g let' with weiji jiang. thopresident continues t push to reopen schools. white house?tory inside the weijia: you know, the president had t acknowledge that the optics were not to be acceptable you were to go down to florida, one of the hottest spots in country right now no have this massive event for the sake ofis re-election. at the same time, he wants things, you know, to get back to normal. and that's why he continues to sesh for schools. and the white hs arguing that these are two very different things because with regard to students and schools, you're not talki about cramming thousands of people together at one place at one but certainly, the question still remains, why is it safe r students to go back whenever there's still, you know, admittedly from the white house itself and dr. birx, not enough how the kids transmit ts virus? this isn't just about the kids. it's about grandma and grandpa at home, and what it could mean from them if theyake it to them. robert: peter, build on that. why the shift from the presidenc on coverings? peter: look, this is a moment wh

cbs' weijia jiang takes us cbs' weijia jiang takes us inside an alabama factory that is going all outmeet a vital need. part of our series, "racing to a cure." >> reporter: s.i.o.-2 materials science in auburn, alabama, gave cbs news an exclusive look at how it's tackling a formidable task: making enough vials for hundreds of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. >> i don't want to exaggerate, d >> reporter: it's part of the government's giant gamble-- "operation warp speed"-- to mass produce the most promising vaccine candidates before they are even approved. health and human services secretary, alex azar. >> we will actually procure and be ready to buy much more than just 300 million doses because not every vaccine will make it. >> reporter: are you worried that you're over promising too much too soon? >> well, we're not making promises, we're setting goals. >> reporter: fast-tracking doses also means ramping up supplies like syringes, needles, and glass vials. the administration has shelled out $5.6 billion, so far, in contracts with more than a dozen c

cbs' weijia jiang reports tonight from the white house.bs' weijia jiang reports tonight from the white house. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news no one verbally told president trump that russia may have paid the taliban to kill u.s. soldiers, but the information was included in the president's daily brief, a classified document that takes about an hour to read. >> i will never sit here and confirm or deny what is in a top-secret document. >> reporter: with white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany disputed reports that the president doesn't read it. >> the president does read. this president, i'll tell you, is the most informed person on planet earth. >> reporter: democrats briefed by the white house this morning left disappointed. >> the right people to give the briefing to were not in the room. we need to hear from the heads of the intelligence agencies. >> why doesn't the president question putin? i mean, for god's say, these are our soldiers. >> reporter: some familie familo lost loved ones in afghanistan are calling for answers fro

the competition jiang so there's all these kind of areas where it's having to deal with pressure on translating into. the pressure on the economy which is growing post coronavirus but longer term it's hard to see how it can continue the trajectory it is all that pressure fed i mean john has been saying that it's opening up its economy to the world but there are many experts who say it's closing down its economy to the world that's right i mean we're seeing things that it hasn't opened up at the pace of which it's promised and i think that's what that's what the u.s. is saying and so that's where the trade war is coming from and i think people who don't like the use of the word trade war increasingly now have to see it as that because like you say there's so many battles at this stage that certainly it's a big conflict if it couldn't thank you very much. well now to some of the other stories making news iran musk has tweeted his vision of give the latest gigafactory for tesla to produce cars and batteries the project is currently under construction just outside the german capital is

margaret. >> brennan: weijia jiang, thank you.re are disturbing new details tonight in the disappearance of a young soldier from fort hood in texas. more than two months after u.s. army private vanessa guillen vanished from the base, a person of interest in the case is now dead, and her family is demanding justice. orr: army vestigators tipped abe disappearance of specialist vanessa guillen, even after human remains were found in this central texas field on tuesday. >> there are, obviously, pieces of information or evidence that cannot be shared with the public during an active criminal investigation. >> reporter: today, the army did confirm specialist aaron robinson was a suspect in guillen's disappearance. robinson died by suicide when police approached him near fort hood just yesterday. an hour later, another suspect, a female civilian, was arrested for her involvement in the case. the guillen sisters and their attorney recently met with army investigators. they say they were told their sister vanessa was bludgeoned with a hamm

cbs's weijia jiang is in the white house tonight. this is a change for the president. >> reporter: president trump with us less combative as he stuck to the script and on message after some advisors implored him to show more leadership in combating covid 19. the president admitted there would be tougher days ahead, but still insisted the virus will one day disappear. president trump acknowledged tonight that the coronavirus is spreading and proving difficult to control. >> it will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. >> reporter: and unlike during the early months of the pandemic, the president asked americans to take mitigation measures seriously. >> we're, instead, asking americans to use masks, socially distance and employ vigorous hygiene. >> reporter: it was a one-man show without a single doctor by his side. >> it was not invited, up to this point assu'mot goi toee ent eringed mwh theor iin use coverings. but just hours after mr. trump tweeted a picture of himself wearing a mask, calling it patriotic, he at

