states but i think some decision makers under estimating the severity of this disease. >> reporter: ben wedeman, cnn, rome. >> and thanks so much for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. out of the 50 united states, tonight coronavirus infections are dropping in just four of them. think about that for a minute. four months into the outbreak in this country, more than 126,000 lives lost, and there are only four states in the entire nation, the ones in green where the infection rate is actually going down. in 31, the ones in orange and red cases are rising and have now been rising for several weeks. 15ther states, the numbers are holding steady. the surge is happening in small statements and large, red states and blue though mostly now in the south and west. it's not as the president likes to say because we're just so gosh darn good at testing. we're not so good at testing.

these long lines of cars are outside a clinic austin in auste some people are here for their second or third time having been turned away before. this is in the capital of texas, one of the largest wealthiest most populated states in the country where not only is the case count rising, so is the number of people being hospitalized every day. we'll talk to a doctor in houston where hospitals are operating near or at capacity. this is not from more testing. there are more infected people out in the community. in texas, it's about 15% triple what it was in may. in los angeles, the positivity rate has doubled in the last month and this new surge has prompted state and local officials to take action. cities in florida are closing beaches for the independence day weekend requiring people to wear masks. governor of kansas enacted a statewide mask order and the governor of arizona reimposed restrictions closing bars and gyms and nightclubs and parks.

new jersey seen the hospitalization rate plummet and positive numbers drop into the low single digits, even that state is slowing down plans to reopen and new york is considering doing the same. but all of this is proceeding state by state, sometimes locality by locality or one public official at a time. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell today. >> we must have no stigma, none about wearing masks when we leave our homes and come near other people. wearing simple face coverings is not about protecting ourselves, it is about protecting everyone we encounter. >> so there is that and it does mark a change and the vice president this weekend who rarely lets the word mask fall from his lips preferring to say face covering, did it, he said the m word. >> if your local official in consultation with the state are directing you to wear a mask, we encourage everyone to wear a

mask in the affected areas and where you can't maintain social distancing, wearing a mask is just a good idea. and it will, we know, from experience, will slow the spread. >> we know from experience. this is being toted by some as a sign of progress what he just said. just think about it, how incredible that is. the man who allegedly heads the coronavirus task force grudgingly and haltingly encouraging people now to wear masks. if their local officials say they should, that seems like progress? after all these number of people have died, after all we've known and how long this has been going on, that's progress. after rarely wearing a mask in public for weeks and backing the president who doesn't wear a mask and lives like the vice president in a biological bunker and everyone around them subject to temperature taking and testing and mask wearing now he's pretending to be responsible and suggests wearing a mask. why don't you put on your own

mask, mr. vice president and keep it on? the only reason he doesn't. he's scared about the president. this is the guy running the coronavirus task force allegedly, allegedly running what he's calling the whole of government effort against the disease. what whole of federal government effort? oh, yeah, he did wear a mask at sunday services at a mega church in dallas which might count for something if it hadn't been at a mega church in dallas with a 100-person choir many of whom appear in the upper age ranges not wearing masks, singing their lungs out spraying aerosol into the enclosed indoor space and people singing around them. this is where we are. going to a manifestly unsafe event and wearing a mask some of the time is progress for the guy allegedly leading the federal effort against the virus. perhaps by those same low standards, his words were an improvement at friday's first in two months task force briefing.

>> we slowed the spread. we flattened the curve. we saved lives. >> clearly someone wrote that statement, yes, it's written to make headlines and yet, some states did do that but not enough and notice he's speaking in the past tense. this is the same virus months ago. it didn't vanish like the president predicted and didn't diminish into local brush fires. it the same deadly virus. the federal government and a whole lot of governors decided to stop giving a damn about it and the vice president today defended the president holding big rallies in tulsa and phoenix and when asked a second time he rambled on for more than three minutes before abruptly ending the briefing. we do not know when or if there will be another briefing on his schedule for the virus task force. as far as the president is concerned, the picture that is plain to see compared to other parts of the world simply does not exist. before i play you what his press secretary said today, i want you

