bolduan. thanks so much for joining us. right now president trump is on the ground in michigan. he's about to tour a ford assembly plant about 30 minutes from detroit. the president made mitch the center of a big fight the past few days. in the mid-of a pandemic where that state is one of the hardest hit president trump is threatening to pull funding for the state. over politics. his dislike of mail in voting. something he has railed against without any credible reason. and it can't be ignored this is a state that's crucial to his re-election chances in the fall. a state he won by the narrowest of margins in 2016. but back to the pandemic at hand. ahead of the visit a major question has become will he or won't he wear a mask when visiting this plant? he's in the first event in michigan right now. no one has seen him yet since he entered the plant. but as he was leaving the white house this morning he was asked about this very thing. >> well, i don't know.

we'll look at it. a lot of people have asked me that question. i want to get our country back to normal. i want to normalize. one of the other things i want to do is to get the churches open. the churches are not being treated with respect by a lot of the democrat governors. i want to get our churches open. and we're going to take a very strong position on that very soon. >> that's his position right now on masks. so what's his message then to the ford plant workers in michigan today? we're about to find out. katelyn collins is live at the white house but let's start with omar jimenez. what's the very latest there, omar? >> reporter: the president is inside the ypsilanti plant. we're expecting to hear remarks from the president. the question is whether the

president will be wearing a maverick which we haven't seen him do up until this point and it's also significant because it's ford's policy that anybody who is inside has to wear a mask, which is something they say they have communicated to the white house. it also comes as state attorney general says there could be possible future penalties for any company here in michigan that allows the president to come inside of their premises without a mask on. let's remember this visit isn't happening within a vacuum. this comes, we're seeing different sets of dialogues playing out. we're seeing flooding in a different part of the state where the president says he's been in touch with governor gretchen whitmer on that front but at the same time threatening to withhold fund from state over move that state has done to sent absentee ballot applications to their voters that he says will contribute to voter fraud. on that exact topic we haven't seen evidence that would be the case. all the states that use mail balloting as their primary form

of voting have not seen any issues in that regard and it's also worth noting michigan isn't the only state doing this. texas as well making the move along the same vein to make option of absentee ballots to their voters. >> katelyn, on his way to michigan. the president had some choice words about a new study from columbia university that said almost 40,000 lives could have been saved throughout the country if the country had moved to a lockdown more strict or social distancing guidelines just one week sooner than the country did. >> reporter: yeah. even doubled if it moved to lockdowns about two weeks earlier and put social distancing measures that we all know so well by now in place just a little bit earlier. the president was asked about this study and listen to what his response was and then we'll talk about what was going on behind-the-scenes at the white house at this time when they were making those decisions. >> i was so early. i was earlier than anybody thought. i put a ban on people coming in

from china. everybody didn't want it. nancy pelosi a month later was dancing in the streets of san francisco in chinatown so that people wouldn't believe what's happening. i don't even blame that. but i was way early. columbia is an institution that's very liberal, it's a -- i think it's a political hit job if you want to know the truth. >> reporter: so he says he believes that study is the work of a political hit job even though we should note its disease researchers at columbia that put out these figures and looked what would have happened in the united states. it's critical because it's showing what would have happened and we know those discussions were going on inside the white house about when to put those measures in place. that was about the time the president took his trip to india. his top hhs officials were meeting back here in washington and looking what was coming in from china and italy and other countries and they wanted a meeting with the president about putting social distancing measures in place. but, kate, that meeting got

cancelled because remember it was on the way home from india where the president was watching television. he saw that doctor from the cdc issuing warning how much life would change. that affected the stock market. that meeting about putting social distancing measures in place got cancelled and replaced with a press conference where he announced the vice president would be in charge of that task force and they did not put those measures in place for three more weeks. you can imagine just what a difference it would have made if they did that in three weeks according to this study that columbia is now putting out. >> we'll talk about what looking back can be learned as we look forward. omar, thank you so much. he's on the ground in michigan. katelyn will stick around with us as we continue this discussion. a senior scholar at johns hopkins university is with us and security analyst and former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. julia, i'm told by my friends in the control room who have many

