white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more in terms of why the administration is holding this press conference now there was there were a lot of hits as the president talked as the officials talked you noted that they all seem to praise the president's leadership a lot of this seems to have to do with the fact that the president well he was traveling in india was getting a lot of criticism about his handling of the crisis so far that perhaps there were a lot of people that felt they were in the dark in terms of public health information that they weren't sure that the results had been allocated so every speaker that went up continue to try to talk about and praise the president while also talking about the sort of necessary public health information. meanwhile countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the virus saudi arabia has temporarily halting visas for the pilgrimage known as the o'meara for tourists coming in from places where the virus is a threat well the highest death toll outside of china has been in iran where 19 people

monday iraq her issue was leading iran's fight against the illness our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports on the u.s. response to the virus. on the defense the trump administration is facing growing criticism it's.

that america does not have enough medical supplies for an outbreak white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. on the defense the trumpet ministration is facing growing criticism it's not done enough to contain the spread of corona virus in the united states i'm deeply concerned that we are way behind the a fondness at a hearing on capitol hill on tuesday the us health and human services secretary said development of a vaccine for the virus may still be a year away he openly admitted the trouble right house needs 2500000000 dollars in emergency funding from congress to fight the spread of the global outbreak so we do have in the strategic national stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough support well of course not or we wouldn't be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that for hours later a top u.s. health official issued this ominous warning now it's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected now even members of presiden

people over the next short period of time so we've had very good luck i want house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more in terms of why the administration is holding this press conference now the result there were a lot of hits as the president talked as the officials talked you noted that they all seem to praise the president's leadership a lot of this seems to have to do with the fact that the president well he was traveling in india was getting a lot of criticism about his handling of the crisis so far that perhaps there were a lot of people that felt they were in the dark in terms of public health information that they weren't sure that the resorts had been allocated so every speaker that went up continue to have to talk about and praise the president while also talking about the sort of necessary public health information i mean all countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus saudi arabia is temporarily halting visas for the pilgrimage known as the and for tourists coming in from affected countries and he's 5 people have been ki

were tied iran would have have a field day sends a very bad signal a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports from washington. well the president is tweeting that this is going to send a message of weakness to iran members of his own party and this is what's so striking about this are saying just the opposite saying you campaign to get us out of foreign entanglements and that's exactly what we're doing here this isn't projecting a message of weakness this is in fact showing unity on a campaign promise but still it is remarkable in divided congress that just last week really essentially voted along party lines with regard to the impeachment and whether or not the president was abusing his presidential powers this time we expect to see at least 8 republicans standing with democrats on this measure well what this means is this is another attempt by congress to limit the president's power now we've seen a similar measure that in essence is largely symbolic very similar to this one that happened back in march of 2019 that's when the congress voted to limit u.s. involvement for the saudi it

monday iraq's harris she was needing iran's fight against the illness a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports on the u.s. response to the virus. on the defense the trump administration is facing growing criticism it's not done enough to contain the spread of corona virus in the united states i'm deeply concerned that we are way behind the a fondness at a hearing on capitol hill on tuesday the u.s. health and human services secretary said development of a vaccine for the virus may still be a year away he openly admitted the trouble right house needs 2500000000 dollars in emergency funding from congress to fight the spread of the global outbreak so we do have in the strategic national stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough for part will of course not or we wouldn't be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that for hours later a top u.s. health official issued this ominous warning now it's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become i

for doing something that nobody really can defy what he did with a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat joins us live now so clearly president trying arius writing what he said before about roger stone being treated very badly that's what he says but we don't know whether or not he's considering a pardon for roger stone. we don't know if he's considering a pardon many people believe though if you sort of understand trump speak that that is a signal that's exactly what he intends to do regardless the defense by the president of the department of justice decision to downgrade the sentence for roger stone a longtime friend of the president's and the man who worked on his campaign certainly sparking outrage there have been top democrats who have stood up in the house rather in the u.s. senate calling not only for public hearings into the stone case but even for an independent inquiry in the justice department to see whether the protocols were handled essentially what the concern is here is that on the heels of the u.s. president being acquitted of the charge of abuse of presidential powers

the fallout that 19 in a moment we'll hear from who's in northern italy but 1st let's go to kimberly hellcat to is tracking the u.s. response from washington d.c. and now the u.s. has accused iran of covering up information about the coronavirus the u.s. secretary of state has called on countries to tell the truth about the growing outbreak what else did i have to say. mike pump aoe the u.s. secretary of state holding a press conference at the state department the last few hours for the 1st time pointing the finger very sharply at iran and also at china quite a departure from the the rhetoric coming out of this administration early on when this outbreak 1st occurred the knish really applauding china for its transparency now saying just the opposite saying that there has been no transparency or that there has been limited transparency and even accusing both nations of potentially not being truthful about the numbers urging both nations and in fact all nations to be transparent about the numbers and also to work with international aid organizations to contain the spread further to china permit