kennedy -- trump will have a whole library of what trump tick. having worked closely with and what makes them tick is he wants to win. how about winning? he some new york real estate world where you either make money that you or your flaws. he's also in the tv world. he created the whole sean of reality television. you either had good ratings are bad grades. washington, everyone claims they all went. very few people out there for him was all about winning, how you get there or i get the good ratings come how you make the money when you sell the building. doesn't matter. it's getting to where you can win. i think trump looks at negotiating positions, trash talking opponents, looks at those as think have to do to get to the point where you win. >> i a tactic. >> is a tactic. every time he proposes a negotiation with somebody, let's say on tariffs with the chinese, the media goes nuts, the political establishment goes nuts, that's just absurd. trump probably thinks it's absurd but that's his opening bid. that's that what he expects to settle. to cer

trump. it's as if president trump, he could do no wrong. but for donald trump he can do no right. what's your sense of what's driving this in the mainstream media that you are part of? >> first of all there's a bias against republicans in general. with reagan he is portrayed as stupid or dangerous, the same thing with trump, he's stupid and dangerous according to the media. they feel if they did there would be ostracized by the colleagues. for example, from for people wn the white house correspondents, cobol, among themselves they laugh at him, they mock him. that is the overriding theme. many people just inherently can't think independently. that's one reason i left college after two years like a few of the people, michael dell and gates. i did want to be told how to think. i did want to be told what to write. i wanted to get firsthand what actually happened and that's the way i've operated. i don't have blinders on. i like to penetrate secrets and that's what i've done in this book with al

trump: great job. you have the governor and everybody else has done. >> he tells me your approach is the right approach. you are working with the governors across the country and empowering them to open up as soon as they can. based on the conditions in their state. every state is different. that is why the approach is so important and you have provided evolving support, along with us in congress with the cares act, as well. you see that in north dakota, colorado, and across the country. it is important you are doing it the way you are doing it with these great governors. the other thing i want to mention is for our partners. i work a lot in ag. for our farmers and ranchers you , have been there for them, hanging with them. you are doing a whale of a job. and our energy industry. pres. trump: and we are sending them billions of dollars of money that we took in from the country that targeted them. we give them $16 billion last year. the year before we gave them $12 billion. no other president would have

trump: great job.hat do you have to say about the state and the job the governor and everybody else has done? i know it well. >> listening to the two governors, i was governor a long time, your approach is the right approach. we are working with governors across the country and empowering them to open up as soona they can safely based on the conditions in their state and every state is different. that is why the approach is so important and you providing all that support, along with congress and the cares act, as well. you see that, now, with north dakota, with colorado, and across the country, so that is why it is so important you are doing it in a way you are doing it with these great governors we have across the state. thank you for that. the other thing, for farmers, i work with hay, for farmers and ranchers, you have been there for them and hang in there with them, they are doing a whale of a job. they are so important, and the energy industry, too. >> pres. trump: we are sending them millions of

i mean, not to president trump.ew there was a problem -- lou: you call it a coronavirus. the president called it the that virus. -- china virus. he called it the wuhan virus. and even the chinese called it the wuhan virus, but we just heard you say coronavirus -- [laughter] and we haven't heard the president use the expression china virus. whether it's ebola, whether it's -- you name the virus, they're nearly all named for places. but suddenly it's politically un-- incorrect to call this wuhan virus. i am tired, i am tired of thought control in the form of correct language. this is what it is, and americans have been plain spoken, no one more plain spoken that this president. it disturbs me to see any retreat from that vivid and straightforward expression on the part of the white house. >> well, you know, i think that you've got a point in the sense of what are we calling it because words do matter. but when i look at what president trump is doing, i think that the deeds that he's doing are really significant. you k

trump: i don't know. now you are talking about human rights abuses. -- he'sh-quality prison a high-quality person, mike. now, i have you telling me about dog walking, washing dishes and you know what? i would rather have him on the phone with some world leader than have him wash dishes because maybe his wife is there, his kids are there. what are you telling me? you know how stupid that sounds to the world? unbelievable. ok. >> did you see president obama's's speeches? pres. trump: i think president obama was one of the worst presidents in the history of our country. i know what he left us, a broken military, and military that isis was all over the place and i got rid of it. i not out 100% of the caliphate -- i knocked out 100% of the caliphate. we had a broken military, depleted military. we had little on the shelves when you talk about pandemics. we had a country that was in us. we were paying -- that was a mess. we were paying high taxes. i'm going to build the country into stronger and better than it

