Press. I just did two delegation breakfast this morning before i came here. Over the last few days does a lot of work but there do with senator sanders team throughout the day just to coordinate and make sure that our floor programs are working together, we were coordinated on how to move forward on things. I think the next few days it will pivot a little more to focusing on planning for the next few days and that sort of thing. What has surprised you the most . Event interesting few days. What has surprised you the most about what has gone down . Whats been really great to watch is how these delegation teams have worked together collaboratively. That since i had this morning in the delegations i was in, people are charged up and ready to go. I think people were really inspired last but in particular i the story we told about all of the things that secretary clinton is done. I think president clinton did a brilliant job of putting the altogether but we heard last night from victims of
Are arising every day. That context that the president is choosing to go back on the campaign trail and be filmed proudly in front of thousands of people who probably wont be social distanced, many not wearing masks. Why is the white house doing this . Whats the political calculation . Look, i think that john as we discussed many times, it is often not a political calculation and simply desire to do what the president wants. He wants to be back on the road for the final three weeks. What theyre saying theyll have him do is for seniors, he battled with covid, they had an ad with a misleading quote from dr. Anthony fauci in the middle of it or the end talking about work of coronavirus months ago, made it sound like he was talking about the president. Thats going to be their strategy, to try to sell it as a Success Story on the issue that he is behind joe biden on how to handle coronavirus for many months. Is it way too late to turn it around . Probably. I think again, i am not a doctor,
Night rally could be a superspreader event. That remains a concern, even though the rally drew a much smaller crowd than expected. The campaign had promised to fill the 19,000seat arena, but according ing ting to the tuls marshal, 6,200 people showed up. And they were treated to a nearly twohour freewheeling speech that included a racist nickname for the virus, a claim that testing is whats causing the spike in case numbers and the president saying that he told his people to slow down on testing. The Administration Says that comment was in jest, but the president himself didnt deny it during an interview today. Did you ask to slow it down . If it did slow down, frankly, think were way ahead of ourselves. Weevil done too good a job, because every time we go up, 25 million tests, youre going to find more people. Then they say, oh, we have more cases in the United States. The reason we have more kapss is because we do more testing than any other country by far. Whether the low turnout at
Were sanctioned, as was the head of one of those Intel Services and three of his deputies. Three companies were also sanctioned. They allegedly provided support to russias cyberoperations. In addition, two facilities in the u. S. Owned by the russian government are being shut down. In a statement, the president said all americans should be alarmed by russias actions. In october, my administration publicized our assessment that russia took actions, intended to interfere with the u. S. Election process. These data theft and disclosure activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the russian government. And he said, there could be additional moves made against russia. These actions, the president s statement saying, are not the sum total of our response to russias aggressive activities. We will continue to take a variety of actions at a time and place of our choosing, some of which will not be publicized. Late today, president elect donald trump released his own state
Alarmed by russias actions. In october, my administration publicized our assessment that russia took actions, intended to interfere with the u. S. Election process. These data theft and disclosure activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the russian government. And he said, there could be additional moves made against russia. These actions, the president s statement saying, are not the sum total of our response to russias aggressive activities. We will continue to take a variety of actions at a time and place ofur choosing, some of which will not be publicized. Late today, president elect donald trump reased his own statement. He said, its time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community next week, in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. For more now, aisle joined by nbcs ron allen. He is at the white house. Ron, j