senator josh hawley has been a leader from the start and now wants to hold them accountable.e's going tom tell us how that would go down. why is it that nancy pelosi doesn't have time to approve small e business relief but she somehow has time for late-night comedians? raymond arroyo has that and more in seen and unseen. first, america and shut down, day 30, if you can believe it. america's death toll surpasses 30,000 people tonight.ht but even with that staggering number and all the loss of life that comes along with that, there was some good newsws toda. >> it looks like we are heading absolutely in the right direction. with almost a few exceptions, you have every state that is either doing better or on the way to doing better. >>r over the last 55 and six days, we've seen declines in cases across the country and this has been very reassuring for us. >> in terms of our cases, hospitalizations, vents being utilized, they are trending in the right direction. we've certainly flatten the curve. >> no change in hospitalizations, down, that's good news. i see you admissions down,

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missouri senator josh hawley is asking the justice department to launch a criminal investigation into susan li has got more on that story. susan. susan: after "the wall street journal" investigative piece last week that alleges that amazon uses data from independent sellers on its website and using that data to better make their own private label goods. josh hawley writing a letter to bill barr says this goes in violation of section two of the sherman antitrust law, which you remember was used 20 years ago to prosecute a company named microsoft. he says this is illegal monopoly amazon is running. antitrust imposes criminal penalties for companies that try to acquire or maintain monopoly power. amazon's data practices as reported by "the wall street journal," appear to meet that description. this is the trunk organizer made by a small brooklyn company, best-seller back in 2016. one of the past amazon employees cited in this report, she used a lot of data from the independent seller and research reports to better make and better price amazon's own trunk organizer. when i reached out to

senator josh hawley introducing a braille that -- bill that could make china liable for claims.ed funding to claiming they took information from china at face value. u.s. airlines need travel restrictions to end and passengers to come back. reaching up a luminary deal to access billions of dollars in government aid -- preliminary deal to access billions of dollars in government aid. pres. trump: preserve the vital role airlines play in our economy and protect taxpayers. viviana: they will have to repay some of that with interest. if shares rebound that would give them an upside. -- the imfng is warning against ratcheting back budget deficits when the pandemic fades. that is when countries should ramp-up up fiscal stimulus. responding they are to claims that elderly have been neglected in the coronavirus crisis. they will test residents of care homes and caretakers. many of the british elderly are cared for in small privately run homes. mobile news, 24 hours a day and on quick take by bloomberg powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. this is bloo

senator josh hawley has introduced a bill that could make china liable for civil claims regarding theirus. president trump cuts off the funding for the who, saying the agency to china's claims about the outbreak at face value. it elizabeth warren endorsed joe biden today. major was the final democratic hopeful to back the nominee. she says biden is willing to be persuaded to adopt new ideas. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. much, indeed.ry let's turn our focus now to how the virus pandemic is affecting businesses in europe, and with europe in commission is doing to try to counter the economic damage being done. joining us on the phone for an exclusive interview is margrethe vestager, the european commission executive vice president and the competition commissioner. thank you for spending time with us here on bloomberg today. ms. vestager: thank you very much for having me. guy: it is good to hear your voice. communication at this point is

josh hawley wants to pay workers 80% of their salary. other question they have to get resolved his oversight, adam schiff the chairman of the house intelligence committee, he wants a 9/11 style commission to look into coronavirus, that would be a fifth layer of oversight. there's a commission that is built into the phase three bill already, and speaker nancy pelosi has impaneled the select committee but she's open to the idea of a 9/11 style commission but says it has to be bipartisan and after action review has to be number one it will not point fingers. >> bill: chad pergram in washington. the world health organization as you know is under a ton of scrutiny. one of the more vocal critics has been senator tom cotton who penned a piece on foxnews.com, he's with me tonight. thank you for your time on this good friday for being here. you characterize this as an information war, let's start there, make your case. >> the chinese communist party has been waging an information war against the united states, they have their ambassadors all arou

