the pandemic is based on new interviews with the top health officials in the u.s. dr. deborah birx says hundreds of thousands of american deaths could have been mitigating if the white house had acted more aggressively and taken the threat more seriously. the former cdc director robert redfield says he believes the virus that caused the coronavirus happened in a lab in wuhan, but he can t confirm that. there s a surge across the united states. new cases are on the rise in 27 states. in michigan, they ve seen an increase of more than 50% since last week alone. the state s lead health officials says michigan is in the throes of a new surge and cases are happening with young people. miguel almaguer is live in detroit. miguel? reporter: good morning, john. look, this is a race between the variants and the vaccines. w what they re concerned about is not only a transmission state but a deadly one. mostly among young people. here it s the 10 to 19 cohorts. they say it s a commun
called the very closely fought new jersey governor s race. virginia and new jersey are the only two states that hold their governor s races in a year like this, the odd numbered year right after a presidential election. they re the only two states that do it. they do it every four years. all the way back to the 1980s, every newly elected president, his first year in office has seen his party lose the governor s race both in virginia and in new jersey. that s just the way the pendulum swings. president biden this week actually became the first newly elected president of the united states since ronald reagan to not fall prey to that curse. to not have his party lose both those governorships. biden s democratic party did lose the virginia governor s race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on
in six weeks, come in whatever, well, we ended that. now they want to go back to the levels where we cut those folks that now provide that kind of help. this amounts to $22 billion cut in veterans health care. now they dispute this. they know where their actual proposal or exclusive protection for veterans, but they say it s unusual language we use with presidents these days, they say i m lying when i say that. the truth is, why do so many veterans groups speak out in opposition to the republican proposal, they re not all democrats, they know what s going to happen. folks, that s a game republicans are playing, anytime you single out the impact of their overall cuts, they tell you, no, no, no, it s not true. but they re wrong. they want to protect something. they would have written it down and say we re protecting it. you can t cut this program. you can t cut it. so he can see it. here s another example. under the republican plan, nationwide, 100,000 teachers and support staf
hi, everybody. it s thursday. it s 4:00 in new york. it is also day 18 of the people of the state of new york vermont donald trump, the ex-president s former attorney michael cohen is just off the witness stand. the jury is done with their service for the day. prosecutors and attorneys for the ex-president are dealing with the all important question of what happens next. it s happening right now. a hearing over what the defense s case will look like and if they will make a case, if they have a case to present the updates from that hearing that is happening as we meet we ll bring them to you right away. all this is in the wake of a rather desperate and uneven attempt to undercut michael cohen s credibility. it was to be generous, hit and miss, defense attorney todd blanche had a second chance at cross examining michael cohen after a day of rest yesterday. he moved around from topic to topic so quickly that todd blanche decided that todd should apologize to the jurors who would
Traditionally expect that you are going to cop to some of the criminal conduct here, and the conduct here even though it doesn t represent the full what we understand george santos might have engaged in, it still is serious conduct. and given george santos defiance, despite the fact that i think the conversations are happening and ongoing, i m not sure they will be particularly fruitful, chris. the other thing that i want to point out to you and our viewers, the thing that jumped out to me reading this indictment, it could be a little bit of a dress rehearsal for future trump indictment, and here s how. the charges here brought about campaign finance contributions, they are wire fraud charges. they re not campaign finance charges, and essentially george santos sent fraudulent e-mails to potential contributors and under false pretenses got them to contribute money to his company, telling them it was a 501(c)(4) organization and he was going to use this money for television advertisemen