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jury material from the robert mueller investigation likely until after the november presidential election. the court agreeing with the request of the trump administration to hear the case in the next term. the federal appeals court ruled but the administration appealed the ruling to the supreme court. thank you so much for joining me. brooke baldwin picks up the coverage from here. we'll take it, i'm brooke baldwin. hi there. you are watching cnn. the coronavirus pandemic is being handled and the u.s. is getting it under control. that's according to president trump who took this victory lap today on the latest jobs number and touting the administration's approach to a virus that has killed more than 127,000 americans and infected more than 2 million people. >> we have implemented an aggressive strategy to vanquish
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and kill the virus and protect americans at the highest risk. while allowing those at lower risk to return safely to work. that's happening. the health experts continue to address the temporary hot spots in certain cities and counties and we're working very hard on that. the relationship with the governors is very good. we made a call, mike pence made a call just yesterday and said, what do you need? not one governor needed anything. they don't need anything. they have all the medical equipment they can have. thank you, u.s. government. >> here are the facts because despite the president's rosie outlook the u.s. posted a record high for new confirmed coronavirus cases on wednesday. 50,000. that is more cases than some countries have seen in total since this pandemic began. while he and the first lady set to attend a fourth of july event
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tomorrow, an event that will not enforce social distancing, the holiday looks different for you. many beaches closed and fireworks canceled as states try to reverse the record highs. at least 23 states, just about half of the u.s. are hitting pause on or hitting pause button or rolling back reopening plans. dr. fauci warning that lifting the restrictions likely contributed to the surge we are currently seeing now. >> the problem we're facing now is that an attempt to so call reopen or open the government and get it back to some form of normality, we are seeing very disturbing spikes in different individual states in the united states. in the united states, even in the most strict lockdown only about 50% of the country locked down. that allowed the perpetual.
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>> we're tracking the fast-moving developments with the reporters in the hot spots. see them here and began in florida where the vice president is set to land in tampa in the next hour to meet with the governor and state health officials. the visit comes the same day for daily new cases. the florida health department reported that more than 10,000 new cases have cropped up just today and is the holiday weekend nears florida has no statewide mandate for masks. boris sanchez is live in sarasota. an expert said that florida is approaching apocalyptic numbers. tell me what you know. >> reporter: brooke, a very different situation that we saw just in may when governor desantis chiding reporters for asking questions about his response to coronavirus. now the sunshine state with
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100,000 new cases in the month of june. desantis made clear he doesn't intend to enforce a statewide mandate on masks or a statewide stay-at-home order the kind that shut down florida a few months ago and leaving it up to local leaders for restrictions in place. here where i am in sarasota they installed a broad mask mandate. you could face a $500 fine. other places, miami-dade county, for example, expanding the mask mandate closing beaches for the weekend and a curfew expanded keeping people out of the bars and restaurants late into the night. president trump said that hospitals have everything they need. jacksonville memorial health systems a largest in the state with a statement overnight making clear they're running out of remdesivir that critical anti-viral drug, the only one
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authorized to treat coronavirus. they're hoping the public hears this and heeds the warning going into the weekend. >> great note and speaking of clos closed beaches, talking to the mayor of fot. lauderdale on how to enforce that. thank you. turning to texas where doctors sound the alarm as cases continue to surge. texas does not have a statewide mask requirement and recorded the single day increase in more than 8,000 cases: in who is t. n in houston, there's concern of hospital capacity. lucy cavanaugh, do they have enough beds for patients? >> reporter: they have enough to deal with the numbers right now but that's not going to be su stanible if these trends continue and have been breaking records every single day. we saw more than 8,000 coronavirus cases, more than 6,500 people hospitalized in
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texas and the state reporting the second deadliest day yesterday. coming to hospital bed capacity, there's flexibility. they can cancel elective surgeries, add beds to areas of emergencies. here where we are it is a testing facility and treating covid patients and ran out of room in the covid ward a few weeks ago and then readjust and built another ward. of course, not all hospitals have that capacity and the other problem, brooke, we are going into the fourth of july holiday weekend and no statewide mask mandate here. a lot of parks are open. people expected to be out and about and what doctors say is every time there's a big holiday weekend, they have seen a massive surge and worried about what's on the horizon. >> covid ward in a hospital, something none of us knew about a matter of months ago. thank you so much, lucy, in houston. california a model of
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success with new restrictions with the skyrocketing number of infections and hospitalizations with counties on a watch list and the governor threatening to deploy strike teams to follow state public health order. dan simon in brentwood area neighborhood in los angeles with more on the lists and what the strike teams would do and just the restrictions. >> reporter: we are in front of a cafe here in brentwood. you can see folks behind me having a late breakfast, having some coffee but the notion of being able to go indoors and order off a menu with waiters was a real psychological boost and it was short lived. the governor rolling back the restrictions and what he's saying is that this is going to impact 19 counties and going across a bunch of different sectors. no indoor operations for restaurants, bars, wineries,
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museums, zoos, movie theaters. brooke, he says this will last at least three weeks or longer but we are talking about 19 counties here and this is going to impact a wide swath of the state, three fourths of the state impacted and will have another massive, massive economic impact for people that work across the various industries but the governor said it has to be done and he said he has a dimmer switch and with the surging amount of cases and the hospitalizations on the rise 56% increase in 2 weeks he says it needs to be done. brooke? >> thank you. as the country sees a staggering new number of coronavirus cases, president trump as we mentioned off the top, still seems to think the virus will disappear. so let's fact check that with a doctor. plus, cnn takes you inside a hospital seeing an explosion in coronavirus cases. this is in texas. doctors there say it is only going to get worse.
