Legitimatize their actions, and they are complicit. Valerie jarrett on the big takeaways from the harris pence debate and beto orourke on why democrats are surging in texas despite Voter Suppression. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It looks like were not going to have a president ial debate next week. The main reason is because our 74yearold president , who is currently infected and contagious with a vicious and deadly virus, insists he will only do the second debate next week if he can be close enough to shed his viral load on his 77yearold opponent. Got to be within infecting distance or donald trump just wont do it. This morning the committee on president ial debates made the obvious call to make the next debate a town hall event virtual in wake of the president s covid diagnosis. Trump said no to that. He wont waste his time debating if he cant be in the same room as biden. No matter that just about everyone in america has spent the last seven months getting used to sub
Coronavirus was spreading and growing calls for investigations in new york as the death toll in Nursing Homes grows to nearly 6000. The president is standing by his decision to proactively take hydroxy chloroquine there are mixed results whether it is helping patients. One of the researchers currently conducting a study to see if the drug would protect First Responders in highrisk medical workers joins us live. A newly declassified email from susan rice about how the Obama Administration, for the new revelations, National Security adviser kay t mcfarland with analysis. We begin with White House Correspondent kevin cork on the latest move to declassify information involving Michael Flynn. Most of that email was already declassified in february but the newly declassified portion is describing concerns by jim comey about contact with the Russian Ambassador but also raises new questions why the Obama Administration zeroed in on flynn without informing the white house. The email repeated cl
And i say that as somebody who had to debate her more than 20 times. Even after our own hardfought campaign, in a testament to her character, she agreed to serve our country as secretary of state. And from the decision we made in the situation room to get bin laden, to our pursuit of diplomacy in capitals around the world, ive seen her judgment, her toughness. Ive seen her commitment to our values up close. Secretary clintons republican rival, donald trump, followed up on twitter with obama just endorsed crooked hillary. He wants four more years of obama but does anybody else . Should say that nobody else does. Then Clinton Retweeted along with the message, delete your account. President obama had a private meeting with Bernie Sanders, and this walk along, sanders has been in intense pressure to drop out and clear the way for secretary clinton. Senator sanders said he would stay in the race through the last primary, which is next week in d. C. So with the campaign all but over what doe
Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside jeff bennett. Were starting with a newly unsealed court filing from special counsel bob muellers office. Michael flynn says that people connected to the Trump Administration and to capitol hill contacted him to influence his cooperation with the russian investigation. The filing says this. The defendant informed the government of multiple instances both before and after his argumenty plea where either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the administration or congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. The filing says flynn even provide a voice mail recording which a federal judge order to be released in transcript form by may 31st. The judge ordered to release a transcript in what flynn says was a call with the Russian Ambassador after sanctions were leveled. And all parts of the special counsels report related to flynn be unredacted and made public within
Its hot in new york today. Melissa its hot around the world. The new warning from the state department coming as china tells the u. S. To stay out of the situation. The chinese even calling out House Speaker nancy pelosi, and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Accusing them of trying to incite chaos. The president dismissing that criticism, saying he cant imagine why anyone would blame the u. S. And another alert for you to watch right now. The dow plunging today as Treasury Bonds send a recession warning to the markets. Look at that, down 636 points. Weak Industrial Production numbers coming out of china, persistent trade tensions also adding to the mix on wall street. Some bad news from retail. But first, with the latest from the state department on this situation in hong kong, rich edson has more. Rich . Good afternoon, melissa. State Department Officials are watching those military maneuvers going on in the region there. Its unclear whether this is a way that build up of Chine