here's cbs' weijia jiang.te pleas from protesters in portland, federal agents are staying put, firing tear gas and physically clashing with demonstrators overnight. city and state leaders, including the mayor, who was tear-gassed himself, are demanding they leave. >> we sent in very powerful, not military, but very strong people. the police are good, but they were told not to do anything by the radical left mayor. >> reporter: president trump said the dozens of officers are necessary to protect federal buildings, and he's ready to launch up to 75,000 more agents to cities across the country, including chicago, albuquerque, kansas city, and seattle. mayor jenny durkan. >> what the president has threatened, is not the norm. in fact, it is contrary to how federal government usually works with local law enforcement. >> every city is run by a liberal democrat and they're going to hell, and we have to do something. >> reporter: at today's briefing, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany showed a video she clai

norah. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you. biden and former president obama met face to face for the first time in months to team up on a new campaign video where they take turns hitting president trump on his response to the pandemic. this as biden unleashes his most direct attack yet on mr. trump's character. here's cbs' ed o'keefe. >> reporter: joe biden tonight calling out mr. trump as the country's first racist president. >> we've had racists and they tried to get elected president, he is the first one that has. >> reporter: that is what he told a worker who expressed concern that the president blames china for the coronavirus pandemic. meanwhile biden and his former boss reunited in a pandemic style campaign video with masks, social distancing and criticism of the current president. >> this guy has generated a sense out t tle are waking up to that he ran by deliberately dividing people from the moment he came down that escalator. >> reporter: former president barack obama heaped praise on his former number two. >> you ar

joining us tonight areour aces who cover the white house weijia jiang, white house correspondent forbs ns. ayesha rascoe, white house reporter for national public radio. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new yorke " and jonathan lian, national cal reporter for axios. ayesha, i just got off the phone a minute ago with a trump campaign adviser who told me this speech tonight at mowrt after the left wing mob andto go cancel culture. seen all week with the president stoking racialnd culturaln? tens ayesha: yes. this is clear where the president feels most about white grievances, talking about the culture war, monuments, things of that nature, the radic left. that's where he wants to be and that's what he wants to bin ta about because he doesn't want to be talking about all that other stuff you moned like the russian bounties and he definitely doesn't want to be talking abo the cases that are surging and the reopening that is not going the way that he said it would be going so he's leaning back on those things that worked for him in 2016 andt hopit they'll work for him

cbs's weijia jiang is at the white house tonight, weijia? >> reporter: major, today the white house said it was a career c.i.a. official who made the not not to brief president trump about the intelligence because it was not verified. in his first interview since the details surfaced, the president said she made the right decision. president trump doubted u.s. intelligence that russia may have offered bounties to the taliban to kill u.s. soldiers. >> i think it's a hoax. i think it's a hoax by the e democrats.nd the democrats. >> sources tell cbs >> reporter: sources tell cbs news details about the potential plot appeared in the president's daily brief, though he has not said if he actually read them. mr. trump says what matters is that no one verbally told him the information. >> the intelligence people didn't even-- many of them didn't believe it happened at all. >> reporter: but national security advisor robert o'brien said the raw intelligence was worrisome enough to share with the military. >> even though it wasn'trifiede. >> reporter:

>> weijia jiang at the white house, thank you. tonight cbs news has obtained an email showing president trump is preparing to send federal officers to pat r08 the streets of chicago in response to growing gun violence. this follows fierce clashes in portland, oregon, between federal officers and protestors. here's cbs's carter evans. >> federal officers in portland on orders from the white house fired gas and rubber bullets as they faced off with protestors. the clashes escalated after video show fed ra shall it-- federal officers in fatigues pulling people off the streets with no explanation. and then over the weekend 53 year old christopher david, a naval academy graduate said he asked officers about their oath to protect the constitution. and got this response. >> and i figured okay, they can gas me and they can hit me with batons but they are probably not going to kill me, probably not going to shoot me. >> city officials and state government is asking you to remove your federal officers. why force the the issue. >> we're not

weijia jiang, white house correspondent for cbs news.yesha rascoe, white house reporter for national public radio. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new yor times." andon jonathan swan, na political reporter for axios. ayesha, i just t got off phone a minute ago with a trump campaign adviser who told m this speech tonight at mowrt, mount rushmore, he's going to go cancel culture.wing mob is this part of a pattern we've seen all week with the president stoking racialnd cultural tension? ayesha: yes. this i clearly where the president feels most comfortable, basically touking white grievances, talking about the culture war, monuments, things of that nature, the radical left. that'shere he wants to be and that's what he wants to be talking about because he doesn't want to be talking abo all that other stuff you menoned like the russian bounties and he definitely doesn't want to be estalking about the c that are surging and the reopening that is not going the way that he said it would be going so he's leaning back on thos

>> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you. as states pull back on plans to reopen, more americans are looking for work. 1.4 million workers filed new claims for unemployment benefits in the last week. that's the first increase in weekly claims since march. and the news comes just days before a $600 a week jobless benefit is set to expire. here's cbs's nancy cordes. >> reporter: roughly 30 million americans are now relying on unemployment checks. that's one in five u.s. workers, whose finances are suddenly up in the air because of a washington fight. >> why do they have to make a fuss over $600 which means a lot to many working families? >> reporter: expanded unemploymentnt benefits, $600 extra per person per week are due to run out at the end of this month. unless congress acts, states will start cutting smaller checks next week. >> i can't express the level of rage that i have. >> reporter: britain foster's benefits in new york will revert to $178 a week. >> i can't pay my rent on that, i can't pay mine and my daughter's phon

iang at the whit >> garrett: weijia jiang at the white house. thank you. if you are planning to visit the european union any time soon, well, you might want to think e e.u. today, the e.u. said it will open to residents of 15 countries. the u.s. is not on the list, one big reason-- since a peak in april, covid cases in the e.u. are trending lower, while the u.s. is seeing a steep rise. cbs' holly williams is in greece tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the european union is welcoming back tourists, but not from the united states, because they're simply too risky. there's an exception for coming from the essential travelers, but others coming from the u.s., like new yorker zuri ferguson are barred. she wants to reunite with her oartner, sascha, in germany, who has a heart condition and can't travel. >> it's just heartbreaking every day to just see the numbers in america, and then see that the whole world is just going to bar us off-- like, they're not going health minister toel anywhere. >> reporter: here in greece, the health minister told us safety has to com

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the corona virus a special prosecutor in switzerland has opened a criminal case against president jiang the infancy no the charges relate to secret meetings he held with the swiss attorney general. in the years 20162017 infancy no was reelected president of football's international governing body just last year. nasa has newly launched mission to search mars for ancient life is experiencing technical difficulties the agency says the spaceship named mars 2020 has entered safe mode where the vessel shuts down all nonessential systems and initial checks of the spacecraft show me that there are now new cern's for 3 reasons for concern the 1st official heat wave of the european summer has hit spain temperatures reached 42 degrees celsius on thursday the same day masks became mandatory the above average temperatures are expected to last several days on friday france and britain are also expected to sizzle. the court in egypt has handed several young women prison sentences after they posted videos on the social media app tick-tock prosecutors allege that the woman had violated family values ho

the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong.ced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space. challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for 3h years. and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: america's leading virus expert issues a stark warning — cases are going in the wrong direction as coronvirus infections soar in some us states. the european union reopens its borders to visitors from 15 countries it considers to be safe — brazil, russia and the us are not on the list. to russia now, where today marks the final day in a week—long vote on changing the constitution. the document contains dozens of proposals but the headline—grabber is the one which would let vladi

trump made the unproven allegation on the fox news sunday program china's jiang region has declared a wartime state after a small increase in cases $28.00 new infections have been reported since friday the city of room she has suspended large gatherings of people and hong kong's reported a record daily high of more than 100 new corona virus infections the territories later kerry says the virus is now spreading out of control syria's holding its 3rd parliamentary elections since the uprising against president assad began 9 years ago people are voting in some former rebel strongholds for the 1st time in years opposition groups have been boycotting the elections calling it neither fair nor credible. and protesters are demanding the dissolution of the parliament in democratic republic of congo. organized by the catholic church which is accusing the parliament of blocking meaningful reform since those are your headlines one when east is next. we have over 10000 new cases. 102000 soldiers tested positive 14000 hospitalized. the frontline battle is in the health care system. a deadly pandemi

chinese companies using we girl labor to produce facemasks and other people to fight the pandemic since jiang is by beijing's design completely closed to foreign reporters journalists have had to innovate to find ways to tell this story reporting that is being countered in increasingly aggressive ways by the authorities our starting point this week is since jan. these drone images 1st appeared online 10 months ago on september 17th 2090. prisoners on their knees shackled blindfold on the move their feet on no. it is hard to pinpoint exactly why the video took this long to go truly viral for its impact to be felt other stories on sin jang may have changed things. june 28th and associated press reports on the state driving down birth rates in the province forcing bigger women to use contraception in some cases into aborting their unborn children july 19th a new york times investigation into forced labor is compelled to make face masks and other kinds of p.t.e. . perhaps those stories are what gave the drone video new life the attention it always does or. this clip show is roughly 100 men in uni

cbs's weijia jiang reports from the white house. >> reporter: as president trump played golf in virginiacrews e president trump played golf rushmore. >> i will be making a speech there and see a lot of people, a lot of different people, and i think it will be a fantastic evening. >> reporter: fireworks above the monument will go off for the first time in over a decade after mr. trump dismissed concerns over possible wildfires >> i said, what can burn?it's g. >> reporter: more than 7,000 are expected at the event that will not mandate people to spread out or wear masks. local sheriff kevin thom is not requiring his deputies to cover their faces either. 're uncomfortableoptional. and if you're uncomfortable coming to the event, take advantage of the online streaming, television, there's other options to still enjoy the event. >> reporter: tonight's show comes amid reports that eight secret service agents tested positive for the virus and forced vice president mike pence to rearrange his trip to arizona earlier this week. president trump insists there is a rise in coronavirus cases because

the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong.entists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space. challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for sa years. and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: asa as a green light for travelling to england, the government lifts quarantine rules for visitors from france, germany, spain and italy. us prosecutors charge the british socialite, ghislaine maxwell, with grooming young girls for her former boyfriend — the convicted paedophile jeffrey epstein. one of the many side effects of the covid pandemic has been a dramatic drop in organs being offered for donation. doctors at one of the uk's leading transplant hospitals, royal papworth in cambridge, say that at