the pandemic gets political. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. and this week, i want to know is the partisan fight over when and how to reopen helping president trump as you re-election? that's this week's survey question. go to my websit website @smerconish.com. cast your ballot. i'll give you the result later in the program. in 171 days, the nation will elect its next president. that contest will be largely be determined in the next three states where trump won by narrow margins in 2016.

wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. each is now the front line for an increasingly partisan battle on when and how to reopen. as noted by "the new york times," democratic governors in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania backed by public health experts have urged caution before reopening. republican legislatures in the state have pushed in opposite direction, citing economic necessity and personal freedom. on wednesday, a divided wisconsin supreme court voted 4-3, sided with republican lawmakers when it found democratic officer tony evers extension of stay-at-home order unconstitutional. this is the stapame court to postpone the primary. one day later in michigan, protests in front of the state capitol, for gretchen whitmer's stay-at-home order purged physical. few protesters wore masks or practiced social distancing protocol. some were armed.

many wielded homemade signs. president trump tweeted support for protesters. meanwhile in pennsylvania, president trump made a trip to a lehigh supply company among the lawmakers and government's pace of reopening. >> you have to get your governor in pennsylvania to start opening up a little bit. >> yesterday, folks gathered outside of harrisburg's state capital to protest. they had signs saying beware of the sheep in wolf's clothing. saying he doesn't understand why they remained shuttered while walmart and kohl's cashed in. the pandemic is obvious which side benefits. somewhere, james carville is saying it's the economy, stupid. a new cnn survey show s joe bidn

ahead of donald trump 52. but it's trump who leads biden by 7 percentage points 52% to 45%. trump's biggest criticism of biden, handling of the economy. most say they trust trump handling the economy while 42% say they prefer biden. there's a narrative taking hold here. that republicans favor a more immediate reopening to the economy even to the detriment of public health. while democrats seek to protect public health even to the detriment of economy. perhaps nothing will epitomize the differences more than the democrats this summer. democrats are scheduled to be in milwaukee beginning august 17th. republicans gather in charlotte north carolina, one week later. this week president trump said we'll have a convention, calling

himself a traditionalist. he also accused north carolina governor cooper of playing politics with reopening of the state. and saying, quote it would be bad for them if the state were to delay the start in charlotte. meanwhile, the democratic's party by laws group took the initiative to enable delegates to, quote, participate in person or by means that allow for appropriate social distancing. imagine the optics. if democrats meet virtually to nominate joe biden and followed by republicans in relatively close quarters nominating donald trump. that juxtaposition, in itself, would define immediate approaches to covid-19 and shape the elections under way. that is why i want you to go to my website and answer this week's survey question @smerconish.com. is the partisan fight over when

and how to reopen helping president trump's re-election? joining me now is democratic national committee chair tom perez. mr. secretary. welcome back. what's your reaction to my survey question. >> good to be with you. well, you know, michael, we always follow the science in the democratic party. and i think that's really important. i'm looking forward to having a convention in milwaukee in august. i'm looking forward to highlighting joe biden and his values and the values of the democratic party. but we're going to follow the science. and what we did this past week is to pass a resolution that gives our convention team the flexibility the follow what is going on at the time in milwaukee. we postponed our convention by five weeks so we could buy more time. i'm hopeful that we're going to be able to have some form of an in-person convention. we may not have everybody there. it's not an either/or. it's not you either have everyone or you have no one. we will -- we will follow the

science. we will listen to the public health professionals. we will respect the wishes of the people in milwaukee. and that's what we're going to continue to do. donald trump's damned the torpedo's approach. it's very real. that's the difference between democrats and republicans. we actually follow the science and i think it's really important. if we want to grow this economy, we have to fix the public health problem first. it's a false choice to suggest you either open the economy or you protect public health. you open the economy by protecting public health. >> you'd agree, though, that the former vice president can ill-afford to be perceived as overly cautious to the detriment of the economy? i mean, how else to explain the battleground data that says that trump is winning. >> well, actually, if you look at the poll of polls in the battlegrounds, michael, no

