hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing your day with us and a very important day it is. something is not working. those ominous words today from dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.

they come as the white house coronavirus task force holds a public briefing next hour for the first time in two months, and it comes at a new pandemic eyesies point, the crisis the white house has been ignoring at the president's demand but can ignore no more. 37,000 new coronavirus case infections in the united states on thursday. that's yesterday. a new single day high. texas, alabama, missouri, nevada, all reporting record single day case totals. texas reopened early and is now one of eight states to press pause on unwinding coronavirus restrictions. the governor there today says bars have to close their doors again to patrons, takeout and delivery can't stay open. restaurants can stay open, too, but they cannot go above 50% capacity. listen to the mayor of the state's capital city. he says a pause is just not good enough. >> pausing things and the trajectory we're on right now

has hospitals overwhelmed by mid-july. the status quo and the path we're on right now that has us in danger. >> the nation is now adding 33,000 new cases per day on average over the last week. that is faster than at any point during the pandemic. worth repeating, that is faster than at any point during the pandemic, a pandemic the president keeps telling you is fading and dying out. dr. fauci says just the opposite and he suggests one urgent step might be to abandon the current testing approach, pool testing, fauci says, would test more people at once and allow public health officials to more quickly identify hot spots. we learned the other day the president hasn't spoken with his top experts in weeks, in the middle of that. four full months into this crisis, more than 124,000 americans dead and the president. united states sounds like a man with no clue about testing and how this virus is spreading among people who show mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.

>> so we have more cases because we do the greatest testing. other countries don't test millions so up to almost 30 million tests so when you have 30 million you'll have a kid with the sniffles and they will say it's the coronavirus, whatever you want to call it. >> whatever you want to call it. the breaking news despite what the president says, some stunning new cases numbers out of florida just moments ago. let's get straight to rosa flores in miami. rosa, wow. >> reporter: you know, john, florida shattering its numbers once again. the numbers released are by the florida of department health 8,942 cases in the state of florida, again shattering the record after two consecutive days of more than 5,000 cases. this brings florida's total to 122,000

122,960 coronavirus cases to date and experts on the ground of what's considered the epicenter here in florida, here in miami-dade county, are very frustrated because of the mixed messaging that they have seen from the federal and the state levels. here on the ground local officials, mayors, are doing what they can to make sure that they can encourage, enforce the basic rules like wearing a mask, washing your hands, the social distancing, the city of miami mayor francis suarez was on our air earlier today talking about the increase in it the hospitalizations and the increase in need for ventilators here in miami, and he was asked the obvious questions, because these numbers continue to grow and the surge continues, would he consider reinstating a stay-at-home order. here's what he said. >> would you consider a stay-at-home order in miami again? >> alisyn, all options have to be on table. you know, when we see our hospitalizations go up, our icu

beds go up, our ventilators are going up, still with sufficient capacity but going up, it's worrisome. >> reporter: now i should mention that we have heard very similar things from the mayor here in miami beach as well. again, many local mayors that are very close on the ground to the people in a are infected, they know the communities very well. they are sending very clear messages. they are requiring masks. the city of miami-dade county requiring masks. as of yesterday, effective immediately, there was an imagine order issued by the city of miami that now allows city officials there to issues fines for anyone out in public not wearing a mask. john, there is a lot of concern and, again, the breaking news out of florida is that florida once again is shattering its record with 8,942 cases in just

one day. john? >> rosa, we've seen governor abbott in texas and governor desantis, governor abbott is saying these numbers need to tell me i need to hit pause. is there any indication that the governor of florida will pull back any? >> not as of yet. he had a press conference yesterday. reporters keep on asking that same questions. would he consider rolling back some of the restrictions and would he consider issuing or mandating masks to be worn statewide, and the answer is, no, he says that this is up to floridians. it's individual decisions and that he allows local leaders and mayors in cities and counties across the state to make their own decisions. now, his rationale is that most of the spread is being done in metro areas, but, john, his rationale falls flat when we have mayors here in miami-dade saying that there is an outbreak in south miami-dade in a rural

area. so, again, the mixed messaging is what concerns so many experts hear because they hear different messages from the federal and state levels and then locally mayors are very concerned, and they keep on pushing for these rules to be followed. john? >> rosa flores, grateful again. you are there in the middle of this with the breaking news for us every day. the in florida, it's a giant factor and hardly alone pushing the case count to the new records and pushing our national tracking map deep into the red. let's begin with the new record yesterday in the case count. you bring it up, 40,000 cases. if you go back through march 16th that's when the white house announced the initial slow the spread measures. south carolina was among the first to start to reopen. april 24th, way back to april 24th, the previous one-day high in cases and then we see and we knew this was inevitable. we knew the case count would go up. question is this much, this far out and is it manageable, you a you look at that a new single day record here in january. this is a month ago.

