hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. it was controversial before it even began, but donald trump's re-election rally in tulsa, oklahoma was marked by one jaw dropping remark after another. and a smaller crowd than planned. in two hours he defended confederate monuments. this in a city that saw a massacre of blacks in america's worst episode of racial violence a century ago. and he said he wanted to ban flag burning, put people in jail

for it, which the supreme court ruled is a protected action by the u.s. constitution. perhaps his most stunning comments had to do with the coronavirus in which he used a racist slur to describe. have a listen to what he said also about testing for the virus. >> you know, testing is a double edged sword. we've tested now 25 million people. it's probably 20 million people more than anybody else. germany has done a lot. south korea has done a lot. they called me. they said the job you're doing. here's the bad part. when you do testing to that extent you're going to find more people. you're going to find more cases. so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> mr. trump there revealing that in the face of the pandemic that has killed 120,000 americans he told officials to

slow down coronavirus testing. a white house official did later tell cnn the president was, quote, obviously kidding as if that was something to kid about. mr. trump also barbed protests that have been going on nationwide including those right outside his rally. >> our incredible success in rebuilding america stands in stark contrast to the extremism and destruction and violence of the radical left. we just saw it outside. you just saw it outside. you saw these thugs that came along. these people call them protesters. isn't it beautiful. it's so beautiful. so wonderful. >> and the president blaming those protesters in part for a lot of the empty seats that we saw inside the arena. we've been covering this rally all evening from both inside and out. cnn's gary tuchman was in a nearby spillover area that was

meant to be a spillover area but first let's go check out the scene inside a short time ago. >> i'm ryan nobles inside the b.o.k. center where the president just finished speaking, his first campaign rally since early march. the big story has got to be the crowd size or lack thereof. the president hoping to pack this place, bring in at least 20,000 people. they fell far short. there was hardly anybody outside. they planned as many as 40,000 outside as well. the president blaming that on a number of different things. he said there were protesters outside preventing people from coming in. our reporters outside didn't see that. also saying that the media played a role in all of that because of our coverage leading up to the coronavirus. regardless, he got his message out there, made a strong case for him to deserve four more years in office. we'll see if voters respond as his campaign kicks back off. >> all right. let's take a look at what was going on outside the arena in tulsa. the president was set to speak to an overflow crowd outdoors

before the main event. his campaign said there could be 40,000 people turning out for that. it ended up being canceled because hardly anyone turned out. here is cnn's gary tuchman. >> this is the overflow area outside of the b.o.k. arena where president trump spoke for an hour and 45 minutes. people now streaming out of the arena. it is far more crowded now than it was during the speech. the idea was for it to be very crowded during the speech. you can hear people chanting. the idea was for president trump to speak on that stage before he went inside the arena before thousands of people standing on the street. but because the stadium wasn't full this ended up not being full and the decision was made to cancel president trump's speech outdoors. there is a big screen tv behind me. it was on during a speech but there were only about 15 or 20 people standing there watching the speech. we can tell you that one thing is people did not think the rally should be held. a lot of people including the health director here in tulsa county, because covid rates are

at their highest in the county since this began so it did take place so that is a victory for the trump campaign but not a victory as they thought there would be a huge turnout talking about a million people wanting to come and turned out they couldn't even fill up a 19,100 seat arena. it was held and people were checked. they were offered masks. most people didn't wear the masks. president trump didn't have a mask either but didn't have to stand around for five or six hours around lots of people during the event. this is gary tuchman, cnn in tulsa, oklahoma. let's go to cnn's senior political analyst ron brownstein. good to have you, sir. where do we start? let's start with tulsa. the optics. despite the turnout a lot of people did put their health on the line for the president. as you pointed out, too, two-thirds of people say that the president cares more about himself than the country. but what is in the president's mind that makes him forge on with a political rally that

virtually every medical expert said puts lives at risk? >> i think it was pretty revealing of his vision. >> ron brownstein, we have lost your audio. we are going to come back and pick up where we began. i was going to say left off. we never got very far did we? we'll get ron brownstein back because he is worth hearing. that rally was in oklahoma of course where covid-19 cases have been going up. health experts are calling for more testing. president trump says he wants the officer -- also when we come back another political controversy in the trump white house, the firing of a top federal prosecutor who had been investigating trump and his associates. critics say, well, that is not a coincidence. we'll break it down. (vo) switch to sprint and get four lines of unlimited for just $100 a month. plus, we're throwing in four samsung galaxy phones, on us.

