Coverage. Blake burman at the white house. Hillary vaughn in wilmington, delaware. Well start with blake, latest on stimulus negotiations picked up again but stuck in neutral, right . Reporter picked up again, jackie, going absolutely nowhere it seems. Top democrats here in washington, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, they put out a statement in the last hour, that they spoke with the treasury secretary, top negotiator for the white house today, they say it was mnuchin that initiated the conversation. Afterwards pelosi took to twitter and said the following, democrats compromised. We repeatedly said were willing to come down a trillion if theyre willing to come up a trillion. Clear that the administration does not grasp the magnitude of the problems americans are facing. That is the democrat take. The response at the white house came from the communications director, elissa farah. Lets be clear, President Trump, not Speaker Pelosi who took action for hardworking americans and extended Unem
Saying if the infection rate in new york state remained low and statewide give or take, it is low, hovering around the 1 mark the schools could open. Governor cuomo previously said if it stayed below 5 they could open if it were to spike up to 9 they would then close down so this is in line with that, what the governor is saying today. The most important part of all of this is what the local jurisdictions decide to do, and the way it played out in new york is that the local superintendents of School Districts around the state submitted their plan by last friday. Now, some didnt get a plan in at all but most did, and most of those superintendents submitted a plan that had some blended approach, meaning that even if School Districts be open to in person learning, students would not be going backtoschool five days a week, in some districts they would, but in most they would not. It be one or two or three days a week, some rotating system that allows the schools to have a smaller presence
The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
On fox business. He will be talking about the jobs numbers, about the stimulus plan, if we will get one or if the president will have to pull the levers himself without congress. 30 minutes from now, larry kudlow. Well also ask about President Trump issuing those executive orders banning u. S. Transactions with wechat and tiktok. Shares of tencent, lets see, tencent is down about 6 right now. Well see how things are going. Futures, by the way, are down about 73 points. They had bumped up into the green from triple digit losses earlier when we got the jobs report, but they have settled down a little lower. Again, a lot less than it was earlier this morning, before the jobs number came out. As President Trump threatens executive actions to get another round of stimulus as democrats are stonewalling any compromise. We are also going to be weighing in on the market trade worries as the president signs a new executive order reimposing 10 aluminum tariffs on canada and that crackdown on Chin
They never say middle women so theyre politically not correct. I have heard term middleman for a long time. They are so wealthy. They are so wealthy. Nobody knows who the hell they are, other know what they do. They make more money than Drug Companies. At least the Drug Companies have to produce a product and it has to be a good product, the middlemen, the rebate im doing cuts out the middleman are and reduces costs and goes back to the people purchasing drugs. I have a lot of enemies out there. May be the last time youll see me for a while. A lot of very rich enemies. Theyre not happy with what im doing. We have one chance to do it. No other president would do what i will do. No other president would do favored nations rebate, buy from other nations at much less cost. Nobody. There are a lot of unhappy people. And theyre very rich people and theyre very unhappy. Heres my fourth promise to American Workers. Beyond our medical supply chains over the next four years, we will onshore mill