i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. we begin with testimony from trump administration officials about the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic. where they're sounding the alarm in front of lawmakers. they're seeing a quote disturbing surge in parts of the u.s. they do not expect the pandemic to subside any time soon and the upcoming flu season could make this pandemic worse. one of the controversies at the center of this hearing were the president's claims he asked officials to slow down testing. contradicting the aides, the president said he was not kidding saying that at his tulsa rally but these top health officials say they were never

directed to alter covid testing. >> i as a member of the task force and my colleagues on the task force to my knowledge i know for sure but to my knowledge none of us have been told to slow down on testing. that just is a fact. in fact, we will be doing more testing. >> has president trump directed you to slow down covid-19 testing in the united states? dr. redfield? >> no. >> no, sir. >> no, congressman. >> with me now live from the hill is cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju. you watched this hearing. >> reporter: the message coming from the top public health officials much different than the message hearing from the president and from the vice president. what anthony fauci, the top expert in the country made clear is that he sees a disturbing surge in infections. he says that it's a mixed bag where the country is right now

and he's concerned about community spread of this disease. much different than what the president is saying about a phenomenal i don't know that is happening in the united states, praising the american response to this and saying the vice president saying there's not going to be a second wave. also the president himself has said that testing is overrated and that it determines whether there are new cases with more testing making the u.s. look bad in the words of the president. that's not the message coming from these public health officials saying that more testing is essential to dealing with the spread of the disease. admiral brent giroir in charge of testing in this administration said this about testing, the only way we'll be able to understand who has the disease, infected and can pass it and to do appropriate contact tracing, to test appropriately smartly is to test as many people as possible. so that is the message that they're making clear and plan to

move and said 27 million people tested and want 50 million people a tested per month and 40 million to 50 million tests per month by the fall and the push by the administration by the officials, much different than hearing from the president who suggesting that perhaps testing is not the way to go, perhaps overrated and needs to be slowed down. they said they need to ramp it up because the disease is still spreading. >> manu, thank you so much. joining me is dr. peter hotez of baylor college of medicine and elizabeth cohen, cnn senior medical correspondent. doctor, you heard dr. fauci there warning of a disturbing surge in infections. what did you think? >> the point is that it's much more than a disturbing surge. we are in a public health crisis here in texas and oklahoma and arizona and the southwest portion of the country. i'm here in houston.

we are having a massive uptick in the number of cases, this almost vertical rise, patients are piling in to our intensive care units in the texas medical ce center. we are opening the children's hospital for adults to manage the surge and unfortunately all of this both predicted and predictable and reflected the fact that the federal government largely abdicated the responsibility and left the states to their own and we have to recognize that what's happened in 2020 is the greatest public health collapse in the history of our nation. this is an epic failure and i understand the point of the hearings is to try to get an update on when's going on but it really just mostly chipped away at the stark realization that something terrible is happening to the nation and still in the middle of it. we have just begun in many

respects with new numbers suggesting that we will have 200,000 american deaths by -- over -- within a few months. >> and, elizabeth, listening to the administration officials talk about how there's actually a lag in the deaths, right? behind the cases so to dr. hotez's point approaching a grim milestone, it is very possible seeing the spikes in so many states right now that we are going to be seeing furthermore a spike in deaths coming. was that your takeaway? >> yes, for sure. did deaths trail the hospitalizations and the hospitalizations trail the infections so you see the deaths come later and that's what's so scary about this is that so many of this travesty is in front of us and so when president trump says, oh, covid, it's kind of, you know, the embers. we have some embers. we have a choice to listen to

president trump saying covid is over, don't worry about it or listen to people like the doctors who say that there are these disturbing surges that are happening and we are on the wrong road going in the wrong direction. we as americans get to choose who we listen to. to president trump or the actual doctors. >> and i wonder, doctor, especially as you put it in very stark terms here, the greatest failure, the greatest public health failure in the history of the u.s., i mean, that is pretty stark in terms you put it. one of the solutions here is obviously going to be a vaccine. so i wanted to ask you, doctor -- sorry. go on. >> that's the whole point. i think we -- this is part of the failure of the federal government. they keep on talking about this as though we're going to magic solution our way out of it. some bio medical miracle.

