Evidence of trump momentum. The coronavirus surge is perhaps the biggest head wind. Thursday was the worst day of the pandemic when you consider cases, 88,000 plus added to the count. The u. S. Daily average is now 76,000 new infections a day. Everywhere you look, red and orange. 43 states where cases are up this week versus last week. Only two, only two pushing their case curves down. The president blames this rise in cases on testing. Well, thats a lie. Defies the science but a lie he repeats. Yes, testing is up but so are Positivity Rates and hospitalizations and the increase in the number of cases far outpaces the increase in the number of tests. Lets begin with the campaign and this map here. We begin to fill it in four nights from now, the red and blue of who you pick for the presidency. Lets go back to 2016 to view it in the context of where we see the candidates today. Just take a look at how the map is tilted right now in favor of joe biden. Doesnt mean donald trump cant make
Much time. I will point out in the spirit of selfawareness roland was pointing out the fighting on tv, this comes from a pundit, not a personal statement, pundits do a lot of yelling on tv. We should be aware what have we do for a living. Tomorrow on starting point give me a butter knife. Celebrates 25 years of fan kohl well have the stars of phantom of the opera on the show tomorrow. Cnn newsroom with Carol Costello begins right now. Standoff, a champion of gun control unveils sweeping new vision that could impact and outrage millions of americans. Women will finally get to serve in combat areas but not right away. Above the world and well below zero, you think its cold where you are . The researchers at this observatory say they have the worlds worst weather. And soon it will be hard to find a large soda in new york city, but now theres a new argument to keep those giant drinks around. Newsroom starts now. Good morning, im Carol Costello, thank you so much for being with us, and in j
Welcome to al jazeera america, im stephanie sy. Edward snowden is claiming victory now that a federal judge came out against the bulk collection of telephone records, saying it may be unconstitutional. Al jazeeras Mike Viqueira has more from washington. It was a surprise ruling from a federal judge in washington. Judge richard leon ruled that the phone metadata collection is likely in violation of the constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure. The judge wrote in the ruling judge leon stayed the injunction, he wants to give the government time to appeal. For the time being the metadata collection conditions on, theres a ruling that the government will defend on appeal. The white house deferred action to the department of justice. They put out a statement, saying they have seen the court ruling, they are studying it this is the secret court in the center the of the controversy, that hears appeals when the Intelligence Community w
Edition of hardball. Chris matthews live from brooklyn. Chris will join Bryan Williams and Rachel Maddow for our election coverage. That starts at 8 00 eastern. Stay with us. New york values. Lets play hardball. Live from the foot of the brooklyn bridge. The polls will be closed across the state. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are looking for big victories tonight. The fight for this state has been the hardest fought of the democratic campaign. For clinton a big victory will clear her path. For sanders, it could prolong
this race to the convention. Secretary clinton voted this morning along with her husband, former president bill clinton. Last night, secretary clinton said she hoped to win in new york and helper wrap up the nomination. Thats the key fraez, wrap up. Her fraez, take a look. I am hoping to do really well tomorrow. Im hoping to wrap up the democratic nomination. I got to quickly add that before anybody has the wrong impression. Wow. Nobody got the wrong impression. They
Now, i kind of think that if youre going to get paid 250,000 for a speech, it must be a brilliant speech. [ cheers and applause ] it must be an earthshattering speech. Written in shakespearean prose. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting bernie ] and if that speech is so great, i think the American People have
the right to hear it. [ cheers and applause ] whoa. Um. Mika, what a massive crowd in new york city last night. Something that Hillary Clinton is going to have to get used to seeing over the next two weeks as we move towards the New York Primary. And hes going there in a big way on the issue of those speeches. Bernie sanders addressed an audience of between 18 and 19,000 people. Who gets that crowd . Bernie sanders. The nicks used to get it years ago. Would donald trump get that crowd. That would fill Madison Square garden. Trump can get that crowd. He can get a crowd. 18,000 or 19,000 . Well have to ask donald. Lines stretched around the park where the event took place hours