look at this picture one month ago. look at the green on this map. green is going down. it included texas. florida was stable at the time, right? a month ago, 20 states going down and 13 states steady and 23 going up. that's the orange. remember this map. this is a month ago. this is where we are now. look at all that orange and all that red. you have 32 states heading up in the wrong direct, 11 holding steady. only seven states now going down. we knew the case count would go up, in the deep red states, you see florida, texas, a lot of the west and michigan. 50% higher cases this week than last week. we knew the reopening would bring up cases. would it go like this? one of the reasons you see this, eight states just this week have paused their reopening including giant texas, in arizona, because the governors are seeing the data that they don't like. eight states pausing the reopening because of this state trend map. 32 states now heading up. let's bring our doctor from john

hobbs kins hospital. we knew the case count would go up, that's inevitable but the pace of this, when you see so many states going up dramatically, several governors deciding to hid the pause. is that when we anticipate pedestrian, or is this worse? >> this is worse than we anticipated. many of us thought that this economic shutdown being lifted and stay-at-home being lifted, the states would have put in place contact tracing teams so that numbers wouldn't spiral out of control and we wouldn't get rising percent positivity rates on tests, and it seems to be the case that many states did not take that time to have adequate contact tracing, but this is how you manage the number of cases that you're going to get and it doesn't seem that we're in that place in many states in the country. >> and so you have dr. fauci and dr. birx today talking about abandoning the way we're currently testing and going to something called pool testing. explain to our viewers what pool testing is, and whether you believe it would be helpful?

>> so pool testing instead of taking an individual blood and nasal sample from somebody, you take a whole bunch of them and put them together and run a test on that whole batch and if it's negative all those are clear and if it's positive you go back and individually test thosecismles to see who is positive and there may be the way to put this through and see what's the prevalence of the virus in their populations. this is a way to maybe improve the way we do testing now which is very individual, and we're still under counting and still missing because not everybody is coming for a test and there's still some logistical difficulties getting a test. we've done this, for example, with hiv before and this is something we need to try and clearly what we're doing now is not working in many states. >> well, if it's been done before and it's proven to be effective and we knew that testing was an issue way back at the beginning months ago, why wasn't this done months ago? why are they just deciding now? >> this is a great question. this was something that people had debated. should we move to pool test and

there were individuals thinking about it for congregate settings, jails, for sports teams, for sports teams and people traveling together that that might be one way to do togt, something we should have considered earlier, because we still have issues with capturing all these cases or else we wouldn't have types of spread we're seeing in arizona and i think we really need to rethink how we approach this virus in the future. >> i don't like dragging the doctors into politics, but i think at times it's vital because a lot of people listen to the president of the united states and a lot of them follow his lead. when you hear him as he said last night, you know, they are doing all the testing and somebody calls up with sniffles and call it coronavirus essentially being dismissive of testing and saying in recent weeks we're doing too much testing and that's why the number on the screen is going up, not because we're doing enough to control the spread of the virus. what does through your mind and what signals does that send to people? >> this is just widespread evasion from the highest levels of government and that's been characteristic the entire time

of this pandemic, that we need to do testing and need to do as much testing as possible, that it isn't something that we should be looking at at a score, and the fact is maybe people get sniffles from it and that transmits the infection and that's what happening is younger people are getting infected and transmitting it to people who need hospitalization, that this isn't something even though it just might cause a sniffle might be laughed off and evaded and the fact is that this pandemic, when you look at the administration's response has really been disappointing on all levels, and it didn't have to be that way. we squander time in january, february and march when we could have done like what countries in taiwan did and now we're faced with this pandemic that will be out of control again if we don't take action quickly. >> next hour we'll get the first public briefing by the coronavirus task force of the white house in two months, so they finally got the message that they need to do something, they need to show the public that they are trying to get back on top of this. dr. fauci saying this "the washington post" today. something is not working.