first hydroxychloroquine and then remdesivir and now it's a vaccine. first of all, i don't see a path by which we will have any vaccines available to the public until the middle of 2021. at the earliest and even that would be a world land speed record. based on the selection of candidates coming out of "operation warp speed" i don't think we're selecting the candidates for the best immune responses and highest level of protection. maybe partially protective at best and no data of the "operation warp speed" data. one did not look all that great. we are asked to believe that all of a sudden a miracle will happen sometime early next year when we have not seen any data. i have to tell you honestly, maybe i'm just jaundiced by the fact of such a horrific public health crisis here in texas that

could have been avoided but with seeing no data on the candidates i'm treating all of these as a very expensive version of the hydroxychloroquine at this point. >> we have you on, dr. hotez, when there's new information about a possible vaccine and you say i want to see the data. i don't want to see a press release. but we heard dr. fauci say that it is possible that there is a vaccine really at the new year. you are in the middle of the vaccine race and you based on what you are seeing do not believe that. he's talking about seeing some positive signs. he said there's no guarantee but some positive signs in this race for the vaccine. i wonder where the discrepancy is noting that you are very much in the middle of this race for the vaccine. >> i think tony, dr. fauci, is very well intentioned. you know?

everybody -- those four guys up there want to give some hope to the american people and i understand that's important. it's just that without any data to look at, without any realistic time lines for how that can occur looking at the fact that the first vaccine just start phase three trials by later in the summer and it's goirng to take likely a year to collect enough data showing that the vaccines actually work, and they're safe and the fact that that first vaen goiccine going clinical trial, you know, the timelines just keep shifting and so i think that we have to be realistic about that aspect, as well. again, meantime, even when we have those first vaccines they're likely to be at best partially protective and not likely replace control measures.

they will be used alongside it and have to wear masks and social distancing, have to be doing an elizabeth olten lot oe doing now and a partly a game changer but not a replacement technology and in time other vaccines will come along and as they always do we'll get new and improved vaccines and need to get away from the miracle solution magical thinking that this is going to solve our problems. it is not going to be that way. we have to recognize that we have a massive surge across our american southwest. people are piling into icus yet again. this is new york all over again. i don't see -- i don't see how things get better on their own unless we have really sound pragmatic thoughtful management at the federal level. that's communicated to the state level and even six months into this epidemic that's still not

happened. >> yeah. we do not have that. right? we just do not. we do see that. elizabeth, dr. hotez is talking about social distancing and 17 ohio students tested positive after a trip to myrtle beach and people are now not social distancing and what they're talking about with the surge of cases in young people. >> right. brianna, it is human nature. we all want to be together and go to myrtle beach. everybody wants to go to myrtle beach, to have fun. it is completely understandable and when leadership doesn't tell you, hey guys, i am so sorry but now's not the time to have fun and the time to social distance as much as possible and certain things to do to keep the economy going. a trip to myrtle beach is not one of them at the moment. that would be what leadership should say. right? leadership should be saying

let's be reasonable here and let's do social distancing and wear masks but they're not saying that. that's the trouble here is that there's no voice telling us i know it's been four months. i'm sorry this is so long and sorry you just have to keep at it. >> it's really amazing. dr. hotez, a final word to you. we are just hearing from the trump campaign, they held up his rally as an example why it's okay for large groups to gather and we have no idea, right, what the effect is of 6,200 people there in tulsa. this isn't what should be heard at this point in time when everybody is stir crazy and want to have some fun in the sun. >> well, the extraordinary thing about these rallies is they're being held in areas of the country seeing the steepest acceleration of the number of

cases. you know? how could anybody justify that at any level? i understood there was going to be an effort to move it -- the next one in phoenix which is as bad as houston or even worse right now or even in florida. i don't understand how those kinds of decisions are made. it is as though -- you know, it is almost as though they have thrown in the towel and basically said we have given up on trying to control covid-19 in america. and maybe this is a farewell tour. i don't understand why anybody would make such awful public health decisions. i think it's important the public health leaders speak out on this, as well. we cannot be holding rallies in the states, in the cities especially in the metro areas where people are piling into intensive care units. >> doctor, thank you so much for the reality check and, elizabeth cohen, always good to see you. the president's administration and the campaign

