hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. and coming up here on "cnn newsroom," the coronavirus death toll soars across the globe. now only two u.s. states are seeing a decline in new cases. and health experts are warning there will likely be another epicenter coming. plus, russian military intelligence is accused of paying bounties for the killing of u.s. troops. what president trump says about the report.

and more advertisers pulling out of facebook, saying the social media company isn't doing enough to stop the spread of hate and misinformation. 10 million people. that's how many people around the world have now tested positive for the coronavirus. even more overwhelming, according to john hopkins, as of sunday, more than 500,000 have died. let that sink in. more than 500,000 people have lost their lives just in the past few months to this virus. however, there is evidence that wearing a face mask not only helps to protect other people, but it may also help keep the wearer from getting infected as well. that's according to doctor deborah birx, a member of u.s.

president donald trump's task force on the virus. another task force member, dr. anthony fauci, says he's not surprised cases here are surging. >> what has happened, i guess understandably, but nonetheless regrettably, that people took the attitude some places of either all or none. either you lock down or you just let it fly and you just ignore many of the guidelines on physical distancing, wearing a mask, shaking hands -- i mean, not shaking hands, avoiding crowds. and what happens is you see pbs on the tv that even the states that are telling their citizens to do it correctly, they're doing that. there are crowds. they're not physical distancing and they're not wearing masks. that's a recipe for disaster. it's something i spoke about time and again. we do need to open up again, no doubt about it.

we want to get the economy back, but you've got to do it in a measured way, and now you're seeing the consequences of community spread, which is even more difficult to contain than spread in a well-known physical location. like a prison. or a nursing home. or a meatpacking place. when you have community spread, it's insidious because there are so many people in the community who are infected but asymptomatic, it makes it extremely problematic to do efficient contact tracing. because most of the people who are infected don't even know they're infected. so how do you do contact tracing when someone doesn't have any symptoms? >> and dr. fauci told cnn that even once a vaccine is developed, if it's not 100% effective, it is unlikely that enough people will get it. actually accept getting vaccinated. and that will lead -- will not allow us to reach the level

needed for immunity. right now only two states are seeing the number of cases decline, which is all very depressing. u.s. vice president mike pence, though, seems to be getting on message with the doctors on his task force when it comes to masks. he's finally saying wear one in public. but he is couching it by saying listen to local authorities. now, those words as 36 states are reporting a rise in new cases. that's well more than half the country. texas, one of the hardest hit, and that is where the vice president mike pence spent sunday at a campaign rally. alexandra field reports. >> reporter: vice president mike pence touched down in the hard-hit state of texas over the weekend. he got off the plane wearing a mask. and he was greeted by texas governor greg abbott also wearing a mask. he then went on to a campaign event that put some 2,200 people inside a church.

masks were encouraged but a choir of about 100 people sang loudly throughout the rally without their masks on. still, vice president pence took time while in texas to reaffirm the importance of wearing masks, saying they are effective in helping to stem the spread of this virus. a particularly prescient message here in texas, where we have seen cases spike day after day. where hospitalization rates have been going up for some two weeks now and local officials have warned that hospitals could be overwhelmed in just a matter of weeks. all of that said, there is not a statewide mandate that requires individuals in texas to wear a mask. instead, the governor has recently agreed that local governments can require businesses to require their customers to wear masks. that's as far as the mask mandate goes here. in houston, alexandra field, cnn. now, florida is another state where the virus is surging. on saturday, florida had almost as many new cases as new york did at the height of its outbreak.

officials in florida blaming the spike partly on people getting together to socialize. well, now they say the party is over. randi kaye with that. >> reporter: the state of florida breathing a sigh of relief as the case numbers have gone down for one day after a record high on saturday of 95,50 cases, sunday saw 8,500 cases. the governor, once again, attributing that to higher positivity levels and a backlog of testing. those positivity numbers he says really are because of young people, going to graduation parties and socializing and mainly the 18 to 44-year-olds that are coming back with these positive results. still, he has closed the bars in the state of florida to make sure you can't consume alcohol on the presence where younger people might congregate. he has not closed the beaches, although miami-dade and broward have decided to close the beaches for the july fourth weekend on their own.