disrespect to cnn, i love cnn. but when you look at the polling in the battleground states, the vice president is very quite well. the most recent poll i saw in michigan had the vice president up eight points. a gold standard poll in wisconsin from marquette had the vice president up four points. we're up in not just those three states, but you look down in florida, and the vice president's ahead. in texas, it's a dead heat. in ohio, it's a dead heat. our battlegrounds continue to increase, michael. we know it's going to be a close election this november. but what we also know that the american people want a leader who is confident. a leader with integrity. a leader who can get us out of this economic mess. this comes down to trust. who can voters trust to dig us out of this most difficult mess of our lifetime. this president got us into this mess. he didn't cause the coronavirus but his absolutely incompetent response has cost lives.

and it's cost jobs. and he has no plan to get it out of it. he pits states against states. that's not how you do it. joe biden is a steady hand at the tiller. that's why you see the american people trusting him on health care. trusting him to get us out of that this crisis. and the americans want leaders with empathy and compassion. this president is lacking in empathy and compassion. i don't think it's working for the american people. >> i understand, but i think your standard-bearer has a tough dynamic in so far as he's quarantined and somehow needs to get a message out, as between the two of them, he's the one to get the economy back on track. and unless he can convince in that regard, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania are states that he runs the risk of losing. >> well, listen, he's been out there virtually. you know, his videos have gotten over 100 million views this week. he's been on a number of morning

shows. he's been on late shows. he did the town hall the other kne night. very active. and what's important to understand, and we saw this in wisconsin, people consume news differently. we won the wisconsin supreme court race because we outhustled on the virtual front. we had our virtual clip boards out and we were talking to voters making sure they voted absentee. republicans were asleep at the switch. we've had key organizers in each of the battleground states. we're handing the vice president the most muscular infrastructure that a party has ever handed a nonincumbent president. we've trained 7,000 organizers in the last six weeks alone. the vice president has been very active out there. he had a virtual day in arizona this week. doing virtual days everywhere. as the situation permits and we will follow the advice of public

health professionals. he will then get out there in reality, in person, when the situation permits. and i'll tell you watching donald trump and what he's doing, he keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper. >> quick final question. i know that in the end, public health is going to guide your decision as to whether there will be a conventional convention. for lack of a better description. will you, nevertheless, take into consideration the potential competing optics of you being virtual and trump gathering the republican fold together in charlotte? will that be a consideration? >> it's important, michael, to understand that this is not a binary choice. you don't either have everybody there, or nobody there. and what we've done through what we -- through our resolution is give flexibility to the team. so, if 100 instead of 200 people from state "x" come to milwaukee, because that's what the public health situation

dictates, then we will follow the public health. it's an either/or. >> okay. >> we can do a lot of things remotely. frankly, we imagine this convention, we're going to be doing -- i'm really excited because we're going to be able to highlight our vice president in so many ways shapes and forms and we're going to do it smart and safe. >> thank you, mr. secretary. appreciate you coming back. >> always a pleasure, michael. all right. we know how tom perez is voting. make sure you're going to smerconish.com and pasting your ballot on the survey question. from facebook, here's some reaction. what do we have, kathryn? also, the inability to hold rallies is helping joe control staged messaging from his bunker is still full of bumbles. how will he look out on the stump? well, everything that he says that is a bit offkey you know is a bit exacerbated. we've talked about it previously, maybe the status quo suits joe biden.