fauci won't have donald trump lurking over him. let it rip, tell us the truth, that's your obligation as administration official and an american. >> what are you hoping to be able to do in the united states senate. quote something donald trump said about democrats, said the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes would like to wait until november 3rd if it were up to them. don't play politics. just said it in tweet and version in the briefing today. >> this is the donald trump who said we have to wait a while, don't have to rush. this is leader mcconnell who doesn't see purpose of immediate action when we have food -- lines for food that go miles and miles, when we have people not even able to be with their loved ones dying of this disease, when we don't have the kind of basic necessities that so many people still need and ppe and other things to protect themselves. and donald trump is now saying democrats are going slow? mr. president, we forced you to do a large bill in covid three that you didn't want

trump: who are you with?eporter: my question for you is this -- because of the ventilators being made here by , we now have enough manufacturing going on. do we have enough to share with other countries? looking six months from now or a year, how much more do we need to do this? pres. trump: we have a very big stockpile right now and we are hoping to get bigger and also help other countries. we just sent 1000 two nigeria. we have various countries including france and spain. andave a lot going to italy to probably 15 or 18 countries. they are calling us and we had the capacity to do this. no one else did. every state has all they need and our stockpile is full so now we are helping other countries. they are losing a lot of people because they do not have ventilators. a ventilator is hard to do. ford and general electric have workingreat job together. and there are countries working with you and they have done a great job. they do a great car and they really have done a great job on the ventilators. and i have

trump: that is fantastic. gov. burgum: we were able to then drive through that and focus on the virus. less to worry about opening up because we never really closed down. that other 7%, those businesses open to on may 1. those operating procedures. pres. trump: prices are going up a little bit for oil. funny six dollars, $27 per barrel. pretty soon, you will be up to the number that you have to be at. that makes a big difference. gov. burgum: absolutely. what we do in north dakota is we power the world, we feed the world. number two producer of steak in the nation. a lot was related to the demand destruction associated with the oil price drop. pres. trump: great job. you have the governor and everybody else has done. he tells me your approach is the right approach. you are working with the governors across the country and empowering them to open up as soon as they can. theiron the conditions in state. every state is different. that is why the approach is so important and you have provided evolving support, along wi

here it is, trump and churchill. what did president trump and churchill have in common cracks they have a lot in common. at first blush you would not think that to be the case one was 5-foot six and loves to drink the other 6-foot 3 inches teetotaler one famously in his pajamas every afternoon the other barely sleeps. and then to introduce tariffs and this compelling orator the other crude but very effective tweeter nonetheless. so on the surface so as i dig deeper with the western one - - you find that the man had remarkable similarities. and those alpha males both have a relationship with the media, endured massive battles at the establishment and that neville chamberlain and donald trump have barack obama between the times and the men and that's why write the book. >>host: when we look back at winston churchill history we often picture him with unanimous support. >> it certainly wasn't that way. winston churchill was a disruptor. and decided to do things a different way. and those that have been in the fold for a

is 35 minutes. >> good evening everybody welcomed the team trump online i am laura trump senior advisor to president trump's reelection campaign. tonight senator lindsey graham, chairman of the senate judiciary committee is with us and we are so excited for it senator graham thank you for being with this. >> thank you you do an awesome job this is the child for trip. >> thank you so much. in recent weeks we have learned really interesting information. we learned that the obama/biden administration welcomed a check and weaponize intelligent community to take down the upcoming trump administration they name specific individuals targeted incoming national security adviser, michael flynn and fbi agents even discuss the potential to force a general flynn to light during interrogations. this is an unprecedented and corrupt abuse of power anyway you look at it. and the obama/biden administration has been caught red-handed. senator graham, you have been working very hard from the trump administration to get to the bottom of this unprecedented abuse of power. joe biden's name actually appeared o

