Government for more transparency. This is 25 minutes. Sec. Pompeo good morning. A has been 128 days since chinese doctor shared information on the internet about a patient with a sars like virus. Shared the report online with medical colleagues. The next day, Regional Health officials in wuhan indicated they were treating dozens of patients with an unknown viral pneumonia. Within days, chinese officials detained the doctor and seven others for spreading false statements on the internet. China saw that it had an emerging Public Health crisis on its hands. China could have prevented the death of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. They had a choice. China covered up the outbreak in wuhan. The National Health commission ordered virus samples destroyed. Brave chinesered citizens who raised alarms and deployed its propaganda organs to denounce those who called for simple transparency. That brings us to today. China is still refusing to share the information we need to keep people saf
American university in washington dc who served as the secretary of health and Human Services during the obama administration. And later, we introduced one of the very first doctors to use breakthrough education remdesivir. Our phone lines are open. Is the area code in washington dc, host 202 7488000 four western time zones, and for you in the east, and if you are a medical professional, 202 7488002. Would begin with the latest on johns latest from Johns Hopkins university. Good evening. According to Johns Hopkins, 3. 7 million cases around the world. The overall death toll, 263,000 globally. Isning us in washington dc asretary burwell, who served hhs secretary during the obama administration. Let me begin with the learning curve you had as president of a you. And what have you learned about a you and Higher Education in general over the last two months . Secretary burwell like everyone dealing with the uncertainty of the covid19 crisis, we have been on a steep learning curve, doing th
Coverage on cspan2. We have talked 20 times the last few days. We are still not tired of each other i hope. So the bill we have passed is greatly improved. Leader mcconnell simply tried to steamroll us and we tried to tell him its much better to talk to us and steamroll us and because we had input into the bill, its a much better bill. Leader mcconnells bill for ppp. We werent against increasing at that there is so much more to do. First there were so many people in my state and throughout the country who were small and didnt know a big shot banker and they couldnt get along. That was because the ppp program and the way it was structured help to those who have a friendly banker and a larger more successful company. We wanted to deal with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker the average Small Business person. We needed to get them help. And so under the leadership really of our ranking folks vaccine waters share it brown and ben cardin we greatly expanded the program and wal
Asretary burwell, who served hhs secretary during the obama administration. Let me begin with the learning curve you had as president of a you. And what have you learned about a you and Higher Education in general over the last two months . Secretary burwell like everyone dealing with the uncertainty of the covid19 crisis, we have been on a steep learning curve, doing things we have never done at the university. The main thing is our move to Online Learning, and moving off our campuses. Thingsre the two largest , as well as, we are like everyone else, and our staff and faculty are also working from home. Those of the main areas where, like everyone else, we have been asrning and acting nimble, we never expected we could. A lot of learning in terms of how our community can act together, and that was across all parts of our community. And that has been one of the and the samenings, time we have learned things that are challenging, things like online commencement, trying to do more commen
Conversation through our washington journal program. Cspan, created by private industry. As a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. The u. S. Senate gaveled in this morning. Mitch mcconnell attempted to approved by unanimous consent and increase to the Paycheck Protection Program. The ranking democrat on the Small Business committee objected and said the majority leader had not negotiated with democrats on this package. Senator Chris Van Hollen also the floor and tried to call up another Small Business bill. This is about half an hour. Our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have00 tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Emts areoctors, and fighting this disease literally day and night. An important important Public Health measures are creating economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President , more than 16 million amer