and also the governor still has not mandated masks around the state, although many people said they would like to see that because they think it's selfish for people not to wear a mask in order to protect others they come in contact with. meanwhile, ihme, which does the modelling for the mortality rate in this coronavirus pandemic, says if 95% of floridians wore masks, but october 1st you would see half the number of fatalities that they are now predicting you will see if those people aren't wearing masks. randi kaye, cnn, west palm beach, florida. california's governor has ordered bars to close in seven counties due to a recent spike in the virus. the virus has seen a steady rise in california. you can see there, since march. now the state has more than 214,000 infections. the governor also remming bars close in eight other counties as well. a statement from the california department of health identifies bars as one of the highest-risk nonessential businesses.

officials say they can lead to disregard for social distancing and face coverings, of course, and make contact tracing more difficult as well. joining me now is dr. o'carol. he is an emergency physician from honolulu in hawaii. good to see you again, doctor. there are stunning increases in a lot of cases. i mean, really, just a couple of places where it's stabilizing or dropping. what are you seeing in the numbers and what should be the immediate priority in dealing with this? >> yeah, it is definitely concerning. and knowing that the incubation time, the time that we really get to know what these numbers exactly are, is lagging, that these numbers are really kind of the tip of the iceberg. that so large a percentage of people are actually asymptomatic that you could estimate that this -- these numbers we're seeing are only 10% to 20% of the actual numbers that will come to light in the next couple

weeks. so it's really concerning here in hawaii. you know, our state is categorized as increasing numbers, but you can't get much lower than 10 to 15 that we've already had. two weeks ago we were having zero cases. so hawaii's mangling thus faagi and before anyone gets on a plane to hawaii from the domestic continental united states, they need to get a negative pcr test within 72 hours. so we're going to continue to watch this and manage this very carefully. >> yeah, the american fourth of july weekend is just days away. traditionally, it's not that far away. it's coming up. fireworks, gatherings, a lot of those planned gatherings, including the official celebration in washington. are you concerned about that when you talk about gatherings? >> yeah, absolutely. it's still going to happen. our nation's birthday. and there are still going to be

large amount of gatherings, even though, you know, people are going to try and detract from it. hopefully the fact that most of these gatherings if they do happen are going to be outdoors will help quell the virus. hopefully the fact that most people will be wearing masks. i would actually argue that people do a byo everything. so bring your own everything. don't share your utensils. don't share drinks. don't share any food and maintain the physical distancing. and social distancing is sometimes a bit of a misnomer. the physical distancing and the hand hygiene that we need to continue to combat the spread of this virus. >> what do you make about the messaging at the moment? i mean, the vice president unusually sort of saying wear a mask, but at the same time, he was at a church gathering on sunday and, you know, he was wearing a mask, but he had dozens of people in the choir singing their hearts out with no

masks and, of course, choirs have literally been linked to spreading events. what do you make of the messaging and the optics? >> yeah, it's concerning in that i'm really happy that vice president pence was wearing a mask. that's a change, i think, in a lot of things we've seen in the public and we do need to lead from the top. all of our public health officials, you know, dr. fauci and the heads of the cdc, fda, wearing masks in public we know that they work. there was a study that came out of the national academy of sciences that just wearing masks alone prevented 66,000 infections in new york in the month of april to may. so we know they do work. so we need to continue to harp on our elected officials to lead from the top down, and i'm happy that michael pense wce was wear it there, with regards to our

mayor here in honolulu, the mayor has only just allowed public singing. to do so you need to have a plexiglass in front of the artist. so you need to maintain the exact amount of distance. you know, the more distance that you have in between the artists, the better, but those choir members were all within six feet of each other and all belting out. while it sounded beautiful, they're putting all of each other at risk. >> yeah. >> their families at risk as well. >> it was interesting, when they sat down, they all put on masks, which is a bit like putting on your seat belt only when you're in the driveway. you had republican senator lamar alexander on sunday. he said he thinks it would help if president trump donald trump wore a mask because that would sort of lessen this political stigma around wearing it that we've seen more and more. for whatever reason, though, he does not do that. do you think the president's abs or inactions on this has an effect, the correlation with

wearing a mask and, you know, ergo, cases? >> i can't speak for all of his, you know, staunch supporters, but i think when every single one of our public health officials are recommending wearing masks and the top leader in our country is not, i think it does trickle down to the people who are going to follow and not wear -- not wear masks just because he isn't. and so i'm concerned, and i really think that he should reconsider looking at the evidence and all the evidence is supporting that masks are going to prevent this virus from transferring to other people and even possibly prevent from you wearing the -- cracking the virus. contracting the various. so it's something that he really needs to look at. >> dr. birx saying, you know, there is evidence that, you know, wearing one helps you not spread it but it also -- there is evidence now that it helps you not catch it. dr. o'carroll, thank you so much. really appreciate your time. >> thank you.