to look at this graph because it's really telling. european countries are the pink line there. we're the green. we don't want to be that green line. they trended up, the european countries about a month before we did. remember the store ies about italy, how terrible things were in italy? we're italy. they came back down because a strong coordinated national measure. they were forced to stay at home. it was hard, it was devastating economically but it worked like it worked in other places but not here. because we didn't have strong coordinated national measures and we didn't stick with it. south korea never had a big bump, same virus. they had their act together on a national level and testing and tracing and took it seriously. that was back when cases were low enough to get a handle on it. the u.s. is the green line which plateaued and is now rising sharply. that is what failure looks like and that's where we are. here is how he speaks for the president characterized the outbreak and mask wearing. >> we're aware that there are embers that need to be put out,

but these signs of decreasing fatality, increased and enhanced therapeutics we've identified, dexamethasone and remdesivir and one other they are working, remdesivir reduces hospital time by a third. these things make us uniquely equipped to handle the increase in cases that we've seen. the cdc guidelines are there recommended but not required and the president would encourage everyone to follow the orders of their local jurisdiction and cdc guidelines. >> embers she calls them. i'll say it again. 31 states are seeing rising cases. those aren't embers. if that's an ember. i don't want to see what she calls an inferno because that's what this is. as we know now, the president is done with it. no matter what state and local officials are saying and doing. how many times do you hear the

president and what she said urging people to wear masks if local officials say so? alex aczar, his secretary of health and human services said quote the window is closing unquote when it comes to stopping this surge. he might have said the same four months ago when the window really was closing. but the president is too busy saying other things. >> when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done. >> now aczar says the window is closing. he said nothing then. cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta and dean of the national school of tropical medicine at the bailor college -- baylor college of medicine in houston. she thinks people engaged in wishful thinking and summer would come and everything would be fine like the president said would happen. it's stunning to me when you see the graph of where the european

union are and where we are and we are on the same trajectory on the same path and they got it right and we didn't. i mean, it's just about leadership. >> no doubt. i mean, because you do see that we are all humans. this virus is the same in terms of how it behaves in humans around the world and those lines do tell a story. tomorrow, anderson, will be six months since the world health organization first heard about this mistysterious pneumonia cluster. we had 10 million people around the world who have become ineffected and 500,000 people who have died. a quarter of those numbers are here in the united states. the concern, obviously, anderson, as bad as those numbers are when you start to see what is happening in some of these states around the country and i've talked to officials on the ground today in these places, there is a real concern the numbers will increase. i think that's significant because this is like a -- it starts to gain momentum and then

it's no longer growing. the bigger concern, you mentioned italy is why was the fatality rate so high in italy near the beginning of the epidemic? because of the incredible strain on the hospital system, right? there were people who couldn't get in to get care and some who died preventable deaths and some called stupid deaths, absolutely unnecessary and preventable. that the a real concern. peter is here in houston. hou houston is obviously on the cusp of something like that where people may not be able to get care. they could be saying my loved one is having shortness of breath, they need to go to the hospital and they may be told look, keep them at home as long as possible. we're not sure we have room now. that's not the position we want to be in. >> dr. hotez, i know you're talking about operation cake and eat it. can you explain what you mean by that? >> well, what i mean is we are

seeing this incredibly scary rise in the number of cases exponential growth in the large metropolitan areas of the southwestern part of the united states. so phoenix dramatic rise, austin, san antonio, dallas, houston and there seems to be no end in sight with those projections. so potentially in houston, we could go from 1,000 cases a day to 4,000 cases a day if the model is right and eventually no health system could be able to accommodate this and we are not really seeing a lot of federal guidance. so in terms of how to respond and what we heard for instance from secretary aczar over the weekend is they are providing fema support and ppe and that sort of thing but in terms of a strategy, a road map for how to handle this, that's what i'm so far not hearing. maybe it's there behind the scenes but i'm not seeing evidence of it. so the states in some cases, even the counties are on their

