President donald trump made a rare appearance in the White House Briefing room to downplay the threat of coronavirus the risk to the American People remains very low trump the klein told point to socalled corona virus czar as some lawmakers in the u. S. Have urged instead naming Vice President mike pence as the point person to lead the u. S. Response to the growing outbreak were doing really well and mike is going to be in georgia and mike will report back to me Top Public Health officials are warning americans to prepare for more corona virus infections in the United States the degree of risk has the potential to change quickly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States the trajectory of what were looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain but even with those warnings trump continued to contradict the message of Career Health professionals with his all i dont think its inevitable probably will it possibly will it could be at a very small level or could
Pundit meek potential absolutely it has and we vary it from our assessment not yet Irans Health Ministry has pledged to be transparent about the outbreak but it has been heavily criticized by one m. P. In qualm who says the number of dead could actually be as high as 50 i said vague has more now from tehran. Theres been an extraordinary exchange in clash a war of words between a member of Parliament Ahmed a meter above the hes a member of parliament for the city of qom the epicenter of this virus here in iran and the Health Ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not with the maybe from the krona virus but he says that the governments performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses dont have the correct uniforms on are scared of treating patients he says that the government isnt really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but their names meant was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 c
Involved in this stoppage as it were the United States the taliban or the Afghan Military to say that someone is complying with the terms of this 7 day pause and so there should be no signing of an agreement and doha come february 29th its a real question because this is perhaps the 1st real test of trust between the parties in this case the u. S. And the taliban with out that trust it is of fair to say that trying to get the taliban to then sit down with representatives of the Afghan Government or of the Afghan People as they would prefer its going to be very difficult to have those discussions actually take place so that an eventual peace accord can be reached within the afghan body politic. Italy has confirmed as furth death from the corona virus are 3 number of cases were quadrupled in one day 15 new infections have been reported in the wealthy Lombardy Region many of them were presented to the 1st cases of secondary infection meaning none of them had traveled to china where the ou
States im deeply concerned that we are way behind the a fondness at a hearing on capitol hill on tuesday the u. S. Health and Human Services secretary said development of a vaccine for the virus may still be a year away he openly admitted the trouble right house needs 2500000000 dollars in emergency funding from congress to fight the spread of the global outbreak so we do have in the Strategic National stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough for part will of course not or we wouldnt be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that for hours later a top u. S. Health official issued this ominous warning now its not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected now even members of President Trumps own Republican Party are questioning a top u. S. Border official about whether its efforts to contain the virus are even adequate but you can
Downgrade recommendation by the department of justice prosecutors and as you pointed out that downgrading of the recommendation came after the u. S. President weighed in on twitter calling the recommendations a miscarriage of justice in the end the judge said that she took a look at both recommendations and felt that this should be proportional but at the same time noted that there were very few precedents for such a case involving the very close ally of the u. S. President roger stone in the end she did say that she took into account the requests for levy and see by his friends and family and she also said that she did not in any way pass judgment on roger stone as a person she said shed leave that up to a Higher Authority pretty remarkable given the fact that stone himself took aim at this judge quite literally even posting early on when he had been charged a picture of the judge would be campbell handling the case next to her image in a rifle crosshairs so this is been a remarkable