Is come down really sharply on the brexit news. Walk johnson prepared to away. The pound is plummeting on the back of that. We recovered a little bit, but still down. 9 . 1. 12. E sterling is at in europe, the equities are rolling over, the euro stoxx the euro stoxx down. We have money moving back into of bonds, in the same in the United States. Lets talk about brexit. Prime minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission prime minister, set to start a crucial phone call starting about now. Could it be make or break . Pound falling sharply . The counseling sharply. Walk away. Pared to the real deadline appears to be eu summitahead of the on thursday. Joining us now, we have our bloomberg governments and brexit reporter. What are we expecting from the phone call with Boris Johnson . Reporter one of two things, either we get them saying we will keep talking. Think we could get an agreement here or this is the moment where they say, we should notkeep talking, so why into this now . We
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Theres no room for the public, but this is all streaming and there will be an unedited version that anyone can watch later. Our witnesses are participating by Video Conference today and some senators are as well. I would like to Say Something about mass. The office of attending position that he says since were six feet apart, we dont need to wear masks, although some may. I have one and i wear it outside because as dr. Redfield reminded us yesterday, its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee. Sergeant arms, the capitol lice and chun check and Evan Griffith and the people with all their hard work in helping us keep safe and helping us do these conferences by video which everyone has become pretty expert. Senator murray and i will have an opening statement. Well turn to our witness who we thank for being with us today. Each witness if you would summarize your remarks in five minutes, that would leave more time for questions and answ
Was that we were situationally blind. We had no idea where this virus was and wasnt spreading. So when it came down to shutting down cities, rather than shutting down cities like new york city, we went for a shutdown across the whole country, which was unnecessary in retrospect. We could have focused on mitigation. We had no diagnostic test in the field to screen people. What c. D. C. Officials were relying on and telling the Coronavirus Task force was there was no spread of coronavirus spread, because they were looking at the influencelike surveillance, who is presentering tpresenting to hoss with flulike symptoms, and therefore the coronavirus may not be spreading. I was talking to officials over this time, and they were adamant about that, and i suppose the president was also being told that the virus wasnt spreading. And that may have affected his willingness to maybe talk it down a little bit. That really was the tragic mistake, not just that we didnt have the information that we
Going. Well start off with game called market jeopardy the final market jeopardy answer tonight, the most important event for the markets next week. Now, remember, the rule is you have to phrase your response in the form of a question or it might not count. The stakes are high here bk, set the tone. Ill set the tone, alex how do i play this game . I just blurt out an answer i say whats the most important thing . Yes thats how it works. Have you not seen jeopardy. What . No i mean, i havent seen it in a while. Im more of a wheel of fortune guy. Its a lot easier game what is the stimulus bill . That is my answer, melissa ill tell you why. I think a lot of people are kind of writing that off, okay, were getting this back and forth, this is how the sausage is made. Ultimately theyre going to come to an agreement. Theres not much incentive for democrats to come to an agreement on this given this Election Year. That could be the wildcard in this. What happens if we dont get a stimulus bill,