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what if the american college system as we know it is never coming back? when the pandemic hit colleges and universities around the country sent everyone home and scrambled to finish spring semester online. now it looks like the small semester is also in jeopardy. testifying before the senate this week, here's what dr. anthony fauci had to say. >> the idea of having treatments available, or a vaccine that facilitate the re-entry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bit of a bridge too far. >> that same day, the chancellor of the california state university set to announce that most of its 770,000 students would probably not be on campus this fall. if the remote model of education continues will students and their families still be willing to pay the full freight of tuition or rack up huge debt when the texture of that education is downscaled drastically? and will this scenario crush all

but the wealthiest institutions moving forward? well, this week "new york" magazine published this article with my comie next guest. the coming disruption. joining me now is dr. galloway. he's a clinical professor of marketing at new york university's stern school of business. and he hosts a tv show called "no mercy no malice." dr. galloway you predicted we're going to see linkage between m.i.t. and google. and by the way, i'm hoping for tesla and penn. what would be in it for each sidy would they do? >> michael, i appreciate the promotion, i just have an mda, not a doctorate. the universities will have to

dramatically expand its role it will be a severely diminished product. and in order to recapture the gross margin dollars it will need to cover the fixed costs of university buildings and tenured professors, they're going to need to dramatically expand enrollment, the way they'll do that is with technology of both small and big tech. and we're already seeing that. while it's a fantastic time to be on the waiting list of a university. they will drastically expand their enrollments. that will force the tier two schools to go into in the next tier. big tech, what do they get out of it? somebody like apple, a company like google and facebook who have $160 billion in revenues and have to double that revenue base in the next five years there are a few sectors they can go into that are large enough and one of the most disruptable industries in the world that has

raised its prize in the last two years, higher education. is this a marriage made in a pandemic, if you will. >> isn't going to dilute the brand of elite institutions? you know, part of it is the scarety handful get to go to harvard, m.i.t., et cetera, what do we have, an as tft testoerise an education online. >> we're talking about schools in many instances stanford has done internally 92% of their applicants. have seen their applications triple in the last 30 years, despite not increasing their freshmen seats so they could raise prices fast. i believe a lot of these universities have lost the script and no longer see themselves as public servants. but the luxury brands, people

brag they would never get into the school they went to today which means most likely their kids are not getting in. every remarkable kid has been somewhat downgraded in terms of the prestige of the college they can get in but the top tier can double or triple the seats without sacrificing any quality students. >> i know many people are watching this, parents saying, okay, what about price? what's going to happen to price in the future? >> well, i think a lot of universities are in a state of denial, we use terms like we're in this together, and we're committed to coming back to campus. but if you have certification and then you have the experience and you have the education, the certification of a university is still there, to be honest, that's the primary value add. but if the experience is diminished, people are no longer going to pay $58,000 a year for a substantially diminished experience at a tier two brand. what we're about to see, kind of

a liberal arts expensive tier two brand universities become the education. you could see hundreds if not thousands of universities start this death march. that would have this unprecedented implication in terms of college towns. bottom line, i know you have college-age children, michael, we're all rethinking the amount of money we're willing to pay for a substantially impaired product that has become exceptionally expensive over the last 30 years. >> i have -- my wife and i have three suddenly back under our roof, each taking zoom courses, frankly, at great institutions in various parts of the house. i need to ask about this. i worry about the loss of the experience i had, the experience you had. by the way, scott, we would be have been great roommates. put up on the screen what i'm referring to. i personally worry about how a little -- like me will

experience what i did at ucla. i tested my limits freshman year. i drank too much and through up too often. i joined crew and pulled myself harder physically than i ever imagined possible. i fell in love for the first time. i gained resilience when i had my heartbroken. i met people from different economic backgrounds who gave me a sense of empathy. how do we lose those experiences? >> it's a tragedy. it's like big tech goes into education. there are will be winners here. we will offer more decent education. i think all of those things would have happened for you and me without the college experience but they wouldn't have happened in such a safe, joyous place. when we insert big tech into teaching, do we lose humanity? do we lose a sense of empathy? do we lose a safe place for our children to mature and learn from people who come from other

