Home as covid19 cases increase across the nation. More than 13 million americans have been diagnosed at over 2,000 americans are dying every day from the virus. As states brace for an uptick in cases due to holiday gatherings the nations most populous county, los angeles county, is set to impose strict stay at home rules that will take effect tomorrow. Meanwhile, health way be on the way as the first doses of pfizers 1ir9 vaccines are headed to the u. S. From belgium, but keep in mind a vaccine isnt expected for wide distribution until later 2021. A cdc panel will meet on tuesday to decide how the initial supplies of the vaccine will be allocated. Joining me now Emergency Room Physician and california congressman and a good friend raul ruiz, cardiologist dr. Bernard ashby on the committee to protect medicare, dr. Mercedes carnethon from Northwestern University and dr. Corey hebert, former cochair of the louisiana governors covid19 Minority Task force. We should also note that dr. Heber
Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
But i feel that the large venue is just its a very exciting night, and when you dont have that, it takes a lot of it takes a lot of energy out. Thats donald trump pushing for a crowd at the president ial debates, which is not currently part of the terms he agreed to yesterday. Well go through all the debate drama in just a moment. Also ahead well bring in expert legal analysis on the former president s criminal trial in new york as his former fixer, Michael Cohen, is expected to return to the stand later this morning. Plus, the latest out of china on russian president Vladimir Putins state visit to beijing, which comes amid his arms escalating offensive in North Eastern ukraine. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, may 16th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin today with some major, major news on the 2024 campaign. After uncertainty about whether the two leading candidates would ever debate each other this year, President Joe
right now is that juries in new york versus chuck are back in deliberation, right after they were read by key witness testimony from david tucker and michael cohen. we might be good to read a little bit into that, we will get to that in a moment, but the judge also read key parts of the jury instructions. inside the courtroom does juries appeared intensely focused sometimes nodding their head sometimes taking down notes to help them guide themselves through this historic decision. a verdict could come at any moment and we will bring you live updates from inside and outside the courtroom all have a lock. hello, everyone this is outnumbered. i am kayleigh mceany heal the harris faulkner and emily compagno. joining us today fox news contributor, marie harf, and fox news contributor and former nypd expec, paul mauro. first let s bring in former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor andy mccarthy w who is life out that the court house he has been there all day. andy
we got through the cold war without some terrible incident taking place finale airs on sunday night. stay tuned for that and tune in for the lead with jake tapper, which starts right now these cnn breaking news welcome to lead. i m phil mattingly in for jake tapper and we start this sauer with the breaking news, at least ten people have been shot at in arkansas grocery store two people were killed. and one of the injured is a police officer. i wanna get straight to cnn s sub l resolve he s well, what do we know about where things stand, how this actually happened earlier today hey, phil, we do know that the situation has been contained and we expect to get brand new details here. and about half an hour, that is when arkansas state police are holding a press conference to let the community know what has happened here. but here s what we do know from a press release from arkansas state police. this mass shooting which cnn defines as four or more people wounded or killed,