Betty devos says theres no evidence to suggest that reopening our nations schools would put children in harms way. Mark meredith is live at the white house following all of this as it unfolds. Mark. Reporter good afternoon. President trump wants kids back in class this fall. As you mentioned, his education secretary, betsy devos agrees. She told Chris Wallace earlier today too much is at stake if kids dont go back this fall. The point needs to be how do kids get back to learning in the fall, fulltime, and how do we ensure that they get a full year, plus, of learning. Theyve fallen behind this spring. We need to ensure theyre back in a classroom situation wherever possible and whenever possible. Reporter the National Education Association Says the discussion needs to be more balanced and broad, saying Public School educators, students and parents must have a voice in critical conversations and decisions on reopening schools, the president should not be brazenly making the decisions. Dev
You. The oped dropped last night. White house is now responding to the oped and slamming mueller for pontificating. Hey, leland, good afternoon. Robert mueller does not make comments very often on the record. We also heard from Robert Mueller. We have not heard directly from mueller on camera but the president repeatedly say stone was unfairly targeted, weve made every decision as in all of our cases to act by the law and in accordance of rule of law. President trump appears to be brushing off criticism that hes been getting over the stone. Muellers oped say that its no place to be speaking out. They believe the russia report should speak for itself. President trump also weighing in on the stone controversy last night. People are extremely happy because in this country they want justice and roger stone was not treated properly. Mark but this decision has really sparked new outrage with democrats accusing president of abusing power. We heard from chairman of House Judiciary Committee in
And pelosi and schumer. Missing with that a Mitch Mcconnell. And we will get into the negotiations and whats at stake in a minute. First to a social media storm, tiktok is now responding to President Trumps threats. The popular chineseowned Video App Company saying its quote, not planning on going anywhere. Lucas tomlinson live from the pentagon, there are serious questions about tiktoks security issues. Hi, lucas. Hi, leland. In a move likely to make parents rejoice, but teenagers to freak out, ticktoparticula move to make them share some of their american holders. We may be banning tiktok or a couple of options, a lot is happening. Well see whats happening, but were looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to tiktok. The president later told reporters on air force one he will be banning tiktok as soon as today using emergency economic powers. U. S. Owned microsoft reportedly opened talks to purchase the popular app. U. S. Officials long warned that the Chinese Government uses th
Without those additional benefits. They expired on friday. Mark meredith at the north lawn of the white house with more. Hi, mark. Reporter hi, leland. Good afternoon. The white house insists that President Trump is heavily involved in these negotiations about the next economic stimulus package. While we are hearing from both sides that progress is being made, both sides also say that they are far from a final deal. We saw those top congressional leaders meet with the white house staff on saturday at the capitol. Theyll meet again tomorrow as they try to decide the best way to stimulate the economy. Over the weekend the federal benefit that provided 600 a week on top of state benefits that expired for unemployed americans. The white house says they Want Congress to extend it one more week as lawmakers negotiate. Democrats say this should be a longterm deal to keep the benefit in place for several more months. We heard from both sides earlier today. We have been for the 600. They have a
Well have to wait and see on that. But a lot going on. Very, very happy to have you, my friends. I am neil ca cavuto. For the next two hours well get the latest not only of on where this virus relief stands but where the virus itself stands as well as whats happening with that hurricane. And not so incidentally, how it could affect those astronauts who want to return from the uniteInternational Space station tomorrow. That could be jeopardized or at least put off. Well talk about that but first to the big story of the moment and that is the Coronavirus Relief effort where the two sides are divided by trillions of dollars. The cheapest plan on the table is the republican plan for about a trillion bucks. The more expensive one, the democratic plan for 3. 5 trillion bucks. Its whats going to happen to the Unemployment Benefits, the 600 a week benefit that has now been on top of regular state Unemployment Benefits that have been handed out. Republicans want to scale it down or wipe it out