To talk about the ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine. Join the conversation tonight 8 00 eastern on cspan. Next remarks from former fda commissioner Mark Mcclellan on the Coronavirus Response. He spoke at a Duke University Virtual Event for half an hour. The room is open, thank you for joining us. Welcome to the latest Duke University media briefing. Bem Greg Phillips and i will monitoring this. Today we are discussing what the federal government, states and cities must do to reopen safely. Thanks to those reporters who submitted questions. People can ask questions by the q and a window. With me as dr. Mark mcclellan, physician and economist from the center for health policy. He was previously commissioner of the u. S. Food and drug administration. Welcome. Dr. Mcclellan thank you for setting this up. Thanks for being with us. We will get started. You coauthored a fourphase Coronavirus Response plan. What elements of states have got to have in place to begin . We are moving from phas
game-changer announcement on student loan forgiveness a [inaudible] for millions of americans. plus, the big lie turned a big rift. how some are profiting off of disproven election fraud claims. goes beyond the former president. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m alicia menendez, in four stephanie ruhle. as if the current day controversies of the former president were not enough, we begin with new insight tonight into how donald trump may have avoided accountability in the investigation that consumed must of his presidency. late today, after a lengthy court fight, the justice department released a document related to the russia investigation. the memo was top secret and now we know why. former presidents attorney bill barr wanted to keep it a secret. in march 2019, bill barr told us before the mueller report was released, that the report had all but exonerated the former president. and therefore, there was no reason to charg
barr s defense of that decision. the memo contends, mueller s report did not establish a case to charge trump with obstruction, who failed to establish any underlying crime related to russian election interference. but, as nbc has reported, mueller s report actually did identify ten episodes that could be considered potential obstruction of justice. as one former mueller prosecutor points out, that is just one a couple of high-level justice department officials were worried about. two senior staff say to bill barr that the reason he should make the decision is because, if the memo comes out, it might be read to imply that the president committed obstruction. this memo makes it clear that the reason that bill barr did not ask robert mueller to simply come to a conclusion is because, as it says here, that report can be read to find that, indeed, he did commit obstruction. as for the ongoing investigations into the former president, tonight the justice department is facing a
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Didnt turn hers. The fear that she is cosying up to a regime that may prove to be, as an historian, may stand comparison with other 20th century horrors, are you stepping back . I think scary authoritarian regimes, not to inaccurately paraphrase, are scary and authoritarian each in their own way. I think this is starting to look incredibly scary and authoritarian. Particularly, actually, banning the possibility of the Environmental Protection agency delivering data to the public. All sorts of things, i think, are serious. But the most worrying part of all, which does not speak to the authoritarian issue, but something more loopy, is his lack of contact with reality. Today, he doubled down on the extraordinary assertion that between Three Million And Five million illegal immigrant votes were cast. It is absolutely, this was actually delivered to a reception in which, the first reception he had with congressional leaders, there were treated to being harangued on this fantastic story, wit