it was beautiful in portsmut ov -- portsmouth what happened? >> remember the first reboot was in tulsa, oklahoma about three weeks ago, the campaign manager boasted of a million ticket requests. only 6,000 people showed up mostly out of fears of a coronavirus pandemic in an indoor arena, leiaving the president looking at sea of empty seats. they have tried to see what outside rallies will look like. so the next attempt was going to be in new hampshire. new hampshire a battleground state but one right now the president is trailing fairly significantly to joe biden. it was a state he was close in 2016, but one that is considered a bit of a reach right now. the reboot was going to be in airline hangar. they didn't talk up crowd size, they wanted it to be smaller and more manageable. the president needed to be out there to draw strength from the crowds, try out new attack lines on joe biden, and they're valuable voter data collection tools. i was traveling with the president to florida on friday, and become they touched down, press secretary kaylei

[applause] announcer: president trump is hosting a rally in portsmouth, new hampshire. watch our live campaign 2020 coverage saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, on demand at c-span.org, or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. presidents, from public affairs. available now in paperback and e-book. presents prior graffiti's of every president, organized by their ranking by noted historians from best to worst. and features perspectives into the lives of our nation's chief executives and leadership styles. visit our website, c-span.org/thepresidents. to learn more about the presidents and it -- and order your copy today wherever books and e-books are sold. earlier today in the house of commons, british prime minister boris johnson addressed his government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. he also talked about the process of reopening amid the pandemic and the u.k. economy. rate, we know that is the end of the questions. we are now going over to the questions of the prime minister. question one.ith >>

joining us live from portsmouth is allison king.ll us about what was going to happen tomorrow? >> yeah, so there was going to be this outdoor rally at an airport hangar here in portsmouth, and as you pointed out, people were strongly encouraged to wear masks. they were going to offer hand sanitizer, but there was no mandate. and governor sununu was getting some pressure from mepeople tha he should put the mandate out here, but he said he wouldn't do that. he didn't do it for the black lives matters rallies, and he wouldn't do it in this case. people were concerned about this. i talked to donald trump's 2020 cochair here in new hampshire about what next, what's the contingency. he said some time in the next two weeks, they plan to bring this rally back, hopefully in the same place. and that they plan to go forward. i can tell you that there has been some skepticism about the weather issue because the weather is scheduled to be fairly nice at that time here in new hampshire. al says because people come all day to line up and there cou

later this week, the president will be going to new hampshire, a campaign rally set for portsmouth. with what isico ahead for the white house this week. executive orders on china, immigration, and prescription drugs. they write chief of staff mark meadows and donald trump plans to sign a handful of executive orders this week as the president looks to his right -- to write his reelection campaign after a brutal june that saw his whole numbers plummet amid a coronavirus resurgence and racial unrest. in an interview, meadows gave few details about the coming orders except that they will pertain to china, bringing manufacturing jobs from overseas, immigration and restriction drop rices. the chief of staff kassie orders as the white house is pushing forward with its top priorities after stalling in congress. from usa today on testing, "experts say more testing is needed." 5059write, an average of tests are conducted every day nationwide, an increase from the mayhly 300,000 processed in but far short of the nearly one million that experts say are needed to ensure safe reopening of the eco

. >> president trump is hosting a rally in portsmouth, new hampshire. watch our live campaign 2020 coverage saturday on c-span, on demand at c-span.org or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. >> robert agee is the chief public policy officer with the alzheimer's association. and their executive director. thanks for being here on washington journal. >> great to be with you. >> what has been the role of the alzheimer's association during the pandemic? primary role has been to support those with dementia and their caregivers. and that has brought us right to the front lines of the covid pandemic because many of those with alzheimer's and dementia happen to be at highest risk for covid-19. to early thisk year as the pandemic was becoming known and the first cases in the u.s. being identified in february. how did your organization brace for what was to come? were watchings we the news about covid-19 and thinking and thinking in very operational terms. fly in ofvery large people from around the country to washington, d.c. that was supposed to take

just learning though that the campaign is announcing their next event which is next saturday in portsmouth, new hampshire outdoors. that comes after tulsa where many tested positive after the indoor event. so this is a new straeblg ew ste president gave those back to back speeches that were technically white house events. but the kecontent was so politil and the president is going back to some of his 2016 days. we're seeing the dark and sort of retreating. but the president is calling out americans against their own fellow americans refshierring t the radical left and the mob when they are trying to figure out which attacks might land most effectively. so far they haven't had the same success that they had in 2016 in terms of trying to paint her in a certain way. they tried different things with jbl th joe biden that haven't landed. and privately, they are not sure how to tweak that going forward. but as you see, the president is defiant trying to get back on the campaign trail again after the by all accounts debacle in tulsa where they couldn't fill the stadium, there were so many concern

