[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] all month on cspan, we are featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle and High School Students created videos answering the question, what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address . Our first prize high school is to our goes to thomas mckenna. A 10th grader, homeschooled in lovettsville, virginia, their winning entry is titled overreach from the oval office. Then i have article two, where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. In fact, i dont even talk about that. I have a pen and i can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action, administrative action that moves the ball forward. On day one, we take out our executive order pen and we sign every damn thing on this issue. According to the constitution, all
Studentcam documentary competitions. Middle and High School Students created videos answering the question what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address . Our first prize High School East award goes to thomas mckenna, a 10th grader from at mckenna homeschool in lovettsville, virginia, with cspan available through comcast. Their winning entry is titled overreach from the oval office. Here i have an article to where i have the right to do whatever i want as president , but i do not even talk about that. Ive got a pen, and ive got a phone. And i can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. Out oury one, we take executive order pen and we rescind every damn thing on this issue trump had filed. Is this the way the government is supposed to function . According to the constitution, all three branches are supposed to check and balance each other. But over the past three years, the executi
Difficult times. As you mentioned, this is my 11th president ial campaign. I have never covered one like we are embarking on now. That will make this a rich topic. We have two of the most highly respected governors in the country joining us today. A former twoterm governor of ohio, nine term member of the u. S. House of representatives. He was part of the Budget Committee. He played a big role in welfare reform and balancing the budget. The nomination twice in 2016 and this time around he was the last man standing against donald trump for the republican nomination. Im happy to be joined by terry mcauliffe. The nationalof committee and cochair of president Clintons Campaign and chair of hillary Clintons Campaign and last year he. Onsidered a president ial bid he started his First Business at the age of 14. Had some success in the years that followed with other business sectors. We will start with me posing questions to the governors. That we havell asked our participants. Result of that
The committee will come to order. I thank all of our witnesses for returning this morning. We appreciate the recognition of our interest and oversight responsibilities. This is a crisis that is evolving quickly. Since our hearing yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Cdc has now reported that we have almost 1,000 confirmed cases. That is up from 100 reported cases a week ago. A 900 increase. Americans are worried. They are scared. It is essential that we are able to hear directly from the Health Officials leading this effort with just the facts. Im going to go to the republican side first which is where we left off. Before i do that, without objection, the following three letters we sent on march 3rd to hhs and cdc requesting basic information including about t t testing are entered into the record. We have not gotten any response to those letters. And with that, i recognize mr. Higgins. Thank you, madam chair. Gentlemen, thank yo
You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350