but now we've got this charge from josh hawley. interesting that it surfaced now.s to have taken the stock down a bit. amazon is off 1%. they're back to $2350 a share. susan, thank you very much. latest on the joe biden me-too problem. two more people, new people, they have come forward to corroborate a sexual assault allegation against joe biden. the media, not even mentioning it. that's a story, we are on it. >>> more states open up. the treasury secretary told us last hour the economy will take off in the third and fourth quarters of this year. newt gingrich joins us on that in the next hour of the show. >>> listen to this, a trump administration official tells fox news china could have 50 times more virus cases than they claim. what are we going to do about that? senator rick scott next. by you. we're working hard to answer your questions. like helping you understand what the recently passed economic package can mean for you. we're more than a financial company. we're a "together we can get through anything" company. now, more than ever. why accept it frompt an

senator josh hawley represents the state of missouri.as been some debate about whether this is actually happen. do you think it is and if so, can it be stopped? >> he better not happen. private equity was sitting on a trillion, trillion and a half in cash back in january. so if they need access to capital, they ought to spend some of their own money. and by the way private equity has access to credit facilities of the average independent small business person at least in my state of missouri absolute does not. so our focus right now needs to be on saving jobs, saving small business, and i think we ought to go even bolder. i think we need to protect every single job in this country until this emergency passes and i think that has to be the focus of phase four. >> tucker: it's will tell us about that. so you are involved in thinking, how to affect this bolstering of the u.s. economy. what should we do next? >> we have to get ready to get back to work. americans want to work and as soon as we can we need to be ready to surge out of the gate

the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh hawley, micah gallagher, michael doran and others. it's an excellent program partly because of the two people who put it together and their ability to bring up topics and to move the argument along. we couldn't be prouder of the work they have done and i want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this year's program with michael lind who is as many of you know prolific writer, more than a dozen books and cofounder of the new america foundation with hutchens of distinguished fellow and strategy statesmanship, walter russell mead. michael is a professor at lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas, and important for two nights conversation he is the author of "the new class war." the book which you can purchase, which is published today so we are here at the launch. congratulations on the new book. there is a direct line between the new class war and the work that mike has been a been pursuing since the '90s, maybe best exemplified by his book the next a

josh hawley of missouri has made the same row proposal where the government is paying 80% of worker salariese government is giving that money to keep those people on the payroll approximately . that's especially critical, you lose your income and your health care in the united states. the trump administration has said they want to keep as many people, quote, attached to job as possible and that's why they crafted the plans the way they did. unfortunately what we're seeing here over a month, six weeks, since the president declared a national emergency is that millions of workers have been laid off. a lot of companies went to furloughs first, like the retailers, but have since done an actual layoff so totally severing the worker from the company they used to work for. when that happens, it can take years for those people to ever get a job back. >> heather, thanks for your great reporting on this. coming up, president trump is once again referring to himself as a wartime president. so how does he compare to those who came before him and how will he be remembered after this crisis is over? the h

senator josh hawley represents misery. thank you so much for coming on.hy do you think that health authorities in the west, and of course, our mindless media, uncritically accept china's health statistics and use them as a basic for decision-making here? >> you know tucker, the same people, the washington elites and wall street, they are the same people who have been telling us of this will be great for america and the world if we integrate our economy with china. it will be great if we have a global economy where we send jobs overseas. turns out they've been wrong about all of that. it's been terrible for america and now we are living with the results so i think this is what we are finally waking up to, or the d.c. elites are waking up to the wages of the bargain that we have struck and it's time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with china and the world. it's time to start putting american workers at the front and not kowtowing any longer to the chinese government. >> tucker: we see this primarily in epidemiological terms. people in lab coats gi