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of names. >> a racist comment there from the u.s. president and civil liberties groups are warning that some of those names are leading to racist attacks on asian americans. public health experts also worry that the rally in a state where covid-19 cases are already surging will in fact be one of the super spreader events. that is when a lot of people get infected all at once in one place. coronavirus of course hasn't disappeared in the u.s. because some people got bored with it. far from it. some states have actually been hitting new case records this week. dr. jonathan reiner is a cnn medical analyst and also director of medical lab at george washington university. he joins me now from d.c. let's start, doctor, it is great to have you by the way, let's start with tulsa. the city had a fifth record in a week for cases, several trump

rally organizers testing positive for goodness' sake. despite the low turnout, what do you think could happen in a few weeks as a result of this gathering? >> good evening. so despite the relatively low turnout there were probably 10,000 people in that arena. and from looking at the crowd shots, i would say 90% of the attendees there were not wearing masks. so if you think about it, the president had an advance team in tulsa probably for about a week and six people on his advance team contracted the virus probably in tulsa. so what does that tell us about the likelihood that quite a few people in that arena unmasked and probably asymptomatic had the virus? probably very likely. so i'm very concerned that we'll see in two to three weeks a big spike in cases in oklahoma.

it takes about seven to ten days for a person to develop symptoms if they're going to become symptomatic and then usually people get sick about a week after that so we're looking at two to three weeks for hospitals to start to see a significant rise in cases. i'm worried about it. i think it is a real risk and i think it was reckless. earlier in the week i called this rally a criminal endangerment and i stand by that. >> yeah, i mean, for a political rally. i mean, the urgency of which is dubious. you know, the u.s. still being criticized for a lack of testing compared to countries that have done it well. there was a remarkable moment at the rally where the president said testing is a double edged sword and then he said this and we'll just play it. >> when you do testing to that extent you're going to find more people. you're going to find more cases. so i said to my people, slow the

testing down, please. >> i said to my people, slow the testing down. now, joking or not, what is the messaging of that? >> well, it is clearly not funny. our lack of testing is one of the reasons why the u.s. has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its mortality. the first covid positive patient tested positive in the state of washington on january 20th. it took 51 days for the united states to test the next 20,000 people. that's ten days short of two months. during that time, the virus rode airplanes all around this country in the new york city subways and up and down our highways and now 120,000 people are dead because for a large part how slow we were to test. many of us have thought that the lack of speed in ramping up

testing in this country was not solely incompetent and now we hear the president of the united states verify that tonight. the president has repeatedly mentioned that he does not like to see the numbers rise. and to articulate that is disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful. thousands of people are dead because of that kind of incompetence. >> it is like saying the unthinkable out loud. you know, when you compare to japan and south korea and other countries that tested well and have, compared to the u.s., miniscule death rates compared to this country. i mean, one other thing that's been striking and i know you talked about this, too, donald trump has long demonstrated a disdain for science, reason, the advice of experts like you especially if it conflicts with his political goals, tony fauci lamenting the lack of belief in science among a segment of the population. how worrying is that in a

societal sense, a portion of the population listens to people like you and thinks, yeah. i'm not buying it. >> right. a significant part of the population listens to the president. so when the president says testing is a double edged sword, first of all it is a single edged sword. the more people we find the more people we can isolate and the less transmission there will be. when the president says things like that or when he doubts the efficacy of masks, he does great harm. a significant part of the population believes him. there was an interesting series of graphs this week that have shown what's happened in this country based on whether the states are primarily republican or democrat. what we started to see over the last month is a substantial rise in the number of cases in what we would call red states. my concern is that part of that is due to maybe ill advised

early opening and part of that is due to the fact that the majority of people in those states listen to the president who has doubted the need and efficacy for masks and has touted debunked drugs like hydroxychloroquine and also doubts the need and efficacy of testing. that is why throughout florida and texas and oklahoma and now arizona we're seeing dramatic rises in the number of cases. >> we are almost out of time. there are now 20,000, 25,000 new cases a day in the u.s. and hundreds of deaths. do you get a sense the administration by painting a rosy picture of sorts is sending the message that is okay, it is tolerable going forward, it is somehow an acceptable price? >> you know, the man who once said there were 15 cases and

