Affirmativeaction in the state. The reality is as you all know and as many of you see in the work each day, this great country has a great way to go before the founding promise of equal justice and equal opportunity is fully realized. Ashley the new clemency guidelines as well as the campaign treated as a guidelines of some drug offenders providing more blows to fellow democrats who are already facing difficult reelection campaigns in this years midterms. Carl cameron has our report. The justice departments today announced the guidelines for ne nonviolent guidelines downplaying any risk. Clemency initiative should not be understood to minimize the seriousness of the federal criminal law, and design first and foremost with Public Safety in mind. Convicts must be serving a sentence under old law greater than required under current law. Committees of nonviolent crimes without links to organized crimes serve at least 10 years, had no other criminal history, good prison records and no histo
And it will continue to be the case for as long as the Trump Presidency lasts. This president s continued abuses of power do nothing to distract us from the more than 134,000 dead americans. They just add more evidence to the heaping pile of reasons that this president is not up to the job of leading the United States of america. His job right now, the one thing he should be working on, night and day, is saving american lives. Its our breaking news tonight, on the coronavirus. This country is seeing a Record Number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. 63,900. Cases in florida, south carolina, arizona, texas, and georgia. They are skyrocketing, ever since those states reopened. Georgia adding a record 4,484 new cases. In a week of record cases, the president travels to Miamidade County, the biggest hotspot in the country, to talk about pretty much anything but the virus that has killed more than 134,000 americans. Incredibly, and falsely, claiming were getting back on track. In the
After the devastating news atlantic article. We first brought you this scathing reporting last night. The reporting revealed that the president he cancelled a trip to the cemetery in france not because of the bad weather but because he was worried about his hair getting messed up in the rain and as goldberg writes and i quote here, why should i go to that cemetery, it is filled with losers. Trump referred to the more 1800 marines who lost their lives at belleau wood as suckers for g getting killed. Goldberg has not revealed the name of the source with first knowledge of this. The white house rolled out denial. Two big name alums had been silent and have not said anything. James mattis is one of them and john kelly, chief of staff. John kellys son, robert, was killed in afghanistan. The president did not remind anyone of kellys family sacrifice. He simply went to attack. I know john kelly. He was with me and did not do a good job and had no temperament, he was exhausted. This man was to
This is cnn tonight i am don lemon. Its 11 00 p. M. Here on the east coast and we are following these big stories for you. Covid19 death toll in the United States getting closer and closer to 193,000. And dr. Anthony fauci pushing back on President Trumps claim that the u. S. Is rounding the corner in the battle against the pandemic. Fauci disagrees because he is looking at the facts. The data tells us that were still getting up to 40,000 new infections a day, and a thousand deaths. Thats what you look at. Look at the science, the evidence, and the data. And you can make a pretty easy conclusion. The president , also, pushing for a vaccine before election day. Top medical experts, including dr. Fauci, saying that is highly unlikely. That, as a top prosecutor is resigning from the Justice Department team probing the russia investigation. A report saying that theyre being pressured to produce results, before the election. Is reelection all trump cares about . Well discuss, just ahead. Al
Carpenter and Senior Reporter for politico. Thats a lot of political and politico in there. Thanks for joining us. Just talking about you john avlon. So someone was making the same point to me about how few how not enthusiastic people were in wisconsin about President Trump last time. Yeah, its kind of stunning. 2016 was a 20year low in voter turnout, but in wisconsin whats stunning to realize, donald trump won the state, shocked the world, razor thin margin but got less votes than mitt romney four years before. Speaks to problem of Hillary Clinton campaign and appeal of her candidacy. But speaks to the fact that state theres a lot of room to grow for joe biden. Donald trumps victory was actually lower level than mitt romney did four years before when he lost. Election day a week away. Biden was in georgia, state that democrats lost by five points. Donald trump in michigan, wisconsin and nebraska, three states he won in 2016. What does it tell you about how the Campaign Sees the race,