The outbreak began. There are now more than 185,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the u. S. More than 38,000 people have died in this country. Tonight nearly 80 of americans are living under stayathome or shelterin placeorders. The president formally extending social distancing guidelines for one more month now, at least until april 30th. Lets discuss now. Don harwood is here and daniel dale. Thank you for joining us. John, today the president seemed to be aware on some level of how bad this could get. Talk to me about his response today. Don, i think we saw a president today who had been smacked in the face hard by a reality that is very, very grim. You know, so often the president comes across as somebody who is out of touch with what the rest of us can all see presenting a hucksterish view. He called himself today a cheerleader but it is much harder to do that when youre not looking out at a curve that may rise up sometime in the near future. When its rising right now and wh
One more month now at least until april 30th. Lets discuss. John harwood is here and our resident fact checker daniel dale. John, you first, the president seemed to be aware of how bad this could get. Talk to me about his response today. Don, we saw a president today who had been smacked in the face hard by a reality thats very, very grim. You know, so often the president comes across as somebody whos out of touch with what the rest of us can all see presenting kind of a hucksterish view. He called himself today a cheerleader. It is much harder to do that when youre not looking out at a curve that may rise up sometime in the near future. When its rising right now, and when you can see the curve steepening in terms of both numbers of cases and the numbers of deaths involved, when you have a best Case Scenario of 100,000 deaths, that is a situation where even a president whos a cheerleader has got to be knocked back and i think dr. Fauci and dr. Berks had the effect of grinding that real
Trumps Senior Advisor told nbc news that the campaign is moving to patch things up with the republican party. Were here to let them know that were going to run a Traditional Campaign with them. Were the nominee of the republican party. Its going to be a trump brand of the party. We are republicans. Were running as team. Some are skeptical. The journals own Editorial Board wrote miracles happen. He did control his political id on tuesday night but mr. Trumps inner hooligan never stays locked up for long. He refrained from using lying ted and he focused on the issue of jobs. Lets watch this. We dont have much of race anymore based on what im seeing on television. Senator cruz is just about mathematically eliminated. This country is great. We have such potential, bill. Were not using it. It didnt take long for the old trump to return. You look at a guy like kasich, hes never been hit by an ad because nobody cares, frankly. Its so true. Were going to beat crooked hillary. I watched her las
Actions happening behind the scene. No Public Events for either president ial candidates as they prepare for the hotly contested evening on the National Stage here. It will be Donald Trumps first debate since declaring the shackles are off and Hillary Clinton will face new questions as well about emails. Here is the backdrop. New poll numbers out. Nationally, Hillary Clinton is up seven points. And thats taken over this weekend. We are going to check in on what both campaigns are up to as we are six hours away. Katy tur covering the Trump Campaign for us and casey hundred. Katy, let me start with you. A rare day for trump. Hes not taken a lot of down time. Hes taken no down time so far. He see him doing rallies after rallies, the last ten days since the debate. Yesterday, he was on the plane from Colorado Springs to grand junction, he was doing debate preps on foreign policy. A rare day not to see him on the campaign trail. What hes doing right now is trying to find a way to make sure
Who is our person of the week . Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a very busy friday night. We begin with new questions swirling around President Trump, his team, and communications with the russians before the election. Tonight, President Trump firing back, saying Jeff Sessions is the victim of a witch hunt. It comes after sessions did not reveal while under oath two meetings with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign. The president said his attorney general could have been more clear. But also tweeted out images of a democrat leader with Vladimir Putin. Cecilia vega leading us off. Reporter inside the oval office today, President Trump huddling with his closest advisers, steve bannon, soninlaw Jared Kushner and daughter ivanka. The president then heading to his Florida Golf Club maralago for the weekend. But tonight, his administration in damage control. The president calls it a witch hunt, but theres a growing list of aides and advisers who misrepresented their con