White house, delivering a speech today on his plans for battling the coronavirus pandemic, and speaking of, just this afternoon, the United States has now crossed the grim milestone of 10 million covid cases. This is just ten days after surpassing 9 million. But in a potentially major breakthrough today here in the race for a vaccine, drug giant pfizer has announced that its vaccine candidate is more than 90 effective. So weve got you covered on all of that. I want to start with Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Kaitlan, what happened . What can you tell us about trumps firing of secretary esper . Reporter we know he had about a fiveminute headsup, brooke, that that tweet was coming from President Trump announcing he was terminating him, and that warning came from chief of staff mark meadows, who called mesper to let him know that was going to happen. It happened suddenly, but we knew it was a plan in the making, because esper and the president had clashed for months, starting when t
Reporting the fbi was warned of a violent, quote, war at the u. S. Capitol in this internal report which was issued the day before last weeks deadly siege. That report directly contradicts officials who said that there was no intelligence indicating that the capitol would be attacked. Today up on the hill for House Democrats it is full steam ahead. All indications suggest that by the end of the day tomorrow President Trump will be the only president in u. S. History to be impeached twice. The charge, incopyrigiting an insurrection. Today President Trump is on his way to visit the border walled and denounced the violence last week and had this to say about speech, andad any role anyone many people have done it, and ive seen it both in the papers hand in the media, on television, its been analyzed and people thought that what i said was totally appropriate, and if you look at what other people have said, politicians, at a high level about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots i
But if you might start there, secretary, what do you think the best economic leverage our and guidelines as they relate to timeliness and you made the point working with allies. I think the president has been clear and we have been clear russia has to be held accountable for the actions taken and also has to have a path to step back from what is a dangerous escalation unless it stops. I think with the actions the president has announced and illustrates serious attempts and in effective ways to start the process of increasing the isolation. The g8 is a very important meeting to russia. We have already withdrawn from preparations and we are on the path where i think its clear that russia can no longer sit in the g8 meeting pursuing the policies. We have withdrawn a trade mission that was supposed to be working with russia to continue making progress on the International Investment treaty. We have withdrawn a delegation that was supposed to be attending the paralympics, something we very
To talk about what as long as elements are going to be part of it. Also to strengthen the perception that justice will be here in the hope that we can deter some of the conduct, encourage people to desert, discourage people in the opposition for taking an eye for an eye. Sure. In this respect, what would be your reaction, your advice, if in the fullness of time were faced with the following proposition. President Bashar Al Assad and 200 of his closest enablers are willing to leave syria forth with and bring an end to at least one phase of this conflict. In return for imunite from prosecution. Is that doable under Current Conditions . Is it unthinkable . First of all if we were actually presented with a proposition like this . Well, first of all, ive not seen any evidence that this guy, or the people around them, are ready to go. A hypothetical question. At any point. Thats often whats presented here. Well, if you gave the guy a bull tow or a place to go we could get them out. Usually t
Consistent with National Security concerns. During the process of preparing this report, we sought and obtained declassification of facts about the still highly classified program in order to allow us to put in context how the program operates. And clarify some public misconceptions. As a result, over 100 new facts were declassified by the government to provide needed context for the programs operation. I want to extend the boards appreciation to the personnel at the office of director of national intelligence, the department of justice, nsa, fbi, and cia who worked constructively with the board in this process. Its the most comprehensive public description of how the section 702 program operates and we believe this description will advance the publics understanding of the program. Turning back to the report, it was adopted unanimously. The board also unanimously offers ten recommendations to strengthen privacy safeguards, and to address these concerns. They are in a number of categori