appreciate it very much. sorry, you can't come in. that is expected to be the message to american travellers from the european union. eu ambassadors are meeting in the coming hours as the continent prepares to reopen its doors to tourism this week. and the u.s. isn't likely to make the list of safe countries thanks to all those surges covid numbers. abdul aziz joins us from lind. it's an embarrassing moment for the country and the president, you can't come here, and that's what's likely to happen, right? >> reporter: that's right, michael. and it's going to be a very humbling message for washington to receive, and that message is essentially we are doing much better than you. the rate of infection in the united states is 6 to 7 times higher than that of the european union. and that will be the top of the list when these criteria are discussed today in brussels, the 27 member states will be meeting over the weekend. each eu ambassador took the

draft list to their respective countries to review. some of those countries like france, for example, have made their lists public, and just to give you an idea, france's list only had 14 countries that would be allowed in. this is a very exclusive group here. but it is for good reason. this is a hard-won battle for the european union to fight this coronavirus. tens of thousands of lives have been lost. millions of dollars in businesses lost. people under lockdown for perce months. they're simply not willing to put all of these sacrifices at risk. this is a health decision, eu diplomats tell us. and regardless of how it will be perceived in washington, it will not be a political decision, michael. >> yeah, it used to be the u.s. turning other countries away. now that's been flipped on its head. how often will the list of banned countries be reassessed? what does the u.s. have to do to get off it? >> well, eu diplomats say they will be looking at this list every couple of weeks. they will be assessing per

100,000 cases what the coronavirus rate is per 100,000 people in 14-day periods. they'll also be looking at other indicators such as testing and tracing abilities, reliability of data in a country, but it's going to be a while before the united states can get its horse in order enough for it to be welcome back into europe. there is another factor here which is reciprocity. you have to remember that about three months ago when the european union was the epicenter of the pandemic, the united states banned eu travellers from the u.s. so there's an expectation that the u.s. needs to respond in turn. needs to update its banned list of countries as well. but, again, with the u.s. having 1/4 of coronavirus cases right now in the world, it is unlikely that this is going to change any time soon, michael. >> yeah, good point. a lot of people annoyed they can't get into -- from europe as well to the u.s. good point. salma, good to see you. salma abdulaziz there in london.

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welcome back. president trump says he was not briefed about russians attempting to pay the taliban to kill u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. the story first reported by "the new york times." and since reported by several other news organizations. in a tweet mr. trump said, intel told him they didn't find the report credible. and so they didn't report it to him or the vice president. cnn's nick paton walsh with more. >> reporter: one european intelligence official told me about this russian military intelligence plot to pay taliban fighters to attack america and other coalition soldiers in afghanistan, and the basis of that scheme has now been confirmed by a u.s. official with knowledge of the intelligence to my colleague barbara starr in washington. essentially both these officials

agreed on the original premise of this plot, that money seems to have been passed to the taliban at some point. the european official i spoke to was unclear as to precisely when the supposed casualties occurred because of these payments actually happened. their number or nationality or nature as well. but the u.s. official we spoke to does appear to believe money did change hands, although the precise verification of those payments is something that is a little unclear. it appears that these began emerging earlier this year. now, for their part, the taliban have been clear they had nothing to do with this, as has the russian embassy in washington, using the hashtag, #blamerussia. the white house itself has disputed the original intelligence reports in an earlier statement, but have, in fact, suggested "the new york times" first reported this report was wrong that it had been given as a briefing to

president donald trump and vice president mike pence. president trump himself has cast doubt on the validity of the original "new york times" reports, suggesting they should release their sources, but it's a very confusing picture with one simple, very clear allegation at the heart of this, that russian military intelligence, the gru, did try, possibly succeed in paying money to the taliban to kill u.s. soldiers or coalition allies as well. as i say, my european intelligence official i've spoken to is clear that harm was caused, most likely because of thee payments, but details are still unclear. and it is, frankly, another chilling moment for the u.s.' longest war in afghanistan. and many asking why exactly these russian intelligence officials would be motivated to do this. the european intelligence official i spoke to said the russian motivation was, quote, bebuilding, but described their actions at callous, reprehensible and shocking.