economic backgrounds? there's no getting around it. like any sector, look at media, when big tech came in, we're more social but less connected. i think that's going to happen in education. this is a tragedy not only economically and in terms of the visual arts education that's inlighten meant and a wonderful time of life when you're o evidence and exploration. there's no getting around it. you and i had something wonderful. >> absolutely. the piece is excellent. i tweeted out again this morning. i want people to read it but among the many takeaways, right now, as we speak, there are hundreds if not thousands of colleges and universities that are on the bubble. on one hand many are going to get access potentially to elite institutions that heretofore they couldn't, but right now, there are many that may not survive. >> that's 100% correct. there are unintended winners. never been a better time to be

on the top tier of a waiting list of a great university. >> scott galloway, doctor or not, thank you for being here. >> thank you, michael. >> i love a guy who says you've inflate might cv. i better set the record straight, right? let's see what they're saying on my facebook and twitter pages. what do we have from facebook. the social experience of college is most important. jeff, like my brother before me, i lived at a fraternity for three years. that was part and parcel of the experience. and what i put on the screen, scott galloway summing up his experience at ucla. it sounded exactly like my experience at lehigh university. and i worry, you know, would i have had those types of experiences, maybe spread out over more than four years? yeah, seven years of college down the drain. isn't that what bell luucci sai? answer my questi

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new developments in the shooting of ahmaud arbery. please be advised. this is disturb footage. we need to show it to discuss what happened that day. as you've probably seen the video from february 23rd, mar appears to show the arbery jogging outside of a neighborhood near a puckuick up truck. three gunshots are heard before arbery fall to the ground. several months later after

leaked to a radio station, two mean inside the truck, gregory mcmichael, 64, and his 32-year-old son travis were both charged with murder and assault. and in the days since the encounter security video have surfaced from a nearby construction site of individuals on the site. in only one instance, this video from the day of the shooting has the family confirmed it is arbery. the property owner says nothing was taken. now, cnn has obtained this text message from the lawyer for the owner of the construction site. the message sent by a police officer, informs the owner, that his neighbor, greg mcmichael happens to be a retired member of the police force and it reads mcmichael is available day or night, if he gets any action on his security camera. joining me now to discuss is defense attorney and cnn legal analyst mark o'mara.

you may remember his defense of george zimmerman in the travyvo martin case. mark, thank you for being here. react to the latest news on the case. >> the most recent one, that text is most interesting to me, it shows me, or at least brings up the question of a couple things. one that law enforcement was involved and aware. and for whatever reason seemed to bring in mcmichael as a potential source. and i don't know that's appropriate. he's a nonlaw enforcement officer at that point. and the idea, deferring, call this guy because he lives in the neighborhood, he can help out, that's very troubling to me. but almost as troubling the insight that it gives me is is this an answer or explanation as to why law enforcement seemed to have done nothing to future the investigation of mcmichael and maybe the arrest of him which only happened now since all of this happened. i have to wonder, they had this investment involvement with mick michak

mcmichael from day one. >> yeah, in other words, they're the one who brought him into the dynamic from the beginning. mark, there's another develop from wbb in georgia that said it was actually george mcmichael who prompted the arrest of these two men. and if the story is accurate and i have no reason to doubt it that his thinking was it would ease racial tension if only people could see it. >> michael, i don't know how to properly react to it except to say this. mcmichael's thought that video actually explains away what happened, in a way that would reduce the tinension, to explai away his or travis' behavior to me suggests a complete ignorance of the social reality that he should be existing in. he's not in the 1930s georgia.

he's in the 2020 georgia. but for him to believe that this explains away what i did, travis only did it for this reason. i was doing it for this reason, evidences to me a harsh lack of connection to a racial reality that we're supposed to be living in today. >> i want you to zapruder if you get the message. the tape. this is the approach. go ahead, mark. >> sure. my first concern is who's taking -- who's doing the videoing. and thank god that they were. and then about a second afterwards, i realized wait a minute the guy taking the video is part of this whatever is about to happen. and that's my first concern. thank god we have the tape, but who's taking it. >> yeah, right. in other words, it seems coordinated. this is the most troubling that

