're going to post your remarks online. unfortunately, this got cut short but we're going to post the support group online that so many people are a part of. thank you so much. >> thank you. it's the top of the hour now. coronavirus is sweeping the nation. new developments are prompting the nation's top infectious disease expert to call for some states to pause on reopening. >> california, texas, florida, arizona are now experiencing surges of infections that have gone up to 30,000, 40, 50, and most recently a total of 60,000 new cases per day. we need to get our arms around that and we need do something about it quickly because if we don't, there's the possibility we may be seeing surges in other areas.

so, we're in a difficult challenging period. >> the united states reported at least 58,601 new cases since yesterday. which is not the highest we've seen this week in a day. when you look at the seven-day averages. and the hot spot states are again facing numbers that should sound major alarms. too many patients, not enough bed, not enough equipment and we're going to get into all of that in just a moment. we have news out of florida. the state just released new figures that show the virus is spreading rapidly. it is deadly and hospitals cannot keep up. cnn's erica hill is joining me now. florida is reporting just now a disturbing number of deaths from coronavirus. >> reporter: yeah. in fact, florida today reporting its single-day high for covid-19 related deaths. 120 reported this morning.

that's on top of nearly 9,000 new cases. keep in mind, what we're looking at hospital rates and positivity rate. as we know, they don't release it in the same way, although we're seeing it from some of the counties. but whether we look at the positivity rate, it's hovering around 19%. and that is not what anyone wants to see. >> reporter: from beaches to bars, the coronavirus is on the move. >> we all hoped for a flattening and stabilization. we haven't seen it yet. >> reporter: hospitalizations rising in several states. deaths also up. california, florida and texas posting new daily highs. >> we've got to get our arms around this. >> reporter: so, how can the u.s. get the virus under control? masks, social distancing and a reality check. >> take care of and control what's surging now in the southern states.

and the other states be mindful of what happens when you open and throw caution to the wind because it can happen to you. >> louisiana seeing new spikes. >> we have lost all the gains made in june. >> reporter: in kentucky new cases jumped 40%. in oklahoma, they're up 45%. hospitals reaching their limits. and not just in florida and arizona. >> we are having right now, right now our largest surge of patients. >> reporter: even in states holding steady, like maryland, there is concern. >> we are seeing a spike with people under 35. younger people are tending to completely ignore the rules and not wear masks, not recognize social distancing and crowd together in different places. >> in new york state, less than 1% of tests are positive for the virus. a sliver of hope amid grim numbers in the new hot spots.

positivity rates sky rocketing in arizona, t tx and florida. >> this is an outbreak uncontained in prefall. >> reporter: the president falsely claiming the spike is due to more testing. >> we have likely 8 to 10 more times people getting the cases every day than can get tested. this is a failure of containment, of the test and of course a failure to tell the truth. >> reporter: mixed messaging continues to defy the federal response to the pandemic. the latest example, schools. >> we are ready, willing and able once we open. we want to make decisions in miami-dade science based. not necessarily politically grounded. >> reporter: after the president railed on schools calling them too tough and expensive, the cdc pushed back. >> our guidelines are our guidelines. >> reporter: guidelines desperately needed amid growing

uncertainty. the american academy of pediatrics has said it would be great if kids can physically be present in school. and just saying in an interview when it comes to florida, the state-wide mandate to , quote, without consideration of community spread really goes against our recommendations. noting that the level of virus in the community should be taken into account when deciding how to move forward with schools. and that's a matter of -- >> reporter: and i want to turn to chief correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. how did the u.s. get to this point? what did we miss? >> well, you know, it's interesting i've covered this from the start, we all have.

i think if this was a unifying reason, the pan domic was minimized. in terms of things that were or were not done. the obvious thing to point to is testing. it has been discussed quite a bit. 3 million people now infected in this country. the firs million in 99 and the next million in 33. it just shows you not only are the numbers growing, butted they're growing at a more rapid pace. if we didn't test enough in the beginning, there was much more widespread virus in the community than i think people would realize, could have realized, because we weren't testing. and by the time we started, we

were in the middle of a significant epidemic. we thought there were hand full of cases here and there. now we know there were a lot more than that, we just didn't have eyes on it. >> he said for the 1, 100th team, the reason we show many cases, so many compared to cases that haven't done what we have is our testing is much bigger and better. what do you think? >> it's simply not true. that is simply not true. i don't even frankly like talking about it anymore, it raises it as being possibly true. if you test more, as other countries did, the numbers should have come down. you're seeing significant positivity rates, which says we're not testing nearly enough to know what's going on in the communities. as you well know, positivity rates going up in a lot of cases. if you get 5 to 10 out of 100,

