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. >> we go live now to the white house for today's briefing with the dent trump on coronavirus response. >> and a live look at the white house briefing room where shortly president trump will be the ing reporters on coronavirus response. we expect vice president pence and members of the task force to join the president. until then, here's some of today's "washington journal." host: looking to vote on this latest economic aid package on are day, and they also considering a measure for remote voting. joining us on the phone is daniel friedman, former council for the amentarian house judiciary committee. served from 1979 to 2007. fellow for the center of ongressional presidential studies. what is it they are considering with proxy voting? how would that work? the : well, i don't know answer to that because everybody's using loose terms. ne of the things i first learned in law school is define he problem and i don't know whether they're talking about proxy voting or remote voting. things. two different proxy voting would be and we used to have this when i worked on the hill when i first got

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fineburg, the chair of the standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and advises the white house on coronavirus. thank you for joining us this evening. john harwood, we haven't had a briefing since friday. they have added one to tomorrow's schedule. we don't know what the president's role will be. if his tweets today are any indication the president remains rattled and he's ranting. >> he is focused on himself, pretty much always focused on. that's not so jarring when you have a strong economy. he's not macing well when the chit is suffering. it is jar ing ring to see him fd on himself and his grievances and complaints with his enemies in the press and politics. so what has happened is the american people have seen that and because it's so jarring, it's finally dawned on the white house and others in the political world that their initial assumption was incorr t incorrect. that assumption was that extended times with the president to talk every day on camera bt a the situation, would allow him to turn it to his advantage. it's not it to his advantage because americans don't like what they see.

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on c-span2. >> c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. it's all available on demand and c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand, anytime, unfiltered at c-span.org/ coronavirus. president trump leads the white house coronavirus task force leaving this afternoon. it is scheduled for 5:00 eastern. watch a live here on c-span. >> next, world bank president david malpass on the global economy. answered questions on financial transparency, work from home challenges in developing countries, and the pandemic's effect on tourism. this virtual press briefing is in our. -- an hour. >> welcome to the spring meetings 2020 virtual press conference with world bank president david malpass. president malpass will give brief opening remarks and we will turn to your questions. thank you to all the reporters from around the world who have been submitting questions. we may have to group some of them to get through as many as we can and we may edit for brevity's sake. as you send in questi

feinberg, a chair of the standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and advised the white house on the coronavirus pandemic. thank you for joining us, dr. feinberg. appreciate it and thank you for being here on this holiday weekend. you've been behind a lot of research that has been guiding the white house on the coronavirus, like how to -- how it can spread through breathing and how it won't go away in warmer weather. what are you looking into now? >> well, don, at this point we're not actively looking at requests from the white house. but our committee is beginning to organize to look at medium and long-term issues. for me the most important question facing the nation today is exactly the question you have been discussing with your guests. how and when do we reopen the economy? and the key point here for me is we have to stop arguing about arbitrary dates, and start discussing the conditions that are necessary to safely reopen the economy. and there are three. number one, we have to know where this virus stands in our communities. this is beyond diagnosis of individuals. it is surveillance in th

any timedemand unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> this afternoon, president trump will hold a briefing with reporters at the white house on the coronavirus response. be joined byd to vice president mike pence and members of his task force. you can watch the president's comments live at 5:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. primetime.on journal a special evening addition of the washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. our guests are former senators for disease control and prevention director tom frieden who is president and ceo of the group resolve to save lives. he joins us to discuss government and private efforts to combat the pandemic. of johns hopkins university will be on to talk about how her team built the coronavirus dashboard and map. conversation tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the president, just released in paperback from public affairs, resent biographies of every president organized by their ranking in our much cited presidential historian survey. visit our website, c-span.org/the president and order your copy today wherever books are sold. earlier today, new york governor an

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round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world. watch on demand any time unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. president trump receives an easter blessing at the white house with bishop harry jackson. the president gave easter greetings and asked americans to pray for the nation, first responders in people battling the coronavirus. responders and people battling the coronavirus. thank you very much on this good friday. christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death of jesus christ. on easter sunday, we will celebrate his glorious resurrection. our nation is engaged in a battle like never before. while brave doctors, nurses and first responders, responders of lives,e fighting to save our workers are racing to deliver critical medical supplies. working scientists are around-the-clock the clock to develop lifesaving therapeutics. i think they are doing really well. our people are making tremendous sacrifice