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doctor, good to have you back on. you hear these comments from the president coming a day after 50,000 new cases reported across the country in a single day and if you look at the map you see 37 states trending in the wrong direction. yet the president thinks it's disappearing. why don't you just set the record straight? >> brooke, we basically have a wildfire of covid raging across much of the country. that is not embers about to burn out. this is really raging out of control at this point in many cities and states. places like texas and florida where they're not even releasing information about the numbers of patients currently in intensive care units on ventilators which has us concerned how severe the situation is going to become in the coming weeks. >> when you hear the president say and continue to say that the virus will disappear, you know, repeated that yesterday -- again, this is a president who's
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going along with the first lady to mt. rushmore tomorrow for a party. what do you say to the president? >> you know, i understand the wishful thinking. i would like for covid to disappear, as well. that is not reality. we need to be facing reality if we really want to put this problem to rest and, you know, i do think for a while he was saying that the virus will disappear in the summer. i think it's an opportunity and made mistakes clearly lifting measures too quickly in many parts of the country. but school hasn't started yet and i agree with the aap, the american academy of pediatrics, that ideally children should be back in school but in order to get there this is the opportunity to really put a lid on this and that's really going to mean being much more aggressive in what we do to control it. >> we'll talk about that in a
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second because obviously there's two very different schools of thought on that. president trump insists that the spike of kacases due to more cas but a top official contradicting that. this is a fact check of the president so let's first watch this. >> there is no question that the more testing you get the more you will uncover but we believe this is a real increase in cases because of the percent positivities are going up so this is real increases in cases. >> so just with that awareness, i think about this weekend, hopefully folks starting today getting a break, right? people will be gathering for the fourth. what would you say to people about how to safely celebrate? >> sure. you know, just to follow up on what alex azar said about the positivity rates, it is also important to remember the test does not give you the disease. it doesn't lead you to be
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hospitalized and die and we are seeing increases in hospitalizations and deaths and concrete markers that the disease is going up. one thing we learned from the recent protests is we haven't seen a big surge in cases resulting from those outdoor gatherings and protesters largely wearing masks outdoors and if you wear a mask, outdoors, try to remain six feet away from other people you have really done a lot to protect yourself and reduce the risk of transmission. >> doctor, thank you. happy early fourth to you. stay safe. be well. thank you. better than expected june jobs report showing 4 million jobs added but do the numbers tell the full story? cnn goes inside a texas hospital just overwhelmed with coronavirus cases. you don't want to miss this. the gripping look at life for staff and patients.
