with the u.s. coronavirus death toll growing, we remember more of the victims. nick cordero was a broadway actor with roles in hit musicals like "bullets over broadway" and "waitress." he came down with the coronavirus in march. his wife, amanda kloots, chronicled his complications on her social media account. she says he was placed into a medically induced coma and had his right leg amputated after developing blood clots. he battled for 95 days. he passed away yesterday. "god has another angel in heaven." his wife posted on her instagram account. he in addition to his wife, he is survived by his son elvis. cordero was just 41 years old. >> richard talamo was a veteran of the vietnam war.

after he retired from the military, he went on to get a ph.d in city administration. he lived in al paso, texas. he was married to his wife virginia for 47 years, and together they adopted three daughters. he was also the proud grandfather of two granddaughters who he adored. he was 72 years old. fred and judy whitesel were married in 1959 in nebraska. they would spend the next 60 years together side by side. when it was time for them to go into a nursing home, they went together. there they both came down with coronavirus. their son says judy was rushed to the hospital first after she developed symptoms. fred remained at the nursing home. she died after a few days. that same day, fred was rushed to the emergency room. he was placed on a ventilator. they died just 12 hours apart. their son steven said his parents were so connected, his father just didn't want to be left behind. fred whitesel was 83 years old and judy was 81. what a life. 60 years together. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo, and welcome to

"prime time." 99% of covid cases are harmless, says trump. remember, the white house numbers puts our death rate at around 4, 4 plus percent. is that harmless? to the 130,000 plus dead, to their families, to the tens of thousands who suffered terribly, to all those suffering now, harmless? maybe if he gave a damn. maybe the president of the united states were not ignoring and coming up with new ways to reportedly get you to live with a pandemic, maybe then he would know just how stupid that statement is. i will say this. trump's strategy of lie, deny, and defy all facts and decency is just as toxic to our society as 99% of covid-19 cases.

but he is being honest about one thing, and it matters, especially now, especially to you, the president's supporters. because you also own what he is saying right now. his blatant pitch to bigots. he has no position on whether the confederate flag should be flying in america in the year 2020. this man will not bring anyone together. his plan is the opposite. that's why if you want to beat this pandemic, if you want america to be better for the worthy, the key is the we. you and me together as ever as one. what do you say? let's get after it. we have a special guest tonight. atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms.

she'll be on in just moments here on "prime time," just after learning tonight that she and her husband are covid positive. life is going to change for them. they've got kids. they have people to take care of. they have a community to take care of. we'll talk about that. now the mayor is more proof of this virus ravaging our country. it can reach anyone, anywhere. and the president says no big deal. >> now we have tested almost 40 million people. by so doing, we showcase 99% of which are totally harmless. >> and by the way, he was reading. somebody wrote that. somebody wrote that crap, 99% harmless is 100% wrong, and he should know it.

his son's girlfriend has it now, kimberly guilfoyle, and i wish her well. he has everyone around him wearing masks, everyone around him getting tested. every case that pops up around him traced, contacts fully, but he is telling you testing is the problem. and the self-declared wartime president has refused to mount a national attack on the virus. and when confronted with deception, what does this white house do? it doubles down. >> i think the world is looking at us as a leader in covid-19, because the chart i showed you where you have mortality rate in italy and uk up here and across europe, and you have the united states at a low case mortality rate, it's because of the extraordinary work we've done. >> their own task force says there is no national strategy. they just lie to you. and she is right about one thing. the world is looking at us, the richest country on earth with just 4% of the global population and 25% of the cases.

the country with the best health care in the world having its system potentially overwhelmed because there is not enough smart testing being done. their own task force says it. there is no national cohesive plan. their own task force says it. 32 states have surging cases. their own data says that. and we have a president holding rally after rally where people are exposed to the virus and also his poisonous politics as he is more than ever flagrantly and flamboyantly fanning the flames of racial tension in this country. his plan is obvious. he wants to get as many of you who are white angry and active

on election day as he can. look at this tweet that would make george wallace proud, blasting nascar for banning the confederate flag. you support trump? you support that. why? because you don't get to say well, i'm not about that. i just like -- no. no. you support it. the animus and the bigotry that he ignores and emphasizes he empowers. he is okay with that. what he empowers, he owns. he's okay with that. you are complicit. you own it as well. are you okay with that? asking if the only black nascar driver, bubba wallace, had apologized to drivers and officials who came to his aid and stood by his side. what does he have to apologize for. oh, well, the noose. it had been there. nascar calls it a noose, not a garage pull, kaleigh, not a garage pull.

a noose that they were using to pull the garage. nascar calls it a noose. nascar wanted the noose investigated. bubba wallace didn't ask for it. fact. even trump's press secretary can't spin this dizzying bit of bigotry. >> in aggregates, what he is pointing out is this rush to judgment to immediately say there is a hate crime as happened in this case, as happened with jussie smollett, as happened with the covington catholic boys. in an aggregate, those actions made it seem like nascar men and women were racist individuals who were roving around and engaging in a hate crime. the president's intent was to say no, most american people are good, hard working people. we should not have this rush to judgment knee-jerk reaction before the facts come out. >> why does she equate what happened with the covington kids and jussie smollett with nascar people? what is a nascar person?

i love nascar. am i a nascar person? what is she talking about? what is this code? what is this division? why are they spending so much energy on that and no energy on what is literally killing us? again, the fbi called nothing a hoax. they certainly put no blame on bubba wallace. why would the only black nascar driver apologize at a time that we are struggling with systemic racism? what is the president's position on that? >> why can't this white house unambiguously state whether or not it supports displace of the confederate flag? much more a part of this question than gandhi. >> i said that his tweet was not to indicate approval or disapproval of that particular policy of nascar. it was an aggregate to stand against the rush to judgment to call something a hate crime before the facts were out when clearly the media was wrong about this. the president has made clear. he was not taking a position one

way or the other in that tweet. >> i can't believe she said that. i can't believe in 2020 somebody who thinks about how to get out of every situation as a function of her job, or at least how she chooses to do it, just said that and feels good about it. he has no position on whether or not a confederate flag should be flying in america in the year 2020. this isn't about context. slow down. this is not about the context of the comment. this is about the content of his and her, frankly, character. no position on flying a confederate flag in america. here is one. as a journalist, it's wrong, because it is not heritage as if it's benign, okay. it is a heritage of bigotry. america will be motivated by bigotry in this day and age naked in your face i'm okay with

confederate symbols, i will enlist the government to protect the monuments of those who try to protect the institution of slavery? really? that's going to get your vote? really? we have to be better than this. let's bring in someone who is battling both american pandemics personally, atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms. she and her husband don't have bad symptoms but were diagnosed positive. mayor, thank you for showing up tonight. do i have the news correct? >> you're right, chris. we tested positive. one child has tested positive. so hopefully it won't get much worse than this. my symptoms have been like my seasonal allergy symptoms.

i've had a headache the past few days and just, you know, little dry cough, but that's not unusual, because i have that with my allergies. which are just about year round in atlanta, and my husband literally has been asleep since thursday. and so -- >> all right. he has been asleep since thursday. let's just talk mom to dad here, sick person to sick person, all right? i can only imagine what you're dealing with in terms of how to manage the household now, how to protect the other kids and what you have to do and all this. he has been sleeping. any fever? >> no. well, actually, he had one at about 99, but again, we both have allergies. so it's just not unusual when

