Overflow. Not enough people showed up. A potential confidence blow to a president who stakes his political fortunes and bragging rights on the size of his crowds. Even a smaller than expected crowd without masks standing should to shoulder is worrying at the height of oklahomas coronavirus outbreak. None of the social distancing measures recommended by Donald Trumps cdc are being enforced there tonight, despite warnings from trumps only Health Advisers that the event, if carried out this way, would put the lives of his own supporter at risk. Thats the spectacle playing out publicly at this hour on what has become another split screen day of breaking news in the trump presidency, as his supporters were gathering at their own risk throughout the day and night, behind the scenes, a standoff was brewing at the Justice Department that today culminated in the firing without explanation of Geoffrey Berman. Berman is the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york whose office, as the
Of juneteenth as demands for policing reform reverberate across the country. There is no playbook for what we are dealing with right now across this country. Is change on the way . Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms coming up. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is. Remembering that there is a president ial election in less than five months. Is hoping to be back in his comfort zone this weekend holding his First Campaign rally in months. Saturday night in the city of tulsa in ruby red oklahoma. The but the event was a much smaller than expected crowd. And six members of the team had tested positive for covid19. Instead of a speech of unity and hope, President Trump gave what critics described as a meandering speech filled with complaints and falsehoods. He talked for 14 minutes about west point and defending his wobbly walk down that ramp. He made no mention of black americans in tulsa 99 years ago this month or black floyd. The president also seemed to min
Melber. You can see the reporters assembled there. Alarming numbers on covid19 and Florida Health department meanwhile now has announced over 100,000 confirmed cases of the virus in that state alone. In geneva, the w. H. O. s chief is saying that the Health Emergency programs there have been addressing an uptick in parts of the u. S. What is clear is that the increase is not entirely explained through just increased testing. There is some evidence of increased in hospitalizations. This also comes while senators schumer and murray claim President Trump is sitting on 14 billion in Virus Testing and tracing fund. The president , meanwhile, is clashing with former National Security adviser john bolton who commented on whether he would speak to house investigators now. Democrats subpoena you, will you testify . Lets see what they decide to do. Lets see. Well, lets go to washington. Were just learning that the white house is no longer conducting the mandatory Temperature Checks for journalis
Just mind blowing that this far into it, right now on average, one in five of every new coronavirus case, every new coronavirus case reported daily, is a case from the United States, when we are only 4 of the worlds population. On the daily chart of american new cases reported each day, we had dropped down a little bit, but now we are very clearly climbing back up. We had recently hovered around 20, maybe 25,000 new cases each day. Twice in the last few days, though, we have topped 30,000 new cases in a day. Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm says we should stop thinking of this thing in terms of a first wave and second wave. If were just going to keep burning through 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 new infections every day, this is less like some succession of distinct waves and he says its more like just a forest fire. Just something that is large and raging and, by the way, were not really trying to put it out anymore. More than 20 u. S. States now have rising case numbers each day. In washing
Somewhat facing off with the police. You can see theyre literally face to face with officers standing behind the bikes. After that happened just a few moments ago, chanting things like hey ho Andrew Jacksons got to go and we were inside the white house and secret Service Officers came around to the reporters and said that we had to leave the white house grounds. Someone listening at home may not think thats unusual but it is incredibly unusual and i dont think weve been asked to physically leave the white house at a time like that but instead officers are coming around telling reporters to get off the white house grounds at that moment. Though its not clear why because, of course, if youre looking at Lafayette Square the statue is good 100 yards back from the white house so its not clear why. Were reaching out to secret service to get an explanation for why the white house reporters had to leave but what we are seeing now is these protesters clashing with police in front of the white h