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president trump is set to arrive in arizona any moment now where he will be holding a number of events in a state where coronavirus cases are surging, the president will first make a stop at the border

wall before heading to phoenix to address thousands of young support es inside of a church. no masks required for that event which the mayor said violates safety rules against large gatherings. all of this is happening in a state as you can see here that is quickly becoming a hot spot in the coronavirus outbreak. today setting a new single day record with more than 3,500 new cases and 42 deaths. that is just today so far and it is still morning in arizona. before leaving for arizona trump insisting he was serious when he said he asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing. that contradicts claims from the top advisers saying that the president was just joking. >> it was a comment that he made in jest, it is a comment he made in passing. >> you know it was tongue in cheek. come on now. come on now. that was tongue in cheek. >> i don't know that it was. i don't know that it was at all.

he's said similar things for you. >> tongue in cheek. okay? >> it was clearly -- i understand there's not much of a sense of humor at cnn center but the president was joking. i'm not surprised you're will g unwilling to understand. >> i don't kid. let me just tell you and make it clear. >> cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house for us. yesterday you heard the administration, the campaign said he was joking. today he says he's serious. >> reporter: this has happened so many times before but what's concerning is happening of course as the pandemic is still going on, health experts say we need to increase more testing to reopen safely and now we have the white house everyone here contradicting each other once again on whether or not the president was joking about that. now, the president is contradicting aide saying that's a comment in jest and kidding and the health officials testifying right now on capitol

hill contradicting what the president said saying that their not been told to slow down testing ever to their knowledge is what dr. fauci said and you saw several other health officials testify that, as well. of course the questions are, you know, how does the president view testing and which lens does he view it through making clear that while he wants the united states to do more testing as he was saying earlier he says that he sees it as a double-edged sword because there's more cases. health experts say there's increased cases not just because that's increased testing but people relaxing measures, seeing places open back up and causing so much concern for people like dr. fauci and dr. redfield and other officials looking at states like arizona, the one that the president is going to today, and you pointed out that that rally going to be hosting much smaller than the one -- the venue at least on saturday is a mask optional rally coming as

eight of the president's own campaign staffers are now quarantining testing positive for coronavirus and several other officials are also quarantining as a measure of precaution and the president is proceeding with these campaign events. >> kaitlan, thank you for that report from the white house. i want to bring in dana bash, chief political correspondent. i was actually disparaged by the campaign not having a sense of humor about this joke clearly it's not funny, right? talking about something that has killed so many people and that has toetally up ended life for millions of americans. >> it is not funny but what you just played at the beginning of the segment could have been on late night tv because it's absurd. the fact that the campaign went after you for not having a sense of humor and then you immediately cut to the president saying he wasn't kidding.

listen. you have to actually have -- i know i will get probably some backlash for this but you have to have a little bit of sympathy for the campaign staffers who try as hard as they can to clean up for their boss and then their boss undercuts their attempt to protect him. it's just -- it is mind blowing so that's number one. but the most important thing as you and kaitlan talked about is the substance and the fact that the president still saying that he believes that testing is not the best thing in the world after we have heard scientists on capitol hill all morning. you have had them on this program saying it's one of the worst run if not the worst run responses to this kind of thing ever in modern history and the reason is because not only was the government not prepared but more importantly is not coordinating it on a federal