everything is in bloom. >> now everything is random. everybody is random. you'll see now, you'll get the frustration we all have of everybody is going to tell you different things. but i got good news for you. my wife felt exactly -- it's not a boy-girl thing, but she felt exactly the way you do right now. maybe i have a sinus infection. maybe it's my allergies. i'm a little low energy, but i'm all right. she had that for about a week, eight days. she couldn't smell or taste anything, though. it recently came back, freaked us all out, but no other symptoms. one week and then that was gone. my son did the sleeping thing. like your husband is. and again, i'm not saying it's gender related, but he had it. one week, he was gone. he had a little bit low grade fever early on. nothing else. you know my deal. everybody's case is different. if you don't have symptoms early, it's a really good sign they're not going to come anecdotally, okay? how is your kid doing? >> fine. and my husband, i was getting

ready to come on, he said i've been having those cuomo dreams. he described them as the dreams that you were having, but he just mentioned that to me today. and i'm still in a state of shock because i don't have any idea how we were exposed. we've all been -- we've been very careful. i'm stunned. >> now what do you do about the other kids? >> i have two more, one's tested positive. one's tested negative. two more who i have to get tested. and as fate would have it, i was actually with my mother yesterday, who i've not spent a lot of time with, just being mindful that she doesn't need to be around us. so she is going to get tested again. and then we'll figure it out. i don't know. i hadn't gotten that far yet. >> also, as you know, i'm always a phone call away. and we have tremendous reach here between sanjay and access to the task force and everything.

any information that i can help with in any way. you have to take it one test at a time. mayor, you've got to see how your mom, see how she does. they will tell you, the doctors, that a big part of their understanding now, and again, don't be frustrated by what they say they don't know, because that's just the nature of this beast, is dose. what is viral dose. viral dose is how big a hit did you get? early on i was in hospitals all the time when this was first happening. i probably got a big dose. my wife was taking care of me. that's got to be how she got it. but she was being so careful. it took her 18 days to get it. a smaller dose. didn't get sick, okay. my mother was around, right up until when i got sick. i don't know when i had it, you

know what i mean? i know when my symptoms got worse. she has been great, thank god, knock on wood. my son, same thing. he wasn't around me. low dose. he got better very quickly. factor that into your thinking. they are pretty aware about dose. and if you just went and visited with your mom and she hasn't been there and she hasn't been all over the house and everywhere you guys are, those are all good factors for her well-being going forward. so let me ask you, this because my point tonight was not to make you more anxious. how does this change your personal sense of urgency, mayor, about what you're dealing with? you've been incredibly committed to your community. but now that it's hit your family, what does that mean? >> you know, chris, i'm still as committed as i was on the front end. we still have this phased reopening in atlanta, despite the eagerness of the state to reopen. and so thankfully, many of our jobs centers still have not opened.

many people have been heeding all of the warnings that we've given. we -- the governor's order does not allow us to put mandatory mask in place. my good friend mayor of savannah has done it. and so i think this is probably as good a time as any for atlanta to follow suit with that. but it still remains the same. black and brown communities are getting hit, and we are getting hit harder. thankfully, my family, all of my kids have asthma. that's a concern to me. but my husband and i don't have underlying health conditions. and so prayerfully, this will be as bad as it gets for us, but this is scary. we've done all the things that we thought we should do, and for us to still test positive i think really speaks to how easily this virus is spread. and obviously, none of us are immune from it. >> where are you on the freak-out factor?

>> i think i'm still -- i'm still in shock right now, quite honestly. i got the news around just before 6:00, and i was speaking with my husband. i said can you believe this has happened? so now i'm in mommy mode, trying to figure out what this means. i was trying to fix something to eat for one of my kids, and he is don't touch my food. so, you know, i've just got to figure that out. my kids scattered when they heard that we were positive. so i probably won't see them for the next 14 days. you know, everybody is yelling across the house. so that's the other side of this. i'm a mayor but i'm also a mom and a wife, so i've got to wrap my brain around what exactly this means and how do i keep all of my kids -- the rest of my kids safe. >> you didn't identify with the priorities of people and their families, they wouldn't have elected you in the first place.