donald trump loves junk food. winston churchill similarly obtuse way ate like much of us do on occasion and drank too much, got gallup. i think they are things that we look at as human and say i kind of like that guy doesn't do the things that i do produce normal. >> host: nick adams you also mentioned that the times were similar. >> guest: the book certainly right now with what we are going through with the invisible enemy to turn a phrase that president trump elected to use to put on the coronavirus. again we saw new york mayor bill de blasio come out recently and accused the president of peddling false optimism with respect to the coronavirus. a lot of that is similar. churchill was on the outside and donald trump is clearly on the inside. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: churchill of course was fighting the axis powers and becoming tyranny that would take away her foreign enemy and in many ways donald trump is a cultural fighter in a cultural war of a battle for values. he of course does have some forei

trump is hearing that stuff, too. beat and even from the fringes there's death toll denialism going on. trump is not being an optimist, he's been a fantasyist. how should journalists navigate the terrain? let's ask garrett graff contributing editor for wire and cnn. he authored a new post entitled the storm we can't see. what should journalists be doing to navigate this tug of war? >> the most important thing is to focus on the facts and the data. the data is that this is a problem far larger than we currently wrapped our arms around. this is not the financial crash of 2008. this is not the great crash of '87. we're very much in a situation where when you look at the data, if we are lucky, we might escape only with a great depression. we're talking trillions of dollars of government work ahead. we're just not talking at that scale yet. >> it's not just president trump. this involves congressional leaders who are sitting around unwilling to support the tens of millions of unemployed americans, people who are struggling

the one he gave in poland from trump. that was well received by the media one of the only times in his presidency with that has happened where i thought he started rather movingly and eloquently on freedom and values and that seems to be when he's really at his pinnacle speaking about those things and with those churchill speeches to fight on the beaches. and just listening to that to have all of churchill's speeches and obama did also. and i used to listen to that all the time. and the effect of those words i can only imagine what that would have been like hearing in those days. >> so what is your organization called? >> i'm in the dallas-fort worth area in texas decided where i aid decided to hang my boots and it's in the middle of the country and considering i spent that much time here than that was important to be close to wherever i have to be my organization is the foundation for liberty and american greatness when we last spoke in january 2017, it was just growing and beginning. i'm pleased to say it has really gro

trump: i just think of sleepy.ust watch him, he is sleepy. sleepy joe. >> sean: hunter, hunter biden. >> president trump: where is hunter? he made millions of dollars -- he went from having no job, no income, he had nothing. as you know, he had a very sad experience in the military. he has nothing. to making millions and millions of dollars a year, not just from ukraine, from china and from other countries. how can you do this? this is crooked as hell. what they did is very dishonest. >> sean: bernie sanders. >> president trump: well, i think he is a communist. look, i think of communism when you think of bernie. you could say socialist, but -- didn't he get married in moscow? >> sean: honeymooning -- >> president trump: well, whatever. but you don't necessarily think in terms of marriage, moscow, and it's wonderful. i'm not knocking it, but i think of bernie sort of as a socialist, but far beyond a socialist -- >> sean: elizabeth warren -- >> president trump: at least he is true to one thing. you mention elizabeth

they had of standards has tweeted that trump and his team are actual nazis, called candidate trump aacist tangerine, and donated to hillary clinton. the president with nearly 80 million twitter followers is a lightning rod. twitter hasn't challenged joe biden. twitter hasn't wanted to spend money on fact-checking announced paying the price. if it continues to warn about presidential tweets but not those of his opponent, it will feel better charges of bias and not just from president trump. bret. >> bret: howie, thank you. you can see more of dana perino's interview with facebook ceo mark zuckerberg tomorrow on "the daily briefing" at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. in tonight's democracy 2020 report, presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden then a tough position of possibly standing to lose ground if the economy improves. there's also question whether biden will actually go out on the campaign trail or even attend his own nominating convention. correspondent peter doocy takes a look. >> if democrats don't host their convention in person in milwaukee, it might feel more like holl