own across the southwestern united states, and how do you handle that very aggressive rise? so far most of the governors have in the been willing to do that full lockdown that was so successful in new york and in the northeast back in march and april so they're trying to see if they can do this surgically, meaning, just close the bars or 50% restaurant and encourage use of masks or in some cases, mandate masks but stop short of that full lockdown and my point is what's the evidence that that will work? have they been looking at epidemiologist models, working with the scientists? we see the impact of these surgical strikes, whether they're going to have a reduction in the number of cases. and that i haven't seen. so what they're trying to do is trying to keep the economic opening going hoping that these surgical measures are -- might

also work. that's what i meant by have their cake and eat it. it's a noble cause but is there any evidence for it? is there any sign that will actually work? that's what i haven't seen and we're gambling with a lot of lives especially one of the unspoken parts of this story is i'm pretty convince that most of these cases or a lot of these cases and deaths that will follow over the next three weeks are happening in low income neighborhoods. so african american populations, hispanic, latino populations, native american populations and that's why i use that term humanitarian catastrophe because we're not proetecting our vulnerable populations and the deaths that will lag and now we're understanding better the permanent injury from this permanent lung injury, brain

injuries. >> sanjay, you know, again, i don't understand, early on administration referred to this as a war, as a mobilizing against, you know, an invisible enemy coming from overseas. if that's the case, i mean, in any war if we had the kind of national leadership that we've had to defend from incoming invasion of any sort and the leaders said it would be up to the states to figure out what the best defense is on a state by state basis, that would be unacceptable. i don't understand why, you know, we're sort of sitting around four months into this and sort of shocked, shocked that this hasn't gone away. >> yeah, and anderson, it might be worse than that. like even the -- not even the federal versus the states but just this idea that maybe this was sort of minimized. we buried our heads in the sand for awhile.

>> yes, absolutely. the entire month of february was lost. >> entire month. i mean, when you're dealing with the contagious virus like this and you lose a month, we're now getting an idea how wide spread this is and the reason we're learning how wide spread this is at the end of june is because we weren't testing for this. when we look back on this, there is a lot of failures, no question. somebody asked me today name a success. i had to scratch my head and think about it. if there is one success in certain places people have risen up and done the right thing but for the most part it's hard to name a success. when you look at the map you just showed, i think of that as the human body and peter was talking about surgical strikes. if that were the human body near memorial day you can say there is focal decide in various places. maybe we can attack the localized disease. no longer. there isn't anywhere on that map i'm not worried about, even the places in the beige and green because every place is vulnerable now. >> for all the staying at home

and sacrifices people have made and done extraordinary things about the country, those efforts will be squandered by the places that aren't doing it, just as we said they would back then and that's what people were worried about back then. sanjay, thank you. dr. hotez, tank you. florida where localities are closing beaches but the governor is often hard to pin down. we'll speak with a top official in the florida state government speaking against him. reporting on what absent a pandemic would be a lead story and russia has been paying a bounty for killing american troops in afghanistan, which the president claims he wasn't briefed about. we'll talk to a former presidential briefer whether that claim holds water.

you're first. first to respond. first to put others' lives before your own. and in an emergency, you need a network that puts you first. that connects you to technology to each other and to other agencies. built with and for first responders. firstnet.

the only officially authorized wireless network for first responders. because putting you first is our job.

the state of florida recorded more than 5,000 cases of coronavirus today. cities and localities are announcing holiday beach closures and mask wearing. the latest in jacksonville where the national republican convention because he wanted a

no mask packed hall and charlotte north carolina wouldn't tolerate. when asked today whether he would over ride that jacksonville mandate a spokesperson for ran desantis said the government has not given thought to that. consumer services nicky freed. what do you think that jacksonville will redwier masqu indoors? is it warranted? if it's warranted there, why not the rest of the state? >> well, you're exactly right, anderson. thank you for having me on tonight. florida hit 32,000 new cases since friday. and you're seeing a lot of our local governments step up and mandate the mask wearing and for awhile even the mayor from jacksonville said it wouldn't happen. he put that into place today. who knows if it's going to actually stay in place for the rnc. he could actually over ride it before hand. that's why i called the statewide and local government can't over ride it as the rnc