. >> president trump is hosting a rally in portsmouth, new hampshire. watch our live campaign 2020 coverage saturday at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. on demand at c-span.org or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. >> good morning, good afternoon and good evening,en

a beautiful day, i should point out, in portsmouth, new hampshire yesterday.erhaps worried about a repeat of tulsa where the crowd was thinner than they hoped it would be and wearing the mask last night, yesterday, during that visit to walter reed. is he sending signals, albeit months late, that perhaps he is concerned now about the coronavirus crisis >> i wouldn't be ready to go that far here. i mean, you know, if you look at sort of his rhetoric about schools and what needs to be done, he seems to continue to want to look past the current state that we're in. he continues to describe these things as embers look, willie, just look at how he spent his friday. he went to miami-dade county, he went to doral. miami-dade county is within th hot spot of the state of florida. he didn't go to talk about the virus. he went to talk about venezuelan politics as it impacts his election how did he end his day after travel to the hot spot of the hottest spot he commuted roger stone's sentence so, you know, he seems to be someone that just either is too distracted to focus

will strongly encourage masks at the president's next event, an outdoor rally set for saturday at portsmouthnew hampshire. this after two highly charged holiday speeches where the president attacked racial justice protestors and today defended the confederate flag. cbs's ben tracy is at the white house tonight. good evening, ben. >> reporter: norah, president trump declared via tweet today that schools must reopen in the fall despite the surge in new coronavirus cases across the country. he's also increasingly making race-based appeals to his supporters. instead of focusing on the increasingly dire rise in coronavirus infections, president trump went after nascar's only full time african- american driver, bubba wallace today. demanding he apologize in falsely accusing him of perpetuating a hoax when as into was found in his garage last month, it was later determined wallace was not being targeted. >> this was not a hate crime and he believes it would go a long way if bubba came out and acknowledged that as well. >> reporter: wallace responded to the president saying always deal with the hate

announcer: president trump is hosting a rally in portsmouth, new hampshire. watch our live campaign 2020 covered saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. on demand at c-span.org or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. the republican and democratic parties and the campaigns of president trump and joe biden are adjusting plans for next month's political conventions. already reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic. the democrats will convene for a scaled-back convention in milwaukee, starting august 17. the republicans begin their convention the following week, august 20 four, in charlotte, north carolina, for moving o

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. >> president trump is hosting around and portsmouth, new hampshire. watch live campaign 2020 coverage saturday at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span, on-demand c-span.org or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. >> phoenix mayor kate gallego discussed her cities response to the coronavirus pandemic in the interview with "washington post" opinion writer jonathan kay parker chautauqua relationship with arizona governor doug ducey and criticized the federal government response to the pandemic calling for better coordination of the distribution of medical supplies. -- critical supplies. >> i believe our residents will do the right thing if they get accurate information to time calling on every elected official from the president on down to send the message that wearing masks works in the staying at home can slow the spread. >> welcome to "washington post" letter on jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the "washington post." phoenix mayor kate gallego is making headlines for her criticism about arizona's governor and the federal government have responded

stories like theirs are not limited to portsmouth, sadly. and contamination from pfas is not limited to millet's about as and -- bases and airports. that's were this long-term health study is so important and it's so critical that we complete it. we need to know what the research says are the dangers of pfas. since congress authorized the study in 2017, the atsdr and centers for disease control have been working to identify the health effects of pfas exposure, starting with the former pease air base in portsmouth. i believe it's seven other sites around the country that have been designated as part of this study. unfortunately, due to covid-19, as i said earlier, the agencies expect additional costs associated with continuing the study, as well as a one-year delay in finalizing the results. i think we could all agree that families that have been exposed to these chemicals deserve answers. what my amendment would do is provide additional funding for the pfas health study to ensure that atsdr and c.d.c. can complete their work and do it withou

>>the president trump is heading to new hampshire next weekend be scheduled to hold a rally at portsmouth airport on saturday. organizers say they will hand out masks and hand sanitizers to attendees and mask will be strongly recommended but not required. that's a change though from the president's previous events fact last friday social distancing was not a forced fire which affected not rushmore attendees were not required to wear face masks. the republican governor of arkansas said that people at the mount rushmore rally should have worn masks. take a listen. >>they should have been face coverings they should have followed guidelines there. you know i know that it's a controlled environment, so it's really more about setting an example but i know how important this was the governor now she's been asking that the president about this months ago. this is not something that was set up at the last minute it was planned. and it was a controlled environment. >>well the governor of arkansas says that if trump was to hold a rally in his state people will need to wear a mask and preach and prac

