double the number of hospitalizations. that is staggering to consider. starting today, face masks will be required on all public transportation and mass transit hubs. anyone that does not follow the order will be in violation of the order. my colleague is in ft. lauderdale for us. welcome back. how concerned are officials here about this new development? yeah, alex, they re so concerned about the development that it could lead to more hospitalizations and deaths that they re looking for that uk variant and the brazilian and south african variants. we know those cases have tripled in the past week. southern florida getting hit the hardest. broward county, palm beach county, and miami-dade county make up 60% of the cases total. in addition to the uk variant that officials are looking at here in florida, they re looking at the brazilian variant as well. there is a large brazilian population. they are looking at ways to increase vaccination rates as well. we spoke to some flo
presidential race since 1980. kimberley atkins a senior news correspondent for boston s npr news station. harry litman, he s the host of the podcast and haze brown the senior news reporter and editor at buzzfeed and also host of the podcast impeachment today. i will tell you as we have been doing when the roll call is completed and the tally is announced we ll pause for that just to make note of what is happening because this is a really important time. there have been people watching every moment of this and tweeting about it and writing about it as many of you are, so we want to make sure we don t lose the import of the moment. kimberley, you ve been sitting here with brian following what s been going on. what s your sense of it? it seems the democrats even though these are about pretrial motions, the democrats are using this is an important to put the case forward as a preview of what s to come. and it seems republicans have stuck mostly to the same process arguments, de
account. the ceo of at&t saying hiring cohen was a mistake and a serious misjudgment. i want to tell you something right off the top. whatever you think of donald trump or michael cohen, this is now also a story about corporate influence peddeling and wall street deception. the washington post has obtained what it says are the internal at&t documents. at&t hasn t confirmed this. they appear to show that the leadership of at&t has known about all of this from the start n writing, with the numbers that cohen s role and his scope was defined and that he was working on literally the company s biggest priority of the year, a giant merger acquisition of time warner. so at&t knew. and now tonight they claim this is a mistake after getting busted by of all people stormy daniels lawyer michael avenatti what dropped this proverbial dime. this new evidence doesn t state how much donald trump knew but anyone who covered trump knows outside his family members his most trusted aide long
represent testifies rep of saudi arabia say jamal khashoggi was a member of the state and muslim brotherhood. but my decision is in no way based on that. this is a horrible crime. king salman and crown prince mohammed bin salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the crime. our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event maybe he did and maybe he didn t. sam in abu dhabi for us, what is the message this white house is sending to leaders in the region where you are? reporter: well, let s take the iranians, since they were put at the top of mr. trump s interesting missive that was put out today earlier today with america first as its headline. the foreign minister has tweeted in response to this let me read it to you in full, brooke. i think it will sum up the view of that part of the middle east. he says mr. trump bizarrely devotes the first paragraph of his shameful state
e-mail for public business up to about a year. why her allies say it s totally different than what hillary clinton did. one of the reporters who broke the story is live with us. an exclusive, for the first time, victim of the mysterious health attacks. the permanent brain injuries, and whether the state department is doing enough. i do not believe that our military or diplomats around the world or here at home are safe. do not miss that. pelosi problems, with dissident democrats going public. what we still don t know about whether she might glide to the gavel or not. we have our team set up and ready to go on what has turned out to be a realty busy tuesday. geoff bennett is at the white house, we have our panelists. but a wild ride already this morning on wall street. you ve seen the dow, down some 466 points. it s been flirting with being down about 2%, right? mark correct territory is roughly 10% from a high. larry kudlow, the top economic adviser for the white hous