labour's shadow cabinet office minister wanted the uk and the eu to step up.he uk government and the european union. but through the course of the election, it was the basis of a deal with the british people. we urge both sides to redouble efforts over the next few days and weeks to ensure progress is made by the end of this month, so the government can honour its commitment to ensuring a good dealfor britain by the end of this year. she makes, at the start of her intervention, a powerful argument for not extending the transition period. if we've learned anything over the last few years, it's that all that would do would be to extend the negotiation, and i agree with her that business and our citizens across the eu, and actually around the rest of the world who we also are focused on trade negotiations with, they want to have certainty about the future and so we must press on with that. and that is one of the many reasons why we will not extend the transition period. there's going to be misery heaped on misery as covid and brexit appear like the twin horsemen

all not to extend its transition period with the european union beyond the end of this year cabinet office minister michael gove tweeted on friday that the moment is now past rising odds of a no deal bracks have threatened to wreak further havoc on the u.k. economy which is already reeling from coronavirus lockdowns on friday data showed the economy contracted a record 20.4 percent in april economists are not optimistic about a recovery any time soon the central bank says the country is likely to fall into its deepest recession in 300 years. we can speak now to the shop but he's the executive director of the german british chamber of industry and commerce and joins us from london thank you for being with us are you confident that there will be a trade deal between the e.u. and britain. i'm not very confident that there will be a trade deal between the e.u. and the u.k. because the government's position in the u.k. is so entrenched as well as the u.s. position and it doesn't see also able to find a compromise so i think there's more that if 2 percent chance that we will ever know deal scena

the cabinet office minister, michael gove, says he's been clear to the eu.concerns they'll be vandalised. families of more than a00 people who've died with coronavirus demand an urgent public inquiry into the government handling of the pandemic, to try to prevent more deaths. and the paralympian who's the only black board member of britain's major sports tells us much more needs to be done. sport now... and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly. good afternoon. we start with some bad news for formula 1 — three more races have been axed from this season's calendar. the grand prix in azerbaijan, singapore and japan have all now been cancelled. theyjoin an increasingly long list which includes the curtain—raiser in australia — all scrapped due to the pandemic. in fact, 10 of the original 22 races on the calendar won't be taking place this season. the only black member on the board of uk athletics is calling for greater representation at senior levels across britain's 12 biggest sports. paralympic racer, anne wafula strike says says the cu

joining us now is david lidington, previous minister for the cabinet office under theresa may.eak to you this morning. i wonder what you think what will determine a deal will be achieved on trade. boris johnson sounds more optimistic as does the eu. i think above all else, it will be a matter of political will and i think the time we have available on both sides is going to be very limited. and with the bandwidth with is spent on london responding to the covid-19 crisis. i think it is in the interest of both sides to come to a deal. the question of what is called the level playing field. namely the extent to which the u.k. is prepared to place limits to diverge.om secondly, fisheries. fisheries is a tiny fraction of the economy of the u.k. but it has talismanic significance in countries like denmark, spain, france, and the netherlands. anna: you have been inside these negotiations from an earlier phase of them that you have real experience in the way these things go. as tos your assessment whether we will end up with no deal or what percentage chance of a full trade deal? mr. l

the 2016 exercise was between the cabinet office and department of health and social care.o make changes because they were a key part of the contingency act. i'm not aware that lead to any direct action on the part of the economic authorities. you were a permanent secretary back then. in 2016, yes. you didn't do any work after the exercise? were you aware that exercise taking place? not that i recall, no. just to be clear. you finish. i think you're going to say the same thing as me. a big exercise in 2016 about a financial global pandemic health crisis, but there was no work done on the back of that to prepare our economic response. is that correct? i think like tom, i'm not aware of any direct action that was taken on the economic side. if that is true, that is extraordinary and i'm sure that some later questions we will be picking that up and i'm quite dumbstruck by that for once. the committee turned to the supply of personal protective equipment — or ppe — needed by health and care staff. very taken by surprise at the massive quantity of protective equipment that was n

