O win abuse of power on its face and concert tickets, thats how you the more you learn, the worst it have to call unemployment. Gets, david, thank you so much. That is all in for this evening. Tomorrow morning the Labor Department releases the april the the 11th hour starts now. Monthly employment numbers. As this New York Times headline puts it, expect a portrait of devastation. Well, good evening on this day 1,204 of the trump then theres the other major administration. Development today. A stunning reversal in a signature case that was part of the russia investigation. As all president s know, the the Justice Department is asking white house ushers and the u. S. To drop its case against Navy Stewards who serve the President Trumps First National president often perform the most security adviser Michael Flynn. Remember he pleaded guilty to private functions behind the lying to the fbi in january of 2017 about his conversations with then Russian Ambassador to scenes at the white house. They are often the first person a president sees in the morning and the last person at night. The u. S. Kislyak. They serve diet coke and coffee and water in the oval office and upstairs the men who serve as flynn was one of the first and valets may lay out clothing for highest ranking trump aides to cooperate and be convicted in the president for the day while handling laundry and meals and packing for trips. The mueller investigation. In february of 2017, trump fired flynn for lying to the vice itching for an outing. President about those very conversations. Or itching for some cuddle time. Richard nixons valet, manolo he was subsequently charged with sanchez, was famously loyal and but you may not know lying to bureau agents. When hes itching for help. Grew close to the boss both in earlier this year, flynn office and later on in his licking for help. Retirement years. Or rubbing for help. If your dog does these frequently. So today when we heard that the the doj is now asking the judge they may be signs of an allergic skin condition president s u. S. Navy valet had in the case to dismiss this that needs treatment. The coronavirus, we knew it had case. Dont wait. Come very close to the talk to your veterinarian president. Attorney general barr spoke to and learn more at itchingforhelp. Com. Cbs news about the decision. Just today this country lost our duty, we think, is to dismiss the case. Over 2,100 people. A crime cannot be established here. They did not have a basis for a thats our oneday death toll as this illness continues to grow, bringing our National Death toll counterintelligence tonight to 76,441 lives lost. Investigation against flynn at that stage. I want to make sure that we indeed it was news of a positive restore confidence in the case inside the white house system. Residence that led the News Coverage today. Theres only one standard of the president was asked about that and precautions. Justice. Today trump referred to the ive had very little contact, flynn situation as treason, personal contact with this which is interesting because among other things, judge gentleman, know who he is, good sullivan, the federal judge in this case, said in open court there are times when our need to connect really matters. Person, but ive had very little that arguably mike flynn sold to keep customers and employees in the know. Contact. His country out and was an mike has had very little contact to keep business moving. With him. Unregistered agent of a foreign comcast business is prepared for times like these. But mike was tested, and i was tested. We were both tested. Country while serving as the yeah, its a little bit strange, National Security adviser to the powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. But its one of those things. President of the United States. To help give you the speed, nbc reports trump became, reliability, and security you need. Today that president of the United States called his former tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. National security adviser, who and a team of experts here for you 24 7. Quote, lava level mad at his admitted to lying to the feds, a staff after learning about the weve always believed in the power of working together. Hero. Valet and said he doesnt feel they are doing all they can to im very happy for general thats why, when every connection counts. Flynn. Protect him from the virus. You can count on us. He was a a great warrior, and trump said he and pence tested negative both wednesday and he still is a great warrior. Thursday, says theyll now be now in my book hes an even tested daily. Greater warrior. Are you going to reach out to he added the valets and other general flynn . A crime cannot be white house Staff Members all i will. Established here. Wear masks these days. You know, i think its at the they did not have a basis for a yet as weve seen, the president appropriate time. Counterintelligence pointedly does not. I think hes a hero. Tonight the Associated Press its a scam. Investigation against flynn at reports, quote, trump has told it was a scam and a hoax. On that note, here for our that stage. Does the fact remain that he advisers that he believes leadoff discussion on a thursday lied . Wearing one would send the wrong night, two of the very best from well, you know, people message and make it seem like he the New York Times, annie karni, white house sometimes plead to things that correspondent. Is preoccupied with health peter baker, chief white house turn out not to be crimes. Correspondent. Also with us tonight, stephanie more from attorney general ruhle, Senior Business bill barr today on this doj seeking to drop its criminal correspondent at nbc news, a case against Michael Flynn. Veteran of the investment instead of focused on reopening
