Former lawyer turned critic Michael Cohen, saying his return to prison was retaliatory. Were going to have a full report on that. And were awaiting a judge to rule on oregons lawsuit to remove militarized federal agents from portland as they clashed with protesters and tear gassed the citys mayor. Former dhs secretary tom ridge now saying President Trump is treating the crisis in cities like an episode of the apprentice. Youll never be able to take a reality tv approach to solve such Serious Problems unless you coordinate. Its not a onehour reality tv show. We have all of these stories covered. I have a team of reporters here helping me break all this down. But first, we want to begin in washington, d. C. , where President Trump seems to be blaming the dramatic rise in coronavirus cases on nearly everything, but his own administration. At wednesdays briefing, the president pinned the spikes on nationwide protests. Summer travel. Even mexico. In fact, moments ago, Democratic House Speak
Good morning. Its saturday, october 3rd. Were a mongtth away from the election day. Roughly 210,000 americans are dead from covid19 and around 7. 4 million have been diagnosed with the disease and that now includes President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. The president believes that people have a First Amendment right to political speech. Hes having a rally. People can choose whether or not to come. There really seems to be two standards of health in this country, one for Trump Supporters and one for everyone else. As a precautionary measure on the recommendation of his physicians, the president is right now at Walter Reed National military medical center. Well work out of the president ial offices at the facility for the next few days. The white house says the president is experiencing, quote, mild symptoms. And nbc news learned that trump does have a lowgrade fever. The president s physician says trump remains fatigued and in good spirits and melania has a mild cough and
Questions here. What does this tell us about the efficacy and the safety of the vaccine . What can we learn in the shortterm from the United Kingdom . Why did they go first . What does the president think of that . We have new information this morning on who in the u. S. Will get this vaccine first. Plans approved overnight for front line workers and nursing homes. At this moment, the pandemic is at its worst stage in the u. S. Record hospitalizations overnight. Nearly 2,600 deaths reported. Thats the second highest day since the pandemic began. There is also a lot of breaking news out of the white house this morning. Cnn has learned in the past month, President Trump has discussed preemptive pardons for several people close to him, including his own children, his soninlaw, and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. This is in addition to potentially pardoning himself. Were also learning unsealed Court Records reveal that the Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related t
Good news for the American People as well. This afternoon, health and Human Service secretary alex azar said the approve across the pond should give more americans confidence about the vaccine. U. S. Approval by the fda is expected as early as next week as well. A ceo of biontech said he thinks this is the start of the end of the pandemic but that end is not yet here. A White House Coronavirus Task Force Report obtained by cnn says the covid risk to all americans right now is, quote, at historic high. Yesterday, the United States recorded its second highest one day death toll since the pandemic began, almost 2600 deaths in one day just in the United States, that is the worse since april. Nick watt reports for us now, the head of the cdc warned the next three months will be the most difficult time in history for Public Health. Reporter a global first. The brits just authorized the pfiz Pfizer Biontech vaccine and might vaccinate people next week. We believe it is the start of the end of
Director. To the north lawn we roll from the news from john roberts at this hour. Good afternoon. Start there. Good afternoon to you. Clearly as you can expect, a difference of opinion between what the the attorney general is saying and what President Trump is thinking and his campaign is thinking with the interview with the Associated Press, william barr said to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could affect a different outcome in the election. Theres two important words, to date, which leaves open the possibility that in the future we could see widespread voter fraud or irregularity that could change the outcome in some states. To show you how much the campaign is on a different page, the attorney general, rudy guliani and jenna ellis, the president s counsel on the vote challenges in a statement saying with all due respect, to the attorney general, theres been no a semblance of an investigation. Weve gathered ample evidence in six states that they have not examined. We hav