And good if you are wondering what it looks like when the white house truly goes all out to get something done, here is the result. The confirmation vote on Amy Coney Barretts nomination to be the newest member of the Supreme Court. Truly, sparing no effort focusing on the goal achieving it. If all goes as expected, judge barrett will be sworn in tonight at the white house. Yes, you heard that right. The white house, the site of her nomination superspreader event last month. O oh, and the site of a new covid cluster as well. At least five people close to Vice President pence now have the virus, including his chief of staff and two sources tell us his socalled body man. Which only underscores how, even what his supporters might see as a triumph by the president is affected literally in this case by his greatest and most consequential failure. New Coronavirus Infections are now averaging close to 70,000 a day, and that figure is rising. As you can see, the number of people sick enough to
Versus democrat. The moral blindness the president showed is unlike anything ive seen. Not just the people that are involved. Its the people that dont know if they have a government that gives a damn. Donald trump is who he is. Hes not going to change. This was definitive proof o that today. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. This is new day, wednesday, august 16, 6 00 in new york. You have chris cuomo and poppy harlow with you. The president of the United States has made it clear he will not completely condemn the hate that led to violence and death in charlottesville. Its united lawmakers in his own party and much of the country in outrage against his words and parent lack of moral leadership. Make no mistake this morning, the president showed us his heart yesterday. Newspapers all over the country today are blasting his off the duff comments. Rarely have we seen Something Like this in american history, all this as the nation mourns the death of Heather Heyer. Anot
Operating outside normal diplomatic channels in which the president through his tv lawyer guiliani and a trump support sunland and others saw such arrangement with ukraines president. In short, taylors testimony which just wrapped up describes the very thing president s supporter has been denying for weeks. There was no quid pro quo. This has turned into a full blown quid pro quo i just dont see it. There was never any pro quo. There is no prid keep in mind, mockery out of the denials. Today ambassador taylors account makes it plainer. Everything taylor says he was told, everything depended on dlen ski committing to his end of that quid pro quo and doing so publicly. By his account there was nothing subtle about it. In a statement ambassador describes a phone call with aide tim morrison describes the september 1st phone call with tim morrison, quoting now, during this same phone call i had with mr. Morrison he went on to describe a conversation that ambassador sondland had with mr. Yer
saying is that he is running out of people to to scapegoat and attack for this. and et really is. the issue is becoming defused among people that as the president himself said he does for the know. he doesn t know the people well and they come out detailing a lot of the things and krobt things in the whistle-blower report. it s frustrating. president trump works well when he has adverses and foils. he finds it difficult to make some of the people especially like bill taylor as you talked about his reputation. i think he will find a way. i give him credit. he you makes john mccain into not a warrior. mike pomp year hand picked bill taylor. abby phillip david mentioned a john dean moment or david gergen. we we have one with the one and only john dean. well have a john dean moment
president himself said he does for the know. he doesn t know the people well and they come out detailing a lot of the things and corroborating a lot of the things in the whistle-blower report. it s frustrating. president trump works well when adversaries, when he has foils. he finds it difficult to make some of the people especially like bill taylor as you talked about his reputation. into a foil. i think he will find a way. i give him credit. he you makes john mccain into not a warrior. mike pompeo hand picked bill taylor. he s not an elected democrat. abby phillip david mentioned a john dean moment or david gergen. we we have one with the one and only john dean. well have a john dean moment when we joins us next. no matter what life throws down roomba is up for the challenge. only roomba uses 2 multi-surface rubber brushes