comes to jacksonville but certainly, with these upticks in cases and not just upticks in cases but the skyrocketing positivity rate, i'm not surprised we here in the state of florida where we are today and looking for ron desesantis be engaged and take his head out of the stand and realize we have a health care crisis that needs leadership at this time that we haven't been seeing from him. >> why do you think he's not doing something statewide? would it make a difference if the president urged everyone to wear masks which the white house is saying the president believes people should listen to local officials? >> that's exactly the case. here in florida we need permission from president trump before we do anything. that includes closing down or state. i called upon the governor to close down the state three weeks prior to him doing that. he only did it once. the white house gave him the nod. same thing with opening of our state. you know, we had a very methodical plan of opening the state with data driven points

when you are supposed to open it up and he abtropened it with ze enforcement. when you have this arbitrary opening, people thought we had mission accomplished. we went on a competitive news cycle and basically declared victory that we flattened the curve until which time the white house gives him the permission to do anything, you're not going to see leadership from governor desantis. >> so far by our tally, governor desantis has blamed the virus on young people partying and long-time care facilities, migrant workers, the media and increased testing like the president. he's blaming everyone but himself. >> himself. >> yeah. i mean, why do you think he pushed to open so hard simply, obviously, there is, you know, very legitimate economic fears about that state and every state and people's livelihoods. is that what it was about? it politics? >> unfortunately, we've seen

partisan politics at its worse with the covid response. they put our economy before the health and safety and wellness of our citizens. you know, of course, we're all concerned about the economy. i mean, our unemployment numbers are through the roof. another big problem that the governor tried to push off to his predecessor and people of the state of florida for not filling out the forms correctly. every single time he's tried to blame everyone else but his poor leadership when it comes to the response to covid and so i do think he's put these different blames into place to try to hide the ball of what's really happening here in the state and, you know, i'm not surprised he would blame the spike on young people because he says they're not taking it seriously. how can they take it seriously when our governor and president has had their head in the sand and ignored covid and giving wrong information, misconception every step along the way and has declared mission accomplished on an interview and gone on to say that this is behind us? so i can't imagine why they

would think this is not to be taken seriously when they're not seeing that leadership from the top. >> appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. just ahead, breaking news on an intelligence report of russians offering afghan bounties to kill nato soldiers. details when we continue. blatche you say that customers make their own rules.

let's talk data. only xfinity mobile lets you switch up your wireless data whenever. i accept! 5g - everybody's talking about it. how do i get it? everyone gets 5g with our new data options at no extra cost. that's good. next item - corner offices for everyone. just have to make more corners in this building. chad? your wireless your rules. only with xfinity mobile. now that's simple easy awesome. switch and save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill. plus get $200 off a new samsung galaxy s20 ultra. . breaking news on a story we first brought you on friday night about an intelligence report on russian boun tties on u.s. soldiers and the absence response. the u.s. official with direct knowledge says information about payments to afghan mill staitans

in the daily brief earlier this year in the spring that appears to contradict what president trump said intel just reported to me they did not find this info credible and therefore did not report it to me and vice president and calls the report a possible hoax. the new cnn report directly conthere dico contradicts the white house press secretary who said the president was not directly briefed. >> there was not a consensus among the intelligence community and would not be elevated to the president until it was verified. >> two former senior intelligence officials said it would be standard procedure to brief the president verified or not and the u.s. official said the report was backed up by evidence and while the source said there was information that did not corroborate the view, the source called it a big deal end quote and that the information was serious enough for the national security counsel to discuss quote possible response options. joining us is a former cia officer, presidential daily