level on the way that it needs to happen and this is about people's lives. this is about people dying. and the fact that the president doesn't want to know the best way to help people to prevent people from dying because he thinks that it is bad to have those numbers up because it is on his watch and he is looking ahead to his re-election is even for this white house we have heard things like this from over the past few months it is almost hard to wrap your mind around. >> it is a losing battle because you can't fight the reality that is the coronavirus. >> no, you can't. >> he is clearly trying to and people are dying and we have the numbers. >> listen. you said you can't fight the reality. what better evidence of that do we have sadly than his own rally? never mind that people were with families and people older afraid to come according to people on the president's campaign explaining away the lower numbers than expected, more

importantly, his campaign is suffering. at least six staffers are tested positive who were there. so it is hitting home in a way that even they are not recognizing and it is an exhibit a, b and c of how he cannot ignore the reality. >> tulsa having a spike. he goes to tulsa. going to arizona, having a spike. dr. hotez said it's almost as if the administration given up on dealing with coronavirus which is alarming like throwing your oars out of the boat and almost taking a tour of places where coronavirus is just ravaging communities. >> yes. the tulsa rally was planned because it was the furthest -- one of the furthest ahead they said coming to reopening and planned before the spike there.

and arizona is a swing state. and they want to go to arizona. they want to go to wisconsin. so the president and the team trying to find ways as best they can for him to be present in these states which will determine whether or not he gets elected again. you're right. it doesn't speak to the thing that they're trying to ignore which is the fact that the coronavirus is spiking in some of these places, especially where he is going today. >> all right. putting the lives of your voters at risk doesn't seem like a great strategy but, dana bash, thank you so much. >> i want to say you have a great sense of humor. >> thank you, dana. i appreciate that. as do you. thank you. president trump ord eing the feds to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys statues after protesters try to topple andrew jackson outside of the white house. under way right now, the funeral service for rayshard brooks killed by police in atlanta.

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a diagnosis and an apology. tennis star novak djokovic saying he is sorry and they are wil the coronavirus facing scrutiny for holding a tn nis charity event that had no social distancing. three other tennis players who participated have also become infected with the virus. more now from cnn's christina macfarland in london. >> the world's number one tennis player tested positive for coronavirus catching the disease in a tournament that he organized and competed in in the balkans. he and his wife announced they have tested positive meaning he is the fourth player at the tournament to test positive in the last two days and now facing huge scrutiny for staging the charitable event without social distancing measures in place even though he cysts it stuck to government rules. in the past two weeks thousands of fans traveled to watch matches between players in

contact with each other and seen high fiving and hugging on the court, playing basketball and soccer in between matches and dancing together at a nightclub. the tournament manager said he's sorry for each individual infection and will self isolate for 14 days but this is sure to hammer the reputation and have ramifications for tennis as a whole with the u.s. open looking to get back under way in less than two months. brianna? >> thank you. right now, the funeral service for rayshard brooks who was killed by police in atlanta. the family will be speaking in just moments. stand by for that. >> that is the spirit of the lord. just a little bit. veterans, do you have a va loan?

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guy car broke down and he didn't have a ride. when ray seen josh walking home, he got off his bike, he pushed it and walked right alongside of josh so he wasn't alone for a full two hours. that's the type of man ray was. he looked out for everyone. when a single mother next door to him was being abused ray gave him a taste of the medicine and told him never to come back. and he didn't. he proceeded to look out for that single mom as well as her child. ray had a significant impact not only on our team but my clients. they called him legal aid. because he knew the answers to everything. he was smart as a whip. there was never a task too great or too small for ray. he was helpful almost to a fault. he never had a bad day. he radiated such a bright light that regardless of the cowardly

act that took his life his light will not be dimmed and will shine so bright even in his absence. i believe we'll have the tough, hard, overdue conversation of race and what it means to be black in america. i believe through ray's death we will have the police reform for black and brown people that includes compassion, grace, mercy, understanding instead of fear, judgment, bias and the automatic presumption of guilt. i believe through ray's death our daughters and sons' lives will be spared. they will not have to suffer the same as others and the countless others before them. i believe there will come a die we no longer have the dreaded police talk with the brown babies. through ray's death we will live in a world we are not afraid of police but know them as guardians, protectors and

peacemakers of the communities. his life will not be in vain. ray's life will forever be a beacon of hope, change, love, resilience, living life to the fullest, elevating those around you, displaying agape love, the love in the highest form. ray's bright light will forever change the world. our ray of light, a poem. how dare you hurt -- hunt ray down? didn't you know he wore a crown? didn't you know he was a king? to blessing memory and dream. to mika, tamika, my construction team. all of his loved ones and everyone who knew him are now left to navigate this pain. oh but do you feel it? because i feel it.

