Lying to congress, obstruction and witness tampering. In an interview thursday he said he preferred a commutation to a pardon to give, quote, an opportunity to clear my name. You might remember last year steve bannon called him an access point to wikileaks before the sites publication of Hillary Clintons leaked emails. He was set to surrender and begin his prison sentence on tuesday. Now, roger stone, if hes anything, hes a convicted fel n felon. Hes also a lifelong republican henchman. Hes got a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back. Roger stone isnt some abhorrent trumpera figure. He has been intwined in the Republican Party for decades. It is the party of roger stone and donald trump. You know, the United States has the worst Coronavirus Response in the world right now. We have the most cases, over three million, and the most deaths, over 130,000. Thats not just because we have one of the worst president s in the countrys history, but also because we have one of the worst Political Pa
In fracking or unfortunately coal in ohio. Its a different place for me a decade ago. This president has done nothing. He cares nothing about climate change, he ignores it, doesnt buy the science and then done nothing about the jobs in energy in eastern ohio. So things are worse than they were. No help to this president. Weve obviously got to be more serious about climate issues. Senator brown, im sorry about the technical difficulties we had more to talk about, but well have you back. Thanks for the time. Thanks, poppy. Appreciate it. You got it. Byebye. Very good friday morning to you, im jim sciutto. Im poppy harlow. So its only four days before this election and the nation is fighting a virus that is surging this morning almost everywhere in the country. Both President Trump and joe biden are racing across the midwest in a last ditch effort to win votes, campaigning in states hit so hard by the virus. Here are the numbers. The u. S. Will likely surpass 9 million confirmed covid cas
To strengthen it, to make sure its there not just for todays seniors but also for kids and grandkids. Thats what i have thought against the kings to cut medicare. The president , my own party, wanted to cut the Affordable Care act and Medicare Advantage. We want to cut Medicare Advantage to i stood up as a doctor and pushed back. Because Medicare Advantage actually is working. Its offering benefits, diagnosing diseases early and keeping people healthy. We thought back. We rallied folks both democrats and republicans and we pushed back into one. Thats because this is about protecting medicare. Now, you support a budget that turned medicare into a voucher plan and into the medicare guarantee as we know it. That is in protecting medicare. This is about making sure my patients, our parents, have the care that they need. Moderator you have an opportunity to respond, mr. Ose. Ose congressman, theres no way around it. You voted to cut 716 billion from medicare, the congressional budget office
At that point right now. But its, everybody wants to know about transmissibility, and part of the reason is that the cdc has been so emphatic about it not being transmissable, yet people are hearing about transmissibility. Two people have it now. So it makes it like like look like the cdc is not being forth coming. It, clearly, seems to be a tough disease to understand in terms of how it transmits to people. And so far, again, its just two Health Care Workers who had real contact with patient and not, you know, anyone else in the general public. If it stays that way, i think confidence in the cdc will increase. But if not, i think friedens got a problem on his hands. Host no matter what the result of the midterms, theres a lot congress has to handle when they come back from the break. Whats the likelihood that ebola gets to the top of the line to do . Guest it will if more happens about people are catching this more frequently here, more passengers arriving from africa with it, more tr
Hopefully not, because i think theyve got a good point. I dont know that thats been resolved yet. But i think they make a good point. Great. Lets have the questions from the audience. Maam, well start with you, in the back. Thank you very much. I really appreciate your statements. Im a correspondent from afghanistan. Basically im from afghanistan too. Everything looks wonderful after the big change in afghanistan. But the only concern that everybody has is their policy on pakistan. Do you think that after the new government in afghanistan, will be able to change their policy on afghanistan . Weve been pushing them to change their policy for as long as i can remember. I used to i made maybe a dozen trips to afghanistan in the last ten years or so. I used to always add pakistan, go to pakistan. But i received so much false information, baloney in afghanistan about their policies that i just finally dont even go there anymore. I dont want to hear their lying anymore. Lying about what they