together, we have to take tough actions. that seems to be a wide recognition from both parties, they recognize it is not a moment for ideological division. it is a moment for action and that is what we have done. rachel, did you have any more? i wanted to come back to you. go ahead. >> i was fine, thank you for checking. thank you, though. >> thank you very much. be safe. wash your hands. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the white house coronavirus task force's briefing again today, scheduled for 11:00 a.m. eastern. it could again earlier, led by vice president mike pence and we

could see the president attend. the president will travel to fema for a conference call with governors. live coverage from the white house when that gets underway, from c-span. theegislation passing in senate 90-8. this is the reporting of usa today -- senate approves emergency relief. increased testing for coronavirus was headed to donald trump's desk. nextess is crafting its emergency relief package that would provide direct payments to americans as well as a financial lifeline to businesses socked by the coronavirus that is upending daily life. senators overwhelmingly supported a house until that

expense federal food programs, and provides paid sick leave for those forced to stay home. that past at a vote of 90-8 in the u.s. senate. we will talk to jennifer shuttt of roll call -- jennifer shutt of roll call. sent the message hours earlier. what jennifer shutt is reporting , she says work on that package, the third package has been ongoing for days, with treasury secretary steven mnuchin proposing a trillion dollar package to the senate on tuesday. emerged as a critical negotiator for the administration and has also continued talking with speaker nancy pelosi.

that package could provide direct cash payments to americans as well as grants and loans for struggling and shuttered businesses. nearly a 46 billion dollars supplementals ending were last to increase funding for dozens of federal agencies. specifics on that out of the treasury department, it is proposal, stage iii the third package of legislation which is like the from an initial discussion this morning or today in the discussion. the airline industry would get $50 billion of aid out of this. other distressed sectors proposing $150 billion. here is the economic impact payments proposed. authorizesion would and appropriate funds for two rounds of payments to individual taxpayers, two different

payments, $250 billion on april 6 and another $250 billion on may 18. that legislation still ahead the u.s. senate and house. let's get to year comments and call -- your comments and calls. caller: happy anniversary, c-span. host: thank you. caller: you are most welcome. we have to think outside the box. boeing being -- boeing bang needs money -- boeing needs money. they build planes with air filtrate or systems. we need ventilators. maybe they can retool for that. restaurant industries are laying off people by the hundred. maybe as part of their unemployment we can take our community colleges and train these people to be the people

who run the ventilators that we need. the president said this is a war, it is invisible. yes, it is. we have to think outside the box. we are only stuck if we think we are stuck. let's be creative. another thing with these bailouts, if they do like they did before with the airline industry, they used profits to buy back stock and it did not go ,o workers in an equitable way and the workers are the taxpayers that they'll them out. -- bail them out. this is something the senate and congress and the president have to make sure funds are not used that way. we can turn these companies around. we just have to -- around weekly. -- quickly. we cannot just stand around on lockdown forever.

-- i willa brought up tell everybody else -- this is our 41st anniversary, 41 years ago today that c-span first came on the air to over 3.5 million cable subscribers. a tweet from howard martin and a picture-- morton and a of that very first day with al gore, then congressman. televised, the first speaker al gore. in thethere were tv's house this deadline -- headline -- house prepares for tv debut. glen bernie, maryland is next on our medical professional line, this is debbie. caller: good morning.

didn't realizep, the anniversary, so happy anniversary. professional, i am a registered nurse and have a little bit of infection control background as well as managed care. i look at this from a lot of different perspectives, but on a daily basis it is scary. i am hoping that all the millennials who have not heard the message about social distancing and quarantining themselves in their house just for a little bit of time -- which a lot of them like to do anyways -- just got the message from millennials. i am calling about some of my concerns. course, and i'm sure it is across the country, a loss of supplies, but we are also seeing supplies disappear

that were there five minutes ago. so many supplies, people do not how to use them properly and can cause more damage to their skin. say some of those supplies are going missing? caller: yeah. i put them out yesterday, a brand-new container of very high and it went, missing, unfortunately. when i say some of these can be harmful to your skin, it is a surgical wipe. and they hard surfaces are across the country in the hospital. the thing is, you have to hold -- use gloves. if you hold them without gloves, it will work its way through