i mean, you can do all the diagramming you want, but something is not working. what you need to do is find the penetration of infected people in your society and the only way you know that is by casting a broad net. what, sir, in your view is not working, and what can this task force do today to make it better? >> what isn't working today is the fact that we're letting cases go by. they are not being diagnosed. that's the way we'd only get the rising percent of positivity meaning that this virus is spreading faster than our testing and there are cases going undetected and starting chains of transmission landing people in the hospital. what we need to do is understand who is infected. we're still having the basic problem of understanding who is infected in the community and who isn't, and that those people that are infected need not to be associated with other people for a period of time because that's what happening. we're not breaking the chain of transmission so we have to try things differently in order to stop this, because the virus isn't going anywhere until there's a vaccine and we can't have open and shut, going to be very disruptive to the business and economy. and many states did get it

right, and i think clearly not all of them did, and i think we have to rethink this whole approach in those states. >> doctor, thank you for your insights and expertise today. as always, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> up next, even as we worry about the current case count, many doctors are worried about the long-term effects for those we know haven't had coronavirus. . with fidelity wealth management, your dedicated adviser can give you straightforward advice and tailored recommendations. that's the clarity you get with fidelity wealth management.

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an urgent count at the mom but so, too, are the issues faced by coronavirus patients who were added to that count weeks or months ago. yes, most recover but doctors say that term could be misleading. there could be serious long-term effect for some patients, including permanent damage particularly to the heart and long. doctor, you liken this to the world trade center. 19 years after 9/11 we're still dealing with the legacy health effects, the frontline, police, fire, other first responders in the building. why do you make same comparison? >> i think because we've seen a lot of long-term events. even though we've seen a lot of virus for months even after they recovered from the virus they are still having symptoms. even those that didn't come into the hospital. many are still short of breath

and still having chest pain and a lot of them even though x-rays are normal and they look like they are back to normal, they still can't do what they were doing before and that's just focusing on the ones in the hospital. if we then look at a group of patients who ended up on ventilators who had prolonged hospitalizations, we're seeing significant abnormalities in many areas, in the heart, in the lungs, neurologically. there's evidence of blood clots. there's a lot of damage that's been done by this virus that's unprecedented, and we really don't understand why or how long it's going to last, and that's why we're comparing it to the world trade center and it took us years to understand what the true impact was. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. some of the things you're seeing, symptoms persisting three months after recovery including heart disease, lung

disease, is there a demographic group or is it everybody? >> i think right now most of the patient severely affected were those that were ventilator-dependant or who had prolong hospitalizations, but certainly there are patients who were not in the hospital who are having anxiety and who are complaining about the mental fog and who are having signs of prolong prolong prolonged debillity and in creating clinics that are multi-disciplinary and trying to do research and evaluate these patients is asking them to answer. what is it about one patient that makes them likely to recover easily and quickly and what is it about the other person to develop prolonged side effects and prolonged difficulties and my concern moving forward is we have a large group of patients who are still not well. we're dealing with all of those issues, and yet the pandemic continues to rage on, so the

health system in addition to taking care of all these chronically affected patients needs to be ready and able to deal with a potential surge that may be coming. >> it's complicated to say the least. really appreciate your insights. circle back to us as you learn more and keep us informed. >> thanks, john. >> appreciate, it. coming up for us in the middle of the pandemic the trump administration asks the supreme court to abolish obamacare. my skin gets so tired. this new olay serum feels so dewy, and hydrated... gives my skin an extra boost of life. it's full of energy. it finally matches me. i'm denise bidot, and my skin is powerful. and i can face anything with my olay.

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the president is taking a giant political risk at a moment of giant political weakness. the administration in a new filing asked the supreme court to abolish obamacare, the health care program on which 20 million americans depend and a program in even more demand right now because of the coronavirus pandemic. speaker nancy pelosi saying president trump and the republicans' campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the affordable care act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty. whatever you think of obamacare, this is a giant risk for reapins can a. pelosi as speaker of the house because of the role health care played in the 2018 mid terms, president trump making this move

the same polling in nine different battleground states show him trailing joe biden. julie, it's -- doing this is risky anyway. if you look at the president's poll numbers in the battleground states it adds to the risk. just a few numbers. obamacare enrollment is up 46% january to may 2020 in the middle of pandemic compared to '19. more people are relying on this program as they are stressed in health care because of the pandemic and if you ask voters favorable or unfavorable, 56% have a favorable opinion right now, 56% of americans have a favorable opinion and keep obamacare, make minor changes, 58% suggest the idea of keep it and fix it. the president is taking a giant gamble here a couple months before an election. >> he is, and if you look at some of the numbers, i mean, as you said, obamacare, the affordable care act, is popular.