the nations economy. Banking and Business World and flynn, again, pleaded guilty to trump has also told confidants the host of the 9 00 a. M. Hour he fears he would look ridiculous in a mask, and the image would appear in negative each day on this network. Ads. White house aides say the lying to the fbi about his president hasnt told them not annie karni, lets go back up to to wear masks, but few do. The president s been conversations with the former relentlessly messaging the need the top of the broadcast, back Russian Ambassador. To reopen our country, get the economy restarted. At least 43 states, to that end, will be partially opened in some up to the start of this day when form or fashion this coming we woke up to news of a positive the president had plenty to say weekend even with the concerns about moving too quickly and case in the innermost circle when the news came out at the with testing still way below white house. Around the president , however he was an innocent man. What experts say is needed. Much he says he wasnt around this morning the a. P. Reported he is a great gentleman. The white house shelved cdc him very much at all. He was targeted by the obama serious question. Administration, and he was targeted in order to try and guidelines that lay out a take down a president. And what theyve done is a stepbystep process for states other than the boss, talk about disgrace, and i hope a big price protocols. Is going to be paid. A big price should be paid. To reopen safely. Back with us again tonight, frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for again, nbc news has confirmed this story. How seriously inside the white counterintelligence and among house does the white house take Administration Officials telling our National Security analysts. Nbc news the white house views and neal katyal, former veteran these precautions . The cdc guidelines as too strict of the Justice Department, it is changing now because of former acting solicitor general and has asked for revisions. This. Trump repeatedly says the now theyre going to go to a during the Obama Administration. Decisionmaking should be left daily system. He has argued 39 cases and but i spoke to people inside the to the states, and he said it again today. White house who were frustrated with the testing and the counting before the u. S. Supreme the governors have great precautions that were being taken. Court. Power as to that given by us. Inside the west wing, people who would interact directly with the and, gentlemen, before we go president were being tested regularly. Another inch, i wanted to play we rely on them. But people who work in the old we trust them. Executive office building, which is on the white house campus, for you some of the postgame told me they were tested maybe once every seven days, interacting with people who coverage tonight on fox news. This was a deliberate, and hopefully theyre making the interacted directly with the malevolent, concerted effort to
right decisions. This pandemic continues to president and interacting with people who werent getting destroy an honest man and thereby get to the president of take an unprecedented toll, of tested at all. The United States to destroy so there was a feeling there were big gaps in the testing him. The whole purpose was to going on on that campus, not to frame him so that they could course, on our nations economy. Mention the fact that the messaging on masks that had been squeeze him to set up the sent from the top down. President of the United States over 3 Million People filed for Vice President mike pence, President Trump have both made very clear that they do not plan unemployment just in the space to themselves follow the cdc in order to change the course of guidelines on Wearing Masks. Of last week. American history. Because of his support for that means over 33 million have so aside from a few National President trump, he, like the lost jobs over the past seven Security Council aides, most weeks or roughly 20 of president and many other people around the president , they were americans who were all gainfully employed back in february. People are not Wearing Masks subjected to years of total hell when theyre around the president. By a corrupt group of dirty so i heard frustration today cops, to quote joe digenova. Frank figliuzzi, federal from people who work on the judge sullivan said to flynn in white house grounds saying that court that he arguably sold out there are huge gaps in the his country. Whos right here . Testing that was going on up until this point. I guess that depends peter baker, lets take our unfortunately on who youre cue from your piece, which went talking to, but ill go with the up about 27, 28 hours ago. Federal judge. Ill go with the lifetime the danger of phrases like the appointment any day, someone who cure cant be worse than the disease. Stands for justice. The Justice Department and the attorney general used to do the danger of phrases like it that, but they dont do it is what it is about things like our National Death toll. Anymore. Yeah. And, brian, ive spoken with