your epithelial layer and cause more damage, making you far more at risk. for any listener out there who knows somebody who may have came upon some things where they live, please reconsider how you use these names. -- things. the other thing i wanted to take the opportunity to say is some of the measures that people can use on their own full. .- helpful i carry a bottle of listerine when i go out. i make sure when there are iople or places i have been, use it. it is in your nose and your mouth so the more you can rinse it, drink some fluid every 15

minutes, just sip throughout the day, that will help wash the virus down out of that area. it takes hold over the first three to five days but that is the period when people get an annoying kind of clearing their throat irritation. that is the thing to be worried about. listerine,if not warm saltwater. drink frequently. sleep. make sure you get no less than 7.5 hours of sleep. your immune system is the biggest asset you have, even if you are young. if you smoke, once the virus goes past your nasal pharyngeal area, it goes to your cilia. smokers will have a hard time. now would be the time to stop or cut back. host: some good advice, and

missingppreciate that that the supplies. this is a report in the new york times. their business section about ventilators at the top of the list. anunited states braces for onslaught of coronavirus cases, hospitals and governments are confronting a grim reality. they're not nearly enough life-saving ventilator machines to go around. there is no way to solve the problem before the disease reaches full throttle. desperate hospital say they cannot find anywhere to buy the devices which can be the difference between life and death for those facing the most dire respiratory effects of the coronavirus. american and european manufacturers say they cannot speed up production enough to meet soaring demand, at least not anytime soon. new york times is where you read more. benton, bev in

pennsylvania. caller: good morning. i woke up thinking my main concern for the united states would be our electric grid. without it people would have nothing. what is the government planning on doing on that because people are spending every penny they have. how are they going to pay their bills to keep this stuff up and running? that is my question. host: rick in erwin, tennessee is next. caller: how are you doing? for the past 10 or 12 years, 25 or 30 years since ronald reagan we've been hearing

but no, they had to have a couple more dollars of their paycheck. thank you. host: rick, we are talking about the legislation heading over to the u.s. senate. this is the headline in "the wall street journal." debate over stimulus plan over mitch mcconnell in the senate talking about what may be ahead in the proposed legislation. >> while i will support the house built in order to secure emergency relief for some american workers, i will not adjourn the senate until we have passed a far bolder package. it must include significant relief for small businesses all across our country. as we speak, chairman rubio, senator collins, and others are assembling a level of assistance for small businesses across

america. we want to help them survive the destruction, absorb the new mandate in the house, and continue to make payroll and avoid layoffs as much as they can and emerge from the storm in the best shape possible. injection an historic of liquidity and access to credit. it means washington working directly with lenders who already work with a small businesses to minimize the new bureaucracy so the assistants can flow as fast as possible. , butll pass the house bill it's imperfections will make her more comprehensive package even more urgent. we are not leaving. we are not leaving until we deliver it. the senate will not leave small business behind. this will be just one component of our work. , chairman grassley

and others are determining the best pathway to put money directly in the hands of the american people to. those who are employed, those were laid off, disabled americans, families as quickly as possible. of course, chairman alexander and a number of our colleagues are working on further steps in our public health fight against the virus itself, such as getting more tools in the hands of health care providers, removing barriers to trade, and helping research develop. are considering the possibility of targeted for those sheltering an outsized burden from the public health directive in which our nation will need to be operational on the others of this. host: the u.s. senate in session today at noon eastern.

live coverage on c-span2 and stream at c-span.org. nbc's richard engel reports this in a tweet. china reports no new domestic cases of coronavirus for the first time since the start of the epidemic. here are the numbers this morning as of -- from the johns hopkins center for system science and engineering. worldwide,rmed cases 220,691. total deaths, nearly 10,000. china's number barely budge from yesterday at 81,154. no new cases from within the country. u.s. number jumping 3000 cases yesterday. it is now at 9415 reported cases in the u.s., with a total of 150 deaths and 106 recoveries. the u.s. house is coming in today and a pro forma session.