i'm about to show. another warning to those at home. it's the confrontation. roll the clip. what do you see, mark? >> so, here what i see is ahmaud who seems to be, i think, jogging down the road now comes upon two guys armed, one, obviously outside of his door with a shotgun. he does what i would have done, get to the right-hand side. at least avoid the guy with the shotgun. then you see the shotgun come out around around travis mcmichael. i've got to tell you, michael, you can't outrun a shotgun. i see ahmaud trying to do what i would have done which is disarm him. get away. get the shotgun away from him. horribly troubling. but my real concern when i see this part of it is it was now known to be absolutely planned event, that they were going to accost, they were going to get ahmaud arbery no matter what. >> i want to show it in slow motion.

do the slo-mo. and i want to ask mark o'mara, in what circumstances would deadly force be permitted. >> well, here's what the defense is going to say. here's -- first of all, the only time deadly force is allowed is in response to the presumption that deadly force is about to be used against you. you're allowed to respond to deadly force with deadly force. you're not to be the one to start it. so here's what the defense has to focus on. at some point, travis with his shotgun open and carrying in georgia is okay. he can do that. we don't hear what was said between travis and ahmaud, but at some point, about ahmaud grabs the gun, now it's no longer travis' gun, unfortunately. it is simply the gun. and whoever ends up with the gun ends up with the deadly force potential. so travis' lawyers are going to say, once he tried to get my gun, i'm allowed to protect myself from deadly force because

he's trying to get my gun from me. and that's deadly force. that's going to be the whole case, mike. >> i had a radio listener that said if the guy had a flat screen tv on his back while running down the street, you still can't use deadly force? >> you can never use deadly force in protection of property. every civilization has said that property is below a life. that's an easy distinction to make. and it should have been made here. and it wasn't. >> even if he was in the house which no evidence. >> right, right. understood. glad you said it that way. thank you, mark. let's check in on your tweets and facebook comments. what do we have, kathryn, from facebook? the mick micmichaels are not in because the cops saw the tape. they're in jail because we saw the tape. tells you everything you need to know. amy, the idea, this is the breaking news on this, that we know of the tape because one of

the mcmichaels thought that it would explain the situation and lessen temperatures and not allow that community to turn into a ferguson. that's the explanation. shows a bizarre miscalculation of how it would be interpreted. one last observation, if i may say this, you know, this happened on february 23rd. we sit here in mid-may still learning details even in the last 24 hours. it makes me wonder what else we still don't know. i'm just wondering. no matter how it cuts, what else don't we know? i want you to remind you to answer today's survey question at smerconish.com is the partisan fight over when and how to reopen helping president trump's re-election? now, still to come, hackers hit a law firm filled with a-list celebrity clients. the ransom they're demanding, $42 million. so what options does the law firm have to get the data returned? never run dry of...

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entertainment alan grubman facing a $42 million ransom demand for stolen files related to celebrity clients. grubman's clients have included lady gaga, madonna, u2, bruce springsteen, just to name a few. the hackers are kicking it up a notch saying if the firm doesn't pay, the next firm they're released dirt on is president donald trump. important to note there's no proof they have anything on the president. the firm tells cnn they haven't worked with trump while he was president or anytime before that. the firm said this in a statement to cnn, we've been informed by the experts and fbi that negotiating with and paying ransom to terrorists is a violation of federal criminal law even when enormous ransoms have been paid, the criminals often leak the documents anyway. so are their hands completely tied? joining me now to discuss is richard clark. you'll remember he served as the white house terrorism advisor to

presidents president clint, president george w. bush and george h.w. bush defending the country itself and the age of cybersuccess. welcome back. i know when you get the call for advice from major corporations people who have been similarly victimized, your advice often is to pay. why? >> well, michael, while we have this pandemic going on, we have an epidemic of ransomware. and most companies, when they're hit, if they want their system back, have to pay. and the reason for that is two-fold. one, the data has properly been ex filtrated and placed on the web to the company's embarrassment if they don't pay. and two, if they enlist the backup, the enlist is probably encrypted as well. if they want to get back into