one of the original conclusions as much confusion as to exactly why donald trump was not briefed about this as the white house, in fact claims, given it's such a severe allegation. another troubling departure from the u.s. objective to get out of afghanistan. the trump administration have absolutely been clear about that. they're involved in peace talks and seem even as we speak to be trying to keep their momentum alive. stall briefly over prisoner exchange. the real question being if moscow did order this, were they trying to expedite the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan or is this some smaller level unit operating on its own? the european official i spoke to said, in fact, it was the same unit said to be behind the poisoning of the father and daughter in salisbury in 2018 that were behind this. a lot of detail here. a lot of detail missing as well. but as i say, at the heart of this, a stark, chilling allegation about a russian bid to pay taliban to kill and target americans and their allies in afghanistan.

nick paton walsh, cnn, london. now, again, it would seem the intelligence about the russian bounties had been gathered months ago. i spoke with cnn's national security analyst samantha vinograd about the implications of the silence until now. >> keeping this intel kind of close holed within a close circle really signals to me that there was an effort to drag the -- drag u.s. feet when it comes to protecting americans, and that really opens up american troops to current threats right now. if we haven't imposed costs, why would putin slow down? he has no reason to take his foot off the gas when it comes to targeting americans, and that means that there may be a live threat to u.s. troops in afghanistan, and, frankly, anywhere else that putin can pay proxies to target us. >> what would be russia's motivation? i mean, especially with donald trump openly running to the

afghan exit door. and what does it say about putin's long-term goal when it comes to the u.s. well, putin has reportedly been providing arms and other support to the taliban for a longer period of time than this intelligence reporting may cover. the intelligence reporting is an escalation in terms of putin's support for the taliban, but most likely his motivation is to inflict harm on the united states. he's doing that in cyber space and the information warfare attacks and now we have conventional attacks to add to that putin to-do list. so it's to inflict harm on the united states and to push the americans out of afghanistan. the unfortunate thing is that the administration is continuing to draw down in afghanistan, despite the fact that the taliban has not lived up to their commitments. the taliban, which i just mentioned, putin has been accused of supporting. the taliban hasn't lived up to their commitments and we know that clearly putin doesn't want

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. the u.s. health secretary alex azar says the window is closing to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. this, of course, as john hopkins university reports now more than 10 million cases worldwide. more than 500,000 people have now died. the u.s. continues to lead the world in both the number of cases and deaths. more than 2.5 million cases confirmed here. a number of states seeing a surge and even closing parts of the economy that they've been opening back up. health authorities say masks help slow the spread of the

coronavirus and that widespread usage will curb transmission rates, but across the u.s., mask requirements are inconsistent. and even sometimes contradictory. experts say the confusion is putting lives at risk. here's brian todd. >> reporter: across america protests and pushback to requirements for people to wear face masks in public. >> we believe that it is our body, our choice. >> violation my [ bleep ]. constitutional rights and my civil rights. >> reporter: in florida the state where that outburst occurred at a grocery store in may, masks are not required for everyone to wear in public. some counties and cities in florida have mandated it. personal care employees have to wear them. businesses are encouraged to require them. but the governor says it wouldn't be a good use of state resources to try to enforce a rule for everyone to wear them. >> ultimately, we've got to trust people to make good decisions. >> what he should have said to the people of florida is, i put you before anything else. everyone goes out in public must

wear a mask. >> but governor desantis isn't alone. according to cnn research, 31 states do not have requirements for everyone to wear masks in public all the time. 19 states and washington, d.c. do require them for everyone. in states that don't, the rules go all over the place. restaurant, retail and personal services employees have to wear masks, but other people don't. in texas, where there's no statewide requirement, dallas county makes businesses require customers and employees to wear masks or be fined $500. experts say these varied, confusing rules could be lethal. >> certainly it is likely that absence of face coverings is contributing to disease spread in this country. it makes no sense that the policy is so inconsistent around the country. >> in three states which don't require everyone to wear masks in public all the time, arizona, texas, and florida, there are massive spikes in new coronavirus cases. california, which is also

