Cooperation. Are the feds helping or inflaming tensions . Chicago mayor Laurie Lightfoot joins me to discuss next of. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union sick and tired and facing a consequential choice. Today marks exactly 100 days until the next president ial election and the nation is deeply mired in crisis. There are currently more than 4. 1 million coronavirus cases in the u. S. And more than 146,000 americans dead. More than a dozen states hit daily records this week and the nations daily death toll topped 1,000 multiple times. All this as millions of americans are facing an increasingly urgent economic emergency as the extra 600 in Unemployment Benefits runs out this week. And the Senate Majority leader mcconnell said more relief is two to three weeks away, quote, hopefully. This morning we get fresh insight of cnn as to how voters think about the election in three key battleground states that could decide the winner. Florida, arizona, michigan. In a
We appreciate your time. Thanks for joining us. Tonight, the deadly blast rocking an american city. The massive explosion, a building leveled. You could feel the blast across the city, witnesses said. At least one dead, several injured, raced from the scene. Firefighters had been called to the area right before the explosion. Also at this hour, the major snowstorm slamming several states right now. Up to two feet of snow, dangerous winds, 1,000 flights grounded or delayed. 100 miles of a key interstate shut down tonight. Rob marciano has the track and the timing as we head into this evening. Attorney general william barr on the hill, pressed on how he could determine there was no Obstruction Of Justice when Robert Mueller did not. And what he said about spying on the trump campaign. The horrific and deadly bus crash today. The Truck Barrelling through an intersection, slamming right into a school bus. That Deadly Police standoff, officers called to this home, both officers shot. And to
Quite yet. If positive suggests that youre protected from reinfection. One last thing about this Senate Health Committee Meeting that we saw earlier, theed ed admiral sf you want a test you can get a test. Testing centers are going to be removed. He shouldnt say blanket statements that are untrue while defunding access to testing. Dr. Gupta, thank you for spending some time with us. Thank you for answering i get those questions, too, people asking what should they do, now as its patchwork of different reopenings across the country. People have questions like this. My colleague craig melvin is answering them on the 11 00 a. M. Eastern hour on msnbc. Tweet your questions with the msnbcanswers. Craig will put those questions to doctors like dr. Gupta and a panel of Health Experts on his program. A chance of european travel this summer, going from slim to none. How poorly the United States has handled the pandemic and telling americans to stay home. That story next. Wayfair has way more wa
Goofy handsoff. Thats all i can say. Me, too. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber and it is a pretty serious time. Well get right into it. We are tracking the mysterious new revelations about trumps actual awareness and awareness inside the white house of the reported russian bounty plot to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Well walk through the National Security faktcts. Donald trump got his first briefing about it, this was all revealed in a New York Times explosive report, that first broke at least the first details of it, four days ago. Yet were also learning from sources of intelligence that the Trump Administration actually first obtained the key sbegs and the clues about this very terrible plot against u. S. Troops over a year ago. Lets be clear. The bad news for trump on these briefings, and this schedule, it matters because this at its core is the kind of scandal that can hobble a presidency and affects the lives of men and women in uniform. Were talking about credible allegati
Selfdefense. Independent senator angus king a member of the Senate Intelligence committee who has seen most of the intel regarding iran has a similar question. Whos provoking whom . In other words, we know that iran is taking actions, were taking actions. We declared their irdc as a terrorist organization. That has ramifications for them. Are they reacting because theyre concerned about what were doing . Or are we reacting becauser that concerned what theyre doing . And that raises my second concern which is miscalculation. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle has been complaining about the lack of information coming from the white house as these tensions escalate. We have now learned that the administration will brief a gang of eight congressional leaders on in iran in just a few hours. Joining us from tehran, nbcs Tehran Bureau chief ali arussi. Ali, has tehran said anything about why its load missiles on to boats . Good morning, ali. Good morning, theyre working in the shadows and v