He and Glenn Greenwald just wrote a piece titled the Khorasan Group anatomy of a fake Terror Threat to justify bombing syria. Then Human Rights Watch calls for a probe into the death of seven civilians in an u. S. Airstrike in syria. Then we go to ferguson missouri. I want to say to the brown family, no one was not espresso loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. Im truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. As fergusons police chief issues his first apology to the family of Michael Brown, protests continue against the police force. Tension escalated this weekend when a Police Officer was shot in the arm while responding to a burglary unrelated to the protests. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Continues to expand military operations in iraq and syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, usled warplanes hit grain
Jeffrey epstein and minors. Maxwell has denied any wrongdoing in the past. We want to begin this hour in texas where the number of coronavirus cases is exploding. Between june 8th and june 21th, there have been about 75,000 new cases of coronavirus in texas alone. And that is just in those three weeks. Harris county, home to houston, is the hardest hit in the state with over 32,000 cases so far. That is where we find Msnbcs David Gura live outside the houston medical center. David, good talk to you again. Obviously, staggering numbers there. Houston attempting to try to deal with this ballooning number of cases. Do they have enough testing, you think, and resources to meet the need of those being hospitalized . Let me talk about testing first if i could, ayman. Three ways to get tested in this community. Theres a city of houston testing apparatus. Sites around the city you can go online to to try to get an appointment at. Theres often a long line to get through there. They test about 5
Questions about the president ial candidates health. We have a lot to get to in what is a busy wednesday. Im Hallie Jackson with mike memoli with the Biden Campaign in wilmington, delaware, kelly odonnell, outside the white house, Steve Kornacki at the big board and ken delaney with new reporting on the dhs memo and russian trolls. Mike, ill start with you, talk to me about that you expect to hear from biden today after his campaign has been hammering the president over his response to violence around the country. Reporter well, i think this goes without saying, right . Covering joe biden in this campaign has been nothing like all the campaigns i covered in over the last decade, plus. And in fact what were going to see today is pretty much typical for what we have been seeing since the onset of the pandemic. No big rallies. His campaigning looks a lot like governing, the kind of events you cover at the white house. Well see joe biden joined by his wife, dr. Jill biden, life long educat
The president look bad were also expecting to get comments from the president this hour as the white house rushes to respond to yet another damaging and explosive story about the president s comments made in private, this time, audiotapes revealing that President Trump understood the true threats of the pandemic all downplaying it to the American Public in weeks after that in a series of interviews with veteran washington journalist bob woodard, trump admits that the virus is deadly and highly contagious so, what was president xi saying yesterday oh, we were talking mostly about the virus and i think hes going to have it in good shape but, you know, its a very tricky situation its it goes it goes through air, bob thats always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you dont have to touch things, right, you just breathe the air and thats how its passed. And so to thats a very tricky one, a thats a very delicate one. Its also more deadly than your flus this is more deadly, this is 5
Plenty to cover this hour, including breaking news. A federal judge rules the acting head of Homeland Security was unlawfully appointed. Also, the concerns that the Trump Administration is putting National Security at risk just to settle old scores. The president is already fired the secretary of defense. Are others soon to follow . Well also exam the web of deception on facebook. The company says its trying to reign in, but is it getting worse . New mexico became the first state to elect a house comprised, get this, entirely of women of color. We will speak to the incoming congresswoman. As president elect biden assembles his cabinet, who will replace education secretary betsy devos . Well talk to one of them in the mix. And well head to hong kong. Does this mark the end of political opportunity in the country . But first to breaking news. As we mentioned, a federal judge ruled today that chad wolf, the acting head of the department of Homeland Security was unbeautifully appointed to