In the United States from the coronavirus stands at nearly 135,000. That follows four Straight Days where the death toll in the u. S. Was over 800 each day. If you need another sign of how bad this has become, texas today broke its alltime record for new cases in a single day. And all of this is happening on a day when the president is trying to defend a decision that has absolutely nothing to do with the virus, his move to commute the sentence of his former adviser roger stone. Lets get straight to kristen homes at the white house for us. Kristen, the president telling reporters a little while ago there was a time and place to wear a mask. Today he finally wore one. What else did he have to say . Reporter he made it clear, wolf, that this might be the only time well see him in a mask. To take a few steps back here, as you said, President Trump has not worn a mask in almost any scenario. We have one picture of him that was not a public photo. It was taken by someone in a factory behind
Brother, the former president , into the fight. George w. Bush may have left office as one of the least popular president s in history but remains one of the most popular republicans in South Carolina where he campaigned with his brother today and where donald trump was the unspoken subject. Well have more on the impact he had from gary tuchman. Reporter former president george w. Bush with his wife laura on the 2016 campaign trail to try to make his brother jeb the next president. I came here for two reasons. One, because i care deeply about jeb and, two, because i care deeply about our country. Reporter the two sons of another former president george h. W. Bush have not campaigned together until now in South Carolina. There seems to be a lot of name calling going on. But i want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans. Reporter george w. Bush did not mention donald trump by name, but there were clear inferences to the real estate mogul. I understand
How would you describe what has happened over the course of the past ten days . Obviously, you will agree with your boss, the president that theres no chaos. But how do you explain that not to be the case . I think its simple. If you want to see chaos, come to my house with three preschoolers. This doesnt hold a candle to that. Clearly, that was meant to be a charming deflection, but it is a deflection nonetheless. The only thing you can compare the white house to is a house full of preschoolers to make it seem unchaotic, its not a great comparison. Not every president publicly undercuts his own spokesman and chief of staff, and his own attorney general and hires a Communications Director with no communications experience, who threatened to fire everyone, who calls the chief of staff an fing paranoid schizophrenic, all of which he said to a reporter. Then calls in to cnn, lies about what he said to the reporter, says he and the president are best bros, and he and the guy who he just ca
Russia, and issuing transparency even as donald trump jr. Has changed his story in recent days. The regime has been celebrating its new long range missile. There are no signs it might not be successful as claimed. How great is the north korean threat to the United States . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. A bombshell revelation today draws the most direct line yet between the Trump Campaign and russia and it comes in the form of emails released by none other than donald trump jr. The emails set up the june 2016 meeting between a russian lawyer with trump jr. , a Trump Campaign manager, paul manafort, and trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner. In the first email an intermediary relayed a message that russias state prosecutor, quote, offered to provide the Trump Campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary. Closed quote, the email said the information, once again quoting, would be very useful
Investigation of one of his former top aides. As comey writes, quote, i had understood the president to be asking we drop any investigation of flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador in december. It was very concerning given the fbi owes role as an independent investigative agency. The fbi Leadership Team agreed with me that it was important not to affect the investigation with the president s request which we did not plan to abide, unquote. As President Trump previously claimed the former fbi director notes three different times that comey told President Trump that the phone was not investigating him personally. Once on january 6th when comey first presented the summary of the salacious and unverified dossier of uncompromising information the russians claimed to have about President Trump, the second time during the january 27th dinner when comey says the president asked for loyalty and a third time in a march 30th phone call. Come