Week with a different break from tradition, bringing brand new meaning to a timeworn political cliche. The rose garden strategy. Its more than a metaphor now. Thats where First Lady Melania Trump will deliver her speech tonight. The site of President Trumps acceptance speech on thursday. Well see him from the iconic east room tonight. Mike pompeo will become the first secretary of state in modern times to give a political speech to a Party Convention when he beams in on a Diplomatic Mission to the middle east. Mary bruce is at the white house and mary, all president s try to capitalize on the trappings of the office when they run for reelection. This convention taking it to a whole new level. George, this is a familiar setting but we have never seen anything like this before. A first family using the white house, the peoples house, as the backdrop for a political convention. Critics say it crosses a moral line, but the president is intent on using the trappings of the incumbency to mak
We had a very, very strong economy, and then we were hit with the virus that knocked everything. He reacted quickly. He closed the border from china. Then he closed the border of those coming in from europe. And he went right to work setting up the task force to study the virus. This virus was perplexing. No one knew what to do at first. We did close the country. We shut things down because we tried to get a handle on it and didnt want to overwhelm our medical systems. And once we got that under control and started to change the curve on the virus, the president realized and he knew that the economy would be killed if we didnt start to reopen. So he worked the scientists to get regulations or suggestions to the governors on both sides of the aisle on how to open up and get the economy back on track. You are seeing that working. With the past three months we have created almost 9 million jobs. We came out of a great recession. By comparison, it took four years to create 9 million jobs i
Trump and mike pompeo from jerusalem. Just before things got started tonight, we got word that one of tonights speakers had been pulled from the program. Maryann mendoza was scheduled to appear in i a video. She shared an antisemitic video today. Chuck todd is at his post. Youve been listening for about an hour and a half now, the second night of the republican convention. What themes are emerging. I would say theres a little less red meat so far. Tonight youre seeing another similar theme. Theres another focus, particularly show casing what President Trump has done with criminal justice reform. You know, both campaigns, guys, tell me that there is a chance that donald trump could overperform with africanamerican men. A its a concern of the Biden Campaign and its a focus of the trump campaign. A lot of this targeting here is something we talked about last night, trying to cut against this narrative that the president has been stoking racial tensions. Theyve been trying to heal this bec
Populations of extreme poverty so norland detroit and so i think were starting to see in yet another dimension to this epidemic which is these this virus as a Health Disparity particularly among people of color i think africanamerican populations who live in poverty and have dont have the ability to practice social distancing because of the crowded conditions that they live i think theyre going to be vulnerable in the fact that they are many populations of underlying rates of the high rates of diabetes and hypertension so the Health Disparity component is particularly troubling for for me in places like new orleans and detroit and here at the number of new deaths a surge in spain to more than 4000 and is climbing in italy. China is banning most foreigners from entering as it tries to prevent a 2nd wave of Infections Health officials reported the 1st locally transmitted infection in 3 days you know you has more from beijing. We dont know how many foreigners exactly this is going to affe
You know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. Throughout certain areas in new york its at the Convention Center the javits Convention Center. Were doing 4 hospitals and were doing throughout the state for medical centers theyre somewhat different i want you to know that i am doing everything in my power to help the city pull through this challenge and working very hard in new york its really by far our biggest problem maybe it will be maybe it wont be but theres a lot of good capable people working on it with us well send this as a wrangling over a 2 trillion dollar package to help fight the virus the phones are aimed at keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat and helping frontline medical weapons mike hanna has more from washington. Late last night there was an apparent agreement with the white house and members of congress that led to a swelling of optimism saw a massive rise in the stock market for example but all of that has faded in the course of the day over a group