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anita kumar, thank you very much. thank you.nced significant steps in easing germany has announced significant steps in easing its lockdown — shops and cafes will reopen, as well as a return to schools and football. but chancellor angela merkel, a scientist herself, seems cautiously optimistic, but has warned any spike in the virus will result in a return to strict measures. freya cole reports. cafes have reopened and people can sitand cafes have reopened and people can sit and enjoy at a distance. translation: it's a nice feeling to see how happy people are, the joy of living again. i'm really happy to go out again. the leaders of germany's i6 out again. the leaders of germany's 16 states have been eager to restart local economies, and now they can. translation: it is going forward. you have to see that oui’ forward. you have to see that our people want to work. shops, restau ra nts a nd hotels our people want to work. shops, restaurants and hotels can open their doors, but residents are urged to wear a mask in public, and thei

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anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor at politico. and a.b. oddard, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. good evening and welcome to you all. anita, i'd like to begin with you. here we have again -- maybe you can explain this -- trump setting himself up against the governors. and what story have we been covering that increasingly people in the individual 50 states have driven up the polls and approvals of their governors who now loom much larger in their lives as health and safety have been paramount? >> what we've been seeing the last three months really is this back and forth between the president and the governors, and what his role has been has just depended on what has been advantageous for him. today he really wanted the governors to open the places of worship, so he was saying he could control them. but as you've seen many times before, he said, well, i'm going to leave it up to the governors. so he's had this really back and forth relationship with them, but they have not changed. they say -- and they are correct by a

for more on this, i spoke to anita kumar.te house correspondent and associate editor of politico. obviously the big news is the president's announcement that his coronavirus taskforce was going to be disbanded, but, as you indicated, it is back on. today he said it is back on because he heard from a lot of people around the country, public—health officials around the country that were very alarmed by that and really urged him to reconsider. where do you see the president's strategy going here? these right, the economy was doing really well, now it's been trashed. he's clearly very keen to point the finger at china, is that cutting it with the voters? those people are trying to figure out whether they can go back out or not, and here in the us, there are a patchwork of different laws and rules for them. despite everyone paying attention to what president trump does, it's actually the governors of each state that has been making that determination. so people are trying to work out if they can be back out again. about 15 states

let's talk about all of this with anita kumar, a white house correspondent and associate editor for politicomping right in, so listen, you know anita that the post office is on financial life support, needs resuscitation. louis dejoy will be the first postmaster general in 20 years who did not come up through the ranks, is a political appointee. is it time for a change at the top and is dejoy the right person to oversee the government agency? >> well, the reason you gave is exactly why you're hearing criticism from democrats and ethics groups who are saying it should be someone that comes up through the ranks. you mentioned it's been a couple decades. the current post, the person who is currently in that job was a letter carrier and worked her way up and so people were looking for that kind of mold. what they're afraid of at this point is that president trump who has criticized the post office since way before when he was president, since 2013 at least, will actually push him to make those changes now. things that people that are watching the post office, the postmaster general's job are say

on the white house response to the coronavirus pandemic with politico white house correspondent anita kumarthen a discussion of what a long-term strategy should look like for the u.s. response to cameron,mic with beth former senior director for global health security and bio defense for the national security council. and we look back 50 years to the antiwar student protest at kent state university, which erupted into a deadly c confrontation between students and the national guard. with howard means. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. next, testimony before a senate panel on the challenges of remote voting. including new technologies, the constitutionality of moving procedures online, and security concerns. churches and schools are closed. health-care workers are working around-the-clock. in the last five weeks, based on the numbers i saw this morning, nearly 30 million americans filed for unemployment.

host: we are talking with anita kumar. stay with us, if you would, i want to share with our audience how the trump campaign is responding to the biden allegations in this newly released ad. >> a former u.s. senate employee has come forward alleging former vice president joe biden sexually assaulted her. >> his hands were on me,&underneath my clothes. >> you have a right to be believed. we're with you. >> do we value stpwhem do we believe women? >> women should be believed. >> we believe women. >> i'm very disappointed that there are those who continue to not believe women who come forward. it is not easy. they should be believed. >> she is putting herself out there, knowing that they're going to try to excoriate her, and she has the courage to come forward. she has nothing to gain. what does she have to gain? >> i stand with survivors. >> the woman should be given the benefit of the doubt. >> these white men, old, by the way, are not protecting women. >> showed the kind of compassion and caring that we need from our presid

let's bring if anita kumar, a white house correspondent, an associate editor for politico.to the new comments made by ms. reade momentarily, first let's start here. timing is everything, especially in politics, as you well know. what do you make of the timing of biden's public reaction, when he spoke out, how long it took him to speak out, and the timing of ms. reade's allegations? >> well, you're exactly right, timing is so important here. it took the former vice presidents about a month to talk about this. i think because this last week there were a lot of people or at least a few people that were corroborating what she said. we saw a neighbor come out, a former neighbor say she told her about this incident. you saw her brother come out, you've seen others come out. the pressure was mounting on joe biden to do something, that his campaign put out a statement but he hadn't said anything himself. you had a lot of members of congress, democrats around the country, even prospective vice presidental candidates for him getting questions and feeling like at that point feeling li

host: we are talking with anita kumar. stay with us, if you would, i want to share with our audience how the trump campaign is responding to the biden allegations in this newly released ad. >> a former u.s. senate employee has come forward alleging former vice president joe biden sexually assaulted her. >> his hands were on me,&underneath my clothes. >> you have a right to be believed. we're with you. >> do we value stpwhem do we believe women? >> women should be believed. >> we believe women. >> i'm very disappointed that there are those who continue to not believe women who come forward. it is not easy. they should be believed. >> she is putting herself out there, knowing that they're going to try to excoriate her, and she has the courage to come forward. she has nothing to gain. what does she have to gain? >> i stand with survivors. >> the woman should be given the benefit of the doubt. >> these white men, old, by the way, are not protecting women. >> showed the kind of compassion and caring that we need from our presid