exposed to the coronavirus. instead of a 14-day quarantine, people will be able to end quarantine after ten days even seven days if they receive a negative test result. we have our team of reporters covering every angle of these new developments and i want to start with nbc news chief correspondent richard engel in london with huge news. tell us, richard, about the uk approving the pfizer vaccine. when is it going to be rolled out and who gets it first there? reporter: well, this comes just today as the uk is easing restrictions in this country. this country had been on a lockdown. so restaurants, shops, everything had been closed. that changed today, and then this announcement that the uk gave approval to start rolling out the pfizer vaccine as of next week. so people here are feeling very encouraged, a renewed spring in people s step, and perhaps this is, as the scientists said, beginning of the end of the pandemic. that will take some time, but the rollout plan, now that
americans have been self-quarantining, social distancing yet we re still seeing about 20,000 new cases a day, 1 to 2,000 deaths. is there anything else the administration is planning to do to get these new cases under control? we seem to be on a plateau. the numbers are way down from what they were two weeks ago. the numbers are really coming down and very substantially. this weekend was one of the lowest we ve had. the numbers are coming down but all throughout the country the numbers are coming down rapdly. i think you see that admiral. now 130,000 cases that go through august. do you agree with those models? is that your expectation? the models haven t been accurate. these are a models done by a lot of think tanks and universities. some of the models have been way off. few of the models have been accurate. as far as the models are concerned, if you go by the model, we will lose 2.2 million people and because we took, we mitigated, we did things that were very tough
these are all things that 80% of americans agree with and these are all things that president trump is doing within 30 days. steve? yep. i think the same thing. i think if you look at the lines of work i break it into three buckets. first is national security and sovereignty, that s your intelligence, the defense department, homeland security. the second line of work is what i refer to as economic nationalism. and that is, wilbur ross at commerce, mnuchin, peter that rar row, stephen miller, these people thinking how we re going to reconstruct our trade arrangements around the world. third, broadly, line of work, deconstruction of the administrative state. and if you so, i think i think the three most important things. i think one of the most pivotal moments in modern american history was his immediate withdrawal from tpp. that is out of got us out of a trade deal and let our sovereignty come back to ourselves, the mainstream media don t get this but we re working in
president s actions for making sure we put a system in place. our team of correspondents and analysts are here to break it down. let s start with nbc s hallie jackson. she was inside that briefing room talking to sean spicer, asking him a couple questions. talk to me specifically about the town halls, though. donald trump tweeted they re liberal activists. what is the white house s official line? reporter: well, you just played it. sean spicer saying these protests may be loud but not many. you heard sean spicer say, hey, listen, we believe some of these folks showing up at republican town has around the country may be a little confused about what kind of coverage they actually have. so, the white house not not particularly concerned about these sort of grassroots energy of protests you are seeing at these town halls, which have become a big story with members out on recess, out on break this week. donald ump would always talk about how loud his supporters were. how i
the firing o james comey. also more unflattering stories out today in the new york times and washington post. they detail trump s tense relationship with the former fbi director, with tales of unpleasant hugs. let s start with peter alexander at the white house. what is the white house hoping to get out of this first stop to saudi arabia? they cast this as a historic opportunity as this official described it to me. it s an opportunity, this trip is, with stops at the vatican, israel, and saudi arabia to try to unify the world s major religions as they describe behind a common objective, saying it s an effort to bring these communities together in an effort to rise above more petty differences. so that was a sort of striking language. this positive foreign policy focused agenda right now. i asked this official about the tough rhetoric this president used throughout the course of the campaign, everything from the muslim ban and the suggestion that he thinks islam hates u