i saw josh hawley call for 80% of make good money, basically federal business interrupts insurance for everybody, which i think would be a fine idea for congress to embrace. but certainsomething i heard ean the show is these disparities are preexisting long before president trump, before president obama. they go back a long time in the united states, especially among communities of color and it is particularly incumbent on dr. fauchi and dr. birx have said, repeatedly and sometimes it pops up suddenly and it's not on everyone's screen, it incumbent to identify those around them who are most vulnerable, those with diabetes, heart disease, obesity, any of the sort of illnesses we see overrepresented in the african-american community and take special precautions they not be exposed, that they don't go out, to be a real pain in the neck for your grandparents and your mom and dad if you're the right age. i thought that's the most important message as to the politics of it. i don't think it's a political issue. this is a crises we've never dealt with, at least in our lifetime, not sense 1918

josh hawley says this goes against section two of the sherman antitrust law. u remember this was a statute used to prosecute mike so the. in a letter to bill barr, hawley said antitrust law empose espn in thes to companies that pry to marion taken monopoly -- impose penalties to companies that try to impose monopoly power. this is made by a small brooklyn company. apparently one of the employees by "the wall street journal" that they used data, research reports looking into this the specific trunk organizer to better produce and better price amazon's own trunk organizer. by 2009, amazon had similar trunk organizers that were similar best-sellers. reaching out to amazon. >> they say to us, we don't believe the claims made by "the wall street journal" are accurate, we take the allegations very seriously. wet launched internal investigation. to be fair, other companies, retailers, drugstores, grocery chains, retailers that make their own private label goods. we don't know what their data and data practices are but you think you have to really zero in on amazon's m

senator josh hawley represents the state of missouri. we are happy to have them on tonight.ebate about whether this is actually happening. if it is, can it be stopped? >>>> it better not happen, talk, and is certainly not going to happen with my support. private equity was sitting on a trillion -- that's with a t -- a trillion and a half in cash. back in january. so they need access to capital, they ought to spend some of their own money. by the way, private equity has access to credit that the average small business person, at least in my state of missouri, absolutely does not appear for our focus needs to be on saving jobs, saving small business, and i think we ought to go even bolder, i think we eeed to protect every single job in this country until this emergency passes, and i think that's got to be the focus of phase four. >> tucker: so, yeah, and tell us about that. so you are involved in thinking how to complete this bolstering of the u.s. economy. what should we do next? >> my view, tucker, we've got to get ready t to get back to work. americans want to work, and as

senator josh hawley represents misery and joins us tonight. senator, thanks so much for coming on.o com you think health authorities in the west and our mindless media uncritically accept chinese health statistics and use them as a basis for decision-making here? >> well, you know, tucker, these people, the washington elites, the wall street types, and the media establishment, have all pushed closer ties with china for decades. people have been telling us this is great forte america and the world if we integrate our economy with china's. it'll be great if we have a global economy where we send jobs overseas. it won't really matter. turns out they weremy wrong abot all of that. they've been wrong about this whole bargain. it's been terrible for america, and now we're living are living with the results. i think we are finally waking up to -- at least the d.c. elite are finally waking up to the bargain they've strapped and it's time we fundamentally rethink our relationship with china and the world. it's time to start puttingam american workers at the front, and not kowtowing any long

i believe that is the missouri senator, josh hawley, correct, am i right on that, liz?bsolutely correct. republican, missouri. >> republican. it is his baby as of now. obviously first advocated by art laffer. the, again, there is going to be some horse-trading here unclear of a couple things, liz. government is willing to throw as much money as they can. there are no atheists in the foxholes. everybody is a keynesian these days. money will flow. donald trump, he advocated supply-side econmics, less government, he is throwing the full weight of the government to alleviate the economic impact that this thing is still, this thing, meaning coronavirus, and the economic shutdown is having on the american economy which is pretty devastating. again wall street is up on some of this stuff, liz. the main street economy is still hurting. if you listen to howard schultz, former chairman of starbucks he was talking about how the ppp money, those loans will be taken in, spent by companies that will still go out of business because of the impact this whole thing has had on the econom

