all right. i'm chris cuomo. welcome back to a bonus hour of prime time. tonight, the u.s. is tallying a record number of new covid-19 cases for a single day. more than 48,000. staggering statistic. what else do you need to know? president trump, has it finally gotten through? take a listen. >> i'm all for masks. i think masks are good. i think i would -- if i were in a group of people and i was close. >> you would wear one? >> oh, i would -- oh, i have. people have seen me wearing one. >> actually, we really haven't seen you wearing one. and you told people that you wouldn't, because you didn't want to give the media the satisfaction. and you said, many times, that you didn't like the look, and you didn't think it worked for you. see.

the fact is, you haven't worn one since the cdc advised americans, back in april, to do it. you said you were a wartime president. that means you lead, by example. this is what you said, at the time. >> i don't think i'm going to be doing it. wearing a face mask. as i greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, i don't know. somehow, i don't see it for myself. >> tonight, we're learning there is debate inside the white house on whether the president should stop ignoring the virus, and start paying attention to it. think about that. can you imagine, inside the white house of the united states of america during a pandemic, there is a division on whether or not to recognize the pandemic? 128,000 of us are dead. should you just keep talking about reopening the economy? and that this will disappear? i don't know. all the other guys are starting

to wear masks. you know, and these numbers, they're not going away the way you told me they would. yes, this election will, largely, be about this period and this pandemic. and here are the facts. 37 states are seeing an uptick in cases, over the past week. six months after we learned about this. 23 states are pausing or rolling back plans to reopen, because they didn't do it the right way. and a big reason it wasn't done, especially in red states, is because of this president and his lack of leadership. again, even with this movement on masks, which we know is a lie, here's what went with it. >> i think that, at some point, that's going to sort of just disappear, i hope. >> and i hope i grow up 6'5" tomorrow with a better right knee, twice the lung capacity, and i could play for the knicks. not going to happen.

let's bring in dr. william haseltine. it's good to have you on prime time. the idea of the pandemic disappearing. what does that mean, through a medical lens? >> this pandemic is not disappearing. this pandemic must be disappeared. and it can be, without a drug, without a vaccine, if you have leadership, governance, and individual responsibility. it can be reduced to zero, as we have seen in a number of countries. or it can be reduced to very low levels, in other countries. >> now, if the response from the white house or the president says, yeah, that's what i'm saying. i'm saying that hopefully we'll make it disappear. what's missing in terms of the message? >> you need to have clear leadership. leadership that is clear, consistent, credible, and compassionate. you need governance that has the right tools.

you need a surgeon general that has troops. and then, you need people. every individual has to take it upon themselves to be responsible. you need all three layers to work together. one, without the other, will not work. >> the idea that america -- that this was unfixable. we were always going to be here. it's inevitable. this is how it works. it's not about how we've reacted to it. what's your sense? >> well, all you have to do is look at america, county by county, state by state. and you can see that leadership, organization, and individual -- >> whoops. we lost haseltine. thank god not to coronavirus. he's making -- he was making the point to us, right now, that the idea that we had to wind up here. it was inevitable.

it's not true, on two levels. one, look at other countries, and you'll see how they've handled it. and handled it more quickly than we. even italy wound up getting through it with an economy that we didn't. in terms of time. okay? we'll see how they come out of it. they didn't go into it with the kind of economic assets we did. so, they're going to be hurting, for sure. but why is it still taking us so long? if you look state by state and county by county, you'll see, the areas that treated it most seriously, that worked the hardest on it, that got all the flack. they are reopening the best. see, because we had it backwards in some places. it was never reopen, and then we'll take care of the virus. it was take care of the virus, and then you can reopen. that was always the way it was going to be. and places that didn't do it that way have paid the price. we'll try to get haseltine back. but, even in little doses, he's a lot of medicine and we appreciate him for that. let's get a better sense of the reality of where we are and where we're headed from nick

watt, right now. >> every state beach parking lot in southern california and the bay area will now be closed for the fourth of july weekend. >> on a weekend that has raised a lot of concern. >> bars, dine-in restaurants, and movie theaters will, also, now close again in 19 californian counties for at least three weeks. today, the daily death toll in this state, like we haven't seen since april. >> do not take your guard down. please, do not believe those that, somehow, want to manipulate the reality. >> and record numbers now hospitalized in arizona. >> i'm not sure what more we can do with -- short of a total shutdown. >> record-high hospitalizations, also, in texas and long lines to be tested. >> while we opened in phases, we went from one phase to the next phase to the next phase too quickly. so we weren't able to see the data.