trump: thank you. mr. ross: it is truly an honor to be here. pres. trump: thank you, ben. mr. ross: it is because of jeff plotner's guiding hand, the passion of the entire brackish team, and the leadership of this country that we are being recognized here today. i am humbled to be in this garden today with such an amazing group of individuals making such a difference during these unprecedented times. congratulations to you all, and thanks so much for all y'all are doing. i have no doubt that the united states of america will soar above this, and come out stronger and more grateful for family, friends, community, and this nation. because we all know we're all in this together, and only together will we be able to curb coronavirus. thank you. pres. trump: thank you. great job. thank you very much. mr. ross: thank you, sir. pres. trump: fantastic. and i like that tie very much, by the way. today we also honor sergeant spencer garrett, an officer with the new york pd that's new york's finest, that's for su

donald trump u.s. president. say it's another attempt to censor a conservative voice with an election just 6 months away media companies speech. this is a. welcome to the program and it's. donald trump is often called the tweeter in chief twitter is the us president's main social media platform it's where he announces policies to more than 80000000 followers and ways attacked opponents and spread misinformation twitter is now in the president's firing line it's placed a fact check warning on 2 trump tweets that falsely claimed postal ballots would lead to voter fraud the president accused twitter in a tweet of stifling free speech and silencing conservative voices the white house says trump is preparing to sign an executive order to review a law that protects social media under section $230.00 of the u.s. communications decency act online platforms are largely exempted from liability for content created by their users they have the freedom to remove content without facing lawsuits critics of the law say it aloud

is, donald trump cares about donald trump.g as the american people are at risk it will go away, let's play politics, let's reopen the economy even if they're at risk but don't get it near me now it's freakout time. it shows the kind of self-indulgent person he really is and that's dangerous when you're head of state. >> it pulls back the curtain on another big lie, he's not afraid of coronavirus, he lava level red that his staff isn't protecting him from a potentially deadly pandemic, he doesn't want to do the things frto keep us from getting it. >> practicing saftd, maybe going a little bit above and beyond just to be safe and secure yet there's been this recent spate about masks in the white house briefing room, kellyanne conway telling reporters they need to be respectful wearing masks. it looks to me pretty much all reporters are wearing the masks. i don't understand the resistance to doing a very simple measure that would protect the president, protect everyone around him and ensure his own safety but it's just too much f

er trump era. . . . .congressional committees that would love to catch government service during that period they have subpoenas they can send fbi agents they can wiretap governors service if they want, there are laws, federal civil service and engaging in activities. every federal civil servant takes an oath of office. i spoke to many of them and they admitted some of them they have colleagues who aren't that great. but, joan dempsey was one of the characters in the book who had a career, one a few women in the community and she rose to the number three position in the cia. one of the top intelligent officials of her generation. she saw most of her colleagues as a do-gooders, very cautious and rule abiding. people who like to work for government. that is her view. again many people are very cynical about government workers. >> just setting trumps rhetoric aside, is there any evidence the last four years have seen more activity by these supposedly neutral parties to undermine the policies of the trump admi

he sees himself as a future trump. he wants to stake out acclaim obama-gate.adopting this conspiracy theory that obama gave to trump -- >> so mr. wilson, by conspiracy, we have a viewer who asked thise question. don't a adyou believe the obama: administration did not over do their authority? >> i cannot say. i do not have access to all the classified information, but i will sayor p this. if you have a flag that a senior person is going tooff become the national security adviser or is the adviser is engaging in off booksls conversation for 44 nationals, many of them -- inare known to be involved in ti form of tuckr intelligence, tht should to purthat is their responsibil, their due diligence, they need tove a pursue things like that. i don't have access to all the information, but i will say this. theti trumponhave administratiof young i want to talk about a overstepping bounds, right now you've got bill barr, essentially engaging in an p extrajudicial process to rewrite a political narrative for donald trump t and to f

what president trump president trump in winston churchill head in common. and then they detail the experience as the first latina during the obama administration. harvard law professor. the arab spring was not the failure. find a full schedule for this kent. or on the program guide. joining us today on book tv is author nick adams. trump and churchill. defenders of western civilization. what do are they having common. donald trump and winston churchill had a lot in common. now on first watch you would not think that to be the case. one was five foot six and leapt to drink. the other is the 6-foot three toddler. one left in his pajamas every afternoon. the other would appear that they began their career by the tariffs. the other by opposing them. one was that bright soaring author. with the western civilization. you find the men had remarkable similarities. with the relationship with the media. with their own political party. both had predecessors. so there are actually incredible parallels. with unanimous support it's a disruptor. they decided to do things

