The immigration changes the president has been seeking her once he has been pursuing without success for years and while they are only temporary, the president feels the timing is optimal to implement them n now. The beauty of spring time fills us with the peace and hope of renewal. President trump today using a symbolic earth day Tree Planting for the renewal of the American Economy and with his executive pen, shutting the door on new immigrants for a period of 60 days. The American Worker Must Come First and he has a singular focus to help the American People and economic wellbeing. The order will apply only to green card acume applicants ove. Of programs the president has tried and failed to eliminate through legislation. It will not affect people come again temporarily including migrant workers, desperately needed to pick ripening crops. The farmers will not be affected by this at all, if anything were going to make it easier and well into a process to make it easier for workers to
Briefing at the white house which comes hours after a top federal doctor went public with claims he was essentially ousted. They couldnt technically fire him because he wasnt a political appointee, but he got reassigned. And he said he got reassigned because he questioned the use of hydroxychloroquine, which is president has touted as a coronavirus treatment. Deaths are above 45,000 and the cdc director is warning of an even more devastating second wave in the fall. With me now, ive got msnbc White House Correspondent kristen welker. Pulmonologist and msnbc medical contributor dr. Ben gupta and National Correspondent steve kornacki, who is going to kick it off with a little fact check here on the state of testing and cases and where were at. Because one of the things that i think people are getting a false sense of security about, and dr. Gupta and i talked about this earlier, steve, while new york is starting to flatten its curve and bend in the right direction, the rest of the countr
8th even though georgia is aggressively lifting some of its restricts starting this friday. This as were also told some members of the Coronavirus Task force share the concerns of the director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention whos warning that a potential second wave of the virus this winter could be eveen more devastating. Lets goat more on the breaking news right now. Our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta is joining us. Jima, the doctor who led the federal Vaccine Agency is now blaming political motives for his abrupt reassignment. Reporter thats right, wolf. And i talked to a source familiar with the situation who said all of this happened very suddenly. This leading official working on Vaccine Development for coronavirus the doctor said in a statement hes asking for the Inspector General to investigate his removal from his position. Accusing Administration Officials of retaliating against him for speaking out what he characterizes as excessively political
Obama care from crumbling yet again . Also in politics look i give up a lot. I give up hundreds of millions of dollars in deals donald trump going all in on the presidency and saying its costing him millions. But is he as serious as that scowl suggests . A sneak peek from my oneonone interview. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news on the national league. The multimillion dollar manhunt in new york for escaped killers richard matt and david sweat is now on day 20. Youre looking right now at live pictures from inside the courtroom where the arraignment of prison guard gene palmer who was arrested yesterday for aiding in the escape of the two fugitives will take place at any moment now. Theres also some new information on how the prison was run. A former maintenance supervisor at the prison telling cnn the Clinton Correctional Facility used inmates to do plumbing and Electrical Work if the Maintenance Department was shorthanded and if Corrections Off
It was barack obama. I dont agree with the president s war on coal. Plus, the epic ben affleck, bill morris smack down. Thats gross. Its racist. All in starts right now. Good evening, from new york, im chris hayes. A dark milestone today in what has become the Worlds Largest ever ebola epidemic. A nurse in spain is the first known person to contract the virus outside west africa. After helping the treatment missionary died of ebola while doing charity work in one of the countries in west africa that has been very hard hit. Following a briefing today, president obama called on allies around the globe to step up their efforts against the epidemic. Ill be very honest with you, although we have seen great interest on the part of the international community, we have not seen other countries step up as aggressively as they need to. This is an area where everybody has to chip in and everybody has to move quickly. In order for us to dpet this under control. The president also announcing the ad