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this one will be outdoors in portsmouth new hampshire at the airport.ndees are required to sign a waiver. >>> students at universal of washington have tested positive. 102 of those are residents in fraternity houses. this is all according to the university and the city's public health department. last week a pop justify testing site was said up near campus where so noor nearly 1300 tests have been administered. >>> in sports the some. -- mlb is reporter more positive tests. the blight sox announce ewhite t two employees are positive. and yesterday four atlanta braves were reported to also have been infected. his wife wrote in part -- he's had body aches and chills, with a high five. this virus hit him like a ton of bricks, and we're wishing him and everybody infected all the beth. it's obvious nobody is immune. that includes health care workers. for those doctors and nurses who are high risk themselves, they face an unpressed challenge. how to care for their patients without putting their own lives at risks. that's where the robots are coming in to help

blood test can detect the tell protein one of the hallmarks signs of all simers with their opera portsmouth's books so no higher power concentration on the lower. lower carb concentrates the blood test which was just as accurate as more invasive methods including m.r.i. brain scans c.t. scans and spinal taps provides a much simpler and more affordable way to diagnose whether people with cognitive problems were experiencing all simers as opposed to another type of dementia sparking new hope for patients yet the ball is then a thought that's very good instead of taking spinal fluid you can just have a simple blood test it means you can learn about the condition before it gets worse and have support and help from people so you can live a so-called normal life even so normal day but know that the researchers say that the blood test was also able to identify symptoms of alzheimer's 20 years before the patient was expected to start experiencing thinking and memory problems however they do add that more testing is needed and it could be years before this kind of test is available to the public howev

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have had a more focused approach on competition have been much more concerned about and i trust in portsmouth the republicans are much more market oriented i do believe that biden presidency you're going to see a lot more scrutiny. i don't know how this is going to end up and nobody else does either because the reality is and i trust a geisha takes a long time it is a slow process and these very large companies have a lot of ability to protect themselves again and i trust enforcement that's the reality so it's going to be political persuasion and it's going to be and i trust enforcement and i think those 2 forces are going to be what's going to be required to really make some significant difference and it's not the people united states not the regulators are unaware what's the right solution that benefits consumers and competition because to your point we may be the product but there are billions of people who are doing this product and benefiting from this product in particular in a pandemic i get an amazon product every day delivered at my door maybe to be an alternative but i do know that

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and the next day i think, raleigh, and maybe portsmouth. . >> things were more tenths they arranged a meeting of the parties involved, and it was clear that will worse would get no cooperation. and services were at a standstill. >> -- i remember someone coming forward and saying girls you have to go. this is what your conscious is telling you to do. so several of us went down. >> i had the female students from greensboro college, because he abuse for participating was extremely high. >> they made a threat to me, you know it's like on your girlfriend let's get her. you know i was told to be peaceful and not react to the threats and so forth, and it was hard for me and i was really quite angry, and i was especially proud, when the white students from the college came. >> when this realist walked in, the people who are occupying they turn around solace, and said of course thinking, we are going to join them do you want to sit down. and the three of us took our seats at the counter. and when the waitress came up to us, and that's what we wanted i said i think there's somebody here ahead o

portsmouth, new hampshire.caller: hi. my question is jackie kennedy has been mentioned a few times tonight and i'm curious how the eisenhowers view the kennedys and in particular how mamie viewed jacque and the differences between them. >> i would say jacque and mamie got off to a very rocky start and that was never righted. part of it is the difference in age, but it really -- beginning with the misunderstanding and it was just very rocky when mamie took jacque through the white house for her tour before the inauguration and mrs. kennedy was telling mamie already the plan she had for renovations and that really didn't sit very well with mamie, and it went on from there, but i have to say that later they were trying to raise funds for what's now the kennedy center, the eisenhower had station had already been planning for a cultural center in washington, d.c., and when the kennedys were continuing the plan for that, ike and mamie, as retired first couple, did a lot of public speaking and appearances on televisio

