It is. That doesnt mean were not doing everything we can, its under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague that beset us. On the other end of the spectrum, dr. Anthony fauci told the journal of the American Medical Association says that the United States has to get its daily case count down by 10,000 in the fall. Were having surging of cases, you know the last ones anywhere between 50,000 and 60,000 per day, with a 1,000 deaths per day, weve got to get those numbers down. If we dont get them down, then were going to have a really bad situation in the fall because as you get indoors and you get the complication of influenza thats something that were going to have to deal with. As the battle against the virus goes on so does the fight over the next pandemic relief bill, congressional Democratic Leaders are set to sit down with Trump Administration negotiators later this hour for another round of talks four days after Unemployment Benefits expired. All of this co
Us. Breaking news to start this hour. The president is expected to hold a press conference. Lets go to my colleague Josh Lederman, following this in washington, d. C. What do we know about this shall josh . Reporter alex, we knew from President Trump last night that he was looking to sign something within a week to take executive action, to take some of the steps that congress so far has failed to take. What we did not expect was that an executive order could come as soon as today. Now, to be clear, the white house is not specifying at this point in time exactly what the president is going to do or say when he takes to the podium just about a few hours from now in bedminster, new jersey. All signs point to the possibility that he may go ahead and sign something to follow up on what he said last night. This all coming amid real pessimism on capitol hill about the status of those negotiations. Take a listen to how senator Chuck Schumer described the current state of affairs. It was a dis
Months into the pandemic. And breaking news from the white house, an historic break through agreement between the United Arab Emirates and israel, made possible by israel for now giving up its plan to annex large areas of the palestinian west bank. Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation on a broad range of areas. This is a truly historic moment. Not since the israeljordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the middle east. And we begin today with nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost kristen welker, nbcs mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign, Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Kristen, the president is hitting senator harris hard and fighting any if ynew funding foe post office. Bring us up to date. Thats right, a lot of people woke up this morning to those comments by President Trump real
Increasingly important. Well have more on the state of play in just a moment. We now have that breaking news from the Biden Campaign. Lets go directly to nbcs mike memoli who is following it all for us. Mike, theres been a lot of talk over the course of the last couple weeks about whether or not joe biden, Kamala Harris might hit the road. What are you learning . Reporter yeah, chris. Just in the last few minutes, as you mentioned, weve been following the potential of a potential joe biden trip to the state of wisconsin, to kenosha following President Trumps visit yesterday. Just getting released from the Biden Campaign hell hold a Community Meeting tomorrow in kenosha and also to focus on bringing together americans to heal and address the challenges we face. Whats interesting about this, chris, just yesterday, a top Campaign Adviser said they were planning to go very soon. But Hallie Jackson spoke with the local president of the naacp who said he didnt want to see any of the candidat
President saying in february that he wanted to play down the covid19 crisis. It was nothing short of deliberate deceit. Its a crisis thats claimed the lives of more than 191,000 americans, left millions more struggling financially. Nbc news does not have access to the full recordings of the president s interviews, but from what we have heard, many of President Trumps private conversations with woodward contrast with many of his public statements about this pandemic. Its also more deadly than your, you know, your even strenuous flus. View this the same as the flu. Now its turning out its not just old people, bob. Just today and yesterday some startling facts came out. Its not just old, older people. Its plenty of young people. If you look at children, children are almost and i would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease. They just dont have a problem. Any minute, we expect House Speaker nancy pelosi to provide that daily briefing. She will likely have something to s