First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, the president has been fuming about vindman apparently every since he testified. Reporter he is making it clear hes seeking retribution after this, and vindman was fired by the white house and escorted off the grounds of the white house earlier today according to his lawyer, ambassador david pressman. We have a statement we can put up on the screen from pressman about what happened to his client, vindman. Lieutenant colonel vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth. His honor and commitment to right trifrightened the powerfu. In the attorneys statement it goes on to say the president has decided to exact revenge. Earlier in the day the president was asked about some speculation, reports that were coming out that vindman was on his way out here at the white house and the president all but confirmed those reports. Heres what he had to say earlier today. Reporter mr. President , would you like to see Alexander
Hampshire and why he is predicting things are going to be different when biden takes the debate stage in South Carolina tomorrow. In the first two contests, people from South Carolina, like around the country are looking at this and ive heard from a lot of people that they thought that joe biden could have done more to engage on the during the debates and thought he could have done more to say why he would be deserving. And so i think he suffered from that because he didnt do enough. But i do believe that a lot of that had to do with other candidates. I think that at that time you had, what, 17 or 18 people on the stage. Kamala harris, i think, unnerved him a little bit with her question. Right. So all of this changes when you only have six people. So i dynamics on tuesday night will be totally different from what they were on those two contests. Now, as we mentioned, senator Bernie Sanders won saturdays nevada caucuses in commanding fashion and with a Broad Coalition of support. He do
The outbreak. At this moment, there is so much fear in the country. There were so much for your across the world. We need American Leadership. We need president ial leadership. Thats honest, trusted, truthful, and study. Reassuring leadership. Harris earlier today, the president defended his handling of the outbreak and spoke on the possibility of using emergency powers. Watch. If i need to do something, ill do it. Have a right to do a lot of things that people dont even know about. I dont want to say that, but at some point it may be some of the more minor things at this point. We are in great shape compared to other places. We are in really good shape. We want to keep it that way that way. Harris the president speaking from the oval office there a short time ago. Peter doocys life for in wilmington, delaware. Peter . Harris, the dnc is now trying to reduce crosscountry travel of Campaign Staff and candidates and other parties. They Just Announced that come out of an abundance of caut
His resort in virginia. Cases of covid19 continues to surge fueling the global mark. As you can see, the curve is not going down. The curve is not flattening. Msnbcs ongoing count four states set new records. Nevada, south carolina, florida and georgia. Floridas record yesterday broke the record set on friday which broke the record set wednesday last week. Florida reported 34,000 new covid19 cases in the last week. Look at that chart. The state has followed texas in implementing minor measures to stop the spread including reclosing beaches and bars. If i cant make money, you know what call my bartenders and tell them they cant work snow. All my bartenders and cooks cannot work. Certainly share everybodys concern about whats going on, but didnt think we would go backwards. The reason people didnt think they would be reclosing is simple. False optimism. Not listening to the science and a horrendous policy from elected leaders in washington. Things are becoming so dire in texas its forced
Cuomo appears to be caving in saying the quarantine can be done at home. But the nurses from the state of maine and Chris Christie are making it clear this is something the state must deal with. I dont believe when you are dealing with something as serious as this that you can count and a voluntary system. Bill doug mcelway live in washington. It looks like a case of states rights versus the government. Reporter the nurse was put into quarantine in new jersey after her return from treating ebola patients in west africa. The white house put tremendous pressure on the governors of new york, new jersey and illinois. Cuomo relented letting them quarantine at home, but christie has not. Its just an unintended consequence. We dont have people volunteering to go over there, then other countries wont do it. It was my conclusion we needed to do this to protect the Public Health of the people of new jersey. Governor cuomo agrees and mayor emanuel agrees and i think the cdc will come to our point