Joining us on the phone is stephen dennis. He works for bloomberg news. Thank you for being with us. Tell us what we can expect. High, steve. Its a very unusual sunday session in the senate today and very serious business, as you know, all of your callers are talking about. All of the senators are talking about what would be an historic nearly 2 trillion package being cobbled together, written behind closed doors and negotiated. This morning we expect the top leaders in congress, nancy pelosi, House Minority leader , majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority leader all meetumer will today, this morning, to sort of go over whats in the package. Thereis no deal yes, but is a lot of bipartisan talk of major progress yesterday on the package. Of know, its really in sort four or five big buckets right now that are really the biggest rescue package for the economy ever. More than 2008 and 2009 combined. What are the sticking points . Is there a sense that this will be resolved before the mar
Always going to have to go through some mobilization, being overwhelmed by a crisis and rising to it. The question is how are they doing at that and obviously there are weaknesses to the response we have seen from the white house and i think above all there has been a certain kind of dysfunction where there has been an unwillingness to confront some of the top or realities of this crisis, or at least to acknowledge them publicly. In a lot of ways the federal government has mobilized and certainly the country has, where people are willing to put their lives on hold in order to respond to a Public Health crisis. Unwillingnessome to confront basic realities at the top and still now we are seeing the system overwhelmed in such a way that people are not inking strategically about what the next step has to be, how we gradually return to normal has to be the question that policymakers are dealing with. Understandably we are seeing policymakers trying to confront the minute by minute pressures
Let me begin with asking about the president , his performance so far in this pandemic. How is he doing . Guest dan to that question you have to acknowledge this is a very difficult situation that no president would find easy and the federal government was always going to have to go through some mobilization, being overwhelmed by a crisis and rising to it. The question is how are they doing at that and obviously there are weaknesses to the response we have seen from the white house and i think above all there has been a certain kind of dysfunction where there has been an unwillingness to confront some of the top or realities of this crisis, or at least to acknowledge them publicly. In a lot of ways the federal government has mobilized and certainly the country has, where people are willing to put their lives on hold in order to respond to a Public Health crisis. Unwillingnessome to confront basic realities at the top and still now we are seeing the system overwhelmed in such a way that
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