Generals letter cited a phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky as a potential violation of federal Campaign Finance law. Jeff, this was a july 25th call. It was about 30 minutes in length. What did you see in that transcript . Yeah, we didnt get a lot of time with the transcript. We werent allowed to take it out outside of doj but we took some inserts. We took notes. This was a fivepage document and, you know, as you might imagine, it starts out like any other call with a foreign leader would start. Theres a congratulations on the election victory, but President Trump did allude to europe not doing enough to help ukraine. But then he seems to veer into the dnc server. He mentions crowd strike, a company that investigated the russian hack of the dnc server. And then from there he progresses to ask the ukrainian president about joe biden. Let me put this quote up on the screen for you to see. This is what the president said, according to the transcript, which according
Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
That were in the worst of it right now. One day after setting new records for daily deaths and new cases, unfortunately, we have done it again. 3,110 americans died from this virus on thursday. We are days away from surpassing 300,000 deaths. Cdc director Robert Redfield has this alarming message about the loss of life we could see in this country. We are in the time frame now that probably for the next 60 to 90 days well have more deaths per day than we had at 9 11 or pearl harbor. This is really as i said, this is a real going to be a real unfortunate loss of life, as all that weve had so far. An absolutely grim reality there. It underscores how important these next few months will be even as vaccines are being rolled out across the country. All of us at nbc news and msnbc want to meet this important moment head on. Today nbc news is devoting its home page to a special collection of reports that show the pain of this pandemic and the path forward. All day long, msnbc will be highligh
Once the bs fda gives the okay, nearly 6 million doses of modernas vaccine will ship nationwide. This morning, Vice President mike pence becoming the highest profile member so far of our government to get that vaccine publicly. Second lady karen pence and Surgeon General jerome adams joining the Vice President. With help on the way, were still setting new records for daily cases. More than 263,000 new cases were reported thursday alone, a near record high of almost 3,600 american lives lost. It is a dark reminder that even with these vaccines becoming available, people are still losing friends and family to this virus right now. Well start on this friday with that wait for the fda to grant the emergency use authorization for modernas vaccine. When that happens, a massive distribution effort will get under way to roll out some 20 million doses in two weeks. Nbcs tom costello has been following every twist and turn from the beginning, now following the fda approval process for us. Shaqui
The city of jerusalem would not relent. Years and years passed by. Finally, up one person told him that if you want to take the city, you need to wait and be patient. Inside the city, there is a problem. That problem will grow into a cancer and that cancer will eat away the very core of that community. If you know your history, what happened around the year 70 is the divisions within the city of jerusalem amongst the zealots and others became so significant that it weakened the city from inside. The rabbi told me that the city of jerusalem was taken in the year 70 by titus. He looked at me for a long time and i looked at him. He said, what is the moral of the story . I said, make sure there are no zealots in newark. [laughter] he said no. He said, the moral of this story is that if there is no enemy within, the enemy without tim do you know arm. He started growth going through all the roman empires. I said, youve got to be closer to the present. He said that the nation was divided, bec