more television screens than i do that right now the president is in, there is some video -- he's in a round table that's going to precede his tour of the plant in michigan but this, i'm told is in the plant. he's in a listening round table with african-american leaders very clearly not wearing a maverick. unclear how many people are wearing a mask that are sitting around him. this gets to this whole thing, what is the deal with face masks? what is it about-fa face masks gives off a negative message. i keep saying this to people around me that we don't smoke on planes any more because of the danger it poses to those around us or in office buildings. we stop at stop signs not only to protect ourselves but those around us. >> right. so, i mean part of it is a personality that takes no responsibility for his actions. he doesn't view himself as

needing to model good behavior even though the entire sign tick and public health community is saying wear a mask. the health reasons, we know. the other reason is in the absence of a very strong effort combat the virus, in other words, the federal government has failed on testing and tracing and we have no treatment and there's no vaccine. we'll just have to use a whole bunch of different tools to minimize the risk for the american public and one of them not perfect is certainly masking. it does show some success. i think the other thing is just, you know, president trump likes to put things in camps, right? even in crisis management which is so shocking, right? there's the, you know, the sort of quarantine camp versus the get outside camp. there's the pro, you know pro health camp versus pro economics camp. it doesn't work that way. in other words, everyone is trying to balance these competing needs. for him if he wore a maverick he would view as signalling in some

ways some accepting that we'll have to balance a lot of difficult designates in the months ahead. the president said this morning, i want to get things back to normal. i can't be the first one to try to tell him that's not happening any time soon. the virus is here. so we have to adapt and one of them is masks. >> katelyn, trump wore protective eye wear when he visit ad factory in phoenix earlier this month. we have video of it. if he's okay wearing gear that protects his own eyes why wouldn't he be okay wearing gear to protect those around him. >> he flatly said he doesn't think wearing a mask would be silly for the commander-in-chief to wear a mask. he said that once in a briefing potentially meeting with world leaders. he couldn't see that. though, of course he's not meeting with any world leaders because of the pandemic and given travel restrictions. but aides have tried to convince the president to wear a maverick because they know it's easier to avoid that. they saw the fallout when the

president went to the mayo clinic and didn't wear a mask. they just haven't had a lot of success of getting the president to wear one. there was a big discussion of it during a trip he took to honeywell the night before they left here at the white house where they weren't sure if he was or wasn't and of course in the end he didn't. it's not that the president is not concerned about coronavirus. he certainly is after he was exposed to an aide who tested positive for coronavirus. he started taking hydroxychloroquine even though it's an unproven drug to prevent coronavirus according to the fda. he's still taking that right now. he said he finishes that tomorrow. he'll take some measures to warn off coronavirus in his mind with the hydroxychloroquine but he won't do things like wear a mask and i don't think a lot of aide thought the last hope for him to wear one today. it's not clear if there were discussions that happened with the executives there beforehand, but yesterday we did not get the sense people were hopeful he was going to wear one.

>> anthony, clear there is four company policies very clearly laid out shared with the white house is much from workers to visitors if they are in the plant they wear a mask. that's their policy and required by the state. dock the tore, from a public health standpoint, what message does this send? is there an argument to be made if i'm looking the at the counter that it doesn't matter if the president wears a mask when every governor is telling everyone in their state that they should? >> it looks hypocritical. if there are rules the cdc recommends and he's not following that's rule it doesn't make any sense to me because you can't have one set of rules for the president and another set of rules for everybody else especially when he goes on to private property. that's ford's property. he should follow the rules there. if he's someone that thought he was exposed enough he wanted to take hydroxychloroquine, and his doctors thought that the risk benefit ratio favored that then he could be harboring the coronavirus. that's the type of person you

want to wear a mask. to me it doesn't make any sense. the arguments speaks of hypocrisy. >> katelyn, the head of the cdc has come out talking about a second wave is coming in the winter. a second wave of the virus. and let me read how he put it in an interview with "financial times". we've seen evidence that concerns, that concerns would go south in the southern hemisphere like flu are coming true and you're seeing what's happening in brazil now. he goes on to say then when the southern hemisphere is over i suspect it will reground itself in the north. here's the thing about that. he said this before. and that really angered the white house. what is going to be the impact of it this time? >> reporter: the president has been at odds with his health experts on several occasions but really over whether or not coronavirus is going to come back. he's said he thinks there's a chance it won't and people like dr. redfield, dr. fauci, others

