at the 149th open, the gates have just opened at royal st george s. the first golfers tee off in half an hour. and we ll reveal the total amount raised for children in need s 2020 campaign. plus, it is a dry sense within state. will it last for the next a0 days? we have at least got the prospect for the next five. good morning. it s thursday, the 15th ofjuly. our top story this morning is a call for sugar and salt taxes to be introduced in england, to improve the nation s health. a landmark report, commissioned by the government, says the money raised by the levy should be used to extend the free school meals programme and pay for gps to prescribe fruit and vegetables. ellie price has more. it s just what the doctor ordered, but not what you might expect. cathy runs the charity care merseyside, involved in what s called social prescribing. patients are referred by their local gp, and then offered things like exercise support and cooking advice here. they also provide healthy
rolling back the policies of separating children from their mothers? make no apology for that. is what is happening inside acceptable to you and when is this going to be fixed? that s a serious question, right? it s unacceptable to me. come on. that s why we ll move 1,000 of those kids out quickly. neil: all right. president biden in his first press conference of his 65-day old presidency. questioned again and again over the crisis at the border even though he refused to call it a crisis himself. the ramifications of what he said and what he is signalling, especially with regard to blaming his predecessor for a lot of the problems that the country is facing right now. we re on on the of it all. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. first right now from the white house, we have peter doocy who is i think the only reporter that didn t get a chance to talk to the president. not one question. i m sure with us not anything personal. peter? felt like that. there w
party? maybe this could be a signal. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is meet with trump in florida today. he, of course, said the president bore responsibility in the days afterwards and then backtracked. we re covering all the headlines this morning. jeremy diamond following all the latest on the covid relief package. we re hearing the president may be willing to pare down the size of the overall package to gain bipartisan support. i m curious how, and is he confident that he could get republican support if he does so? look, president biden and his aides are clear eyed about the facts this $1.9 trillion price tag is going to have to come down if they are going to get bipartisan support in congress. but at the same time, i spoke with a senior administration official this morning who made very clear that while the ultimate number is going to have to probably come down, if there is going to be a bipartisan deal, that they still consider all of the components of this deal
production. use the tools of the presidency, including the defense production act to get some of the supplies needed for vaccine administration in the pipeline and taking an approach where they say everything is on the table. so that piece piece is one part, how to get ahold of the action issue, get a sense of the inventory and the plan for how to expand the number of community centers, the number of people who are licensed or cleared to give the shots, not just nurses, but going beyond that a bit. then, of course, the issue of how to focus on healthcare and prop up one of the signature pieces of legislation with barack obama with the affordable care act. so part of what we will see from president biden is taking an collective order to open the window for exchanges for americans can purchase health insurance through that marketplace and typically, that is something only done in the fall for a limited period of time when you can access a year-long contract of health insurance.
the cdc now says evidence indicates that schools are not super spreaders. they can reopen safely, if proper protocols are followed. the first white house coronavirus briefing will be held today and it will be led by doctors, not politicians. january is the deadliest month of the pandemic so far. nearly 80,000 americans have died this month alone. right now on capitol hill, new developments in the impeachment trial of the former president. 45 republican senators tried to make the argument that there can t be a trial for an ex-president. only five effectively voted to keep the trying going. so let me ask you a question here. riddle me this. if the impeachment process takes a minimum of weeks, not months, are republicans suggesting that the constitution allows the president to commit treason or high crimes and misdemeanors for a period of weeks or months with total impunity? does that sound like the kind of thing that the founders believe? we re also learning more about how th