Saying what she saw inside the house, inside the family. We have more on all of it in just a moment. Now to the largest Public Health crisis in the modern era of the United States. Tonight our country continues to lead the world in coronavirus. We represent 4 of the global population. We have 25 of the coronavirus on the planet. In the last 24 hours, this country saw another 73,169 confirmed cases. Thats another singleday record if youre counting. Along with the escalating rate of infection, in about 40 of our 50 states, the number of people hospitalized now rising. Covid tracking project says its now over 56,000, 56,000 people in hospitals just about six months after our first ever hospitalization. That said, the greatest Public Health crisis as we say in the modern era was again today not the lead topic at the white house. The president did stand between two trucks today for an event about deregulating american industry. And again today he tried to convince the country how great things were and will again be. Will. My administration has also eliminated massive regulatory barriers in our battle against the china virus. Were now making ventilators for countries all over the world. No administration in history has removed more red tape more quickly to rescue the economy and to protect the health of our people. So we have many exciting things that well be announcing over the next eight weeks, i would say. Things that nobody has even contemplated, thought about, thought possible. A few hours earlier, his press secretary made this remarkable comment about her boss determination to open schools in this country despite virus cases soaring, despite the risk to students and teachers. When he says open, he means open in full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this. The science is on our side here. We encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools. Tonight npr is reporting the centers for Disease Control will not release new School Reopening guidelines this week. That was promised to us by Vice President pence. Now theyre promising it before august. As of today, data once available to the public has disappeared from the cdc website after the Trump Administration shifted control of the information to health and human services. There is one indication the Administration May know just how serious this situation is. It is tonight in the form of a new report from the center for public integrity. Theyre saying its obtained a secret white house document that has 18 states in what internally theyre calling the red zone for covid19 cases. The document warns there may be a need to readopt more stringent measures. Meanwhile the debate over maskwearing rages on. 30 states have now issued statewide orders. Colorado and arkansas are the latest to do so. And for the arkansas governor, thats a major walkback. Then theres georgia. That states governor, brian kemp, is not only refusing to mandate the public wearing of masks. Tonight he is suing to try to stop Atlanta MayorKeisha Lance Bottoms from doing so. Georgia is one of the many states reporting a surge in virus cases, and the Atlanta Mayor has the virus, which has also left her husband very ill. Not long ago she issued this response, saying, quote, as of today, 3,104 georgians have died and i and my family are amongst the 106,000 who have tested positive for covid19. A better use of taxpayer money would be to expand testing and contract tracing. If being sued by the state is what it takes to save lives in atlanta, then we will see them in court. Corporations continue to try to protect their customers and their workers. Today three more retailers, cvs, target, and publix telling their customers you cant shop there without a face covering. Dr. Anthony fauci, who actually spoke with trump yesterday for the first time in two months, was out again today with Even Stronger warnings about reopening our country too soon. Because hes been sidelined by the white house publicly, faucis warning came during a conversation on facebook. As you will quickly figure out, he appeared alongside mark zuckerberg. We do have a situation now. Its a mixed bag. Youve got to do it correctly. You cant jump over steps, which is very perilous when you think about rebound. And the proof of the pudding is look whats happened. There really is no reason why were having 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 other than the fact that were not doing something correctly. Coronavirus Vaccine Research may be the latest front in russias cyber war on the west. The u. S. , british, and canadian governments say Russian Hackers are trying to steal Vaccine Research, and perhaps youre old enough to remember a time when there used to be consequences. There are a few other developments were reporting on tonight. The Supreme Court allowed florida to bar people with felony convictions from voting unless theyve paid court fines and fees. Now, civil Rights Groups and voters affected by this law sued, saying it was effectively a poll tax in the year 2020 and that the state had been unable to calculate just how much potential voters owed. We also learned today that another 1. 3 million americans have filed for unemployment, making this the 17th straight week of more than a million jobless claims. Yet another somber reminder of the toll of this pandemic. Finally from the white house, there is this. Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst captured the crosstabs on the giant binder that press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany brings to the podium every day anticipating possible questions. They include but are not limited to, absurd, obama, flynn, daca, blm, lgbt, ppe, golf, goia, lies, reopen, mary trump. In one row, economy, hate, masks, russia, and wins. Theres fauci. Theres a misspelled mueller. Theres a hogan. Either the hulk or more likely the governor of maryland. And others too numerous to mention. What a place to start our leadoff discussion on a thursday night. Jonathan lemire, White House Reporter for the Associated Press. Susan page, usa today Washington Bureau chief. And dr. Vin gupta. Hes an e. R. Doc specializing in these kinds of illnesses, also an affiliate assistant professor with the university of Washington Department of Health Metrics sciences. Good evening and welcome to you all. Susan, id like to begin with you. Your publication was in the news this week. As one does, Peter Navarro wrote a hit job on Anthony Fauci. It appears in your pages. Theres since been an editors note at usa today saying it should have been more rigorously factchecked. But still were reminded its the thought that counts. Its really a white housesponsored, one way of looking at it, war on information, science, and medicine. Yes. And what usa today has said, the editorial page editor, is there should have been a factchecking article with it, which has now been posted to point out some of the things that mr. Navarro said that are not factually true. Whats valuable about this oped is it puts a senior aide to the president , someone close to the president , on the record saying some of the same things white house officials have been saying about tony fauci behind the scenes in an effort to undercut his credibility. We see both the president and the Vice President trying to embrace Anthony Fauci must closer in the past 24 hours because of course dr. Fauci has much stronger credibility when it comes to covid19 than the president does. Doctor, it strikes me here you are in this fight, in the battle against coronavirus. If you wanted to see hospitalization stats from the cdc today, you would have found t their website empty of them. Talk about the public and what were supposed to get during a Public Health crisis. Good evening, brian. You know, the public needs access to transparent information. Id love access to that information, but you know who needs it more than anything else . Our decision makers, our elected leaders. What are they looking at . What type of information do the elected officials have if they dont have access to publicly available cdc information . I dont know because right now what we do know is in places like florida, the florida secretary of health is actively engaging in data manipulation. Theyre not talking about icu beds available. Theyre talking about acuity of the patient presentation, severe or acute. Who know whats that means when it comes to whether icu beds are available . Brian, let me take a step back and also talk about just the ethics of whats happening. You mentioned Governor Kemp in georgia. Right now we talked about whats been politicized, whats not. Whats amoral, whats not . This is ethical, brian. Were talking about withholding access to interventions and solutions that could save lives. He is he has crossed a line here about what is and is not ethical in the space of saving lives. Banning the mandating of masks in a dense urban population like atlanta is crossing a line of ethics. We need to reevaluate his fitness for office. This is unacceptable. Governor dewine in ohio, what hes doing, unacceptable. I can go on. Jonathan lemire, i think its fair to cast this president and he has colleagues all around the world in similar positions as an early on, full on coronavirus denier. The folks over at the recount have put together an amalgam of his quotes during the rise first of all the plateauing but then the rise of the virus. I want to share that clip with you. Well talk about it on the other side. And what is what are your top priority items for a second term . You know, the word experience is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I never did this before. I never slept over in washington. You know the story, im riding down pennsylvania avenue with our first lady, and i say, this is great. But i didnt know very many people in washington. It wasnt my thing. I was from manhattan. Okay, jonathan. Wrong clip. That was the president asked about his second term goals. The right question should be, will the messaging change . His secondterm goals cant be about a walk down pennsylvania avenue. No, brian. Thats right. I actually wrote on this very topic for the Associated Press this week, about the president hes inability to articulate what these secondterm goals would be and frankly why he deserves another four years in office. We know that he had planned as recently as january, early february, to run for reelection on the back of a Strong Economy. That all went away when the pandemic reached american shores. And now he, as just played there, gave a sort of nonsensical answer to sean hannity when asked about it. Earlier this week when in the rose garden, when he rambled on for 62 minutes, though he did deliver some attack lines against joe biden that we probably will see again that maybe will prove effective at times, he also didnt offer any sort of coherent vision for what a second trump term would be. And his advisers have been working behind the scenes to try to get him to do a better job of that. The vague sort of notion is, hey, i was i oversaw a Strong Economy once. I can do it again. But theres been very little in the way of proposals to make that happen. But we are seeing sort of connecting this to the pandemic, brian, sort of an effort to turn the page, that there is very little focus as the virus is surging, raging across a number of the states in the nation right now. The white house is acting almost as