Sunday. We can expect the president will be asked about the tapes, he has a briefing at 6 00 p. M. Eastern about possible developments in the fight against the coronavirus. The briefing live on Fox News Channel as it happens. Right now kevin corke, north lawn of the white house with a look at what was actually in those recordings, morning, kevin. Kevin great to be with you, who would record, record a Family Member for hours and then release that information to the public and then have it perfectly timed right before the president s convention unless, of course, it wasnt secret at all but you just dont know. All we can tell you is by my measure, any fair measure the comments were provocative. And that i can tell you this, is there are a number of comments that were made and i just want to be careful in how i frame them, mary anne trump in secret recording have said his blank tweet and lying, oh, my god, im talking too freely, but you know, the change of stories, the lack of preparation,
Did three books, they were all terrible. Im a cheerleader for this country and i dont want to see panic. Doctor Anthony Fauci also defended President Trump. I didnt get essence that he was distorting anything. I didnt see any discrepancies between what he told us and wha we told him and what he ultimately came out publicly an said. However, joe biden says the president Must Take Ownership for the more than 190,000 american deaths. Do you blame him for a desk . Yes, i do. And absolutely do. I wanted turn to chief White House Correspondent john roberts. Harris, good afternoon. The president trying to move th conversation onto other issues in the past couple of hours tweeting about law and order, comparing and contrasting his dance with joe biden and the democrats in talking about the importance of reopening the country in the middle of this pandemic to keep the economy going. The woodward book likely to feature prominently in the news cycle for the next ten days or so until the sunday sh
One is that they they represent everyone. We pay their paychecks, the American People. And number two, they work for the people of the United States. They have it backwards. They think that they can yell at the press, treat the press any kind of way, lie to the American People, endanger the people that their supporters by putting them in crowds with no social distancing and masks because they are the boss. Theyre not the boss. We are the boss. And i dont mean the press, i mean the American People. The people who voted them in office and even the people who didnt vote them in office. Right. The people who actually went to the polls and voted either way, thats their boss. Right. And they have forgotten that. Right. Well, look, several points and then ill get out of your way. Youre good. One, we dont just report for the people. We report to the people. Right. And thats why he attacks us because it helps weaken the links. He wants people weak. Yeah. He wants them weak and scared. And what
Count is another and some positive signs today, but its going to take us a week, a little bit more to know if Labor Day Weekend like holidays before it contributes to a spike in new infections. Today is is also eight weeks to election day. The president is the traveling to two big battleground states. The environment his focus in florida and an evening airport rally in North Carolina. The second president ial visit to North Carolina in a week. That a reminder that the president s trials include states that are absolutely essential to his reelection math and while many of you were testing the sools school login the president was attacking joe biden, black lives matter protesters and taking aim at democratic governors saying, quote, the democrats will open up their states on november 4th, the day after the election, thats his complaint. He says shutdowns are ridiculous and only being done in the president s view to hurt the economy prior to the most important election perhaps in our hist
Vossoughian. Morning joe starts right now. Now we knew. We know donald trump knew the virus was deadly and airborne. And we know he knew millions would get sick and die. He knew it wasnt just older people who would be killed by the virus. He knew early on this would be the greatest crisis america had faced in decades. Members of Donald Trumps staff knew in january a plague was coming to infect america. That half a million americans could die. That millions more would likely lose their job. That the economy would be ravaged and that those Staff Members, those Staff Members had responsibility to warn him and they did. But donald trump chose instead to lie to you. And to lie to your family. And to lie to over 300 million americans about the storm that was coming to lay upon this planned. Land. And even as he lied month after month, his staff remained sil t silent. You see, staying in Good Standing with donald trump ended up being more important to them than saving your life. Now, six mont