have said pretty flatly yes they would bet pretty much anything it will come back and that's how people should prepare for that. remember that briefing that was really notable where the president had redfield to come out correct a quote that he confirmed was accurate he was properly quoted in the "washington post" when he was talking about coming back and being worse becausers lo he was looking at flu season. they are looking at the data there trying to give preparation for people that this is something we'll be dealing with for quite some time and the president has once again, again and again expressed confidence he thinks it could go away and not come back despite health advisors contradicting him on that front. >> you heard the president as julia points out he wants to get back to normal. doctor, the is there anything questionable or controversial in this prediction by dr. redfield? >> no. it simply is a fact. the this is a virus that established itself in the human

population. it's inde mrendemic. it can intensify a lot in the winter season. and we'll be dealing with influenza at the same time. we need to prepare for. the president shouldn't be evading simple facts about this because he can evade these facts but we're going face this no matter what. >> guys, stick around. we'll follow the president's moments and see what happens in this plant in ypsilanti as these workers get back to work as they are repurposing and now producing ventilators and ppe. much more on that front. coronavirus cases are spiking in alabama. the mayor of montgomery warning that if you need an icu ventilator you are in trouble. that's what he's saying. did the state re-open too soon. some businesses in miami beach

are beginning to re-open. some beaches remain closed. we'll talk to the mayor about what he need to see to open up more of the city.

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new focus on the south as several states across the south are seeing a spike in new coronavirus cases. take a look at this map of the country and how new cases are trer trending. projection model is coming out of the children's hospital philadelphia indicating that while it is safe for most states to loosen restrictions they see in the models states that opened early and fast like many in the south are at high-risk of a resurgence.

here's one of the researchers behind the model. >> areas that moved too quickly like in the south, their distancing practice has been, eroded more quickly. but we also suspect for the same amount of relaxation, social distancing, we're seeing much more worse forecast and we suspect what we're detecting is potentially the lack of vigilance that's occurring in some of those communities. >> he could be talking about montgomery, alabama. the mayor there is concerned about a spike he's considering locking things back down. victor blackwell is in montgomery. victor, what are you hearing? >> reporter: kate, a sense of urgency and notably from the mayor of montgomery, the stephen reed. he's trying to keep this city from becoming the next hot spot across the south. he said there's this surge of covid cases, according to the montgomery county health department and to the mayor

there's been a 45% increase of new case in the first week of may. 46% in the second week. of course we'll have to wait for the numbers from today for the third week to report. but double digit increases. the mayor said now the icu bed, beds are filling at the four hospitals across this central part of alabama. the mayor makes another connection. he said this is directly connected to the easing of restrictions in the state. alabama mayor allowed tshelter t home order to expire at the end of april. now retail, restaurant, salons, bars, gyms are open with rules. the mayor said it's simple. when you subtract some of those restrictions, add people and you see the new cases that's why you're seeing these icu bed fill up. here what he said just last hour. >> the state of our hospitals right now the icu beds are

almost at a capacity level. and we're in a place that is manageable but not sustainable. we started getting calls probably about a week and a half ago from hospital administrators explaining to us the number of covid patients that they were seeing was not only increasing but that people were coming in worse shape. so we thought we needed to remind our community that this pandemic is not over. we're still in a tough battle and now is not the time for us to relax. >> reporter: again, about those four hospitals across this part of alabama. three are operated by baxter health systems. we got an update from them moments ago. 80 icu beds at three different facilities they reached capacity at several point during the pandemic but said they've seen a surge in covid hospitalizations at each of those three facilities in the last three weeks. when the mayor here made that first urgent call about the icu