i read an op-ed from josh hawl josh hawley, who was once vaunted as a conservative firebrand in the republican party, calling for universal job and employment guarantees for every american. so, the populism you talk about, and the economic populism we talk about, has reached deep into both parties. you are right, on the outside of this it's going to be very hard for small government conservatives and people who believe in markets, it's going be very challenging for them to make their case. >> dagen: especially for the republicans who are in, and even in the white house, who ran up the debt to a trillion dollar annual budget deficit before the crisis started. that's why you keep powder dry, in case of a crisis. it's hard to run on fiscal responsibility in any way, shape, or form of fury republican. >> and look, the thing that everybody is afraid of his loose money. anything the treasury, the congress has done. all this money sloshing around, that you could end up in a trap. that you could end up with inflation. that's not something we had to think about for a long time. it will matter so much,

the rich get amrericher anybody else falls bd and is ranked and bernie sanders, and nightmare, josh hawley, some of the americans have nothing real really just 30 years. in then prize-winning economist from the clinton administration said the american economy this feeling is citizens. as billion air investor. carlson referring to the dark and age we are living through. in the market dream is dying. and my is that this is bipartisan. this is something you hear from sprite senior left and officials from both parties, from business leaders and from public opinion leaders public intellectuals, there is a consensus. my point in this book is that that consensus is misplaced. for those not to be contrarian, americans have high expectations for the economic accounts and for success their children will have that is a good thing. in america it is faced serious economic challenges that i spent a chapter in this book discussing some of this that i think that is most serious printed and also social challenges. trying to diminish or to sugarcoat or to ignore any of the real problems we face. instead of

there have been some -- there's this idea out there, josh hawley on the right, pramila jayapal on theing, don't make this an industry-by-industry fight, cover all payroll, the european model for six months. where are you on this? >> well, look. there are industries that have received benefits for years. the oil and gas industry, for example, is one of the largest recipients of the tax code, even when they were making record profits. so, yes, i don't want to pick and choose industries, but by the same token, i want to recognize that many industries were making record profits and didn't, you know, provide for a rainy day, as states often have to. so i would have to look at that. but the one entity that i know, that shouldn't matter whether you're red, blue, or otherwise, are the states and municipalalties of our nation. they are overwhelmingly besieged by low revenues and high demands for services. that's something we need to do and we have a bill to do exactly that. >> and one last question for you. the punishing of china. there's a lot of talk coming from the president. but frankly, c

senator josh hawley introducing a bill that could make geithner liable for civil claims regarding theesident trump cutting off funding for the who, saying the agency took china's claims about the outbreak at face value. now a temporary lifeline for the u.s. airlines have reached preliminary deals for the u.s. treasury department to get billions of dollars in federal aid. it gives them room to limp along while they wait for travel restrictions to ease. the government is requiring the airline to repay some of this assistance at interest. germany, for the six day and a row, the number of new coronavirus cases falling. there were a little more than 2100 new infections this month, the lowest increase. still, germany is likely to extend nationwide lockdown measures until may 3. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm viviana hurtado. this is bloomberg. alix: thanks so much. a headline crossing on the bloomberg, france is expecting the g20 to offer african nations a moratorium on debt

they need to be held accountable arthel: republican josh hawley of missouri pushing to hold china responsible of coronavirus pandemic which resulted on unprecedented lockdowns and crippled the world economy this as the state of mississippi followed missouri in suing china in federal court as well. joining several class action lawsuits against beijing. let's bring in gordon change, gordon is asia analyst and foreign affair analyst and author of the coming collapse of china and i will get to those losses in a second, gordon. i want to start with all of this picture. does all of this derails china's quest to dominate the world? >> i think so, arthel, especially in the last week. we have seen reactions to china. if you go back to the beginning to have month, china looked like it was going to take over the planet but i think that there has been a reassessment of that. we are seeing countries act angrily of what chinese have been doing because actually beijing ambassador to paris was called on the carpet for complaining about francÉs treatment of the elderly. we are seeing right now, i think, a pus

