Cspan. Org coronavirus. Next british Prime Minister horace johnsons address to the nation on his governments response to the pandemic. Restrictions include stop shock closings and stopping all social events. Prime minister johnson good evening, the coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades, and this country is not alone. All of the world we are saying devastating impacts of this invisible killer. Onight i want to update you the steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help. I want to begin reminding you why the u. K. Has been taking the approach we have. National effort to halt the growth of the virus, there will come a moment were no service in the world could cope. There will not be enough ventilators, intensive care beds, doctors or nurses. As we have seen in other countries that have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger. Simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the nhs will be unabl
Ruiz. Nationwide the country has reported more than 100 deaths in a single day, and pushing the total infected 42,000. Lawmakers in washington are at a stalemate over a third economic aid package, this one with a price tag of 2 trillion or more. This is your opportunity to tell decisionmakers how this is impacting your community. Small business owners, 202 7488000. Medical professionals, 202 7488001. Ll others, 202 7488002 send us a text with your first name and city and state at 202 7488003. Twitter orents on facebook. Com cspan. Joining us on the phone is mike lewis for the hill to talk about what is happening in the senate. Lets begin with the negotiations in the Upper Chamber yesterday. Where did they leave things . Guest good morning. It was a long day yesterday. They left with no deal around midnight. They are very close. We dont know quite what that means because they have been saying that for the better part of the last four days. It is a wait and see moment. The treasury secre
Discussing just that, an early return to work. 9 40 eastern time today on this program. There is outrage at Speaker Pelosi loading up the stimulus package with a host of items unrelated to supporting workers and industries. For example, canceling post office debt, the return of obama phones, same day voter registration, 35 million for the Kennedy Center for performing arts. What has all that got to do with getting money to people who have just lost their jobs, millions of workers thrown out of a job. However, treasury secretary mnuchin and senator schumer did meet last night, and they suggested that a 2 trillion rescue package, stimulus package, is close. Well see. All this has given the market a shot in the arm. For much of the morning, we have been limit up for the dow jones average and at the opening bell, the dow will be up, what, 900 points, maybe more when the restrictions of the limits on trading are off. S p, nasdaq also up 4 , 5 . Clearly, investors like the 2 trillion rescue
World. That would be wonderful. And lets keep it shut for a couple of years. We cant do that. We cant have the cure be worse than the problem. A vote to advance a massive stimulus package failed again in a party line process. If you dont support the Public Health workers, theres no amount of stimulus. 2 trillion, 3 trillion, 4 trillion that will solve your problem. Prime minister Boris Johnson put the uk on lockdown and gave Police Special powers to arrest and fine people still ignoring advice to keep physical distance. If you dont follow the rules, the police will have the powers to enforce them. The 2020 olympics will likely be postponed. Several countries are saying they will not send teams. This was absolutely the right call. And everyone should follow their lead. The Federal Reserve has unleashed the big bazooka launching an unlimited Asset Purchase Program to mitigate the coronavirus impact. The governor of new york, andrew cuomo, my brother, thank you for coming back to the show
Exploitation. And the opposition hits out of the government for breaking their promise to protect renters from eviction ensuring the crisis ill be discussing this with a housing lawyer. Welcome to r. T. U. K. The government has implemented lockdown measures across the United Kingdom in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Crisis but was no clarity on essential work and no help so far for the self employed many continue to travel flouting rules on social distancing while r. T. U. Case it was dashed joyce for now with the latest hi there shot here so can you bring us up to speed well of course none of us have ever heard the message quite like here and that is because the Coronavirus Crisis is a situation that the United Kingdom has never faced in modern british history and that is why Boris Johnson the Prime Minister announced a National State of emergency just last night he initiated a knock down scenario he really felt he had no other choice but to do so and today weve heard from the ho