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3.34pm BST
Republican senator Tim Scott is on ABC’s This Week. He is first asked about the resignation of Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the southern district of New York who has overseen investigations and prosecutions of key Trump allies. Berman resigned after the US attorney general said he would be fired by the president. Scott is asked if he has any concerns about the removal of “somebody who was overseeing an investigation into the president’s personal lawyer”.
Scott denies there is anything nefarious about Berman’s departure. “I think President Trump actually hired Mr Berman and he fired Mr Berman,” says Scott. “Everyone at the DOJ works at the pleasure of the president, number one. Number two, there’s no indication whatever that whatever is being investigated will not continue to move on.”
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3.16pm BST
Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa last night was far from the full house he had predicted, but the fact that thousands of people – many without masks – gathered together at an indoor event has prompted concern among health professionals about the spread of Covid-19.
Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and associate professor of emergency medicine at Brown University, told CNN that attendees could spread the virus back to their home states. Continue reading...