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Over the department. The attorney general pushing back on that saying he is the one calling the shots. Not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody, and i i said it whether its congress, newspaper editorial boards or the president. Im going to do what i think is right. I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me. Arthel Mark Meredith is standing by in West Palm Beach, florida, with the latest on this. Hey, mark. Reporter good afternoon. A couple hours from now President Trump is set to attend a fundraiser here in florida. He came down here yesterday afternoon, he did not stop to speak with supporters even though there was a swirl of questions over some of these recent decisions you were just talking about. Earlier this week, we did hear from the attorney general ....
The resolution itself has an express provision that says the just got tested for the president retains the power to coronavirus in our cabin o on te defend the country to react in a diamond princess. We are definitely concerned. Way against any attack, let the workers have a mask and resolution is going to be an gloves on when they pass us a amendment in a few minutes which meal and then we try to wash her i am going to vote for thats hands before we eat it just to going to reiterate that. But where i differ is it doesnt eliminate any kind of germs that we can possibly. Strip this president of power, to Mike Benjamin hall is it basically says this is what tracking all of this live from london this morning. The constitution says and we ought to honor it getting into a war with iran is a big deal. There has been some optimism very sophisticated military aid that some cases were cooling off in the situation was getting on the verge of ....
Mark meredith is standing by near the president s maralago resort in west palm beach, florida. Mark . Good evening, jon. The white house continues to stand behind the attorney general bill barr, even as you mentioned, the number of democrats that are continuing to grow that are calling for bill barrs resignation. Now, this controversy comes after what you were just talking about, the decision by federal officials to intervene in the case that was going on against former trump associate roger stone. Prosecutors were first pushing for a seven to nineyear jail sentence for jones. They overruled that recommendation pushing for a lesser sentence. The attorney general told abc news this week this has nothing to do with the president. Did anybody from the white house call you to try to influence you . No. I have not discussed the roger stone case at the white house. Barr however did take a swipe at the president during that same interview, in which he said the president s constant tweets and ....
Lead the world in confirmed cases with more than 136,000 americans now infected. And that number is expected to rise as testing expands. Steve harrigan is live outside cdc headquarters in atlanta right now. Steve. Reporter jon, amid all the developments today, a few facts and figures do stand out. First, the death toll in new york state alone topping more than 965, that would place new york state by itself as eighth in the world as far as death toll goes. The other is texas is now expanding the number of states where it is quarantining visitors from, adding miami, atlanta, detroit and chicago, this is part of a trend were seeing across the country where states are trying to defend themselves from visitors from other hot spots trying to impose voluntary or mandatory quarantines. In the meantime, another hot spot at sea, this time the Navy Aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevel ....