President of the United States himself rolled out a few weeks ago. But what is happening is the pressure is getting to donald trump. You can see it in the nonsense tweets this morning. So he as his poll numbers decline, he feels the need to rapidly push for a reopening, even though many states are not meeting those guidelines and you still have a significant death toll, significant case numbers. Now, some good things are happening. Testing is increasing. The Positivity Rate is declining. But this hearing today is going to make an impression on the American People in two ways. One, theyre going to hear the words that anthony fauci, the warnings that fauci, robert redfield, stephen hahn of the fda will offer. It is the form of the hearing, it is going to be chaired by lamar alexander, republican from tennessee who is going to be asking questions from self isolation. One of the Staff Members has the coronavirus and the three top scientists, hahn, redfield and fauci, are also going to be t
Deaths. Those numbers are only expected to rise. One of the key models used by the white house now projects 137,000 u. S. Deaths by august. Thats 3,000 more deaths than the previous projection. The revised number due to what research us call, an explosive increase in mobility among the states thats reopened. Three top u. S. Medical officials may have been exposed to the virus. Dr. Anfauci, dr. Redfield and dr. Stephen hahn all under quarantine after coming into contact with white house staffers who recently tested positive for coronavirus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is speaking right now about his countrys response to the coronavirus. Lets listen in. It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom, your freedom, of a kind we have never seen before in peace or war. And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly. Youve puts with all the hardships, that programs social distancing, because yo
This morning a lot less green on that map there. Only 9 states now reporting a downward trend in new cases. 17 states are headed the wrong way. The u. S. Death toll approaching 95,000, a tragic rate coming down at a stubbornly slow pace. A push to reopen does not change the reality of the virus. The lag time that occurs between the time when we start to see these cases and when they convert to a really big spike can be a matter of weeks. Nothing magic happened while we were staying home. During these lockdown periods its not like the virus got less contagious or less deadly. One immediate concern, beaches will be open this memorial day. Even more people may be unaware that they are spreading the virus than we thought. Overnight the cdc released an estimate that 35 of Coronavirus Infections produce no symptoms. Huge concerns focused on the south now. Places like florida where new cases in palm beach are expected to quadruple. In texas they could see cases skyrocket more than 10 fold. Th
To be the main sticking point was where they would spend their time in jail. as you know, they ve been convicted and sentenced to life without parole. they would serve that in a state prison. but here, it s saying that the deal was struck that they would spend at least 30 years in a federal system. and that didn t seem to be to the judge s satisfaction, which is, of course, her right, as the sentencing judge, so she said, i m not going to accept that nor am i going to be bound by this. you can keep your plea in place, but you re letting me now as a judge make the ultimate decision on the terms of the sentence. so they obviously said after that, we re going to withdrawal and we re just going to go ahead and go to trial. and if you think about it, you know, what did they have to lose? they ve already been convicted and sentenced to life without parole in the mcmichaels case, and mr. brian, of course, to life in prison, in the state system, they ll appeal those convictions. but here, a 30
Allison gullest. gullest has been a top executive here at cnn for years and because zucker and gullest were in a romantic relationship and did not disclose it right away, zucker was forced out of his job. it has been a shattering week for cnn in some ways because of lack of leadership all of a sudden. however, i think it s also important to recognize that the news continues. the news has continued no matter what, and cnn is so much bigger than any single executive. i thought at&t s ceo, john stenkey said it well on saturday, the best days of cnn are still in front of it. this has been a big media controversy, so on reliable sources, i ll be bringing in a lot of outside voices later today to analyze the situation. and if we had been able to hear from jeff on that call that morning, he likely would have said, the news continues, just as you did, brian. right. i think that s what he would have said. z and it s not the only media controversy of the week, you have rogan, a cnn shake u