will soon be zero today at his rally said if it weren't for him there would be millions of deaths. so there is a great deal of revisionist history. the truth of the matter is when the truth is finally told, years from now, we'll see that systematic errors and the president's inability to face reality have resulted in the really needless deaths of tens of thousands of people in this country. and we're not out of the woods yet. >> you get the sense history won't be kind on how this was handled in the u.s. thanks for your expertise. >> my pleasure. be well. okay. we have paid the bill, fixed our connections to california, and so i'd like to go to cnn's senior political analyst ron brownstein. let's start with the tulsa optics. what is in the president's mind that makes him forge on with the political rally that virtually every medical expert says puts

lives at risk? >> i think it actually tells you quite a bit about the way he thinks he'll get re-elected. by any normal political calculus you would say a president who is already facing the possibility of the weakest number for republican ever among college educated white voters would be hesitant about undertaking a rally that every public health official is telling him not to do when one of his problems with the white collar voters is they believe he doesn't trust science, he thinks he knows more than the experts. but i think what you see out of this, and by the message from tonight with the heavy, repeated emphasis on demonizing cities and attacking immigrants and going after democratic women of color and nfl players who kneel during the national anthem. all of that says to me that trump pretty much has given up on the idea that he can win back some of the metro, white collar voters who moved away from the gop since 2016 and that his one

path toward a second term is turning out even more of the small town, nonurban, rural voters, noncollege whites, evangelicals, drawn to his message of cultural and racial division. i think you saw that very much on display tonight in tulsa. >> no doubt. the president said this rally was his election campaign launch. so what did we learn in terms of where he is headed? i mean, you tweeted just after that trump was, quote, running to be president of america in 1968. >> yeah. he talked about flag burning tonight. that is i believe the first time congress passed legislation on flag burning was in fact in 1968. there was nothing about this rally tonight that would reassure anxious republicans or really worry democrats. what you saw was after weeks of having time to think about what his message would be to relaunch

his campaign trump showed us again there is really no second act. the core of his vision of how he gets elected is to ferment cultural and racial division and to be try to stoke greater turnout among his groups. as i said to you before, his strategy is based on improving his margins, bigger margins among shrinking groups at the price of driving away the parts of society that are growing. again, i go back to the urban focus tonight. over and over again cities are out of control. they're dangerous, being controlled by leftists. he lost 87 of the hundred largest companies in america by a combined 15 million votes in 2016. it is entirely likely given what has happened with the pandemic and also the post george floyd process he'll lose them by even more. are there not enough voters left to overcome that? he'll test the proposition. >> you also wrote something to me earlier today. we were e-mailing back and forth about this interview. i want to quote you because it

was so interesting and you said whatever you do that is extreme enough to motivate millions of nonvoters who agree with you is usually also extreme enough to motivate millions of nonvoters who disagree with you. it is hard to get a turnout surge on one side without provoking it on the other. you see this as the risk in his strategy, doubling down. >> well, we saw it in 2018. when you saw this enormous suburban turnout that caused republicans to lose ground in white collar suburbs everywhere across the country. before the 2018 election republicans had 43% of the house seats where there were more college graduates. after the election they had 25%. that is the kind of trajectory trump has put the party on. what you saw tonight with kind of a greatest hits of '60s and '70s backlash against all of the familiar targets, cities,

immigrants, elon omar and a.o.c. and mayor bowser in d.c. and nfl players who protest, you saw, you know, kind of his vision of how he stirs up his base but what was very clear in 2018 and i think is likely to be clear again in 2020 is that there are millions of americans who find that vision deeply offensive. whatever they think about taxes or regulation or some of the issues that might normally have drawn them to the republican party he is drawing a different line through the electorate and forcing people to decide which side they belong on. right now if you look at the polling it is clear he is playing to the short side of that field. >> i did want to get your take on the firing of the southern district of new york attorney geoffrey berman. this is a man who leads a team that's been looking into cases that directly impact the president, his allies, his business interests. now with his deputy in charge

perhaps it may fail but what were the optics of the attorney general's move to get rid of someone looking into the president? >> look, you can lay this directly at the door of susan collins and 51 other senate republicans who decided not to sanction him in any way for his actions in extorting the government of ukraine to try to help him in the election. trump, whatever else you say, he is a student of people, a student of power. and he took from the impeachment lesson that there is no line he cannot cross, that republicans in congress will feel comfortable constraining or rebuking him. every time he breaks a window they obediently sweep up the glass. what we have seen since impeachment is a very steady campaign to undermine any source of independent check and balance that he believes can threaten him. you can only see this firing in the context of what he's done with inspectors general, what barr has done to intervene extraordinarily in the cases of

roger stone and michael flynn. these are all the actions of a president who believes he cannot, there is no line he can cross that will cause congress to impose any consequences so it becomes up to the voters. if nothing else he is giving americans a very clear idea of how he will behave in a second term. this is the way that he feels he can act when he still has to face voters in november. what would he be like in the unconstrained environment of a second term? >> yeah. where the republicans will pay for that -- i keep coming back to this about barack obama did any of these things what would be the reaction? >> every senate election in 2016 for the first time in american history went the same way as the presidential race in that state. so they are bound to him and you may see some of them like cory gardner and martha mcsally in our southwest going down to pretty solid defeats because they have chosen to defend trump. >> interesting.