experiencing a huge spike, made them mandatory in public a week ago. experts say it's time for mask wearing to be mandated across the country for it to be normalized, and for that message to come from the president, who has resisted it. >> we're not getting clear communication and clear modelling from the highest office. and that's really something that we need. >> reporter: but what about the argument many americans make that it's their constitutional right not to wear a mask in public. >> it's not your right to drive 100 miles per hour on a local load where roads where kids are crossing the street. >> going out in public without wearing a mask is like driving drunk, even though you don't get hurt, you might kill somebody else. >> reporter: medical experts acknowledge much of the overall information on this virus is confusing and the information often changes, but they say the pure health information on masks is clear. they'll save lives during this pandemic. and they say it's not just on the president and the governors to get that message out. church leaders, principals,

school presidents, and other community leaders all have to get in on this. brian todd, cnn, washington. brazil's president is one of several prominent leaders who have refused to wear a mask. over the weekend he once again appeared in public without one. despite his country's growing outbreak. on sunday health officials there counted another 30,000 cases from the virus. overall brazil has confirmed more than 1.3 million infections, making it the second worst-hit country in the world after the u.s. other latin american countries including peru, chile and mexico have also reported some of the highest case totals. and in nearby colombia, the infection rate also rising fast. it has now confirmed more cases than the original epicenter of the outbreak, as cnn reports. >> reporter: colombia has now registered more coronavirus cases than the whole of china. and this comes at the end of a

week where colombia has registered new daily increased records for three days. it's perhaps a sign of how much worse coronavirus is getting, not only in colombia, but all across the region, and this puts intense pressure on the colombian government, who since the beginning of june had somehow partially allowed a reopening of the economy, increasing the numbers of businesses allowed to be open, up to 43 categories, is now under pressure to have to return to a strict lockdown to prevent further increase in the coronavirus cases. the situation is particularly critical here in bogaota, the capital, where the intensive care occupancy rate is almost getting to 70% and authorities are very careful and afraid that in a few days there won't be

enough hospital beds to treat all these coronavirus patients. so, increased pressure on the colombian government to return to a strict lockdown the way it was in april and may. and, of course, increased pressure in this thin game between the health crisis and the economic crisis. the imf is projecting that coronavirus will toggle an economic crisis unseen in south america in recent times, even worse than the end of the commodity boom in the 2010s. and so there is pressure and a situation that is evolving by the minute. for cnn, bogota. iran's president says face masks will soon be mandatory for areas most at risk of coronavirus infection as the country fights a new wave of cases. sam kiley covering this for us from abu dhabi. what is the plan and what's behind the reasons for it?

>> well, michael, in short, the reason for it is that iran, which was suffered the early stages of infection, one of the worst-hit countries after china at the beginning of this pandemic, is now seeing a very clear second wave with over 100 people being recorded dead, 144 the most recent figure. every day. it was way down two months ago, billion a sustained period now of a high number of deaths, and as a result of that, president rouhani is beginning to dial back on previous lifting of restrictions and demanding that people put masks on and restrict in other locations around the country. this is what he said. >> translator: people must observe health protocols to fight coronavirus. and we have no second choice, no cure or vaccine for coronavirus has been found yet. though we must observe the health protocols.

>> now, the president also said that this has been a disastrous year for iran because it's facing the double whammy of the covid pandemic, but also american sanctions that have been poised by the trump administration since they're unilaterally, that is the trump administration, with drew from the nuclear deal to restrict iran's capacity to develop a nuclear weapon. as a consequence of that, iran is struggling to meet its needs to import medicines, the banking system is almost useless because of the trade of the dollar and the restrictions of the federal bank. the economy is due to shrink 10% this year, 35% unemployment. all of this the iranians have said in the past amounts to american-imposed health terrorism, as they call it. michael? >> sam, thanks for that.