today, the government ruled that out, with cabinet office minister michael gove saying he'd "formallythere'd be no delay. but checks on goods coming here from the eu will be phased in next year, to give businesses time to adjust. 0ur political correspondent, alex forsyth, reports. it has not been business like this for months. many firms disrupted because of the virus and at the end of this year, another big change could be brewing. 0ur of this year, another big change could be brewing. our current trade terms with the eu end and there will be no extension whether there is a new deal or not. we would not be extending. that is it, we are leaving the transition period on december 31 and that provides clarity and certainty to business and our announcement allows business to plan in an appropriate and flexible way. uk left the eu on january 31, a loving one year were not much changed to work out future relations. those talks have not made huge progress so on monday the prime minister will meet eu figures to try to get things moving because december 31 is the deadline for a new trade deal

the cabinet office minister said the aim was to make sure every vote counted the same, as some constituenciesaries were based on out—of—date data. that means that our current constituencies take no account of our youngest voters and nor do they reflect nearly two decades of demographic shift, house—building and migration, and that cannot be right. so the purpose of this bill is to update those rules, and it needs to do that so that the next review, which is due to start in early 2021, can proceed promptly and deliver with some certainty those updated and equal constituencies that the electorate deserves. based on those current electoral quotas, we'd probably see scotland going down by two or three seats. and that would be to the advantage of other parts of the uk, which seems wholly unfair. and it certainly, madam deputy speaker, does not ring true with what people in scotland were told in 2014 during the independence referendum. back then, we were told that we should lead the united kingdom in the event of a no vote. and so on the contrary, actually, we've probably never felt more excluded,

that we have been told by the cabinet office on sunday afternoon that they will follow due process andbut the question will be, is it a lifelong civil servant, someone like mark sedwill, or the government in fa ct mark sedwill, or the government in fact bring someone entirely different and, an outsider to lead the civil service which might speak to that reform agenda? that's the big question there. but again this really shows us that borisjohnson's government, the one that won the general election in december, is very different to the conservative government of 2010—19, the fact they have got rid of the cabinet secretary and are bringing other people and does show the big fundamental changes coming to westminster, whitehall and the whole of the british state. with an 80 seat majority in december as you say. david frost will take over one of those roles. of course number 10 is all about big egos and control, we have talked about the clashes and personalities, but when you look at how warm it seems at face value, these exchanges of letters between sedwill and johnson, do we take those at

in the commons, the cabinet office minister, michael gove, said the tempo of the talks had been escalated." meetings will take place every week injuly with a keen focus on finding an early understanding on the principles that will underpin a broad agreement. as the prime minister said yesterday, the faster we can do this, the better. we are looking to get things done in july. we do not want to see this process going on into the autumn and in the winter. we all need certainty and that is what we're aiming to provide. the prime minister states his own authority on having an oven ready deal. but today in minister questions said that we want to intensify talks in july and to find if possible and early understanding of principles underlying in the agreement. that doesn't sound like an oven ready deal to me. and is a cause of great concern to all of us. the snp, which wants the transition period extended beyond the end of the year, complained that the nations of the uk were being ignored. what is the point? what is the point of the devolved demonstrations engaging with him and his government an

highest command in reading your book one that i would be reassured was required reading for cabinet officers as they come into office, i was strict and extract you are tripping large part of america's 25 year decline of status and prestige as a failure post cold war president and congress to recognize resources to effectively use personal nonmilitary instruments of power. can you explain the fundamental failure and the significance of the title you chose for your book? >> first of all, thank you for this and the commonwealth club for inviting me. the journey of the book began with a question in my mind of how the united states had gone from a position of supreme power probably unrivaled since the roman empire in every dimension of power in 19932 way country today beset by challenges everywhere. how did that happen? how did we get here? so i began looking in all major foreign-policy challenges we have had since 1993 looking at what we had done and not done that contributed to that decline with our role and power in the world. what i came up with was a set of non- military instruments of power

