Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. And this morning there is new evidence, new evidence that sure seems central to the impeachment trial of President Trump. A new audiotape just revealed from 2018 where President Trump can be heard calling for the firing of thenu. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. It is said to be a conversation with indicted Rudy Giuliani associates igor fruman and lev parnas and the president that is the same lev parnas the president claims not to know. Get rid of her. Get her out tomorrow. I dont care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out, okay . Do it. This seems like evidence that bolsters the claims that parnas is making it public recently and seems to indicate that the president is lying when he says he doesnt know him. The attorney for parnas says theres more than just that. An hours worth of audio. We will play you more of what has been released just ahead. So would any republican senators like to hea
Campaign trail. Three different candidates with reasons to be happy this morning. The new fears. Deadly virus is spreading quickly across the world. Chinas president calling the situation grave. Schools closed indefinitely and now the desperate efforts to evacuate thousands of americans from the infected area. Good morning. Its sunday. It is sunday. Sorry about that. No. Absolutely. A very scary situation across the world right now. The Chinese Government saying that it is a grave situation but they are building two hospitals within the course of two weeks. Quickly building hospitals . Right . To keep up with all of the patient demand . We will have more on that later on. Im Lindsey Reiser along with Kendis Gibson along with cori coffin. New material in the middle of the Senate Impeachment trial of president. What appears to be a private conversation between the president and business associate of his personal attorneyy rudy giulia giuliani. He released an hourlong tape that appears to
Confirmed cases in these United States. Theres now the possibility that new york city, the largest urban center in our country, may soon see more severe measures to contain this virus. This is moving very fast. We should all be very concerned about how we find a way to slow down the trajectory of this virus. The idea of shelter in place has to be considered now. It has to be done between our cases the city and state working together, respecting the states role. What i was trying to say to new yorkers this is reality were facing now. Get ready for the possibility because its not so distant an idea at this point. What a series of events. That was mayor de blasio here in this studio not long ago. Also tonight lets look to the west. The governor of kansas has announced all Public Schools will be shut for the remanldind of the school year. Governor of california warns most schools in that state will likely face that same fate. In washington the Trump White House grappling with the economic
Everything except for essential goods and services. Here on the set tonight, well be going to people remotely. Amidst all this, today is supposed to be the day where voters in four states went to the polls in the democratic president ial primary. Florida, arizona, illinois and ohio. Of course Ohio Governor mike dewine thought it was too dangerous given the pandemic. Yesterday he sued to delay the election. A judge denied his request. Then the ohio director of health, dr. Amy acton, ordered the polls closed anyway, saying she made the decision in order to, quote, avoid the imminent threat with a high probability of widespread exposure to coronavirus with a significant risk of substantial harm to a large number of people in the general population. So we will not have results from ohio tonight. Theyve extended their deadline till june. We do have, however, arizona, illinois, and florida all plunging ahead with in person voting although it was not without issues which we will talk about. W
Great recession. Also this morning, it is election day in half a dozen states across the country. Our team on the ground covering what could be a make or break moment in the race for the democratic nomination. New reporting from our road warriors. Our nbc news team is ready to go on this busy mini super tuesday. Lets start with our team in washington, d. C. Kristen welker is at the white house for us, kasie hunt is capitol hill and david gura is on the floor of the stock exchange. Were seeing a surge in the markets because of what the president had to say last night, announcing something, quote, dramatic, to be exact with his words, that is expected today. But our colleagues at cnbc have new reporting that is white house is really far away from rolling out any specific details. What have you learned . Reporter based on my conversations, it would appear that thats the case. Officials here say theyre still working out the details about when and if the president is going to be meeting wit