You know what i thought made him take it seriously . The stock market. 10 drop in the stock market because thats what he pays attention to. And the second piece of it is his inclination to think that this is a foreign disease. He said it in his oval office speech, he continue to make references to china and europe and italy. At some point its a Public Health issue, just deal with it. Its here on your shores. New york, oregon, texas, florida. The idea of foreigners as dirty, germ ridden all that stuff, thats as old as the hills. Can you stick around . I will as always. I want to say good morning to all of you and welcome you to a. M. Joy. And there is no mincing words this morning as weve just discussed. We are in the midst of a Global Pandemic that shows no signs of slowing down. World wide there have been a total of 147,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,000 deaths according to John Hopkins Center for system science and engineering. Here in the u. S. There are now more than 2,200 kno
Mark meredith is standing by at the white house with more. Mark . Reporter good evening, jon. The white house says its up to americas governors to decide if and when they can reopen, but governors say until more testing is available, that is an extremely difficult decision for them to make. Vice president mike pence, he was on Fox News Sunday today, and he tried to reassure americans that more testing is coming both on a federal and state level. Now weve cleared four million overall. But in 150,000 tests a day, we think we can double that number by working with governors to activate all of the laboratories in their states around the country that can do coronavirus testing. That would put us at roughly 300,000. Reporter but some governors are pushing back including some republican governors saying that their state resources are already exhausted and that they need more help from the federal government. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those criticizing the president over testing. She
And why is the president asking witnesses what mueller is asking . Is the president trying to coordinate answers . The president s own interview is still ending up. It gets into this gray area where the president is creating more problems for himself because he doesnt want to follow the normal advice or customs and procedure that goes on in washington. Now whats going to happen is Robert Mueller in every conversation with any witness is going to ask did the president talk to you about your testimony. This meeting was part of an part of an effort to establish a back channel. First lets start with the Washington Post which is revealing more information about why murm mueller is interested in the secretive meeting in the seychelles between erik prince and a russian banker. According to the banker who is cooperating with mueller, that meeting was about establishing a back channel between the u. S. And russia. The New York Times reports the special counsel is now aware of two conversations