madam deputy speaker, secretaries of state from the cabinet office, transport, business and health havesures and, as i announced on the 22nd of may, the measures will be kept under regular review to ensure they remain proportionate and necessary. i can inform the house that the first review will take place in the week commencing the 28th ofjune. and they will be assessed on an ongoing basis thereafter along with all of the measures to fight this disease. we will publish in due course more information on the criteria that must be satisfied to lift these health measures. but i can update a house on some factors that will be considered. and these include the rate of infection and the credibility of reporting. the measures that international partners have put in place, levels of imported cases in other countries and where they are more relaxed border measures. and the degree to which antibody and other meds blue methods of testing prove effective in minimising health risk. country specific reports will be provided to allow us to monitor global progress. but we will only consider reviewing t

the cabinet officers are in charge of the respected areas and then it helps the president is really the cabinet who is setting the policy. this is your area you handle it you work it out. that said i do highlight a couple of instances where you have cabinet secretaries can abutting heads with white house staffers. in a way that was different from what they would entail. truman was faced with the issue of whether to recognize at the time it was a big question? for u.s. policy. including george marshall who is not only was not only a war hero but the secretary of state was revered more than anyone else in public life. he knows he was not hearing the other side of the issue. they have those up against marshall's. he was not that interested in having them. he said he backs them up. i ask him to be here. but marshall is so angry that he lost this argument that he never begins to utter his name for the rest of his life. in the eisenhower administration this is a frequent test in the secretary of state. eisenhower excited decided to bring his negotiation. and the new york times have a lot of e

any cabinet officer feels so strongly about the add vice not being take, he can resign. it was a huge mistake on this issue. but the second thing is president trump never said i'm going to invoke the insurrection act. what did he say? he said if the governors and the mayors don't get their act together and protect their people, then i have an option. i could do that. there's a lot of difference between saying i have an option, you guys get your act together than saying i'm about to send the marines into minneapolis. lou: yes. and if, indeed, these democratic-run cities were to continue their decision of strategic patience and to withhold enforcement of the law and maintenance of order in those cities, the american people would be screaming at this president to bring in the -- to use the insurrection act because, in point of fact, this has been over the course of ten days, i mean, at various points it looked like it was rising to that level because some of these governors, some of these mayors -- many of them, i should say -- were behaving unconscionably in all just abjec

cabinet is wiped out. eaton resigns and others are forced to resign. polk comes into officenk one of the reasons that he didn't dump buchanan is because he didn't want that same sort of image that had haunted jackson. he didn't want anybody to leave the cabinet over a controversy. he left george bancroft, his secretary of the navy, to become minister of great britain, but he kept that cabinet as much in tact as he could, even though he was constantly at war with buchanan in the cabinet meetings. >> you have all of the names in your book back in those years. martin van buren goes on after president to run again. >> he runs. you know, polk's election was more than remarkable. it is astounding. it's richard nixon. james k. polk served as speaker of the house and while he's in speaker of the house jackson's support at home of tennessee begins to wain. >> the year he's speaker. >> he became speaker in -- in 1833 and served three terms. he ran in 1833 and last to his fellow tennesseean john bell. he beat bell the following year and then was re-elected. >> as speaker. >> so he's re

and other cabinet officers follow her along. van buren, not married, is very nice to him. and -- >> what was he then? >> he was vice president. no, he was secretary of state. and jackson wraps him arm around van buren and names him vice president, really ordained him from the vice presidency in the second term because he was nice to eaton and mrs. eaton. well, so the whole cabinet is wiped out. eaton resigns and others are forced to resign. polk comes into office and i ;ç think one of the reasons that he didn't dump buchanan was because he didn't want that same sort of image that had haunted jackson. he didn't want anybody to leave the cabinet over a controversy. he led george bancroft, his secretary of the navy, to become minister to great britain, but he kept that cabinet as much in intact as he could, even though he was constantly at war with buchanan in the cabinet meetings. >> you have all of the names in your book back in those years. martin van buren goes on after president to run again. >> he runs. you know, polk's election was more than remarkable. it is astoundin