>> he's echoing dr. anthony fauci, one of the most respected voices on this virus. but no longer respected by all. >> he doesn't know what he's talking about. we haven't skipped over anything. the only thing i am skipping over is listening to him. >> 37 states are seeing their case counts climb. at least 22 of them, now pausing or rolling back reopening. new york city was due to open indoor dining monday. not anymore. and a new warning from the federal official in charge of testing. those under 35 are driving outbreaks right now, and testing, alone, will not be enough to stop them. >> testing is critical. but we cannot test our way out of the current outbreaks. we must be disciplined about our own personal behavior, especially around the july 4th holiday. and especially, among the young adults. >> a vaccine would, of course, be the game changer. some promising data from pfizer today. >> we have an effective vaccine

that's proven on january 1st, this thing does not end on january 2nd. it's going to be another six months, nine months, could be a year, before we get it distributed and enough shareholders to make a meaningful difference. >> nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> all right. so that's the straight take. let's bring back dr. william haseltine. i think we got him back. i just want to get you one more question. thank you for your forbearance, doctor. this has been politicized. that is not debatable. you just heard the yahoo from texas, lieutenant governor, saying he's not listening to fauci. the idea of heading into july 4th weekend and the message the president may send, by going to south dakota to be in the presence of rushmore and have people not socially distanced and masks optional, at an event like that, how powerful is that message? >> well, let me just give you a

idea of how i give my friends advice, who ask me about a barbecue. something very simple. a barbecue. i say, fine, have a barbecue outside. because it's much safer to be outside. do not go inside. if it rains, don't go inside. go home. magnify that small piece of advice by a huge crowd of 30,000 people or more gathering on the fourth of july, with or without masks, is a very dangerous situation. if you're going to be worried about a barbecue at home with friends, and you don't go inside because you might infect one another. you should, certainly, worry about a very big crowd. >> and the argument, but, it's my right. it's my right to assemble. you didn't care like this about the protests. it wasn't you can't protest without a mask. what do you make of that argument? >> you know, i am a big proponent of individual freedom.

but when somebody else's freedom impinges on mine, we all know, and we learn it in high school, in junior high school civics classes. there is a border to personal freedom. you can have all the personal freedom you want, as long as it harms no one else. the moment it may harm someone else, society has a right to say be careful, change your behavior. we do it all the time. just take a speed limit. sure. you can go as fast as you want. but if you're endangering other people, you can get a ticket and you can be pulled over. and you could even be tossed in jail. so you've got to be careful. you can't just go around recklessly driving. and that's, essentially, what it's like. you don't know if you're infected. you might be infected and you don't know it. and you could be harming other people. a simple mask is not a great thing to ask. >> and it's only when you can't socially distance. you're not asking them to wear them all the time, everywhere they go, inside, outside, no

matter what the situation is. just when you can't socially distance and you're around people that you haven't been around. all right, doctor, thank you very much. sorry for the hiccup. but again, even in small doses, you're great medicine. appreciate it. all right. we've got some breaking news in another trump battle. this one, against his own family. his niece is writing a tell-all book. he wanted to block it. it was actually his brother who tried to block it. but we may get to learn new secrets. not that they'll probably matter much. that's me. i'm a cynic. but there is news about the ability to stop the book from being read. next. he used to have gum problems. now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinically-proven ingredients

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let's bring in brian stelter for what this means for the president, his family, and voters. good to see you, my brother. what does the ruling say? what does it mean? >> this is the number one best-selling book on amazon, all across the country. even though it's not coming out for another four weeks, chris. and that's because of the title you just described. a niece of president trump saying he is the world's most dangerous man. robert trump went to court. seemingly, on behalf of the president. trying to stop the book last week. he won an initial ruling, in a local court. but now, there's an appellate court that has said this book will go forward. this book can be published by simon and schuster. that's the company that's already printed tens of thousands of copies. it's already a huge nationwide best-seller because everyone wants to know who is mary trump who, by the way, is a licensed

