Grips to a new normal. Everyone urged to comply with the new restrictions. Time matters, minutes counts. This is literally a matter of life and death. Too many people too close together too often. The longer we do that, the more people will get sick and the more people will die. Scientists and Public Health experts are all making us gravely aware of the choice that we have. And the choices that we need to make to save lives. Local officials have the authority to implement more strict standards than what i as governor have order here in the state of texas. Sandra Fox Team Coverage Kristin Fisher is tracking the federal response. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live at cdc headquarters in atlanta for us this morning. Good morning from atlanta, sandra. You are seeing a patchwork of responses across the country based on the threat level or at least what we know about the threat level. Here in georgia, and in some other states they are asking for voluntary social distancing. But in more hardh
Back into head start. What you get are our National Parks and monuments open again. What you get is the economy not stalling but continuing to grow. What you get are workers continuing to be hired. Thats what you get. Thats what you should be asking for. Take a vote and end this shutdown right now. The president s remarks came after a closed door meeting last night with congressional leaders yielding no results. That meeting lasted for over an hour and was described by republicans as, quote, polite but unproductive. Today both sides sticking to their positions with republicans refusing to fund the government unless obama care takes a hit. The white house insisting that the house pass a clean bill that funds the government. We start our Coverage Today with nbcs kelly odonnell, whos on capitol hill. Kelly, i know there was at least a little bit of a bipartisan lunch with senator rand paul. Then you have two members of congress, one democrat, one a republican, coming out with some kind of
There are criminal statute thats prohibit that kind of collusion and impose serious criminal fines and imprisonment for people who might have done that. And we know that the fbi is now investigating. The potential collusion with the russians as director comey has told us and made public. So theres no classified information there. The meeting the fbi conducted on january 24th preceded by one day, the first meeting with Donald Mcgann. Isnt it a fact that Michael Flynn lied to the fbi . I cant reveal the internal fbi investigation even though that would not be classified. It is an Ongoing Investigation and i cant reveal that. Did you tell Donald Mcgann that then National Security adviser flynn told him in. He asked me how he had done and i specifically declined to answer that. Because it was part of an investigation. Thats right. Was that intended to indicate to him that Michael Flynn had a problem in that interview . No. I was intending to let him know that Michael Flynn had a problem on
Governments. Jon Catherine Herridge is alive from the Hart Senate Office building on capitol hill. Well, thank you. And Jared Kushner arrived on capitol hill 80 minutes ago. The team was down on the c street and entrance to the office building. As Jared Kushner entered the building, he waved and smiled for reporters. We were told by senate staff are that they anticipate that Jared Kushner will be on the senate side from 12 hours answering questions from the democratic side and the republican side. They were not anticipating that senators would actually be present for the question and answer session. Earlier today, Jared Kushner and his Team Released a statement for the record if you will that the context during the campaign and during the transition period, he said that he had forwarded contacts with the russians, but no nothing improper. I will read one section for you here. It states in part, i did not collude or know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any Foreign Gover
Sitdown meeting with the russian lawyer. A lot of news today. Lets get to it. First from the news deck this monday afternoon, President Trump just minutes away from delivering a statement on healthcare. The president set to speak at the white house alongside people are calling victims of obamacare. The white house says President Trump will urge republicans to vote to bring the Senate Healthcare bill to the floor for debate. Gop support for the measure collapsed a week ago now and President Trump has been lashing out at republicans for failing to push the bill forward. Today he tweeted, republicans have the last chance to do repeal and replace. If the republicans dont repeal and replace, the repercussions will be greater than any of them understand. But the Senate Healthcare bill does not repeal obamacare. It defunds the Affordable Care act, leaving its regulations and structure in place. Kristin fisher live at the white house on the top story this hour. Kristin. Shep, what the white ho