it's always family first, and you're going to have to take care of that. let me get a quick take from you, as somebody who is dealing with both of these issues, the pandemic and the poison in our system of systemic racism. what is your response to the president saying here is the good news, mayor? 99% of the cases are harmless. and confederate flag, i have no position. >> chris, try not to give any energy to him because it is energy that i will never get back. that being said, each time he opens his mouth, he reminds us of how bad he is for this country. this is the reason that we all need to show up and vote in november. this man is dangerous. this virus is spreading across this country, and he refuses to do anything on behalf of the nation to make it stop. he is a danger to all of us, and that doesn't have anything to do

with party affiliation. and so, you know, what can you expect? to expect something different from him is like insanity. and i just refuse to keep giving him that energy. i'm going to put my energy into electing a decent man in november, and that person is joe biden. >> and getting well. health first. mayor keisha lance bottoms, thank you, especially getting this kind of news, to come on and let the audience know how it is for you. i appreciate it very, very much. i'll keep you on when i go into the commercial, make sure you have my phone number so you can reach me if there is anything i can do. god bless you and the family. i hope you get through it very quickly. and just like in my family, one of the kids had it. two of them didn't. let's see what the tests show, all right? god bless and i wish you well. all right. another example of the coronavirus spread. it's not about more testing.

more testing would be part of the solution. it is not part of the problem. we have more spread, more hospitalizations. hospitalizations are not about measuring. they're about sickness. the u.s. military now deploying medical personnel to texas. why? because the disease is taxing the system. dr. william schaffner is back tonight with the science. i know the numbers are getting foggy and frustrating. the why is what matters. he has it, next.

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enough and it still takes too long. i see a straight shooter in dr. william schaffner. doctor, it is good to have you. your concern about the messaging of this reported "we need to live with it" motto that the white house may start pushing. >> well, if we want to live with it, i'm afraid we're die with it also, because that will cause many deaths. we still don't have a national program, as you have already said. it's something that the countries that were successful in suppressing covid did. they had a national program coherently described and clearly communicated to the population. they indeed brought everyone together in their countries to follow the national plan. that's what we desperately need. >> we don't need it though, doctor.

we don't need it. because 99% of the cases are harmless and the world is a looking at us with envy because we've handled it much better. we've done more testing than anybody else and our death rate is lower than all the other places. that's what the white house says. >> well, i'm wincing, as you can see. obviously, it's not harmless, because it's harmful. we can see that with the increasing hospitalizations, the difficulty some hospitals are already having with enough intensive care beds, and it's all over the country now. it's spreading widely. as dr. fauci said, we never got over the first wave. we put a little dent in it. we opened up, and that first wave kept rolling on. and it's all over the country now. and we need some coherence. it now relies on us as individuals if we don't have a national plan. we have to wear our masks, watch the social distancing, avoid large groups.

i have to tell you, i saw all those videos of what happened over the holidays, and we're going reap the results of that in two and three weeks, just as we are now reaping the result of what happened over memorial day. >> cases are up. deaths are down. how? >> well, first of all, we're getting better at treating these folks. that's really the good news. we have a couple of drugs that we can use. we know much more about how it is, this virus makes us sick. we were talking about coagulation issues before. and we know how to anticipate those and prevent those in large measure now. so that's the sort of thing that we can do much better. and then, of course, it always takes a little longer for people who are cases to come to the hospital, go to the intensive care unit, stay on those ventilators, and then some of them pass away. so it's a lagging indicator. >> hey, do you make anything of this blood type analysis that people are doing?

