votes and how do you make sure there is a fair and square election and we are heading into another chapter, chapter 73 of trump world and we are just going to have to watch it day by day, hour by hour i. host: you spoke with the president 19 times for this book. how did it come about and how did he agree to talk with you? guest: i did a book in 2018, fear, on his first two years and he did not cooperate and i tried to talk to him and he regretted and of course, denounced the book and said i was a democrat operative and people close to him said, by the way, the book is true and so the president, when i wanted to do the second book said he would cooperate. i went into the oval office, put my tape recorder down and i put it on the resolute desk and said it s all on record and i will record it all and the book will come out in september or october before the election is so i talked to him for noun hours and 41 minutes and he would call me at home at 10:00 o clock or on the we
announcer: next, governor phil murphy gives an update on the coronavirus update with state health officials. speaking from new wark, this is n hour and a half. governor murphy: thank you. sorry for being a few minutes late. i want to say good afternoon to everybody. our thanks to rutgers newark for allowing us to use their space for today s briefings. so to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2:00 p.m. at the war memorial. and so we ll be trying to give you at least one day s advanced notice as to where you will find us. as this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. and colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pat s left by the department s of health communicable disease medical dr. edward leftshif. good to have you back. before we get to the latest testing results, i ve got a few announcements and upda
i want to say good afternoon to everybody. our thanks to rutgers newark for allowing us to use their space for today s briefings. so to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2:00 p.m. at the war memorial. and so we ll be trying to give you at least one day s advanced notice as to where you will find us. as this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. and colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pat s left by the department s of health communicable disease medical dr. edward leftshif. good to have you back. before we get to the latest testing results, i ve got a few announcements and updates on what we ve been up to. before i do that, i want to give sheila oliver a shoutout who is running the d.c.a. as fast as furiously as ever before, the lieutenant governor and i made a decision some number of days ago tha
personal charge of his forces and today has been perhaps the most important for him with the key battles of his nomination fight coming to a head. bob schieffer reports. bob: the president spent a lot of time visiting various state allegations. he went to some of the headquarters hotels and had other dollar legation to headquarters on the 18th floor of this hotel. one of the things you come away with after talking to people here, members of the white house staff is this the ford people seem a lot more comfortable about their vote count. on the other hand, they are 16c thingout this coming up tonight to force the president to name his running mate early. the organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. the ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. somehowo know that if the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. ford some votes. th
mate early. the organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. the ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. they also know that if somehow the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. ford some votes. that is why they will be working very hard against it and that s why the reagan folks will be working hard. walter: this has been a crucial day for the presence challenger, ronald reagan. the reagan camp is operating on the premise that the actual delegate battle is much closer than most counts indicate. based on that, governor reagan was busy going from hotel to hotel, delegation to delegation, stressing two main things. first, reiterating very firmly that he would not accept a vice presidential spot on a ford ticket if the income in order be this conventions nominee. reagan said over and over he would go back to the private life, tur