Tonight, more than four months and 135,000 lives into this growing, not shrinking pandemic and two brutal weeks of cases spiking and hospitals filling up and icus overflowing, the president of the United States does not have a plan to turn this around. What he does have as shown by statements and actions not taken is a plan for down plays, a plan for ignoring, a plan for sometimes even mocking the single greatest preventable lost of life in this countrys peacetime history. If he is as his niece mary trump says incomprehending suffering of others. He made it clear, he does not want the country to know about it. He does not want you to Pay Attention to this virus or do the very basic things that would actually work to curtail the spread of the virus. It clear he does not want the country to have the kind of shared fact based picture of reality that would help us all in this fight. His only plan if you can call it that is to gaslight the American People over and over and over again. Well,
Would be a death sentence for him. And finally as the president was leaving tonight he finally called roger stone, here is how stone described that conversation. He said you understand i have the option, i have the authority to either grant a pardon or commute your sentence. He says you should understand that a pardon would be final, and that in accepting a pardon you are exceptionally accepting guilt, and i would rather see you fight this out which is why im commuting your sentence. Reporter now, both roger stone of course and donald trump believe this was politically motivated, that thats the only reason he faced charges, but even attorney general bill barr said this was a righteous prosecution. What is the white house saying about the comitation . Reporter the white house put out a lengthy statement. This is from the press secretary saying at this time in light of the egregious facts and circumstances surrounding his unfair prosecution, arrest and trial the president has determined
From his failures on the most important issue facing the American Public today. So well get to it shortly. But we begin tonight with the most central fact, of the pandemic. The coronavirus is winning and the Trump Administration has no plan for stopping it. Thats been the truth tonight and the truth every night during this pandemic. It is as sad as that. The virus is winning and there is no plan. The end of a week that saw new cases in this country top 60,000 a day. The most anywhere, on earth. The most anywhere in this pandemic. And at the end of a day thats just seen a major american city, atlanta, roll back its reopening to phase one because cases there are spiking. Tonight, more than four months and 134,000 lines into this growing, not shrinking, pandemic. After two brutal weeks of hospitals filling up and now icus overflowing. The president of the united states, still, ask not hadoes n plan for turning this around. What he does have as shown by his statements and actions and actio
Individuals, not members of police or Law Enforcement. The sheriff has told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that those were vigilantes that had been patrolling the streets before the shootings. This is the third night of unrest in that city following the Police Shooting of jacob blake, a black man shot in the back in front of his three young children. Well have a live report from wisconsin on what were learning, the latest were learning in a moment. Following breaking news as hurricane laura is rapidly intensifying as its barrelling towards the gulf coast. Now a category 3 hurricane it is rolling over very warm waters there. That intensifies these storms. It is now forecast to grow into the extremely dangerous category 4 later today before making landfall. That is just a deadly, dangerous combination. Also this. Hard questions of ethics violations as the administration multiple times used the power of the office for political gains. Something that is prohibited by law. The Republican Na
First, lets start our coverage in louisville and go straight to the scene. Our crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz is standing by. So why were the officers not indicted directly for taylors death . Reporter right. Well, what the attorney general explained, wolf, was that the officers, the two officers mattingly, sergeant lattingly and the other officer cosgrove would justify in the shooting because it was Breonna Taylors boyfriend who fired his weapon. And therefore what he was saying is because of that reason they were justified in firing their weapons. And heres how he explains it. Well, there are six possible homicide charges under kentucky law. These charges are not applicable to the facts before us because our investigation showed and the grand jury agreed that mattingly and cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker. Let me state that again. According to kentucky law, the use of force by mattingly and cosgrove