Trump, more than 100 republican lawmakers now join in the bizarre texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate and overturn a free and Fair Election in the United States of america. Welcome to fridays with meet the press daily and as we await the fdas likely emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Vaccine that could come any minute now we are in the midst of a catastrophic failure of leadership in this country. No other way to say it. In the past 24 hours, twin crises, the threat to our Public Health and our own democracy, have sadly both gotten worse in the last 24 hours. Its because of a failure of leadership massively so that begins with the person who calls himself president , thats donald john trump. More than 270,000 americans have died since february, more than 14,000 in the last week alone and the president tries to show no leadership to stop the spread. Congressional leaders are deadlocked on coming to an agreement that they all say they want. And, of course, President Trump who coul
Opening back up the empire state when stayathome orders expire on may 15th, steve. Steve thats right, ainsley. Meanwhile in boston, hundreds seen storming the state house demanding the governor there to reopen the economy. Listen to this. [chanting] end the shutdown now. Hey hey, ho ho, end the shutdown now. Hey hey, ho ho. Steve meanwhile as you can see there a golf course in the massachusetts commonwealth there defying the states stayathome orders by reopening, brian. Brian right. They are using golf carts. The senate is back at work. Already arguing with each other. The they are not coming back to work for a week. Griff jenkins live in washington with the new dispute on capitol hill. Griff, friction in congress . Since when . Griff shocking. Brian, ainsley, steve, good morning. The first time they are back in full session since march 25th. One thing back to normal mcconnell and schumer immediately clashing filling more judges in the administration in the safety of their return. Watc
Directed to alter covid testing. I as a member of the task force and my colleagues on the task force to my knowledge i know for sure but to my knowledge none of us have been told to slow down on testing. That just is a fact. In fact, we will be doing more testing. Has President Trump directed you to slow down covid19 testing in the United States . Dr. Redfield . No. No, sir. No, congressman. With me now live from the hill is cnn senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. You watched this hearing. Reporter the message coming from the Top Public Health officials much different than the message hearing from the president and from the Vice President. What anthony fauci, the top expert in the country made clear is that he sees a disturbing surge in infections. He says that its a mixed bag where the country is right now and hes concerned about Community Spread of this disease. Much different than what the president is saying about a phenomenal i dont know that is happening in the United S