i think that this episode sort of reinforces just how some current and former problematic and challenging it colleagues at the fbi today, and will be to reopen the country. I think if there was a word that both denoted sadness and anger if we cannot be sure about a together at the same time, protocol to keep the president of the United States safe, thats the word id be using. Whats it going to be like in meat factories in the midwest . Whats it going to be like in and thats what people are feeling today. Office buildings in manhattan . I read through that doj filing whats it going to be like in those barbershops in georgia, were seeing . It raises all sorts of questions. Now, you can understand why the president would be eager to reopen the economy as quickly as possible. Twice today. Those numbers you flashed earlier represent a lot of pain. I had to read it twice because i 33 Million People, one out of was in disbelief at the every five workers in this country without a job right now. Deliberate manipulation of the a lot of those people are truth. Getting federal aid, but some of them arent. Its filled with falsehoods and that interview you played distortions that appear designed showed. To just mislead the court and mislead the readers. We could spend the rest of your those people may be having a show almost going line by line on whats wrong with that hard time feeding their filing. But im here to tell you that children, paying for other its grossly distorted. And in particular, most pertinent perhaps is the Health Issues they might have. Assertion by the attorney so theres a lot of pain and a lot of motivation on the part of general in this filing that the a president to reopen the lie that flynn told was not economy. But balanced against the health material to any fbi case. Risk is the challenge, right . Therefore, they shouldnt have if you open up so soon that the virus not only doesnt go away, even been interviewing him. It comes back again in Even Stronger form in the fall, which im here to tell you from a
is what some of the public counterintelligence investigative standpoint, the Health Experts worry about, then department i used to head within the fbi, thats exactly material there wont be an economy there to deciding whether or not the person sitting across from you to reopen because a lot of is or is not a threat to the nation. People wont be coming out to their jobs, wont be going out to restaurants, wont be doing things the president would like them to do. So these things are intertwined, not in opposition to each other. Finding that balance is a challenge, i think, for even the is he lying to you right now best of our leaders. About what you already know . And, steph ruhle, peter so the filing today is deeply, invoked the economy. Deeply distorted and deeply that means we pivot to you. Disturbing. Neal katyal, i imagine big for those families not already crowds around televisions in suffering, a lot of us are prison pods across this country as people doing 20 to 30 years having a hard time on a guilty plea are now going prognosticating perhaps you to want to flood into court can. How bad is this going to get . Brian, look at the numbers. Put it in perspective. Arguing Something Like the flynn exception. Is this going to become a thing . Its not going to become a unemployment. Thing, and i think, brian, thats the whole point in why this decision is so devastating. It guts what the rule of law is when we faced the financial all about. It shows that theres a special rule if youre trumps friend. Crisis, the worst month during you get out of jail, and you get the financial crisis, we saw the book thrown at you if youre not. 800,000 drop in jobs. And justice is supposed to be blind. Since we started the here weve got a circumstance in stayathome orders, were which the guy, flynn, admitted seeing 3 million to 6 million per week. Twice in open court he pled guilty twice to it, and you had
now, of course we know this is the attorney general you just temporary because weve shut our economy off, and so many businesses have been forced to shut down. And, yes, those businesses are desperate to open back up. I am sure all four of us are desperate to go out to eat and played him a moment ago saying, well, sometimes people plead guilty to crimes they dont commit, sounding like a defense lawyer, not like the to resume our lives. Attorney general of the United States. And, look, im the first person so things are going to get back to believe that, that those types of people who plead guilty tend to be those who dont have somewhat to normal. Access to dream teams as flynn had and who dont have but when the numbers have gotten this bad, there is absolutely no way that we can bounce back. And one other thing thats important to note. Experience with the criminal we have a consumerbased Justice System or law economy. Enforcement more generally. When youve got 33 million here weve got a general who was people out of a job, when one in the National Security adviser, five people who do have a job and it beggars belief to think that when he is accused of have faced a pay cut, youre serious federal felonies and lying to the fbi, he just rolls certainly not going to see a over and pleads guilty. Consumer spending jamboree. Give me a break. And without that spending, how i mean what you do in that circumstance is you fight for is this country going to do well economically . Your honor, and you fight like Consumer Spending is the key to heck. Our economy. You dont sit and plead guilty. Annie karni, is there a concerted effort to change or alter the strategy of how the and of course this prosecution was signed off by multiple president is perceived absence people. This wasnt an Obama Administration thing as the
an empathy injection, how he talks about this balance between president said. It was signed off by career line the economy and this growing attorneys. Death toll . It was signed off by trumps own guy, the Deputy Attorney there sure is. General, rod rosenstein. And another thing, you know, the president has made clear from and of course it was signed off the beginning of this that hes on by a federal judge. Eager to reopen. Remember, his first bid at this and so this is incredibly corrosive language by the was that wed reopen by easter. Attorney gene