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on the coronavirus pandemic. c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand anytime, unfiltered, at c-span.org/ coronavirus. we welcome to the program this morning the conversation, the reverend jim wallace. the founder of -- the president and founder. thank you for being with us. happy easter. he is their president and founder. happy easter. guest: happy easter to you. host: tell us your thoughts this morning. what would be your typical easter sunday tradition and what are you doing this easter sunday? guest: easter is the proclamation, the conviction of despair and life over death. ,ven now in the midst of all easter was never a time to go back to normal. churches, to start the economy, it is a public health let'sssness but easter is make this new. the first time i ever remembered -- we are backing the scientists, the doctors and doing the physical distancing which is necessary to save lives. here we are. says wher

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[cheers and applause] to friday night white house correspondent -- coronavirus reporter ricks was asked to switch seats. chris johnson who filed the pool report on the incident said quote a white house official instructed the print pool to take cnn's seat in the briefing room because the seating would be swapped for the briefing. given the seating assignment is under the jurisdiction of the white house correspondents association, not the white house, the pool reporter refused to move. force briefingsk on saturday. but reporters did hear from white house senior advisor kevin hassett, who stopped for a few minutes to take questions on the impact of the coronavirus on the economy. mr. hassett said, that unappointed numbers in the u.s. could reach as high as

watch on-demand any time unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> coming up tonight on c-span, today's white houseoronavirus briefing, then we hear from michigan governor gretchen whitmer, and mississippi governor tate reeves, on the coronavirus response in their state. at wednesday's white house coronavirus briefing, president trump threatened to use a never before enacted provision to formally adjourn congress to give him the ability to make recess appointments. the pren

coronavirus pandemic. it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps. watch on-demand any time unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. the president of the american medical association talked about the coronavirus pandemic in a virtual discussion hosted by the national press club. she called on states to enact stay-at-home orders and rely on science, not politics when making decisions. is one hour. welcome to the national press club.

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well, the comments were mainly in response to the white house coronavirus task force meeting on thursday, which president trump got into musing out loud, back and forth with several of his experts on the stage. he had apparently seen a new study by the department of homeland security which found that ultraviolet light, a component of sunlight, played a positive role and destroyed the coronavirus in two minutes when it normally takes, normally lasts on a service for about 18 hours and by the way, there was another study along these lines put out by the university of

white house on the coronavirus response. he's excited to be joined by vice president pence and members of the task force. you can watch the president's comments live on c-span. until then, here are they have been talking about a fourth stimulus package for little bit and trading ideas about what might be in such a package, even mitch mcconnell, who is typically one of nancy pelosi's antagonists said before they pass the third stimulus, they will need a fourth one. since then, kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell have said, we want to see how this phase three, this third package they passed, see how it is going. right off the bat, we have been hearing from small businesses that almost $350 billion is not enough to keep them afloat. from restaurants to bookstores do anything like that, you will have difficulty making payroll and paying people's insurance. the speaker says they will need to double that amount in the next stimulus package. the speaker floated some ideas last week about whether or not they wanted to do the infrastr

on monday. andanthony fauci, director member of the white house coronavirus task force will be there live starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern to answer questions on the coronavirus pandemic. all month on c-span we are featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. school students created videos answering the question, what issue do you most want the 2020 presidential candidate to address? our second prize high school east award goes to ava and mia lazar, 10th and 12th graders from blacksburg high school in blacksburg, virginia. their winning entry is titled " finding the bridge: the story of the pipeline." >> let me tell you a story. it's a story about community, about power. a story about the wonders of modern technology and the consequences. this is the story of the mountain valley pipeline. natural gasong pipeline being installed in the appalachian mountains of virginia and west virginia. >> natural gas was cheaper and more accessible egos of a process. today, natural gases the number one source of electricity generation in the united states. rolledead of relying on or rail, it can

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coronavirus pandemic. watch a profile of dr. anthony fauci sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. president trump and members of the white house coronavirus task force discuss the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic at their daily briefing. this is one hour and 45 minutes. president

