National affairs analyst, cohost of showtimes the circus and executive editor of the recount, john heilemann, and nbc news and msnbc contributor shauna thomas. And willie, cant have a rally . Bring the rally to the rose garden with a captive audience. Yes, he did. For 63 minutes, only six of which were spent answering questions from reporters. It was hailed as a News Conference. It was not that. Chief correspondent for the New York Times, peter baker, describes the News Conference this way in his lead piece for the paper in theory, President Trump summoned Television Cameras to the heatbaked rose garden early tuesday evening to announce new measures against china to punish it for its oppression of hong kong, but that did not last long. Peter continues, what followed instead was an hour of president ial stream of consciousness as mr. Trump drifted seemingly at random from one topic to another, often in the same runon sentence. Even for a president who rarely sticks to the script and wan
Wants the cdcs guidelines on how to do that safely, those guidelines are too tough and we should just ignore them, regardless of what the president is saying on any given day and how much his stuff is parroted by republican officials in congress in the states and conservative media, regardless of all of that, the American Public is and consistently has been very, very united in our view that the situation is really bad, that the coronavirus is really dangerous, and we should be doing everything we can to protect ourselves from it and to end this pandemic in our country. I mean, check out this ap poll just out today. For all of the insistence from the white house that schools must reopen in person on time this fall, this poll out today finds precisely 8 of americans less than one in ten americans think school should open as normal, school should open as usual this year, 8 . Where as nearly half of americans think major adjustments will be needed to safely reopen schools. More than a thi
Features of this country is absolutely catastrophic coronavirus pandemic is whatever the president might be saying on any given day, that the virus will just disappear, or keeping businesses closed, the owner operating safely, is worse than tens of thousands of more americans dyeing or the nations schools should definitely all reopen in the fall and he will pull their funding if they dont because thats what everybody wants the cdcs guidelines on how to do that safely, those guidelines are too tough and we should just ignore them, regardless of what the president is saying on any given day and how much his stuff is par parroted by republican officials in congress in the states and conservative media, regardless of all of that, the American Public is and consistently has been very, very united in our view that the situation is really bad, that the coronavirus is really dangerous, and we should be doing everything we can to protect ourselves from it and to end this pandemic in our country
Trebek give you credit do the judges give you credit for yosemite, when we know what you meant, but the pronunciation was just a little off . Yo, willie hey. Im amazed it isnt on a tshirt yet. How is the biden camp already not manufactured these, started to distribute these shirts . Yosemite is look, he tried, but it does highlight that we know that the president and his campaign have tried to point out that they suggest that joe biden maybe has lost a few miles on his fastball, that he did point out a gaffe here, a blunder there, a misstatement there. Moments like yesterday go to show you, thats sort of a risky strategy for this particular president , whose at times, relationship with pronunciation is, shall we say, shaky. Youre being very generous there. That was at the billsigning for the Great American outdoors act, a great bipartisan piece of legislation. Amazing, though, you can make it to 74 years old and not see the word yosemite written somewhere. But we digress and move on to
Covid19 has now killed more than 150,000 americans. The number is staggering. But the president declared large portions of the country to be coronafree, and he also laments why he doesnt have as high an Approval Rating as dr. Fauci. Again, we have passed the 150,000 mark for deaths due to the coronavirus. But first, a staggering interview from National Political reporter for axios, Jonathan Swan. You just saw a little bit of it. He sat down with President Trump for axios on hbo, where, for the very first time, a Reporter Presses him on the story that intelligence showed russia was paying the taliban bounties to kill u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan. There have been a lot of people who have tried to ask the president about this, but in a briefing or on his way to a helicopter, he always is able to blow them off. Here, the president is cornered. And Jonathan Swan does not stop. Heres the full exchange, and it is very revealing. Its been widely reported that the u. S. Has intelligence indica