"ne "newsroom" with our colleague john king starts right now. hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thanks for sharing your day with us. we'll see president trump later this hour here in washington. he's laying a wreath at the korean war memorial before heading off to wisconsin today, that a critical piece of his re-election puzzle. new polls show deepening political trouble for the president. an electoral map tipping more and more in favor of joe biden. now, we are careful about too much politics in the middle of a pandemic, but there is a clear connection here. the president needs you to feel better if his polls are to get better so he keeps telling you he did a phenomenal job and won the coronavirus fight but you live in the real world, and most of you know the fact is that fight is hardly over. in many communities at this right now, it's getting tougher. 34,000 plus new cases wednesday alone, 34,000 plus new cases wednesday alone. that's the fourth highest single day total over this entire pandemic. the top line numbers, well, they

are quaint haunting. nearly 2.4 million cases here in the united states and 122,000 americans have lost their lives so far to this virus. the economics also grim. another 1.5 million people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week. the running total of americans who have lost a job since mid-march 47.3 million. there is also politics sadly in the debate over how to stop this case surge and how to keep the economy open. wearing a mask helps, period. yet the president says some wear a mask only to protest him, and he does not consider them an essential coronavirus countermeasure. new projections again pit the president against the science. the current path where americans take the mixed approach to wearing masks ends with nearly 180,000 dead by october. if 95% of americans wear masks, the model says 30,000 fewer americans would die. new york's governor this morning says the science is clear and the debate ridiculous.

>> i say to them all look at the numbers. you played politics with this virus and you lost. you told the people of your state and you told the people of this country, white house, don't worry about it. just open up, go about your business. this is all democratic hyperbly. other really, it was never politics. it was always science, and they were in denial and denial is not a life strategy. >> one of the states struggling right now is the state of florida. brand-new numbers out of that state right now, let's get straight to cnn's rosa flores in miami. rosa? >> john, remember, when you and i were talking and experts were worried about 1,000 cases and then more than 2,000 cases, more than 3,000, more than 4,000. yesterday we crossed the 5,000 mark here in florida. today another 5,000 mark, more than 5,000 cases reported by the florida department of health and just yesterday and during a

press conference florida governor ron desantis doubling down saying he's not going to require masks statewide, but here's a reality on the ground. we talked to an expert. she put it like this. it's very simple. there are a lot of young people in the state of florida who are out and about partying, not wearing masks, not social distancing and then going home and intermingling about their parents and grandparents, going to work and mingling with their co-workers and spreading this virus. we checked the numbers here in miami-dade because miami-dade is the epicenter of this crisis here in the state of florida, and just yesterday there was a 27% positivity rate. now, you've got to listen to this because the goal for the county is not to exceed 10%. they have exceeded 10% for the past step days. when it comes to hospitalizations jackson health reporting a 108% increase in the number of covid-19 patients in the last 16 days. leaders here are concerned. the mayor of miami-dade reporting yesterday that there is an outbreak in south

miami-dade county involving farm workers that live in very close quarters. they are very concerned about these individuals. they don't need hospital rooms, according to the mayor, but they do need to be isolated, so the county is stepping in offering hotel rooms to these farm workers until they get rid of this virus. again, a lot of concern. multiple counties here in southeast florida requiring masks, but, again, governor ron desantis, john, doubling down yesterday can. you and i were talking yesterday how florida broke the record yesterday with more than 5,500 cases. on that very same day governor ron desantis had a press conference and doubled down and said he's not requiring masks statewide. john? >> every one of those numbers you go through, rosa, every day. troubling, troubling, troubling and in some cases more troubling. rosa flores, appreciate the on-the-ground reporter in the state of florida. the national numbers do look more troubling by the day.