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president trump's rally in tulsa is now over. only time will tell if the warnings about a big rally during a pandemic where masks were seldom worn and social distancing nonexistent come true. this was his first big campaign event since the coronavirus and the social justice protests began sweeping the nation. it was the usual trump litany of false claims, grievances, and red meat for his base. >> the unhinged left wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments, our beautiful monuments. tear down our statutes and punish, cancel, and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control. we're not conforming. >> the huge crowds of the trump

campaign promise didn't show up. that is a look at that image with entire sections of empty seats. the campaign claimed protesters blocked supporters but that is not what cnn's martin savidge witnessed. here is his report. >> reporter: these are the largest crowds of protesters we have seen to date actually and the numbers of protesters actually began building after the president started speaking. through much of the day as people were starting to make their way in there were only about 200 protesters greatly out numbered by trump supporters. but then several hours later the streets began to fill up with protesters most representing black lives matter or causes like those that have been demonstrated against the past couple weeks. they are running right into of course many of those who were inside for the president's rally. it is a potentially dangerous mix. so far it has been peaceful. it's boisterous and loud and

there are a lot of face-to-face confrontations but the protesters continue to work their way through the streets blocking traffic but really nothing more so far. martin savidge, cnn, tulsa. meanwhile a source familiar with president trump's thinking says he is frustrated that another political scandal had over shadowed his rally. it concerns the stand-off between u.s. attorney general william barr and top federal prosecutor in new york geoffrey berman. one day after unsuccessfully trying to push berman out of office barr told him that president trump had agreed to remove him on the attorney general's advice. berman says he will step down effective immediately but the dramatic episode has caused uproar among republicans and democrats alike. evan mcmorris santoro explains the saga. >> reporter: on saturday morning geoffrey berman walked into his

manhattan office vowing to keep working as one of america's highest profile federal prosecutors. by late afternoon he was replaced by a presidential order. in the end came a dramatic battle between berman the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and william barr the u.s. attorney general. berman refused to step down friday after barr issued a surprise statement announcing berman resigned, a move berman said never happened. on saturday morning barr sent a letter to berman saying because he refused to step down the president had fired him and replaced him with an assistant u.s. attorney. berman is an experienced federal prosecutor and former defense attorney and also an active republican. he donated $5400 to president trump's campaign in 2016, worked on the president's transition team, and was a former law partner of trump lawyer rudy guiliani. berman was first appointed to the influential position of u.s. attorney in 2018 after his predecessor was fired after he refused to resign. the same thing has now happened to berman. after initial concerns over his

past association with trump berman continued the southern district's tradition of independence. >> politics does not enter into our decision making on charging a case. we bring a case when the case is ready to be brought. >> reporter: the office has overseen prosecutions of high profile figures in trump's orbit including his former lawyer michael cohen, representative chris collins, and two associates of guiliani. friday night berman said our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption. all this comes as a trump administration is actively removing government employees who have investigated and prosecuted trump officials. independent counsels have been removed from federal agencies. federal prosecutors have alleged meddling from in cases against trump's former national security adviser michael flynn and roger stone. trump has been considering removing berman since the middle of 2018 two sources tell cnn and now berman is out of a job. trump fired him but told reporters the ouster was barr's

call. >> that's his department not mine. but we have a very capable attorney general so that is really up to him. i'm not involved. >> reporter: now that he's gone what happens next is anyone's guess. evan mcmorris santoro, cnn, new york. as we just heard u.s. president donald trump says he was not involved in geoffrey berman's firing. he says it was all attorney general william barr's doing. cnn's chief legal analyst says that is impossible. >> reporter: one thing is clear. barr himself, the attorney general, did not have the authority to fire him on his own. so overnight what the attorney general said in a letter is, we got the president to do it. under a 1979 opinion from the justice department office of legal counsel which is sort of the in house lawyer for the justice department the justice

