Serious things that the american public, unfortunately, is going to have to get used to seeing. What were doing with the mitigation is try and blunt that, but no matter what we do, even with the i believe positive effects that were seeing with the mitigation, its going to be a tough couple of weeks coming up. The projections come as federal Health Experts consider recommending that everybody wear masks in public to help stop people who may not know they are infected from spreading the virus. This comes as the surgeon general, dr. Jerome adams says social distancing could remain in place past the end of this month. What weve always said is that everyone is on a different place on their curve. Some places arent going to hit their peak until after 30 day, and theyre going to need to continue social distancing. Other places that leaned in early may be able to relax involvement of the recommendations earlier. Meantime, the irs and the Treasury Department both say americans can start receivi
Hes willing to cooperate with special Counsel Robert Mueller saying he puts, quote, family and country first. Lets start this hour at the white house. Geoff bennett joins us as does nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. Geoff, lets start with you. We talked earlier about the fact that the president was planning to meet with Supreme Court nominees. We dont know what he did over the weekend but now we know he is talking to some. Yeah, thats right. On friday before the president left for bedminster he said hed be meeting with top prospects in bedminster. Not clear that that happened. Now the president is saying he has met today with four finalists and hes set to meet with another two or three. Heres a bit more of what the president said in just the last hour, ali. Ill be meeting with two or three more and well make a decision on the United States Supreme Court, the new justice that will be made over the next few days and well be announcing it on monday and i look forward to that.
Youd like, but i dont Want Companies leaving. I dont want them firing all of their people, going to another country, making a product, sending it into our country tax free, no charge, no tariff, no nothing. And in the meantime we end up with empty plants, unemployment all over the place. We end up with nothing. Kind of an unsophisticated way to discuss that but we will take a sophisticated look later on. Democrats need to gain 23 seats to take control of the house. Right now Cook Political Report indicates if tossup house races split evenly, democrats would net 29 seats but republicans are Still Holding out hope as the math continues to evolve. Another set of numbers weve seen change throughout the day are these ones, the markets. The final hour of trading right now. Take a look at whats happening. Its actually been pretty impressive. We were down 500 points or more about 10 30 tomorrow, again hitting another trop about noon. Steadily its going up. And then theres selling and more buye
George kent will also appear. Cent brings decades of experience having worked in the obama administration. He could also provide deep context as to what happened before and after trumps involvement with ukraine. As the prublic just begins to pt names to faces, the white house is rolling out strategies for how to frame their messages. House republicans have circulated a memo that claims, quote, four pieces of evidence are fatal to allegations against the president. All right. For those details lets get right to capitol hill and nbcs geoff bennett. Jef geoff, whats the latest . Reporter republicans seem to think that the more narrow the focus of this ukraine question the better it is for President Trump. You mentioned that republican staff memo that im told was circulated last night from you read through the latest line of defense from republicans, theyre all entirely focused on the finer points of this july 25th phone call between President Trump and his ukrainian counterpart. So the fi
It was normal. We spoke about many things. So i think and you read it that nobody pushed me. There was no pressure. Lets run through some key quotes from the notes about that call. The president told the ukrainian leader, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though because our country has been through a lot. The president went to to say, President Trump that is, i would like you to figure out what happened with this whole situation in ukraine. He mentioned attorney general william bar and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, saying i will have mr. Giuliani give you a call and i also also have attorney general call and we will get to the bottom of it. Im sure you will figure it out. The notes only contain one mention of former Vice President joe biden. The president told the ukrainian leader, quote, theres a lot of talk about bidens son, that biden stopped the prosecution. And a lot of people want to find out about that. So whatever you can do with the attorney general would be gre