the united states currently averaging 31,000 confirmed infections, the trajectory is a complete reversal from where we were last month. in one month the united states has added 724,000 new cases, 24,000 more americans over that period have died. the world health organization says europe recorded an increase in covid cases this week for the first time in months but look at the trajectories, look closely. you see italy and the entire european union, those are the ones down low. much more success coming down the mountain of managing. new normal than the united states, which you see in the green on top. new zealand, south korea, taiwan, have all flattened the curve, pushed it down close to zero. again, far better results than here in the united states. here the state with the worst metrix at the moment, arizona. it is recording the highest number of new coronavirus cases per captain a. the president is fond of taking after democratic governors and mayors, but look at the national map and there's a big difference in how red and blue states are

navigating this critical chapter of the pandemic. in blue cases, states won by hillary clinton states are declining and states where the president won in 2016, cases are rights and sharply. experts say it's just a no-brainer. lives will be saved with people wearing masks. 21 states along with the district attorney district attorney and puerto rico require face masks when you're out in public and you could be close to others. georgia and utah encouraging masks but not mandating them. joining us now from "the washington post" is our white house reporter. josh, it's stunning that masks, a pretty simple task, have become a giant political divide. >> reporter: they have, and -- and even in the white house you've seep it play out that way as well. i went to the rally on friday and saturday with the president and you saw not many of the president's staffers or vice president staffers wear masks.

they are testing every day saying we don't need masks. the president is not wearing the mask publicly. not many white house staffers wearing a mask. you have the president saying the cdc guidance is to wear a mask if you want to wear a mask, you should wear mask but it's really up to you and you see surging cases across the country again now. >> and so, look, i'm not a doctor. you're not a doctor although i like to call you dr. dawsey. this is a seven-day moving average of case that require masks and don't require masks, california, especially because l.a. in the middle of a surge right there and let me blank this so you see other states. florida, no mask requirement, that's the green, you see it right here heading up, right? texas no masks, you see it heading up. new york, which was the epicenter early on requires masks. it is way down here where you want to be. if you just look at that, why is this so hard? >> well, that's a good question. i'm not sure that it's just masks. i think it's policies that folks are doing on reopening, social

distancing and influx of people in and out of states. if you talk to all the experts there's a wide confluence of experts that some states having more cases than others. it's the governing seriousness, you know, of how a state is doing. it's not just masks. with that said there is a correlation there and, you know, public health experts are repeatedly saying if you're out of public, you're inside, you're somewhere where you're around people, you should wear a mask. that's what they are saying at least but you're not seeing a lot of states follow that maybe as well as public health experts would like. >> i guess let's set the science aside a bit. the president hits the road. we'll talk lately about the new battleground polling that's not good for the president. this is seven-day moving average of new cases in 2020 battle grounds, meaning states the president needs to win, needs to win at least most of them. look at the 2020 battleground the case count is going up. this is not the graphic i wanted to see here. this is another graphic of states that lean democrat and

states that lean republican. let's go back through them, please, in the control room. let's start with the 2020 battlegrounds. okay. we're not going to show you that graphic. 2020 battleground states, you see it there, are the cases are going up. doesn't the president risk as he goes today in wisconsin? he was in arizona the other day. he goes into these battleground states and he keeps saying i did a phenomenal job. the drives is behind us, and these people -- this is their life. they are going back to work. i don't care whether you're a democrat or republican or independent it's around you. you see it around you. does the president risk being out of touch? >> you see in the battleground states is that the president trailing in a lot of these places, wisconsin, michigan, saw some polling where he's not doing great in pennsylvania, florida, north carolina. a lot of these states are states he has to win. he's competitive in some of them, but in the internal polling that the campaign and rnc has done, you know, his handling of the coronavirus has

been something that the public has faulted him as well. you see some people having concerns about the protests. it's four and a half months before the election. everything could change. this is not time to be that concerned yet but you're seeing growing concern around the president because the numbers are all trending in the wrong direction. you know, some of these polls where it's double digits now at this point, those are not promising signs for him. >> not promising signs. simply saying something to everybody out there has common sense. most people do, and however they vote their real lives tell them something different from what they hear from the president. appreciate your reporting and insights. bill gates will join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta for a new cnn town hall "drives facts and fears" live here at 8:00 p.m. tonight on cnn. projections warn of a surge. we look particularly at three states. ♪ five ♪ five dollar

