Correspondent david spunt starts us out from the white house. Good evening to you. This is second time in 24 hours that facebook put out a statement relating to something with President Trump. Yesterday it was about a facebook post. They wanted it taken down. Today its about a protrump super pac they say can no longer advertise on the site for 90 days. Late today facebook announced it would block trumps super pac the committee to defend the president from advertising on the social media site. In a statement to fox news, facebook said as a result of the committee to defend the president s repeated sharing of content to determine by third party factcheckers to be false, they will not be permitted to advertise for period of time on our platform. Last night facebook and twitter removed and flagged social media post deemed to be misleading about covid19 and kids. The president made the controversial comments on fox friends yesterday morning. If you look at children, children are almost and
Throughout special report tonight. Lets begin though with chief White House Correspondent john roberts live here in cleveland. Good evening, john. Good evening to you. Given the stakes in this election and of the partisan divide in the United States, this will likely count as one of the most important debates in history. A chance for undecided voters to finally see President Trump and joe biden sidebyside on the same stage and take the measure of the candidates. With the pandemic expected to be a top issue in tomorrow nights debate, President Trump today used the bully pulpit of the presidency to get a leg up on his opponent. In the rose garden taking new steps to deploy rapid coronavirus tests. 50 million tests will go to protect the most vulnerable communities. The president announcing the federal government will be sending, at no charge, tens of millions of tests to states with the recommendation they be used for test teachers and students to help get schools open. The support my ad
Mike emanuel and new information on the hunter biden email story. Good evening. Good evening. Today director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe [indiscernible] the water seeking to dismiss the hunter biden email mockup story after Law Enforcement and intelligence officials have been largely silent. Hunter bidens laptop is not part of some russian disinformation campaign. The director of National Intelligence breaking what has been silenced from the intelligence and Law Enforcement authorities on Hunter Bidens purported laptop and alleged emails. This has nothing to do with the Intelligence Community or russian disinformation. If it was, i would know that. So to be clear, its not. The pushback appeared to be in the response to this attack from adam schiff. Clearly the origins of this whole smear are from the kremlin and the president is only too happy to have kremlin help in trying to amplify it. Fox news has obtained new images including what appears to be a receipt from the wilmi
The new unemployment numbers here indicate more than six and a half Million People, more people, applied for jobless benefits last week. Thats almost 17 Million People over the last three weeks. About one in ten americans has lost her job in the past three weeks. The president s request for a 250 billion to supplement his Paycheck Protection Program hit a snag in the senate today over demands from the democrats that minority owned businesses be protected and also, pushing for a bigger package proposed by the democrats. They ended up blocking the Small Business loan expansion of 250 billion today. Stocks shot up today though, the Federal Reserve prepared to provide more than 2 trillion in new loans to businesses, governments and households. Correspondent Kristin Fisher starts us off tonight with more on the president s Economic Strategy from the north lot of the white house. Good evening. Good evening. For the very first time tonight in order to be in the room for tonights briefing you
Society since world war ii. On this good friday worshipers around the world. The worldwide death toll has now surpassed the 100,000 mark. Thats an north lawn. And trip President Trump announced tonight that he was going to be announcing a second Coronavirus Task force on tuesday. He calls at the opening our country counsel. When he was asked tonight what metrics that counsel was going to be using and heres what he said. Thats my metrics, and we listen to 35 people. Im going to surround myself with the greatest minds, not only the greatest minds but the greatest minds in numerous different businesses. President trump didnt name any names, but this will include doctors, Business Leaders and governors. These have to be lifted by the governors. Something else is going to be happening next week, President Trump said he will be making an announcement about the world health organization. Hes been threatening to freeze funding to the group all week and he accuses it of missing the mark on the