people by and large do want to keep it and change what may not be working so well for some of them, but the problem for republicans and for president trump is that they haven't really made a case for what they are doing instead and that's part of the issue here. nancy pelosi is going to bring up a bill next year to afford the affordable care act and they will tell voters what they will do to improve the law as it is right now and republicans, though they have talked about repealing and replacing it, really haven't put anything forward as to what they would do and the contrast is going to be quite stark given that the administration is pushing forward on this and as you said there are many vulnerable republicans who are going to have to answer for that in their own campaigns. >> and so vivian, the president was asked that question flatly right now. what's your priority in the second term and he said he didn't have an answer, he said he'd have more experience if he got a second term. former vice president joe biden said elect me president and i'll fix your health care.

>> by guaranteeing that no american ever has to spend 8.5% of their income on health insurance, and that number will be lower for lower income people. we're also going to further reduce costs by making it less expensive for americans to choose plans with lower deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. >> i guess you could applaud the president for sticking to his principles here. he said all along he wanted to abolish obamacare in the first two years when he had an all-republican washington, they failed, flatly failed to repeal and replace but this seems to be a gift to joe biden at a time when the president is already struggling. >> and timing is everything, right, john. this week the government said that close to half a million americans who lost their health care coverage in the midst of the coronavirus economic downturn went for coverage on healthcare.gov and not only that, there's a lot of talk about what would happen with people with pre-existing conditions. we're in the middle of a

pandemic and technically joe biden was arguing this just yesterday. people with coronavirus would be considered people with pre-existing people and so should the supreme court hear this case in the fall and decide to overturn obamacare, then people with coronavirus would likely lose their health care or potentially could lose their health care. again, timing is everything. obamacare has come under a lot of scrutiny. obviously health care was a major issue of debate among democrats in the primaries. they say it's not perfect and needs to be worked out, but right now joe biden is talking about keeping americans insured at a time of great uncertainty and at a time when so many people are vulnerable to the pandemic. >> so another big issue that i want to get you weighed in on this. because of the pandemic, more and more states will have mail-in balloting. it's inevitable more states are doing this. democratic states and republicans are doing it. the president doesn't like it but listen to attorney general bill barr in an interview with npr. >> personally know, we mailed

out checks with the stimulus program and 20% were misdirected and he was asked do you think the same thing can happen with mail-in ballots? i know things can happen. it was the trump administration that mailed out dead people, team trump, the attorney general is part of that team. the states administer elections in each state and in blue states and red states where they have mail-in balloting the secretary of states and the republicans and democrats who get elected say you know what, fraud is miniscule. >> they didn't just mail out stimulus checks to dead people. they mailed out stimulus checks to 1.1 million people according to the government accountability office and obviously that's not perfect. no one is saying that the process is perfect either. thereto are a lot of pickups obviously, an this is something that's new and doing it in the middle of a global pandemic is obviously going to cause a lot of problems, but the administration has obviously taken issue with it. and president trump keeps on changing his reasons why. he said at first that he thinks that they could be stolen, although there's actually very

little evidence that of fraud in the last 20 years with regard to mail-in ballots. he also said that -- that democrats would disproportionately benefit more than republicans, but actually most of the results in the past have shown the opposite. he's even said that obama was helped with the help of death people with the pail-in ballot but they are going after this and going after this a way that they are feeling now they are zeroing in on mail-in voting because of the fact that the economy is crumbling and you have a lot of other issues that are -- that the president is facing and his poll numbers are not doing great and focusing on the process now. that's the strategy. >> washington state, utah, many others, it works. it, would. more people vote. vivian and julie, thanks for coming in today. up next, 6.2 million students and a spiking coronavirus case count. california's school superintendent on the challenge of getting back to class. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less

