With a boycott during the playoffs. Speaking up. Pandemic politics. Vice president pence paints a positive picture of the president s Coronavirus Response at the Republican National convention. What this says about how the gop thinks it can win. But first, heres todays eyeopener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Welcome to cbs this morning. Theres a lot going on. Are we going back to the eyeopener. Welcome back to cbs this morning. This is one of those rare days where anthony, as you know, there are so many things going on at the same time. Thats what i was trying to say. We could have had several leads. Theyre all very, very troubling. Well begin with the one everybody is talking about at this hour. Hurricane laura. The country, as you know, being tested in many ways. First we have a coronavirus, an economic csis and weve got a reckoning on systemic race sichl. Now were being tested again by one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u. S. The last thing anybody needs. Her name is hurri
Out of the meticulous factchecking that went into covering the first night of a Republican Convention. And say what you will about Republican Conventions of the past, and i was a part of a lot of them, they sought to hugh to the facts and make their case from there. This was a totally different undertaking. Thats right. There may be some exaggeration that comes with every Political Convention but what we saw last night was a real list of misleading statements. Everything from the fact that joe biden wants to abolish the police to the fact that president obama wants to abolish the suburbs to the fact that President Trump was quickly responding to the coronavirus and did all that he could in the very beginning to try to thwart the virus. We know the president downplayed the virus. He talked about the fact it was going to disappear miraculously. The president in his first speech at the Republican National convention said he was dealing with the virus and it was going away that it is happe