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experts on the white house coronavirus task force are about to brief the public on another deadly dayn the coronavirus pandemic. globally now more than 1 million people have now tested positive here in the united states, more than 5600 have died and at least 2 2236,000 -- 236,000 have been infected. more research experts now say people can spread the coronavirus just by talking and even breathing. this hour i'll speak with the doctor in the white house about the everyday. that's coming up. we also have new reporting on the struck to him get desperately needed ventilators to hospitals across the country as thousands of machines remain on the side lines due to maintenance troubles. first, let's go to cnn's nick watt. give us the latest. >> reporter: well, washington, here in california, the case count still rising here in los angeles the mayor has turned over the enormous convention center, the national guard has turned it into a field hospital and the mayor has also told utility companies that they can cut off water and power to any non-essential businesses that are still refusing to c

today we are expecting an update from the white house on the coronavirus response.he cdc advises americans now to wear face masks when they go outside. president trump made the announcement but says he will not follow that recommendation. >>> nearly every state is ordering residents to stay home. the president says he does not want to issue a national shelter in place order. we're going to northern the task force's briefing later today. we'll bring you the latest as it happens. >>> there are more than 400 miles, though, that separate the cities of madison, wisconsin and detroit, michigan. yet inside the hospitals in both cities we're hearing a strikingly similar message. health care workers concerned about running out of personal protective equipment, having to reuse what they do have, and the risk to not only themselves but their families if they don't want to bring it home to their families. so i want to bring in some people on the front line. i want to say thank you to you both for everything you're doing. we want you to know you're not alone in this, but you are

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watch on-demand any time unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> coming up tonight on c-span, today's white house coronavirus briefing, then we hear from michigan governor gretchen whitmer, and mississippi governor tate reeves, on the coronavirus response in their state. at wednesday's white house coronavirus briefing, president trump threatened to use a never before enacted provision to formally adjourn congress to give him the ability to make recess appointments. the president also provided an update on the outbreak, saying "the data suggests that nationwide, we have passed the peak on new cases." also attending the briefing was agriculture secretary sonny perdue, who announced the cdc created new guidelines for production facilities where workers had tested positive for coronavirus. strategy is working, very strongly working. new cases are declining throughout the new york metropolitan area. cases in detroit, denver metro areas are flat. d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, and state lewis -- st. louis are showing great signs of progress. new cases in new orleans are defining. the battle continues,

round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand anytime, unfiltered, at c-span.org/ coronavirus. announcer: next, louisiana governor john bel edwards updates his state's response to the coronavirus outbreak. gov. edwards: welcome to midcity. welcome. and i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government , and with the military. each one of these hearts behind patientsents a covid who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. we have about 40 hearts. we hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. i want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. without your help we would n

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one we just went through. white house officials insist redfield was talking about the potential for a coronavirus resurgence at the same time seasonal flu kicks in and the burden that double whammy could put on the health care system. in a new development, the former deputy hhs secretary for preparation and response is filing a whistle-blower complaint tonight claiming he was transferred to a lesser position at the nih after disagreeing with the white house over which drugs and treatment to spend billions of dollars on. in the whistle-blower complaint, he says he insisted the money go to safe and scientifically bedded solutions and not into drugs, vaccines, and other technologies that lacks scientific merit. >> bret: he's asking for the department of health and human services to open up the investigation, nothing from the administration yet on his complaints. >> it will definitely be a question at the briefing coming up in a couple minutes. >> bret: will not bring that to you. if president trump says he's ordered the navy to shoot down and destroy any iranian gunboats harassing u.s. ships. this threat comes as

inquiries into this at the proper time, but i have to tell you, the one mission that this president has given the white house coronavirus task force is to save lives, to put this coronavirus in the past. we will stay focused on the mission. it's one mission and one team. we will work with governors across the country in both political parties and i just want the american people to be encouraged by the fact that we are making progress. we really do see downward trends in cases and in hospitalizations and we really believe that because of what the american people have done, because of our incredible healthcare workers that we are together as a nation hastening the day when we will put the coronavirus in the past and -- and get america working again. chris: vice president pence, thank you, thanks for your time during a very busy period. please come back, sir. >> thank you, chris.

the ones who are warning the white house that the coronavirus may be spread much more easily than we ought, by breathing or even talking, not just by sneezing or coughing. one of those experts, he joins me now. that's dr. harvey v. fineburg, the chair on the standing committee on emerging infectious diseases. thank you so much dr. fineburg. i really appreciate you joining us. let's get right to it. as one of the most preimminent experts on infectious diseases, you are the doctor who wrote a letter to the white house explaining that the virus can be transmitted just by talking or breathing. to most people, that is really frightening. so take us through your findings, and what did you share with them, please? >> don, thank you. it's really a pleasure to be with you and to have this opportunity to talk with you and all of your listeners and viewers. the national academy's committee made up of a number of experts reviewed the evidence about how respiratory viruses are spread. and it's been long-established that there are three ways. we produce big droplets when we laugh, cough, or sneeze.