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and hospitalizations up more than 30%. stephanie elam joins us. at the beginning california was a model. at the moment it's a crisis. >> yeah. when you look at these numbers, it's not the way you want them to go. the numbers did drop, the number of new cases from the 7,000 number dropping to 5,349. however, that is still the second highest number that we've seen here. there are also other couple of numbers that we need to keep our eyes on as well, and that's the icu beds. the number that is filled -- that are filled right now, that's 32%. i'm sorry, 34%, and that is a record high over the last 14 days so some 1,300 patients in the hospital in icu beds right now. now, of the overall capacity for beds, they are saying that they are still just at 8%. the governor pointing this out but this is clearly something to be concerned about. a couple of things that the governor has said here. one thing, keeping borders open, not going to close them down to other americans to different states.

also saying that if necessary they can toggle back and bring back some of those restrictions, if necessary. overall here in los angeles county, which really has been the epicenter of the outbreak in california, they stopped short of saying that this had to do with the protests but pointed more to the fact that these city, the county and the state are just open more all together, so pointing back to people out working more, people are socializing more, and we've had father's day, memorial day, people getting together for graduations to celebrate them even though they didn't actually have ceremonies. they are seeing an uptick in this, and you can even see it down to the fact that the jails and the numbers that they are seeing there. just got new numbers from san quentin. they are saying 542 inmates there have tested positive for covid. of that number 514 were in the last 14 days, john, so that gives you an idea that there is a problem in the state. >> there is a be pro. we shall see what adjustments are made. stephanie emany la, really appreciate the live reporting from there, and the nation's most populous state already had a huge challenge getting schools

reopened. the 6 million plus students across 1,000 districts and add in 360,000 teachers. will this case spike change the plan to reopen? california's state superintendent joins us. thank for being with us. >> thank you. >> i want to hold up "san francisco chronicle." you can see down bottom reopening the classrooms, a major lap experiment. you're leading that experiment, sir. we've talked about it in the past. when you've seen the daily case counts this week including a record of over 7,000, does it give you pause, or do you still believe you can reopen most of your classrooms in the fall? >> well, john, we've always believe first and foremost our schools will only open if it's safe to do so, so clearly we're tracking this data. we're seeing the spikes are significant. many states have had similar space and this is something we've had to monitor.

the reality is schools in most cases won't reopen until late august and in some cases early september, so we'll continue to monitor. so we'll be ready for either scenario, in-person or staying in distant learning. with help from our governor we've almost sent the personal protective equipment to all of our 10,000 stools to be ready to be open. we've talked about 14 million cloth masks, you know, 2.4 million face covering shields for our teachers, and so we're working to be prepared to open in either scenario, but right now it's time for everyone to continue to do the things that flatten the curve. wash your hands and wear face conversation and keep physical distancing. >> some your classrooms, classroom layouts that keep kids six feet apart. good luck in that, especially in inner cities. lunch eaten in classrooms, rotations, limited number of children on buses. we've seen in the past given the

scope of your system, are you still doing that or are you redoing your building blocks assuming the healthy situation, the safety situation, gives you a green light? >> you're right. it's a huge task. you know that schools have always been impact for space, so we're literally working with our school districts, america uruguay out the cities-ins schools. and many districts have said what we need is a local library or community center where we can help expand the footprint of the campus. 78 of our child care centers stayed open during the distance learning of covid, and what they found is they have been able to use, you know, outdoor portions of the campus for instruction. they have used the game facium and other facilities to broaden the footprint of the campus, so we're going through those efforts right now. what we think is most important is to remember the three pillars that our students have to have. first and foremost is stist safety. second is we take care of the emotional needs of our students, and i have a council focusing on filling in the gaps and third providing quality education for

a our students whether that's in distance learning or in-class instruction. >> superintendent thurman, great full to you. come back again and we'll circle back through this. we certainly hope that is happening in california certainly gets better. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> best of luck. up next, the global coronavirus fight. the european union is looking to reopen but not to everyone.

