a hoax. small town spirit. how the pandemic is hitting main streets across the country both economically and emotionally. plus, the good news about their chances of recovery. and fighting online hate. big companies like starbucks used their financial power to try to erase hate from social media. but first, here s today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. covid-19 has taken a very swift and very dangerous turn in texas over just the past few weeks. at least a dozen states say they ll not move to the next phase of reopening because of surges in cases. we knew that there would be more cases as people go about their business. wash your hands. avoid touching your face and wear a mask. despite the advice from public health experts, president trump continues to be seen without a mask while in public. donald trump is for masking up like george wallace was for integration. the white house says president trump did not hear part of a video he retweeted in which
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please put your phones on silent. back in the day we used to tell them to turn them off but we want them on silent because would like you if you would be so inclined to live tweet this event. # is # pound and pc life. we can follow that online. we would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phone in turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our head table. would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced and then you can erupt in a rapturous applause. we have starting from my left and you re right, mark heller. he s an agricultural reporter. paul marion, senior white house correspondent. tamara harlingen at the atlanta journal-constitution. sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. philip, senior editor. steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. that s the number two for sonny perdue. we have betsy martin, executive and american university cochair. skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have ab
jon: but we begin on this friday morning with stunning new developments in the nsa spying scandal. new reports the intelligence agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008. good morning to you, i m jon scott. i m allison cam rot tax in for general that lee. jon: mice to have you here. we have a lot of news, because details come from nsa leaker edward snowden. he shared them with the washington post. we have infractions was unauthorized surveillance of u.s. citizens. a lot of what happens in the agency, even the nsa is reflection of the culture they see from the top and you have have a president and administration that revels going beyond the box, if you will, that they re limited to to by law and i think that seeped all the way down into the nsa. jon: wendell goler is live in martha s vineyard where president obama is on vacation. any response from the administration, wendell? reporter: well, jon, the ns
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