a number of members are quarantined and are two members who have tested positive for the coronavirus. greg kaplan, our capitol hill producer tweeting this. first term you caught democratic -- first-term utah democratic congressman tested positive for covid 19 yesterday. he has been in self quarantine at his utah home. he was on the house voting in support of the second coronavirus economics of relief bill. also from great kaplan, nine term florida gop representative mario diaz clark, the first member of congress to test positive. he self-quarantined in his d.c. apartment friday. he is now "feeling much better." his last vote was in support of the second coronavirus economic aid bill. we will keep you up-to-date on other members as well. we hear from parkville, maryland. miriam. welcome.

caller: hello. if anybody from john hopkins is listening that is working on the virus, i think you ought to the serum of the -- host: what is your point? caller: you should check the serum from the venom of snakes. that will kill the virus. host: we hear from maureen next. redwood city, california. caller: good morning. how are you today? i am calling because i believe this is one donald trump wants. he wants the government to look incompetent so people do not look to the government in the future. the state to

look incompetent, he wants it to fail. that is what steve bannon told him. host: do you think he is surrounding him with people like ,he vice president, dr. fauci dr. birx and others, do you think he is surrounding with people who want to fail? caller: now that his election is up and arms he is surrounded with people who know. but at the beginning he did not. he sent ice people the travis air force base and they had to check in all of those people that came in from china in travis air force base, and then they let them disperse. what was that? he said those people to california because he knew they were infected and he wanted to target california because he hates us. i believe that. i believe the beginning and i believe donald trump is trying

to play catch-up because he realizes his reelection is at jeopardy now. host: your thoughts on the federal response to the krona virus -- on the coronavirus pandemic. pennsylvania, next. hello to harriet. caller: good morning. that last lady was a trip. number two, this just happened. everybody blames trump. now if you caught the chinese virus you are racist. somebody told trump yesterday it was the kung fu virus. the other thing is for two and a half years we've been saying on this channel, trump, trump, let's get rid of him. fatigued watching this on tv all the time so i'm

watching other things. it is on all of the time. why don't you have a show on about gillam getting arrested with a gay guy with a bunch of drugs, cuomo agreeing with trump, one of you have a show with positivity instead of this stuff. host: harry in pennsylvania. this is the editorial cartoon this morning in the washington post. a republican elephant saying "free money" and the response socialism won the republican primary. rand paul on the floor of the senate arguing for his amendment to the aid package, which would have called for government cuts, budget cuts to pay for the package. here is what he said. >> i rise in support of my amendment to pay for this economic stimulus package by removing less important spending from elsewhere in the budget. ifould ask every american,

you were faced with a personal prices in how to spend extra money and you have to spend extra money on food and medicine, money you had to borrow from a relative, wanted you prioritize your resources and stop loaning money to friends overseas for their children to go to space camp? wanted to stop funding clown colleges in argentina. if you had a true emergency like this pandemic, one you stop -- wouldn't you stop building roads and gas stations in pakistan? if you had a true emergency, when you stop spending money studying why trump people fall down more than sober people. i asked my colleagues to stop wasting money. stopping a rubberstamp for wasteful spending. do your jobs and prioritize our precious resources. it is our job and our responsibility to conserve these resources. why is this important? why shouldn't we just print or

borrow the money instead of making cuts and things like foreign aid? next time, it may be not-too-distant future, our children may not be able to borrow their way out of a crisis. our dollar will be devalued, our economy ruined, all because people have been profligate fools without resources. host: the u.s. senate back in session today at noon eastern on c-span2. we will hear from devon in philadelphia. good morning. caller: good morning. i was looking at the new proposal going between the house and senate negotiation. i was looking at different proposals between 700 and 2500 tiererson in maybe two payments. once you look at the 45 million people that owe student loans, which will be offset because coming from the treasury, the

government will get return back $45 billion immediately. i think the package is not big enough because once you offset the amount that people that owe student loans, if they are given $1000, times 45 million people, that is $45 billion. package should be much bigger to address economic needs. will not give back anything. out: that is a proposal from the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin in consultation with the house speaker, the majority leader in the senate, some of the highlights from that in the airline industry, a rescue of $50 billion. other eight $150 billion, in particular the economic impact payments.