president trump: right. governor lewis: and -- president trump: that's beautiful territory, isn't it? governor lewis: it is. it is. thank you. thank you, president. president trump: but it's -- how are you -- how are you doing, in terms of the amount? what are your numbers now? as of today, what are your numbers? governor lewis: our numbers: we're -- we've tested over 1,000. we've had about -- just over 1,100 tests. we've had one fatality. we have 44 positive tests. our tribal community is around 23,000 members. so, we are keeping ahead of the curve. but, i know testing is a big issue. and also thank you for working with your administration on getting one of the abbott analyzers as well. president trump: right. governor lewis: we were one of the first tribes to get one as well. and then also, working with governor ducey, getting five ventilators as well. president trump: that's right. governor lewis: we run our own healthcare, independent of the indian health service -- gila river health care. president trum

yeah president trump is leading on this effort to. quote clamp down on the violence that and the rioting and the the looting and the burning down of cities especially in minneapolis minnesota the president's tweet was a tweet of fact he was not at citing violence he was not encouraging violence he's been doing just the opposite and always has and so when he said that when the looting starts to shooting starts it with a statement of fact because what we see and what we have seen since the tweet before the tweet after the tweet is that there have been looting and there has been shooting the president wants calm he wants peace he wants order but he's also stated that he has spoken to the family they had a call he said that he understands the sentiments and the pain that these people are feeling because he too like i was and am troubled by what he saw our on the video we have seen leadership in president trump and we've seen leadership in the in the actions of the truck administration immediately sitting the department of justice immediat

facebook is helping trump do it right now. they don't need trump. theory of the case is brad is the conduit. he's paying laura lee trump ever month, paying kimberly gilfoye every month. who knows how people are on -- of donald trump. laura is a daunt. her former wedding planner got a job in the administration, and it's being reported -- they put her in part of hud, secretly paying $100,000 to his sons' significant others. stewart steven to mitt romney's campaign was blunt -- that's why parscale has the job. he's a money launderer, not a campaign manager. curt, it used to be the newsletters. they were these really lucrative things on the right that you could feed conspiracy theories in them, you know, the president obama was born in kenya thing was in those newsletters. you could sell those to people and make a lot of money. now it feels like it's more over, doing it on tv, doing tv shows where you do the same conspiracy theories. it seems to work on the audience. can you get inside for us why this works so well on so many people? >> well, when you l

adams president trump mr. georgia where they have in common customer so it's great to be with you listen donald trump and winston churchill of a lot in common. when you look at both the men you would not think that to be the case. one was 5-foot six and love to drink, the other is a six-foot teat total are one famously in his pajamas on most every afternoon the other it would appear barely sleeps. one began their career by introducing tariffs the other by opposing them. one was this great soaring compelling orator, the other a rather crude but very effective tweeter it nonetheless. so on the surfaces they seem to be profoundly different. but peter, soon as you start to drill a little deeper like in my book, trump and churchill : defenders of western civilization find the men and remarkable similarities. both intensely disliked, even hated. both loved their country, both plain speakers and clear thinkers. both alpha males both had an acrimonious relationship with the media. both endured massive battles with the

also today, donald trump said that dr.hony fauci will never be allowed to testify to the house of representatives because it's controlled by democrats but will be allowed to testify to the senate once because it's controlled by republicans. president trump didn't kill his coronavirus task force today, he killed it the day he said this -- >> and when i see the disinfectant which knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number. it will be interesting to check that. for that, you'll have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me. but the whole concept of the way the light kills it in one minute is pretty powerful. deborah, have you ever heard of the heat and the light relative to certain viruses, yes, but relative to this virus? >> not as a treatment. certainly fever is a good thing, when you have a fever, it helps your body respond. but not as -- i've not seen -

donald trump and winston churchill have a lot in common. at first brush when you look at you would not think that to be the case could one was 5'6" and loves to drink, the other is a 63 teetotaler and one famously napped in his pajamas almost every afternoon and the other would appear barely sleeps. one began their career by each reducing tariffs and the other by opposing them. one was this great soaring compelling orator and the other a rather crude but very effective tweet writer. on the service they prefer to be different but as soon as you start to drill deeper as i did in my book "trump and churchill" you find that the men had remarkable similarities, both intensely disliked and even hated [inaudible] but both love the country and playing speakers and clear thinkers. both alpha males, both haddon acrimonious relationship with the media and both were in massive battles with the establishment in their own political party. both had pre- disasters that were considered very weak. of course, winston churchill had neville chamberlain and dona

that was president trump on friday. that wasn't president trump in february.