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well as increased testing positivity, and so because of these factors our projections are that this surge is likely to continue in the next few weeks. >> and you connect key dots. we did this earlier in our business. maybe in our business we haven't done enough throughout it to remind people. it's not just the case counts. the president says we're finding more cases because we're testing more people but the percentage of positivity is critical. please explain why. >> yeah. naturally increasing testing will increase cases, but in many of these places where we're seeing these surges the increasing cases is at a much higher rate than the testing, and the testing positivity rate is a good factor to watch, to look at that. that's the proportion of viral tests that come back positive so as that is increasing, that is showing strong evidence of a real surge. >> and jeffrey, are you also have concerns. let's go clark county nevada.

if you look at some of the numbers here they appear to be heading in the right direction but, and there's an important but, right? >> i think they are seeing some upticks that are reminiscent of what we saw in florida, texas and arizona earlier and the increasing tourism and the weather, keeping indoors might be a perfect storm for a surge if care is not taken. >> another place obviously we saw this play out in real life just over the weekend, you had a number of staffers on the trump campaign and number of secret service officers get coronavirus, test positive drives after being in tulsa, oklahoma after the real down there. tulsa county were the numbers as well heading up, and you believe if that continues it could be dangerously so. >> correct. the situation is also ripe for a potential surge there if something is not done to slow it. >> and when you say something is not done, you know, there's a

debate about masks. there's a debate about whether they should be mandated. you do see some companies, apple closing stores, disney pulling back. what should be done? >> yes. i think mask-wearing is one of the keys that we've seen in many places. they make a real difference in safe reopening, and from what i've seen mask-wearing is not at a high level in tulsa. that's one thing, but also following the social distancing directives, especially indoors around people, both for businesses and individuals. that's another factor that's very important. >> let's not be all pessimistic here. there are some places where things are going in the right direction among them the richmond area of the state of virginia. we had the mayor on a couple of months back when things were bleak there. if you look at richmond, virginia right now, that's not as low as you would like it to be, but going in the right direction, you believe? >> yes, for sure. we were a little concerned about it, but it hasn't surged. it's flattened out, and i think the mask-wearing directive in

may and social distancing adherence might have been the key to turning that around. >> and you also site as positive if we go out to oregon as well. what are you seeing out there? >> yeah, same thing there. we were seeing some increases in early june, but last couple of weeks it's really stabilized and our model has -- has projected that it's not going to keep going up and so, again there, i think careful social distancing and mask-wearing are key factors there as well. >> and so as -- as we go through this, i want to close on that point. you know, it's science if you talk to the experts like that if you talk towers involved in science, to me as a lay person to be common sense. social distancing and masks works and where you see situations where people are violating that and scientific norms, they don't. that's what you see when you go through the bad places and good places, pretty crystal clear, right? >> pretty clear.

>> jeffrey, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it today. we will continue the conversation as we'll focus on good spots as well and officials are warning more young people are starting to test positive for coronavirus. cnn's elizabeth cohen takes a closer look. >> reporter: this is the last place jerry ward thought he'd end up, in the hospital with covid-19 at age 29. >> i went to a house party for a cousin's birthday, and three days later everyone started texting me and said we all wasn't feeling well. >> reporter: jerry says ten people from that party in south florida, all in their late 20s and early 30s, have been diagnosed with covid-19. what message do you want to get out to people your age? >> they should take it serious. only go to places that are as needed such as doctor's appointments, work, stuff of that nature. >> reporter: but some young people in florida are gathering in groups and not wearing masks. florida governor ron desantis noting that in march the median

age of confirmed cases in his state was 65. now it's 35. >> what we've seen particularly over the last week is a real explosion in new cases amongst our younger demographics. >> reporter: some people like jerry have underlying medical conditions and need to be hospitalized, but most young people recover at home and have no symptoms but they can still spread the virus. >> the message is you can get hospitalized and get others infected and sick as well. you need to protect yourself and others. >> reporter: that's the message tasia graham is trying to get out. she's 23 and recovering from covid-19. she made this youtube video. >> this is like the worst feeling i've ever felt in my whole entire life. >> reporter: she's now isolate and missing her 2-year-old daughter. when you look out and see young people your age in florida out there partying in large groups without masks, what do you