ray's life will not be in vain. you see ray was in the midst of building, building something big, grand, life anew. the lord tells us, joy comes in the morning and so does the morning dew. i feel it in my spirit and i know you do, too. for through ray's death he will save the lives of our daughters and sons. there is a movement, a shift in the atmosphere for this will be his legacy. the battle is won. ray has made it abundantly clear. the rage, anger and fear that appears in the heart, souls and action of those that callously don't care. through our ray of light all those who turned a blind eye finally recognize and acknowledge the plight of those brown and black and it is not the same of those that are white. we have to all come together, do better, protect our fathers,

uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins and sons to be great, greater than what the system traps them into becoming for we are all created in his image, designed as masterpieces for living and loving. our ray of light. for you can never dim his light. it will forever shine so very bright. thank you. [ applause ] ♪ >> first of all i want to give honor to god.

i want to give honor to god because he is the leader. he knows everything before it even happen. i'm not much of a speaker but i am going to say this. i want to thank everybody who supported the brooks family. tamika, my daughter. my grand kids. from the depths of my heart, i really thank you guys. rayshard. gave me the honor not just to be a mother-in-law but a mom. he never called me mother-in-law. this is my mother-in-law. he always took me as mom. and i always took him as son. i never called him rayshard. i called him my son. because that's what he were to me and he still is in my heart, my son.

rayshard took care of his family. like any other man, young man out here could do. especially with the time and the situations that's happening now with the covid and the jobs. that's less and the church is not opening right now. because but he tried to do what he could do and he did a good job. i'm going to say something very funny because right now i think all of us need a smile. on our faces. me and rayshard used to have barbecue challenges. and he knew tamika, they love lamb. i don't like lamb. and i tell rayshard, i say, rayshard, i say, oh, ain't you going to put the fire down?

he said i got this, mom. i got this. he would get a glass of water to try to put the fire down and the smoke still coming and could barbecue, i had to teach him secrets to it. but he ate some lamb and then i told him, i said, well you know what? i don't eat lamb. but the last thing rayshard said when he ate that lamb he said bah. i said, okay. i said, okay. i said, okay, see? you're around for that. and awesomest thing else was he always loved old school music and i used to tell him, i say, oh, i always go baby boy on him. if you seen the movie i go, boy, what you know about that? he said, mama, i know some al green and stuff and all kind of music. i love all kind of music, mama. that's me. he had the biggest smile, the

smile that -- i mean, i look at my grand baby right there. she is looking just like him. and when i look at her, i know that he's not gone because i see her. and that's what he will want us to do. to love. not the love that he gave us but to love one another like god loved us. thank you. and i love you guys. [ applause ] ♪ >> want to bring in the national correspondent ryan young who is outside ebeneezer baptist church where the service is taking place and i think one of the things that strikes me here, ryan, you know, you are seeing this family. they're in so much pain. the death of rayshard brooks is also about something larger as well, this movement that we are seeing in the country and it just -- i mean, it feels like we

were just covering george floyd's funeral yesterday. i know it was two weeks ago but it feels like it was just yesterday. >> reporter: yeah. we are here for mr. brooks but that's a lot of the sentiment of people here in the community, especially atlanta. they feel like this is happening over and over again. when we talk to the pastor here, he was saying that now this is happening too many times where he knows how to prepare for one of these situations because he thinks about all the young men that have died and he had to preach on the sunday afterwards and of course a lot of people ask him, what is he going to preach about in the next step? he said he thought about dr. king, asking back in 1963 for some changes to how things are being done with young black men and the police department. well, that conversation seems look it's continuing so people are hoping the focus stays on the mission in terms of the idea they want to see real e form.

