Who would slow down testing in the middle of a vicious outbreak . I mean, texas just hit an alltime daily high in cases. In houston, the biggest city in the state, hospitals are near capacity. Theyre literally running out of beds. We have seen this happen before at other places without outbreaks. This chart of texas cases tells a story. They have an extremely serious outbreak right now, today. You can see it. And the one thing they really need is to step up testing to make sure that they are capturing transmission as quickly as they can to quarantine people so that it doesnt contain a rise. But instead, no, the president is cutting back. And the reason why is right there in front of all our faces. The president keeps telling us, he does not like testing because he thinks if you do not test, then you have fewer cases. When you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people. You are going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. When you have
Information out there. We would like to see it and know what it is. We would like to get it, cooperatively if possible. Reporter a lawyer for the committee met yesterday with the u. S. Attorneys office which is also looking into the lane closures. Based on that meeting, the investigation will continue. Axelrod elaine, thank you. Lets bring in cbs news political director John Dickerson in washington. John, everyones trying to digest these latest developments and understand the significance. What do you see . Well, David Wildstein is the official who ordered the lane closings, so when he says he has a version of events that contradicts governor christies it creates tremontors but the claims hes making are quite incomplete. The central question of this matter is whether governor christie ordered the lane closures on the George Washington bridge as political retribution or did he know about it . No evidence suggests either of those things is true, and what David Wildstein has provided so f
But not at this point in time saying what president obama plans to do about it. Joy . Really quickly, is there any reason why the white house is being vague about who this religious minority is . Is there any reason why they are not saying what kind of religious minority . Reporter well, i think before the white house gets ahead of any of this reporting, they always like to know specifically what they are talking about. But, of course, the reports are that this religious minority is referred to and we just had the terminology here which just escaped me. I apologize. The point is, i think the white house doesnt want to get ahead of the reporting before they are absolutely sure what they are talking about. This is, of course, something that we see from the president all the time. He doesnt come out and address the situation until he knows specifically, you know, all of the facts. So i think that is what they are in the process of doing, gathering the facts. President Obama Meeting with h
Afraid. This morning there were signs that it could be happening agai again. The wall street journal reported that Big Tech Companies are using their power to silence certain political views. Both google and west hosting service go daddy stopped providing hosting support for daily storm or its a white supremacist website. Meanwhile the Hotel Website airbnb said it would permanently ban White Supremacists from using its service to book rooms. Paypal says it wont let white supremacist use its payment platform. Nobody on the show is weeping for the daily stormer, even mentioning their name probably got us written up by the Southern Poverty Law Center as dangerous subversive sprit of this principle at stake and its worth defending regardless. We should be very concerned by the prospect of big Companies Using their power to enforce ideological conformity, even when it seems to affect people we dont like as it does right now. Especially now we should be concerned because of support for Free
Paul manafort. Its not just an allegation that Michael Cohen got Stormy Daniels to coordinate with him for trump, which well get into. Theres also new material here. New leaked evidence that shows cohen and daniels lawyer, at the time, worked together. This is while he was Stormy Daniels lawyer. Keith davidson instead of representing Stormy Daniels was more interested in colluding with his quote, pal. Keith davidson was supposed to be representing Stormy Daniels at all times. Not supposed to be interested in helping out Michael Cohen and donald trump. The mine charge here is pretty simple. This man, davidson, was a double agent for donald trump. It show him and cohen talking in january of this year and saying that would make davidson a puppet for trump. Thats how avenatti sees it. They describe something very interesting. The idea these two lawyer who is were supposedly against each other actually worked together to do trumps bidding arranging a sean hannity appearance that he would us