Were also tracking News Donald Trump is planning to nominate a staunch trump allied congressman, John Radcliff to be the next director of intelligence. So, that news breaking. Today in South Carolina the candidates and their surrogates out in full force. And that was about a mile away from where we are right now. Joe biden, meanwhile, benefitting from the ultimate endorsement you can get. And what he sees as a risk the democratic house. New polling showing biden up. Hes also drawing more fund raising, which we know begins super tuesday. Tomorrow could determine whether some candidates like biden, klobuchar and tom steyer can prove they have a path to the nomination. It could prove to democrats they are the alternative to Bernie Sanders. A strong finish might change the shane of this race. Sanders is the Person Holding the delegate lead. He could finish second and still have the bigger overall lead, bigger than today. And South Carolina state representative, a sanders supporter. And for
Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its thursday, may 21st. 6 00 here in new york. New this morning, a nervous gaze to the south. A brand new interview with the embattled cdc director, robert red field who he warns of a new string of coronavirus. What concerns him is the evidence, the data what is happening before our eyes in brazil. As the Southern Hemisphere gets closer to winter, theres been a sharp rise in coronavirus cases and deaths and redfield is concerned that that could come back to the United States. This comes after the World Health Organization reported the largest singleday increase in virus cases since the pandemic began. Overnight, global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million. President trump heads to michigan today after falsely claiming that michigan and nevada were sending absentee ballots to all voters and threatening to withhold funding. All they did was send applications for absentee ballots to some voters. Rememb
You can go to a restaurant. This as a reminder of what is an economic tragedy. 2. 4 more million americans say now they do not have a job. The nineweek total, more than 38 million shoved to the unemployment roles by this virus. Testing is still a backtowork challenge. Experts define the work as unorganized and in need of National Coordination and riddled with mistakes that gave us a picture of just how difficult it is for the country to reopen. One puts a number on the weight to tell americans to stay home. It cost 6,000 lives. Thats the number that columbian researchers say would not have died if social distance measures had been put in place just a week earlier. Two weeks earlier, 80 of all u. S. Deaths could have been avoided, those researchers say. Whether the president and governors and mayors should have acted sooner is one of the debates across america. The president says, quote, we have prevailed. The urgent need now, he says, is to reopen quickly to save american businesses. B
Michael cohen case which, oh, by the way, includes individual one, donald trump, who is accused in all of those documents of directing the crimes Michael Cohen was committing, and thats the case, that we discovered tonight that william barr has been trying to interfere with as soon as he got the job. And if there is a systemic effort inside Prosecutors Office to let the president s tendrils to extend to prosecutorial decisions for there to be political pressure or on how cases are resolved and brought or not brought, among other things, the judiciary should know about that because in some cases judges may want to correct for that or investigate that or figure that out if prosecutors are being importuned in that way. So i realize that prosecutors are constrained in terms of what they can tell us, the public, but when cases are getting messed with, when there is interference, in the same way its a really serious thing to intimidate a witness or to do other thing to obstruct justice, if t
Like i have underdescribed how heroic he is in this story as we know it so far with attorney general william barr from the start, according to the New York Times reporting tonight that you covered so well. Attorney general barr trying to interfere with the workings of that office, especially in the Michael Cohen case which, oh, by the way, includes individual one, donald trump, who is accused in all of those documents of directing the crimes Michael Cohen was committing, and thats the case, that we discovered tonight that william barr has been trying to interfere with as soon as he got the job. And if there is a systemic effort inside prosecutors offices to get the president s ten drills extend to prosecutorial decisions, for there to be political pressure on how cases are resolved and brought or not brought, among other things, the judiciary should know about that because in some cases judges may want to correct for that or investigate that or figure that out if prosecutors are being