if it has blinders on. Its just trying to push forward. Economys open. Schools open. No matter what the cost may be and not dealing with the very real crisis in so many states across the country. Yes, theres been a little bit of a truce, it seems. Theyve called off the dogs against dr. Fauci, but he has certainly been sidelined. He doesnt carry the influence he once did. And i think this is an administration that just simply doesnt want to deal with the facts and numbers about this pandemic. Theyre trying to just focus on getting that economy open again. Susan, we have indeed located the clip in question from the recount. Well play it. Well talk about it on the other side. You know it is going away. Weve done, i think, on average really phenomenally. And you had doctors saying that weve done an incredible job. I think what happens is its going to go away. This is going to go away. We were able to cut it off, stop it just like this. And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good. And now its time to open up, get back to work. The coronavirus, thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. Susan, three things. Number one, cost to the Biden Campaign of that very effective and damaging ad, zero. There are enough groups in the news media and most of them former republican political types in this fight that are making ads better than the Biden Campaign can dream about to fill that role. Number two, theres a lot of that. There are a lot of those quotes, and they keep coming. Number three and the question to you, any sense of any courage breaking out among republicans not on what dr. Gupta was talking about, the ethical side of this, just sheer selfpreservation of being downballot, up for reelection in november . Well, the problem that i think republicans have is they are alarmed by being tied with the president , but there is not very much they can do about it. The Republican Party is the trump party. There is a penalty to be paid for crossing President Trump that you can ask judge sessions about that. So you see republicans down the ballot including in these 11 senate races, 11 Competitive Senate races, nine of them republicanheld seats, that they dont talk much about President Trump. They dont put President Trump in their ads. Theyre not asking President Trump to come and campaign with them. But i do not hear very much except from a few of the usual suspects like mitt romney of republicans, especially those who are going to be on the ballot, actually speaking out against President Trump. Dr. Gupta, i have a quote from you on the subject of testing, and we can put it on the screen. I am you know, its amazing this doesnt happen more often considering this is a broadcast being produced from everyones kitchen tables at home. The white house again says its up to the states to work out testing issues, but today a group of researchers wrote an oped in the New York Times saying, testing in this country is near paralysis. Rockefeller foundation says u. S. Should invest 75 billion to fix the covid testing system. What needs to happen. And, doc, ill remind everybody, if youre in california, youre asymptomatic but fear you may have been exposed to the virus, you cant get a test. Theres no use because youre going to have to wait four to eight days for the results, and think of all the life that can transpire in that time. So, doctor, over to you. Brian, its an important question. This is what School Districts across the country, the 13,000 School Districts, are wrestling with. How do i open up in a way in which we dont put teachers, parents lives at risk, and jeopardize our children . And it comes down to testing. Theres a reason you dont see testing in the cdc guidelines or the Trump Administration referencing it, because it costs money to that New York Times oped. This is what we need to do. By the end of the year, theres going to be point of Care Technology from multiple companies in the pipeline where you get a swab in your nose, you put it into a detector and get a result back in 30 minutes. Theres technology, theres a light on the horizon, nasal swab, saliva, it costs money, though, brian for us to actually get it at scale. Thats where the federal government needs to say well subsidize you. If youre a school district, well subsidize the purchase of that so we can get testing where it needs to be, Rapid Testing so we can give people the answers they need quickly. All we have to do is make it a priority, a manhattan project, a marshall plan. Choose your comparison. Hey, folks, thank you for dealing with us and riding along with us tonight. Thanks to our big three, jonathan lemire, susan page, dr. Vin gupta. Greatly appreciate it. Coming up, a dire warning from the top elected official in Dallas County, texas, tonight. What could be the deadliest week yet and what hes trying to do about it. Hes standing by live to talk with us. And later, guess they werent family secrets anymore really. The president s niece airing what she knows, what she fears about her uncle in her new book, and starting tonight here on television. The 11th hour just getting under way on this thursday evening. t know meant so much. But were all going at our own speed. At enterprise, peaceofmind starts with our complete clean pledge, curbside rentals and lowtouch transactions. With so many vehicles of so many kinds, you can count on us to help you get everywhere you want to go. Again. Whenever youre ready, were ready for you. Enterprise. Wow. 