psychologist. what is she going to say about her uncle? we don't know for a few more weeks. but this court, tonight, says the book can go forward and can be released. >> what's the whisper? that she has tax returns because she would be signatory to a lot of the assets? >> she helped get tax returns just a couple years ago and that was just the tip of the iceberg. we don't know how much she knows. we don't know how much she's revealed. she was writing this book in secret. but just because the title of the book and the suggestion that she is going to say so many shocking things about the president, it is already a huge best-seller. and we've seen, now, two times in the past few weeks, attempts to stop trump tell-alls. first, it was the justice department trying to stop john bolton's book. well, that didn't work. it's the biggest book in the country. it's been out seven days and the

publisher's going to print more books. why? because it's a member of the family challenging the president and his mental abilities, his fitness for office. that is going to be incredibly damaging to the president. look. i heard what you said before the break, chris. who knows if it'll change anybody's mind. doesn't seem like anything changes anyone's mind these days. but a book of this magnitude could be significant as you head into august, you head into the rnc convention, you head into the general election. and you have a problem of the president member of the president's own family turning against him. >> they've been trying to sensor two stories themselves, in the last two weeks. but we'll see. you know how it works. nobody knows better than you, frankly. the chatter will come out a little bit more as we get closer to the publication date. and then, we'll see what it is. but, brian stelter, nobody gets us this kind of information faster or deeper than you. always a pleasure to see you. best to you, the wife, and the kids. >> thanks. >> be well, bud. all right. president trump, stoking the

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you know you can reach me on social media. you know i have the radio show on channel 124 sirius. i mean it when i say give me a reason. help me understand why the president would say that black lives matter is a symbol of hate. why? why would he say that, right now, about a mural that the new york mayor plans to have painted? is it because it's outside trump tower and he sees that as an attack, so he has to attack it back? but, when this is happening in this country right now, what good reason? how can that help anything? his press secretary says, later on, trump was talking about the organization, not the people.

the problem is the organization is the people. angela rye joins me now. i'm not going to ask you to give me a good reason that he would say it. but the idea of calling it that, at this time, if anyone has any interest in this movement, is there anything else they need to know about this president, in measuring what he thinks of the cause? >> well, i, first, just wanted to take a moment to address a former colleague, in kayleigh mcenany. and just invite her into what it means to tell the truth. and what the truth is, is that she clearly doesn't know much about the black lives matter global network. she, clearly, has never met the founders, who are friends of mine. patrice and alicia. she, clearly, does not understand that black lives have not mattered to this country since its foundation. she, clearly, does not understand that the framers in

the organizing documents, did not even deem black people as fully human. she, clearly, does not understand the number of people who were lynched in this country, even during the reconstruction era. i would invite kayleigh and donald trump to visit an equal-justice initiative. museum stood up, the legacy museum, by brian stephenson. to just learn history. and, chris, what i am trying to do is just ground myself in the truth about a history that i was blessed to learn from my parents, when my history books would not teach it to me, i was blessed to learn. and clearly, i have to believe these people just don't know any better. because i got to believe that they would not put, in direct harms way, people who are friends of mine, who are simply out here fighting to defund the police. to ensure that communities of color are reinvested in and police forces are divested from. i got to believe that these people are not just willingly this ignorant. to put people who are trying to

ensure that black lives matter, that black policy matters, and that what is in our best interest to survive and to find equitable outcomes in this country. i've got to believe that they're not doing this maliciously. and if that means that they just have to take a moment to learn, then, i invite them to take the next 24 hours. and maybe, even through this weekend. to look at what it would take for us to really gain independence. frederick douglas said, about independence day in this country, what, to the slave, is the fourth of july. and i would invite them to even start there. as a reading principle . so why he refuses to call people who support the confederacy, domestic terrorists, the people who support confederacy as traitors to this country but, instead, is willing to target my friends. i would invite him to learn and, then, to apologize what he's done. and then, to walk back that very toxic rhetoric, at a time like

this. >> well, as they say, bless your heart, angela rye, because you are going to have to -- >> i'm trying. >> -- you're going to have to steel yourself for some significant disappointment. we both know what kayleigh mcenany is doing. she is playing to advantage. this is someone who, during trump, as a candidate, said she didn't want to own him. he didn't represent anything about the republican party. she had all these problems with him, as a human being. she then came on my show, when she started to get a paycheck from the organization, and said he has never lied to the american people. this is the ugliness of politics. black lives matter represents an anonymical force to this president's election. that's how it's perceived. true or not? that means it's got to go. >> and that's a problem. that's a problem because black lives matter as an organization, as an affirmation, which is