this time it will be outside at an airport hanger at portsmouth international hanger. masks and hand sanitizer available to attendees. new hampshire is one of the few states reporting a decline in coronavirus cases. >>> some members of the catholic church are pushing to reopen churches in san francisco. they rallied outside city hall to protest the ban on indoor gatherings. the san francisco city attorney's office ordered the arch diocese to shut down indoor services at multiple complaints of churches violating the order. >> i work at a store and we're allowed 105 people in our store. for the city to say with can only allow 12 people in, it is insulting and mocking. >> the san francisco city attorney's office tells kpth religion. similar letters have gone out tonight clubs and other venues and sent us this statement, "large gatherings of people indoors for a long period and reportings of people without face coverings and singing place place clergy and workers under a heightened risk. >>> police say the 23-year-old man in hong kong violated the law at a protest. he's ac

in portsmouth, attend'sees wille provided with masks and encouraged to wear them. gayle?k you, paula. we can't stress that enough. wear the mask. >>> we're joined by former cdc director tom frieden. he's the president and ceo of resolve to save lives which works to prevent epidemics. good morning to you, dr. frieden. i want to start with president trump's remarks that 99% of the cases are harmless. that's hard to take today especially following the death of nick cordero who is 41, walked into the emergency room. they were thinking it was pneumonia. he did not make it out. what did you think when you heard that? >> thanks for asking. thanks for covering this. part of the challenge here is that we have lost the nuance. some people are saying this is a hoax. it's fake. it's not serious. other people may be saying it's the worst thing in the world. it's a zombie apocalypse. it's neither. this is a terrible pandemic. it has killed 130,000 americans. it has sickened many, many more. and we don't yet know what the long-term complications of some of that illness is. but it is tru

we know trump campaign is now announcing the president's next rally would be on saturday in portsmouth new hampshire. very significant and a recent poll showing president trump trailing to joe biden. biden finished in fifth five states. the rally will be outdoors after the official so there will be ample hand sanitizer and they are encouraging people to wear face masks. ronna mcdaniel, what did you learn after the tulsa rally? >> i think the whole country is recognizing that we can continue to gather but do it in a safe way. the trump campaign is going to lead the way by having masks, by having son having sensitization, but making sure that it's outdoors. we are going to put people in a safe position but also show that we can gather and support the president and continue to campaign in the times of covid. >> bill: at the mass recommendation is an about face. how did the campaign arrive at that decision? >> there were mass available and i think people are making more informed decisions and they are going to wear the masks and they are being strongly encouraged to do so by the campaign.

the event will be held at an airplane hanger at the portsmouth international airport. campaign says facemasks are strongly encouraged and everyone will be given one. some of the crowd will be inside the hanger though. you'll remember following a poorly attended trump rally in tulsa last month, multiple staffers and secret service agents tested positive for the virus. >>> president trump kept trying to downplay the coronavirus at his fourth of july celebration. >> now we have tested almost 40 million people. by so doing we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless. >> how exactly he arrived at that figure of 99%, unclear. this virus is surging. this is not harmless. >> fatality rate no doubt is in flux. there's a lot we don't know. what we do know is even if the virus is harmless to some, asymptomatic spreads means you could be harming others without knowing it. the president's own health experts don't back him up on these facts but at times they won't give a straight answer leaving americans searching for concrete guidance. cnn's jeremy diamond is at the white hous

his campaign announcing the outdoor event in portsmouth on saturday. the campaign will provide face masks and strongly encourage people to wear them. this is the president's second rally as the president's pandemic began. his first rally was of course last month inside an arena in tulsa. and those are your headlines, guys. steve: makes sense outside. carley, thank you very much. ainsley: thanks, carley. steve: two children shot and killed this weekend in chicago. what is happening in the second city. can it be stopped? we will talk to a local pastor there who has made it his life's mission to end the violence. he joins us live next. from prom dresses... ...to soccer practices... ...and new adventures. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. let's help protect them together. because missing menb vaccination could mean missing out on a whole lot more. ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination. ask your

inside this warehouse just outside portsmouth, the council have been stockpiling gloves and masks, shoulde prospect of a second wave is difficult after months inside. 0rla brady has a rare blood cancer and has been at home since march with her nine—year—old daughter, megan. i'm increasingly thinking that an autumn—winter lockdown might well be on the cards. and that's quite a daunting prospect. i actually can't see in my mind a way to being out and about and back to normal for myself before that happens. the focus of the covid—i9 response is shifting. the government have said they don't want blanket national measures again. instead, they are banking on councils preventing outbreaks locally and, when they do happen, containing them there. larissa kennelly, bbc news, in hampshire. british charities have launched a new appeal to raise funds to fight coronavirus in refugee camps and poor communities in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. the government has pledged to match the first £5 million in donations made by the public to the disasters emergency committee. donations will be s