with a widow eer begging twitte to remove trump's baseless accusations, trump defended his weeks-long accusations. this is the widower, my wife deserves better. today, he joins the ranks of families who no longer better to ask whether trump cares about their family. the widow of johnson who described an upsetting phone call with trump after the death of her husband. congressman deborah dingell who trump suggested that her husband must be looking up from hell. the mccain family who have endured trump's public attacks long after the senator was laid to rest. those families no longer expect warm words or thoughts or prayers or even civility from a president who routinely puts his own politics over their pain and more and more the country doesn't expect much more, either. today, trump devoted more space to the conspiracy theory hau haunting a grieving family than the coronavirus death toll. his only reference to lives lost was a complaint about his coverage in the media, basically saying, 100,000 dead and count is good enough but things would have been much worse if not for him. after a w

donald trump and winston churchill have a lot in common. at first blush when you look at both men you wouldn't think that to be the case. one was five foot six and love drink to the other is a six foot three teetotalers. one famously napped in his pajamas almost everyafternoon . the other would appear to barely sleep. one began their career by introducing tariffs, one by opposing them. one was a compelling orator, rather other a crude but effective tweeternonetheless . so on the surface casing to be profoundly different but peter, as soon as you start to drill a little deeper as i did in my book trump and churchill, you find that the men had remarkable similarities. both in intensely disliked, even hated. both love their country. both plain speakers and clear thinkers. both alpha males. both had an acrimonious relationship with the media. both endured massive battles with the establishment in their own political parties. both had predecessors that were considered very weak. course winston churchill had neville chamberlain and donald trump h

donald trump loves junk food. winston churchill similarly obviously ate too much like all of us do on occasion, drank too much, i think these are all things that we kind of look at as humans and say, i kind of don't mind that guy, does a few of the things i do. he's pretty normal. >> host: you also mention that the times were similar. >> guest: yeah, they were. look, certainly right now with what we're going through with the invisible enemy, rather churchillian turn to face the president trump elected to use to badger this coronavirus with. our wartime warlike circumstances i think right now. and again we saw new york mayor bill de blasio, recently and accuse the president of handling false optimism with respect to the coronavirus. a lot of that is similar. churchill's fight was on the outside, and donald trump's fight is clearly on the inside. >> host: . churchill of course was fighting the axis powers. he was overcoming not security and that particular -- nazi tyranny, and in many ways donald trump's fight is a

that was president trump on friday. that wasn't president trump in february. donald trump was saying crazy things like that in february and march, that the virus was just going to disappear. but on friday, knowing everything that we all now know, donald trump actually said on friday this is going to go away without a vaccine. it's going to go away, and we're not going to see it again, hopefully after a period of time. that's a typical trump time frame of reference. a period of time. that is madness. donald trump said that after living through the deadliest month in america, in his lifetime. and we were all learning more and more and more about this every day during the month of april. we're all learning more about it still every day. today's hearing included four witnesses from the president's coronavirus task force. dr. fauci, dr. robert redfield, head of the cdc. fda commissioner dr. stephen hawn, and admiral brett giroir, also a physician. they all listened without objection. when our first guest senator chris murphy said this. >> dr. fauci, dr. redfield, y

president trump we know thrives in in-person rallies. he needs the energy from other people to be his fullest self. we see who he can be when he's standing up giving these daily coronavirus briefings, and that's not what voters want. they like the rally president more than they like the briefing president, but the question of course is what happens if president trump does this, starts holding in-person rallies. that's a huge liability not just for him on a personal level but especially on a political level. >> alexei, you make such an interesting point about the president's response shows up now in the top line of all of these polls. it sort of replays the economy as the issue on which people are judging him. i want to ask one more thing to this picture. i worked for politicians like sarah palin who, when her own words were turned against her by tina fey on "snl" it had a devastating impact. i wonder if you think the president's own words, saying, well, people could inject bleach, some of the other just ridiculous things that he's said i

