And his relationship with the left of the Democratic Party. Will their performance swing any votes . Well have analysis of the debate with the bbcs katty kay and laura trevlyan as well as amanda renteria, former National Political director for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and republican strategist ron christie President Trump and former Vice President joe biden are now about half an hour away from their first debate of this years us president ial election. With a distinct lack of Campaign Events due to the pandemic, the political clash is seen as the best chance for both sides to make their case to the country. But this contest wont be quite like anything weve seen before, while as many as 100 million americans will tune in to watch the two men go head to head, only 70 will be in the room to see donald trump and joe bidens verbal joust. Laura trevelyan is our correspondent in cleveland. What are we expecting . High drama. Ican what are we expecting . High drama. I can tell you thatjoe biden
Next president of the United States to the nations capitol. Jake tapper is with us. Were watching it all unfold, jake. This is history. It is, indeed. And im reminded of the big task, the tall order that president elect, soon to be President Biden has in front of him, as he comes to this city and begins this job because just as we were going on air, we learned that more than 400,000 americans have died of covid. Yet another reminder, that fwrim milestone of the job that President Biden will have. Dana, theres a lot for us to talk about as we reflect on this moment. One president leaving, another coming in. But the big the tall order of this pandemic is really foremost on my mind right now. The pandemic, the unbelievable death toll that you just talked about. The fact that the incoming president is trying to make it very clear to everybody that it is likely to get worse before it gets better. And thats just the health care, never mind the economic issue that he has in front of us in fro
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Study how and when to properly reopen. Though not all states are taking that approach, it is a stark contrast to what the president said at the latest Coronavirus Task force briefing, where he said governors would get in line behind whatever he says. When somebody is the president of the united states, the authority is total. And thats the way its got to be. Your authority is total . Total. It is total. The governors know that. Cue the tenth amendment, which that frankly ignores, the amendment about powers reserved for states. It means outside of the National Parks and other federal properties, most scholars, constitutional experts, say the president doesnt have the power to tell states when to reopen, jim. And as many have pointed out, it is why the very document was written. Lets begin with new york in new york with athena jones, so, athena, you know, on the good side here, the worst predictions or forecasts have not panned out for the last week. What are authorities there saying now
American deaths from coronavirus two months ago. Last month, march 15th, there were less than 100 deaths nationwide. Today, were over 32,000 americans dead. It went from less than 100 a month ago, to more than 32,000 now. And no end in sight. One of the countrys in europe that has done fairly well, relatively speaking, in terms of its epidemic, even with what else is going on in the continent is the nation of ireland. Ireland and the u. K. Both got their first cases around the same time, but the u. K. Was slow, like we were, to put in place policies designed to keep people apart, and to keep the virus from spreading. The u. K. Government had some strange ideas about maybe it not being important to keep people apart from one another, and it not being important to slow the spread of the virus, because of their slowness, the u. K. Now has the sixth largest outbreak on earth. Over 100,000 cases in the u. K. Over 13,000 dead already. But their trajectory is terrible. Even as the other bad c