every time people ask me, i'm increasingly more and more people are asking me this stuff. and i say yeah, i'm a negative. they say oh, no wonder you got sick. if you are 0 negative or 0 positive, those don't get sick at all. do you buy any of that? >> early scientific reports suggest there may be some genetic difference, but it's not confirmed. we need to study that much more. so it doesn't help me very much at the present time. >> and the science will follow, but the urgency, the immediacy right now is for the targeted testing. and you believe that has to be nationally coordinated, not state by statewide? >> because there is so much confusion out there on the part of the populous, they don't know really which drummer they should be following in the parade. so if we had some national

standards, some national targets and goals that we could get all the governors to participate in, then i think the people will follow if they see it's a nice coordinated plan. it's that old analogy with the orchestra. you need a good, strong conductor to keep all those diverse instruments together. then you get pretty music. >> we got captain cacophony up there right now barely starting to even recognize the need for masks. dr. william schaffner, thank you very much for keeping us true blue on this. appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> all right. think about that. you just heard from schaffner. you hear it from the other people, fauci, birx. no national coordinated plan. find me another country that got through this that left it all to the locals. of course you need local control. but think about it. no national plan. you're starting to see something new with our other big battle in this country. at the protests that lank get our nation over the racial

divide, you know what you're seeing now? firearms. not the weapons themselves. you got a right to carry. carry. it's who's carrying them. what will it do to people when they see men like this carrying guns on the street? i find this highly instructive and provocative. so instead of hiding from it, i want to talk to the man you just saw on your screen. a leader of one of the movements is here. why does he believe that this is the way that he will be safe? next. .. or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

scare people in america when you start talking about protecting confederate monuments and protecting a heritage that was about protecting slavery.

what started out as battle over the future of a confederate monument therefore has shifted to a conversation about guns. in late june, a group of protesters in shreveport, louisiana showed up downtown calling for the removal of confederate statues. they were met by counterprotesters who showed up armed with handguns and rifles. you've seen this, right? well, they have a right. they have a right. they were accused of trying to intimidate the peaceful crowd, but everybody says they had a right, they had a right. second amendment. well, then why is everybody so upset about what happened next? it's become an important part of the national conversation. members of a black gun club showed up on the scene with their own firearms and a message of their own. i don't see the president cheering the armed black protesters on his twitter feed, do you? i wonder why not. why did he cheer the other ones? they're some good people. the governor should listen to

them. why isn't he making that appeal for the black people who are good people, who are scared? i see a need for all of us to learn more about the motivation for movements like this. what makes someone so scared that they feel they have the need to defend themselves and others with a firearm in america in 2020? let's get after it with nicky daniels jr., next. sfwli shishito. burrito. raw kitfo. fried shiso.

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what do you think about this message? it's time for black people to get trained, get permitted, get armed, and protect themselves. take it the same way as if i said white people? a lot of people on the internet aren't. that's the message coming from a group of armed black men called sleep is for the rich gun club. they're in shreveport, louisiana, and they went down to the courthouse with the purpose of protecting unarmed protesters, specifically black women. leader of this group nicky daniels jr. joins us now. thank you for taking the time to

meet us. >> peace and love, chris. thank you for having me. >> so what is the message? you didn't just go down armed for no reason. i saw the video, and i understand the context. we did the reporting. there were other people there who were counterprotesters who were armed. what was your move? >> well, do we have time for me to take you back to the beginning when it -- the initial text message that i got, i was at my house screen printing t-shirts for my brand, sleep is for the rich clothing. i got a text message from my friend named trey. he owns white lots of clothing. he texted me. he said hey, nick, do you see what those -- verbatim, do you see what those white boys are doing down there at that protest? i said man, hell no. what's going on? what's going on? and he sent me a screen shot and

a link to a facebook video of this woman. and when i opened up the video, she was ripping protesters out of the protesters hands, a white woman. she was ripping posters out of the protesters' hands. do i need to watch my language on here, chris? >> yeah, watch it a little bit. >> all right. well, she kept saying "n" word, "n" word, "n" word. >> we get it. >> yeah. got you. this is everything that i was saying in the video that my friend trey with white lobster apparel. when i saw that, i immediately called him on the phone and we said what we needed to say. we got all the artillery men and

