denying that tonight to on cnn. joe biden is marking 100 days in office and promoting a plan for jobs and infrastructure and american families and calling his ambitious ideas once in a generation investment in america. tomorrow he heads to pennsylvania. saying today he sdnts believe the american people are racist and rudy giuliani slamming the raid and seizure by federal officials of electronic devices from his home and office. tonight, in a tv interview, claiming the warrant was legally and denying he did anything wrong. there is a lot to discuss now. senior political analyst joins me and also a political commentator amanda carpenter. good to have you both on. i got the 18 tonight. good evening. start with the daily beast reporting. the letter was part of the joel greenberg s attempt to get a presidential pardon from trump with the help of roger stone. we reached out. i got to say all of this stuff right so we can be responsible here. we reached out to greenberg s attorney.
pennsylvania, also saying today that he does not believe the american people are racist. and rudy giuliani slamming the raid and seizure by federal officials of electronic devices from his home and office. tonight in a tv interview, claiming the warrant was illegal and denying he did anything wrong. there s lots to discuss now. cnn s senior political analyst nia-malika henderson joins me and political commentator amanda carpenter. i m so happy to have both of you on. i got the a team tonight. good evening. amanda, let s start with this new daily beast reporting that congressman matt gaetz s friend wrote a confession letter saying he and the congressman paid for sex with several women including a 17-year-old girl. the letter was an attempt to get a presidential pardon from trump with the help of roger stone. i ve got to say all this stuff so we can be responsible here. we have reached out to greenberg s attorney. he said no comment, siting attorney-client privilege. this i
patience along with that mask. new text messages shedding light on the events leading up to the death of ahmaud arbery as lawyers for the men accused of murdering the unarmed jogger speak out. attorney benjamin crump joining us live this morning. severe storms striking the northeast and south. high winds damaging this building. flash flooding leaving cars stranded and the tropical system strengthening in the atlantic. our weather team tracking it all. and virtual graduation for the class of 2020. high high hopes the star-studded event and oprah s commencement speech. new way forward. the class of 2020, bravo. and the celebration isn t over yet. the preview of tonight s graduation special featuring more big names airing tonight right here on abc. tonight right here on abc. hello, good morning, happy saturday. i am very happy to note that the whole team is back together, all three of us in the studio once again, although we are doing our as you can see here ou
national numbers. the numbers for the rest of the nation are going up. what we re doing here shows results. across the country is to hold a new case count is not falling hovering somewhere over 20,000 every single day i think that we need to understand this may be the new normal we may not be able to get transmission down much more i hope we can but many places reopening anyway, all spots now growing in cities like dallas, some more real-world flare ups to like those in nebraska and minnesota, but. better testing might just play into all this. i don t think there s anyone that didn t know that there were more cases out there. they just weren t known because the testing was so little a former cdc director told lawmakers today that the u.s. death toll will exceed. 100,000 as bad as this has been. it s just the beginning airlines now hoping we ll get back in the air average passengers per plane is up to 23 from just 17 last week. all but these 7 states are now taking steps t
georgia prosecutors brought charges against a white father and his son for killing an unarmed young black man. it s a case that s renewed debate over old demons, prompting a national outcry over policing, race and justice delayed. in one point i feel really hopeless that my son was killed and the people that could help me was not helping me. reporter: from a parent s perspective wanda cooper jones is living a nightmare, the kind you don t wake up from. you know, as parents i think it s always our expectation that our children will bury us, not that we will bury them. i never thought that i would lose him in the midst of jogging. i mean, that was i never thought i would lose him that way. reporter: it s bone deep, this kind of grief. familiar to too many parents across the country, in particular black parents. two months ago wanda s son, 25-year-old ahmaud arbery, was killed. chased and gunned down by white men while jogging on a sunny georgia neighborhood street i