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than 8,000 new cases reported in one day. and at this point close to 7,000 people are in the hospital. and the situation is getting worse and worse. mid land health ceo announced the hospital is out of remdesivir one of the few treatment drugs for coronavirus. limited supplies, greater demands for beds and exploding number of patients forcing doctor to make tough decisions. cnn national correspondent miguel marquez takes us inside a san antonio hospital on the verge of bursting at the seams. >> reporter: the lungs of a 29-year-old badly damaged by the coronavirus need a cat scan. a patient so ill what should be easy takes enormous coordination and a small army just to get them from "a" to "b." >> we are having an explosion of covid. we haven't overrun yet but it's overwhelming. >> reporter: overwhelming now
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and expected to get worse in the days ahead. san antonio's bexar county with a sharp rise in the number of those testing positive in the virus. in 30 days the weekly average of those testing positive has gone from 3.6% to more than 20%. so many infections increasingly moms to be infektded with the coronavirus. methodist hospital with a designated unit for babies born to moms that have it. >> the picture that every mom wants does that happen with babies in covid? >> unfortunately, no. we have to -- as soon as the baby is born, they bring them right to us outside of the door and very brief moment that the mom might get a look. >> reporter: in the womb, the virus isn't typically transmitted from mother to child but the risk of infection goes up and treating newborns with
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the coronavirus much more complicated. though these babies have tested negative they're treated as suspect positive. health care workers wear full ppe and the babies born to moms with the coronavirus are kept separated from others just in case. you have five babies in here right now? >> yes. >> room for 16. will you be full up? >> i do. the way things are going we are admitting pretty frequently. >> reporter: christie only 36 years old is expecting her fourth child. both she and her fiancee have the coronavirus. >> mainly the thing that really hurt was my bones were just -- i couldn't lay down. it was just hurting. >> reporter: your bonns? >> my bones. >> reporter: like the whole skeleton. >> to my pinky of the toes. >> reporter: pregnancy hard enough without that. she took precautions and isn't sure how she got it hoping to
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recover and she, the three kids and fiancee are coronavirus freebie the time she gives birth in a month. >> i'm a very strong woman. i tend to do a lot. now that i can't and i need that help it's taking a toll. >> reporter: methodist hospital may be seeing the beginning of a sharp increase nationwide of moms with coronavirus giving birth. >> there's sot literature of a 30% asymptomatic rate. >> 30%? >> 30%. >> reporter: of moms coming in? >> of moms coming in. >> reporter: pregnancy in coronavirus only one piece of the pandemic. methodist hospital treating a rising tide of critically sick patients. >> the last few weeks has just been overwhelming is how i would describe it. the patients are getting younger and more sick.
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>> reporter: how much younger from. >> gone from probably 50s and 60s for the first wave to i have lost track of how many people in the 20s. >> reporter: this is methodist's covid unit 2, one of three specialized units at the hospital. patient rooms sealed off turned into negative problem chambers and don ppe if they go into one of the bays. 14 rooms. how many filled? >> 14. with a waiting list. >> reporter: how long is that list? >> long. >> reporter: the hospital is creating more beds but for now this is where the sickest of the sick are treated. >> yesterday was probably one of the worst days that i have ever had. >> reporter: why? >> i got ten calls all of whom young people who otherwise would be excellent candidates to put on. they're so sick if they don't get put on and that support they're probably going to die. i had three beds. and just -- making that
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decision, being able to figure out who -- who really is going to benefit. it is a level of decision making that i don't think a lot of us are prepared for. >> reporter: those calls coming from other hospitals, across south texas with patients so sick that methodist may be their last hope. methodist hospital uses a procedure to oxygenate the blood called ecmo. today a doctor is inserting large tubes in the veins of a 33-year-old. they run from the groin all the way to the heart, the blood comes out of the body is mechanically oxygenated and returned back to the heart almost immediately. the methodist team have had a lot of practice. procedure taking only a few minutes. >> it involves being able to take a large instrument like small garden hoses, pump 2 to 3
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gallons of blood a minute through them so one is draining blood out and the other returning. >> reporter: the blood coming out of the patient is dark, just looks unhealthy, the blood returning is bright red loaded with oxygen. almost immediately oxygen level in the patient's blood goes back to near normal. their chance of survival now better than if they were on a ventilator. >> i think the ventilator really causes a lot of harm and in general but certainly causes harm talking about patients with covid. >> reporter: the lungs are so weak to begin with? >> and because probably they have other trouble. >> reporter: the ventilator is pushing oxygen into the lungs. >> that's right. >> reporter: damaged lungs. >> that's right. not only the problems with the vessels and the clotting, not only having all of the problems of oxygen not being able to get to the organs and shutting down from that but how artificially
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pushing air into the lungs causing damage that way. >> reporter: another hard lesson of the pandemic and virus and health care workers are struggling to understand. >> we don't quite understand why one person with lab values of "x" does well while a person with lab value that is appear to be better doesn't make it and a mask is not a big ask to help save your life. >> reporter: the work and stress for health care workers everywhere crushing and with rates of infection rising they expect more work and stress ahead. stressful for patients as well who are sick, isolated from everyone. how tough is it to be in your room all day just sitting there? >> oh man. if you could just hear that unit in the room, it would drive you nuts at first but you get past it. >> reporter: this 28-year-old michael works in a warehouse and