with me is the police commissioner in portsmouth, with oversight over the police department. you for being here. i definitely took notice when you called the rally that is set for tomorrow as biological warfare. what is your biggest concern with the president holding a rally in your city tomorrow? >> well, good morning, kate. thank you so much for having me and for sharing our concerns. no. the fact of the matter is, new hampshire is one of only three states in the country right now that's seeing a decline in covid-19 cases. we've worked very hard over the last five months doing everything we can, staying at home, wearing masks, washing hands and now to have a super spreader event like this rally, which projections are, are likely to attract 80% of people from out of new hampshire here, where we know what happened in tulsa, cases are in oklahoma. >> the good job that new hampshire is doing, the decline in cases that new hampshire is experiencing is something gnat trump campaign says is why they chose new hampshire in part at least. that also because the state's guidelines as

recovery park section to include also the projects shown here, so that the additional $54 million for portsmouth square, priorities, jackson playground for $10 million, south sunset for $3 million and richmond senior park for $1 million as those are descriptions for the additional priority parks in the parks program. >> supervisor fewer: that's great. >> and then there was no change to the streets and right-of-way piece. >> supervisor fewer: okay. that's great. >> thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, ms. green. so we heard the daily report last time. so b.l.a., is there anything new you want to share? >> good morning, chair. we did update our report to look at the impact on the larger bond issuance and based on $487 million issuance, average estimate debt service would be $39.5 million per year. the impact on a property owner, the property tax rate for property assessed at $600,000 would be $83 per year. this still falls within the debt limit and tax rate policy. we consider approval to be a policy matter. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, any comments or ques

encourage haters of the president to secure tickets but not show up for his rally this saturday in portsmouthw hampshire. facebook blue revolution, told members to reserve spots for the rally. a twitter user quote, if you have two minutes a day to troll the president and reserve two tickets, and laugh knowing two seats are not filled. end quote. that is the level of the opposition, the so-called resistance. one wrote, quote, i just got my tickets too. so sad i won't be able to go either. debt you get yours yet? mindless of it all. the ignorance ever it all, all on the left. president trump today at the white house says he will put pressure on governors around this country to make sure their students return to school in the fall. >> we hope that most schools are going to be open. we don't want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons. they think it will be good for them politically. so they keep schools closed. no way. we're very much putting pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get them open and it is very important. it is very important f

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town unfortunately cancelled its fire works display as did manchester, new hampshire and nearby portsmouthare key trends that health experts will watch closely this holiday weekend. across and south and west the climb in new cases. the northeast, struggled early on is now keeping their case curve heading in the right direction while the south and west represented here in pink and yellow respectively trend to new highs. >> states across those regions are also reporting an increase in hospitalizations. and in the percent of tests that come back positive, arizona illustrates this rise really clearly as you can see a steady climb in people hospitalized there. the percentage of new tests that are coming back positive in arizona is hovering between 25 and 30% in recent days. now those data points contribute to a national picture that ranks the u.s. response as one of the worst in the world. compare the situation in the u.s. with our neighbors to the north, canada's seven day moving average of new cases lining up nearly perfectly with the bottom of this chart compared to the u.s. and compared to

this president was scheduled to be in portsmouth, new hampshire, tomorrow night for an outdoor rally. called off today. reason given was tropical storm fay, which will be long gone. the forecast for tomorrow night is cloudy skies. what else do you think might be at work here? >> yeah. well, you know, the folly, i think, was in scheduling another one of these rallies at a time people continue to be so concerned about getting together with lots of other people in a situation where you know a lot of them won't have masks. you'll all be jammed together. just exactly the kind of thing that we believe has led in tulsa to a spike in cases two weeks after the rally the president had there. i think the white house breathed a sigh of relief when they found an excuse to use with fay to cancel this rally. and the question now is does the convention, the republican convention, go forward? does the big event the president wants now move to jacksonville for him to accept his nomination, the republican nomination for president again? does that go forward because i hear from republicans who are workin

