former president donald trump now to be taken off of those platforms. but you look at what the president was trying to do today on the eve of the six-month anniversary of his inauguration, taking stock of the state of the economy, trying to claim a measure of credit for the fact that the u.s. economy was rebounded more significantly than the rest of the world. the projections for growth continue to be ratcheted up. but it was two weeks ago that the president, the white house was engaged in a campaign, really, around marking our independence from the virus, tied to the 4th of july, and yet the white house continues to engage in important messaging about the severity of the pandemic, the idea that americans can t take let their guard down here. i thought it was interesting, andrea, that the president singled out the fact that four states are responsible for 40% of these new cases, but we are seeing a number of breakthrough cases as well. it s not just the olympics that are reminding us
pay hundreds even thousands of dollars to go on private excursions undeterred by fiery rhetoric even threats of a looming nuclear war. in a quiet corner of the beijing airport check-in time for the di s only flight to pyongyang. it s the usual crowd. handful of north koreans and dozens of foreigners, mainly tourist. tour companies estimate around 5,000 western tourist come to north korea each year including about 1,000 americans. what is this here? the tourism vietnama. nicholas burkehead is an armory veteran from virginia. he is making this trip sooner than expected. originally i planned to read the language books and go next year. but i heard it would be banned next month so i thought i would get in while i could. beginning september 1, americans can t visit north korea as tourists. the u.s. state department set a
economy. so, this would damage our economy greatly if americans can t businessmen, all sorts of people are no longer welcome in countries. we talked about special relationship. i saw online there s a petition circulating in britain to parliament to not invite the president of the united states to the uk. wow! it had 600,000 signatures and is climbing rapidly. our closest ally. what does that tell you? let alone states that muslim majority states whose populations would be deeply offended by what is being interpreted as an anti-muslim ban. right. and you ve really helped to lay some of this out for us. whether this is a good idea, whether this is legal, whether this is being implemented effectively and responsibly, regardless of what one thinks of the idea and then there s this
comfortable saying if it goes oaf the cliff it won t be that bad. it won t be ha bad for you, but it will be disastrous for many americans. this is why approval rating is at historic lows. just as the president said, americans can t figure out why when you re in a circumstance when i, as a taxpayer and paying fur your health insurance and you don t have to worry about retirement, mr. congressman, because i know what you have on the back end, and your job is secure even though you take a holiday break. but i had to work on christmas day because i am a worker who earns five or six or seven dollars an hour as a domestic worker. ordinary people, at their kitchen tables, understand not only what this fiscal cliff is. but i think part of what the representative is telling us here, we have to be really clear about is what republicans would like to do is hold the country s long term hostage on the short term. and it s critical the democrats, no matter how important it is to
meteorologists come in at 19% which seems to me, really, a big, big, big part of the problem because that s where people are getting their day-to-day information about what s going on with their atmosphere. there s actually been some really good work going on recently. there s a group called forecast the facts that has been working with weatherman to try to get them to deal forthrightly. i think the biggest problem is the one that you alluded to in your opening with your local station in washington who would not give you the footage of the weather forecast. the local stations are terrified of the right-wing pressure on this and they pass the word down. all of that is going to come out in the wash because, at this point, americans can t help but see with their own eyes what s going on, the percentage of americans who believe in global warming is actually much higher than that now. it s gone up a lot in the last six months and that s because we keep having the most incredible