bed there was only one bed available in this area at jackson hospital, the fourth hospital behind me and we got an update from them a moment ago that the last of their 30 critical care beds is now occupied. kate. >> victor, thanks so much for the update. there's got be much more to come because they are clearly in a blasd. another place that this new model we were talking about earlier from policy lab predicts we'll see a surge of cases in the next few weeks is miami. it has taken a much more cautious approach to re-opening than the rest of florida. miami beach began phase one of re-opening yesterday. with some businesses allowed to operate at reduced capacity. beaches and a lot of things still remain closed. joining me right now is the mayor of miami beach. mayor, thank you so much for coming back. first and foremost how did day go >> people were pretty cautious and we didn't have crowds. of course we only opened up our

retail and some general business. restaurants will be next week. so that really will determine something. we're trying to do it carefully. we're way behind the state and we're even behind parts of dade county because this area has been the hot spot. we've had a third of all deaths in state of florida. >> that is a number that people need to remember when thinking about the cautious path that you have been taking is just how much of the trouble was landed in your lap. this new model i've been mentioning is projecting trouble for the south. this is for miami-dade, the prediction model of what it could look like in the next four weeks with the risk of a big spike in your area. when you see that, what do you think? >> i'm worried, obviously, be foolish not to be worried with so many people dying and so many

people catching the virus. of course, our community, not just miami beach but miami-dade county is a destination city. while we open things up we just don't open it up for our neighbors, we bring in tens of thousands of people. my city is only 92,000 residents. we get 10 to 15 million visitors a year from all over the world. so that model is not particularly consistent with physical distancing. >> that's for sure. a lot of beaches on the east coast are opening up this weekend. not the beaches of miami beach. >> right. >> where are you on opening the beaches with all of this in context? >> our commission will discuss it tomorrow with our city manager. in my mind i have sort of thought we really shouldn't do it until early june. but frankly, even with the opening in early june, you know, we have seven and a half miles of beaches in my city. many more miles throughout the

county. our beaches are totally public. you can't limit capacity. we don't have a turnstile to let you in. we frequently see tens and tens of thousands of people on them like they were at spring break at the beginning of march when i think terrible thing were happening with regard to the virus there. so even when we opened them we're going to be worried and the one the thing that's also concerning me is that we have had no direction from the federal government as to what we should be looking for if we want to reconsider our re-opening or tighten it up. they gave us some metrics to open two weeks of a downward trajectory. nobody has said a order about what happens if this thing doesn't work and we get spikes. i think we need some guidance on that because, you know, we're walking in to that time where people will be thinking this is a green light to do whatever they want no matter how much warning and addadmonition you g them. >> you have to look no further than montgomerys alabama.

how do you enforce your guidelines but when are you going to know? what's the marker when you know you need to reverse course. >> same problem in getting into this. i tell everybody in early march we didn't have an episode in dade county until march 11th. not a single case. we know for those 11 days during spring break and other events it was spreading like crazy and going through our community and around the nation. you can't wait until you see it, because once you see increased hospitalizations or you see deaths, or people on ventilators, it's probably too late. so we need our track and tracing. we need be able to have surveillance testing. we need to be ahead of with it capacity and technology that allows us to know. we didn't have that at the front end. . i'm praying we have it now because i don't want to repeat those mistakes. they were deadly. >> you've been -- you've said the there has been good communication with the governor

and the state on the this. are they giving you guidance on this because you need it now. you don't need it in four weeks. >> it's not as if they call us and tell us what to do. these decisions, maybe you're too young to be, mikey in the cereal commercial but to a certain extent most of these decisions have been pushed down the table to mikey, the mayors and commissions to make these decisions. nobody has called us and said you better do this. in fact, we were the first city in florida to shelter-in-place and one of the first in early april to require masks in the country. nobody said do it. we just had to decide to do it and while i'm happy we did and i don't mind the bad each males i'm getting i wish there were a little bit more instruction coming from state and federal emergency managers who presumably have great expertise in this. >> yeah. mayor, i won't call you mikey. i'll just say thank you. thanks for what you're doing. keep doing. still ahead for us, we're