two separate payments. the first one april 6, the second one may 18. this is just a proposal, a one sheet proposal. that document is out there. we are reading it this morning. i do not have we posted it on our website just yet. i imagine before too long we will. it is a one page document looking at what they call the stage iii proposal from the treasury secretary. that legislation still in the pipeline, still ready to be fully developed as legislation. we will hear more about that in the senate. next is barbara in ohio. good morning. caller: i want to say i wish everybody would get off donald trump's case. we should be happy he is the president he is and he is the businessman he is and he is able to negotiate all of these bills and all the things we need to do

to get through this with everybody. i just wish everybody would get off his case and appreciate the man he is. host: next is dave in richmond, ohio. caller: i want to comment, sitting here watching the show. happy birthday. i appreciate the way you show both sides and let everybody speak. the lady from california, this is a huge problem in our country. i think she got hit on the head to accuse our president of doing what she is accusing him to do. i think it is ridiculous they expect everything is donald trump's fault. obama ran the country for the last eight years and the cdc was woefully taken care of. how does that become trump's fault. we should rally behind our president regardless of who it is. host: are medical professionals

our medical professional lives. on that line is james in newark, new jersey. right now i'm a caretaker. organizationlth has test. very simple. test. do not take the it is a shame. thank you. host: a couple of comments on test. this is carol, from panama city, florida. she says trump cannot run a bath yet alone a country with a pandemic. incompetence from day one. shortage of everything doing to know to put -- no preparedness from the top. in alabama, testing, testing, testing. why not try sealing the people. money will not heal.

tennessee, good luck mr. president on taunting your response to coronavirus. if your administration had taken this seriously in early january, we would be a lot better off now. where is the democrat hoax now. from the washington post, president trump invoking wartime powers to bolster u.s. response. the president invoking a rarely used wartime powers announcement , announcing the deployment of two naval ships wednesday as he tries to boost the federal response to the prone virus. "we will be invoking the defense protection act in case we need ," trump said from the white house, invoking a law that could allow the white house to accelerate the developing of available medical equipment. it could do a lot of things, he said, if we needed. trump's move, writes the post, signaled a more robust federal operation to combat a virus that

has spread across the country, taking hold across all 50 states. the flurry of announcements wednesday march the most concentrated campaign yet by the trump administration to slow the advance of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. on the deployment of those two medical ships, one heading to new york, the governor of new york talked about that in his briefing yesterday. >> he will be making arrangements to send up this hospital ship which is called the u.s. comfort. it has about 1000 rooms on it. operating rooms. the president is going to dispatch the comfort to us. it will be in new york city harbor. this will be an extraordinary .tep, obviously

it is literally a floating hospital and the president said he would dispatch that immediately. host: we will hear from david calling from madison heights, michigan. thank god for democrats. i am an american first but i associate myself not with party, but i am so glad the failure in chief signed the democrat bill. will be bill coming up nothing but a bailout for corporations. i hope they seriously debate that and come up with a solution on that. i do not want any money from the government. i do not think most americans want money from the government. all we want is our jobs. we want to be safe. the failure in chief and his swamp is such a failure. it is pathetic what is going on

in america right now. to all of you deplorables that still support him, we will put on your gravestones "i still support trump." thank you very much. host: also in michigan is jerry. good morning. caller: how are you? i just wanted to say that one of the underreported stories in the mainstream media and other places is they are not discussing what happens to the it, how it they get would spread, and what would happen to the general public? we should be spending money, instead of bailing out the hotels, we should tell the hotels to isolate people in the rooms so they do not catch it. then you can take care of two problems at once. if they are there long enough,

get the social workers in and give them permanent homes. that should've been taking care of years ago. now it is another aspect not being dealt with. host: we go to california to hear from fred in irvine. good morning, sir. caller: thank you so much for taking my call. for three years we have listened to the president lie. our republican friends laugh it off and say that is just the way he is, that is just the things he does. it did not cost people lives, it did not cost us trillions of dollars or more. i feel sad for the people who have lost their jobs and the people who have lost their lives and who will lose much more. as we have listened to this man told these silly lies along the way. no one on the republican side would challenge him. mike pence stands behind him and

says the president is doing a good job when he knows the man has lied. i wonder how much longer we will tolerate these lies. it might be a hoax. host: how do you think the vice president and the coronavirus task force, how do you think they have responded? caller: they have not done a job at all. can you imagine if we had bill clinton or george bush, any of the other presidents, if we had obama standing up there on your screen, can you imagine what they would be doing? they would be saying let me get the experts to develop strategic plans. of course we would've had those hospital ships before, of course we would have had testing kits. -- theuld've had people army should be involved in this. this is a huge thing.

