Fulltime africanamerican driver Bubba Wallace circled the track in a race car with these words emblazoned on the back black lives matter. Such a sight to see for his part the president is pushing back against change, saying he will not even discuss renaming military bases named after confederate commanders. Even as top military leaders say theyre open to it. Also this morning the u. S. Just passed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases. This as a key model projects 170,000 u. S. Deaths by october. Well have more on the latest rising numbers in a moment, but first, hours from now the president will travel to dallas for a roundtable discussion on social justice and solution to disparities. Lets get to john harwood from the white house with more. This following the president saying no, we wont talk about renaming those bases, what is he going to talk about and i think more importantly listen to today . Well, what the president is doing, poppy, is traveling to a White Evangelical Church in
Least a dozen cities and municipalities including washington, d. C. Have banned or are moving to ban the use of chokeholds by police. You have democratic and republican lawmakers speaking out about legislative changes. As far as the president , he is showing little interest in addressing systemic racism at the heart of these last two weeks of protests. Cnn has learned that the top advisers plan to present him options on Police Reform though in the coming days. Amid this some good news on the coronavirus front. Dr. Anthony fauci tells me that the effort for a vaccine is progressing very well. That he expects more than one candidate to be in advanced clinical testing in the coming months. Well have more on that story coming up. We know youre eager to hear it. First, lets go to cnns boris sanchez, live on capitol hill for more on todays hearing. And boris, im curious how this hearing might affect ongoing negotiations about legislative proposals moving forward. Its a great question, jim. P
After weeks of paralysis, tonight there are signs that progress is being made toward a deal to get the government going again. Still, thats been said before. The government remains shut down tonight. Aside from all the talk, nothing has been done, and the big deadline is now just over two days away. Thats when america loses its ability to pay all of its bills on time. Thats the deadline the world is watching. Even by washington standards, the anger and anxiousness are building tonight, as we begin here with Nbcs Kelly Odonnell on capitol hill. Kelly, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Late developments. Sources are telling me this is the closest that congress has been to resolving this issue. Senate leaders have reached a framework of a deal that would put the Government Back in business through january 15th and let the federal government borrow money for another four months. But this is a senate deal so far. Theyll sleep on it tonight. More finishing touches tomorrow. So it i
Closure of National Landmarks but the greatest tension in washington may be building toward thursdays zedline the governments potential default on its debt. Jim acosta is at the white house and with just over 60 hours left now on the clock, all hope seems to be with two men who dont like each other too much. Any signs of progress at all this morning . Reporter not net john. To give you a sense of how desperate things are becoming in washington the only movement reported in the last 24 hours is a phone conversation between the senates top two leaders, harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell. They have to Work Together if it means averting a big crisis. With the clock ticking down to debt ceiling day its come down to Senate Majority leader harry reid and minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, who started orchestrating a deal to reopen the government and avoid default. Ive had a productive conversation with republican leader this afternoon, our discussions were substantive and well continue those discus
Out and begun to what may be sort of float these trial balloons that trump could soften his stance on the socalled deportation force. Trump not doing much to clarify this muddled message but he went on television overnight and said hey, what president obama is doing has worked, trumps argument is he would do it better. Theres a question of what this force would look like. How he would implement it. We expect to get more clarity from trump on this topic. The question is when. The Campaign Says he will be unveiling a fuller immigration policy at some point soon. We thought this would be thursday in denver, kate, it wasnt. Im told by a couple sources with knowledge of the decisionmaking process that trump after an Advisory Council round table with hispanic leaders on saturday wanted to fold in messaging and the campaign felt like it was too tight of a timeline to turn that around for thursday. Trump, though, keeping a focus on Border Security in texas. Kate, i know you love good texas bar