Host are against this week on the communicators is congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger. Shes a democrat from virginia in her first term. Congresswoman, get some legislation that was passed earlier this month. What was it . Guest i had a bill focused on five Key Technology and the bill passed 4133, and the premise of this bill is we are facing significant challenges with the future 5g technology and the United States needs a comprehensive strategy. This bill would require that we develop one. That we implement it and we work with our partners and allies to ensure they do something similar. Host who is the wii that has to develop this . Guest the executives, branch. So determining the focus of this bill is that were requesting executive branch, the administration, develop a broadband strategy, a national strategy, a comprehensive strategy and a public strategy so the recognizing the challenges, the threats as a might term them, that come from development of 5g in other countries
Untenable for you and that generally to have the lawmakers on the sidelines as he craft a kind of chilling dollar spending packages every couple of weeks pretty explaining your view what kind of changes need to be made here to Bring Congress back and get the place working again. Thanks for having me on. How can we do another bill and not have the committees work . Are you just going to have a few people crafted this . Think how thats gonna pass 3 trillion you take that along with what the senates during that 7 trillion into the economy we want to make sure that is implemented correctly. In my letter today, it starts out with what Benjamin Franklin once said, if youre part of the plan planning to fail. My letter is not a partisan letter all and part of this is the Bipartisan Group we put together to work on this. This different phases to we should bring a few committees back now because you have to have social distancing. Mba, water resources, he also need preparation bill bring subcomm
Down up by 89 points. Nasdaq was down and s p in the red 1 and a half. Oil prices are down this morning, take a look at 16. 32. Treasury is considering a Lending Program for struggling Oil Companies. We have the story coming up. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is asking for equity stake that take coronavirus aid as Big Companies give back money aimed for Small Business. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning are lower. Take a look at european indices across the board. Cac quarante down 36 and dax index lower by 94. Retail Sales Numbers out in the uk looking at the largest decline on record. Down 5. 1 in the uk. In ash overnight red across the board remdesivir failed chinese Clinical Trial. A lot of hope around the drug and it continues to be. Shanghai composite down better than 1 . The white house now saying that the coronavirus pandemic could be behind us by memorial day. Dr. Deborah birx pointing to downward cases week by week. If we continue to mitig
Definitely not what the doctor ordered madagascars president and the herbal remedy that could put his people at risk. To suspected members of the syrian president s Security Forces go on trial in germany on torture charges. Hello thanks for joining us new figures released in the u. S. Paint a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out so take a look at the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits its the 3rd week that number of new claims has declined a sign the worst of the shock may be over but this is what it means a record 26400000 americans have now lost their job since the end of march thats when lockdowns shut down production and led to mass stuff for a lowes thats more than 15 percent of the entire u. S. Workforce are White House Correspondent kimberly begins our coverage record highs and expected to keep climbing because the reason we dont be
[inaudible conversations] thank you very much. Later this evening we expect the house to pass the paycheck Addiction Program and health care. Im grateful that congress is answering my calls to deliver these additional 320 billion in relief for the American Worker and Small Businesses. The time when Many Americans are enduring significant economic challenges this bill will help Small Business and keep millions of workers on the payroll. States are starting to open up now and its very exciting to see and i think its very aweinspiring. We are coming out of it and we are coming out of it well and we are very happy the governors have been doing a really good job working with us. Its really pretty impressive to see. Ive spoken to numerous leaders over the last 48 hours and they are saying we are leading the way. So many different ways. Im also very pleased that harvard and stanford and princeton and numerous other universities and colleges and also Large Businesses have sent the money back t