trump: that is true. reporter: [indiscernible] what do you say to organizations that have not met the guidelines you have set? what do you say to the states that have not met the guidelines that are opening now? pres. trump: we have spoken to many of the governors. we give leeway to the governors. these are governors that have done a good job in all cases. i have some i do not think are doing a particularly good job, but for the most part they have. we give them leeway. looknor abbott, when you at the job he has done in texas, i rely on his judgment. you have vast parts of texas where there is no problem whatsoever, there is literally nothing. it would be ashamed shame to keep that closed. gov. abbott: half of our counties have no cases or five or fewer cases. pres. trump: the governors have great power as to that given by us. we want them to do that, we rely on them, trust them. hopefully they are making the right decisions. anorter: there is a video of unarmed black georgia man shot by police while on a

and trump fits right into that playbook.e, threaten to get an answer, punish if you don't get it. instead of heeding warns of those cdc experts in his own administration, we now know trump was angry. he threatened to fire her, shouting that the doctor's call scared people, and he was alarmed of her talk of school closings, which of course is one of many things that would actually prove to be necessary. a furious mr. trump threatened to oust dr. messonnier reported the "wall street journal." even as trump tried to disappear the facts and the science in his face, to finish its source, to cover it all up, it's worth recalling, many other people regardless of their part season politics were actually immediately able to do on that day what trump could not. they could hear a cdc expert presenting the facts. they could see the scientific significance of, that and they could respond to the implications immediately. on wall street, where of course republicans trade just like democrats, the markets heard that doctor. they began pricin

and less than two hours after that, donald trump of course took to twitter to defend golfing trump-style "exercise." while attacking joe biden and former president barack obama. stuart stephens who was mitt romney's 2012 top strategist in that presidential campaign wrote on twitter, "when you make political ads, half the fun is wondering if the other guy will be dumb enough to take the bait. trump never disappoints. that dog chases every car". a quinnipiac national poll shows joe biden leading donald trump by 11 points. joining us now, zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming at sirius xm radio and an msnbc analyst. author of the upcoming book, "the end of white politics: how to heal our liberal divide." back with us, jonathan alter and david frum. zerlina, the president spent the weekend in a golf cart after urging his followers to spend their sunday mornings shoulder-to-shoulder in church. donald trump didn't go anywhere near a church, of course, and this is apparently the way he's going to play it. he's going to social distance on golf courses while urging people to

trump: it's an artificial closure and now we're going to open it up. robert: but republicans and democrats in cgress and in the states are in a bitter standoff, with billions in aid on the line. >> we're all americans. we all got to get this right and remember that one another is not the enemy. the enemy is a virus. robert: next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- >> life isn't a straight line and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected with financial planning and advice for today and tomorrow. ♪ >> kaiser permanente. additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert:good evening. we start with sobering numbers. an update on the health of the

president trump . is forward thinking vision without the president obama, i'm going to negotiate better deal from president obama. and how exactly are you going to negotiate that predict what magic wand do you have. let magic wand was picking up the partnership. it was ripping up nesta relieves replacing it with u.s. mexico canada agreement . a great deal for our automakers and pot farms and is inning the predatory trade policies and negotiating a deal. that is what the president is done. yesterday, president trump went to allentown, fizzling out and visited a clear example of the domestic manufacturing at work . the administration took action and he restructured to secure a stockpile of medical slight entrance device . erase a plan restructure the strategic national stockpile yesterday. and he signed an executive order providing the authorities to ensure america is producing critical goods at necessary to build of our strategic stockpiles. the present trip was an example of what he has been saying all

trump: thank you very much. it is an honor to have governor kim reynolds, a spectacular governor, someone who has done very well in every respect. we are talking today about testing, about covid-19. together,ry closely and i thought you would introduce your great doctor and maybe you can give us a little talk in front of the media. you might actually get accurate coverage, which would be fantastic. thank you very much for being with us. i appreciate the opportunity to be here to personally say thank you to you and the vice president, your incredible team, the partnership through this pandemic has been incredible. not only the calls we have weekly, the coordination between the governors, personally getting on to ask, is there anything you need? testing has been one of the areas we are leading on. we know that is critical for us to start to reopen iowa. thatve an assessment iowans can take, that will help us identify what some of the hotspots or questions might be. increasedgnificantly our testing capacity. we hav

