Affected by the coronavirus. Egge discussesrt how covid19 is impacting nursing home patient. Next. Ington journal is host the weekend july 4 celebrations are over, and the covid crisis continues, the cages surging in several states across the country. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal for this monday, july 6. We will talk about what the situation is like in your area and state, the impact of the search in it crisis across cases across the state. In lines are 202 7488000 the eastern and central time zones. In the mountain and pacific areas, 202 7488001. If you like to send us a text, 202 7488003t at tell us your name and where you are from. cspanwj. So on twitter soaring cases, hospitalizations overshadowed july 4 celebrations. States cast an 39 shadow over the nations fourth of july celebrations, as Health Experts word about holiday parties causing a further spike in infections that could overwhelm hospitals. Also looking at the wall street journal this morning in specificity
Hospital, Morton Plant Hospital in clearwater, and Advent Health north had no icu beds available saturday. Thetampa bay times reported Data Collected by the agency for health care administration. To your calls. We will go first to cedric in boston. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to make a comment about president trump. He used his whole fourth of july weekend talking about statues, and people are dying from this disease. Job. Ur this guy cannot even do a job. All these sick people worrying about going back to work, told not to wear a mask. We are going to fire his behind. In texas. Is good morning. Caller how are you . Host fine, thanks. Caller my comment pertains to all the violence we are having across the country. Apparently, people have forgotten the history of this country. Im old enough to remember what we were taught when we went to , and wes youngsters read history books that they are not reading today. The civil war was not fought over slavery at all. Passed the s
Free cspan radio app. Nextrt a is with us robert egge is with us next. Good morning. Thank you for being here on washington journal. Guest great to be here. Host what has been the role of the Alzheimers Association during the pandemic . Guest our primary role is to support those with dementia and their caregivers. That has brought us right to the front lines of the covid pandemic. As we will talk about, many of those with alzheimers and dementia happened to be at the highest risk of covid19. To early thisback year as the pandemic was becoming known. The first cases in the u. S. Being identified in february. How did your organization brace for what was to come . We were watching the news about covid19 and thinking in operational terms. Ofhave a very large Group Advocates from around the country fly into washington, d. C. That takes place in march. We were looking at whether it was responsible for us as an organization to ask people to come in to washington for this event. In hindsight,
we have updates in the other special counsel s investigation. jack smith issuing more subpoenas in the january 6th investigation. this time, focusing on arizona. so let s get to it. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter and nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. let s start with the top. walt nauta, finally getting a lawyer. finally pleading not guilty. walk us through what happened. it was a short hearing. the big news is he did get this lawyer, and essentially one of the reasons i think it s more difficult to find someone is because, you know, donald trump hasn t been known to pay his bills. that s something you re on the hook for down the line if, you know, no matter where this goes, once you re on the case you re stuck with it no matter what, even if there s a dispute about payment or what have you. whoever signed on for that is in for the long haul. with donald trump, a significant retainer agreement, cash up front in order to take on that
So, what allen, will whoever else commented, he mustve been looking at scam artists, or something. They do not require they required a lot of paperwork and proof of income and situation, but they do not require us to pay upfront money to modify the loan. Unfortunately there is a balloon payment at the end of our mortgage, which scares me because if i lived past that stage, we have that to worry about. For now, we are in our home, and we live in a beautiful part of florida, near the beaches. Homes around here can vary from , dependsn to 100,000 on where you are at. We are kind of in the rural area, so we got a good price. Host got you. Just a tease you about our conversation coming up, and invite from the New York Times this morning says that vice has talkedoe biden to advisers about a possible look at a president ial run. No formal announcement yet. If you have not heard, a Candidate Forum is taking place, and more recent polling also taking place as well. We will com have a discussion