. Those are friendly truckers. Theyre on our side. Its almost a celebration in a way. Please sit down. Please. The first lady and i are thrilled to welcome you this afternoon for our second event recognizing extraordinary americans who have responded to the invisible enemy we know what the invisible enemy is, weve learned a lot with exceptional bravery and commitment and love. And we appreciate it very much. Great job, fantastic job. In the midst of this pandemic, our nation has been united in grief and in prayer for the precious lives that have been lost. Weve also come together in awe and admiration for the heroism and patriotism that were witnessing all across our country. Here with us today is amy ford, a nurse of 17 years, from williamson, West Virginia a great state. Where is amy . Hi, amy. Weeks ago, after telling her children she loved them, amy got on a pl
Exposing a new world order. The u. S. Isnt the main or only center of that order, and other countries, global institutions, global n. G. O. s and private sector groups are rising to the occasion. Our guest today is the managing director of the International Monetary fund, the i. M. F. Please tweet us your questions using askpolitico. Ive had the privilege of getting to know her over the course of 10 years, first as a colleague, now as a journalist, and im delighted shes going to help us understand what she calls the great lockdown. The i. M. F. Is pushing emergency liquidity into emerging markets. It succeeded in getting a debt mother tourm. Its got 1 trillion in lending capacity. Is it enough . Were go b to find out. Welcome. Thank you very much. Hello to the audience. Absolutely. Weve got people all over the world. So glad you made it to the office today to be able to do this. Ill start with the easy one. Larry summers says we might have unemployment in the double digits for a couple
Not with opinions, not with politics, not with partisanship, with numbers. Then you just measure the impact. You make sure you do not go above 70 of hospital beds so that if a large enough people get affected, you have the hospital beds to take care of them. You make sure you do not go over capacity because when these people are infected they need icu beds. We learned that the hard way. You have testing up and running of 30 tests per 1000 residents. Where did that come from . That is the White House Coronavirus task force, dr. Birx. Forhave 30 tracers ready 100,000 residents. That comes from the experts and then you watch the infection rate. You make sure that you do not get near 1. 1 on infection rate. It is math. There is a liberation in that. At a time of such division and politics and elections all this garbage this is an exercise in science and math. Share and we can all all participate in. Atncourage people to go look the data and what is happening in your region because that is
Encourage more aid. So far the senate has no plans to take the bill up. Starks lower on wall street given back some of the big game the dow lost 390 points just over 1. 5 and the nasdaq dropped 49 points and s p fell 30. Banks, healthcare and household roads were on the sector on the downside. 4 million americans should soon get there stimulus payments on a prepaid debit card. The cards will be mailed to people who are eligible but have not gotten their checks. The irs said many of those are taxpayers that typically do not receive a refund through direct deposit and only one debit card will be provided per family and the cards can be used withdraw cash, transfer money to a personal bank account or make purchases. President trump mention the bay area today in a tweet about the federal funding for transportation. The money is intended to help strapped transit agencies experiencing low ridership due to covid19. President trump from the white house announcing u. S. Farmers and ranchers aff
Outbreak. Also a National Reporter with the hill. Ebola and the global scramble to prevent the next killer outbreak, what was the scramble like . Guest the scramble has been going on for a couple decades. In the wake of the Ebola Outbreak in west africa that infected more than 128,000 people and killed more than 11,000, the world has undergone a change and they are understanding how pandemics have the potential to spread. We live in a different world than we did back in 1918 when the spanish flu struck or even the end of the 1960s when there were significant flu outbreaks. We are a globalized world. We travel all over the place. Americans travel to every continent in the world and people in every continent travel here. That sort of interconnectedness means something pops up in a wet a planen china is only flight away from the United States. Something that a reps in the jungles of south america is only a short way away from the United States. The american cdc funded a bunch cdcs in 49 c