Could live forever, on the strength of his moral power alone. He lived along enough in his remarkable life to see a lot. Well have more on congressman lewiss life and legacy tonight. We begin, though, with the president , who still fails to lead on coronavirus, and fails to accept his responsibility for its spread. Even as the virus reaches right into the oval office. National security adviser Robert Obrien testing positive. Said to be showing what are described as mild symptoms. No doubt, causing concern among all the senior foreign officials he met with, unmasked, not socially distanced on a recent trip to europe. Or the secret service agents, reporters, and staffers accompanying him. The president barely mentioned obrien today. He didnt mention todays news from espn that 13 players and coaches from miamis marlins have also tested positive for the virus. Or that the Minnesota Vikings control officer has also tested positive. The president also had nothing to say about google, giving
Met with unmasked not socially distanced on a recent trip to europe or staffers and reporters accompanying him. The president barely mentioned ocho bri obryan today and didnt mention the 13 players and coaches on Major League Baseball Miami Marlins tested positive for the Minnesota Vikings Infection Control officer also tested positive. Let that sink in for a moment. The Infection Control officer. The president had nothing to say about google giving employees the option to work from home until june of next year or that his friend and staunch supporter hermann cane that attended the rally in tulsa is hospitalized for three weeks and is still in the hospital now on oxygen. Nor, most of all, did this selfor tdained wartime preside say we as a country are about to endure the 150,000th covid death. None of these real world items cross the president s lips or mind. Instead today on a trip to North Carolina he repeated the same familiar lines from a word he inhabits and has from the beginning
September 11th. Well have details on that just ahead. Plus, with this Terror Threat playing out both overseas and at home, why was state Department Spokesperson marie harf today focused on bill oreilly . Suggesting in the middle of her Daily Briefing that he made some sexist remarks about her boss. Well have that story in just a moment. But we begin with some exclusive new details on the american man suspected of leading the disturbingly successful and critical part of the terror campaign, the social media effort, by the worlds most dangerous terror group isis. Trace gallagher live in our west coast news room with more. Trace. Megyn, that suspect is 32yearold ahmed made the deans list at northeastern university. In 2004 federal prosecutors say he and two other men went to the middle east to attend terrorist Training Camps to learn how to kill u. S. Soldiers in iraq. Once they got to iraq the feds say his two coconspirators became the media wing of al qaeda in iraq which later evolved i
Phone call, and yep, thats a transcript. Which i care about what his judgment of the transcript is . You and i can read it. Melissa this, as President Trump is expected to send a letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi as soon as today, daring her to hold a full house vote on impeachment inquiry. This is outnumbered and i mows a princess. We will bring it to the couch at this moment. First, lets go to chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, left on capitol hill with more. Catherine . Melissa, good morning. We are learning more about the Intelligence Community Inspector General, michael atkinsons, closeddoor interview in the secured facility behind the on friday. We know is that atkinson told lawmakers he had no firsthand or direct information about the whistleblowers contacts with the democraticled House Intelligence Committee staff. The thought whistleblower on the disclosure forms had left those sections about congressional contact blank, and that he knewe had only based on
Security measures. I was called unpatriotic, unamerican and essentially treasonous. And the growing firestorm over the trump adviser trying to fast track Nuclear Technology to saudi arabia. What im going to do is something different. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president of the United States is in day four of another racist meltdown. He is Binge Watching trump tv, and its making him feel really racist and he is expressing that, and he cant or wont stop the feedback loop that were all now trapped in. Meanwhile, there are all these official trump defenders on trump running around to vouch for the chess master at work. And then today the president looked into the camera and threw a wrench into that argument. Whats the political strategy here . It seems to be causing the attacks seems to be causing a lot of division. Are you talking with respect to Elijah Cummings . Im talking about your attack against Elijah Cummings. There is no strategy.