really what it is, is not something we can afford to compromise. >> looters and criminals and bullies and thugs. running around beating up police, destroying their own communities. like that antifa. >> all of that is a lie. all of that is a lie, and it is the very thing that would threaten someone like manuel ellis in tacoma, washington, who was another black man that said i can't breathe. that type of mentality is what would cost breonna taylor her life. that type of mentality is what would cost elijah mcclain his life. i cannot just continue to name the thouszs of people who have been targeted by police officers just since 2013, because of their appearance. because black lives have not mattered in the mentality and the psyche of so many. not just those who wear the badge. we can go to the vigilantes that killed trayvon martin or ahmaud arbery. it is a deep-rooted problem in this country. it must be addressed. and black lives matter should not be a partisan debate or an argument.

it should be an affirmation, embraced by everyone on the soil of this land and everywhere else, all over the planet. that is just what it should be. and as long as we continue to engage in a political, divisive debate about this, we're going to have a problem. because black lives do matter, and i am requiring that anyone that wants to serve us, whether on a corporate level, in a nonprofit organization, or in a government, federal, state, or local, they have to acknowledge that black lives must matter in this country. >> right. they're just adding a b. it's a blmb. black lives matter but, you guys have to comply with the police. but -- and if you don't, then, whatever happens is okay. black lives matter but, somehow, the police are being victimized by this movement. they matter but you guys get too many breaks as it is, and reparations is crazy. it matters, but can't forget about the confederacy. that's important to a lot of people. it matters but, you know, you

guys, we've done a lot for you. it's time for you to stop complaining. that's what he is catering to. the guy puts out a video that someone says, white power, in response to people saying trump is bad. he puts it out, and then he deletes it. mcenany says the deletion is a strong move. no, it was to cover his ass for putting something out there that shows what he wants to cultivate in this country, as a demagogue. how do you deal with that? >> well, i think the way we deal with it, chris, is by dismantling all of that -- that lack of logic. dismantling all of the ignorance. and that's why i started with, let me just teach like y'all don't know because, clearly, you don't, right? if you can still make an argument about why army bases should be named after confederate soldiers, which he's doing, because you think it appeals to a base, shame on you. leadership should tell you that sometimes you have to educate

ignorance out of people. i hope that this is out of ignorance, and not malintent. i'm not confident that, that is what it is, but i'm choosing to engage in that this way, chris, because if i don't, i come on here shaking. and when i'm done with the segment, i cry. like, i can't imagine a world where, in 2020, my godson, you know, just turned 10. my best friend is celebrating her 40th birthday today. i can't imagine we're living in a world, when people see these covid numbers and the disproportionate impact on black people. i can't imagine a world where we're talking about what black people -- you know, we have a given you handouts. no, the hell you didn't. we gave you the handout. we built the entire country for free. that's a hell of a handout. you talking about reparations. people who you stole from their native land came here to build an entire economy. buildings, systems, and institutions, for you, with no compensation. they better not ever say another thing to me about a handout. and all we're talking about right now is just the ability to live. when you talk about the

declaration of independence and it says life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. right now, we're just still at life. maybe, we'll get to liberty and pursuit of happiness soon. but, first, you have to see me as your equal. first, you have to see me as five-fifths and not just something you can point to. chris, just the other day, i was talking to my dad, who you blocked on instagram. >> i did not. i only said that. i did not do that. i love him. i love the picture. >> i was talking to him. i was talking to him the other day. and i said something about a slave. and my dad corrected me, like he does. and he said, no, angela, enslaved person. stop taking the humanity away from people. and so, just those things like that, it was a nudge. my friend, when i was talking about defund the police and i was putting out everything. we'll take the body cameras, the dash cam, we'll take all the changes, right? and my friend, alicia, one of

the co-creators of black lives matter, she said, angela, you can't start that small. we have to be having a bigger conversation in this moment. our survival depends on it. and it's right, chris. we have to, for a minute, imagine a world, as my friend latasha brown said, imagine an america without racism. and the mere thought of that, chris, brings tears to my eyes because it feels so far out of reach. we have to make that a more tangible thing for us, for our kids, for the -- for future generations, in this country. we're not going to get better, until we can begin to imagine a different reality. and we're still like, we can't do that because that may cause folks here. we have to do what's in the best interest of the totality of the american -- of all of america. >> no question. no question about it. but, look, where is the hope? the hope is you and i have trafficked through a few bad cases, over the last few years. we've never had conversations like this, as long as we've had