think? >> honestly, i was one of the people that went out in the very beginning. now that i have covid now i think it's really important that people really take this serious. >> reporter: tasia and jerry hopingy if they tell their stories -- >> the process has not been easy and it's still probably not going to be the easiest to finish. >> reporter: then maybe others won't have to suffer like they have. elizabeth cohen, cnn, reporting. >> very important report there. up next for us the house takes its turn at debating a police reform bill.

we're taking you live to the korean war memorial here in the united states. the president and the first lady you can see walking in. it's a somber yet understated but beautiful memorial. the president and the first lady laying a wroet on thieath on th 70th anniversary and the beginning of the korean conflict. let's watch the first lady and president as they walk in. if you've never been it's really a sight, beautiful, small, but very moving memorial.

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memorial, an incredibly somber memorial to the korean war. again, we see the president and the first lady making their way and spending some time with the dignitaries and veterans on hand on this northern day 70 years ago today, the beginning of the korean conflict. we'll keep our eyes on that event. we'll move on to a new report just out taking aim at the trump administration for what it close a slow response to the coronavirus pandemic. that report from the government accountability offers office highlights a lack of preparedness by the federal government when it comes to having enough supplies on hand to help the states. our congress a.m. reporter lauren fox is on capitol hill with the details. lauren? >> reporter: well, essentially, john, what this report says is every aspect of our response to the coronavirus from getting testing up and running at an adequate level as well as those tests actually being accurate to the fact that the strategic national stockpile was never equipped to handle the kind of crisis that coronavirus caused for this country as well as the inability of the government to get out trillions of dollars in

stimulus funding out the door in a quick and concise way, all that have covered here in this gao report, and i want to read you because the gao as part of their job, as part of the implementation of the cares act was required to conduct this report and they interviewed a few officials about what they saw on the ground. this is what a couple of officials said about the strategic national stockpile. they said the strategic national stack pile did not have the capacity to provide states with the supplies at the scale necessary to respond to a nationwide event such as the covid-19 pandemic. the gao also took aim as the treasury department because of an interpretation that the treasury department had in getting those direction stimulus checks out the door, john. they gave some of that money to descendants of people who were deceased. they were not cross-referencing who filed a tax return in 2019 and who was still living that. meant that $1.4 billion in

direct stimulus checks went to descendants and not people who were eligible for that money because they were deceased. >> lauren fox, accountability is important. let's hope the lessons are learned. appreciate that reporting. the house is voting today on a sweeping democratic plan. it's almost certain to pass but prospects of legislation clearing both chambers look bleak. a senate republican plan failed a key vote yesterday when only a few democrats were willing to offer their support. the house speaker nancy pelosi this morning urging senate republicans to accept the house proposal. >> pass this bill. the senate will have a choice to honor george floyd's life or to do nothing. >> this is not the time for half measures. it's not the time for them to study. it's not the time for sham fake recome. >> cnn's congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. wishful thinking on the part of the democrat model that the republicans will change their

mind and say we'll take your bill. >> the senate republicans say this bill is not acceptable to them and the democrats have said the senate republican plan is not acceptable to them so we're basically at a point of gridlock and we expect that there's not had a bill that will be passed before the november elections. recall how rapidly this has all changed in the aftermath of george floyd's death. this suddenly came on congress's agenda. nowhere on congress' agenda before that, but democrats pushed forward on their bill and republicans initially didn't want to move forward on their own plan but then decided they wanted to have -- offer their own proposals, so suddenly it looked like there might be some bipartisan agreement that something needed to be done. well, there's not a bipartisan agreement on what needs to be done and how to solve this problem. one thing the republican bill leenz on is national mandates, a key provision that bans and has a national ban on the federal level for -- against no-knock

