Jerome powell, cia director gina haspel and on and on. Since moving from the Trump White House over to the state department, Mary Elizabeth taylors job has been pretty high profile as well. Shes basically the liaison from the state department to congress as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. Thats a job for which she has a good background. Shes a former staffer to the republican leader of the senate, Mitch Mcconnell. Always handy to have those kinds of personal connections. Well, tonight the Washington Post was first to report that Mary Elizabeth taylor has resigned as assistant secretary of state for reasons that people who are still in the Administration May find unnerving, particularly if they themselves have considered resigning and havent for some reason. Because unlike all of these other folks who have left the Trump Administration without saying a word, or left without saying much of a word until they decided to put it in a book, unlike all these other res
This morning a lot less green on that map there. Only 9 states now reporting a downward trend in new cases. 17 states are headed the wrong way. The u. S. Death toll approaching 95,000, a tragic rate coming down at a stubbornly slow pace. A push to reopen does not change the reality of the virus. The lag time that occurs between the time when we start to see these cases and when they convert to a really big spike can be a matter of weeks. Nothing magic happened while we were staying home. During these lockdown periods its not like the virus got less contagious or less deadly. One immediate concern, beaches will be open this memorial day. Even more people may be unaware that they are spreading the virus than we thought. Overnight the cdc released an estimate that 35 of Coronavirus Infections produce no symptoms. Huge concerns focused on the south now. Places like florida where new cases in palm beach are expected to quadruple. In texas they could see cases skyrocket more than 10 fold. Th
A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. This is a special edition of the situation room. Tonight, as nationwide protests continue for the 20th day against Racial Injustice in our country, a Homicide Investigation is clearly under way in atlanta after a Police Officer shot and killed 27yearold Rayshard Brooks outside a fast food drivethrough. The breaking news we received only a few minutes ago, the fultful Fulton County medical Examiners Office saying brooks was shot twice in the back by police and the report says brooks died from organ damage and blood loss from the two gunshot wounds in his back. The fallout was immediate following that incident. Atlantas police chief stepped down. The officer who killed brooks was terminated. And today, the District Attorney announcing hes considering murd
Contrasting signals or, perhaps, contrasting priorities. As for the vietnam memorial, with the names of 58,000 Service Members killed over the 19 years of that conflict, two contrasting, remembering the dead but preserving the life. Those who survive the war might also survive this. Contrasting signs, as well, on how the commander in chief chose to conduct himself in this moment, as a selfdescribed wartime president. Today, at ft. Mchenry in maryland, reading prepared remarks, he sounded like any other president on any other memorial day. As one nation, we mourn alongside every Single Family that has lost loved ones. Including the families of our great veterans. Together, we will vanquish the virus and america will rise from this crisis to new and even greater heights. Well, that was at five past 12 in maryland. At 2 34, on twitter, the president called pennsylvania congressman and marine corps veteran connor lamb, quote, an american fraud. The president mocked the weight of three prom
Predicts there will be 100,000 more deaths in this country this summer. A different key model forecasts nearly 170,000 deaths in the u. S. By october, but the potential range of that on the high end goes up to 300,000. And they say we could see a bigger than expected second wave of the coronavirus in the fall, when the daily death count could be as high as 4,000 people. So well get some information on all of that for you. But first, america at an Inflection Point with racism. Joining us now is marc morikmoc and laura jarrett. Everything that john just ticked through, for all the changes that were seeing at nascar, at the nfl, the army, different tv networks canceling different tv shows, then theres businesses like crossfit wick,i i could go. Does it feel like to you were at the beginning of a sea change in this country . I believe it is a sea change and its a long overdue movement against hate and racism in this country. And its occurring organically. This represents the people acting