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not sure how he got sick part of a program here to get patients up and walking as soon as possible even a little bit helping physically and mentally. what has it done to your lungs? >> really made them fatigued really bad. with the -- sorry. >> reporter: vazquez isn't sure if there's long-term effects to the lungs. right now he is focused on getting home to his wife and 7-year-old son. >> i just miss, you know, their presence, you know? miss holding my wife, kissing your son good night. making sure he is okay. >> we know that when people walk, sleep better, when people see bright light they get better sooner. i think on some level we have to relearn it with covid because of our response to it. obviously our need to keep ourselves safe, staff safe. it is not unexpected that we
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kind of ended up isolating people. >> reporter: another lesson of the pandemic trying to free up beds badly needed for an expected growing surge of people seriously sick with the coronavirus. >> right now we are so full upstairs that we have some delays in getting the patients upstairs because there aren't beds prepared and ready for patients so we are holding a lot of them in the emergency department right now. some for hours or days. >> reporter: what is driving the surge here? doctors aren't entirely sure but there was a sense that the worst was behind us. >> i don't think that there was one specific incidence that really led to this spike. i think people after march and april were extremely frustrated with being inside and as soon as those restrictions lifted they wanted to get out, some protected themselves, some didn't. and now we are just seeing the result of that. >> reporter: with the holiday weekend coming up, the fear now,
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the surge of patients will become a tidal wave. >> i don't think i have seen anything like this ever and i would say that if you want to see august 1st maybe you should stay indoors and isolate on july fourth. >> i want to start on that final point, miguel marquez is with me. a brilliant eye opening piece again from you taking us inside these hospitals. just listen to the doctor talk about the ten patients, young, super sick and how do you choose? all right. i have three beds so when ch of the ten get the beds? what about this weekend? they talk about the fears of a surge for the fourth of july weekend. how worried are they? how do they handle it? >> reporter: that's exactly what they are most worried about right now because you have a situation where the percentage of those being tested is going up exponentially. 3.6% a month ago to 20% on a weekly basis now.
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over 20%. theis bexar county. other parts of texas climbing faster than that. you add on that people maybe don't go to fireworks but house parties, barbecues and that seems to be where most of the -- what they see right now in terms of cases coming from. they believe that memorial day, graduations, mother's day, protests here certainly but any thing that brought people close together along with the state reopening and a sense that it was all done, we're okay now, behind us, that's really what's driving it and trying to -- this is the reason the hospital let us in. they wanted people to understand what it looked like on the very last line of defense. brooke? >> getting access that you got inside of these hospitals it just doesn't happen so they're doing it to show everyone like wear a mask, be safe. have a great weekend but,
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miguel, thank you so much to you and the crew for pulling that off. thank you very much and to the hospital staff. we got some breaking news now. herman kaine has tested positive for coronavirus and just at president trump's tulsa rally. we have those details ahead. patients are getting anxious whether to send their students back into the classrooms in the fall. a doctor said that kids need to go back and be around other kids. 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.
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taking a look at the stock market this afternoon. huge rally today after the better than expected jobs report. the u.s. economy adding 4.8 million i don't knows in june bringing the national unemployment rate down to 11.1% but still the pain is so real for so many. 1.4 million americans filed for first time unemployment benefitst last week and today's jobs report after several months of significant job losses due to the coronavirus pandemic of course and the economic slowdown. former president contender hermann cain is hospitalized with coronavirus. he was at president trump's
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tulsa rally june 20th. this is a photo from that rally he posted on his twitter page. i am joined now by cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, what do you know about mr. cain? >> reporter: he attended that cam rain rally in oklahoma and we are now told that he tested positive two days ago for coronavirus and he has since been hospitalized suggesting that he is experiencing severe symptoms. an aide to him confirmed it on the web side saying that he was having trouble breathing. we don't have status update but obviously notable he attended this campaign rally and apparently tested positive nine days after attending, within the window where he could have
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contracted while at the rally and don't know that as of yet. i want to point to this picture that we have that cain posted while attending this rally. you can see several other people around him not wearing any masks and that irn cluds paris denard a rnc adviser, republican national committee chair with thumbs up and spoke to paris saying that he had not been informed of the diagnosis and he is not tested for the virus since attending that rally and said that he is experiencing no symptoms and wearing a mask regularly but obviously notable there because you would think that once somebody tests positive you start doing that contact tracing, right? contacting the people around that person who tested positive and certainly that would include paris denard and the other people around him at that rally so again really remarkable here, brooke. we have reached out to the trump
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white house and the campaign and they have not commented whether he was around the president or around any other senior campaign officials but we're still waiting on that. brooke? >> as you hear, let us know. thank you at the white house. the american academy of pediatrics recommending in-person learning in the fall. that means they say they want kids to go ahead and go to school and be around other kids. why they say that is a good idea. and join cnn for an evening of fireworks and a musical lineup with jewel, barry manilow, many more. don lemon and dana barb hosting "fourth of july in america" saturday night. apps are used everywhere...
