Closer to 5 million americans sickened by this virus. The death toll now north of 160,000 of our fellow citizens. And to paraphrase the president , it truly is what it is, and and its a stag ring number growing by about 1,000 souls a day. The latest model out projects we could lose nearly twice that number, nearly 300,000 by december 1st. Heres how the president spoke today about the crisis. In an interview this week, you were talking about people dying of coronavirus. You said thats true, and it is what it is. Nobody can do what ive done in terms of all of the things that were doing to combat this horrible disease that never should have been sent to us. We have to produce not only cleanliness and perfection in every way, but we have to protect our most vulnerable citizens against this horrible virus. Our strategy shelters those at highest risk while allowing those at lower risk to get safely back to work and to school. Instead of a neverending blanket lockdown causing severe longterm
Heres how the president spoke today about the crisis. In an interview this week, you were talking about people dying of coronavirus. You said thats true, and it is what it is. Nobody can do what ive done in terms of all of the things that were doing to combat this horrible disease that never should have been sent to us. We have to produce not only cleanliness and perfection in every way, but we have to protect our most vulnerable citizens against this horrible virus. Our strategy shelters those at highest risk while allowing those at lower risk to get safely back to work and to school. Instead of a neverending blanket lockdown causing severe longterm Public Health consequences. And as the man on the tv used to say, but wait, theres more. Trump now appears to be employing the promise of a vaccine as part of his reelection strategy. Today he took three opportunities to suggest that we could even see a vaccine by election day. We have a lot of vaccines under study, by the way. We look lik
Considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court justices. We have this obligation, he writes, without delay. So, what does without delay mean . Certainly means the president is interested in beginning the process of replacing Justice Ginsburg. We know from our reporting here, my colleague Kevin Liptack at cnn says hes been told the president could start interviewing possible candidates for nominee as associate justice as early as next week. So, that at least would be beginning of the process. After that, of course, the nomination and then at the very least would move to the question of hearings up on capitol hill. Confirmation hearings. Who is in play. Well, i did hear from the last hour you talked a little bit about Amy Coney Barrett. She, of course, is an appellate judge out in indiana, about 46 years old. And very popular with social and religious conservatives. She was one of the clerks for antonin scalia, who, of course, is revered, if you will, by social conservativ
Pancreatic cancer. Her last wishes were for the country and politicians to step back, pause and wait until november. Wait until the Voters Decide who will be the next president before pushing ahead to fill her seat. Let the Voters Decide as republicans demanded and forced just four years ago. But those same republicans now seem to be changing their tune as theyre faced with the possibility of losing the white house and the senate. Sadly, people who knew Justice Ginsburg will have mourn her loss while a political discussion swirls around her and that has already begun. Just shortly after news broke of her death, uts Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell promised to fully support President Trump and the partisan process to find Justice Ginsburg successor. Cnn congressional reporter lauren fox is on capitol hill. Lauren, Justice Ginsburg reportedly told her granddaughter a few days ago she wanted her replacement to be named by the next u. S. President. Doesnt seem like that is going to h
And we were on the air on saturday when joe biden crossed the vote threshold to become the president elect and to willies point about the pandemic, bidens first order of Business Today will be announcing the team that will help him get the virus under control and that team will have its work cut out for it as u. S. Cases continue to surge at record levels. Now surpassing the 10 million mark and deaths again on the rise. Well, willie, if you looked at the celebrations on over this weekend, there were some in times square that were fine. You had people wearing mask, there was some distanced and spacing and there were other places that people were crowded in. It was dangerous and you can expect the spread of infections. Like we said from the beginning of the year, the virus doesnt care about trumps politics, or bidens politics, you dont crowd in like that. And i stayed up past midnight to watch an incredible football game. Notre dame and clemson. What an incredible game. Went into overtim