Briefing room. Surgeon genrich ardeeral richar joins me. But first the numbers. The United States is now fast approaching 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. More than 54,000 americans have died. And at the current rate, the pandemics death toll will surpass that of the vietnam war this week. More than 26 million americans have filed for unemployment over the past five weeks. That means one in six American Workers have lost their jobs since this crisis began. And its against that backdrop that some states are now taking steps to open back up. In georgia, businesses like gyms, bowling alleys, nail salons and barber shops reopened on friday. And tomorrow restaurants and movie theaters will follow suit. In tennessee residents of some parts of the state will be able to sit down for meals in restaurants tomorrow as well. And in colorado, the states democratic governor jared polis is defending his plan to start a phased reopening this week. And its at this Inflection Point that the presid
Could be days and days away. He may still be going through the vetting process. The New York Times was the first to report this likely cabinet shuffle. Now, this would move sean donavan do donovan to the office of budget. Sylvia held it recently and she is moving to hhs, fred. And Julian Castro, people will remember seeing him during the national convention, see that videotape. Hes a twin, actually, and he and his brother kind of made to be rising stars, at least, in the political front. His brother also holds office on a local level. Right . Reporter thats correct. Joachim castro is a congressman but i would point out, fred, this is a very interesting development, because if confirmed, Julian Castro cannot be overtly political during the midterm elections and in the 2016 elections, because of the hatch act, government officials can not make overtly statements in their official capacity. A rising star only 39 years old and pretty hot on the fundraising circuit but wont be able to do as
Administration is pushing back against criticism its sending mixed messages on north korea. Some of you may disagree with this, but the United States is on the same page. Whether its the white house, the state department, the department of defense, we are speaking with one voice. We are all singing from the same hymn book. Lets bring in our cnn without reporter kaitlan collins, Barbara Starr and Senior International correspondent ivan watson in guam for us right now. Kaitlan, the president gets a highlevel National Security briefing very soon. Give us a preview of who hell be meeting with and what we can expect, the next u. S. Step in response to the latest north korean threat. Reporter yes, thats right, wolf. The president is going to have a highlevel security briefing this afternoon at his golf course here in bedminster, new jersey. With National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster, his new chief of staff john kelly and Vice President mike pence all here this afternoon. Reporters will ge
Decide to run for president , very legal, very cool. Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees. Didnt do the problem. Witch hunt. Cohens plea yesterday has one of two consequential documents to emerge from the special counsels office this week. There is also the draft plea agreement for jerome corsi, which corsi turned down. Both identify the president by fame as a key subject in the Mueller Investigation. As the Washington Post reports, quote, together the documents show investigators have everyday that trump was if close contact with his lieutenants as they made outreach to both russia and wikileaks and that they tried to conceal the extent of their activities. We know that conspent more than 70 hours in interviews with muellers team, which means yesterdays bombshell could be the first dose mueller still has under wraps. We know that cohen lied in the coverup to protect the president. As he said in court yesterday, quote, i made these
A racist and worse. Analysis from Alan Dershowitz and Kentucky Governor matt devon. And as the Mueller Probe actually winding down . As we await word, is the media getting fired fbi official Andrew Mccabe pass . Kristin fisher and brit hume are standing by. Im Shannon Bream in washington. With the Jussie Smollett investigation a trip on mycommands where applicable with a straight to mike. Well, Jussie Smollett went from star to suspect in just a matter of weeks. Charged with disorderly conduct, a felony, his legal team is issued a statement, it reads as follows great like any other citizen he enjoys the resumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this one where information both true and false has been repeatedly leaked. Giving the circumstances we contend to conduct our thorough investigation and mount an aggressive defense. The brothers once considered potential suspects testify for two and a half hours before a grand jury today. Their attorneys as