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president trump is expected to tour a ford plant in michigan any minute now. he's right now sitting down at a listening session with african-american leaders at the moment. this plant has been repurposed in ypsilanti, michigan to now make ventilators and ppe at this ford plant. this visit comes at a critical time for ford and thousands ever its employees as the country's number two automaker and other automakers re-open many plants at the beginning of this week, you'll remember after being shut down due to the outbreak and then for ford it had promptly temporarily closed plants in chicago and dearborn, michigan after employees tested positive for covid-19. so what is it like to be back on the line? what does the president's visit today mean? joining me right now is todd

dunn, president of uaw local 862. he represents more than 14,000 members at two ford plants in kentucky. thank you for taking the time right now. first, can i ask you just about-face masks because it's something the president has been struggling with, to say the least. we know that the president is in the building in the ford plant in michigan. but he hasn't taken a tour on the floor yet. if he would walk on the floor without a mask what would your reaction be to that? >> well, i believe in my commander-in-chief, prior military serviceman but if i was there i would be right in front of him to hand him a mask. might not get too close but i would hand him a maverick. you know, all jokes aside our workforce, we're wearing them. there's been a lot of safety protocol put in, policies and procedures. it's just part of the ppe that we rely on for ourselves to remain safe.

as our commander-in-chief, i respect i had health and health of american workers inside that plant. they got to go home to their families and it's setting a standard. that's the leadership level he's in. >> talk to me about what you're hearing from folks as they head back in, back into the plants. we know two plants had to temporarily shut down because of positive covid cases. do you think there's enough protection in place? what your hearing? >> you know, i wanted to make sure -- i've been in the plant every day this week talking to our members. we have new hires hiring. some problems, concerns, questions, comments. you know the mask. they hate the mask because they are itchy. sometimes the masks break down if you have a beard. you heat up. some of our members talked about how you look. i feel foggy because i'm low on oxygen level. i'm not a doctor. my glasses are fogging up. there's a lot of different issues and a lot of comply kwags the safety protocol.

but overall the membership is not, i don't want to say surprised but i think i feel the from what i'm hearing that they are pleased to see the level of protocol that's been put out through uaw ford and our safety protocol, our safety departments and what they are providing. they feel good about it. should we be satisfied? absolutely not. each and river day build on it. >> can you talk to me about the push-pull if you will for auto workers returning to work right now? they need to go to work. they want to go to work. but you're talking about health and safety and their families. can you talk to me about this push-pull you're hearing? >> you know, so i'll give you one example. i have a good friend that works in the plant. he and his wife has a young child. she's a good friend of mine. and here's a child with juvenile diabetes. other families that are complex even more than that, multiple high-risk and diabetes, so you

got to go home and you're going to work versus going a grocery store or a gas station. so the per capita, number of folks right there in the area. so you're really at a higher risk because, you know, you have higher exposure or level if you will. but safety protocol during the day. making sure that we're using good common sense and we're going by those guidelines and then we go home, strip down, clean up, get in a neutral environment before you get back into your household whether it be in a garage or -- >> it's so hard. it's so hard for everybody. just because we're running out of time. is there one thing you want to hear from the president as he's on the floor today? >> you know, i hope that he thinks the men and women of ford motor company and men and women across the manufacturing community thank them, everybody in america are truly american patriots because we want to get back to work. i would like him to thank them for what they are doing, what

we've done at ford motor company to help the health care workers is unbelievable. we had a meeting today from john savona and also the ceo of the formotor company and it's amazing what we've been able to do and we set record levels. >> thank you for what you do. thank you for coming in. and god bless. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. the link between covid-19 and inflammation. new discovery that could be key to treating the severe effects of the coronavirus. now, simparica trio simplifies protection.