senator josh hawley is a republican and he said americans are ready for a comeback.h it and beginning immediately the federal government should cover 80% of wages for workers at any u.s. business, and up until this emergency was over. then the question becomes how do we get ourselves out of this? >> i think that's three stages. the three stages now, and the second stage hopefully will come soon otherwise the president would be right in saying that cure may be worse than the disease. we have to turn on the economy again but be careful, it's not like turning on a switch. we are not going to come back fully, we are going to come back slowly and we have to plan for that. in this third stages we have to recognize that we will emerge to a different landscape. this is a war and we have to make sure that we win the war and win the peace. coming out of the global financial crisis we just won the war against the great depression and we have to secure the peace this time. it's a difficult engineering issue and we have the ability to solve it. we have the resources, the people,

i know josh hawley in the senate is going to introduce some sort of legislation that would limit theunt you can get if you have an endowment at your university above a certain threshold. >> i think we need to look at that. that's what happens though steve whether you have a situation like this when you need to get a lot of money to a lot of people real quickly. a lot of people that don't need it eligible to take it. it's do you need it? are there other people out there 74% of the first round went to payrolls less than 60,000 a month. that means we are getting a lot to small businesses. we do have the outliers that's what happens when you trying to get money to folks quickly. steve: i think that's probably right. i'm sure of the governor of your state, his ears were ringing last night because he disagrees with the president and the president made it clear maybe he is going too fast. watch this. i told the governor of georgia brian kemp that i disagree, strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines. at the same time, he must do

let's bring in missouri senator josh hawley former attorney general of missouri and first state by ther all of this. first things first. yesterday, the senate finished off where the senate started. they signed the so-called 3.5 rescue bill. is this it, senator? >> well, i doubt it is it. because i think that we are going to need more. here is what we need to focus on going forward, jobs. we have 27 million people unemployed. government shut down the economy in order to deal with this health crisis. we need to get that economy opened back up. to do that we have got to get people back to work and get them jobs. so my message to my colleagues is jobs, jobs, jobs, any future rescue package has got to focus on getting people rehired, supporting the paper payrolls of business so workers can get their jobs back and wages covered and get back to work. ainsley: phase 3.5 hasn't even been spent yet. they just voted on it yesterday. it's got to go to the president's desk and he has to sign it. yet, democrats are already calling for another relief package. listen. >> it's not premature. we have to

>>to mitigate any further spreads missouri republican josh hawley says his top priority is getting peopleas jobs to come back to but says the decision to reopen should be made closer to home region by region, but michigan senator debbie stabenow who wasn't invited on the task force is a patchwork system could backfire the virus does not know county mines or state behind we need to come together and has strong national leadership team says the federal government needs to drastically ramp up testing to avoid a second wave of infections. we have to have testing in place before we can have people go back to where they flee president trump says he's working to get millions of more rapid response test out to communities. >>but that ultimately testing is up to the states in washington raquel martin. a big surprise for graduating nurses plexiglas bringing loved ones together. >>and a fedex driver saving the day for a bride and groom darryl forges takes a look at some of these uplifting stories that are happening during the pandemic. college graduation was canceled for 74 seniors at saint joseph's

senator josh holly and progressive democratic congressman who both have similar ideas to have the federal government cover some of workers paychecks, the proposal right now from senator hawley would have the government cover 80% of workers salaries but we kept the money paid out to medium income waged somewhere between $30,050,000 and another proposal from congresswoman would have the bill for all workers salaries for worker benefits for 100%. the key is that this would cover businesses big and small, all u.s. private companies would be eligible for the government to cover these paychecks, that is something different for what the small business planned the paycheck protection program offered. the bottom line is this, there are people in both parties who are on board with getting this relief but really it's leadership at the democratic party that is stalling this from really making any movements, we will see if they can get through this over easter weekend or not. neil: they are confident that they can prove we will see pre-thank you very much. the more pressing needs for a lot of you maybe for dinner tonight and there's a group that is urging you to order takeout delivery b