with us you might even get infected i notice that the prime minister and the minister for the cabinet officeor not they're voting with us. but the leader of the opposition was there that image of our parliament is going to live with this government for ever the government is pushing the house staff the door keepers all of us risk they are alarmed. or valerie about his comments come as fear is mounted after the business secretary alex sharma appeared visibly ill at the dispatch box after his stint in the commons he was tested for covert 19 and went into self isolation but he has now tested negative and the prime minister insists the public does want to see m.p.'s return to the commons but a new poll appears to tell a different story. just 12 percent of the public agree that m.p.'s should be in parliament to vote while 41 percent think remote voting should be in place until the pandemic is brought under control and 35 percent of people think the option of remote voting should always be allowed or this comes as officials from a union representing clarke security guards and kitchen staff in parl

you've got to go through a much more elaborat procedure then the president used here through his cabinet officerse got the power to do it , but you cannot do it the way you did. >> so dhs will get another bite at this, kind of been put back to them is how i understand it, as there an opportunity for thi to be changed? i said it almost still leaves daca dreamers in limbo. >> yes and no. yes it is the department of homeland security can go back and patch it up, let's try to d it the right way following the guidance of the supreme court has given us. but in the meantime, yes, the uncertainty will then continue. we are also going to have an election. so who knows? it certainly can't be challenge and so it is going to be a long process ahead of us in terms of the future of these young men and women. >> before i let you go, i asked might keep him talk to me about what is happening with courts across the country under president trump. it is one thing you said he could run on this, the democrat could run on this too if they feel the courts are becoming to conservative. the next one will make it to hundre

we already have a racial disparities unit here at the cabinet office in whitehall, and the new commissionately the official findings on why people from black and other ethnic minorities are more likely to die from covid—19? i don't accept that this is yet another review on top of the ones that have gone before. we have made progress. it's not enough, we're still restless to bring further change, but the prime minister ran his election campaign on a levelling up agenda. he's been talking about this issue. however, the prime minister's claimed that there is a story of success to be told did not find approval among black lives matter protesters who took to the streets in leeds yesterday. people claiming that we're trying to play the victim. that is infuriating because nobody wants to be a victim, but regardless of people's sentiments, the stats and figures do speak for themselves. we are, unfortunately, the victim. after the toppling of his statue, another legacy of slave trader edward colston was removed in bristol today. the prime minister admits dealing with these issues won't be easy, an

with us you might even get infected i notice that the prime minister and the minister for the cabinet office or not they're voting with us. but the leader of the opposition was there that image of our parliament is going to live with this government forever the government is putting the house staff the doorkeepers all of us up risk they are alarmed. fears continue to mount after the business secretary our options are appeared visibly ill at the dispatch box after his stint in the commons he was tested for covert 19 and went into self isolation of the bullets. in terms of the package of measures of 3 elements and a charm for refinancing such as the bedroom of more business has already announced its from which the measures will stop or the prime minister insists the public does want to see m.p.'s return to the commons but a new poll appears to tell a different story. just 12 percent of the public agree that m.p.'s should be in parliament to vote while 41 percent think remote voting should be in place until the pandemic is brought under control and certainly 5 percent of people think the option

it will be run out of the cabinet office and it will report to the prime minister.ndependent members of the panel of the commission which will be called the commission into race and ethnic disparity. and legislation may or may not follow. the criticism, and we've had a lot of it already, including from david lammy is, do we need yet another commission where many of the issues and problems around racial inequality are well known? they have been gone over in detail by numerous different enquiries. teresa may, she had her race disparity audit which he was hugely proud of, looking at the discrimination and equality in the discrimination and equality in the public sector. david lammy himself had his own report into racial inequality in the criminal justice system. we had the wind rush enquiry into the hostile environment, we have had enquiries into police conduct. we really have had an awful lot. i suspect the concern of many critics will be, here we go again and with a great big thud, and other report lands on the table. but what actually follows from it? thank you very