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considering bans on statplaces are experiencing a surge like right here. >> reporter: here in the uk there's growing concern that covid-19 regulations and guidelines are being flouted and, therefore, there could be a second spike. people have been gathering in beaches on high numbers and having what are being described as parties and gatherings in parks and other parts of the country. that's coming in 30 european countries they are seeing a rise in covid infections, and they are saying in 11 of those countries they have extreme concern that this is significant enough if those countries don't get a handle on it that it could overwhelm their health services, and this is at a time when the european union is evaluating whether or not to allow u.s. citizens into the eu. the criteria are reciprocity. the u.s. fails on that, and the level of infection is the other criteria.

right now the eu way lower in terms of infection rates than the united states where it's spiking. nic robertson, cnn, london. more than 120,000 new cases of covid-19 in the past three days alone. the death toll is close to 55,000, no signs of peaking. on thursday, just the state of sao paolo surpassed italy, nearly 249,000. several cities in sao paolo and brazil relaxed restrictions, reopening stores and shopping malts and heading back to offices. done by president bars narrow who repeatedly insisted that unemployment and hunger could end up killing more people than the virus itself. although he did strike a rare pensive note during a live speech on facebook recognizing and paying tribute to the

thousands of people who have died during the pandemic. shasta darlington, cnn. here in the middle east a number of krucountries are exhibiting a trend. they've gotten covid-19 under control but now what might some fear the beginning of the second wave. the government there imploring citizens not to be complacent. saudi arabia is saying that this year the only pilgrims that will be allowed to go to mecca for the holy pilgrimage are those that are already inside the country. egypt, the region's most populous, dense nation, is talking about potentially beginning to try to open up even further. but an upward trend being exhibited there, as well. and then if we turn to iraq, not necessarily in the region's top five at the moment. but again, numbers are going up,

and they're especially -- there especially concerning is numbers among hospital staff are on the rise, as well. remember, the medical infrastructure there is already decimated. something that that nation can ill afford. across the board, though, governments are imploring their citizens to remember to keep social distancing and keep wearing masks. arwa damon, cnn. here in south africa, public health officials say they are reaching the surge of the covid-19 pandemic in the country. it just crossed the 100,000 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours have seen the last largest increase yet in cases. now despite this here in the country, as well as across the continent, health officials say that they haven't seen a large increase in deaths associated with an increase in cases. now they said this could be because of underlying factors like a young population. but they are also saying -- and especially in south africa --

doctors i'm speaking to are saying that the lessons learned from countries hit earlier by the pandemic are being used like using oxygen rather than ventilators for serious cases. and also administering steroids to those who are hospitalized. now, whether those have a long-term impact in the death rate remains to be seen, and the test will be coming in the coming weeks as that surge peaks. david mckenzie, cnn, johannesburg. coming up, another big company joins the facebook advertising boycott. usaa was made for right now. and right now, is a time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. right now is the time to take care of what matters most. like we've done together, so many times before. discover all the ways we're helping members at usaa.com/coronavirus

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another big financial blow to facebook. verizon says it is pulling all of its ads from the social media site effective immediately. the telecom giant is the latest and perhaps the biggest brand to join the stop hate for profit boycott. the movement started by the anti-defamation league seeks to stop the spread of hate and misinformation. the adl says it's going unchecked on facebook. cnn has more now. verizon, that's a big customer, tony. >> john, yeah. verizon joining other big names like north face, patagonia, and ben & jerry's saying that facebook isn't doing enough to tackle hate and misinformation on its platform. and the anti-defamation league released some screen shots of what they're really talking about here. there's a racist ad about a

racist post about representative omar, a verizon ad showing up next to a conspiracy post. and all these companies are really now saying that facebook is not doing enough. and you know, this is a big deal. i mean, you know, facebook makes all its money from advertising. it's an advertising business. although these are big companies, whether or not we'll actually see the critical mass, this proper snowball effect of other companies joining this and really calling out facebook and ultimately if it will have a real impact on the company's bottom line, we won't know that for, you know, a few months until we start seeing its earnings. it is a snowball at the moment. >> and tony, quickly, i understand facebook also having to tag another piece of content from the president. >> that's right. almost happening every few days now. an ad that the republican party put out yesterday attacking what they call left-wing anarchists. that ad included footage of a police sergeant here in new york

being knocked down earlier this month while responding to looting here in new york. the facebook labelled that as a graphic video. president reposted it. there is a label on that ad. perhaps more understandable to have a label on something like that, but you know, again, it just points to the type of ads and the type of discourse around politics and the election on these platforms is getting more and more coarse. and a big -- big issues and big challenges for that facebook face, john? >> thanks. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this important day with us. a big hour ahead. the white house coronavirus task force meeting publicly for the first time in two months. its members rarely see or speak to the president anymore which should give you pause.