department said the president himself does have the power to fire a court appointed u.s. attorney. that is not a supreme court ruling. no one really knows how binding it is. but geoffrey berman decided to honor the firing by the president himself, which is what barr said in his letter. what makes this so bizarre and what makes the incompetence of the justice department so clear is that the president as you pointed out said, well i had nothing to do with it. late in the day, the president's aide said actually he did agree with it but the idea that barr said it was the president who fired him and the president said, i had nothing to do with it, i think that crystalizes how incompetent and embarrassing this whole episode is for the department of justice. >> john bolton the former u.s. national security adviser claims that president trump offered to

help turkey's president with an investigation that geoffrey berman was leading. berman's office was looking into a turkish bank suspected of violating sanctions. that bank has ties to turkish president erdogan. bolton says president trump made an extraordinary promise to mr. erdogan. >> the president said to erdogan at one point, look. those prosecutors in new york are obama people. wait till i get my people in. and then we'll take care of this. and i thought to myself, and i'm a department of justice alumnus myself. i'd never heard any president say anything like that. ever. >> no, u.s. federal judge meanwhile has ruled that bolton can publish his political memoir against the wishes of the white house, but the judge blasted bolton for going forward with the book before getting white house approval to make sure he wasn't publishing national security secrets. the ruling says the book does contain classified information and bolton could be held

criminally libel. president trump claiming victory. >> we had a very good decision in the john bolton book case and the judge was very powerful in his statement on classified information and very powerful also in the fact that the country will get the money, any money he makes. i hope a lot of folks, well i probably don't hope that, but whatever he makes he'll give back in my opinion based on the ruling. >> investigators have issued an arrest warrant in connection with that fire that destroyed a fast food restaurant in atlanta. the one that was the scene of a deadly police shooting. who investigators are looking for and how the suspect might be connected to rayshard brooks the man police killed. we'll have that when we come back. also we'll take you inside seattle's autonomous zone set up by protesters demanding among

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atlanta, georgia's interim police chief reassuring residents police are responding to emergency calls but he says the force has been, quote, stretched because of demonstrations and unrest. he also spoke about why there has been an uptick in police not turning up to work. >> the explanation for calling out sick vary and include officers questioning their training, officers being challenged and attacked, and unease about officers seeing their colleagues criminally charged so quickly. >> atlanta fire investigators have issued an arrest warrant in the case of a wendy's restaurant

fire last saturday. that of course is where rayshard brooks had his fatal encounter with a police officer. they say that the woman in this image here, her name is natalie white, is wanted for first-degree arson. in body cam video brooks is heard telling officers that white is his girlfriend. investigators say more suspects could be involved. meanwhile no arrest has been made in a fatal shooting earlier on saturday morning in seattle. it happened in what is known as the capitol hill autonomous zone. police responding to a shooting called in the area. they say a violent crowd prevented them from getting to the victims. one of the victims, a 19-year-old man, died at the hospital. another man is in hospital with life threatening injuries. now, that zone in seattle developed of course after the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis. heated protests prompted police

to evacuate a precinct in the area. protesters have held the space in the name of the people ever since. we have a report from inside the zone. >> hey! it's time to get right with god! >> he has a right to speak and say what he wants! >> our job is to de-escalate and save the space. >> enjoy your stay. >> so the idea is this is what society could be without police? >> we're three days deep, so forgive us if it is not as organized as we hope it to be. what we want to do is show that people can police themselves. people can take care of themselves. >> this is the capital hill autonomous zone also known as the chop or the chaz, a six

block area controlled by protesters. after seattle police abandoned their east precinct. now police don't dare enter and are under orders not to enter any calls in that zone unless there is a mass casualty event. >> once they left it took on a mind of its own. like wow. we're finally safe. we finally don't have to worry about police brutality. >> reporter: it wasn't always like this. the chaz was born after violent clashes with police. >> the medics gave me this because i got shot in the chest with it. >> can you tell me what happened that night? >> i was about to get on my knees. we all had our hands up. then they shot me and the medics couldn't get a pulse four times. we are unarmed. we're unarmed. why do they feel so threatened? >> reporter: the spd says this incident is under investigation. if policy or law violations have occurred they will take proper steps to address it. >> all the people are here for each other. like we don't want any violence at all.

