Event. Hello and welcome to Washington Post live. I am a National Political reporter at the post. S morning, we consider continue our Leadership Series on how we are confronting the coronavirus pandemic. Our guest this morning is Governor Phil Murphy of new jersey. Governor murphy is a democrat, elected to his office in 2017. He served as u. S. Ambassador to germany after being nominated by president obama and confirmed by the senate. He had a long career in banking. Welcome. Gov. Murphy good to be with you, bob. Bob case numbers are soaring in different areas of the country. Parents and others are on edge. Case numbers this morning in new jersey, taking up or taking down . Gov. Murphy the number of positive cases is Holding Steady in the sort of plus or minus 200 to 400 range. Today we got a little better news on rate of transmission and how many tests are positive, so our positivity rate, but we are watching this, every minute of every day, making our decisions when we shut the state
election result. it s a pressure campaign that came incredibly and alarmingly close to actually working. it could have completely changed the game for trump and his allies on january 6th if and only if it had succeeded. washington post is out with stunning new details on efforts by doj official jeffrey clark to essentially take over the justice department, efforts which culminated in a january 3rd meeting previously reported on by the post, the new york times and other outlets inside the oval office between clark, the man who would become the acting a.g. and his deputy richard donahue and of course one donald j. trump from the post reporting. clark had outlined a plan. in a letter he wanted to send to the leaders of key states that joe biden won. it said the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns about the vote and that the state should consider sending a separate slate of electors supporting donald j. trump for congress to approve. in fact, clark
Jonathan capeheart. Hey, jenn, thank you very much and thank you for joining us. We start with a story that is very much still developing and unselfed to our first guest. This is nayir takov and live in kibbutz and his sons are 16 and 12 years old, and orr, the big brother is 16 and yagil, the younger son, hes 12. Saturday morning at 8 45 a. M. Local time and he and his sisterinlaw were in a cheryl inside the house and will try to ride out the bombings that started and his two sons, the 12yearold and 16yearold were not with them. They were in a different house in the kibbutz and the plan everybody would stay put until the bombings stopped and they would find each other and get back together and stay safe. Then, about a half hour later, it was another communication, it was his girlfriend, and she texted out an audio message, and it was terrifying. She said there were two terrorists inside the house, they had guns, they were shooting, and she said yayir was trying to hold back the door f
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Mitch mcconnell chose the country over the loyalty when 45 was impeached and its because the republicans controlled the senate they got away with this. One of my proudest moments i looked barack obama in the eye i said, you will not fulfill the Supreme Court vacancy. Its because republicans control the senate they were able to ignore the constitutional duty and dismiss the impeachment trial from the getgo. This thing will come to the senate and it will die quickly and i will do everything i can to make it die quickly. I am trying to give a pretty clear signal, i have made up my mind. If it wasnt in any doubt. We will have a lot more on the senate races in just a few minutes but first, ali velshi, one of my favorite people, traveled to pennsylvania to talk to some voters in the key Battle Ground state. Take a look at some of what they had to say about donald trump. I just have been so disappointed with whats been going on in this country for the last four years. The leadership, its just