Thanks for joining us. Some states are sprinting and some are jogging, but by weeks end, coronavirus restrictions will be loosened in more than 40 u. S. States. The road to reopening is being cheered on by u. S. President donald trump. Thats despite the virus killing hundreds of people in the u. S. Every day and the number of infections rising. I really think you can go to parks, can you go to beaches. You keep the spread. You stay away a certain amount and i really think the public has been incredible with what thats one of the reasons were successful, if you call losing 80 or 90,000 people successful, but its one of the reasons that were not at that high end of the plane. That number has changed, mr. President. Its going up. I used to say 65,000 and now im saying 80 or 09 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly. Well, the president s numbers fly in the face of his own covid19 task force. In an interview aired sunday, dr. Deborah birx repeated projections of the pandemic killing up to 2
April 2020. The death toll as of this morning has doubling in just the last three days. America was hurting. New unemployment filings. Record unemployment. Last week filed for unemployment. Ballooning debt, an economic recession. Hard reality is beyond painful. Not a good equation for a president running for reelection. Hes frustrated by what weve seen happen in the stock market. The numbers he knows of job losses and people who have filed for unemployment are through the roof and theyre going to be incredibly damaging to him in november. And thats his fear. So, the president wanted to push governors to restart the economy, at least in part to resuscitate his reelection campaign. And the only way to do both, reopen the country as soon as possible. But that seemed unrealistic when models were predicting 100,000 or 200,000 deaths. According to the Washington Post, an impatient President Trump sought different data which some white house economic advisers delivered. The Washington Post is
Local cops back off, tonight we asked if it is the end of the era of reefer madness. Do you still believe this was a plot launched at the highest levels of the government . The person who ordered that is the head of the royal household, Prince Philip. The mystery reopened. Was there a plot to murder Princess Diana and her boyfriend, dodi . His father thinks so. Prince philip is a well known racist at the core. Do you think he will accept my son to be the stepfather of the future king . There is no way. As william and kate celebrate the birth of dianas grandson, prince george, the royal family accuser joins us live from england. And my heart goes out to the lloyd family. As the nfl season apartments an all pro thug stands accused of murder. There has been an incredible rush to judgment. Tonight we ask a former star if coaches still do a better job taking players out of the hood than taking the hood out of players. Plus 50 years later mass incarceration. 50 years later we cant get a jobs
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Peace prize. We will have this live and break down all of the contenders. Maybe a priest prize. Pope francis, one of the leading contenders. Im john berman. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. The mayor of new york and the governor of new jersey both places where travelers from west africa enter the u. S. Both giving news conferences thursday offering reassurance that Everything Possible is being done to protect the public. We faced terrorism, we faced natural disasters. We now face the possibility of infected by a pandemic. All of those other moments prepared us to handle whatever is thrown at us. Of course, were concerned. That concern is being moved into action. I hope the federal government moves more quickly to get Newark Airport up and ready to go. They are in charge of that aspect of providing security at our airports. I got assurance from the white house in a private conversation they are moving as quickly as they can and we will continue to coordinate. Airport and air