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as doctors across the country try to get a handle how best to treat the coronavirus the cdc held a briefing on what may be at the heart of this disease. the growing the evidence culprit is inflammation. the cdc looked to dr. vincent marconi for answers about this. and he joins me now. can you talk to me about what you're seeing that's pointing to this all coming down to inflammation. why is that? >> that's a great question. when a virus typically infects a person that person's immune system attempts to fight back. that's known as an inflammatory response. it's rapid and effective for most people so you end up with minimal symptoms and you'll recover after that. there are these chemical mediators that help the body

clear the virus. that's through killing infected cells, et cetera. but sometimes if that response say is ineffective or there may be other aspects you need to either the virus or the person that inflammation response gets out of controlling. like a camp fire that's giving you light and heat allowing to you cook your food and it gets out of control and makes a forest fire. at that point it actually causes more harm to the individual than it actually does to the virus. >> what does all of this mean for the approach, that doctors can and should be taking for treatment right now? >> well right now we don't have anything that's proven to be effective against this syndrome. so what we have at least that's been proven so far is an antiviral. if we can get the antivirals to slow that replication the body

hopefully can regulate itself. there are many trials going on right now that are particularly looking at drugs that are is going to slow that inflammatory response. right now we don't have anything that can treat inflammatory response but there are 50 trials right now that are looking at how to control this. >> why is inflammation, we all know inflammation. whenever we work out. why is inflammation so damaging to the body and what we're looking at with this virus? >> yeah. just to be clear, it is usually good for people to have this amount of inflammation like you're describing in a work out or if you got a cold or flu because it is helpful for the body. but it's in these unique circumstances either because of the individual, because they can't fight the virus effectively, or some things that this virus does to some people that makes it go out of control. and really once that happens, it becomes very difficult for the

body to re-regulate. >> this will be very simplified, oversimplified. if this all comes down to inflammation why couldn't some form of super charged anti-inflammatory ibuprofen do the trick? >> that's exactly right. those are the actual drugs that we're looking at right now is super charged kind of ibuprofen type of drugs. now there are many as you pointed out. ate complex system. there are a lot of different of these mediators that we're trying to target. some target a whole host of them. others individual components. so we're looking at all of these super charged ibuprofen if you well. >> don't make fun of me to oversimplifying it to that extent. thank you. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me.

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let's go to a conference where president trump is taking questions from reporters. >> you go out and buy things, you want to vote, the most important thing you can do is vote and they don't want to go voter i.d., so ideally, that would be the ideal. there are many places that have that. many places don't. we don't want to have vote by

mail. we want people to vote now. if you are president of the united states and if you vote in florida and you can't be there, you should be able to send in a ballot f. are you not well, feeling terrible, are you sick, you have a reasonable excuse, just a reasonable excuse, you should be able to vote by mail-in. you vote by mail-in. but when they send, in the case of nevada, where they want to send out thousands and thousands of ballots and then they're going to send them back. who knows who signed the ballot? is anybody standing there acknowledgeing, oh, that was mr. smith. that was pastor darryl scott that was scott turner? it was john james? the great john james, who better win, because you would be missing something, michigan, if you don't vote for this guy. but you know, who says -- who are these people that are voting? they get it. it comes by mail.

maybe. maybe it doesn't come. a lot of the problem is they're not shipped to certain areas. you know, if you have an old democrat area. i have to tell you the abuse tended to be on a certain side rather than another side. we don't e won't get into that frankly, republicans won a very big event on tuesday where we have a man named mike garcia. he's a congressman in a democrat area. it was not expected to happen. he won by a lot of votes. you know that, john. that was a big decision. that was an incredible victory. the first time in 22 years. so something's happening. but that was a vote by mail. they mailed it in. all of a sudden the democrats saw they were losing and threw voter booths up. i wouldn't say that was so good. but it didn't have much of an impact. so mike garcia won. we won in wisconsin. we continue do that. to vote to really vote and

without fraud, you have to go and you have to vote at the polling place. people have to check you in. go ahead, john. >> can you just clarify, sir what federal funding you are considering removing from michigan? >> oh, i'm not going to discuss that. there are so many forms of funding. we're not going to discuss that. what we want is good, straight honest voting. okay. by the way, that could be honest. obviously, it can't birx you are sitting in your bedroom, who knows who is signing it? who knows it gets to your house? who knows if they pirate, they pirate these applications, print new voting forms and send them around, miami sign them, one person signs them with different pens and a different signature every time. it's obviously there's going to be fraud. we're not babies. there is tremendous fraud. you have all of the harvesting.

