Another grim new record just last weekend according to Johns Hopkins university with more than one million new cases in just one week. Officials say krone that virus is dangerously spreading, and it is not because there is more testing. Charles watson live in atlanta, headquarters of the centers for disease control, with the very latest on this pandemic. Charles . Reporter hey, good afternoon, eric. You laid it out, coronavirus cases are really surging across the country, and the last seven days about 1 out of every 320 people in this country tested positives for the virus. And the numbers do not appear to be slowing down. The u. S. Has reported on average 145,000 daily new cases this week alone according to a New York Times database. On saturday nine states set records for the most cases theyve recorded in a single day including north dakota where hospitals are overloaded with patients and are critically understaffed. On state of the union this morning, dr. Anthony fauci said if une n
Republican party doing to defend and i mean, why not just say were not going to accept the results of this election . Its outrageous. Zombie pals in congress are looking to make this transition into a complete horror show. The only thing thats going to stop them is the outrage. Gathering facts is the long thing our media seem to want to do. Instead, theyre demanding to shut up and accept joe biden, period. Its embarrassing for the country, and its terribly embarrassing for the Republican Party. Nobody in that party but for some very notable exceptions dare tell the emperor he has no clothes on. He has no case. After years of being lied to, smeared, slandered and, frankly, censored now by americas most powerful institutions, bureaucrats and the deep state, the hacks in the media mob, the 99 , were not just going to take their word for anything. Howard joining us to analyze the coverage, mollie hemingway, fox news contributor, Susan Ferrechio with the washington examine or, and in los an
The president s defense team and he appeared on Fox News Sunday earlier this morning. The legal argument is that sense they didnt allege any impeachable offense, since they only alleged abuse of pow he, obstruction of congress, those are vague openended criteria of exactly the sort the framers had rejected back in the constitutional convention. Even if true, they did not allege impeachable offenses. So there cant be constitutionally authorized impeachment. Eric the trial resumes tomorrow. For a preview, Mark Meredith is live on capitol hill. Reporter good morning, eric. Senators have the day off. The impeachment trial will resume tomorrow. We heard from the president s lawyers. They gave a fairly short presentation. We expect monday to be a bit longer. We heard on saturday from president s lead lawyer, Pat Cipollone who said that the democrats are trying to impair the president going into the 2020 election and accused them of trying to reverse the 2016 election. They are reacting to th
Dirt. I think its pretty clear that House Democrats are operating under the assumption, if you dont persuade, lie, lie again. I thought it was devastating to the president of the United States beth shortterm and longterm. Parts of the impeachment proceedings had been boring. Howie does the commentary share partisan and ratings dropping and lev parnas, trump tells him the ambassador of ukraine should go. Trump says nobody likes hillary. Look at the feuding thats riling up the democratic race heading into the iowa caucus, plus, some personal thoughts on the passing of jim hehrer, im howard kurtz and this is peddia buzz. Media buzz. Howie President Trump denouncing impeachment trial and unloading on one of his favorite targets, the media. The Fake News Media sun believable. People got Pulitzer Prizes on coverages of me, other people john hannity, a lot of great people, a a lot they got it right. Are you concerned about getting a fair trial . These people are crazy, they have gone totally
Hi, kitty. Reporter hi, eric. This is the official announcement that weve been waiting for. It outlines the future plans for harry and hand. And meghan. It outlines their position in the future, whether it will be royal or not royal commitments theyll be stepping down from and it will come into place in spring this year. There were two statements in the u. K. , one from the queen and the other from Buckingham Palace. The statement from the queen is amicable, wishes the couple best in the future, she emphasizes that that they remain part of the family. However, they will not carry out royal duties on behalf of the queen. They will no longer have the titles, duke and duchess of sussex and they will not receive any public funds for any of their future activities. Theyve also agreed to pay repay millions of dollars in renovation costs for their windsor home. The issue of their security costs, however, have not been discussed publicly. Now, as we know, meghan has already left the for canada