them now. so we take progress where we find it. but we don't stop there. i listened to michael shay the other night, part of his recent comedy sketch he did. and he said we're just saying black lives matter. we just want to matter. we don't want to matter more than you. you know, it's like the lowest standard that we should be able to exist in a country that doesn't seem to seek our extinguishment. and it made me sad. you know, he's being funny and it was ironic. but that's where we are. but this conversation is proof. we would have never had it a year ago. would've never had it a year ago, and i told you the last time i had you on. i won't stop having the conversations. i had chuck d last night. we got to come at it from different angles. we got to keep going. >> fancy. you dropping chuck d's name now? you fancy, chris. >> all over the place. i've been saying it all day. >> i want to commend you because i've been watching you have the conversations. i've been watching you issue the challenges.

i am proud to say you're my friend, and i am proud to see you honor that promise. know that this is the type of content and the type of conversation that saves lives. so i am proud of you. >> well, thank you for helping me understand and do the job the right way. angela rye, god bless. best to your father. >> god bless you. i'll tell him that you didn't block him this time. >> thank you. all right. covid -- i didn't block him. telling you that right now. what she just said wasn't true. covid isn't the only medical crisis seeing spikes. opioid overdoses. we talked about mental health. we talked about addiction. we tell you how this would happen. it's happening. skyrocketing. just because our attention is shift from one thing, doesn't mean another problem goes away. let's talk to one of the nation's most important voices. find out what's going on, why it's going on, and what we can do about it. next. s that matter. fund taxes matter too. every time a fund manager sells a stock it triggers a tax liability for you.

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overdoses are spiking. deaths from drug abuse, as well. opioids, killing us even more during the pandemic. a 42% jump from last year. why? you know why. people are home alone. they're stressed. out of work. this virus, if you get it, attacks your body and your mind. it attacks your mind and your spirit and your sense of self, even if you don't have it. look how our lives have changed. look at the anxiety. all challenges, and they're all going to take their toll. we've seen the devastation of addiction, long before 2020. we feared it would get worse and it is. i want to bring in dr. nora volkov, who leads the national institute on drug abuse. thank you for taking time to be on "primetime." >> chris, good evening, thanks for having me. >> no, so important, cannot let this issue get away. it's too big. a part of the dynamic in

america, let alone, during the pandemic. what have you seen? what concerns you the most? >> well, what concerns me the most is the isolation that is affecting the vulnerability of people that have been struggling with -- to stay away from drugs, which has made it very, very difficult. and all along, we have had people dying from opioids over the past two decades. and it escalated it its peak in 2017. and we thought that we had been able to start to control it. and then, in 2019, we see it start rising. and then, during the covid epidemic, it just gets worse. the isolation. the stress that you were mentioning. the overburdening of the healthcare system, that no longer is able to provide for treatments. the decreasing ability of patients to get their methadone from methadone clinics. the inability of arranging for

transportation. many of the ones that end up homeless. those that end up in prisons or jails because of substance-use disorders. all of these issues have become devastating, in terms of the stress that it imposes on them. but also, the risk that these people have of getting infected. and if they get infected, of having adverse outcomes. so we have an intersection that is very, very little. >> they have every reason to have more trouble during this time. now, a second aspect of this i'd love your take on is that, there is no question that because of the need to emphasize covid, a lot of things within the healthcare system have suffered and been given a little bit of a deprioritization. but not like when it comes to addiction, as an aspect of mental health. 2.5 trillion approved for covid relief. only 425 million. it's a big number but it's barely more than 1% designated

for mental health and substance use treatment. we knew this was going to spike during this time. and i feel like this is an extension of the lack of parody that we still talk mental health and physical health, as if they were different and not conflated. that they don't combine. is that part of the problem here? >> it has always been part of the problem, and it's just made worse by this crisis that we're living. it is very rare to have someone that is struggling with addiction problems that, also, doesn't have co-morbid mental illnesses, anxiety, depression. and all of that just makes it much harder for them to cope and deal. and the healthcare system has, all along, been struggling to try to provide support. and now, covid, actually, with all of the urgent needs and the demands, no longer can provide that support system that, in the past, helped people to actually achieve recovery. it's no longer there for them. and, on top of that, another aspect that has always been

