Has become increasingly erratic and taking the focus off a pandemic that is showing renewed signs of spread. 25 states now reporting increasing number of cases compared to last week. For the first time in a month and a half, the u. S. Is seeing an average of more than 44,000 new cases per day. Several of these cases can be traced to people close to President Trump. A cnn count shows at least 20 people, including the president , are now confirmed to have tested positive. The most recent addition to that list is Stephen Miller, architecture architect to President Trumps antiimmigration policies. A series of tests before learning he was positive for coronavirus. Putting this cluster here into perspective, all of the countries on your screen right now reported fewer cases last week than the white house has had in the last few days. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is reporting for us near the white house. Kaitlan, we know the president has been pushing to get back into the oval office. Tell us the lat
We have our cohost to bring the feedback in the program. A lot of arguing online about who to blame over isils expansion. How did isil rise . Are we taking appropriate counter actions against isil, and sal said this is obamas fault. Blame him for the isil mess. However its been 3. 5 years in syria and blames all World Leaders and the war has lingered, created a bigger problem and now has a name of operation inherit resolve. We look at the spread of the Group Islamic state in iraq and the levant known as isil. Nearly 60 countries are trying to stop the group. Critics say the u. S. Airstrikes campaign against isil has not stopped their advance. Isil has maintained control of most of the territory it seized in the past several months stretching across syria, iraq, and is poised to capture the syrian town of kobane on the turkish border. And it could destabilize key u. S. Allies leaving many to question the commitment by the u. S. Is enough. Joining me is rick brennan, former Senior Advise
[ technical difficulties ] and that they were transporting him in and out would have afforded him safety. We know his mother has been tweeting in arabic, trying to communicate directly with isil. Do you know if she has had any success . Im not sure. At this point were focusing on any means that we can. The families, the friends, the people he has been working with in syria, and in america, trying to appeal to those people to allow him his freedom, because he is a devout muslim, a humanitarian worker, he wants to continue his work to assist the Syrian People. And were trying to make sure those people understand those things about him, and that he will be granted his freedom. We have some more from the community yeah. Quick thought on that . Should we change our the u. S. Policy towards hostages . Im not going to comment on the u. S. Policy towards hostages, but i think we need to appeal to the masses in that region to come together to save this man, because he has done amazing work for
We have our cohost to bring the feedback in the program. A lot of arguing online about who to blame over isils expansion. How did isil rise . Are we taking appropriate counter actions against isil, and sal said this is obamas fault. Blame him for the isil mess. However its been 3. 5 years in syria and blames all World Leaders and the war has lingered, created a bigger problem and now has a name of operation inherit resolve. We look at the spread of the Group Islamic state in iraq and the levant known as isil. Nearly 60 countries are trying to stop the group. Critics say the u. S. Airstrikes campaign against isil has not stopped their advance. Isil has maintained control of most of the territory it seized in the past several months stretching across syria, iraq, and is poised to capture the syrian town of kobane on the turkish border. And it could destabilize key u. S. Allies leaving many to question the commitment by the u. S. Is enough. Joining me is rick brennan, former Senior Advise
Probably the most Important Information to come of this is that all people are now accounted for. There was one person unaccounted for. But they have been able to identify that person. So, a lot of kudos going around to the 225 First Responders and people who helped in this situation. The last comment by the chief, unbelievable. You know, he said verbatim, the crews were heroic and in some cases literally cutting people out of their seat belts in the plane. Thats just amazing. One interesting fact as well, of the two confirmed deaths that they did find them outside the aircraft. So i dont know what you make of that, how they got out there, whether again, they were also referring to people maybe trying to go into the water to correct. To put fires out. The Fire Department said upon arrival they did notice some folks in water because the plane was on fire. Perhaps they were trying to get themselves with water or perhaps they were just trying to get away from the fire and water is the saf