Considering that today is august 1st and we are close to 155,000 deaths into this pandemic so well add an additional 25,000 lives to that total in the next three weeks. More than 7,000 a week. That as we quickly approach 4. 6 million confirmed cases. Remember when trump said it would go to zero and disappear . Even scarier reality is that yesterday on capitol hill the nations Top Public Health officials made it clear we still dont seem to have a National Strategy in place to combat this virus. Heres what dr. Anthony fauci had to say when questioned on the topic. Would you agree with me that the critical difference is either the presence or the absence of social cohesion and Political Leadership to develop a plan, execute it and stick to it . I think there was such a diversity of response in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything down. In other words, a lack of leadership is at the heart of this matter. Then theres this, a brandnew v
On the democrat replacing the democrat campaign. I mean, the fascinating thing about that senate race is i mean, its been an interesting rate on its merits but joe kennedy has to give up his seat in the house. So if he swings and misses there, it has quite an opportunity cost for him. Alex morse, the mayor, is taking a clean shot at richey neal with nothing on the line. But he has a National Profile because of the ways and means chairman and the failed effort thus far to get trumps taxes. What do you think were going to know at this hour tomorrow night given how many mailin ballots have to be counted . Its a super interesting question because massachusetts has never had a big race, statewide race thats going to be so predominantly mailin ballots like this. So mass chew set wills be flexing some new muscles that theyve never had to use before. I have no prediction at all as to when we will get results there. If you get a lopsided result, you tend to get it earlier, but i dont know. That
The recount quote will not change these results. Now, as a matter of election precedent, that is fact check true. Donald trump lost in these areas theyve selected to recount by over 360,000 votes. Thats a lot. No recount in history has ever moved more than 1,000 votes so as they say, do the math. But i want to tell you tonight, these recount thoueatrics are le giulianis because they dont offer a path to change the outcome and as ive told you around here in the news, if there is a path to change the outcome and make this for exciting, we would tell you. That would be interesting, if nothing else. There isnt that kind of path. Instead, we see the pursuit of another stage for these individuals to press what are losing grievances for some kind of audience. That was part of this controversial part in michigan where two republicans tried to stop certifying trumps loss in that state and the effort quickly fizzled. What did team trump get out of it . A delay of less than a day. What did it cos
Members, but there are many hours left. He has new details about the special orders president elect bind plans to issue on day one. We are live with our top story. How does it look, steve . Reporter good morning, allison. Things here in washington get more and more restricted by the minute. In fact, this is about as close as one can get to the capitol on foot right now. You can see one of the dozens of road blocks set up staffed by members of the u. S. Aguard. That number is up to 25,000 by Inauguration Day and the fbi to vet soldiers coming in from out of state. The National Park service that oversees the National Mall and it says that it is being cleared out right now, all of these steps being taken are unprecedented for nInauguration Day. There is nobody there. Thats not the business of the Parks Service is in. Were in the business of providing access to these sites. So i think when the 20th get here and there are few, if any, people around, i think it will be unfortunate, but it is
Kids, high school, college age kids and i have taken to giving them some advice maybe is a little depressing to them but i say, look, i, like you, have seen a lot of pain and a lot of bad things and i know that life is cruel and short and bad things happen to good people. So i say to these young people, look, you need to do the things youre doing, whats next . How do i get into this school . How do i get into this job . Sometimes you need to turn the telescope around and in your mind look at yourself from the end, so youre an old man or old woman, god willing, and you look back and ask yourself this question, who do i want to have been . What do i want to have been . I think the answer will be, this is what you want to have been, right . You dont want to have been somebody with a great boat or a great house or a fancy car. I think you want want to be somy who has been part of protecting the innocent, rescuing children, doing all things thaw do. Turn that around to try and guide those c