Everything possible to make sure everyone is taking all precautions possible. Geoff bennett is at the white house, msnbc contributor jake sherman is on capitol hill. Mike memoli is following the Biden Campaign in grand rapids, michigan. Nbc Senior Business correspondent Stephanie Ruhle has her eye on the markets for us this hour. Geoff, lets start with you. Chief of staff mark meadows a few moments ago walking out to that group of reporters without wearing a mask again, saying he fully expects there will be more positive cases in the president s orbit over the next few days. What else did we learn from mark meadows . Reporter he said President Trump is in good spirits. He described him as being energetic. He said President Trumps first question to him when they spoke by phone this morning was how is the economy doing. Mark meadows also confirming on the record President Trump is experiencing mild symptoms as he put it. He said hes optimistic he will make a quick and speedy recovery. Ev
Says, a virus that has now killed killed nearly 210,000 americans and infected 7. 4 Million People in the u. S. , many of whom are still battling Serious Health effects. As for the president saying he feels better than he did 20 years ago, thats great, though one has to wonder how much of that is because of the steroids he has been given. Should the president be leaving for the white house . Thats now a question. Its now a coronavirus hot spot of its own, of course, the white house. The nations top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci, told cnn earlier today that coronavirus patients should isolate for ten days after First Showing symptoms. Which means if President Trump first showed symptoms last thursday, he should be isolated until at least next sunday, a week from yesterday. Dr. Fauci, of course, is not involved in the president s care. Any minute we are expecting to get an update from the president s physician, and we will bring that to you live. Lets get right to cnns Cai
And are contentious from the court. Youve been here a short time but ill point you i do believe and commentators have noted a pattern that youve had a ruling against workers and in favor of corporations. For example, in locker by Transportation Services you ruled against long haul truckers seeking overtime pay for additional work and in wallace you ruled against delivery drivers wanting overtime and forced them out of court. Another case you ruled against four black truckdrivers who alleged their employer signed them less desirable routes when compared to their colleagues and smith v Illinois Department of transportation, you ruled against a black worker who was called a racial slur by his supervisor. If you go on according to an independent analysis of your decisions, judge, it appears you have sided with business interests over workers and consumers in about 85 of your businessrelated cases. Moving on. Climate change, as many have mentioned is the next essential threat and it affects
His return to the trail coming despite his refusal and the refusal of his doctor and white house staff to confirm whether trump has received a negative test result yet, asking instead that we essentially take them at their word that hes not contagious anymore. This as trumps top aides continue to resist measures like mask wearing that scientists, including dr. Fauci say, could have helped to prevent the white house outbreak in the first place. Trumps chief of staff, mark meadows, was seen with reporters today refusing to greet them, wearing a mask. The same mark meadows who was one of the few staffers with donald trump in the oval office while he was still infectious last week, although meadows says he was wearing full protective equipment at the time. Here he is trying to remove his mask in front of a visibly uncomfortable group of reporters today. Let me pull this away monopoly. Yep, yep, pull this away. That way i can take this off to talk. Oh. Well, im more than 10 feet away. Im no
Discussing military deterrence wi with iran. We have strength and weapons that we never had before. We never had it like weve had it now. Iran has been put on notice, if you [bleep] around with us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before. Just 72 hours after cutting off talks entirely, President Trump is making new offers on covid relief to capitol hill. The president now reportedly offering 1. 8 trillion, essentially moving closer to Speaker Pelosis 2. 2 trillion price tag. Republican Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell says a deal is unlikely. Meanwhile the u. S. Is seeing its biggest daily case counts in two months, and the death toll unfortunately is at 214,000 and still climbing. Joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent Garrett Haake along with Yamiche Alcindor with pbs news hour. I mentioned at the top we have not seen the president for days. What are white house advisers saying about the current state of things inside the oval office in the west wi