Now died from the virus, and the cdc director is warning the next few months could be the worst this nation has ever seen. Were going to break down all these stories for you and more in the hour ahead. I want to start now with the National Political reporter for the new york times, Ron Brownstein is here, as well. Senior editor at the atlantic, im so grateful to have both of you on. Thank you so much. Mr. Herndon, i want to play something from the briefing tonight and then make an observation. Listen. Mr. President , after 3 1 2 years, do you regret at all, all the lying youve done to the american people. All the what . All the dishonesties. Who is that . That you have done . Go ahead. Okay. So instead, look, he didnt want to answer that question. So he didnt. He knows how to dodge a question. But he jumped right in when he was asked about birtherism, right . He wanted to answer that, and he wanted to answer it just that way. Yeah. President trump isnt in the business of regretting muc
Patients in which these medication haves been used, there are two Clinical Trials, not randomized, but still Clinical Trials with adjustments for all possible confounding that you or i or epidemiologists can think of all showing benefit. Theres studies from brazil showing when they introduced 75,000 doses of as siazithromyc and hydroxychloroquine, eight weeks later, the exponential growth of mortality plummeted to an eighth of the level of the peak because those medications were given out in large force. Thats the evidence that shows these medications work. Dr. Harvey risch, we appreciate your time. Thanks for coming on and discussing this. Be well. Thank you. New day continues right now. Good morning everyone. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world, this is new day. Alison is off. Erica hill joins me this morning. Weve been discussing hydroxychloroquine. Joining me dr. Jean ber rat sew from university of alabama at birmingham and dr. Frank la vek i dont, prof
Highly qualified, very talented lawyer. I have no idea if thats right. I would have assumed the democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for Vice President. But thats a very serious charge. Just so everyone is clear, Kamala Harris was born in the United States just like barack obama. Also tonight, President Trump admitting he opposes funding the Postal Service because he doesnt want to expand mailin voting. Hes falsely claiming that mailin voting leads to fraud. So why did the president and the first lady just request their own mailin ballots . Plus, the coronavirus death toll surging in the u. S. More than 167,000 americans have now died from the virus, and the cdc director is warning the next few months could be the worst this nation has ever seen. Were going to break down all these stories for you and more in the hour ahead. I want to start now with the National Political reporter for the new york times, Ron Brownstein is here, as well. Senior editor at th
Those things dont happen on auto pilot in the senate. They need to be voted on and thats getting bogged down. But that hasnt stopped the confirmation of some of bidens cabinet appointees. So these things are moving, but, again, this is largely bogged down in what amounts to a philosophical debate about the future of the filibuster. Democrats dont want to take off the table the option to get rid of the legislative filibuster later. Mcconnell essentially wants them to make a promise not to break a rule thats a rule anyway. So were pretty well stuck in terms of organizing resolution because democrats say theyre not going to tie their own hands. What about the start of the impeachment trial . No agreement on that. Is that automatic it has to start within a day, 24 hours of the article going over orb is there some minority ability to maneuver on it . Reporter in fact, it is supposed to be automatic that it starts the very next day that the senate is in session so that the article gets deliv
Nomination for treasury secretary was reported favorably out of committee. That will now advance to the full senate, a final vote on janet yellen could happen today. Meanwhile, at the white house, over an hour from now, we will hear from the new press secretary and the director of the National Economic council because the focus there today at the white house is on the economic turmoil that millions of americans are facing right now because of the pandemic. In a couple of hours after that, President Biden will sign two more executive orders. These will be aimed at addressing that issue, central to this administrations economic strategy, of course, that whopping 1. 9 trillion bill that President Biden is calling the American Rescue plan. Our reporters and correspondents are on top of it. Kelly odonnell is covering the new white house. Garrett haake is on capitol hill. And Senior Business correspondent Stephanie Ruhle is following the financial implications. Garrett, lets start with you,