hurtful, made even worse, is the stigma that goes against people that are addicted or mental illness. and as a result of that, you have two problems. on the one hand, the healthcare system not wanting, necessarily, to take care of patients that are suffering from addiction because of the belief that they did this to themselves. but, on the other hand, i mean, the person that is stigmatized. no one likes to be stigmatized. so they will not go into -- to seek for help because they don't want to be mistreated or discriminated. and so, the person who would be, otherwise, receiving care, does not reach out because of the fear of stigmatization. so it is confounded by so many issues. these -- this -- this intersection between the pandemic and the epidemic of opioids. that it is not surprising that it has these very little consequences. and we, actually, don't even know what the numbers are. these are estimates that are starting to emerge.

because we don't -- actually, people, when they are dying, we -- they are not necessarily going to get an autopsy to find out what they died from. >> right. >> with social isolation, people are dying alone. and they are not necessarily recorded as overdoses. another aspect that's confounded. i mean, people may be actively seeking to overdose. so some of those may be suicides, that nobody will really understand. so there -- there is a lot of unknowns. what we do know is that it has been exacerbated. the opioid crisis has been exacerbated, and it's not going to take care by itself. >> right. i understand. we knew it would get worse during covid. we knew we had to prepare. we didn't. but that's not new when it comes to mental health. we imprison people more than we treat them. until we start treating addiction as the illness that it is and the mental illness that it is, we're never going to get

past it in this society. i'll tell you, doc, i got to let you go. but i've never said anything that got the kind of resonance as being provocative and as something i shouldn't have said about myself, as when i started talking about how useful therapy is in my life. and how much my therapist means to me. and how getting my mental health straight has been more important to me, in my life, than anything i've ever done for myself physically. it freaked people out more than anything else i've ever said because of all the stigmas involved. we've got to get past it. doctor, i know your work is in line with that. you always have a place to make arguments for that work, here. g god bless and stay healthy. >> thanks. and good message. seek treatment if you need it. >> sure. i should do it five days a week. take care. coronavirus is spiking in arizona. why? they didn't deal with it the right way. they have to get on the right page. the governor there, taking his mask off. crowd cheering, yay! let's get a view from the front lines with the doctor who is deep in the fight there. she cheering? next.

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the reality of this pandemic is in people. that's the truth behind all of the numbers and the rates. people getting sick, dying, often alone. those on the frontlines waiting day after day in to all of it. people do the job. doctor, thank you for being an

angel among us. i know you say it is just your job but i don't see it that way. nobody goes to medical school to get beat up in a pandemic 24/7 for months. thank you for doing the work and please give me some perspective. we are hearing about these tough calls being made in arizona already in terms of distribution of resources and even on the icu level. what are you seeing? >> our numbers are going up. people are getting sick. we are busier. we have been preparing. we are trying our best to get everyone what they need. our doctors and nurses and hospitals are ready but we need the people to help us.

they need to take responsibility. listen to us. mask up. stay home. physical distance. we need that from you so that we can fight it. >> doctors, i love what you are doing. the people that wind up in your care are the fat people, the sick people, the smokers. let the old and sick people stay home. the rest of us has to work and live. only get one chance at this. yolo. what do you say to them? >> you know it is not just the old and the sick that are getting the disease. the people that have underlying conditions get sicker and mind end up on a ventilator but that does not exclude every young person from getting sick and we don't know what the long-term

complications of it are. i don't know what will happen years down the road. what we will see later on. we don't know much about this virus. one thing we do know is that the prevention works. there is no treatment. there is no vaccine period. we only have prevention. masking and distancing. >> you are already at 90% capacity in your icu beds. not everybody goes in needing icu beds but that far into capacity this soon it is a scary combination. doctor for all of the scariness of this please know that people like you are a bright spot and that you resonate across the country faster than a virus can and we owe it to people like you

to do your best. thank you for what you are doing and stay healthy. >> thank you so much chris. >> all right. we are coming back after this. s. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free.

thank you for watching cnn tonig tonight. >> thank you. i am still thinking about your interview with angela rye. so much of what we said is so on point and i hope everybody had a chance to watch it except for the fact about you blocking people's fathers. >> i don't know why she spread that slander. but i will tell you what -- >> truth everywhere else. >> i love the lesson she got from her father. don't say slave, say enslaved person.