170,000 americans in all have died from coronavirus. The president is enthusiastic about another unproven and experimental drug, an extract. The president says maybe or an ally says it would help treat the virus. It is not a medical expert urging the president to do this. It is the my pillow guy on the board of the company that makes that product. That fits with the case the democrats case that the president and science remain strangers seven months into this pandemic. Biden enters his Convention Week with the polling lead but beating an incumbent is a very difficult task so team biden is looking for venues to reach voters. This is a new interview with the rap star cardi b. The rest of the worlds always looked to us. Why have they looked to us . Not because were so powerful but the power of our example. Look what theyre seeing now with this president. Hes literally promoting hatred. Promoting prejudice, racism. This is all about, all about the game of making people hate each other beca
Michael bloomberg is not on the ballot until next week, but tom steyer has spent heavily in South Carolina and on the polls there. At least one voter questions the wisdom of some of that spending. You claim to be proenvironment and raising significant alarms about climate change. Yet we have been receiving so many mailings from your campaign, literally three to five times per week for months now. How do you justify this unnecessary overkill of mailings and printed material in a Digital World that would certainly be much more environmentally friendly . Voters ask the darndest things. We begin there with the democrats big debate night and big is an understatement. Bernie sanders in the middle to raise the curtain on an incredibly consequential week in the 2020 campaign. South carolina votes on saturday, and then one state at a time in february gives way to the politics version of march madness. 13 states plus American Samoa one week from today, super tuesday. After South Carolina on satu
People need certainty of clarity so they can plan. I need cord maordinated action with the states. One month will continue to close down policies. What happens after then . I dont know. Well see depending on what the data shows. What does it mean . Tell us what our infection spread is. Is it. 9, is it. 7 . Tell me what the hospitalizations rate is and the experts will tell us the best course of conduct based on that data. No political decisions. No motiemotional decisions. Data and science we are talking about, human lives here. As relatively simple and possibility annoying as it seems, wearing a mask is one of the best things that we can do. And i understand i am getting a lot of not happy phone calls off what i said yesterday about wearing a mask in public, but i am sorry if it makes people unhappy. I do not consider a major burden and it really is a simple measure that can save lives. Yes, people say it is a personal intrusion on them. Again, it is not just about you, right . I have
Schools and restaurants will open next month. In england the virus have killed more people than being reported. Bans on public prayer gatheri s gatherings. Here in the United States, coronavirus cases climbing to nearly 800,000. More than 42,000 dead. Thats more american lives lost to coronavirus than in the korean war. The president says this is a war. His battlefield priority is using his big twitter platform to brag about the ratings after a late night tweet promising to shutdown all immigrations. Aids are rushing to turn that tweet into policies even though most entries into the United States is already sharply restricted. The biggest battlefield needs is more testings. New researchers subjecting 5 million tests will be needed a day to safely reopen the economy. Several are planning to reopen parts of the economy this week. Brian kemp is the first to announce a major back to work plan. We look at the daily cases there in georgia. Georgia is now exhibit a. Some governors say this is
President s mindset. With us to share reporting and insights, laura meckler, wall street journal, Michael Bender of the wall street journal and cnns m. J. Lee. To capitol hill in a moment and todays important questioning of president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner. Also keep our eyes out for that Public Statement were told hell make after finishes his interview with the Senate Intelligence committee. First, though, the president s own attack of his attorney general and what this tells us. In an angry tweet the president asks Congress Special counsel and of course our beleaguered attorney general arent investigating Hillary Clinton. Imagine if your boss publicly called you beleaguered and hardly the first public review. Remember . The president twice in an interview with the New York Times last week said sessions had been unfair to the president , and the president said he never would have appointed sessions attorney general if he knew he would go on to recuse himself from decisions related