Who can least afford it. The president s signature extending signature checks, billions of dollars of aid to millions. The threat to torpedo the bill to approve it after damage was done. The latest example of his increasingly erratic behavior in the final days of his presidency. Trump was under growing pressure from republicans to approve the bill, partly to avoid sabotaging two in georgia. The president says hell campaign for them next week. With millions of americans at risk of going hungry, losing jobs and homes, the president relented after another day on the golf course where hes now spent almost 20 of his presidency. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is traveling with the president. He reports from west palm beach, florida. Good morning, christine and ryan, at long last, President Trump has signed the 2. 3 stimulus bill which includes 900 billion in desperately needed Coronavirus Relief. The president i signing the legislation five days after he called this very same piece of legislation a dis
Season is a little quieter than usual because with covid cases surging across the country, most people have cancelled the usual large family gatherings and house parties. Most people. Not everyone. Take for instance the white house. The white house had at least 25 indoor holiday parties planned for the month of december, 25. Well, they say holiday parties. Some might say superspreader events. Tomato tomato. Lets not forget this is a white house that has already had at least one superspreader event even when a good portion of that event was held outdoors in nice weather. Close to a dozen attendees at the September Rose garden ceremony for Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett, including President Trump, tested positive after that. Then many more tested positive after a white house Election Night party. Ultimately three dozen people in Donald Trumps orbit contracted the virus. This white house is a giant petri dish, and you want to have 25 holiday parties there . What exactly do you th
Lets not forget this is white house that had at least one super spreader event when a good portion was held outdoors in nice weather. Close to a dozen attendees at the September Rose garden ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett including President Trump himself tested positive after that. Ultimately Something Like three dozen people in Donald Trumps orbit contracted the virus. This white house is a giant petri dish, and you want to have 25 holiday parties there . What exactly do you think is going to happen . Well, unfortunately predictably this. The vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party came down with covid19 symptoms after attending a Holiday Gathering in washington, d. C. People were just leisurely and gingerly take off their mask to eat, to mingle, to schmooze. I dont even think people wore masks the entire time. It was a big event, about 200 people. And again, i was as guilty as anybody else. I wasnt wearing a mask. He said he went to be tested after r
Remarkable interview with the nations top Infectious Disease doctor, dr. Anthony fauci who expressed frustration it seemed with the president s grasp of facts. Told Science Magazine i cant jump in front of the microphone and push him down. Also overnight the u. S. Senate failing to reach an agreement on an historic 1. 8 trillion stimulus bill. Democrats arguing the republican measure puts corporate interests above the needs of the American Workers. A vote is now expected around 1 00 after democrats blocked Senate Majority leader mcconnells effort to force a vote this morning, which mcconnell wanted to hold just minutes after the opening bell on wall street. That republican effort is hampered by the absence of five gop senators who are quarantined, including senator rand paul, who has tested positive for coronavirus. The senate dysfunction comes at a time when millions are waiting anxiously for help. They have rents, they have mortgages, they have bills to pay, they may have already los
Adherence to the physical separation, the guidelines that the Vice President talks about, the physical separation, at the same time were seeing the increase in deaths. Were seeing rather dramatic decrease in the need for hospitalizations. Yesterday was Something Like 200 new hospitalizations. Its been as high as 1,400 at any given time. So that is going in the right direction. I say that, and i always remind myself when i say that, that means that what we are doing is working. Therefore, we need to continue to do it. I get questions a lot, dr. Birx and i, about these numbers, the projections. They went from 100,000, 200,000, now down to 60,000. Thats a sign that when, as i keep saying, when you take the data you have, and you reinsert it into the model, the model modifies. Data is real. Model is hypothesis. Okay . Thats what you have to do. Thats what i think were seeing. Dr. Anthony fauci at yesterdays White House Briefing, explaining a revised projection for deaths in the u. S. From