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Just order online, drive up, checkin, and pick up. We had a 27yearold kid that died. He had no comorbidities. He had nothing. He came in with just covid, and we all remembered telling him that he was going to be okay as we placed that breathing tube. And when i was back there that day, we could not save that gentleman. To watch that gentleman have his last heartbeat surrounded by an incredible team, but a team that was literally helpless to save him, was heartbreaking. Wow, take that in. A nurse from parkland hospital, in dallas. For a second straight day, texas set a new record in deaths with another 129 souls lost. The number of new daily cases remains high. Many of those infections are coming sadly from Dallas County. Over 1,000 new coronavirus cases were confirmed there just today along with a continued rise in hospitalizations. The countys top elected official warns this could be one of the deadliest weeks of this pandemic thus far. Dallas morning news reports it this way. On tuesday, the county morgue had to use a cooling truck to store bodies for the first time during the pandemic. And so we welcome to this broadcast the Dallas County judge, democrat clay jenkins. Hes the chief elected official of Dallas County, texas. Judge, i have to tell you for those of us out east in the new york area, the ptsd, the memory of those refrigerator trucks on the streets of our metropolitan areas, its very, very powerful and still very fresh and real in our memories. If memory serves me, Dallas County was the first to shut down in your state. Tell us what the situation is there tonight. Thats right. We shut down the same day new york implemented their shutdown, and we were in great shape. The governor reversed all that in early may. We need, you know, a lot of help now. The fact is weve had 52 dead this week. Well top the 54, which was our record sad record from last week. So today i closed schools for inperson learning until or our Health Department closed schools for inperson learning until at least september 8th, and we canceled all athletic and other School Activities until at least september the 8th. Were in bad shape. We need, you know, the governor to follow the science, do what the doctors are asking for. I want to play a bit of your governor, governor abbott, from just yesterday. Well discuss it on the other side. Weve realized that perhaps we opened up bars too soon, and maybe we should not have opened them up at all. Its just a matter of learning these best safe strategies to make sure we get things under control. So we just have to do our part and take precautions, but no lockdown . No lockdowns. All we need is for people to wear masks. If everyone wears a mask, nothing will be locked down. Judge, theres a lot to react to there. First of all, the mask is no less effective today than it would have been march, april, may, or june. And do you think there are cities, counties, localities in the state of texas that may well be looking at at least a de facto lockdown if these numbers get any worse . Weve asked the governor to at least close all businesses where the masks cant be worn 100 of the time for at least the last three weeks, and hes refused to close cigar bars. You cannot smoke a cigar and wear a mask at the same time indoors. Yes, we need the governor to follow the science, do what the doctors are asking him to do. Each day we wait, it gets worse, and the cure will be harder on our economy, and more and more people will get sick. So, yeah, we cant we cant do it half measures. I ask this not knowing where your office is. If you and i took a walk around the block at lunch hour, tell me honestly what percentage of people would we encounter wearing a mask. Well, in Dallas County, virtually all of them because, you know, we have pretty stringent enforcement on that, and its enforcement through understanding, drilling it in there. Weve got emmett smith on tv telling people its important. You know, were doing everything we can to do that, and our restaurants and the things that are still open wont let you in there without your mask. Now, unfortunately what happens is when any get into the restaurant, of course they take off the mask to eat. Thats why were asking them to close restaurant inperson dining. But as far as stores, its pretty much 100 . As a giants fan, im going to let that emmett smith reference go and someday in happier times, you and i can talk football. But for now, especially all of us out east are wishing everybody in texas only the best and hoping you get the upper hand on this. Judge clay jenkins, thank you very much for having us in and spending a few minutes with us on this thursday night. 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Its him thats totally the guy. Safe drivers do save 40 . Click or call for a quote today. Robinwithout the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. I want people to understand what a failure of leadership this is, and the reason hes failing at it is because hes incapable of succeeding at it. It would have required taking responsibility, which would, in his mind, have meant admitting a mistake, which in his mind would be admitting weakness, which in my family was essentially punished with the death penalty, symbolically or otherwise. What i think we need to grapple with now is why so many people are continuing to allow this. Still more insight into trumps approach, his mind, into leadership from a member of his own family, the president s niece, mary trump sitting down with Rachel Maddow tonight, had this warning for all of us in this country. This is beyond partisanship. This is so beyond party. We need to be thinking about this as americans. We need to be thinking about what who we want to be as a people going forward. So continuing along this path, which is exactly what would happen if donald were to be elected in 2020, would, i absolutely believe, be the