Donald trump refuses to leave the office, the united states military must remove him by force. That was a little shocking. We began to wonder if that was a really good idea. No matter how orange donald trump might be, military coups and up being unwise. They go on the record is opposing it, too. And what a relief that was. Within days, the story kind of receded. Another weird footnote to a weird four years. If you pause and thought about it for a second, you had to wonder, where did that idea even come from? did to former u. S. Military officers just suggest removing the president of the united states by force of arms? since when do american military officers talk like that or think like that? we push that consideration from our minds. But we shouldn t have. W now we know that mark milley himself is a sort of person that considers military coup entirely within the realm. The current chairman of the joint chiefs chief of staff is a jointat extremist. In the book millie describes donald
The white house announcing today that the biden administration is working hand in hand with tech giants like facebook to eliminate covid content that they believe strays from the facts. We re flagging problematic posts for facebook that spreads disinformation. We are working with doctors and medical professionals to connected medical experts who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content so we re helping get trusted content out there. We also created the covid community court to get factual information into the lands of local messengers. Pete: they are boosting trusted content. In case you missed it because it was said no nonchalantly and quickly we are flagging problematic posts for facebook that spread disinformation. The white house, the federal government is telling facebook what is problematic and promoting their side? ^ what could go wrong? as for trusted local messengers we have more and new information on that a bit later in the show th
The move marks a dramatic reversal the countries summary opening efforts. We have all of the breaking details in a live report. And being coined the wokacola campaign, being targeted for its political narrative again, and a lightning rod in just a bit. We begin tonight with the biden administration collaborating with social media companies to potentially censor what they consider to be covid disinformation. White house correspondent kevin corke has the latest reaction to this extraordinary disclosure tonight. Good evening, kevin. Good evening, shannon. What is a slippery slope says critics who are accusing the white house tonight of basically authoring and all authoritarian rule on social media platforms, limiting what you can say or see, if the white house deems it is disinformation, is a bridge too far. And it begs the question, who gets to define disinformation, and what happens when socalled disinformation today was faxed tomorrow? we have increased disinformation research and trac
Report from them. If donald trump refuses to leave off as the letter began the united states military must remove him by force and you must give that order. You must remove the president by force. That s a little shocking, what country is this? even the usual powermad partisans in the news media began to wonder if that s a really good idea. Slate. Com of all places reminded its readers that no matter how orange donald trump might be, military coups generally turn out to be unwise for the pentagon had to go on the record as opposing it too. The rest of us could keep civilian control of our government and what a week that was paid within days the story just kind of receded. Another weird footnote to a weird four years but if you paused for a second you had to wonder, where did that idea even come from? did two former u. S. Military officers really just suggest removing the president of united states by force of arms? since when do american military officers talk like that or think like t
Record, more than 400,000 new cases in a single day. Meanwhile, back in the u. S. , more incremental steps toward normalcy, the kentucky derby set to take off this evening with limited capacity of about 50,000 people. Cnn s evan mcmorrissantoro is at churchill downs. First let s go to polo sandoval with an overall look at progress and setbacks. Reporter: the numbers are looking extremely promising. Consider the daily infection rate dropping from about 60,000 a day to anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000. That s one of the reasons why the cdc essentially loosened some of those recommendations for fully vaccinated people when it comes to masks. Here in new york, as a new yorker, it feels good to say that according to the mayor s office, they are now eyeing a july 1st reopening, citing a drop in hospitalizations and infections here in the big apple. Throughout much of the country, americans are seeing signs that the light at the end of the tunnel is drawing nearnce the first public covid19 vacc