Cases are up because of the best testing in the world, and the most testing. Most country has ever done what we have done in terms of testing. We are the envy of the world. Again, the numbers dont lie. In arizona, a staggering 39 of test results came back positive. 39 . Other states, are also reporting record high positivity rates. Health experts argue the increased rate of infections far out pace the rate of estimate thing. Despite the facts the president is making anist astonishing opinion. That it will disappear. It will disappear. I will say it again, it will disappear and i will be right. Right. You know why it doesnt . I have been right more than anyone else. Straight to the white house, jeremy, i played a couple of moments there from the president s appearance on fox news this morning. Another claim he made has to do with how much other countries test their citizens, verse the u. S. Give us a fact check. Thats right, ana, what we saw from the president in this interview is more
Some funding for the post office after President Trump has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the 25 billion that democrats want to inject into the Postal Service to make sure its prepped to handle what could be an unprecedented number of mail in votes come the fall. The white house chief of staff suggesting there could be a willingness to sign some type of a piecemeal deal where the white house agrees to give funding for the post office if democrats and congress agree to give some funding for some of the things that the president wants such as stimulus checks to americans while leaving out some of the other things that are on the democratic wish list such as billions of dollars to what the president says bail out state and local governments. That mix messaging coming into play as the president s advisers are continuing to take to the air waves today to spread misinformation about fraud and mail in voting. Take a listen. Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are with just p
Raises for soldiers, provisions for cyber security. A version of the bill has become law for 59 years. In this letter to congress, President Trump claimed it is a, quote, gift to china and russia. And it is just the latest in a series of chaotic moves by President Trump as he approaches the end of his presidency. Plus, any moment President Trump could leave for maralago. Though the president right now is so unpredictable, it is possible the trip could be cancelled. We will have to wait and see. The president specifically mentioned in this letter to congress that he doesnt like that bill included requiring the renaming of bases. Writing i have been clear in my opposition to politically motivated attempts like this to wash away history. I want to bring in cnns phil mattingly. Phil, this was a sweeping defense bill that overwhelmingly passed the senate and the house. What happens now . Lets contextualize first what this is. You know it quite well. This is the policy authorizing bill that
Declared the campaign dead were told when it got to super tuesday it may be over. It may be over for the other guy. [ cheers ] good morning to you on this saturday morning. Im going to say in honor of International Womens day, hello. Welcome. Good to be with you. Im in for victor blackwell. We are going to begin with the push to contain the coronavirus in the u. S. There is growing concern about the passengers and the crew of this cruise ship thats in limbo off coast of california. At least 21 of the 46 people tested aboard the grand princ t etti etties grand princess has tested positive. A helicopter airlifted one passenger back to San Francisco for medical attention. Cnn has reached out to the ships Parent Company for details. Across the u. S. There are at least 333 cases of covid19. You can see the states including utah, connecticut, hawaii, all seeing their first cases this morning. Theres a total of 17 people who have died. The majority of them in washington state. Concerns about
Reporting. The new plan comes as frustration builds with protests erupting in several states over the ongoing stayathome orders. Some Health Experts are urging caution in moving too quickly to try to get things back to normal. Were right now at flattening the curve but what we ultimately want to do before we consider any relaxation of any kind of social distancing measures would be to actually decrease the curve, see a steady decline in the curve to almost zero. Our nbc news team is here and ready to go. Stephanie ruehl is following the new unemployment numbers. Garrett haake is at a food bank in dallas, hans nichols at the white house and Eric Mclaughlin out west in seattle. Stephanie, ill bring you in to start things off for us. Lets talk about the grim unemployment numbers, what they mean in the overall picture of the u. S. Economy this morning. Listen, eamon, theyre not good news but theyre also not a surprise. Were expecting a wave of more layoffs from businesses that have been ab