we went down there. >> so what do you say when people see this? you had good motives. you wanted to keep it safe. you didn't want to shoot anybody. and they said oh, these black guys are scary coming down with guns. they want a race war. what do you say? >> nah, you got to understand, we didn't just grab the guns just to grab them. we grabbed the guns because we saw those confederate guys, they had guns on the sidewalk. it's one thing -- it's one thing to be shouting in somebody's face, you know, yelling out obscenities, telling -- i saw one man, one of the confederate men telling another one of the peaceful protesters to perform a sexual act on him. like i said before, the other young lady, the other white lady was a confederate, she ripped a poster out of somebody's hand and ripped it up on the sidewalk. the reason we felt so compelled to come down there is because i didn't see any police officers down there. surprisingly, when i got down there, we did see a couple spd officer, shreveport police officers down there, but we didn't feel like -- we didn't feel like they would stop what was going on, you know. these guys had guns and they

were literally -- the video i saw, one of the videos i saw, one of those confederate guys could have easily wired one of those kid's jaws shut, man. they were yelling in an old man's face, they had guns on their side. nah, bro, we wasn't going for that. the more i think of that, we wasn't going for that, bro. >> well, thank god nothing happened. you guys didn't get in a face-to-face. you said something interesting in the video. you said you were talking to a police officer, and he said look, he explained to us that we're not in the business of stopping crime. we get there after crime has happened most of the time. and you was taking that as an explanation of a reality in communities like yours. and you said if you want to stop yourself from getting abused, if you want to stop people from

coming to get you, and they are coming to get you, you better protect yourself. do i have that right? >> yes, you're exactly right. you know, i'm a big -- i'm a huge proponent in that. it was a police officer with the bossier police department who were teaching the class. i forget his name. maybe if i look at the card, have i his name on there when he said, that it made all the sense in the world. police officers are not crime fighters. police officers aren't batman. police officers aren't superman. police officers arrive on the scene after you've already been violated. so the message i'm trying to send to my people is we've got to get off of this peace, love and happiness. we've got to get off of this, you know, my god is going to protect me. no, no, god gave us guns. god gave us sense. god gave us pride in ourselves to have enough love for ourselves and our families and our businesses to not want somebody to come and mess over us easy, you know what i'm

saying? >> i hear you. >> you should want -- you should want to be able have to protect yourself. i tell my partners down here in shreveport all the time, don't carry a gun with the thought in your mind that you're a gangster, man. carry a gun as if that gun is a sword. and every team carried a sword back in days. that's what you told the louisiana canes movement is about. try to show boys you the carry yourself in a royal fashion. that's one of the 48 laws of power. shout out to robert greene. he said that you have to carry yourself, you have to carry yourself in a royal fashion to be seen in a royal fashion. >> i just want to give a chance.

this is blowing up all over the place. and there are videos elsewhere in the country, and people want to type cast it as oh, the black panthers are back, or this or that. i wanted people to hear it from you what it was about and how it was instigated and what your aims and purposes are so people can keep the facts straight. i also want to keep in touch with your experiences going forward. and you have a lane to us whenever you want about what's going on so we can report it accurately, okay? >> definitely, man. you got to stay tapped in. that monument, that confederate monument has 90 days to come down. it has 90 days to come down. so y'all might want to stay locked into that. it's going to be a monumental occasion, man. >> we'll stay on it. it's about what's right, and it's about justice and fairness under law. and i know that you've said it on the video. respecting the law and respecting what runs through the blood of this country adds well. nicky daniels jr., god bless, stay safe. >> shout out to shreveport, man. peace and love. >> we'll be right back. ♪

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seven-day rolling averages. positive test rates. all these graphs, maps, and figures. people are frustrated and they're tired of it. the president is banking on that. that's his strategy. that you'll get bored and disinterested. you'll even ignore the pain and commitment of the people we, rightfully, called heroes. the ones who choose to walk, day after day, into hospitals that are, all too often, out of control. to be there with those who are afraid, who often die alone, to care for the suffering. they can see, with their own eyes, that what he's telling you is bs. >> we show cases, 99% of which are, totally harmless. >> kayleigh i cannot tell a lie mcenany can defend that garbage all she wants but even the chart behind her head says it's worse than the potus is pushing.

