Its not about her. Its about the American People. Its about the American People and how we have a real and Strategic Plan. This administration has not had a Strategic Plan for the six months that we know about the coronavirus. And as we said at the top right now, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and president trumps chief of staff mark meadows are heating with House Speaker nance pelosi and Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. They are trying to come to an agreement on a Coronavirus Relief package. This as the Trump Administration is reportedly considering taking executive action to provide Coronavirus Relief, if congress cant reach a deal. That is according to two people with knowledge of the deliberations who spoke to the Washington Post. And joining me now is nbc news digital reporter and capitol hill correspondent Garrett Haake. Garrett, let me start with you. That meeting about to get under way. In terms of the status of these negotiations, what can you tell us . Are there xwrare
Hello and welcome. The us general manager of tiktok has said the chinese owned video sharing app is here for the long run after President Donald Trump said he would ban it in the us. Vanessa pappas told tiktoks more than 80 million us users in a video statement that its staff were building the safest app possible amid us concerns about data protection. Jack kilbride reports. You have heard you out soaring of support and we want to say thank you and we are not planning on going anywhere. Fighting words from an application the us president is threatening to ban. Tiktok, for millions of young americans, is afun millions of young americans, is a fun video sharing apple of dances and memes but for donald trump, it is a National Security concern. We are looking at tiktok, we may be banning tiktok, we may be doing some other things or a couple of options but a lot of things are happening so we will see what happens. The issue for the president is that the application is owned by a chinese com
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The us general manager of tiktok has said the chinese owned video sharing app is here for the long run, after President Donald Trump said he would ban it in the us. Vanessa pappas told tiktok users in a video statement that its staff were building the safest app amid us concerns about data protection. Tiktok is mostly used to share short videos, usually about 15 seconds long. And it has grown rapidly in the last year, now boasting more than 800 million active monthly users worldwide. But its owned by a chinese company, bytedance, and its this last fact that concerns the us security forces. There is in fact a precedent for this us announcement india has already blocked the app, and australia is also considering a ban. Heres our technology reporter, chris fox. Well, the app has been decompiled by security researchers. Theyve looked deep into it, and as yet, they havent found a smoking gun. Theres nothing obvious in the app that seems to be sending informati
Coronavirus. You know how many names we have . 22 different names i call it the china virus. Were doing a great job. The idea that youre not going to tell people what youve been told, that this virus is incredibly contagious. You have to level with the American People, shoot from the shoulder theres never been a time theyve not been able to step up this president should step down. Today, the focus of the Campaign Shifts to the state of minnesota where both vp biden and President Trump will be. It is one of three states that start early voting today the others are south dakota and virginia and a bunch of states start tomorrow of course, covid will be top of mind for a lot of those people, even if theyre just worried about how to cast their votes without potentially getting sick in years past you get that kind of information from a place like the cdc. But today, we are learning a really stunning report from the New York Times that some guidance posted by the cdc about covid testing, it w
Orange and red which is an indication that 23 states are seeing a rising trend of new cases including 5 with 50 more new infections compared to last week and this rise is happening as the weather is getting colder, driving people indoors where coronavirus at a much higher risk of spreading and flu season is weeks away and the u. S. Stuck at nearly 40,000 cases a day. There is encouraging news on this race for the vaccine. Moderna ceo saying that his attempt could know by november if his vaccine candidate works. He is the second ceo, the other one being pfizers, to suggest a target date before the year is over. Base plan, most critical plan is november. Thats what we are saying for many months, our best possible outcome would be october. Calculate how many people will get the disease with a vaccine, how many people get the disease on placebo to calculate the efficacy and 50 efficacy in the vaccines to consider the application for approval. There are more than 196,000 deaths from the cor