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from an apple is maryland at 10:00 eastern on c-span. later today, the council on foreign relations looks at technology, innovation, and policy making. or of the topics will be the potential implications of driver list cars. live coverage starts at 10:30 a.m. eastern also on c-span. i focus on trying to stop waste and trying to catch people to date in the past, but to actually go out and figure it out and had it up, 50%, 30%, 20% , 60%. i think we are spending a lot of money. my staff s time can be better spent by trying to find, identify, and correct problems. it by sq, have the american people, and their money s worth? their full money s worth? no, definitely not. there have been some good things done, a lot of good things done. we have a lot of hard working people at the state and the department of defense, department of agriculture, department of interior. the department of commerce. a lot of people have devoted their lives and energies over there. but have we ....
the centers for disease control will no longer collect coronavirus data. the trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the cdc and instead send the information directly to a central database in washington. the case the trump administration is making is that it will streamline this data process, but no word on whether they will fix the cdc system if it indeed is as broken as they say. moments ago as the president departed for a trip to georgia, he defended his relationship with the top infectious disease expert in the country, anthony fauci. we re all on the same team, including dr. fauci. i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci, and we re all on the same team. we want to get rid of this mess that china sent us, so everybody is working on the same line. and we re doing very well. we re doing well in a lot of ways, and our country is coming back very strong. we bring in my coanchor for the hour, katy tur. with the president headed to atlanta righ ....
gust of 109 miles an hour at the jersey shore. higher winds in new york city than sandy produced in fact. yet this was not a category 4 hurricane, wasn t even a category 3. in fact, it wasn t a hurricane anymore when it did all this. and tonight 3 million americans are without power as the storm sweeps on up into canada. and in the middle of all of this came what we re going to show you today, devastating, almost hard-to-believe video of an explosion in the midst of a fire in beirut. at least 78 people were killed. those numbers are changing, however. thousands of people were injured, many of them wounded by debris inside their own homes. the lebanese government said ammonium nitrate was stored at the explosion site. late this afternoon, president trump weighed in with an assessment of his own that went well beyond that. i ve met with some of our great generals, and they just seem to feel that it was this was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. ....
will continue to smolder and smolder and smolder. and that will be the reason why, in a nonunified way, we ve plateaued at an unacceptable level. now, i m sorry for the long-winded answer, but i think that s the problem. fauci wasn t speaking explicitly about the president or his supporters in that clip, but he could have been, because as we surpass 158,000 deaths, president trump has basically at every turn downplayed the severity of this virus, while misleadingly telling the country and his followers that it will disappear. it s going to disappear, one day, it s like a miracle, it will disappear. we re prepared and we re doing a great job with it and it will go away, just stay calm, it will go away. but i think what happens is, it s going to go away. this virus is going to disappear. it s a question of when. we re doing so well after the plague. it s going away. i said, it s going to disappear. it s going to disappear. and i ll be right. this thing s going away. ....
at least 78 people were killed. those numbers are changing, however. thousands of people were injured, many of them wounded by debris inside their own homes. the lebanese government said ammonium nitrate was stored at the explosion site. late this afternoon, president trump weighed in with an assessment of his own that went well beyond that. i ve met with some of our great generals, and they just seem to feel that it was this was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. this was a seems to be, according to them they would know better than i would. but they seem to think it was a attack. it was a bomb of some kind. now, it s been reported that defense officials are now saying there s no indication of an attack. we ll have much more on this just ahead. in this country, there s no end in sight to the health crisis caused by the pandemic. cases have not stopped rising, nor have the number of deaths. cases are on the rise in 32 states right now. ....