Procedural vote will take place this morning on the nominee. The confirmation vote later this afternoon. And the negotiations are continuing on a coronavirus aid package. Live coverage now here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our shield, we rejoice in the gift of your salvation. Look with favor upon our senators today, delivering them from fear and guiding them around the obstacles that hinder their progress. Lord, unite them for the common good of this great land. Lord, manifest your purposes to them, making clear your plans and guiding them with your love. Give them the wisdom to have confidence in your power, as you inspire them to use their talents as instruments of liberation and healing. Almighty god, have compassion upon our nation and world. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge a
In light of the attack from the invisible enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our Great American citizens, i will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the united states. So far the white house has not offered any more details. The pandemic has already been almost all of these put on hold now for weeks. President trump also said he is hoping the senate will vote tomorrow on a bill to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program to help struggling businesses. Those funds ran out last week. The new stimulus package is expected to provide another 310 billion in loans. As well as money for hospitals and virus testing. And an unheard of development as Oil Prices Fell into negative territory, as demand dries up it is causing a huge threat on oil and Storage Facilities around the world are at capacity. Marathon oil is closing its east bay refinery amid the historic plunge in prices. The data from San Jose Police reveals overall crime in the city is d
Signs on last supporting hong kongs human rights and made ongoing protests and in sport brazilian same flamingo and. City Club World Cup in qatar. Lifting the League Trophy just days after becoming south american champions. Hello iraq is stepping up its response to deadly mass protests across the country the army says its deploying commanders to provinces to restore order and setting up what it calls crisis cells to quell the unrests now the announcement comes as at least 14 people were killed in the early hours of thursday thats when Security Forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration and this followed a night of violence in the city of where irans consulate was set on fire to one is calling for firm. Action against protesters iraqs government has also condemned that attack but protesters accused iran of backing a government they are against and protests that began in october have left at least 350. 00 people dead demonstrators are demanding jobs Better Services and a complete ove
Its time youre a sweet and were paying for now. And then when generations this week on this kind of fun, it feels like there was some stars its we started to understand clearly and watch it needs to do for us. Ukraine was a symbols. Are we moving towards europe or not . On the 2013 this does have for democracy protest in ukraine the country response to your price to ship to west has recognized the danger and the terms of being photos on the sides. Would that to really understand that so easily . File uh, we will lose our concepts, euro my done dots, february 17th on dw, the the gas business, a source of conflict since the cold war. Thats because the gas europe, so desperately needed came from russia. A partnership that creates Major Political dependency. So this was all seen as part of the overall soviet strategy to weaken the west and to break up data fears that were by no means unfounded goss option, using oil and gas dependencies as a political weapon, was common practice in the war
describing the fbi as the, quote, fascist bureau of investigation. we ll talk more in a moment about the debate within the former president s circle over putting out the surveillance video or not. but according to reporting in the new york times by cnn political analyst maggie haberman, investigators already have at least some surveillance video from earlier before the raid, which may have actually triggered the search. quoting now, officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at mar-a-lago and saw something that alarmed them. they also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said. tonight s lead story comes at the end of a day that saw a string of related developments, including rudy giuliani going before a grand jury, the outlines of a plea deal involving alan weissle berg, and a declaration of political war f