Sixweek hiatus weve accomplished quite a bit in a bipartisan basis. Weve confirmed National Security nominees. Weve held hearings. States are getting back to work and stool and the impact of the pandemic on broadband. In short the senate has been working on a bipartisan basis to understand the challenges that this virus has created so we can rovide targeted reforms. It seems to be a different approach than the one taken by the house. Earlier this week the house released a socalled Coronavirus Relief bill, you could say they mailed it in because they havent been here for two weeks, but it has a staggering price tag. 3 trillion. With a t. Thats more than we spent on the first four Coronavirus Response bills combined. Mr. President , i tell my constituents when im talking to them on a Video Conference call or teleconference that two months ago i never would have imagined that the senate would be voting on trillion dollar bills. But now apparently the house wants to make this a routine way
Having discussions. Peaker pelosiys staff, my staff. And secretary mnuchin. I dont seey reason why we cant come to an agreement. Next, Texas Governor greg abbott holding a briefing with reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. At the start of the event he stated plans for opening his states economy. This is 45 minutes. Almost 700,000 americans have been infected with covid19. More than 35,000 of them have tragically lost their lives. Economic damage has hit even more americans than the coronavirus itself. More than 22 million americans have filed for unemployment. More than a million texans have filed unemployment claims. Businesses have shuttered. Paychecks have disappeared. Food bank lines are swelling across texas as more families seek food that they desperately need. Well, in typical texas fashion, you have come together to support one another. You have made personal sacrifices to ensure that our state slows the spread of covid19. You have helped to reduce the number of
with gunshots going off. and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. for the benefit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom door immediately. he said the commander on scene decided no more children were at risk. and they allowed the shooter to stay inside the classroom for more than an hour, despite the fact that kids inside the room were calling 911 and begging for police to help. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that
i think that they should have secured that door. are you saying your brother went inside and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat until the shooter was down. they were in there the entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, another it was a right decision. there s no ex-use for that. again, i wasn t there. i m telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: the rules didn t change that fateful day this week when 19 students were gunned down and two adults with them. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. piecing together these days after a school attack. growing questions as to what authorities could have done. even the top most of those authorities acknowledging mistakes were made and in the heat of the moment, they lost the opportunity to seize and correct the moment. now questions from families w
Possible to bring similar prestigious events to Northern Ireland in the future . I will certainly look at that. I believe it really is the right decision, for the g8 to be based in ireland on the 17th and 18th of june, and what i thought was interesting yesterday standing there talking about the situation, something that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago, to have that sort of event with so many World Leaders coming to Northern Ireland, that i think it would be a great advertisement for everything that people in Northern Ireland can achieve and, i hope, the harbinger of events to come. Does the Prime Minister agree that the United States loss of its aaa rating shows that the u. K. Retains the confidence of the market because of the difficult but necessary decision that is we are take decisions that we are taking . Because weve set out a clear plan, were able to have low interest rates, were able to have International Confidence which is the proper growth plan for the u. K. Order.