Good evening. Good evening, rachel. Have a safe weekend and see you on monday. Tonight, the stark difference between red and blue states handling the coronavirus pandemic and why some states are far more successful at flattening the curve. Plus listen to this quote, trump is treating lifesaving medical equipment as emoluments he can give out as favors to loyalists. From a scathing editorial in the denver post accusing the president of playing politics amid a National Health crisis. Well talk with former colorado governor and Senate Candidate John Hickenlooper about the kons controversy that could hurt his states ability to keep residents alive and at the end of tonights show, this is an extremely difficult time but social distancing measures were following are working. An Important Message about sacrifices were making in tonights last word. We begin with the number of deaths linked to the coronavirus worldwide has passed 100,000. As of tonight, there are 1. 7 million reported cases of
The wrong president for this moment. And since then the reality of that has come into even sharper focus. To be blunt, the president makes bad situations worse, and hes woefully out of touch with the majority of americans on matters of critical importance to our equality, health and wellbeing. Trump is simply incapable of addressing the issue of race in my substantive way. The death of george floyd has been a turning point in our culture. Nearly three weeks after his death, were still seeing protests across the country, and those protests are starting to lead to small but meaningful changes. City and state officials and individual Police Departments are taking action to update a centurys old cycle of inequality in policing for black men and women. We will have more on those specific changes coming up. But where is the president in this discussion . Virtually absent. While local leaders are doing the tough work, trump is having trouble with taking even superficial or symbolic steps in t
Joining us live here on tuesday night as his new book comes out. Couldnt be happier about it. See you on monday. Now its time for the last word. Thank you for that. We look forward to watching that interview with gates next week, and have a great weekend. Thanks. One week ago i sat here and said to you that donald trump is the wrong president for this moment. And since then the reality of that has come into even sharper focus. To be blunt, the president makes bad situations worse, and hes woefully out of touch with the majority of americans on matters of critical importance to our equality, health and wellbeing. Trump is simply incapable of addressing the issue of race in my substantive way. The death of george floyd has been a turning point in our culture. Nearly three weeks after his death, were still seeing protests across the country, and those protests are starting to lead to small but meaningful changes. City and state officials and individual Police Departments are taking action
Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting today from new york. We begin with a new snapshot of the u. S. Economy. Its a lackluster picture. The september employment report shows 148,000 jobs were created in the month, well below the 193,000 created in august. This report was delayed 2 1 2 weeks because of the partial Government Shutdown. The next report we get will include those who were furloughed by the shutdown. There are also some bright spots in these new numbers. The construction industry, for example, is coming back to life. 20,000 new jobs were added there in september. We also saw the Unemployment Rate drop to 7. 2 . Thats the lowest level its been since president obama was elected back in 2008. Todays news isnt likely to change the pessimism americans already feel toward the economy. A new cc poll finds 71 of americans believe current Economic Conditions are poor, thats the worst number weve seen this year. The reaction from wall street so far has been fairly muted. There you see the
Which if youre surprised, this Campaign Continues to surprise every day. We start tonight with some breaking news. Hillary Clintons Campaign announcing shell return to the campaign trail on thursday after taking three days off to recover from her well publicized bout with pneumonia. Police have arrested a man accused of hitting several antitrump protesters during a donald trump rally last night. They also issued a warrant for a different man who is accused of punching what local news reports identified as a 69yearold woman outside the rally. She told a reporter she was there protesting trump as well and appears in the photo to be wearing an oxygen mask. After a whirlwind few days focused on Hillary Clintons health and Donald Trumps deplorables today brought the singlemost important piece of election news this week, possibly the entire campaign and for once that had nothing to do with either candidate. U. S. Census bureau announcing that real Median Household Income increased 5. 2 up to