Which george h. W. Bush was. And by not going partisan, george w. Bush helped remind us just how starved we are for decency in American Public life. And im going to leave you with that picture, get ready to put to rest one of our points of light, one of my points of light, the 41st president. Thanks to nancy, brett, nick, elise. Thats it for this hour. Im any coko nicolle wallace. Mtp daily is next with chuck todd. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york. And welcome to mtp daily. Moments ago, president george h. W. Bushs remains arrived by train in college station. Next is a Burial Ceremony at the george bush president ial library. We will be keeping an eye on these proceedings as the 41st president is officially laid to
rest in a few minutes. Well take you back there, but were going to begin tonight with yet another piece of reporting that raises questions if the trump administrations Foreign Policy is for sale. It raises other questions about whether bob mueller might be invest
Just moments ago, the president slammed the trial. Its a hoax. It goes nowhere because nothing happened. The only thing weve done is a great job. We have the strongest country in the world by far. Sandra complete coverage for you this morning. In a moment we will hear from congressman john ratcliffe, which is added to the president s defense team. John roberts is standing by live in davos, will be vegan with chad pergram on capitol hill. Good morning, chad. Good morning, sandra. Its up to the senators, house impeachment managers, and the president s Legal Defense team. Last night he added several House Republican members to his defense team. They will not actually speak on the senate floor during the trial but they will give advice and they will talk to the press. Here is republican doug collins, hes the Top Republican on the judiciary. It cannot be a coverup, when you are blooming the senate for your own bad work. Lets just put this honestly. The House Democrat majority wanted to impe
Immunologist anthony fauci, hes out with a sobering and stark estimate saying we could see as many as 200,000 deaths across the country from the coronavirus in the most extreme. So its difficult to predict, looking at what we are seeing 200,000 cases. I dont want to be held to that excuse me, deaths. I just dont think that we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong. Eric well, he certainly hope it does not reach that. Fox News Coverage for you. On latest International Response to all of this, u. S. Ambassador kelly kraft, shes with us later in the hour. First lets begin with Steve Harrigan live in atlanta. Steve eric, as the numbers continue to rise, onethird of all the counties in the u. S. There has yet to be one positive test for the virus. Now most of these counties are rural, they are often older populations, often poor, whats not clear is whether this is some sort of National Social distancing going on or whether, in fact,
In a question in a moment. But there was a span of time from january 24 through march 5 that i hope the American Public looks at. And it gets back to what is wrong with our Health Care System in general. Early testing from what im seeing was created by the fact that the cdc said that it was going to do its own test. The south korean test that gets cited so often was not going to be looked at. We had to do our own. I know the fda worked with the cdc. But the long and short of all of this is that for nearly a month this was in that bureaucratic swirl. The fda prevented private and Academic Development of tests for weeks. The cdc kdenied access to functioning tests as i cited in south korea. This created through all the red tape and bureaucracy to where we had to come up with a one sized fits all approach due to the uncertainty of the virus. And we are stuck with that now. I dont want to dwell on that necessarily because i think that those are mistakes that we made. Im tired of having it
Still be in for a nasty surprise this tax season as we are told that obamacare fees will take effect for the very first time. What you need to know before you file. Also if you take herbal supplements, you cant miss this report. Why some of the biggest brands are actually worthless. Topping the news this afternoon, jordan defiant and taking action vowing to quote wipe out the Islamic State completely. Of course, joining in with the United States in wrapping up another round of air strikes on targets in iraq and syria. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates has ordered a squadron of f16 fighters to jordan. That according to the state news agency. But not saying what role those airplanes will play. They will be standing by of course again if needed. The uae has suspended its air strikes against the Islamic State fighters after they captured jordans pilot. This comes as the family of Kayla Mueller, the american aid worker kidnapped by the Islamic State, says they are Still Holding out hope.