Were watching to see if he stops and take reporters questions on his way out of the white house. Will he answer charges which democrats that his cutting of funding to the Postal Service will just stall mailin voting ahead of the election . Moments ago on fox news the president attacked the Postal Service once again. He called it one of the, quote, disasters of the world, but insists that hes not tampering with the election. Today Democratic Leaders are holding an urgent conference call, this after the House Speaker nancy pelosi announced she will call the house to can the its recess short to address the u. S. Postal service crisis. Democrats are also calling for the trumpappointed postmasterer general, also a mega donor to the trump campaign, louis dejoy to testify next week. Another story were following today. The u. S. Surpassing 170,000 coronavirus deaths. There is now a potential snag in the governments operation to come up with 300 million vaccine doses by january, and thats where
All the time. Ainsley he was a heavy smoker. He died at such a young age 65. His son was in the room with him. His second wife first wife Valerie Bertinelli and his brother was there hills son posted something on stain gram saying i cant believe i have to write this but my dad has lost his long battle with lung cancer. Best pop. Brian greatest guitar player ever started out as a drummer. All documents in the russia probe and fbi investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. The president tweeted, quote i have fully authorized the total declassification of any and all documents pertaining to the single greatest political crime in American History, the russian hoax. Likewise the Hillary Clinton email scandal no, redactions. Steve newly declassified notes handwritten, i believe, by former cia director john brennan revealed he personally briefed former president obama on clintons alleged plan to tie then candidate trump to russia. His notes saying in part, quote alleged approved by Hillary C
Comparison looney tunes is not exactly fair. Bugs bunny was a lot more clever than donald trump because it was the president s delusion that was on full display at his rally on saturday night in georgia. Which was supposed to be a campaign for the two incumbent republican seats fighting to keep their senate seats and control the republican senate. It was really a venue for trump to air his many petty grievances. It was festivus in georgia. Case in point. You know we won georgia, just so you understand. Weve never lost an election. Were winning this election. He also took aim at georgias top elected officials who are also republicans. You got to make sure your secretary of state knows what the hell hes doing and you got to make sure your governor gets a lot tougher than hes been. Your governor could stop it very easily, if he knew what the hell he was doing. As the atlantajournal constitution reported, this rally came just hours after trump called kemp to demand that kemp call a special
And into a containment van and ultimately taken care of. But were left with a lot of questions as we close the show this morning. That does it for us for now. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. We begin with that very breaking news. Two more packages found this morning. One addressed to senator cory booker and another to former director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Nbcs Investigative Reporter tom winters joins me now via phone. Tom were up to 12 potentially suspicious packages. Walk us through this. Shortly after 8 00 a. M. This morning, we first got word the package that was addressed to cory booker but was found at a Mail Facility in south florida, at that time, we understood it, the package was addressed to booker in camden, new jersey. The package obviously does not appear to have ever made its way there. They were able to get
subsequently, about the same time, a Mail Sorting Facility in New York City. Thats certainly kind of the we were edge of midtown ma
Aftermath of this weeks mass expulsions. The report coming on the day russia announced it had conducted a test of an intercouldnt mental Ballistic Missile capable of striking anywhere in the world. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports how President Trumps position to maintain ownership of his business all putting his stake in a trust managed by his sons is coming back to haunt him. Quote from mueller to stormy to contributions, three different teams are trying to pry open the trump organizations books. Lets go to florida where the president is spending the easter weekend at his resort amid the controversy over his epas chief use of the condo at bargain prices. Nbc newss Kelly Odonnell is in West Palm Beach for us. What can you tell us about the latest scrutiny over scott pruitt . Well good to be with you alex. Theres been plenty of attention on the president s cabinet. We saw him oust his secretary of state, and his top official at the Veterans Affairs department. And now theres pres