Good morning, it is Sunday September 8. 58 days until election day. Im Melissa Murray Filling in for my friend Ali Velshi whos up for the day. In two days, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will finally meet Each Other in person for the first time. The two candidates have never even spoken to Each Other before. But on tuesday night, they will go headtohead in a 90 Minute Debate in philadelphia. The debate will certainly highlight the two Contrasting Visions For The Future of the country. And as you imagine, they are preparing for the upcoming meeting in very different ways. Harris has been in pittsburgh since thursday where shes doing Debate Prep with a little campaigning on the side. Yesterday the democratic nominee visited a local spy store, where she briefly met with workers and patrons and bought seasonings. But most of her time in pittsburgh has been spent inside a hotel where shes been huddled with a team of advisers getting ready for tuesday. Harris hasnt participated in a debate s
Today wherever books are sold. Today Vice President pence went to dallas where he met with Texas Governor greg abbott whose state is currently seeing an increase in coronavirus cases. They held a News Conference with members of the White House Coronavirus task force at the ut southwestern Medical Center. I want to welcome everybody , and i here today especially want to welcome the Vice President of the United States mike pence. Thank you for being here today. I went like to just start by peeling back the curtain and explaining the way that mike pence has been working with the governors across the United States. We have this week we phone call that will include the Vice President as well as dr. Birx but in addition to that, probably at least once a week i will have the opportunity to visit with the Vice President about challenges are issues that may be occurring in the state of texas. Calling him. Is me sometimes late at night or on the weekend talking about i need that we have or somet
From the very outset of the coronavirus pandemic. The White House Coronavirus task force represented here today by dr. Deborah birx and secretary ben carson. Has been working very closely with your administration, and we are grateful for the partnership that we forged. President trump wanted us to be here today with the developments over the last two weeks, the rising positivity and the rising number of cases, with a very simple message, and that is to you and the people of texas, we are with you. And we are going to stay with you. We going to make sure that texas and your Health Care System in texas have the resources, have the supplies, have the personnel to meet this moment. The governor and i also talked about the vital importance of testing. At this point, texas is testing at an enormous scale across the state, but in our briefing today we spoke about how we can accelerate testing, accelerate returns on testing and we will carry that back tonight to the Coronavirus Task force as w
Today, Vice President mike pence visited texas and spoke with Texas Governor greg abbott about the increase in coronavirus in that state. I want to welcome everybody , and i here today especially want to welcome the Vice President of the United States mike pence. Thank you for being here today. I went like to just start by peeling back the curtain and explaining the way that mike pence has been working with the governors across the United States. We have this week we phone call that will include the Vice President as well as dr. Birx but in addition to that, probably at least once a week i will have the opportunity to visit with the Vice President about challenges are issues that may be occurring in the state of texas. Calling him. Is me sometimes late at night or on the weekend talking about i need that we have or something we need to focus on or other times it will be him calling me. You might remember on fathers day. You called me and just wanted the lay of the land. And we got to s
Peeling back the curtain and explaining the way that mike pence has been working with the governors across the united states. We have this week we phone call that will include the Vice President as well as dr. Birx but in addition to that, probably at least once a week i will have the opportunity to visit with the Vice President about challenges are issues that may be occurring in the state of texas. Calling him. Is me sometimes late at night or on the weekend talking about i need that we have or something we need to focus on or other times it will be him calling me. You might remember on fathers day. You called me and just wanted the lay of the land. And we got to share happy fathers day. With each other as we are working on protecting fathers and mothers and children across the state of texas. Mr. Vice president , i want to thank you and thanks the administration all of your great team members for what you have done to help texas as we navigate our way through the conquering of covid