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and this next one will be in portsmouth, new hampshire.s is not a state he necessarily needs to win in the next presidential race. rally goers will be asked to sign a legal document promising not to sue the campaign if they get coronavirus and the rally will be held outdoors. this comes as two more people close to the president have been diagnosed. the president's son's girlfriend have tested positive. kaine has been hospitalized. the u.s. has the most reported cases and the highest death toll in the world. he says there's not enough talk about the good jobs numbers last thursday and, indeed, that is inspiring the markets. we're going to talk about it again in our business segment coming up in a bit. the supreme court still has a number of cases that it has not decided, could release decisions soon. one involving so-called faceless electors who vote their conscience instead of what voters in their home state actually voted. another case involving mr. trump's financial records and whether a prosecutor in new york state can look into the tru

trump, as you may know, plans to holds he next rally on saturday in portsmouth, new hampshire. it's a lot to let to get to. let's get with jonathan lemire, mara gay, and former bureau chief at "the wall street journal," these days a member of "the new york times" board vice chair of medicine at northwestern university. doctor, i'd like to begin with you because this topic of reopening schools is red hot right now. new york at the bottom of the curve, a city that really locked down and really did flatten its curve, is going to go very easy and part-time at best at first. what's your view of what the standards should be and what the danger is right now? >> absolutely. thank you for asking me to comment on that topic. we have been thinking a lot about that here in our city as well which has a community burden at a controllable level. as states and cities consider what to do with their schools, i think new york is taking an approach that alliance with recommendations coming from scientists at the cdc. we need to not only have a relatively low baseline level of disease in the commun

schedule, we did find another addition, that would be the trump-pence campaign rally scheduled for portsmouth, new hampshire, on saturday. this is a rally that will be outdoors in new hampshire, around 8:00 p.m., also a press release went out indicating that there will be an ample supply of hand sanitizer, masks will also be provided to individuals who want to go to that rally, and they are also being provided with that obligatory limitation on liability document they have to sign in order to attend. so we know that is going on as well. it's interesting, of course, because this will be the first campaign rally for the president of the united states since that controversial rally in tulsa, oklahoma, not very long ago, in which two individuals who work for the campaign and eight secret service agents tested positive for coronavirus. erica, back to you. >> joe with the latest for us at the white house, thank you. >>> we turn to the fda commissioner who refused to deny a false claim made by the president. here is what the president falsely said and the commissioner's response, when he was asked a

the president's election rally in portsmouth. >> announcer: new hampshire was set to take place overalso motivated the last-minute decision to cancel this rally. new hampshire's governor said he would skip the event because of the coronavirus. one adviser to the trump camp told nbc news the weather was a, quote, convenient excuse to scrap the event. and as t"the new york times" is putting it. it was the third time in less than a month that the president's re-election campaign failed to relaunch as planned. in the lead-up to november, the biden camp could be seeing daylight in states that go completely red. so "the new york times" reporting that officials believe there is very real -- there is a very real possibility that joe biden can win in historically republican states like georgia and texas. as we know, coronavirus cases are surging in those states. they also argue the upcoming election can install a new group of democratic lawmakers that can help redraw legislative maps following this year's census, however, biden's camp is more traditionally set on stages. michigan, wisconsin,

he is planning this one in portsmouth,shire is not exactlye he desperately needs to win in the upcomingction. rally goers will be asked to sign a legal document promising not to sue the campaign if they get coronavirus. the rally will be held outdoors. two more people close to the president have been diagnosed. herman kaine on the right, kimberly guilfoyle, both tested positive. kaine has been hospitalized. parts of the united states, as you know, are just seeing the virus run out of control particularly miami and houston. the president is tweeting about this, tweeting that the american death toll is slow and steady. he also says there's not enough talk about the good jobs numbers last thursday and that is inspiring the market. the nasdaq hit an all-time high. we brought you the jobs numbers a few minutes after they were released. the supreme court has a number of cases it still has not announced decisions on one involving so-called faceless electors. and the case involving mr. trump's financial records and whether a prosecutor should be april loud allowed to subpoena them while he is p

the president has another event set for portsmouth, new hampshire.his is the headline in usa today, "doctors warn of risks that trump's new hampshire rally. the news press he will hold a rally saturday raised concerns among experts about what his visit will due to the relatively low covid-19 numbers in the area. residentsununu urged to wear masks and practice social distancing at the outdoor rally." on the president, his niece mary trump, her book is coming out. we have a copy here. trump, the nice of donald trump, "too much and never enough: how my family created the world's most dangerous man." because of legal issues involved in the publication of the book, she is not yet able to speak with us or others in interviews about the book. we expect that when that -- when she is available, we will have --erage on "book tv pico book tv." 2.ry weekend on c-span providence, rhode island. michael, good morning. providence, you are on the air. caller: first i would like to clear something up. people who are pro-abortion are leftists that literally have sex on