warrants in drug cases. it also outlaws certain police tactics such as chokeholds, and it also refers qualified immunity in order to sue police officers in civil court. none of those provisions like that are in the republican plan. instead, the republicans don't believe qualified immunity provision should be overhauled particularly in the way the democrats are proposing. they don't believe that these federal mandates should go into place. instead, the republicans have pushed to incentivize this on the state level by withholding funding before the states, if the states do not enact things such as a ban on chokeholds. the democrats say that's not good enough for them. so we're at point here, john, where both sides essentially, while they are saying that something needs to be done, they privately will acknowledge that likely nothing will be done before november. john? >> you shake your head at that. one would think that this would be the right time given what's

happening in the country for conversation and compromise but as you know, manu, better than most, washington doesn't always listen to america. manu raju live on capitol hill, appreciate that very much. still ahead, the president on the road today as the polls show him in deep trouble towards a 2020 victory. and now a number of volunteerses are helping to protect businesses in minneapolis. >> like so many people here, all the tech people here are unemployed or furloughed and people working behind the sets, building sets, doing lights, people who have a high skill set in construction. we originally started boarding up businesses to protect their windows and doors. that also meant that we would have to custom cut. there were a lot of people who were asking for our help so we had crews going out all day all over the cities. over the last two weeks we've helped 200 businesses board up and we're now taking that

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big 2016 upset. the "new york times" and sienna college polled six key battleground states all carried by the president four years ago. he trails joe biden in all six today, and in several of them by wide margins. take a look, president trump down seven points in arizona, down six points in florida and down 11 points in michigan. in north carolina, it is a nine-point deficit. trump down ten points in pennsylvania and 11 points in wisconsin in this "new york times" sienna college polling. the president's struggles include voters who were part of his base in 2016 and his struggles have republicans worried, very worried. they could lose their senate majority as well as the white house. let's discuss with alex burns. he's national political correspondent from the "new york times" and the national political reporter for "politico." >> if you know you have a problem you can fix it, but the president's problem looking into these numbers is he's down among white voters and seniors and he's down among men and so he

has many problems to try to fix all at once. >> well, that's right, john. there's very little good news for the president in any of this polling, and if you are an embattled incumbent, even someone who is not terribly popular, where you would want to be at this point sat least having a very, very solid political base of your own and then four months left in the campaign to make your case to people who aren't necessarily inclined at the start to be for you. where president trump is right now is he has lost even some people who were inclined to be for him a year ago. you're looking at, you know, again, not a majority but important clusters of white voters, white men, senior citizens, these are constituencies that republicans need. one way to think about the swing state polls, john, that you just read off trump could gain eight points across the map in every swing state and he would flip some of them back into his corner, but he would still lose the election overall because that's how far down he is in the midwestern states and north

carolina. >> right. that's what makes it so hard. he has so much to do. he has time. there's four months, but he has so much to do both state by state and constituency by constituency. let's look a more closely at the white voter struggle for the president. it's all the more critical to him because we know he struggles among latinos and african-americans and cannot count on building his support among florida. trump is up 16 in florida with white votesers but beat hillary clinton by more. only up five in arizona. biden is plus five in voters in pennsylvaniaed a biden plus eight among white voters in wisconsin. if those numbers don't change and change significantly this president can't count on getting help from the rest of the electorate, if you will. >> that's right, john. trump's base is very small to begin, and it is, as you mentioned, predominantly white and conservatives, so if he isn't able to win back some of those voters that are now

shifting towards biden, he could potentially have a lot of trouble come november. the impact of that is also on the senate which we see in that poll where biden is helping a number of democratic candidates in these battleground states. trump is trying, as you mentioned, to win at the margins some black voters and latino vote remembers, but, again, the vast majority of them are going to vote for biden per the polls that we've seen so far. one of the striking numbers also from that poll that i noticed was that biden is ahead of trump by roughly about 17 points in terms of registered voters who didn't vote in the 2016 election, and so, again, that is good news for biden because he is also trying to win back some of the voters that voted for obama and sat out in 2016 and didn't vote for clinton. >> both campaigns trying to go after those voters who didn't

