May indeed come in during the president s speech tonight. I will also tell you that as to the impeachment proceedings, yes, we are expecting the senate trial to reconvene tomorrow and for there to be a vote on the articles of impeachment in terms of conviction or acquittal tomorrow. But just tonight as we were sitting down to begin our coverage in response to freedom of information act request, the department of energy released dozens of new pages of emails and Communications Related to ukraine, again, on court order, on the basis of freedom of information act lawsuit, putting, once again in sharp relief, the fact that the senate decided on a Party Line Vote to not admit witness testimony or any new evidence before taking the vote they are expected to take tomorrow to acquit the president on these articles. I am told, and i hope this will calm americans listening, our acting secretary of Homeland Security is one chad wolf. Umhmm. Do you feel better . Brian, i think theyre trying to avo
And, on the other hand, there is the president of the United States. Who, just one month ago, today, said, americans just be calm about the growing pandemic. We are prepared and we are doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away. But everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful. But be calm. Its really working out and a lot of good things are going to happen. Just stay calm. Fast forward to today. More than three weeks in social distancing to stop the spread and trump is now doing this performance where he weighs when to relax those guidelines. Even though his own Health Experts acknowledge the virus hasnt peaked in many areas. And theres that small matter of the constitution and a little thing called federalism, which lets state officials make this call. But, no, no, no, trump says its his decision. Somebody said its totally up to the president. I saw this morning. Its totally up and it is. I will say this. I want to get it open as soon as we
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were focusing on the latest coronavirus developments nationally and globally. And new figures show that the United States has suffered its largest one day death toll. According to numbers compiled byjohns hopkins university, 2,108 people died in the past 2a hours. The United States has the highest number of cases this is bbc news. In the world nearly half a million. The headlines it has also suffered the second highest number of deaths 18,500. New york starts to bury some its onlyjust behind italy. Of the dead in a mass grave, as the city tries to deal new york state alone now with the rapidly growing has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any single number of deceased. Country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there the state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country. Continues to rise. Latest figures record that over 7,000 have died fro
But its not coming just yet. So we do have an edition of the beat lined up for you tonight. I am ari melber anchoring. Here is the context right now. 6. 6 million more people filed for unemployment in america today. If youre count, and many of us are, many People Living through this aspect of the adversity of this pandemic, the threeweek total is now 17 Million People, the Unemployment Rate has shot up to 13 . We are now officially living through the worst Economic Times as measured since the great depression. Meanwhile, the United States senate has failed to reach a deal to approve a new type of Coronavirus Relief bill. Leaders mcconnell and schumer accusing each other of basically making this political as the recess plays out and there is preparation to try to deal with the overhang and the economic problems. We also have an update on the nature of the coronavirus around the country, including the problems in new york, which remains the epicenter. But i want to bring in, as we so oft
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