Cnn it is conceivable the United States could see tens of thousands of more deaths in the coming months. Tens of thousands more americans dead all of them alive tonight. And yet the same time President Trump seems to have forforgotten the pandemic and the governments failed response with some things he is saying tonight speaking to reporters urging states to reopen now. I really do believe a lot of the governors should be opening up states that theyre not opening. Urging governors to reopen. Heard that before, right . Sure remembered that in florida and georgia and texas. Right now 900 americans are dying about every day from coronavirus. Hospitalizations are near the Record Number set back in april. Last week at least 16 states set a single day record in cases. As of tonight 22 states are heading in the wrong direction when it comes to cases and even states doing significantly better i mean significantly like they really had, you know, smashed it is a word similar to the word the gove
Students with restrictive i. D. Laws and attacking our Voting Rights with surgical precisions, even undermining the Postal Service in the runup to an election thats going to be dependent on mailin ballots so people dont get sick all day republicans have been asked ed to respond to the president s tweet. Some condemning it, others not so much. A senator saying it was joke. Weve become familiar. Just joking when he called on foreign powers to investigate his political rivals or considered buying greenland. When he said barack obama was founder of isis or when he told a room full of cops to rough up suspects or when he talked about injecting humans with disinfectant as a coronavirus cure or recently when he suggested slowing down coronavirus testing, the white house said he was just kidding. And the next day the president told us he doesnt kid. So maybe we should take his word for it. White house correspondent Kaitlan Collins joining us to talk about this. How are white house aides trying
At them come in, sean donovan housing and urban development there in the gray suit, arne duncan with education a lot of these people have served four years. This is not exactly a new team. He didnt clean house by any means. There are some new people, john kerry but its a very familiar group of people. Is there fresh vision there . Thats one of the things well be able to judge tonight. Woodruff a good point, mark. The president is replacing about half the cabinet, about half of them have announced theyre leaving. We know some of the new names but most of them havent taken their jobs yet. You know, there were some conversation that, you know, as david was just saying that some of these folks are exhausted from four years of partisan warfare. I think it is. I think its always difficult to replace somebody who is enjoying her work or his work. For any president. This is a president that, quite frankly, is comfortable with a smaller circle of people. Woodruff if i can just interrupt, the ge
You go back to the original greek. Politics had two parts, poly meaning many and tics meaning blood sucking parasites. That firly will describes the state of affairs in washington today. Welcome back from a wild weekend income iowa full of sound and fury, signifying perhaps the way too early start of the 2016 president ial race. Yes, the Iowa Caucuses are still more than 28 months away. But that isnt stopping those with an eye on the oval office descending on the hawkeye state. From the weekend social conservative summit to next months steak fril featuring Vice President joe biden, we will cast our gaze into the future just ahead. But we begin with the fierce urgency of now and two major developments in the area of criminal justice reform. Earlier today in a major repudiation of new yorks controversial stop and frisk policy, a federal judge ruled the tactic violates the Constitutional Rights of minorities. The judge ruled that by systematically stopping innocent people mainly blacks an
Shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. Mark, what is different about a state of the union when its the first one of a second term . You dont have that many more to look forward to . The sand is running out of the glass. This is probably the best shot that most president s have in their second term is that first yearandahalf before you get into Congressional Elections and the lame duckness really sets in. The race to succeed him begins while hes just sitting there. So this is important. This is the teasing of the moment but the moment is left under most circumstances. Obviously a crisis can extend that. But generally speaking in the natural order of things, judy, a president has a yearandahalf to accomplish his greatest achievements in his second term. Woodruff as we watch the video live from the House Chamber, members of the president s cabinet making their way in greeting senators and house members. Were waiting for the president himself to come in that door. David, if any