Response efforts have not instilled much confidence either. Testing kits were notg probaby sent to the hospitals, and medical labs around the country, political personnel has overruled the recommendations for the cdc. In the administration was slow to appoint any single official for the Public Health expertise to coordinated our governments response. Even now, President Trump seems to be spending one of us time blaming commedia and blaming the democrats and being constructi constructive. Infective blades everyone. He is downplaying, the virus to a dangerous degree. His chief of staff amazingly said to americans, turn off your televisions. They know the history of how these viruses spread and work. Winnie to deny them, you dont let people know what is happening and what to do about it. Things getd worse. And if the president , being self centered as is only cares about himself and his image any tribes uas usual instead of solving te problem, blame somebody else. The deflection and finge
Good Tuesday Mornings thanks for joining us. Im maria bartiromo. It is tuesday, may 21, it is 8 00 a. M. On the east coast i hope of you are having a really good Tuesday Morning time for hot topic of the hour former President Trump in, new york city courtroom this morning socalled hush money trial entering day 20, fox business lydia hu live outside new York Supreme Court with the latest lydia good morning. Good morning there maria that is right this trial, is winding down but i can tell you he inside the courtroom tensions are flying high. The prosecution finally rested its case after star witness disbard Attorney Michael Cohen finished testifying for four days on witness stand Michael Cohen, of course, testified that donald trump knew of the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels approved of them, the crossexamination completed cohens credibility rests in absolute tatters, yesterday todd blanche got cohen to admit he stole about 60,000 dollars from Trump Organization allowing them to i
Thank you for being here. Thank you to the men and women who serve our public. This is not only about the men and women who serve their country every day in the civilian work force and military, it is about the people we serve. We are their Public Servants. Lets be very clear about the shut down. Get three bytes of the apple in our constitutional system. You pass a bill or you defeated. You can challenge it in court. They lost that round out the Supreme Court. And then you can take it to the ballot box. It is over. Let us not hold the American People by defunding their government hostage. Nobody is going to agree to anything when a gun is that there had and that is precisely when a gun is that their heads and that is precisely what the republicans are doing. It will affect the lives of ordinary americans in every corner of this great country. For. Is what we are here we are committed to turning that around. We are inviting republicans who understand the consequences of join us in to pa
Economy and create jobs and remove all doubt, remove all doubt in the full faith and credit in the United States of america. Every time you come to this floor its a question, why are we here . We are here to do the peoples work. Lets sit down. Get it done. And move forward. Instead of filling the agenda however worthy some of those initiatives may be, instead of not along with passing a middle income tax this is also reminiscent of a year ago. The president proposed, the house and senate, democrats and republicans, voted for the payroll tax holiday. The republicans in the house resisted. Painted themselves into a corner until they had no choice. The issue had been made too hot for them to handle and they finally had to come around to supporting the payroll tax holiday. And here we are again. 100 of the American People will receive a tax cut when we pass the middle income tax cut. The wealthiest people in our country will receive a tax cut up to their income of 250,000. We are asking th
Since before 9 11. Situation where we are facing a grave, strategic threat. The president has said he will follow the same course in afghanistan he followed in iraq despite the fact wouldve seen what has happened. I do inc. It is very important to go back and look at what happened in iraq and why and remember what did the situation was before the United States and our allies liberated the country. And again, there is a sense it is almost like the pink gentlemen, wanted to shout people down and that is not what this country supposed to be about. Everybody has a right to speak. We have to go back to what the facts were. You can say to the president , withdrawing the forces or not, you can debate that. Now you have to look at the facts and they are because of the United States is not in there and we walked away and did so without regard, you now have the richest in the world which controls more territory and in a position to be a real threat to this nation. If you think about where we go