then you get an inclination that you're getting enough testing, still can't get tested. and my wife and daughters went to get tested. took them four to five and a half hours to get tested. still hard to get tested. it's hard in some places for health care workers to get tested. so, yes, we've increased the amount of testing. the amount of testing you need do is reflected by how bad the problem is. and we're still not doing the amount of testing. >> i think one of the more frustrating part about all of this is it's like magical thinking is ruling this. you're seeing the cases are on the rise and you think you're going to open? what do you think is going to happen? we've seen what's happened.

>> and you know, and the criteria that got thrown out of the window was thrown out as soon as it was released. i thought to myself, well, this looks promising. if states meet this. if you have downward trend for 14 days, it means you're go tag get to a low enough number and a low enough amount of virus that you can get your arms around it, you could start to contact trace. it's feasible to find the people newly positive, isolate them, and quarantine them. that would have been a very, very good sort of development if states had met that. when we go back and look at every state none of met the criteria precisely. i'm not saying it would have been easy but had we done that,

i guarantee you we'd be in a very different position right now. there are countries around the world where you count the number of people who have died in terms of seven, ten, 12, 15 people as opposed to hundreds of thousands, this could have been the situation. 93 we have to go back and basically apply a more aggressive treatment. if it was a stage one cancer before, now it has metastasized in other parts of the body. still treatable but it's going to require more aggressive treatment. >> and contract tracing. we've been talking to rosa flores in the hard-hit miami area. it's incredibly frustrating to see her questioning officials. where are we with that? and is it too late? >> i don't like to think anything is too late but here's the pragmatic challenge is if

you're thinking about 50, 60,000 newly infected people a day, you think about how they have to be contacted, told to be isolated. some may not have an easy time isolated, they may need to have otheran other ancillary services and then you have to ask them who do you think your contacts are and trace the contacts. it takes a lot of work to make those calls. if you get a call from the government, you nay not answer the phone call. so, they have to go to the house or apartment. here's the pointed. we thought maybe you'd need a couple thousand contract tracers to do that effectively. that was where you had some sense of the numbers going down and getting your arms around it. now they keep going up, making it more challenging.

>> thank you as always. and a reminder you're joining anderson cooper tonight. and you have a special guest, the director of the cdc, dr. robert redfield. that's going to be a very important program that starts at 8:00 eastern. breaking news, michael cohen has been taken back into custody. just weeks after leaving prison on house arrest, i mean, i wonder if it's the reason we'd seen he went out doing what a lot of people aren't doing, which is to dine at a restaurant. >> so, there was that. and let's remind folks he was released from prison in upstate new york because of the epidemic. they made a case that he should be released. and they went ahead and released him in may. may 21st he was released. he was supposed to stay in

prison until around november of 2021. so, he got out about 18 months early. what we don't know is why the burrow of prisons probation department decided he should be detained again. what his lawyer tells us is he was ordered to appear at the federal court house in lower manhattan to meet with the probation department. and they wanted him to sign an agreement not to speak to the media, not do any kind of social media. and he took issue with that. and perhaps arizona result of that, that's why he's been detained again. and what his lawyer says he's been detained, taken on the federal prison, jail in brooklyn, the mdc and that's where he is. so, we don't have exact clarity on why he was detained. did he violate the conditions? he was seen recently dining out on the upper east side, sitting outside eating at a restaurant, as though he was a free man and

can do whatever he wants. there are conditions when you're released early. so, we're trying to figure out if that's what happened, he violated some of the conditions and that's why he was detained. comes on a day when we have the supreme court ruling on the taxes with the manhattan d.a.'s office. michael cohen has been cooperating in the investigation and meeting with prosecutors in that office about taxes. they actually went to the prison to spend time and talk with him. so, we need to learn more on why -- what conditions he violated and why they decided to take him into custody. we're working to find out why. >> do you know why he might not want to ad here to guidelines when it comes to media and social media? it doesn't seem like he has the upper hand here. >> he doesn't.

and he said i'm concerned about the coronavirus. i should be released early. so, you would think when you get that kind of early release, you do everything the bureau of prisons orders you to do. his lawyers said they presented him with this agreement. and they said he was reading a paragraph from the agreement and basically felt he was violating his rights. and that perhaps could be why he didn't want to sign it. so, we need more clarification on why but point is he's back right now in jail, sitting in brooklyn behind bars now. >> all right, thank you so much. we know you're in the middle of the story. so, you'll keep digging. thank you. a republican law maker in ohio tells people to stop getting tested. plus germany's angela merkel with a pretty blunt warning

about president trump's handling of the coronavirus. and the justices unanimously rejecting the president's argument of immunity over tax returns. butted in practice, he had a win today. this is cnn special live coverage. ta-da!

