The president says most of the country is virusfree. That is false. And he says hydroxychloroquine saves life, also not true. He is convinced in part because of the words of a doctor who believes in quack science and pretty bizarre conspiracies. I happen to be a believer in hydroxy. I used it. I have no problem. I happen to be a believer. Many, many people agree with me. The president heads to west texas for a big fundraiser in a county where the Positivity Rate approaches nearly 20 . He does so as texas will likely pass new york in terms of total coronavirus infections. The state, like much of the country, though is faring somewhat better, to those numbers in a minute. A decline of average new cases when measured from last week. There is improvement and we are still very much in the depths of this pandemics new month. In july alone, 1,660,000 cases added to the case count. The United States a near lock to pass 150,000 coronavirus deaths today. The virus killed 1,244 people on tuesday
Updating senators on the race for a Coronavirus Vaccine and the steps the government is taking to make sure one wont be rushed to meet the president s before election day wish. Weve eliminated down time by moving into new phases before data from the previous phase is completely analyzed. We have, as the chairman said, started to manufacture doses of all these vaccines before we know if they work, understanding that we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine doses that we may have to throw away if they dont work, but please hear me now. The rigor of the scientific evaluation of safety and efficacy will not be compromised. Overnight we learned one vaccine study now on hold. That pause put in place so the drugmaker can investigate an unexplained illness in a testing group. We are in a hold your breath moment in the overall coronavirus trajectory, the new infects and new deaths are Holding Steady and even improving and there are significant hot spots and College Campuses
Verifiable. If fully implemented, we believe it can meet these standards. Now this is welcome news by the u. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon who in a Statement Released by a spokesperson says the agreement eliminate pave the path for a political solution to stop the appalling is suffering inflicts on the syrian people. On monday, u. N. Inspectors report their findings on the chemical attack that occurred in syria august 21st. Ian williams is traveling with senator kerry. Ian, what can you tell us about the details of this proposed plan . Good day, alex. Well, this is an incredibly ambitious plan and much of that will detail still has to be worked out. One senior u. S. Official saying after that press conference, that it was daunting to say the least. Now, we have got a timeline, a very aggressive timeline which requires the syrians to come up with a list of all their chemical stockpile by the end of the week. End of next week. Also requiring the weapons monitors unfettered access by nov
Return appearance. The president falsely described the searches of Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, as breakins and turned cohen into what he termed a rat. The president failed to note that he had a warrant for the search of cohens apartment and office. Tomorrow Michael Flynn will stand before a judge to be sentenced. Former National Security adviser hoping a solid year of cooperation with the special counsel will result in him completely staying out of prison for lying to the fbi. He has cooperated a lot. This hour abby philip is at the white house. Rudy giuliani was speaking this weekend as well and made some new comments, explanations, perhaps some troubling ones for the president. Reporter hey, jim and poppy. Yeah, Rudy Giuliani made the rounds over the weekend, making comments about many of the developments weve seen in the russia probe and in the investigation into the president s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, that have come out in Court Filings over the last several we
Thats a very good point. Right now theyre just trying to get over the stunning impact of all of this. Quite a surprise with less than an hour, you had staffers, members who had already been gathering, preparing for weeks, negotiations for this all day affair, this closed door session. This coming from the attorney Robert Luskin saying ambassador sondland is profoundly disappointed hell not be able to testify today. Ambassador sondland traveled from brussels in order to prepare for his testimony and to be available to answer the committees questions. Arrangements had already been made with joint Committee Staff regarding the logistics of his testimony. Ambassador sondland believes strongly that he acted at all times in the best interest of the United States and he stands ready to answer the committees questions fully and truthfully. What we expect is to hear from house intelligence chair within about 2025 to get their initial response, initial reaction. This was of some concern to some