Good evening, everyone. My name is john highbush and i have the honor of being the i have the honor of being the executive director. Of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for joining us this evening. In honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world if you please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. As everyone here knows we are gathered. Not too far from hollywood. Its a fact. That hollywood that without hollywood there would have been no platform for Ronald Reagan to establish himself first as an actor. President of Screen Actors Guild host of ge theater and a political commentator without that political commentary there would have been no governor Ronald Reagan and certainly no president Ronald Reagan. So tha
Their citizens. Worldwide there are more than 2. 2 million confirmed cases and more than 150,000 confirmed deaths. Lets begin at the white house, our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta joins us. Jim, there doesnt appear to be social distancing or other Safety Measures at these protests were seeing against stayathome orders across the country, but the president is actually encouraging them. Reporter thats right, wolf, President Trump appears to be stoking unrest in states around the u. S. Where conservative demonstrators are protesting against stayathome orders, one day after he told the governors they were calling the shots on reopening the country. One day after the president told governors around the u. S. They were taking the lead in opening up their states its going to be up to the governors. We are not opening all at once. But one careful step at a time. Reporter mr. Trump is stirring up his supporters with organized teapartylike protests to lash out against social distanc
To cancel it. Who is sorry now . Still not the white house as republican senators call for an apology for a white house aides insensitive comments about senator john mccain. Silence from the president , the white house, and the aide. Manafort ruling. This year marks one year since mueller was made special counsel in the investigation and a judge ruled on the manafort case. Jeff zeleny joins us now. The white house, did they have any heads up about this announcement today . There was no heads up at the state department, and really across washington, the pentagon as well. It was a surprise essentially to everyone that north korea had suddenly having second thoughts about these military exercises but also the threatening words about the possibility of intervening with that summit which really is only a month or so away in singapore. So certainly people at the white house were surprised by that. The president learned of it from news reports. Aides were scrambling to figure out exactly what