The country could be at a turning point. The White House Coronavirus task force is set to react to all of this news and more in a briefing coming up very soon. The confirmed number of infections in america now topping or hundred thousand, and 14,000 people have died. So far over 22,000 americans have recovered and this is a bit of positive news. I top coronavirus model now downgrading the projected death to 60,000. Remember a few days ago that number was 80,000. Dr. Anthony fauci reacted. It was vo see the increase in death and we predicted over the weekend that this would be bad to be a bad wk for deaths. Driving out and ahead of that is a fact that we will see the beginning of the turnaround. Although one of the original models projected 100200000 deaths. As we are getting more data and seeing the positive effect of mitigation, those will be downgraded. Juan and dr. Deborah birx telling americans to keep practicing social distancing. Whats really important is that people dont turn th
Supply has continued to work every day from the field to the fork, to the grocers to the meat processors. And thanks to the president s decision to use the defense production act, we now have uniformity. The objective is to work every day to keep those Meat Processing plants open and the ones coming down are going back online. We are trying to keep workers safe and healthy. In tandem, weve done that. With the testing, with the ppe and the facilities. They are trying to social distance where they can input in shields where they can to look at the lines to separate the shifts. President trump i think we had a great talk with the owners of the plants, the top people, big people. These are Big Companies actually. You wouldnt believe how many plants they have. I think it was a very strong talk. I think they got the message. Within 1. 5 weeks as the price for animals and hooves has gone down, the price of box meat has skyrocketed. Its a huge price differential disparity. These meatpacking pl
Launch the missile strike against the assad regime. The latest from our security correspondent, jim sciutto. As always, in the case of syrian stories, we must warn you, some of the images in his report are graphic. The u. S. Military the investigating whether russia was complicit in the Syrian Regimes gruesome chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week. Whether a russian war plane dropped a bomb on victims of the attack five hours later, perhaps to destroy evidence. U. S. Intelligence shows that a russian drone flew over the hospital site just before the bombing. The probe comes after President Trump ordered a barrage of missiles on a seyrian air base n retaliation for the deadly attack. The first u. S. Military strike against the assad regime in the bloody sixyear war. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley warned of further military action. The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary. Reporter the target
Contributor Rachel Campos duffy and today is. Host of the Lawrence Jones show, Lawrence Jones grade you are outnumbered pretty welcome to you. There is activity at the white house. We will get to that meeting when it begins but otherwise, a huge newsday. Harris what is texas doing with you gone . Lawrence a lot of people eating a lot of barbecue while im gone. They will continue to eat. Sandra it is the noon hour eastern time. President trump is urging House Republicans to adopt the senates budget so they can get to work on tax reform as soon as possible. He wants to see a bill on his desk by thanksgiving. In a Conference Call just yesterday, he told lawmakers that could be big trouble for them in the midterms if they fail to get taxes done. But he tells Maria Bartiromo he thinks theyve got what it takes to get it done. President trump i think we got the votes. I think rand paul is going to vote for the tax cuts. I think other people, we had tremendous enthusiasm this time as far as ta
Hes ratcheting those attacks on sessions. It could damage the country and the rule of law. Well start with the breaking news. A new and dramatic turn of events of the Michael Cohens investigation. A second grant of immunity to a trumps loyalist by federal prosecutors in as many days this time, Allen Weisselberg, hes the longterm financial head of Trump Organization, multiple sources. Weisselberg was in involved in that payment to stormy daniels. The news comes the day after reports that david pecker was also granted immunity in the cohens investigation. Of course, all of this after michael himself on tuesday implicated that he paid hush money on behalf of the candidate during the campaign and trump told him to do it. With this to break it all down, our tom winter and ken dilanian and our Nbcs Kristen Welker with us at the white house. Kristen, i will start with you. What is the mood right there on this friday afternoon and when may we expect to hear from President Trump on camera about