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Correspondent, and Josh Lederman is an Nbc News National Political reporter live at the white house. Pete, what more can you tell us about this announcement . Reporter this has been a rapidly unfolding thing over the past 12 hours. What happened is last night the attorney general announced in a press release that the person who is now the chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission jay clayton would be taking over the job of u. S. Attorney in manhattan, and Geoffrey Berman was stepping do...

In a larger sense, though, the gap between the green and the pink lines on that graph there is what a failed National Policy looks like. And tens of thousands of preventable deaths. Thats right. Deaths that the science shows us, were preventable. Against that backdrop, the president s task force briefed today, for the First Time Since the 27th of april, when the president , you may remember, suggested injecting disinfectant. And shining light inside peoples bodies to stop the virus. Somehow. He ...

Destroyed very important things. Youre also talking about statues of george, washington, abraham lincoln, they would lik to get jesus. We are going to get tougher and tougher. At some point theres going to be retribution because they hav to be. These people are candles. They are really, they are terrorist in the sense. At the president as the only one fed up with what weve been seeing. In chicago activist calling out black lives matter for not focusing enough on the gun violence plaguing his com...

Politics. Im manu raju. John king is off today. If america is at war with what President Trump calls the invisible enemy, it is losing. More than 125,000 americans are dead. And at least 2. 5 million have been infected. The Novel Coronavirus is raging across much of the country. 36 states are reporting a rise in daily case counts versus a week ago. And just two states are registering a decline in new cases since a week ago. And this is about as bad of a map as you can imagine. But listen to how ...

Open up. In a larger sense, though, the gap between the green and the pink lines on that graph there is what a failed National Policy looks like and tens of thousands of preventable deaths. Thats right. Deaths that the science shows us were preventable. Against that backdrop, the president s task force briefed today for the First Time Since the 27th of april when the president , you may remember, suggested injecting disinfectant and shining light inside people oels bo s bodies to stop the virus ...

Have the highest single day of new cases since this pandemic began. Hard to believe. Just today, the governor of texas put the states reopening plans on hold. In houston, the Critical Care shortage is so great, the citys Childrens Hospital is becoming open to adult patients. And the European Union, which has largely contained its outbreak, is considering a ban on americans traveling to europe. In short, what experts warned about if there wasnt a cohesive nationwide plan, testing, containment and...

Thankfully, and not surprisingly, they have been mostly peaceful. Curfews started here in new york an hour ago. That has not stopped the demonstrations, as you can see. Practically no big citys curfew has. In washington, many thousands of people spent the day marching down the newly renamed black lives matter plaza, one of the streets that leads to the white house. At times the protest was very lively. Parts of the crowd were even dancing. Meanwhile, in north carolina, they danced with the holy ...

Ground. Two officers are suspended as they face assault charges. Today President Trump repeated what has become a common refrain this week tweeting simply, quote, law and order, unquote. We begin in washington. And thats where we find nbcs Garrett Haake joining us live. How is the protest going tonight . Joshua, this is a different story. Could be a different planet from a week ago. The protests here today could only barely be described as protests. Its lively. It is jubilant. Its essentially a ...

Parts of the crowd even dancing. Meanwhile in north carolina, they danced at the holy ghost at a memorial for george floyd. It was preceded by a viewing. More Police Officers are coming under scrutiny for their actions during protests. In buffalo, new york, an elderly man remains in the hospital tonight after this happened when he was pushed to the ground. Two officers are suspended as they face assault charges. President trump tweeted simply, quote, law and order unquote. We begin tonight in wa...

And our focus should be how do we stop iran from getting a Nuclear Weapon. In the meantime negotiators are going full speed ahead. Ultimately whats been remarkable is the International Unity weve been able to maintain. And saying to iran you have to show the world that you are not pursuing a Nuclear Weapon. Now, the president went on to say theres less than a 50 chance that the Nuclear Talks will produce an agreement. He wants to delay irans capability to quickly produce a nuclear bomb for ten y...