gulf coast and now it s hitting east texas and our texas medical center now is getting hit very hard here in houston with lots and lots of covid admissions. it s like nothing we ve seen before. it s many, many young people, including, i m sorry to say, many children s hospital admissions. and for the first time that i can remember, we re starting to see pediatric intensive care units get overwhelmed, which we never really saw before. and, jim, this is happening before school starts. so school starts in new orleans sorry, school starts in many parishes in louisiana next week. here in houston, houston independent school district in a couple of weeks, august 23rd. this is the warmup back, jim. as bad as this is, this is the warmup act. that s the message. we have to make it clear that we re not screwing around. the president needs to be out there saying this is a full-blown crisis like nothing we ve seen before and it s first
number two person at the department of homeland security and this is his warmup act. in this era is that a firing offense anymore. he doesn t need a security clearance he can do the job. that s true for all of us. who needs that. thank you. good luck. conspiracy against the united states. those are the magic words today in trump world. because today former trump aide, rick gates, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the united states after being indicted on that charge by robert mueller s grand jury. gates also pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the special counsel s office just three weeks ago while he was negotiating a plea deal. another trump official was charged with conspiracy against the united states today, paul manafort, he was hit with a super ceding indictment laying out new charges, including conspiracy against the united states, conspiracy to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent, making false
it was as if mother nature knew we needed something and needed it right now. something to stop time. something to change the usual rules of order. something to remind us just how inconsequential we all are in the grand scheme of things. all those typhoons and waterspouts, dust devils, sinkholes and northern lights, those are a warmup act. today was a show stopper. there are couples who will celebrate this day as their anniversary. they ll remember getting married in the dark, and then sharing that first kiss what astronomers call the diamond ring effect. other couples will frankly member something else. about nine months from today, babies will be born named aura and carona, though totality is probably a reach. and here s all the proof that you need that we needed what happened today. most people in the path of the eclipse reacted by cheering.
among the topics on today s agenda, trade policy. today s meeting could be a critical test for trump when it comes to some of the controversial foreign policy views he holds. with me to talk about that and more is peter wes macaw, a former uk ambassador to the united states. welcome, sir. thank you. how do you expect this meeting to go between theresa may and donald trump? i think it s a meeting likely to go very well. she has done her homework. there was a warmup act at the republican retreat yesterday evening where she made a cleverly balanced speech which appealed to republicans but also made policy statements which moved her a bit more toward where donald trump is coming from, which gave her the space about making firm remarks about how to deal with putin and what about european security and the importance ensuring those left behind by globalization are looked after in the years to come. i think there was a number of
so true. that tweet does come after the trump team released a warm christmas card from putin at the end of last week where he talked about working with the u.s. to avoid any sort of serious conflict which there were serious concerns about as trump and putin both made public statements last week about their country s nuclear arsenals. peter, do we know if the trump team is trying anything different for his inaugural address other than, you know, what they talked about during the campaign? reporter: no, in fact, the same speechwriter who helped mr. trump organize the points that he was trying to make at campaign rallies, and at the thank-you tour, is going to be writing the address delivered on january 20th. his name is steven miller. he s 31 years old. formerly of senator jeff sessions office. going to be a senior adviser for policy in the next white house. this is just a big assignment before that. miller was also the warmup act for mr. trump at a lot of large rallies in arenas an