the u.s. more than 500,000 american lives lost in this pandemic. a floblow to the former u.s. president. the u.s. supreme court rejects donald trump s last-ditch efforts to shield his financial records. we will tell you who gets access to them. and cnn gets a rare look inside an iraqi icu where health care workers fear an overwhelming surge of covid patients. it has been one year since the coronavirus was detected here in the united states. since then, a staggering 500,000-plus americans have died. that s half a million parents, spouses, siblings, and friends who have been lost to the virus. the washington national cathedral bells rang 500 times in their memory. the american flag on top of the white house and capitol hill were lowered to half-staff. u.s. president joe biden consoled the nation. he asked americans not to become numb to sorrow but to honor the dead. we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in america. remember each person and the life they lived. they
numb to the sorrow. 500 candles, each marking 1,000 lives lost. more than half a million americans have died from covid-19, a staggering loss marked in a moment of empathy at the white house. the u.s. supreme court deals a blow to the former president s legal case allowing a new york prosecutor to obtain donald trump s tax returns. and later, neighbors and allies meet but justin trudeau and joe biden may not see eye to eye on everything, including global vaccine distribution. good to have you with us. it has been just over one year since the coronavirus was detected here in the united states, and since then a heartbreaking half a million lives have been lost to the virus. the deadly disease striking the most vulnerable and leaving behind grief stricken families. now the country is mourning the loss of loved ones with the american flag on top of the white house lowered to half staff. u.s. president joe biden is trying to comfort the nation and asking americans to remem
bit more of that in this town and so i appreciate that. and i was glad when you mentioned that president biden nominated, you ed levy who taught a class at university of chicago that i took and like edward levi, who took office after watergate, you will take on the department of justice at a critical time and will have the great task of restoring its ideals of independence and fidelity to the constitution and to the law. what is the number one thing that you want to do to boost moral in the department of justice on day one? well, on day one, i m hopefully, if i m confirmed, will take an only in which i say all of the things that you just said. i want to make clear to the career prosecutors, the career lawyers and agents of the department, that my job is to protect them from bipartisan or other improper motives. i then hope to have an opportunity over the next few months to visit with as many members of the justice department as possible. in a pandemic, unfortunately, this w
took in his grandparents and his family. that was a moment, no question about it. and it was a genuine moment. what senator booker was trying to do was to harness what we saw all summer, the anger, the protests, the demands for changes in the justice system from top to bottom to make it so that the disparaities that he talked about would be changed. now there is a chance, more of a chance than before, to do that. so what booker was doing was trying to get the likely soon-to-be attorney general to make that promise, that he wouldn t just pay lip service to it but make it part of his mission to change the laws that discriminate, intentionally or not, against people of color. laura coates, on that point, part of it is trying to change laws, but a lot of it, judge garland, soon to be general, why change it? where do you put your emphasis? why are people put in jail for marijuana possession? why don t you put our time and resources in violent crime. it shows that elections do ha
prosecutors go through all of these bank records, financial records. all the backups that the accountants used to create the tax returns. that s the key here. the backups? what do you mean? the receipts. you know, in the lingo of today, where are the receipts? the receipts in this case are all of the bank records that any accountant uses to make the taxes. so we re talking about the trump organization, the several hundred llcs affiliated with the trump organization and all of their financial records, monthly bank statements. checking accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts, credit cards for all of those different entities. you know, john, donald trump for years fought having this information made public, despite sort of promising it, promising it initially. what does that tell you and certainly as we listen to what tristen says about what all of this will unveil, we get a sense of it. what does it tell you why donald trump wanted to keep this secret? well, i t