end of the american experiment. I do not believe theres any coming back from this. Back with us to talk about all of it, emily jane fox, National Correspondent for vanity fair, who has extensively covered the trump family and happens to be the author of born trump inside americas first family. Also with us is Eugene Robinson, pulitzer prizewinning columnist for the washington post. Good evening to you both. Eugene, in your particular line of work, i guess we dont talk about spilled ink anymore, but a lot of keyboard hours spent talking about the possibility, the plausibility of a second trump term. A lot of it keyed to her point that it wouldnt be survivable, that all that makes us us would be threatened. In your view, is it recoverable . Is it survivable . Well, you know, im an optimistic person by nature. Id like to think we can physically survive it, but we would lose so much. I mean what is being destroyed day by day by this presidency is striking and significant and will take a long time to build back, and some of it we may never quite recover. And another four years of it, i think its not overstating it to say it would be catastrophic. It would be disastrous, and america would emerge after it, but it would be, i do think, a different america with weakened institutions, with obliterated norms. I dont know where we would be, and thats the thing about this book is that its you know, periodically i think we need to be grabbed by the lapels and shaken and made to realize who this president is and what hes like and what hes doing. Emily, i want to show the good folks at home two photographs, one of ivanka trump proudly holding a can of goya beans. Not to be outdone, the other photo is of her father with an array of goya products on top of the resolute desk in the oval office. One proviso, its in the middle of a pandemic. Emily, figuratively, if you took a page out of this new book and a page out of the book you wrote about the trumps and held them up to a figurative bright light, would they match . Do the plot lines and the outcomes match, and do you think any minds will be changed . I think that what is extraordinary and i dont want to let this moment slide. You had earlier this evening the niece of a sitting president on National Television not only saying that her uncle has said horribly racist, insensitive, antisemitic things and saying unequivocally, yes, i personally heard him say that, but saying that this man is a danger to the country. I cant imagine any Family Member of any person getting on National Television and making those claims, let alone a Family Member of a sitting president. Its just an extraordinary moment, and i dont want to let that go by. What i keep struggling with to square after ivanka trump and President Trump posted those photos, them doing makeshift ads for goya, which as many have pointed out questionably violates federal ethics laws, is that that is a much easier conversation for the two of them to be having right now than a conversation about mary trumps book, than a conversation about the pandemic, than a conversation about the economic recession or depression that we are likely headed into, than the dismal polls that have come out about President Trump and his reelection prospects over the last couple of days. And this is what they do. This is what members of this family do. Rather than say, these are the problems that were facing, and were going to lead, they distract. They turn to culture wars. They return to the red meat that President Trumps base wants to hear, and its really just such a failure of leadership, but it is so in line with how the trumps have been operating their entire lives. Emily jane fox, Eugene Robinson are staying with us over the break. And coming up when our conversation returns, as weve been saying, its never great when your niece says youre a racist. Its even less great when youre the president and people are in the streets and race, despite a pandemic, is one of the defining and existential issues of our time. Well take on that topic next. I am robert strickler. Ive been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. So all of the dreams that are shattered, all the lives that are lost, its because of one reason. Its because we have the gravest fortune of a country to have someone who is mentally, tleektually, morally deficient as a leader beyond any ability of mine to describe. He is the most illsuited person to be in the middle of a lifeanddeath crisis in american history. Steve schmidt in a conversation with Nicolle Wallace and me earlier today. In her interview with the washington post, mary trump told Ashley Parker the president is, quote, clearly racist and said his behavior stems from a combination of upbringing and political cynicism. Today Rachel Maddow asked her if she ever heard her uncle use straightup racial slurs. Oh, yeah, of course i did. And i dont think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today. Have you heard have you heard the president use the nword . Yeah. And antisemitic slurs specifically . Yes. Still with us, emily jane fox, Eugene Robinson. Eugene, did you learn anything new about donald trump in that exchange from this author . Well, i you know, this is from an insider. It more or less confirmed what i would have suspected but hadnt heard anyone in a position to tell me, actually say. And it was fascinating as i watched the interview. Rachel went to that topic four times. I mean she kept coming back. You are telling me youve heard him say the nword and use these antisemitic slurs . And she very confidently and consistently said, yes, she has and that it wasnt just that was the sort of ambit of the trump family, that was the way they talked, but