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was part of a wider investigation of whether the president or his business violated state law. in a separate ruling, the court determined congress could not see the president's financial records right away and sent that down to the lower courts to discuss separation of powers concerns. in both cases, the vote, 7-2. and chief justice roberts wrote both majority opinions. i want to bring in political commentator, the host of "smerconish" here on cnn. what did you think about this ruling, which was actually pretty nuance? >> i think it's pretty confusing. and i think you did an excellent job inlaying it out. there were two different cases. one was from three congressional committees. the other from the southern

district of new york. frrgs the one i think posed the more immediate risk to the president was from the three congressional committees. because if the ruling had been they would have access to the tax returns, then i think before election day, we the press would have seen that information. i dent think he was ever at risk of the southern district case, getting in the public domain before the election. it means the public likely won't see his tax returns before everybody votes. i feel like we've at least learned what was in them. there was an excellent report that says from the mid-80s to '90s he took more than a billion dollars of losses, as far as we know, and therefore didn't have to pay taxes. my hunch is that practice

probably continued further in time and that would prove embarrassing to the president if we saw it in a return. >> because it would undercut this idea he's been a successful businessman. because certainly the tax information we have seen show, at least in that time period, he was not. the president has nominated two justices to the court. how did they vote, right? do you think that's significant or do you think that people are kind of making too much of that. >> what's unusual about these votes is we've grown accustomed to a 5-4 along ideological line type of a vote. this is not one where ideology plays much of a factor. as an attorney, i like when we see decisions that are not strictly based upon the party of

those who appointed the justice. i think that's what they're there for, independent thinking and frankly, my view is to say we could let congress decide that one. >> the president, michael, has responded to reports that he was tanking on purpose recently. he said he wants to be re-elected with all his breath. you believe him? >> the sort of tumult that seems to occur on a routine basis i suspect would keep both of us up at night. he seems to thrive on it. i mean, the more chaos, the more he seems as if he's engaged. i've never bought into the idea that he was poised to walk away from it. i think the rougher it gets, the more he digs in his heels. sglirlts almost like what some people look at and say that's exhausting, energizes him. thank you, michael so much.

we appreciate you coming on. and a pitch for your special this weekend, cnn presents things i wish i knew before i started talking. this is an entertaining and poignant look at michael's one of a kind career. that is saturday night at 10:00 eastern. and the street along new york city's fifth avenue in front of trump tower is closed today as the words black lives matter are painted on the president's doorstep, essentially. tell us what's happening. >> reporter: yeah. the location is certainly not a coincidence. the city of new york, along with volunteers, coming on this trip to fifth avenue this morning. black lives matter. we should note that the president and the first lady officially rel

officiallyriat official officially relocated the residence to florida last year. however, trump building represents the trump organization. that's one of the reasons why they specifically chose this here. i did speak to new yorkers are morning and you get a support there's a wide support for this effort, spearheaded by mayor bill de blasio. i talked to one black new yorker who pulled her bike over who said she was feeling proud to see this and recognizes this is an important moment. the fact this is on fifth avenue, one of the retail hubs of manhattan. but still more needs to be done. there were about a handful shaking their head. one individual says he does not agree with many of the points this movement is trying to make. again, largely, there is support, especially among new yorkers. >> thank you so much for showing us that live for us from new york.

