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Good morning, everyone. It is thursday, july 9th. Im alex witt. President trump is putting more pressure on schools to reopen this fool amid the potential of a second wave. Yesterday he tweeted in germany, denmark, norway, sweden, and many other countries, schools are reopened with no problems. The dems think it would be bad, but its important for the children and families. May cut off funding if not open. He also tweeted this. I disagree with the ckc on their very tough and expensive guidelines for reopening schools. Theyre asking schools to do very impractical things. A Senior Administration official says among the guidelines the white house finds too restrictive are the limiting of sharing toys, electronic devices, and books. Heres Vice President mike pence on the president s next steps. The president said we dont want the guidance to be too tough. Thats the reason why next week the cdc is going to be issuing a new set of tools, five different documents, that will be giving more cla
Together. President trump is lashing out refusing to concede in his election loss and firing his defense secretary mark esper in a tweet. The pandemic is raging in the United States which just topped 10 million coronavirus cases with more than 237,000 deaths. In a positive development, pfizer is now announcing that early results show its vaccine is 90 effective and the company could apply for emergency use authorization as soon as next week. We will talk about it with dr. Anthony fauci and hell join us live in the situation room in a few minutes. Stand by for that. More on the president ial transition. Our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is covering president elect biden for us and he is in wilmington, delaware. As he promised, he is moving very quickly in trying to deal with the pandemic. Joe biden did hold a mask in the air, sending that clear signal that in both style and substance, he will take a starkly different approach to coronavirus. At times he struck time as a wa