i am so sad that our country tolerated this man who would tell lies over and over and we would just laugh. votes.on there might've been through million votes. we would say that is just the way he is. host: reporting on the world response. angela merkel calls the coronavirus the biggest challenge since world war ii. "germany is facing its biggest challenge since world war ii in the fight against the coronavirus, angela merkel said wednesday, and what is called a final warning for citizens to heed confinement measures. merkel says everyone played a part in slowing down the pandemic that has raced across the globe and triggered unprecedented peacetime lockdown." here is maria in fairfax, virginia. caller: thank you.

i do blame the current president. i cannot pronounce his name because my body gets goosebumps. the world health organization advised in january there was an emergency crisis. he did not listen. my governor had a press on january 16 -- in january, loan of 16 governors asking the president. i am risking my family. most likely i already have the virus. i do not know. i would get tested today. i work seven days a week. host: will you get tested at the hospital? caller: most likely, yes. before i start working i want to go in and test myself. i am working seven days a week . i have to be there at 7:45. i will talk and walk. host: have some of your hospital colleagues already been tested?

caller: everybody has been tested. there is security everywhere. to answer the questions they asked me. anyone. want to risk before i go to work i will be tested. i do blame the president. i'm sorry for the people that still support him, but they should educate themselves about the virus, about the disease, about a contagious disease. host: we will let you go. hope the test works out ok. to bakersfield, california. .aller: thanks we have to put away our partisan disagreements. we need to deploy the national guard. they need to be building hospital structures separate from our other hospitals. we need to get arenas ready to quarantine.

here in bakersfield, we need to immediately set up mechanics arena to handle people who are sick, not so sick they are going to die, but so sick they are going to get their families ill. they need to be quarantined away from everyone else. we need to get that ready. has yourt measures toernor gavin newsom taken hasten some of that. i have heard something about the fact they were looking into places like hotels, i do not know about stadiums, but places in california for potential hospitals. caller: the fall of the estimates are correct, we have a title wave of illness and we are not prepared. we have not nationalized our industries to make the ventilators. there is a story going on right ,ow there are 1000 ventilators

100 being made a week in the united states have been ordered by china and are going to be sent out of the united states to china as opposed to being kept in the united states, and that one industry making it has not growforced to quadruple or 10 times larger to make the ventilators. they are quite complicated. there is an industry in the united states, i do not know if it is true, it needs to be verified, i cannot verify this, but it has been rumored there is a company in the united states that makes ventilators that is going to be shipping them out to china. has beenn you say it rumored, have you read this on a website, have you seen it somewhere? caller: on morning joe, joe saidr -- joe scarborough this is what he heard. if that is true, that has to stop. if that business does exist, it needs to have thousands of young people who are healthy and have

already been tested to go in there and begin to build that factory and have that expand 100 times over. we need to make all of the 3m masks ourselves. this needs to be a world war. where the president says he needs to wait to decide if he will nationalized industries, what is he waiting for? did authorize the defense production act yesterday. caller: but he has not used it. he has not actually used it to actually make the industries do it. host: jim in california, thanks for your call. of 9000 415total cases nationwide. in california, 870 of those. and 850 four active cases in california.

the president tweeted about that yesterday. i only signed the defense fight the act to chinese virus. we are all in this together. next is asheville, north carolina. good morning to rick. caller: good morning. where one time this country was not the strongest but after world war ii, then the corporations pay 80% of the federal taxes and the average people pay 20%. now i am being told it is completely the opposite. and theions pay 20% average people of the united states they 80%. if that is when our country was the strongest, why we go back to

that? let the corporations start paying their fair share of taxes.

>> trying to get it right. >> not quite six feet, as recommended, but more than we have seen in the past. >> we wash our hands when air done. it is important. -- when we are done. it is important.