an ohio state law maker is calling for people to stop getting tested for the coronavirus. he posed his reasoning in a post on facebook. quote, are you tired of living in a dictatorship yet. he was complaining about the mask mandate, which just went into effect. he listed the seven counties effected by the health order and wrote at the bottom, never get tested. he has said he won't wear a mask because it dishonors god. i want to bring in ben staller now. the mayor of bell fountain, which is in patel's district. when you heard your law maker calling for people to never get tested, what did you think? >> thanks, brianna, for asking. in addition to being a mayor,

i'm a pharmacist of 35 years. i listen more to how the virus works, the epidemiologist, i'm listening to science. representative is posturing a bit more on politics. i agree with a few of his comments but i can't stand behind what he's posted. and in fact, our governor has really repositioned himself. i think he's been proactive and ohio will have to stand on its history. now we're looking at each individual county, instead of the state as a one-size fits all. i like what's happening from our governor's office and i don't agree with representative vitali. >> you agree with some of his comments though? >> people who are perfectly healthy, some people are curious and feel like they need to be tested.

he doesn't want to test anybody. i guess i could see sometimes his logic. but people who feel ill or their physician recommends their testing, they should be. people in the health care community, first responders, there's a lot of people that need testing, even if they don't feel poorly today, we need to know if they're out there on the front lines. people who are curious, i wonder if i have covid, i don't think the testing is for those folks. that's where we may agree disagree. we also agree all businesses are essential. there was a day in ohio where we divided businesses into essential and nonessential. and really that was divisive but i don't think we're there anymore. >> do you wear a mask regularly? you're a pharmacist? like you said you follow science. what is your personal practice? >> i do.

my personal practice begins with social distancing. i think there's great tastandin behind standing x-number of feet. i always have a mask with me. if i'm indoor and confined spaces or close to people, i wear a mask. if i'm outdoor, blue skies and six feet away from you, i'll be honest i don't at that point. it's very situational. and i think you have to personally consider your own risk. i think the mask, i do support wearing masks but it's not 24/7. it's not in the privacy of your own home. people have to find that comfort level. have a mask with them and be ready to don their mask. >> all right, mayor. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. so more than a million people filed for unemployment last week as coronavirus

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cnn has obtained transcripts from the police body cameras that add chilling aspects. after a officer placed a knee on his neck for more than nine minutes, sparked weeks of protest. the police officer, face as second degree murder charge. his colleagues face charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter. and josh, cnn has reached out to the court to find out whether they're planning to release the actual videos from the officer's body cameras. but this is key. they're the transcripts. >> reporter: that's right. up to this point, the one video the public keyed in on was this bystander video where you saw the officer with his knee on george floyd's neck. we have been asking them to release the body camera footage from the officers to provoid

additional insight and we're getting a transcript that was released that depicts george floyd's final minutes alive. i want to warn that this is graphic, depicting someone struggling to breathe. during one of these instances, says, okay, okay, i want to lay on the ground. i want to lay on the ground, i want to lay on the ground. the officer says you're getting in the squad car. floyd says i want to lay on the ground. i'm going down, i'm going down, i'm going down. he was in a state of panic, according to one of the officer's defense attorneys. later on we get another exchange between floyd and the officers and you get a sense of two different kinds of policing style, where you had derrick chaven telling floyd no, you can breathe and floyd says i'm through i'm through, i'm claustrophobic. my neck hurts, everything hurts. and chaven says stop yelling.

he says you're going to kill me man. chaven says stop. it takes a lot of oxygen to talk. as part of this motion filed again, this is part of former officer lane saying this video, body camera footage prove his client's innocence, i actually talked to him in minneapolis earlier this month. on this transcript audio and video from the officers, you see the junior officer, thomas lane asking the senior officer if they should turn george floyd over. he was obviously in a state of distress, according to the motion. the attorney asked the client twice, should they turn floyd over, and chaven saying no, we're going to leave him where he is. and what we're waiting for is whether we'll get a sense to see this video for ourselves. they're in the process of allowing members of the media to come in and view the body camera footage.

still hasn't been decided if that will be released publicly. that's in an effort to get the full description out to the bublic about what transpired. and the next trial date is set for early march. we know at least two officers are blaming him, saying as a senior officer on the scene, he was calling the shots. we haven't heard any indication what his defense is. we're waiting to see what that is. >> it's been set for early march? is that what you said? >> that's right. there's another hearing set for september. also, yet to be determined whether all four will be tried together or separately. we're told from court officials that is yet to be determined. >> and that body cam footage is so important. i' i'll tell you just reading the transcript is tormenting to read but important to know what happened. dr. fauci saying the transmission of the coronavirus

