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cooperation. are the feds helping or inflaming tensions? chicago mayor laurie lightfoot joins me to discuss next of. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union sick and tired and facing a consequential choice. today marks exactly 100 days until the next presidential election and the nation is deeply mired in crisis. there are currently more than 4.1 million coronavirus cases in the u.s. and more than 146,000 americans dead. more than a dozen states hit daily records this week and the nation s daily death toll topped 1,000 multiple times. all this as millions of americans are facing an increasingly urgent economic emergency as the extra $600 in unemployment benefits runs out this week. and the senate majority leader mcconnell said more relief is two to three weeks away, quote, hopefully. this morning we get fresh insight of cnn as to how voters think about the election in three key battleground states that could decide the winner. florida, ariz ....
we appreciate your time. thanks for joining us. tonight, the deadly blast rocking an american city. the massive explosion, a building leveled. you could feel the blast across the city, witnesses said. at least one dead, several injured, raced from the scene. firefighters had been called to the area right before the explosion. also at this hour, the major snowstorm slamming several states right now. up to two feet of snow, dangerous winds, 1,000 flights grounded or delayed. 100 miles of a key interstate shut down tonight. rob marciano has the track and the timing as we head into this evening. attorney general william barr on the hill, pressed on how he could determine there was no obstruction of justice when robert mueller did not. and what he said about spying on the trump campaign. the horrific and deadly bus crash today. the truck barrelling through an intersection, slamming right into a school bus. that deadly police standoff, officers called to this home, both of ....
goofy handsoff. that s all i can say. me, too. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber and it is a pretty serious time. we ll get right into it. we are tracking the mysterious new revelations about trump s actual awareness and awareness inside the white house of the reported russian bounty plot to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan. we ll walk through the national security faktcts. donald trump got his first briefing about it, this was all revealed in a new york times explosive report, that first broke at least the first details of it, four days ago. yet we re also learning from sources of intelligence that the trump administration actually first obtained the key sbegs and the clues about this very terrible plot against u.s. troops over a year ago. let s be clear. the bad news for trump on these briefings, and this schedule, it matters because this at its core is the kind of scandal that can hobble a presidency and affects the lives of men and women in uniform. we re t ....
quite yet. if positive suggests that you re protected from re-infection. one last thing about this senate health committee meeting that we saw earlier, theed ed admiral sf you want a test you can get a test. testing centers are going to be removed. he shouldn t say blanket statements that are untrue while defunding access to testing. dr. gupta, thank you for spending some time with us. thank you for answering i get those questions, too, people asking what should they do, now as it s patchwork of different reopenings across the country. people have questions like this. my colleague craig melvin is answering them on the 11:00 a.m. eastern hour on msnbc. tweet your questions with the #msnbcanswers. craig will put those questions to doctors like dr. gupta and a panel of health experts on his program. a chance of european travel this summer, going from slim to none. how poorly the united states has handled the pandemic and telling americans to stay home. that story nex ....
colluding with russia in 2016 that it had not actually happened. and now as barr says, it is worth finding out if all of this was set in motion by the, quote, upper echelon that he referred to today in the intel agency the reaction today was feersz and 2 went something like that. is he a republican hatchet man. attorney general united states spying number one is he channeling the thoughts of the president. another telltale sign of dictators is they corrupt the people around them. so that people like bill barr who had a reputation coming in is kind of a lawyer s lawyer is now in a position of really shading and pandering. martha: and the reaction on capitol hill was equally alarm. i believe the attorney general of the united states of america believes he needs to protect the president of the united states. republican conspiracy theory nonsense. it is attorney general of the united states of america, not the attorney general of donald trump. martha: here n ....