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we are roughly a month away from when children start school and some of the largest school districts don't have a plan, some don't have a start date. the coronavirus forced schools to close and launch remote learning but how to reopen safely as infections rise? for example, in los angeles it is not clear if kids will physically be on campus. in maryland, the largest school district working on a plan for different approaching younger or in high school and while they plan the reality is it is going to look very different. dr. sarah gozin knows, that the president of the american academy of pediatrics. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> your group and it says a lot coming from your group pushing
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for students to go to school this fall as in no distance learning and physically present. why? >> we know that kids learn more in school than reading, writes and arithmetic. they learn social and emotional schools, meals and exercise. mental health support, things you can't do online and beyond supporting that development of children, schools play a critical role in addressing racial and social inequity. this pandemic is especially hard on families relying on school lunches or limited access to the internet or health care and the children have to go to daycare and really critical that if it's safe we need -- the goal should be to have students present in the school. >> you gave explanations but developmentally, if you don't have kids around other kids and a learning environment, what are
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some of the negative repercussions from that? >> we know that children can get depressed if they're socially isolated just like adults and teenagers missing out on the things that happen in middle school and high school. so, they can have anxiety and depression. and some of our children have social regression if they're not around people to have the social interaction. >> there is the but, right? you know where i'm going to go with this, the flip side. take what happened in texas. they've all tested positive and all it takes is one sick kid to come into school, despite all the temperature checks and sign offs. car pool in the morning, one kid could infect dozens of others. what could you say to parents who see it that way? >> i think that's going to be school leaders and public health professionals will have to insure safety for teachers, health and staff.
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they need to be ready to switch gears on community's prevalence and whether they have cases in the school. they're less likely to spread infection and have severe symptoms. and this is from different countries we've looked at that have reopened. but even then, if you've relax said your hand washing, social distancing, mask wearing for children and adults that can and should and not doing the things you can to make sure you're staying safe, then you are going to risk it more. so, the guidelines really talk about physical distancing, if at all possible. people, that can, to wear a mask to protect others and having the ability to isolate if someone does get sick to get them away from the other children and adults. >> i know the focus -- >> and in some -- >> no, i know the focus is on kids, taz should be. but i'm wondering about
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teachers. my sister in law is a teacher. she's thinking what are the is i fle need to dot and t's to cross. so, how will teacher's worlds be rocked this fall? >> so, they're going to have to wear masks. i think that's going to be critical for them to wear masks. and as much as they can, stay distance from their children. and hand washing all the time as often as you can. and really trying to cohort children so you're not going and being around big groups of children. cafeteria's are not going to be a good place to gather. teachers lounges and all those things. it's being very cautious and taking all those precautions very seriously while you're in school. >> have those lunches in the class rooms, no sharing toys, scrub, scrub, scrub, all of it.
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just in to cnn, the gang of 8 today has been briefed on that
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intelligence report regarding suspected russian bounties on u.s. and coalition soldiers in afghanistan. the gang of 8 includes mcconnell, as well as others. we are learning new details about who may have financed the alleged bounties from the "the new york times" today. they say an afghanz bm business was allegedly in charge of passing money to fighters. roughly $100,000 for every u.s. service member killed. president trump has called these russia bounty reports a hoax. cnn's lauren fox is standing by. and we know that briefing is over. any news from capitol hill on that? >> reporter: this is a highly classified briefing. the reason they can get briefings like this one is because when they come out, they say very little. i will tell you that chuck schumer briefly spoke but he said, independent of the
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briefing, he thought the relationship between president trump and vladimir putin was inappropriate. here's what he said. >> i'm not going to say anything about the briefing, but i believe the president is not close to tough enough on vladimir putin. >> reporter: and gina haskell, the cia director, was one of the briefers this morning. that is someone the president has confidence in but she is also someone who democrats have wanted to hear from all week long, brooke. and i will tell you democrats didn't have much more to say beyond the briefing. i asked rad cliff whether members were receptive? he told me he promised law makers he would return and give them updates when they ask for it. he said i did my duty, i came the hill and gave information. and that's all he would tell us. >> we know you'll be watching to
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see what comes from all of this. thank you. we continue on along. just days ago, dr. anthony fauci warned the u.s. could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases daily if the current surge is not stopped. we are now halfway there. more than 50,000 new cases confirmed wednesday. thalts t that's the highest number ever in a single day. more than 150 countries yet to record 150,000 cases in the entire pandemic. and now governors and mayors nationwide are taking aggressive action to keep their citizens safe. the texas, florida, and arizona are nearing, his words, apocalyptic levels of infections. we begin this hour with jason carol. and once the