Angelica adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays president elect donald trump sitting down for his first tv interview since winning the election. Mr trump appeared on 60 minutes last night. Saying he plans to work for free. Lesley stahl are you going to take the salary, the president s salary . Donald trump well, ive never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think i have to by law take 1, so ill take 1 a year. But its a i dont even know know what the salary is . Lesley stahl 400,000 youre giving up. Donald trump no, im not going to take the salary. Im not taking it. During the interview trump also discussed healthcare including scaling back his comments on repealing the system in place. And his plans to build a wall. He also said he still plans to build a Us Mexico Border wall. Meanwhile republicans are working to calm concerns over immigrants comments president elect trump made during his campaign. Not prep
Vaccine, Covid Vaccine is 90 effective in early results. President trump is celebrating the news today on twitter. Christian fisher is live in the white house with details on all of this. Lets start with the breaking news. Always good news when the secretary of defense is fired and that is what President Trump said he has just done to the outgoing secretary of defense mark esper. While it is big news, no doubt it is not surprising news. This is something that has been talked about for quite some time. President trump has been very unhappy with him ever since that day over the summer when there was that walk from the white house over to st. Johns church where the Trump Administration pushed back all of those protesters. Afterwards he described it as a photo up and says if he had not been a thought of it. He pushed back on the Trump Administration, the president for saying he believes that the active duty troops did not have a role or should not have a role in quelling the violence that
About shutting things down back then. Despite that, dr. Fauci says he has reason for cautious optimism, citing a decrease in the rate of hospitalizations, icu admissions, and intubations. We have a team of correspondents across the country on this Easter Sunday covering the latest development in the coronavirus outbreak. Lets start with cnns Jeremy Diamond at the white house. So, jeremy, what is the administration saying about this new assessment from dr. Fauci . Well, fred, President Trump said on friday that it might be the biggest decision of his presidency, deciding when he could release those relax those social distancing guidelines and begin to reopen the country. The president is spending the weekend mulling that decision. And today, of course, is the day when he had hoped that he could reopen the country. Easter sunday is the date that the president had talked about a few weeks ago. Of course, since then, the president decided to extend those social distancing guidelines for an