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a month ago, i had asked a cabinet office minister, michael gove, that public health needs to look intout, he said, perhaps socio— economic and structural factors which could lead to inequality and that inequality may have been as a result of discrimination. however, what was promised by them did not take place, as we can see. what is the reason behind that? our readers are telling us behind that? our readers are telling us that the government, it seems, does not care about ethnic minority deaths, because the review confirms that. thank you for your question, ahmed. the last comment pains me, because we do care deeply about this subject, and that is why, following the publication by public health england, we are taking forward the action, and the equalities minister is working to take forward this point of exactly why the information, including new information, including new information, and it's not true the public health england report was entirely information already available, but to take forward why and also what we can do about it. many of the steps that are implied, for instance,

i had over the cabinet secretary and the chief medical officer in a moment.re made last week, but to focus even more so on what we are still asking you not to do. it is by not doing certain things right now that we will all help stop this virus spreading. so that means not meeting other households indoors, not coming within two metres of people from other households, not shaking their hands or hugging them for example. not sharing food or utensils with others. or touching hard services that they may also have touched. not leaving your face uncovered in enclosed spaces like shops and public transport. i am asking you to think about all of that, all of these things we are asking you not to do every time you leave home or meet with someone from another household. in particularly ahead of our weekend when unfortunately the weather forecast is more traditionally scottish with heavy rain, iwant traditionally scottish with heavy rain, i want to particularly emphasise this point. you cannot and you must not meet people from another household indoors. that is a sure—f

radar, where some people are suggesting this policy was very much driven by number ten, by the cabinet office. that said, it will go ahead at the moment, and it seems to me that from what has been pushed for on the labour benches, and indeed from some conservatives too, was firstly a demand to see these scientific evidence on which the policy is based, and secondly to do more work on the so—called air bridges or air corridors, effectively ways around this, that might allow people to go on holiday this summer. yes, but not much wiggle room politically, priti patel saying very firmly that starts on monday. barring a very substantial u—turn, that's what's going to happen. what labour was saying in response, the shadow home secretary, was basically that the government in his view were indulging in a three—week fudge in order to save face. this would be introduced and then potentially relaxed on 28th of june. certainly the signals from inside government don't necessarily suggest that is the case and it will go ahead as you say from next week, and the air bridges people are talking about will not b

. >> president truman asked the full roosevelt cabinet to remain in office. >> reporter: truman and theed stunned at his swearing-in. i felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me, he said. secretary of war henry stimson pulled him aside. >> he says, mr. president, i need to tell you about a top-secret project of immense importance that has created the most powerful bomb ever put together. >> reporter: truman had been vice president for only three months and knew nothing about the manhattan project and the race to build the atomic bomb. so this is the original weapon of mass destruction. >> absolutely. the world had never seen anything like this. >> reporter: the military was busy planning the invasion of japan, an operation general george marshall estimated would require 700,000 troops, take a year and cost tens of thousands of american casualties. the bomb had not even been tested. >> truman had no idea whether it was going to work, and he basically said it's a science project until you can convince me that this is actually a weaponen, which doesn't happen until

cbs news has learned about an oval office show-down monday morning after the president asked members of his cabinetdeploy 10,000 active-duty troops to u.s. streets. today, president trump has kept a low profile only speak out on twitter but protests are close enough to the white house that he can see them. here's ben tracy. >> reporter: after last weekend's large and sometimes violent protest near the white house, cbs news has learned that immediately. during a oval office monday, attorney general bill barr, defense secretary mark esper, and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, all recommended against it. >> don't be proud. get the job done. >> reporter: president trump then got on the phone with the nation's governors, berating them for looking weak if they didn't call in the national guard. >> you have to dominate the streets. you can't let what's happening happen. it's called dominate the stroots. >> reporter: a senior defense department if you believe also tells cbs news that president trump ideal at the defense secretary after he broke with the president and publicly opposed inv

the government of national unity intended to last 5 years a coalition unique in the world took office a cabinet when a former president officiated under the orders of his successor both at the head of opposing parties. president mondale and never chaired the cabinet becky the other deputy president and i chaired the cabinet on meditational basis it was a good experience i realized and serialize that they needed to gain experience in governance they've been a liberation movement they've been agitating as they've been fighting they've been fighters in the field they didn't know how to deal with the civil service he possibly thought that his presence in the government of national unity. will give him the authority to teach then you'll come ice. how to do things. whereas he ought to have one vested that he was also a new comer. into a situation that was new on twitter to put in there were moments when the. i could see mr mandela getting frustrated. alter cations between mandela and dick clark hit the headlines. in january $995.00 i heated disputes during a cabinet meeting which forced declare and m

