Lobbying where lobbying, ripping off American Indian dollars. And his fellow lobbyists who were working on the scheme with him, lots of people who were working with him on this were former republican congressional staffers, it would emerge in Court Documents over the course of this scandal that they would frequently deride and insult the native americans they were ripping off in their scheme by calling them morons and troglodytes, and they would sort of laugh and screech among themselves about how much they loved ripping off these tribes and taking all their money. One of the signature moves in this abramoff scheme was that he was secretly paying socalled Christian Conservative leaders, guys like ralph reed from the Christian Coalition and lou sheldon from the christian values coalition, abramoff and his group would pay these christian groups to gin up antigambling activism, all this supposedly christian pious outrage about gambling. And then abramoff, having paid for that, he would sw
5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast, thank you so much for joining us. Our top story, the world is about to pass two pandemic milestones, almost simultaneously. Thats when the global total of documented cases hits 10 million and the global total of deaths marks a half million. A big reason those numbers are going up is the United States. Americans are less than 5 of the global population but account for 25 of all the worlds infections and deaths. The u. S. Recorded 87,000 new cases in just the past two days. Among the worst hit are states that reopened in may. A month later, they are facing alarming spikes in new cases and hospitalizations. Many young people are falling ill, and now the cdc says the true number of infected americans is many times higher than previously thought. To date, Johns Hopkins university has documented 2. 5 million cases of covid19 in the u. S. , but the cdc says the actual number of infections among americans is at least six times higher. And as mind boggling as
Tone coming from the white house. Vice president mike pence saying at the first Coronavirus Task force briefing in two months that the u. S. Is opening safely and responsibly. Weve all seen the encouraging news as we open up america again. More than 3 million jobs created in the last jobs report, retail sales are rolling. Of course, the extraordinary progress in new york, new jersey, connecticut and new orleans, areas that just a matter of a month ago were struggling under the weight of this pandemic. We have a team of reporters covering the cases in hot spots emerging now around the country. Lets begin in florida with those staggering new case numbers. Cnns randi kaye is in riviera beach. Randi, how is the governoring explaining this almost daily recordbreaking spike of new cases . Reporter yeah, fred, we are now seeing 643 more cases today than we saw yesterday, more than 9,500 cases in all today as you said. The governor is explaining it away as basically calling it a test dump. He
White House White House Coronavirus Task force visited texas yesterday meeting with the governor and Health Officials to encourage everyone to remain diligent, especially young people. People should continue to practice good hygiene, wash your hands, avoid touching your face, and wear a mask wherever its indicated. Or wherever you are not able to practice social distancing. What we are seeing here is an increased rate of hospitalization of 20 to 40yearolds. I know its difficult in the 30, but just would ask everyone of them to wear a mask. To matt Casey Stegall is live in dallas with more. On the very same day Vice President mike pence was here in texas, the state report and more 5300 coronavirus cases in a 24hour period time, that marks the sixth day in a row that the state clocked more than 5,000 new infections in a single day. While speaking in dallas, pence and dr. Deborah birx encourage texans to wear masks as you hurried to help slow the spread. The Vice President also prays this
Catastrophic response to the virus. Plus the trump cult conspiracy theorist running for congress in georgia and why her recently unearthed racist videos may keep her from winning. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There is actually good news for the country today and more bad, bad news for donald trump, the impeached president of the United States. Its been an unexpected theme this week that we saw play out again today when the Supreme Court, the roberts court, ruled against the Trump Administration in an amazing 54 decision. The Supreme Court prevented the Trump Administration from taking away the protected status of socalled dreamers. They are americans who are brought to this country as children without authorization. Trump tried to take their protections away, which would pave the way to them being deported. Today the court said, no, cant do it. This time around chief Justice John Roberts joined the more liberal justices authoring the opinion. As