Next, hugh hewitt talks about the elements that go in to achieving happiness. This is about an hour. Thank you, jonathan quite a lot actually. Its always great to be back at the Nixon Library, especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of nixons birth, especially to celebrate with friends of the library who come offing. As many of you know, in late 1988, the phone rang. I was searching for president reagan and his administration. On the other end this president nixon asking me to come back to your belinda to oversee construction of the library for a couple years. So i was very, very pleased to do so. It was a shining jewel and anyone watching on cspan across the United States who has never been to the Nixon Library, you want to come here. Its an extraordinary celebration of the american presidency, but also extra or a lead, the small house that frank nixon built from a kit and continued through a life measure in decades that achievement, not hours of achievement, but a truly signif
President trump today said the virus will just disappear. 22 states have paused or rolled back plans to reopen because of a surge in spread. Tonight the president is trying to save face. Now insisting he is behind masks 100 . I am all for masks. I think masks are good. If i were in a group of people and i were close. You would wear one . I have. People have seen me wearing one. What people . Certainly not the American People. He has gone out of his way to make sure the American People never see him in a mask. I dont see it for myself. I dont want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. Now he says he is fine with masks. He said that and still didnt wear one. Not leading on this. Why is he not changing his verbal tune. 2 3 of americans believe he should wear a mask. And then there is this, his closest allies have desserted him. I think this is the right thing to do. We must have no stigma. None about Wearing Masks. My home state, i do believe in Wearing Masks. I think if the presid
Were credited with doing a great job and i think well be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point, thats going to sort of just disappear. I hope. Reporter . You still believe so . I do, do i sure, at some point. You still believe so . I do, do i sure, at some point. Just disappear, those remarks that are not new and a theme for this president , in fact, come as cases are, in fact, rising in 37 of the 50 statements now. Just two states in the entire nation show infections declining. Those remarks and that claim by the president that we did great that this will all disappear are set against that chart, a curve that is not just rising but rising more steeply every day. This is not what doing a great job looks like for a country. However, this is what is prompting governors in some 22 states now to reimpose restrictions and for some to mandate mask wearing. It is what moved European Countries to ban travel from the United States starting today. Thats right. Ban the u. S.
Cnn it is conceivable the United States could see tens of thousands of more deaths in the coming months. Tens of thousands more americans dead all of them alive tonight. And yet the same time President Trump seems to have forforgotten the pandemic and the governments failed response with some things he is saying tonight speaking to reporters urging states to reopen now. I really do believe a lot of the governors should be opening up states that theyre not opening. Urging governors to reopen. Heard that before, right . Sure remembered that in florida and georgia and texas. Right now 900 americans are dying about every day from coronavirus. Hospitalizations are near the Record Number set back in april. Last week at least 16 states set a single day record in cases. As of tonight 22 states are heading in the wrong direction when it comes to cases and even states doing significantly better i mean significantly like they really had, you know, smashed it is a word similar to the word the gove
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