President Trump Partly Shuts Border With Canada

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The Defense Department said it would contribute to the coronavirus pandemic response with hospital ships, field treatment centers and medical supplies. Congress also ramped up its response, with the Senate expected to pass a stimulus package Wednesday afternoon.

This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and White House correspondent Tamara Keith.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Joe Miles. I'm sitting by myself in peaceful,
0:03.0	suce creek park near my home in King County, not far from Seattle, Washington.
0:08.2	I'm practicing social distancing by listening to the sounds of nature.
0:12.6	I'm finding it very therapeutic. This podcast was recorded at 2.13 pm on Wednesday, March 18th.
0:21.3	Thanks may have changed by the time you hear this podcast. Enjoy the show.
0:25.3	I hope he also starts listening to the lovely sounds of the Anpear Apolitics podcast.
0:33.1	We might be just as therapeutic as the sounds of nature. I mean, I've heard that all of your voices sound kind of like a
0:39.8	babbling brook, so it's all the same, right? Well hey there, it's the Anpear Apolitics podcast.
0:45.0	I'm a smakhalla that I cover the presidential campaign. I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.
0:49.1	And I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House. As we tape this podcast, the government is continuing
0:54.1	to ramp up its efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic. And we're going to walk you through
0:59.0	the latest developments. Let's start with what happened today at the White House. A lot of
1:04.2	updates, including a decision to close the U.S. Canada border. Tam, what's going on?
1:10.0	It's not a full closure of the border, but it's closing it to all but essential travel.
1:15.6	And as this is rolled out, we'll understand more about it, but certainly healthcare workers who
1:20.4	say live in Canada, but work in upstate New York are still going to be able to get to work at the
1:25.3	hospitals where they work. Also, quite notably, the president at this press conference announced that
1:31.1	he is invoking the Defense Production Act. This is something that many people have been calling on him
1:37.8	to do for some time. That he said he wasn't sure would be needed. Now he says he's doing it.
1:44.0	And this could possibly lead to the production of more ventilators, for instance, or more respirators
1:50.7	and masks. Yeah, the ventilators are in particular are what Democrats have been worried about. They
1:55.6	put out a letter earlier this week asking for the president to invoke the DPA Defense Production
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