does trump represent? >> where are you in that pendulum? >> i don't want to go too far. i think it's really important for journalists to not -- i'm not going to sit here and say people should vote for and there's a lot of people bashing the president or saying the president is great and i'm sure people will say since i say i didn't find evidence of a deep state i'm therefore anti-trump but i'm just trying to present my honest effort in dozens of interviews over an 18 month period that again, every president has been frustrated with bureaucracies. yes it was a great television series but we have to be on the fbi and cia. they're very powerful. it's easier to survey all then ever but i think what i found is that the most proper way to do that is to have all three branches of government, all over the fbi and cia to have it all over them, to force more transparency. it'scumbersome, it's chaotic but rather than more secrecy and concentrating power that's what's led us to abuses in the past . i found what i foun

all of them appointed by president trump. all of them and they unanimously agree that we must have a $25 billion infusion of appropriation for the postal service that we must have some loans that are unrestraightedic terms of conditions. they ask for more we have in the bill and we'll save that for another piece of legislation but right now, what we're acting upon is the recommendation of the bipartisan trump appointed postal service and that is, as i had mentioned, over 1 billion people last year, more like 1.2 billion people -- not billion people, 1.2 billion packages of medicine have gone through the mail. 90% of the medicine needed by our veterans comes to them through the mail. so this is a health issue in addition to a convenience issue for the american people in terms of shelter in place and ordering whatever they order through the mail as a convenience to them. so this is one of our hills of rome that we will fight and win and it is about, again, that good health of the american people, both receiving their medicines

go. >> that is the trump campaign, the trump transition, trump surrogates and toipght walk you throughhis. the american people exhibit one, exhibit one. this is all public. head street two separate sources with links to the counterintelligence committee have confirmed that the fbi sought and granted a foreign intenls surveillance act court. this is fine. in october, encounter intelligence permission to exam the activity of, quote, u.s. persons in donald trump's campaign with ties to russia. let me go on. they say that first fisa request sources saysn name trump. was denied back in june denied by the court. but the second was drawn more narrowly and graduated in october after evidence was presented of a server possibly related it to the trump campaign and its allege links to two banks. now, sources suggest that a fisa warrant was graduated to look at the full content of e-mails and other related documents that may persons now i know people are hunged up with wiretapping but t access to this server information does it matter wiretapping, electronic surveillance or whatever it was. now re

trump. we appreciate it. pres. trump: that's true. i called him. had never smoked -- spoke to him. i got good support for death rate from the beginning. we have come through. support from the beginning. we have come through. they feed, feel, and sustain our nation. they are proud defenders of the american way of life. i stand by their side in this hour of need. the food chains are now back to almost working perfectly again. they had some interruptions which you knew about. we were able to take very bold action. you saw that. that action caused them to do what they had to do. they are in good shape. very shortly, they will be in perfect shape. people were worried about that. the action we took was very important. we did a good job. i would like to ask secretary perdue to say a few words followed by a vodka. -- ivanka. please. >> i remember very clearly, you called me a few weeks ago when you read about the effects of the pandemic. once again, you directed me to help our farmers. what will it take? i want you to use all available resources at your di

president trump: i hope he sues. general flynn is going to have a heck of a case but he's got a judge that i guess doesn't like him very much, but maybe the judge doesn't like me very much, okay? maybe the judge doesn't like me very much. i'll tell you what i've read legal scholars they can't even believe what the judge is doing to. maria: we've got a lot more to come. stay with us for more of my sit down with president trump also ahead live this morning senator john kennedy congressman doug collins and new york city mayor bill deblasio will react to the president as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures" stay with us. or credit card bills. discover all the ways we're helping members today. maria: welcome back breaking news this morning on a story that we have been following a professor at case western reserve university in cleveland has been arrested over his alleged financial ties to china. this just days after the fbi sounded the alarm on china's attempt to steal coronavirus research. a professor at the univers