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coming up tonight on c-span, the white house coronavirus briefing. en we will hear from the rhode island governor and west virginia governor jim justice on the coronavirus response in their states. during the daily white house coronavirus task force briefing, president trump announced the release of his guidelines for reopening the u.s. economy. his plan calls for a phased return, outlining specific steps for state and local officials to follow in tailoring their response. this is an hour and 15 minutes.

round-the-clock coverage of the federal response , ande coronavirus pandemic it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. in the world with interactive maps. ,atch on-demand any time unfiltered, at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> tonight, a special edition of washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus. join us at 8:00 p.m. eastern with dr. anthony faucher, a member of the coronavirus task force, and then, michael chang, director of infectious diseases at the university of alabama on the national fight against coronavirus and his own experience contracting and recovering from the disease. prime time,journal" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. look at the white house briefing room where in just a few minutes president trump will brief reporters on the coronavirus response. we expect vice president pence and members of the task force to also join the president. >> good morning. i am the executive vice president fo

coronavirus pandemic. watch a profile sunday 8:00 p.m. eastern on q and a. announcer 2: from the white house, president trump and the coronavirus task force give an update on the federal government's response to the outbreak. >> sean, sean. heads-up. shutters] pres. trump: i just had a meeting with kevin mccarthy, future speaker of the house, i hope. and he has done a fantastic job for the people of california and also the people of california have done a fantastic job when you look at the bump. you take a look at the bump. and how they are doing out there, so i congratulate everybody. i figured i would have kevin say a few words. so kevin, please. thank you, mr. president. i would like to thank you. today, i want to thank you especially for the work that secretary mnuchin has done especially for small businesses. just today alone, i saw bank of america had more than 10,000 loans in two hours. it is part of the cares act. you will find a lot of small business will hire people back, get this economy moving again as we get through the virus. thank you. pres. trump: you go ahead. i will talk to

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around-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and world with interactive maps. watch on demand any time, unfiltered at c-span/coronavirus. >> coming up thursday on "washington journal," jackie walorski on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in her district and the status of a coronavirus relief bill. on the a.m., megan myers role of the u.s. military during the pandemic. 8:40 five, heritage foundation fellow brett schaefer the world health organization and president trump's decision to cut funding to the organization. at 9:20 am, national nurses united president jay ross on the u.s. coronavirus response and efforts to keep nurses safe. "washington journal" takes your calls live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. thursday on c-span at 11:30 a.m. eastern, house minority leader kevin mccarthy holds a conference call with reporters to discuss the coronavirus response and the house's legislative agenda. eastern,2:15 p.m. speaker of the house nancy p

around-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on-demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps. watch on-demand anytime unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> are look concludes with a visit to the sanders core center to hear about texas a&m university's corps of cadets. texas a&m and the core of today it's came into existence at the same time and a lot of the things that go on here -- corps of cadets. a lot of the big traditions started with the corps of cadets. welcome to texas a&m university and the corps of cadets. my name is col. byron stebbins, i'm a member of the class of 1970 and i would like to welcome to the core center designed to provide visitors to texas a&m an understanding of what we are all about. it explains its history and some of the traditions that we have. octoberm was opened on the fourth, 1876. unfortunately, they did not have the student population to start classes. on october 6, 1876, 2 days later, it opened its door to 40 st

to friday night white house correspondent -- coronavirus reporter ricks was asked to switch seats. chris johnson who filed the pool report on the incident said quote a white house official instructed the print pool to take cnn's seat in the briefing room because the seating would be swapped for the briefing. given the seating assignment is under the jurisdiction of the white house correspondents association, not the white house, the pool reporter refused to move. force briefingsk on saturday. but reporters did hear from white house senior advisor kevin hassett, who stopped for a few minutes to take questions on the impact of the coronavirus on the economy. mr. hassett said, that unappointed numbers in the u.s. .ould reach as high as 16% but the paycheck protection program had been helping to blunt those claims. >> some questions? >> i would be happy to. a saturday.ing on i'm happy to help. what is? in order to get the economy back up and running, are you supportive of reopening? states? >> i'm supportive of the few that each state needs to make the call itself. if you look at things like social distancing. in some states li