Hello and welcome to westminster in review. A lot is Parliament Strong in the corona crisis. Boris johnson got the job he always wanted, but the Job Description had changed. I must level with you and level with the British Public. Losefamilies are going to loved ones before their time. The Prime Minister was almost one of them as the Global Pandemic landed too close to home. It left him with questions to answer. The Prime Minister welcomed challenge that could save lives instead of complaining about it. Crisis that overturned centuries of traditions to change the way westminster works with unexpected results. Why apologize. Why are you not doing this . On a wednesday afternoon in late january, the house minister was summoned to answer a question and what was described as the wu hand Novel Coronavirus wuhan Novel Coronavirus threat to citizens. It was the first threat of what was to be come just become a Global Pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. The minister Lady Blackw
This was the backdrop for the Political Conventions that year and for the speeches made by john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The john kennedy accepted nomination he was a u. S. Senator representing massachusetts. Here he is at the Democratic National convention in los angeles, followed by Richard Nixon in chicago. [cheering] sen. Kennedy governor stevenson, senator johnson, senator humphrey, speaker iyburn, fellow democrats, want to express my thanks to governor stevenson for a generous and a generous and heartwarming introduction. [applause] it was my great honor to place my name in nomination at the 1956 democratic nomination, i am glad to have his advice in the coming months ahead. [applause] let me say that i accept the nomination of the Democratic Party. [applause] i accept it without reservation, and with only one obligation, the obligation to of to devote every effort of my mind and spirit to lead our party back to victory and our nation to greatness. That you havetoo provided
Boris johnson and his house secretary. Spains deputy Prime Minister yesterday. Huge number of cases in the u. S. 22 states now under stayathome orders as 50 of the u. S. Population is meant to be abiding those orders. Down to 73 basis points on the 10 year yield. Crude back down again. 21 point 49. Canadian dollar weaker by about 7 10 of 1 after the bank of canada reduced its Interest Rate to 25 basis points. The Prime Minister selfisolating over here, the Health Secretary selfisolating. We are all selfisolating. The brown story in the market is done and dusted. We go into a weekend where traders do not want to take risk. Terrible numbers overnight out of spain. U. K. Numbers continue to climb. Numbers around the world of those infected and the fatalities continue to rise. That story is now taking over from that meal a we focused on so much over the last couple of days. European stocks at session lows, approaching that 300 mark with a bid back in the bond market. 50 in the german tenye
We are zipping by here. Good morning, everyone. I am frank. Rosemary is enjoying the day off. Are you bringing the rain . I wish i could do that if i had a magic wand and i can make that happen, i would do it in a second. A live look outside right now, we have a few clouds out there this morning, certainly in the south bay in particular but we are going to see good sunshine as we get the day going as we move along. However, rain is on everyone mind and heres the simple reason. The last time we had rain, january 28. It has been 25 days since we have had any meaningful precipitation. You might think a, is that some rain . Well, the central part of california perhaps. Sprinkles in san jose, but it is kind of falling apart. This is the system that will track to the south and east and unfortunately not bringing us any rain in Southern California, getting a little bit out of that. Current temperatures this morning, 55 in San Francisco. Chilly temperatures in santa rosa. 40 in napa, 38 in fai
You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats. So if theres anything that comes up during the course of the conversation where you need to refer to that legal document, feel free to do so. [laughter] think aboutp us these issues we have for distinguished experts. Senior fellows a at brookings, writes a column for the wall street journal and is the author of antipluralism, the populist threat to liberal democracy. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow at brookings and is the author of exceptions to the role, the politics of filibuster limitations in the u. S. Senate. Elaine kamarck is a senior author of a book about a Senior Process on nominating and the United States. Is a seniortes fellow at brookings and is a coauthor of a forthcoming book entitled on making the presidency, Donald Trumps war on the most powerful office. Host i want to start with bill. He has paid a lot of attention to the Public Opinion aspects of impeachment. There were three recent National Surveys t