Have Edward Lawrence and in washington. Reporter they are scheduled to talk about right now. They usually talk about an hour on these phone calls. There is very slim chance of getting a relief package to help americans by election day. President donald trump said this morning it is political. And House Speaker nancy pelosi does not want to help the economy because that would help the president win. His economic advisors say the House Speaker packed her package with a lot of stuff unrelated to the coronavirus. There is a number of political and idealogical points in that have nothing to do with covid and we dont want to go that direction. If it is targeted right, absolutely. It is not it is not going to work. Reporter even if a deal could be reached the president said he would go above 2. 2 trillion, still reaching republican senators for their vote might be a challenge. The president says he would lean on Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to get the votes. It might be a hard sell
Studentcam. Org. The World Health Organization held a News Conference to provide the latest data unconfirmed coronavirus cases and the number of deaths worldwide. Officials also answered questions about testing them of vaccine development, and response efforts in europe, africa, and the middle east. Good afternoon, everyone. Delay, first. The welcome, everyone to this regular press conference on covid19. We are today in the executive boardroom of the World Health Organization. It is basically to give us a little bit more space so we can all follow the good practices of physical distancing. S, and iur regular guest you may leave at some point, but hopefully we will have questions for the other guests. Just to remark that we had some , we had someues meetings just a few hours ago and hopefully this will be sorted and everyone on our list including press releases and all the other communications. We will have an audio file as we always do. You. Ank good morning, good afternoon everybody.
Understand that you may leave at some point, but hopefully we will have questions for the other guests. Just to remark that we had some technical issues, we had some meetings just a few hours ago and hopefully this will be sorted and everyone on our list including press releases and all the other communications. We will have an audio file as we always do. Hopefully a transcript will be available tomorrow. Thank you. Available to you. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, everybody. Its now more than a month since the last case of ebola. In drc. If it stays that way, the outbreak will be declared over in less than a months time. We would like to thank all our partners for their solidarity in staying the course in the service of the people of drc, and my special thanks to the government and people of the democratic republic of congo. That same spirit of solidarity must be at the center of our efforts to defeat covid19. More than 200,000 cases of covid19 have been reported to who, and
Defense mark esper. Cnn officials have been told that esper has been pushing back on trump since last year. He urged trump to release the aid to ukraine that trump used to leverage dirt on biden. He was careful to keep the u. S. Military out of the realm of the president s political desires. He may be the first firing. A Senior Administration official is worried that President Trump will soon fire fbi director and cia director next. Also trumps personnel chief at the white house is threatening to fire members from the administration if he hears they are looking for another job. This afternoon, we are learning of new coronavirus cases in President Trumps orbit. Sources are telling cnn that david bossie has tested positive for coronavirus and housing secretary ben carson. We have our cnn correspondents covering all of these angles. We are going to start with Kaitlan Collins who is at the white house for us. A closer look at the turmoil and uncertainty gripping the west wing. Reporter Pre
Covering the biden campaign, shannon pettypiece, and kat aie glick on the biden beat as well. I want to start with the comments from michelle obama. Today, were hearing from michelle obama. She wrote a lengthy post on instagram about the transition. Tell us what she had to say. Right, and the former first lady is not extraordinarily outspoken, so when she does speak, it does warrant some attention. She talked about the difficulty she had setting aside some of the personal feelings from the 2016 campaign and welcoming Melania Trump into the white house in 2016, answering her questions, you know, telling her everything she needed to know to be able to assume the responsibilities of first lady. She then wrote in her post, she said, our love of country requires us to respect the results of an election, even when we dont like them or wish it had gone differently. The presidency does not belong to any one individual or any one party. To pretend it does or play along with these groundless con