business in a matter of days, or matter of weeks they should pay. now, paying doesn't help public good because it's money going to criminals. but if the company is looking after its own good and hasn't done a good job on cyber security, it has no choice but to pay. >> okay. i'm hearing you say they mean it. that they're not bluffing if they say that they will release this information. do they similarly mean it when they say if you pay us, we won't? >> most of the time, the vast majority of the time, these people, these criminals, these overseas criminals honor their word. and the reason they do is because they have a reputation to maintain if people believe that they won't decrypt the data, or they won't publish the data then no one is going to pay. so if you pay them, you get your network back. if you don't pay them, your date dal appears on the web. >> i hope you get my reference

to butch cassidy and the sundance kid, who are these guys? >> i do. these guys are in the former soviet union, russia, ukraine, moldova, romania, vietnam, china. frequently, michael, these are guys who are government hackers by day. and criminals by night. >> so how do we protect ourselves? what's the advice that you typically give those who seek your consultation? >> well, if you haven't been hacked yet buy cyberinsurance, that's a good place to start, number one. number two, make sure that your backup is more than 60 days old. you want to back something up that has been offline, not connected to anything, in a drawer somewhere for at least a month, preferably, two. and then do a better job on cyber security. spend more than 3% of your i.t.

budget defending your network. because if you don't, you're going to spend a heck of a lot more money later. you ought to be spending 9% or 10% of your i.t. budget on cyber security. >> and just to circle back to where we began, okay, if you're going to make a payment, in what form does that payment take? >> well, if you have cyberinsurance, they'll take care of it. they have experts. and if you have a good law firm, they have experts. you don't have to do-it-yourself. the insurance company will do it. or your law firm will do it. and they'll do it using bitcoin. to anticipate your next question, no, we cannot trace them. we cannot see where the bitcoin goes or who gets them or intercept it and stop it. >> richard clarke, thank you as always, we really appreciate your expertise. >> be safe, michael. still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments. and we'll give you the final results of the provocative

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because they never quit. responded to the survey question at smerconish.com. is the partisan fight over when and how to reopen helping president trump's re-election? survey says -- 64% say no, of close to 15,000 who voted on this. so almost two-thirds of you are saying no, it's not helping him. but i have to say the data, i'm

not quoting, i'm not relying on "breitbart," i'm looking at cnn's polling data which says it's 41/66 nationally. many of us learned about paying attention to national surveys, the action is in the battleground states. when you look at the battleground states it's 52/45 trump leading at the time we see skirmishes in states like pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan and it occurs to me this might be to his benefit politically speaking. i'll leave the survey question up for the weekend. what else came in, katherine? what else do we have? you seem to thrive on questions that divide the country even more. no, collar a bella, i thrive on questions on which there seems to be legitimate debate and curiosity. i don't want a survey question that is 90/10 or 95/5. we don't learn anything from

that. i'm not stirring the pot, i'm analyzing it. what's next? smerconish the polarization of the pandemic may or may not help trump's re-election, but it sure hurts the country. the polarization hurts the country. polarization generally hurts the country. i happen to think, as i usually do, that the truth on this lies somewhere in between. we need to protect the most vulnerable among us relying on the data that we now have, a lot different than the data we had at the outset. but at the same time take what steps are necessary to not further cause peril through the economy. people are dieing not only through a formal diagnosis of covid-19 but also i think some of the ramifications. some of the social ramifications that come from it, whether it's depression, opioid addiction, et cetera, all of which are exacerba exacerbated. next?

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good morning to you. we are so grateful to have you with us, it is saturday, may 16th, 2020, i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. you are in the cnn "newsroom." >> this morning we have new developments to talk to you about in the high stakes race for coronavirus vaccines as researchers around the globe with are scrambling to develop a working vaccine. president trump unveiled his administration's, quote, operation warp speed. take a look. >> its objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible. again, we'd love to see if we could do it prior to the end of the year. we think we'