but we can't. we got to be straight with each other. you want school to open in the fall so we can get our economy back and get our kids where they're supposed to be so they can learn? because this at-home stuff isn't working. sports. shows. resume. sit down inside. see the people you want to see. live your life, that you kill yourself working to deserve. the only way we do that is by doing the things we have to do. okay? and here's the answer. okay. we are failing to control the virus. forget about blame. we have to do what the other nations did. we have to move forward, from where we are right now. the answer is twofold. first, you have to take responsibility. you have to wear a mask, if you can't socially distance. you got to wash your hands like crazy. i got the crazy, dry skin, too. so what? i'm going to tell you this. if you get sick, it's going to be terrible. so, yeah, doing these things i just mentioned can kind of suck. but nothing can defeat us, if

we'r we' we're motivated and we are together. the second goes to that, as well. the reason that we're not beating this thing is because we're not working hard enough to do it. we don't have the data. the fact is too many in positions of power are hiding truth and hiding the reality from you. and they are hiding from it, themselves. the reasons are political and odious and obvious. you'll get the chance to judge those in 120 days. too many, at the state and federal level, are ducking and covering. doing the biggest numbers they can find. listen. >> we test much more than any other nation. and we have testing that nobody's ever done before. >> nearly double the number tested in any other country. >> we have no national strategy on testing. we'll not doing it smart because he doesn't want to. it's totally on him. and volume doesn't equal efficacy, and he knows it because there's people telling him it all the time. we're not testing anywhere near the rate other countries are.

we're doing so, without any plan. this is what the president's own cdc director said, just last week. >> i don't want to get into the numbers of testing because i don't think that's the real issue. it's how testing is used, and what's the consequence? >> okay? that's his guy. we've seen long lines, as hundreds wait at drive-thru testing centers. it's not getting it done. all those tests still have to go to a lab to be analyzed. which means, people, who doctors have identified exposed, lines which once again, are back to taking more than a week. all of this burns through valuable reagents and swabs, which aren't, you know, not -- we still don't have enough of this. he didn't use the legal authority he had to get it done. he did it for the wall. he didn't do it for this. the lack of testing strategy leaves it up ot states.

some do it well. some don't. means we're not comparing apples to apples, when we look across the country. it's the difference between judging a baseball player on total hits versus batting average. you know what i'm saying? both are useful. but they're not the same. uniform, open, and accurate data is necessary to answer certain key questions, that we still don't know. and the only reason we're not transparent is because we want to hide from the reality, especially our president, and it's killing us. it's killing us. take a listen to what this federal government is, finally, doing that as teit's been talki about for months. >> whole-of-government approach. >> the whole-of-government response, that we spoke about so many times. >> the guy in charge of the task force, the vp, he doesn't want to get this done. the whole-of-government approach. that would mean hhs handing down national guidelines for both diagnostic and antibody testing.

it would mean a strategy for how to monitor hotspots. and defining national-reporting standards. while we're at it, it would mean the va secretary showing up to answer how the hell he's taking care of the people that we promise to do the best by. a labor secretary, insisting on protections for workers. have to be in dangerous places, like meat-processing plants. the hud secretary defending fair-housing rules at a time that so many are hurting. in other words, it means do your damn job. i know he doesn't like the reality. what is your reality? why are you there? and if you're not going to help people, get the hell out and let somebody else do it. there are plenty who want to do the right thing in this country. we'll be right back. y lily, i'mg a lot about 5g. should i be getting excited? depends. are you gonna want faster speeds? i will. more reliability? oh, also yes. better response times? definitely. are you gonna be making sourdough bread?

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