Out nearly identical guidelines getting totally different treatment in the media. Bread him joins us to weigh in on what many are now arguing is a blatant double standard and in the last full week of april the number of new cases continuing on an encouraging trajectory declining for three days straight. I am Shannon Bream in washington, we begin with kevin cork as the president rolls out a new plan he says would ramp up testing across the country. Reporter earlier today we heard the president wasnt going to have everything but cancel which on the heels of the clarks controversy seems provocative to say the least but it turns out there was not only a briefing but plenty to discuss notably increased testing capability, publicprivate partnerships and the slow journey to rebuild our economy. We are doing everything in our particular stick and gradually reopen our nation. There is a hunger for getting our country back. To get the country back on the road to recovery white house officials in
74,000 by august in part because of all of the signs weve seen out there that people are heading back out into public. The sobering numbers are just one reason the top doctor behind the model cited by the white house tells cnn right now is not the time to be reopening. And dr. Fauci seems to share that concern in a new interview just this morning. Listen. If we are unsuccessful or prematurely try to open up, and we have additional outbreaks that are out of control, it could be much more than that. It could be a rebound to get us right back in the same boat that we were in a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago was not a good place. Lets get to florida. Rosa flores in miami. Rosa, Florida Governor ron desantis was just meeting with the president at the white house and talking about his reopening plans for florida, for the state. What are you hearing about those plans . Reporter you know, what we heard from the oval office is that Governor Ron Desantis will be announcing the reopening plan for
The president said if you like your Health Care Plan, you can keep it. Is he keeping his promise . Yes, he is. My insurance policy was cancelled. The white house website says if you like your health plan you have, you can keep it. Did i hear it wrong . I am as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of health care. Gov. I think its great that you are a team player taking responsibility it is the president s ultimate responsibility, correct . You clearly uh whatever. Even this morning when you attempted to view the site before the hearing we were hit with ap error message. Some people like to drive a ford and drink out of a red sol organization cup t, not a crystal stem. You are taking their choice. Why arent you losing your insurance . Amazon would never do this. Kayak would never do this. You are in charge of the law. Should you be different from all of the other americans out the there . I told the president we were ready to go. Clearly i was wrong. Sebelius took questi
More pain, no gain. Our new poll finds festering frustration over washington and the economy. The midterm vote will steer the final years of the obama white house, but it might not be a wave either way. Meantime as a ceasefire continues to hold, our new numbers also show what the country thinks about the month of fighting in the middle east. Plus this economic anxiety is leading to electoral anxiety for kansas governor Sam Brownback. Believe it or not, he barely pushed back 60 in a primary that wasnt supposed to be competitive. This morning well talk to his democratic opponent who is suddenly the favorite in november. Paul davis. Good morning, its a special edition of the daily rundown here on august 6th, 2014. America is still digging out from the Great Recession in a way that politicians are not understanding. Lets get right to my first read of the morning. Its a new nbc wall street journal poll. Welcome to the summer of our discontent. The country still has not mentally recovered fr
Very, very close to Vladimir Putin. And that is intriguing just on surt fas the surface, just for the pure spy novel, lurid thrill of it. We have something close to putin . The post, to its credit, makes clear how extraordinary that is beyond just the wow factor, how unexpected it is to learn that. Ultimately, how important it is to u. S. Interests. The post today notes that putin is, quote, a former kgb officer who takes extreme cautions to guard against surveillance. He rarely communicates by phone or computer. He always runs sensitive state business from deep within the confines of the kremlin. But nevertheless the u. S. Somehow got access to intelligence, got access to information that apparently could only have come from very close to him. According to the post, u. S. Intelligence agencies sourcing when it came to attributing an author, when it came to attributing blame from a russian attack, their sourcing came from, quote, deep inside the russian government, deep enough inside t