Course. A course that responsibly opens up businesses in texas. We will open in a way that uses safe standards. Safe standards for businesses. For their employees as well as for their customers. Standards based upon data and on doctors. Ed casey stegalls live in arlington, texas. Good morning, casey. Good morning. There is one big catch however when it comes to these businesses that will be reopening. They are not allowed to do so at full capacity. They will have their occupancies limited to about 25 at least for now. So libraries and museums, for instance, are on the list of things that can open this friday but say a library is normally allowed to hold a hundred people and they were only allowed 25 inside at one time. The same rules will also apply to the restaurants, retail and also movie theaters. Public sports venues are also allowed to resume, so as long as they are outdoors and following the state social distancing practices. That means that Tennis Courts and golf courses will be
Because regardless to what, he will not die in vain. Both gardners mother and widow say theyre determined to get justice. In this case, regardless of your opinion, the grand jury is part of our Justice System. One of the Big Questions raised here is whether that system should be different when an officer is involved. It is the grand debate as we are calling it. We will get to that discussion in a moment. But first, msnbc is standing on the Staten Island sidewalk where gardner was killed. Run us through the details of the response we just got from the d. A. s request. Reporter so just moments ago, i spoke with ben garner, eric garners father. And i was the first to let him know that a decision had been made. Some of the information contained in the grand jury will be released. I told them about the 50 witnesses, the 22 of whom were civilians, there were 60 exhibits. And he said, quite frankly, not one of them stepped up to save my son, so none of it matters. That was his feeling. I spok
And the most important political test of his presidency yet. President trump twisting the arms of skeptical Republican House members to vote yes on the bill to repeal and replace obamacare. The American People gave us clear instructions. Its time to get busy, get to work and to get the job done. The president testing out his own brand of deal making in a closed door meeting on capitol hill. Gop members giving trump a standing ovation. Party loyalist using threats and public shaming to sell the American Health care act to his own party. The president warning house members they could lose their seats next year if the bill doesnt pass. Theres going to be a price to be paid but with their own voters. President trump even calling out the chairman of the conservative House Freedom caucus for publicly denouncing the bill. The president cautioning meadows im coming after you but meadows and others are still a hard no. Theres still not enough votes to pass this particular bill. The president di
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to this special edition of the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin tonight with breaking news in the politics lead. And just like that, poof, he was gone. Anthony scaramucci doing his best kaiser sose impression before he could begin. A weekend change after walking into the west wing. Scaramucci was asked today moments after general john kelly was sworn in as white house chief of staff. Officially scaramucci offered to resign. But sources tell cnn that general kelly wanted him out and scaramucci was escorted out of the white house. The retired marine general thought scaramucci undisciplined and without credibility after his profanitylaced tirade about since fired chief of staff Reince Priebus and steve bannon to the new yorker magazine on thursday. Today this is what the white house had to say about why he was ousted. The president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. And he didnt want to burden general kelly
Bring the issue of immigration to the senate floor. Is that enough for the democrats . And moments ago despite pleas from members of his own party and his own staff to stay out of the fray, the president is dropping twitter bombs into the mix, writing, democrats have shut down our government in the interest of their far left base. They dont want do it but are powerless. Lets go right to capitol hill this morning to find out the very latest on these negotiations. Cnn sue zan mel voe is there. What are you hearing . Reporter this is going to be a very busy morning just within the hour so the senate will gavel to session officially and the business will begin at hand. The democrats and as you mentioned before, the democrats meeting behind closed doors at the time was supposed to be around 10 00. It could slip a bit here. That is the key meeting to note because thats where youll have senator Chuck Schumer with all the democrats to talk about mcconnells latest proposls here. Youve got folks