>> everybody is peaceful, man. >> reporter: how do you create the rules for the chaz? >> there is leadership out here. we communicate the best we possibly can. right? and, you know, it is just human decency. hey, what's up? put your joint out and hand it to somebody and come and talk to me real quick. try not to curse either. is it going to always work? absolutely not. i think statistically if you look at the amount of people here and the amount of violence that is occurring, it is so minimal that it reflects very positively on this experiment. >> the chaz is a poor reflection on seattle. this is a result of elected officials that are failing to enforce the rule of law, but if i were to go 50 yards to my west i wouldn't be allowed in there. in fact, i would be concerned about my safety. >> reporter: they say it is quite peaceful kind of like a party in there. >> okay. the reports we have is that

there people are -- there are people inside. i'd love to see your footage and maybe you can document the unreasonable activism going on in there. >> okay. it is 2:30. what's the scene? >> for the most part people are picking where they'll camp out for the night and people are winding down to just be peaceful and call it a day. >> reporter: there are still a few bursts of confusion and anger when a suspicious person comes through. they're still figuring out how to make their own law and order in a cop free world. >> slow. slow. >> reporter: the long term strategy is to stay here and protest and be a demonstration. if the p.d. want their precinct back, if they are keen to return, and not suppress our right to protest, and not engage in war tactics to do it, we're

more than happy to have them back here. >> reporter: cnn, the chaz. at this time of antiracism protests around the world, cnn has conducted an extensive poll on attitudes about racism in the uk. we'll have the results and analysis for you starting this coming monday. a quick break. when we come back restaurants are starting to reopen in france. the country that put high cuisine on the map. how they're welcoming back patrons while trying to keep the coronavirus at bay. stock slices. for as little as $5, now anyone can own companies in the s&p 500, even if their shares cost more. at $5 a slice, you could own ten companies for $50 instead of paying thousands. all commission free online. schwab stock slices: an easy way to start investing

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a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! welcome back. the united nations is warning that its critical aid flights could be largely grounded by the end of next month because its resources have been drained by, yes, the coronavirus pandemic. officials say they don't have enough money to operate the flights and the slow reopening of air traffic is also limiting the areas they can reach. >> this is a response on a scale never seen before, and with the

pandemic showing no signs of abating it is crucial that the response doesn't stop now when it is needed most. >> the u.n. says it has only a fifth of the money it needs to continue its aid flights for the rest of the year. meanwhile voters in serbia are heading to the polls this sunday to elect a new parliament. it is the first national election in europe since the coronavirus lockdowns began three months ago. polls are supposed to open a short time from now, but many are afraid there won't be much of a turnout because of the potential virus infection. and spain is ending its state of emergency over the pandemic on sunday and it's also opening its borders to most of the shengan area. officials hope this will help the tourism industry but it won't open its border with portugal before july 1st. there had been some miscommunication between madrid

and lisbon a few weeks ago. french gastronomy is a cultural treasury, so france without restaurants because of a pandemic doesn't feel quite right. well, chefs are now getting back to work trying to keep -- they're trying their best to keep everyone safe, and the most successful of them all may have an advantage as cnn's cyril vanier explains. >> reporter: for the first time in three months and four days the maitre d' in central paris is expecting customers making sure all the waiters have their face masks on and the tables are just so. this 2 michelin star gem in the heart of the french capital like all paris restaurants is scrambling to reopen after the french president declared the first phase of the coronavirus crisis over.

emmanuel macron says france can return -- french for enjoying the pleasures of life. and so the revered chef of the restaurant and one of the faces of french gastronomy is back in the kitchen doing what he does best, tweaking, finessing, perfecting his dishes. here pan-fried duckling fillet, cucumber and a hint of pepper. there's some nervousness but the team is better than ever. it's not able to fully respect social distancing at all-times in any kitchen but restaurants like this one are better suited to than most because even before the coronavirus they were already held to the highest

professional standard. surfaces are cleaned repeatedly, each spoon discarded immediately after use. we are asked not to film the patrons to preserve an immaculate dining experience. but by all accounts the reopening is a success. and i learned an important lesson. never ask a michelin chef if he's happy with his food. >> in my head i said can you do better. i am not really satisfied. >> reporter: the very best it seems never are. cyril vanier, cnn, paris. >> can't believe he got away with that. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. do stay with us. i'll be back with more news in just a moment.

hello. thanks for your company. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." controversy and empty seats marked donald trump's return to the campaign trail after a three-month lull in campaigning. the u.s. president eager for an overwhelming display of support in tulsa, oklahoma, saturday. well, he didn't get it. whole sections of the arena were nearly empty despite the president's claims up to a milliopele