This is the federal that passes 24 trillion federal debt passes 24 trillion. Can find us on twitter and facebook. For being with us. We want to begin with the numbers from johns hot and university, which has been covid19sck of january. More than will and. The death five countries has surpassed 203,000. That this morning from Johns Hopkins university. The comments this past week from the Senate Republican leader on the states declaring bankruptcy, getting a lot of attention across the country. Here is what he told the radio talkshow last week. [video clip] i would be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. Theres no good reason for it to not be available. Is that it would be for federal government to send it down to future generations. Host that from the Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell. Lets get right to your phone calls. Marvin is joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. I thinknk it caller they should get the states money. At this point right now they are
Understand that what the u. S. Supports the who to do is nothing that can be easily substituted to other organizations. The who is not like a nonprofit International Rescue committee that is implementing programs. They are providing Technical Advice to health around the world, setting strategy and in partnership with those. In the developing world. Role ins an integral advising for help crises like this one. They will not turn to an ngo for that. When the World Health Organization is not getting the money it needs from the United States government, it will have an effect on every developing country in the world that will be dealing with a weaker who office and will be less equipped to fight the outbreak. Host the criticism is the who was slow to react to this pandemic and even slower to hold china accountable. Are those fair charges . Guest they are not. Let me tell you why. The whos behavior in a situation like this is governed by an illegal document. That is an agreement between all
The dow is the story today bet than 1 gain the russell, small caps trailing a little bit bob pisani on the floor with more were reversing that trend. We used to sell off in the middle of the day, but friday we diplomat and today we are holding onto our highs its very important. Three trends ive seen thats happened in the last two days. Number one, the healing continues. S p regained 20 of the losses were finally seeing new highs appear and familiar names are on that list. Finally, the Leadership Group since the bottom is the Leadership Group getting us into this, and that is cyclical stocks look whats leading today. Boeing, 3m, apple, cisco, these are all cyclical names lacker eds, coke, mcdonalds, johnson johnson, General Electric not doing too much overall s p new highs, old faces weve seen time and time again on the list amazon, netflix, adobe, hewlettpackard, jpmorgan chase. We continue to see the rally move forward not going back to that idea of selling off late in the day. Well s
I would also like to thank National Press club staff including its Journalism Institute and Broadcast Center for organizing todays event. If you would like a copy of todays program or to learn more about the National Press club, go to our website press. Org. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. You. Next on cspan3, a session on combatting terrorism. And later the Hutchins Institute on emergency preparedness. This afternoon the Atlanta Council will host a discussion on new Battery Technology with Georgetown University professor steve levine. Hes the author of the powerhouse, inside innovation to save the world. Hell talk about Energy Storage and what it could mean for the energy sector. Well have that live on cspan at 12 20 p. M. Eastern. Later today well take you to the center of strategic and International Studies where Carly Fiorina will discuss entrepreneur skps entrepreneurship in the developing world. Live at 6 00 p. M. On cspan. Tonight on the communicators, vincent moscow. Big