they kept the door to the office of cabinet affairs always closed. they told me they were dealing with sensitive matters and despite my top secret clearance, they didn't want me helping out. that was my welcome to the trump administration back in 2017. >> did that in any way inspire you to want to run for office? >> that didn't inspire my desire to run. actually what happened, in the months that followed, i spent a lot of time just wandering about the executive office building because they didn't allow me to work on anything. i was connecting with other folks in the trump white house. i'd ask them questions about why they were believing the way they did on policy and education or health care or criminal justice reform. i got to know some of the folks doing the policy work. we got to have real conversations. i think that's such a critical part of our national dialogue right now. we have to be able to have conversations with people we disagree with strongly and still be able to finish the conversation and move forward. so i really fine tuned that skill

you've been in the room with joe biden, in the room where the things really happen, the oval office, the cabinet room, the situation room. you know what he's like in those governing chambers with the doors closed. what would you expect of a president biden this week, in the week that has followed since george floyd was murdered in minneapolis? >> well, if joe biden were sitting in the oval office this past week, he would be comforting and healing the nation. he would be speaking to the very real thing that so many african-americans and other people of color in this country feel, given decades, generations, centuries in some instances, of violence and abuse, brutality. and he would be putting in place very real policies, if he hadn't already, designed to address those concerns. they deal with law enforcement, they deal with the criminal justice system. he laid out in his speech today a number of steps that should be incorporated immediately into legislation. banning choke holds, demanding accountability, having review boards and processes to ensure this stuff doesn't continue to happen. but joe b

cabinet secretary. presiding officer to answer the questions of members. so the idea that this somehow a surprise appearance by me in parliament is a fallacy. applause. i was here in person on the 18th of june to answer portfolio questions. iam sent june to answer portfolio questions. i am sent topical questions from my son's bedroom on the 16th ofjune. i appeared again from my son because my bedroom on the 12th ofjune. i a nswered my bedroom on the 12th ofjune. i answered portfolio questions on the 28th of may and i made a statement to parliament on the 26th of may, again from my son's bedroom. all these occasions since the publication of the education recovery group report. so the conservatives don't dare suggest that i do not appear in front of this parliament to fulfil my duties. it isa this parliament to fulfil my duties. it is a disgraceful slur by the conservatives to suggest that. there we re conservatives to suggest that. there were a number of questions in mr green's points, which were dealt with by the stateme

john bolton's revenge, the former national security officer describes president trump as ignorant, obsessed with his re-election, and mocked by his cabinet. >> i don't think he's fit for office and i don't think thee has the competence to do the job. >> i'll talk to the top democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff. >> also, president trump fires a top federal prosecutor who has investigated several of the president's close allies. what's the real story behind the firing? joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent carol lee, republican strategist al cardenas and yamiche alcindor for "pbs news hour." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning and a happy father's day to all of the dads out there. presidential politics, demonstrations, and a partisan pandemic all came together last night in tulsa, oklahoma. president trump has refused to wear a mask and his supporters have followed suit dismissing mask wearing as some liberal virtue signaling and somehow is nothing

doris kearns goodwin: the office, in the white house in the cabinet room with the same. o unlike today we but the oval office and the new about the cabinet room separate. there is big long table with the cabinet would beat. it was a pretty simple setting. he said to be sure they would like to seven and this the sudden and then his table where they would be arranged in terms of privacy. secretary of state and treasury, and shows them which office is more powerful. but the incredible thing about the white house in his office in those days, a job seeker can raise into the white house is only going to lincoln and talk to him. those were the days before civil service . and they also would have the sections in the white house where anybody could come back, diplomats like . they would actually step parts of the carpet to take home said they could take it home as a souvenir. a city can't waste time talking to all of these people. and lincoln said he needed to do it pretty and i need to remember the great populace from which i've come. i think about that now in terms of in recent

