The biggest cities, remember that . Well, that seemed to be out of convenience for trump, right, about playing to party. I know that sounds wicked but after what you just heard on this tape, can you really say its not a legitimate question about whether he would do that, whether he would sacrifice people for his own benefit . Really . Didnt he already tell you he would do that in not so many words . But i dont know about that theory that it was just about the blue states because he kept up the same perfidy, faithlessness, with his own base. The facts make it clear he did use supporters more dirty because he kept telling you especially to go where you could get sick. And not wear a mask. Talk about eating your own. He wanted it so badly he put the people counting on him most in the worst position. What is the real lesson . He not only wont admit his breach of duty, right, he never does. Remember, this is the man who told you christians hes never had to ask god for forgiveness. Not only
Top Covid Task Force officials. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Congress created an independent, Bipartisan Commission to definitively figure out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. And nearly 3,000 americans died on september 11th. More than 308,000 people have now died from covid in this country. The cdc director predicted over the nemonth, at least, well se 9 11 levels of fatalities every single day. Nearly 3,300 deaths were reported from covid yesterday alone. That was the single deadliest day of this pandemic. If the death toll alone doesnt highlight how badly we need a full accounting of what happened, theres this. House investigators on a subcommittee specifically devoted to the pandemic disclosed they discovered communications within hhs showing that one of the president s top science advisers specifically said of low risk groups that, quote, we want them infected. That was basically a herd immunity strategy focused on prote
So, we also reached out to the community. We brought Task Force Meetings down into the neighborhood as often as we could. We sat in a night club on 11th street when we launched the whole idea of the social heritage district. We had a fourhour seminar type saturday that was held in the Community Room at the folsom door apartments where people we published a schedule and people that wanted to address various issues like affordable housing, transportation, a whole range of things, could come in and share their thoughts. No topdown sort of presentation. Simply come in at a given hour and lets talk about this subject. And most importantly, i would have to really acknowledge the generosity of friends of city planning that we were given a 10,000 grant from them, which enabled us to not only do extensive publicity. If i could show you a series of slides here related to the town Hall Meetings. But this 10,000 grant funded extensive publicity, including three mailings, ultimately to as many as 7
From now, may 1st, even sooner. Well talk to dr. Birx about that, as well as whether the federal government is able to provide tools with widespread testing without risking a second wave. Democratic president ial frontrunner joe biden and facebook founder and Ceo Mark Zuckerberg along with his wife, dr. Priscilla chan, and how facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative are working to combat the virus. At the bottom of our screen, you can tweet us your questions with cnntownhall. You can leave a comment on the cnn facebook page. A lot of you have written in questions. Well try to get to them. We will start where the country is now as new cases are plateauing, even going down in some key hot spots, but at the same time the death toll does keep climbing. Its nearly doubled in the week since our last town hall making the return to some sort of normal, whatever that may mean, such a tough slog on a bitter road. Reporter we are getting some new details about what life will look like when th
Even as the National Crisis rages on and is getting worse. Vice president pence confirmed the news. He said it could be disbanded with federal agencies going back to their old roles by memorial day. It sort of fits with this belief inside the white house that somehow june 1st is going to be a moment where this is a little more in the past. We shall see. A will the of questions about that. Right now President Trump is in arizona where he is touting the administrations response to the crisis and he confirmed hes looking to end the task as well and form a new group as he focuses on roping the economy. This is his first real trip into the public outside of washington since march 28th. He did send off the uss comfort up to new york in norfolk. Thats been about it. The president down played models that show a significant spike in deaths as states begin to reopen. Dr. Fauci is warning of a rebound if states are not careful but president said he would not let fauci testify before house republi