Newsday in the 19 sixties and the book was supposed to be done in nine months. It took seven years in the publisher gave in advance of 2500 he became consumed by his research and quit his job five years later he submitted the first 400,000 words and asked for a second payment of 2500. He was refused a so their home to support this work and then to remain his soul publisher and what a Remarkable Book it is with the sheer narrative power he is an astonishing writer and the powerbroker is a masterpiece one of the most important biographies of the 20h century bob caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Twice the National Book critics circle award and virtually every other honor including the National Book award and the goldmedal biography from the American Academy of arts and letters. Caro has a unique place among political biographers. He is the standard by which the fellows are measured and a society of american historians presenting bob caro said the powerbroker best exempl
Coronavirus Task Force Meeting about issuing a blanket order for the entire country, but mister trump is standing fast saying its up to each state to determine how to handle coronavirus. In every state in this country. First we got to see a governors done with it doing theyve been doing a great job because were close to 90 anyway. States and were talking about. Not in jeopardy. Now i would leave it to the governors. And that decision comes on the same day where we saw the deadliest day in the u. S. During this pandemic 1423 people died today. We have more than 7100 deaths total and 277. 1000 cases in the u. S. New york far away the hardest hit state. There are nearly 100 or the just over 103,000 cases there and nearly 3,000 deaths in new york state and there are new guidelines tonight from the cdc on how americans can protect themselves while continuing social distancing guidelines. Nadia romero has thlatest now from washington. In fridays White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing an
Watching kron 4 news. Rising the years of. Covering as an additional vontary Public Health measures so its voluntary you have do it. I nt think im going to be doing it. Now at 9 President Trump tellingthe nation. He refuses to weara mask, a face mask despite new guidelines from the cdc. Thanks for joining us tonight, everybody im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus the president made that Statement Today during the coronavirutask force briefing saying the cdcs guidelines are volunry. People wear nonmedical grade clh masks when theyre out in public,bu. They are stressi that the mas are not a substitute for physical distanci stay 6 feet apart, this though is a big chane from the cdc after weeks of lling the country that people shouldonly wear masks or facil coverings if they are sick exriencing symptoms kron fours gayle ong joins us live. She spoke with a medical professional today about at these masks really do how effective they are and who theyre protectingayle. Will grant a medical exp
[reporters shouting questions] we continued the conversation on impeachment in the whistleblower complaint against President Trump. The complaint against donald trump. Paul worsens wide paul the senior counsel during the whitewater investigation. Ou worked for ken starr do you see any legal similarities between that investigation and the investigation against President Trump . As it is being conducted by the Intelligence Committee . A differentnk it is kettle of fish that present its own level of issues. At the highest level, the legal question of what constitutes a high crime and misdemeanor and what are Congress Investigative authorities, that does not change. But there is a significant difference in the nature of two levels ats on least. The first is that the congress in the clinton investigation really did not conduct any independent investigation of its own. It relied almost exclusively on the input of the independent counsel, ken starr. That was not necessarily inappropriate. He
hello and welcome to all of you watching us around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, a covid-era immigration policy expires in the u.s. how the end of title 42 will affect migrants who want to enter the country. signs ukraine is moving toward launching its counteroffensive against russia. what we could see in the days before it begins. and the european union considers new rules for artificial intelligence. and they could affect how you interact with ai. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with kim brunhuber. we begin with a landmark change in u.s. immigration policy. the controversial covid-era rules known as title 42 expired just a few hours ago now. and that means harsher consequences for those entering the country illegally. thousands of migrants seeking asylum made their way to the southern border ahead of the deadline. authorities have detained a record number of migrants in the past few days. while things appear quiet at