briefer during the bushed a machine station and author of the "president's book of secrets." what do you make of the report this intelligence was included at least once this spring? >> it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't included because this is exactly the serious threat with grave consequences to u.s. troops and national security that typically does go into the presidents' daily brief and across decades of history the presidents' daily brief, of course there is information that isn't verified going into the pdb because it's intelligence. that's what intelligence is. it's about uncertainty. it's about the unknown and it's little bits of information pieced together by analysts to make the best picture they can for the president and those around him. the idea that it has to be verified before it goes to the president, that defeats the entire purpose of giving the president advanced knowledge of what's going on in the world through the best analysis that

the intelligence community can offer. >> and if something is in the presidents' daily brief, do most president's read the presidents' daily brief. this president is well-known he doesn't read much and there is a lot of reporting on how he likes to have briefings verbly and pictures and briefers are well aware of what he wants to hear and not. if normal times, if somebody is in the presidents' daily brief, does the president read the daily brief? >> going back more than 50 years, presidents have almost always read the presidents' daily brief every day. several of them have also had oral briefings with either their national security advisor most often or sometimes intelligence community officers who come in and brief them. richard nixon may not have read it but he was meeting with the national security advisor every did who was reading it and getting the information that way. donald trump famously does not like to read. he admitted so before taking office. so almost certainly the reports that he is not reading the

presidents' daily brief in depth are true. the problem is by the white house saying that he wasn't briefed on this, their implying this was not brought to his attention but if the reporting from barbara starr and others is true, actually, it was brought to his attention through the presidents' daily brief that takes a few minutes to read and he chooses not to. again, if that's true, it leads to another question. which is, why did the national security advisor, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state and others who read the presidents' daily brief not bring this to his attention if they knew it was in the pdb but they knew he wasn't reading it every day? that's dereliction of duty on their part. >> there is a lot of reporting about the people around the president to discuss things about russia or bringing up matters of russia because the president immediately has a very visceral reaction to that. the president obviously is

reablgir reacting to this story by attacking "the new york times" calling it a hoax. we're not calling it a 100 to 200-page document. it's a couple pages. my recollection of this is quite a small document and quite well organized and usually tailored to how the president likes -- anyinformation. >> it is tailored to each president, you're right. therefore it ink chapchanges. some presidents have longer ones. some presidents had shorter presentations. we doesn't know what donald trump's pdb looks like. he said to axios before taking office, he likes bullet points and doesn't like long reports. well, the intelligence community almost certainly adapted to that and probably gives him a format with short bullet points. even then, if he doesn't read it, you have to have a way of getting intelligence information to the commander in chief.

that might be the oral briefings that he still takes one, two, sometimes three times a week irregularly from the intelligence community but if that message wasn't getting through, then it's incumbent upon the people around him to get him what he needs. if they choose not to because the president has said don't bring me anything that's negative about russia, i don't want to hear it or if they have simply decided to not even try because they don't like getting yelled at, that's a very serious issue for us because then the president by definition is not getting information about grave threats to national security including the lives of u.s. servicemen overseas in any form and that's just dangerous for commander in chief. >> yeah, incredible. really appreciate it. >> president's trump conduct with world leaders is dicey. he prizes auto c-- joining us w details, journalist, author and

cnn political analyst carl bernstein. it deals are hundreds of phone calls. the reoccurring theme with auto cra the, crats, i was stunned how much access erdogan has to go to him any time and the response of a lot of people around the president to these calls. what are people telling you about how the president deals with foreign leaders? >> well, first point goes to exactly what you said. in dealing with these auto cra the, ts, erdogan had free press to the united states. he would call twice a week. turkish would get ahold of his schedule so erdogan knows where to reach him. he would often reach him on the golf course. their dialogue as a source said, putin gave -- putin -- trump

gave away the store to erdogan in syria. he allow american troops, putin and erdogan wanted to withdraw and he removed troops from syria and allies were open for slaughter and that's what erdogan wanted. he had a willing partnership in it with donald trump. the real thing about these calls is that they show that the president's closest national security aids, his secretary of defense, his chief of staff, his secretary of state all came to the conclusion in these calls especially, they showed that the president of the united states through being incompetent and being a bully and beating up on allies and calling them all kinds of names in the phone calls, that he himself, trump, is a danger to the national security. that is an extraordinary thing unique in our history. >> also, it seemed like they were concerned he essentially