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welcome back. asian markets fell sharply on monday. investor concerns over the coronavirus cases keeping numbers in the red. u.s. features also down. deep declines on friday as some states had to pause their reopenings. meanwhile, facebook under increasing pressure to do more to stop hate speech and misinformation on its platform. the list of companies joining an advertising boycott is increasing. among them now starbucks and the makers of jim beam bourbon.

cnn's john defterios in abu dhabi with more on this. yeah, what's overlooked, i suppose, is the speed at which this boycott is moving. it's really going apace, isn't it? >> yeah, things are moving fast, and the momentum is really strong. and i think what has changed over the last 72 hours in particular, michael, is the profile of the companies now who are joining the boycott. this started with outdoor apparel companies and ben & jerry's, which are progressive companies. everybody knows that. but now we've moved to a completely different level if you look at the names. starbucks, of course. hershey's, honda, unilever that makes the household products that we're all familiar with. coca-cola, they don't get more high-profile than this, and the company is trying to nuance its response, saying it has to take responsibility for the actions but is trying to find the right balance. this is the vice president of global communications for facebook. >> i'm not going to pretend that

we're going to get rid of everything that people, you know, react negatively to. not least, as you very well know politically there are folk on the right who think we take down too much content, folks on the left who think we don't take enough. we will continue to do what we think is the only sensible way forward to have clear rules, to bear down very aggressively on hate speech in particular, remove it from our platform where we identify, which we now do with greater speed, greater velocity and greater quantity than any other social media company. we understand this is a very flawed, intense time in the nation, and we will continue to demonstrate our sincerity dealing with this problem with the responsibility that we clearly do bear. >> and that brings us to mark zuckerberg, who is the ceo of facebook. he's perceived, michael, not to take it too seriously or fast enough. he had a phone call with donald trump exactly a month ago, and that proceeded a virtual town hall with his staff, and then he

walked out virtually because they think that he's been lagging behind others in silicon valley. most notably, the smaller competitor jack dorsey of twitter. so you hear the language. we take it seriously. they even say they're moving more aggressively than everybody else. that's not the perception and the major advertisers are speaking out. >> yeah, exactly. you know, facebook's a $70 billion company in terms of revenue. how reliant is it on advertising? can this hurt them? >> yeah, it's very interesting you bring that up because it's like the s-- it's almost too bi to fail and it's too big for companies to avoid it, but 90% of the chief marketing officers use the platform in one way or the other or the other company it bought back in 2012, twhich is instagram.

what does that mean for facebook's bottom line? it means it's overdependent on advertising. better than 90% of its revenues come from advertising. now, right now we don't know the total dollar amounts but we know that starbucks, for example, spent $95 million on facebook last year. starting to see the language change. this was supposed to be a one-month campaign or boycott in the month of july. some are suggesting it will extend beyond the month and some saying it's not going to be limited to facebook and instagram. this is black lives mater. the brands saying our supporters, consumers want us to take action, we're taking action. you better listen. >> yeah, a lot of people feel this is a sea change moment. let's see how that plays out. fascinating stuff. john, thank you. john defterios in abu dhabi. >> you bet. and let's update our breaking news out of karachi, where several gunmen have attacked the pakistan stock exchange building. the director of the exchange tells cnn there were at least four attackers, all of whom have now been killed.

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the president eventually deleted it. took him hours to do so. jeremy dimon has details on that and the white house response. >> reporter: president trump on sunday amplifying a video in which one of his supporters can be heard saying "white power. white power." >> white power. white power. >> reporter: the president posting a retweet of that video and also adds this comment, saying, thank you to the great people of the villages. that is a location in florida where this video was reportedly shot. now, the president did delete that tweet after it was online for more than three hours. and the white house says that the president simply did not hear that message before he posted that tweet. the white house's deputy press justiciary committee judd deere saying in a statement, president trump is a big fan of the villages help did not hear the one statement made on the video. what he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from many of his supporters. this, of course somebody not an isolated incident. it is the latest in a string of examples we've seen president

trump amplifying hateful or racist messages. we saw the president of course after that white supremacist rally in charlottesville saying there were very final pile. >> very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: we've seen the president retweet anti-muslim videos and many other examples exist as well. this is striking because president trump has struggled to address issues of systemic racism and racism broadly in america amid these protests since the death of george floyd. he has not in a comprehensive manner addressed that. instead, what we have seen is him fanning the flames and this is really just the latest example. now, while the president did delete that tweet ultimately after more than three hours, what he didn't do was apologize for posting it in the first place. nor did he condemn the trump supporter who said "white power". jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. backlash, you kmaeng, to that retweet has been loud and

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