he does the top of the hour i m brianna skeerl. in moments president biden and vice-president kamala harris will visit the cdc as they set guidelines for reopening schools safely. one big change is the six feet of social zanlsing is becoming three for elementary school students. for middle school children and older in communities with higher transmission rates, six feet is still recommended. and moments ago, the cdc director emphasized masks are a must no matter the age of the student. i want to emphasize that these recommendations are specific to students in classrooms with universal mask wearing. cdc continues to recommend at least six feet of distance between teachers and staff and other adults in the school buildings and between the adults and students. let s go to atlanta now where cnn s jeff zeleny is. we know, jeff that the president and vice-president use the time in atlanta to meet with asian-american leaders following that devastating shooting spree that killed
your message or question to writing signed by your foreperson and the foreperson only. do not address any questions to anyone other than the court and reduce it to writing and pass it to the bailiff signed by the foreperson and the forepersons only. it will then be brought to my attention. i will then respond either in writing or by having you return to the courtroom. i caution you with regard to any message or question you might send. trace: there you have judge newman. the jury will get this case in moments. i want to bring in nancy grace. she s been in the courtroom watching this. she s the host of crime stories with nancy grace. i guess we re seeing the jury
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mcconnell while i does call u.s. withdrawal a grave mistake in the op-ed in the washington post he never names president trump one time. which is a nifty trick when you think with it he does lash out at former president obama three times by name. back with us jeff toobin a maggie haberman and carl bernstein. do you have any explanation for the president s behavior on this? the idea of i know there is the promise to get troops out. but we re talking about, you know, 50 to 100 u.s. special forepersons who are in that border region preventing in invapgs that the president has now said he knew was going to come because they ve been watching the troops amassing on the border for some time and then he sends 2000 troops to saudi arabia. it s not as if there is a big withdrawal of troops from the world there. his argument in terms of the saudi arabia troops he claims saudi arabia is paying for it which makes our troops mercenaries in ways we are unused to see thissing. i i think a coup
but how is it dpakts him and he thinks it doesn t hurt him politically. what is interesting to me about in is if you go back to during the mueller investigation, the one talking point that so many republicans on this network and elsewhere would say in defense of the president and his self-provosted toughness against russia was that there were u.s. troops in syria and even a fight in which russian backed forepersons were killed by u.s. forces and that that shows the president s resolve and that he bombed an airfield. he is now given all the rest of the one third of syria to for the assad regime and to russian backed forces and iranian backed forces. and walked away, took us out of the picture completely. and opened this piece of business in a terrible place to slaughter. but more important, senator romney is onto something here. there is a record of what the