was kind of a chump to these autocrats and gave away the story that a lot of people were stunned how terrible he was and how much he thought he was able to just kind of charm and bully people but in fact, he was just didn't know what he was talking about. >> well, as one of the sources said, a very high level source in his administration said that in dealing with putin, putin is like a grand master in chess and trump was like a weekend checkers player and the result is back to what you had a moment ago in the segment, trump would not take briefings before the calls which is traditional. putin was well briefed, knew what he wanted to get in these phone calls and trump would sit there and the calls would build himself up talk about what a great businessman he was. he would trash obama and george

w bush pled sesz soredecessors they were b.s. and putin could deal directly with him. in fact, his national security advisors came away horrified and there are voice generated transcripts of these calls i'm told if particularly republican senators were ever to see or read or hear these conversations in realtime and talk to those who have heard them, very doubtful he could retain the confidence of republican senators because they are so extreme in their negligence and his lack of competence, his lack of preparation and his concern for nothing except his own goals including reelection. >> i'm not sure it would be a surprise to the republican leader. we have the transcript or such that it exists that the call with the president of ukraine. carl bernstein, fascinating report. we'll have more on the president's conduct ahead

stoking partisan rage along racial lines, dr. cornell west joins me when we continue.

millions of men are keeping their hair thanks to proven hair loss treatments, and you can to thanks to keeps. get online access to a physician and fda-approved treatments delivered right to your door, safely and affordably. go to keeps.com/tv to learn more.

president trump has mostly ignored the spriike in coronavirus, he played golf and used twitter and had to delete his support for supporters in florida.

one man is seen driving a golf cart with trump campaign posters chanting white power. the president does watch the video, he just didn't hear the man before he tweeted they were quote great people and the president is said to yet condemn the use of the phrase white pow eve er. he retweeted a video of a couple that with drew weapon to protesters. the white couple facing off against white and black marchers certainly says, well, speaks volumes. joining us dr. cornell west co-host of a new pod cast the tight rope. dr. west, it's great to have you on. i keep getting the feeling this weekend that the president is doing everything he possibly can to amplify, promote racist language and division in this country and the idea that he retweets a picture of these, you

know, this couple clutching weapons, threatening protesters in their, you know, brooks brothers outfits, it just seems so insane that the president of the united states is doing this. >> no, you absolutely right my dear brother. i was just talking to my beloved son clifton saying we don't want to become obsessed with brother trump. we know as a neo gang ter he recycles these sensibilities and began attacking precious mexican brothers and sisters and now attacking asians with this talk about the virus. he -- maxine waters. sharon reid and teresa kaepernick and sister heidi, they are precious. they are not what he said and i tell you this, i would defend

mar marry ann mcloud trump because she as mother is pressou oupres. he seems to get psychic regeneration through expressing a certain contempt that could easily lead toward violence. we saw the guns and so forth just recently on the streets of new york of the country. how do we create countervailing voices, examples, movements of love and justice in the face of that kind of hatred contempt and move toward vicious forms of violence. not just brother trump. 5 52% of white sisters and 65% of white brothers voted for trump. see, these are fellow citizens. he's leading the country off the cliff and yet, you got these

folk in denial still somehow holding on for him out of desperation for dear life many of them dealing with poverty, not enough jobs with a living wage and decrepit school systems and indecent housing but holding on for him for dear life hoping he transforms that in such a way low and behold he can hit these issues of poverty and unemployment. >> i despair at times, he went to an evangelical church the other week after his rally in tulsa and to watch the video where he was -- he was repeating the various names he said people the slur he was going to use and the audience waiting for him to say it the slur that we all know. they erupted into cheers and