the mayors here, we know that stacy abrams is also here and you see people who are a part of another community who might be able to make some changes from a governmental perspective that people are looking for this. so we go for the next step, toward the wendy's, completely changed now. you cannot get into that area without a pass. there's young men with long rifles decided to take over that part of the community and not allow certain people to pass that area because they're calling that hollowed ground and an extreme but we know atlanta, especially over here, ebeneezer baptist church where dr. king preached, nonviolence and bernice king will talk about changes to see and in this city so many people here love and the conversation is continuing and she is talking right now and people are so definitely tired of the back and forth of good policing and think about this

from the police community perspective. there were sickouts after the officers were charged and we are told that's stopped but people in the community hoping that everyone can come together to have the conversation that's so desperately needed. >> ryan young, thank you so much, in atlanta for us. just in, a big regret from john bolton as he continues to speak out against the president. plus the nation's top health officials warning about the surge in coronavirus cases. because the tempur-breeze° transfers heat away from your body. so you feel cool... night after night. during the tempur-pedic summer of sleep, save $500 on all tempur-breeze mattresses. our bargain detergent couldn'tc keep up. with us... of sleep, turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone. daughter: slurping don't pay for water. pay for clean. it's got to be tide.

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pennsylvania supreme court has ruled bill cosby is allowed to appeal two issues in his sexual assault convictions. less than two years in a three to ten-year sentence for drugging and assaulting a former temple university employee at his home back in 2004. i want to bring in alexandra field. what does this mean for cosby? >> reporter: hey there, brianna. this is what cosby has been asking for, raises the possibility of whether his 2004 sexual assault conviction could be overturned. his attorneys argue an unfair trial based on two issues that the pennsylvania supreme court has agreed to consider. the first is the fact that prosecutors introduced testimony from five witnesses from women who made similar accusations that bill cosby had incapacitated them and assaulted them but cosby had never been charged for any of the acts for which those women described. the other issue that the state supreme court said they are

going to consider is information that was included in the 2018 trial from a deposition in a previous civil case in which cosby admitted that he had procured qualudes for women he wanted to have sex with. he and his defense team said he only gave that deposition because he was promised there would never be any criminal charges based on that information. a spokesperson for cosby is now, of course, supporting the decision that's been made by the supreme court to consider this appeal, calling mr. cosby thankful for this decision. brianna? >> stay tuned to see what the decision is there. thank you so much, alex field, for that report. former national security adviser john bolton now suggesting that it may have been a mistake that he did not confront president trump on his conduct during bolton's time in the white house. i want to bring in cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood. kylie, tell us about what he said and certainly this is

something that follows a lot of pressure on bolton. >> yeah, that's right, brianna. we've seen a tons of pressure and questions about the former national security adviser and why he has come out with this book now saying these things about the conduct of president trump and why he didn't really stand up to the president while he was still at the white house. and this is one of the things that he was just asked about during a "washington post" interview and he said, quote, maybe it was a mistake that he didn't go directly face-to-face to president trump with some concerns that he had about actions that were taken that questioned the legal bounds. what bolton told "the washington post" is that he did, in those instances, go to the legal counsel of president trump and the attorney general in some instances but didn't stand up fac face-to-face with the president and say you are making decisions that are perhaps outside of what is legally possible. and so this is a really

interesting admission from the former national security adviser. now he does say that what his admission was, was to push forth policy. he was the national security adviser. he said he wasn't an investigator. that wasn't his job. but this is sure ly interesting. he really, certainly hopes that if there is a transition from president trump to poe tepgsly another president in november, he hopes that that transition will be peaceful, but he said in the trump white house, nothing is certain. brianna? >> kylie atwood, thank you for that report from the state department for us. more breaking news in the coronavirus pandemic as the nation's top experts issue dire warnings on the surge. state of california now reporting a new record for cases. you doing okay?

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