Theres aggressive, unrelenting expandi expanding Broad Community spread, reaching most counties without improvement, but rather further deterioration. Current mitigation efforts are inadequate, must be sustained for covid and noncovid emergencies. Many Health Systems are on the brink. 73,000 americans are hospitalized with covid now, the highest number ever. Those on the front lines are exhausted and theyre warning they are maxed out. Theyre watching their own colleagues being admitted to the icu, knowing that person has seen patients die alone from covid, and are at risk of the same type of final isolation. There were patients, there was nothing we could do for them. Flat out dont have the resources, we just dont. It is awful, awful, awful, watching people die alone. This situation is unsustainable. And it is going to get worse if we continue to set new records every day of infections. We walk into the covid units, you hear the sounds of monitors beeping, heart rate, respiration, hear
I know i cant change history. What i can do is learn from my mistakes. This morning my exclusive sitdown with the onetime frontrunner, former Vice President joe biden, who took on sanders supporters. If any of my supporters did that, id disown them. And my interview with senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota. Plus, the president strikes back. What lesson did you learn from impeachment . That the democrats are crooked. They have got a lot of crooked things going. That theyre vicious. President trump attacks his foes and protects his friends in a postimpeachment show of force. And attorney general william barr sounds off about his boss. The statements and tweets make it impossible for me to do my job. Was this a genuine rebuke of the president or political theater . Joining me for insight and analysis are Washington Post columnist eugene robinson, nbc White House Correspondent peter alexander, danielle pletka, and Maria Teresa Kumar, president of voto latino. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the
Stay tuned. Lindsey graham set to jump into the gop race this morning. Whats his strategy to stand out from the crowd . Plus protesting facebooks authentic name policy. Domestic violence survivors, native americans, transgender people and more take up the fight today using the hashtag my name is. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. This just into the cnn newsroom, a deadly Suicide Attack at an iraqi police base northwest of baghdad. At least 34 members of Security Forces are dead. More than 48 injured after an isis terrorist drove a tank packed with explosives onto the base. Our Nick Paton Walsh is live in baghdad and well check in with him in just a minute. For the first time in more than a decade the nsa must stand down on some of its most controversial surveillance tactics aimed at catching terrorists. Lawmakers failed to pass a bill to extend three key provisions of the patriot act including bulk Data Collection of phone re
Critical as its ever been since its inception, given the fact that the middle east is literally on fire and we are losing everywhere. The nsas authority will be likely restored when leadership aides accept a final act. The usa freedom act, targets a twoornt obtain call records from telecommunications companies. We are in the mix today because of the majority leader. The majority leader should have seen this coming. Reporter harry reid blaming his counterpart Mitch Mcconnell for not having a plan. After the aboutface mcconnell who wanted to renew it as is now says passing the compromised bill is the only legalistic way forward. I believe this is a program that strikes privacy on the one hand and National Security on the other. Reporter so whats next . We expect a final vote by around midweek. Thats because of Senate Procedures and several likely votes on amendments being offered. Of course, if they make any changes to the law, it will have to go back to the house of representatives for
Think obamacare is a disaster. Its hard to envision getting to a yes on this bill because my concerns are so fundamental. I dont think this bill does that. Heather mike emanuel is live for us on capitol hill with the very latest. Hi, mike. There was some fine tuning of that legislation over the weekend, trying to win over some of those skeptical republicans. Senator Lindsey Graham says he is not giving up hope. The only way youll know how people vote is when you actually vote. Its not about our friendship, i love john mccain, he is an american hero. I just disagree with him here. He talks about a bipartisan process, im a pretty bipartisan guy. Ive come to conclude that obamacare is a placeholder for berniecare in the democratic world. Other g. O. P. Leaders they are trying to win back our Susan Collins in alaskas lisa murkowski. A spokesman for senator rand paul says its position on the bill has not changed. This is a bad idea, its not repeal. All of that being said, if they narrow the