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Exchange begins right now zb morning im Contessa Brewer in for Brian Sullivan we begin with breaking news on European Union gdp figures Joumanna Bercetche is with us. We just got the eurozone gdp numbers coming in at 0. 1 rise for the quarter that equates to a 0. 9 jump for the year so still above that 0 flat line detail on individual countries a lot of focus on german gdp coming in at 0 , so essentially stag nating but no recession year on year translated to 0. 4 for germany. France grew at 0. 9 , the uk at 1. 1 , the u. S. 2. 3 . So still very weak compared to other g10 nations. We are not seeing a huge reaction in markets. We are still ending the week on a positive tone. It has been a good couple of days the eurozone stoxx 600 going from record close to fres ....
Convention tomorrow, senator harris is responding publicly for the first time to racist and false attacks levelled at her by President Trump. Theyre going to engage in lies. In deception. Theyre going to engage in an attempt to distract from the real issues. Shaquille brewster and Josh Letterman are standing by with the details on those and other developments this hour. Shaquille is in delaware and josh is at the white house. And josh, well start with you first. The Trump Administration today continues amping up its attack against voting by mail. Whats being said . Well, even as democrats are sounding the alarm with increasing an increasing levels of intensity about this crisis with the post office, garrett, protestors marching on the house of the postmaster general, the president s top aides are turning up the vo ....
Elbow each other out. There is a new nbc poll showing a tight race between joe biden and Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. Much more on that in a moment. Before we get into tonights news, i want to Say Something quite personal. As i watched one sided results of the caucus in nevada, irreached for a historical analogy and used a bad one. I was bad to refer to an event from the last days or the first days of world war ii. Senator sanders, im sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era in which so many suffered, especially the jewish people to ee elected result in which you were a well deserved winner. This is going to be a hard fought Heated Campaign of ideas. In the weeks and months ahead i will strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discus ....
Hospital is up over 40 . He is closing bars in los angeles and six other counties. He has a bunch of counties on a watch list. He is, like other leaders around the country, pausing or rolling back on the reopening. Because of this, this, and this. People have died. Were now hearing this. Arizona is on pause. We will continue to take action based upon the data. Reporter 14 states pausing or tweaking reopening plans. The window is closing for us to take action and get this under control. Reporter in states that still wont mandate masks, some mayors are making that call. Nashville, kansas city, now jacksonville, where the president hoped to hold an unmasked convention later this summer. Is his no mask mantra now evolving . He encourages people to make whatever decision is best for their safety. He said to me he has no problem with masks and to do whatever your local jurisdiction requests of you. Reporter long lines for tests in florida where case counts are six times what they were a mont ....
This part of idaho, nevada, areas where donald trump has done terribly in this primary season. Its one of the reasons that the expectations are so low for him tonight in utah and one of the things that could drag him down a little bit in arizona in terms of why this is. There are a couple of theories out there. One is simply that hes been in a very, very public war with mitt romney and mitt romney has such strong standing in the mormon community. That could be part of it. Another is that the concentration of churchgoing, regular service attending mormons is particularly high. Weve seen trump struggle. Generally, the more devout religious people. Another theory is that mormons in particular may coil in particular at Donald Trumps plan to ban muslims in the state. They may see themselves under attack as a religion. Thats the reason donald trump is expected to do very poorly in utah tonight. I always try to decipher steves drawing. Th ....