you have all of the things they walk in at the end of a race. we had a lot in california at the end of a race and they dumped, you think the race is over, somebody won and all of a sudden out of the blue come thus of votes at the very end, harvesting. a wonderful thing, harvesting. they happened to find thousands of ballots just at the end. so somebody that thought he or she was going to win the race, all of a sudden gets clipped. we can't have that. job. go ahead. >> mr. president, in the midst of this coronavirus crisis, the chinese government is considering a new national security law that would give it the authority to clamp down to a greater degree on hong kong. do you have a message for the chinese government about changing the relationship with hong kong? >> well, we'll have to see what happens. i haven't seen it yet. i've gotten a little briefing. but i'll have a statement to make at the appropriate time. okay. hong kong's been through a lot. mr. president, we've seen the historic flooding.

we seen this historic flooding here in michigan and we have seen forecasts that we could see a really severe hurricane season and fema and the federal government prepared to meet the needs of some of these potential disasters? >> you say fema and the federal government? yeah, they're here right now. fema is here right now. they dade fantastic job on the coronavirus, a fantastic job in michigan. they did a fantastic job everywhere, frankly. you have ventilators. you will see them now. because this is one of the plants where we make thousands of ventilators. but fema was involved and we also, if you know, you know that the army core of engineers at the highest level is right now in michigan working on the fact that you had some dams breaking, that shouldn't have broken and they were probably maybe not maintained properly, something happened to them. it could have been human error from what i understand.

it was certainly a physical era, too. they were old. but have you the best in the world to fix them and to get that water stopped. we have fema here and we have the army core of engineers here. they'll be able take care of it. let's take a tour. you are all invited to join me if you want and we'll take a look at a great assembly line making ventilators. thank you. thank you very much. >> president trump at the ford plant in ypsilanti, michigan. i'm jake tapper with "the lead." the united states has less than 5% of the world's population about a third of them as the world health organization is now reporting, a new record, the most new cases recorded in a 24-hour period since the pandemic began. more than 100,000 new cases world wide. four countries driving that increase. russia, brazil, india and the

united states. the death toll in the united states is getting closer to 100,000. right now, it's 93,863. this afternoon, as the president was leaving the white house headed for michigan. he defended the response for the pandemic as a new study suggests that 36,000 coronavirus deaths in the u.s. could have been prevented if social zangts and other measures had been enacted just one week earlier. president trump saying he was early in his response and claiming that the colombia university study is a quote political hit job. yet, we should note, the study does not mention president trump at all. he called it a political hit job. it doesn't mention his name. the study, in fact, also suggests that earlier action would have been most effective in places such as new york city and the study could have been

seen just as damming for democratic leaders, such as the mayor of new york city bill de blasio or governor andrew cuomo who began shutting down non-essential businesses around march 15th. cnn's indicate wlin collins is -- kaitlan collins is live at the white house. in the state of michigan 5,000 total deaths. this week the state of michigan has seen a slight upward trend in new cases, about a 44% increase from the previous 7-day period. did president trump address that? >> reporter: well, that's why it's so notable what he was just saying repeating his threat to withhold funding from michigan if they tried to move ahead with sending out these applications to get a mail-in ballot for voters, something he has been railing against since yesterday morning. because reporters keep asking, jake, what funding is it the president is threatening to withhold? of course, they are seeing a hot spot and having to deal with an

outbreak not like ought places in the nation right now. the president will not say. he did seem to back off, yesterday, he told us he didn't think it was necessary to withhold funding. he claims he didn't say it. i was in the room when he said it. he is now, once again, putting those threats out there. jake, we should note those studies from the disease modelers at colombia university. he was asked that at the white house earlier and he disputed it and dismissed it and said this about it. >> colombia is an institution that's a very liberal. it's a -- i think it's just a political hit job if you want to know the truth. >> reporter: so, of course, as you noted, it doesn't mention the president. it's interesting to see him dismiss it and reference his travel ban on china. jake, we know from reporting actually while the president was in india on his last big foreign trip before the pandemic, back here at the white house, top