Tonight theyre reporting that this 117bed hospital at united memorial is considering just becoming a 100 covid facility because they mostly have Covid Patients now anyway, and their numbers in North Houston just keep rising and rising relentlessly. So i want to show you this footage from the ap tonight because its a rare scene that most of us dont usually get to see of how this all ends, of what the inevitable consequence is of these skyrocketing numbers. Over 3 million cases now in the United States. Regularly 50,000 new cases a day now. Record hospitalizations in arizona, florida, texas, california, all over. The inevitable consequence of all of that is what happens in hospital rooms like this one youre about to see in North Houston. And i frankly also wanted foosee this tonight specifically because the doctors at this hospital working with Covid Patients and trying to save these patients lives, they specifically want the country to see this. The doctors in this hospital invited the
Joining us tonight. She is, at the moment, the next best thing to mary trump because he is a lifetime friend of mary trumps and knows her very well and spoke to her. Spent a lot of time while mary trump was writing the book that was so featured on your show last night. And, so, shes going to tell us what she knows about how this book came about and what she knows about this relationship that mary trump has with not just her uncle donald but the rest of the family. And how is that going now . Yeah. Thats fascinating. Im so glad youve got her. Were in this unusual situation where mary trumps book is in the hands of journalists and coming out next week, but she herself is still legally precluded about speaking about what she wrote the book about so you are going to get as close as anybody can get. And she is authorized to speak for mary trump. This is not just a friend raising her hand and saying, hey, i know her. You know, i have something to say. This is this is a kind of carefully arra
Where mary trumps book is in the hands of journalists and coming out next week, but she herself is still legally precluded about speaking about what she wrote the book about so you are going to get as close as anybody can get. And she is authorized to speak for mary trump. This is not just a friend raising her hand and saying, hey, i know her. You know, i have something to say. This is this is a kind of carefully arranged way of doing this at this stage. This is exciting. This is im riveted already. Go lawrence. All right. Get home and watch. Thank you, rachel. Okay. I will. Bye. Well, donald trump has no power to open schools in america, none. Let me repeat that. Donald trump has no power to open schools in america. But he does have the power to read the president s daily brief and study the intelligence reports in that brief about all of the threats to americans and american soldiers that the Intelligence Community can find anywhere in the world. Donald trumps niece has written a boo
Lowest mortality rate from the virus anywhere in the world, as the president said. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 8th. Im willie geist. Joe and mika have the morning off. We woke up this morning to the news that there now are more than 3 million reported cases of coronavirus in the United States with record days in a number of states, including texas and california. Against that backdrop, President Trump is touting the administrations response to the virus, saying, were in a good place, pointing to the United States mortality rate, even as we just heard dr. Fauci publicly calls that a false narrative. The president also is pushing state and local leaders across the country to reopen schools and colleges this fall. New modeling predicts a national spike, though, through those first months of school. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration announcing it will formally withdraw from the World Health Organization early next year. Vice President Joe Biden says if
Substantially with noertheast 58,238 new infections just today. Over 1,000 people died today. Trump is publicly dismissing the warnings and recommendations of the centers for Disease Control and dr. Anthony fauci who has been seen and heard everywhere except behind the official podium at the white house and was notably missing from todays rarity task force briefing. The press secretary was asked about dr. Faucis status. The president has confidence in the conclusions of our medical experts and its up to him to take what he values in the opinions of dr. Fauci and dr. Birx and others and do what he thinks is best for the country. There is an explosion of covid cases largely in the sunbelt states and what we are in for if we cant get this under control. Here is dr. Fauci earlier today that goes against trumps assertion that the u. S. Is, quote, in a good place with respect to handling this virus. Trump says there will be no more shutdowns. It is staying open. The latest push is to open sc