applause in a church. these were among people who identify as strong christians. they were cheering this racist terminology and eager for it. what have we turned into? we certainly have been this before. >> the great used to say will america move from perceived innocence to corruption without maturity? we've grown powerful. we've grown rich. but we haven't grown up. we have to realize there is a long history of my fellow christians hating jews, gays, lesbians, black people, indigenous people and so forth so that it's those folk around and those folk who remain home

and integrity and saying if we can't overcome and we're in deep trouble. he or she was never despaired, nothing wrong with wrestling with disparity. questions not allowing it to have the last word. >> but what do you -- what gives you hope today? i know, there is people marching in the streets and joining them and people calling for change and it seems like, you know, that's in the ai air but all th things are fragile. those can -- tides can turn. >> and they've always been fragile. this is not the first generation for this. this has been true from the very, very beginning.

we have a cloud of witnesses of all colors, all genders against forms of evil predatory white supremacy, male supsupremacy, a muslim, anti mexican practices. we got to keep track of each and every one of us, hope is as much a verb as a virtue. we have to stay in motion and know we have memories of love and justice. we have some joy tied to our witness that the world can never take away and if we have a collective effort, low and behold we can hold up this bloodstained banner a little longer. there is no guarantee that the american empire will not collapse. there is a real possibility it may. we have to fight until the end. we have to go down swinging. don't mean a thing if we don't have that swing. [ laughter ] >> that's my tradition, my brother. oh, yeah. >> dr. west, thank you as always. appreciate it.

>> all right. >> take care. just ahead an update on the us just had a charge in the officers in their day and court and when the trial will be.

let's check in with chris, see what he's working on for "cuomo prime time." >> sad to say, friend, as we sit where we are, even as we're in new york, the possibility that you may see me in a basement again at some point, maybe not into the not too distant future. why? this thing is not going the right way. you do not ignore a pandemic and think it goes away. florida is as much a metaphor as it is a case study in and of itself. i have sanjay coming in tonight to look at it directly through that lens of what the -- what the range of options are for us. we know that azar, the health

and human services secretary says the window is getting smaller to control this. what does that look like? what does that mean for the places that think they got through it already and for the places that are looking at it right many in the eye. also i have chris stewart on tonight, the congressman from utah who got briefed on the allegations and suggestions of intel that russia may have been involved in a money for kills scam with the united states. what does he believe of the intel? what does he believe the right action business the president should be. >> all right, chris, we'll look forward to that about four minutes from now. we'll see you then. next up, details from the day in court for the officers involved in george floyd's killing. i see all the amazing things you have been doing. you are transforming business models, and virtualizing workforces overnight. because so much of that relies on financing, we have committed two billion dollars to relieve the pressure on your business. as you adapt and transform, we're here with the people, financing, and technology, ready to help.

the four fired minneapolis police officers charged in the george floyd killing appeared in court today for a pretrial hearing. derek chauvin, who pressed his knee into mr. floyd's neck faces several charges, including second-degree murder. the three others are each charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second degree manslaughter. the judge announced the next hear willing be in september. he would like the trial to start in early march of next year. he also said he would likely issue a gag order if public statements on the case continue, and if that happens he would likely grant a motion of -- a change of venue motion if one is in fact filed. that's it for us. the news continues. i want to hand things over to chris for "cuomo prime time." chris? >> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. ignoring a pandemic does not make it go away. that's why states like florida

are in such dire straits. listen to its governor desantis boasting last month what great shape florida is in. >> you've got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how florida was going to be just like new york. wait two weeks. florida is going to be next. just like italy, wait two weeks. well, hell, we're eight weeks away from that, and it hasn't happened. >> what now? not going to hear him here. you won't see him here. why? because he's got nothing to say. when he had a chance to speak, he spoke too soon. he did too little, and now his state is suffering too much. new york's peak and daily cases was in what, april? the five-day average of daily cases hit almost 10,000. terrible. things here still aren't great. we're just moving in the right direction. florida health officials reported nearly 10,000 new

coronavirus