come out last time. this is a number to keep watching. alex, there's no mistaking here that republicans are nervous because they would like to keep a republican in the white house even though many republican members of the senate roll their eyes at this president, but they would like to keep their senate majority, and if you look at the battleground polling, you go to michigan, gary peters winning quite comfortbly in his race. arizona, mark kelly, the democratic challenger is ahead over the incumbent senator martha mcsally and north carolina it's very close but your incumbent there is rudy tomjanovichies, the republic, you could call it a democratic lead or statistical heat but the map does not look good for senators either and we know there's very little ticket-splitting so the republicans are nervous that those republicans are dragging them down. >> that's right, john. those republicans knew that they were going to have tough races at the start of the cycle, but basically every republican senate candidate on the map except for maybe susan collins in maine made the calculation to tie themselves pretty completely

to the president and trust him to keep the presidential race close enough that they could pull through on ticket-splitting, and as you see in north carolina, that's possible for tom tollies. i don't kn it doesn't look good for an incumbent senate to be under 40% but in arizona there's not the kind of ticket-splitting going on to keep martha mcsally close in that race and doing callbacks with voters who participated in this poll, doing deeper interviews with them over the last few days, i've spoken to quite a few moderate and even conservative voters, you know, a small sliver of people who describe themselves as conservative, but in a presidential election a small sliver of your own base defecting is a really big problem, and these people saying, you know, they are fed up with trump and they are fed up with his party. they didn't like the impeachment trial. they don't like that when the president goes out and does things that they consider outrageous that you hear silence from senate republicans or people covering for him. >> interesting road ahead.

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a modest but important concession today from a top white house economic adviser. larry kudlow normally bullish on recovery prospects and this week he said there will be no second wave but a shift as he even comes to grips with the surge many states now facing. >> well, there are spikes and hotspots. no doubt about that and thereby some shutdowns in certain places or stores. >> cnn politics and business correspondent with us now on more of these, sefrveral of the. economic adjustments you might kauai them. >> reporter: the facts are and i'll give them to you straight, john. the closures are happening in the biggest states with the biggest economies and impacting the biggest companies. and that's why we're reporting

on this. apple just yesterday saying that it's going to shutter, reclose seven stores that it had happened in texas because of the increase in cases there. that comes on the heels of the company saying last week that it was going to close stores in texas and arizona, north carolina and south carolina. that is a big deal for the company and then we have news that disney is grappling with its own reopening plans. it had planned to open its flagship parks in florida and california. last night disney saying to re-evaluate the plan in california now because it's working with local authorities on guidelines. now the company is also facing pressure from employees about reopening the florida park because the employees still don't feel safe, especially with the surge in cases there. look. at the end of the day businesses need certainty, certainty to

expand and hire and all of that is going to be put on hold until they know what's happening with their existing businesses so this undermines the argument that we will have a strong economic recovery here, john. >> to that point, christina, the president talks of this as a "v" or rocket. now we'll take off like a rocket. when you see a few examples but seeing growing examples does that call that into doubt? >> reporter: absolutely. you cannot ignore this. he said -- you're referring to rocket ship comment saying a few weeks ago there's going to be no letter to describe the economic recovery because it is not a "v" but a rocket ship. the fact is no one knows how we will recover. likely an up and down version as the companies really grapple with how to keep their employees and customers safe and also reopen and until they have those questions they're not going to grow. the numbers will look better

because we are at such a low point and saying, sure, the numbers of unemployment may look better over time starting from a low point but not going to be the same as before and this is more evidence of that. >> appreciate that reporting. we'll stay on top of that. hello. i'm john king in washington. in many communities this hour, the coronavirus fight tougher. the fourth highest single day case count over the entire pandemic. the national map, picture of failure. infections rising in 29 states. compared to last week. only 11 states managing to trend down at the moment. nearly 2.4 million cases here in the united states. 122,000 americans so far have sadly lost their lives to the coronavirus. economics also a grim number