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right? and they're worried this could spread coronavirus. all guests are required to wear masks. for more international headlines, let's check in with our correspondents around the world. >> angela merkel has announced what she says is populism and the speech in fronted of european parliament, angela merkel said so far rise in disinformation is futile in dealing with the pandemic as inassignmentment and hatred. she says democracy is the transparency if they want to be successful in stopping the pandemic. >> i'm will ripley in hong kong. where this city is in the middle of a third wave of the pandemic. they're concerned about a number of cases. you're talking about dozens here, which compared to other places, is a low number. but for hong kong, which was

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moments ago the white house press secretary was asked white trump administration is pushing a one-size-fits-all solution to opening schools and here's what she had to say. >> there's a way to safely do it and a lot of stake, i mentioned the 67,000 pediatricians that represented by the american academy of pediatrics who say it's imperative schools reopen. underscored by another 1,500 european pediatricians. reporting child abuse. mentioned the study yesterday. a big piece by cnn massachusetts alone reports of alleged child abuse dropped almost 55%. when kids are not in school a lot of times we don't catch that abuse. costs are too high to keep schools shut down. they can safely reopen. even the american academy of pediatrics believes that and the

president standing on the side of the children always. >> jeremy diamond has more covering the white house behind him. what's happening here as kailee mcnenny is trying to push back. seems a binary choice, open or reopen, without realizing people are calling for safety as it's done? >> reporter: right. what our colleague kaitlan pointed out there, the fact the white house on one hand is saying all schools should reopen, while at the same time saying, well guidelines from the cdc are overly prescriptive and everybody shouldn't be following them, because one size does not fit all. so that is kind of the inherent contradiction here in the white house posture, because, look. there is broad-based agreement from medical community, from parents, from educators from policymakers that schools should begin to reopening in certain parts of country, but the question is how to do it, and how you kind of pressure these various school districts and

these various states to do so. the american academy of pediatrics, which has said that schools should begin to reopen also came out this morning and said that the way that florida, for example, is doing it, by mandating it state-wide despite a surge in cases we see there, that the american academy of pediatrics opposes that state-wide mandate. what the white house is doing saying disregard guidelines. instead reopen quickly, regardless whether or not you meet the criteria for those guidelines. cdc director robert redfield is found in a tricky position as so many administration public experts are often are, defending what they put out, science-based, versus what the administration is pressuring them to do. this morning we heard dr. redfield say while vice president mike pence yesterday said those guidelines were going to be re-issued next week, new guidelines re-issued next week, dr. redfield saying they will not change the current cdc guidelines instead adding new

documents to provide additional guidance to schools that are beginning to consider this reopening. it's a very confusing situation, and part of it, brianna, is because the president has been so eager to push these schools to reopen. a goal many people share. the question is, how do you do it? >> how do you do it? what are the priorities? i bring in our political director david chalian to talk about this. part of this, david, comes down to trust in the president, and where his priorities are, and we've seen through the politicization of this pandemic, right when it comes to masks and other things that are clearly guided by science, he hasn't prioritized the obvious thing which is human lives. i think that's why this is becoming such a difficulty for the white house as they call to reopen schools. this politicization is reaching schools and reaching children. >> making something political that's apolitical. right? it's a virus. he believes he can win a

political battle. mentioned the mask incident. now, schools, they want to act like, that it doesn't have to be done carefully and within every sort of community figuring out how to mitigate risk as much as possible. again, everyone shares the goal of getting kids back to the school, but they want to be very broad-sweeping, because donald trump wants to open at any cost. he wants to, you know -- we saw a month or so ago, brianna, get the economy open, get businesses back open. get people back from underneath the lockdowns get the states to open up. now get the schools open. he just wants society to be open, because he believes that that's his path back to firmer footing. that if the country looks to turn back in some way. perplexing to me, brianna. it's pretty clear that's not the path back for the president, because right now the virus as it is on and uptick and the spread of it, it is also consuming for so many americans

that the path back to donald trump's political rehabilitation is actually through managing this crisis of the pandemic. >> yeah. so then why -- i mean, not for you to get into the president's head, but for you to analyze the situation here. this doesn't seem like a win for him to now take that strategy that isn't working and apply it to what for most people is their most precious possession and that is their child? >> reporter: right. what the president is doing here, he's -- leaning into and banking on i mean, sort of what kailee said end of the bite. the president's always going to stand on the side of the child. of course. who in america is not standing on the side of the child? that's a very easy thing to say and i think the president believes that's a political win for him to lean into, but ignoring the "how" or trying to brush over it, or thinking you can just naught to the side and lean into that want the kids to just get back to school, that's

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