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on c-span s cumin day. joining us from little rock is arkansas governor asa hutchinson . thank you for being with us. guest: it is great to be with you any great to be on c-span again. host: new job numbers out today showing an estimated 3 million americans filing for unemployment this week alone. what has been the economic impact on this pandemic on your state of arkansas? guest: we have taken a serious hit. whenever you look at the businesses closed for a couple months, you look at the unemployment figures that go up. whenever you look at those who do not qualify for unemployment, the barbers and salon operators that are struggling, that has been a hit. businesses,ditional we were not a shelter in place state. we did not issue that order. many of our retail businesses stayed open. the consumers were careful. many of them stayed home. they did not shop. the spending took a hit during that time. they are starting to come back. people are starting to have some confidence ....
thank you for being with us on c-span. guest: happy to be here. host: it is friday afternoon your time. some of the looming questions involve china s responsibility for this pandemic. what are your looming questions five months after the first outbreak? guest: the thing i m focusing on now is how china tries to come out of this and manage this. i think they can see that when the dust settles, there is going to be a lot of finger-pointing. more finger-pointing now. a lot of blame shifting both from the united states, from europe. tona has been trying rewrite the narrative and pretrade themselves not as the source of the virus but as the savior from it. not so much on the united states but in europe in particular and africa and other parts of asia. we have seen them donating a lot of masks. selling a lot of ventilators and other equipment to try to portray themselves as a helpful, responsible, global superpower. in a lot of cases, that has backfired because those masks ha ....
journal. if you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. washington journal primetime. for the next hour, a special evening addition of c-span s washington journal. your questions and comments about the coronavirus epidemic start now. host: the u.s. death toll as a result of coronavirus continues to increase at a rate of 2000 per day. tonight, it is approaching 86,000 with nearly a million and a half cases in all 50 states and the district of columbia. for this thursday, may 14, a primetime addition of washington journal. we turn our attention to arkansas appeared governor asa hutchinson will be joining us live from little rock. later, the chinese response to this pandemic. we ll talk to the beijing bureau chief for the washington post and the senator from west virginia. join in on the conversation. in the eastern time zone. for those of you out west, (202) 748-8001 shared if you are in arkansas a resident, (202) 748-8002. n ....
three more conservative leadership candidates launch their campaigns to become the next prime minister. and the man who knew too much, was the half brother of kim jung un murdered in malaysia, because he was a cia informant? hello and welcome i m katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. the two top guns in american presidential politics will face off today in iowa. it is the state that kicks off the us presidential election season with the iowa caucuses. it s also a swing state. in 2012, barack obama won iowa with 52% of the vote. in 2016, trump won the state with 51%. so a purple state, worth the fight. and today s dueling speeches perhaps give us a preview of what the race may look like. donald trump has no challenger. on the democrat side joe biden is one of 24. but for now he is the frontrunner. and ahead of his campaign speech later today, he has been speaking to community workers in the town of council bluffs. president trump is in iowa today a ....
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