that was the way he talked. And of course weve heard him slur latinos publicly. Weve seen his Racial Attitudes play out not just in his words but his policies. So i guess it should come as no surprise, but its still shocking to hear. It is. Emily, this is not your first rodeo hearing tales about donald trump and racism or racist comments. Remember the comments from mr. Cohen in the back seat of a car with donald trump that you related. Remember, of course, charlottesville and all the fine people on both sides. This is the first, to genes point, from inside the house. Does it make a material difference to you as a reporter . It should. This is someone who is on National Television who is saying repeatedly that these are the exact words that she heard from her uncle. I remember i interviewed Michael Cohen just before the midterm elections, so nearly two years ago, and he was recounting the numerous times that he heard racist statements, horrible, horrible things from the president over the years. But he never went so far as to say that he used the nword, that he had crossed that line. So im not surprised that anything like this is coming out right now. Im not surprised that it would come out from his niece, but this is a moment where we dont need to be surprised. It doesnt need to be something new for us to be outraged by it. It doesnt need to have the wow factor for us to take a step back and say that this is the president of the United States of america, and his niece saying that she heard him use one of the the most painful word i could imagine anyone using, and its just a moment we should stop and pause on. Eugene, in our remaining seconds, youve written a column about this, but i want to get your at least topline comments. When you hear donald trump say law and order, what do you think . Well, i think hes playing to his base, and hes making a george wallacestyle i guess, these days, we would call it White Nationalist appeal. Thats what hes doing. Hes claiming that democrats will destroy the suburbs with existing fair housing laws. Hes playing the race card in a way that it hasnt really been played since the days of certainly since the days of lee atwater and arguably since the days of george wallace. It is stunning. It is shocking, and this is something we should not we should not ignore, we should not forget, and we should not forgive. Also, eugene, you and i are old enough to remember the phrase silent majority when it first appeared. Yes. Yes we do remember the phrase silent majority when it first appeared. What was it, 1968 . Yep. But the country was different then. The country was whiter. The country, you know, was not as diverse and, you know, noncollege whites were not as big a were a much bigger percentage of the electorate than they are now. It seems to me like a losing play right now, but well see. Great thanks to two of our regular guests, emily jane fox, Eugene Robinson, thank you both for coming on. And coming up, the loss of a friend of ours. 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One of those great and curious storytellers who seemed to know just about everything and everyone. He covered, by my count, every war there was over the last couple of decades from Central America to africa and the balkans to the persian gulf. He started at the washington post, was later paris editor at as we now call it the old newsweek. He cared way more about journalism than news weeks owners, and after its sale, he became world news editor at the daily beast mentoring a ton of writers along the way. He was a cleareyed patriot. As he saw it, love of country meant holding us to account, all of us, and we found him in a melancholy mood when he last appeared here back in may, watching the news from home in his paris apartment, which that day included armed protrump protesters storming the michigan statehouse. I think images like that crystallize exactly what europeans think about the worst of america, the worst craziness of america, the white supremacy, the guns, all of that. 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[ applause ] dishwashers, you didnt have any water, so you the people that do the dishes, you press it, and it goes again, and you do it again and again. So you might as well give them the water because youll end up using less water. So we made it so dishwashers now have a lot more water and in many places, in most places of the country, water is not a problem. They dont know what to do with it. Its called rain. They dont have a problem. And oldfashioned, incandescent light bulbs, i brought them back. I brought em back. [ applause ] they have two nice qualities. Theyre cheaper and they make you look better. Thats important to all of us. But theyre better and much cheaper, and they were mandated out, legislated out, and we brought them back, and theyre selling like hot cakes. The president of the United States to take us off the air tonight. That is our thursday broadcast. We thank you so very much as always for being here with us. On behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. Thanks for being with us here tonight. Very happy to have you here. Our guest tonight is mary l. Trump, the niece of the current president of the United States. When the president s what is it 54th National Security adviser, john bolton, sought earlier this year to publish his book about his time in the trump white house, you may recall there were lots of threats from the white house and from the president personally. There was a concerted legal effort, including an effort by the u. S. Department of justice to try to stop john bolton from publishing that book. Thats the kind of thing this attorney general, bill barr, is happy t