office. i've been to conferences, i've been in cabinet meetings, i've been on head of state calls, i've seenng the president has done with heads of state and leaders, he's been very forceful. he's been direct. he's been candid. and if there's anything he's done, the one single thing that he's done is he has supported the american people. it's always been america first. he's always looked out for american interests first. it's something john bolton hasn't done. look, lou, i can tell you a year ago when we were up in bedminster, i saw john bolton personally derail the afghan peace talks that we were trying to get accomplished. we thought we had a pretty good handle on it going forward. because of that, we're a year behind what we were trying to do in stopping the longest war in american history. i saw him twice, on two different occasions, nearly get us involved in a shooting war in the middle east because he was giving erroneous -- given i roan now information from john bolton. i saw him try to derail what we were doing with kim jong un in north korea when he talked about the libya model, whi

-- and we talked about this on this show -- he believes that retired military officers, former secretaries and the cabinet shouldn't criticize a sitting president. he was adhering to that, and he was under a lot of criticism for that. on monday morning, i e-mailed mike mullen, who i've known also for a long time, and i asked him, "hey, you want to say anything?" we had a couple exchanges, conversations. couple hours later, he sends me that piece, that article about how he can't remain silent anymore. you know, it was obviously very well-read piece. i sent it on to jim mattis. i know that jim and mike are friends. jim mattis respects mike mullen. doesn't see him as a kind of show boat or anything. you know, i basically just said to jim mattis, "you know, now? how's now working out?" because i suspected that general mattis would be offended by a couple things by the events of the past week. the first is anything that threatens the esteem civilians have of the military. good military relations are incredibly important to him. another piece is anything that embarrasses the united states in front of our allies

this is what you have with a lily-white kitchen cabinet, people around you lack diversity, no one is labeling individual officersists. no one is saying individual officers are inherently bigots. that's not what we're saying at all. what we are saying, though, is the system of law enforcement in the country, the system of law enforcement, the way that it interacts with people of color, the way it treats people of color, the fact black people are two times more likely victims of use of force, that system is racist, so we have to deconstruct that. that's my message to donald trump. it's not a democrat or republican fault, it's a fault of having an extremely large blind spot, one you can only fix with understanding and listening, something we know donald trump does not do extremely well. i look forward to his remedies but i would advise donald trump that i actually have faith in tim scott. i know my twitter is going to blow up because i'm giving big ups to a republican, but i actually have faith in tim scott during this moment to lead. i hope donald trump follows his lead. >> tim scott the senator from north carolin

when you get right down to it and you take away the fancy titles of the cabinet serktss a secretaries and presidential of their officeexpensive suits, what this all comes down to is essentially a gangster culture. the gangster mantra of, if you snitch, you get stitches. snitches get stitches. this is street talk. that's what we have witnessed. you just recounted a litany of examples of that. and so, why is it, at the heart of why gangsters on the street will lash out, and even kill snitches against them? because it's a threat to them. it's a threat to their power and their position, and it could put them in prison. and that's why you see the lashing out. so let's talk about this interesting argument the white house is making against the bolton book. that it contains national security, classified information that could pose grave danger to the united states. well, let's break that down. so who is the grave danger being posed against? is it to the president, the head of china, who bolton alleges trump said, hey, if you get me re-elected and buy a lot of soybeans and crops. or i'll play with that telecom decision on tra

that is working very collaboratively, including this weekend when three cabinet secretaries went down and visited with the health officer, their city administered a. ortrator. had really positive conversations of how we can support effort to mitigate the spread. we have been providing other tenets of support, but we believe working with their health officials that pulling back the stay-at-home order is advisable at this moment. or again, to mitigate the spread of this disease to help support stabilization in their hospital system as well as address the positivity rate which in the state over 14 days is 5.5%. 23% oas of last week in imperial county. that is an example of collaboration, partnership, support and technical resources. as it relates to bars, we reached out to state health officials up and down the state. they made a number of comments about what they are seeing in their communities as it relates to spread. we talk about community spread in some areas and where that was most self-evident. other issues related to conger get facilities. we referenced prisons moments ago as it relates to the challenges they have