around and biden and obama because we caught them spying on my campaign. who would have believed that one? >> reporter: kate, he is strongly indicating something is going to happen but waiting to find out when. >> kaitlan, thank you. it is the top of the hour, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. any moment now president trump will be landing in south florida, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in this country right now and the spot where it's most serious in the world at the moment. on the agenda as the white house is explained it so far not addressing the pandemic but rather to focus on drug trafficking. he's also slated to attend fund-raisers later today. right now there's nothing on the schedule that's directly addressing the staggering spread of covid-19 in florida. why? that state along with south carolina, texas and arizona have

seen hugen creases in new cases since reopening. these fur among the first to reopen more than two months ago. florida alone seeing an average of daily new cases increase there by more than 1,200% since the may 4th reopening, 1,200%. on the day florida reopened it was averaging 680 new cases daily. right now the state is looking at an average of more than 9,000 cases per day. nationwide, this is where we are right now. the country just hit another record high for new cases yesterday, more than 63,000. the sixth day of record highs in the last 10. 29 states are going in the wrong direction. only four states in this country right now seeing a decline. that is a fire alarm ringing. everyone should be paying attention. it is data like this that has the nation's top expert so

discouraged about where we stand right now. i want to play for you what he said just last hour. >> the united states as i'm sure we'll be able to discuss a little bit more is in the middle right now even as we speak in a very serious problem. >> cnn's rosa flores and kristen holmes in south florida. rosa, what is the very latest that you are sighieeing and hea, rosa? >> reporter: process this with me for a second because florida reopened in very early may allowing restaurants and retail to reopen with limited capacity. now, take a look at this graph because these are staggering numbers. if you look at that, since then the average daily new case number increased by 1,237%. this as today the florida department of health reporting the second highest daily number of all time, more than 11,400

new coronavirus cases. i'm here in miami-dade county, the epicenter of this crisis. this was one of the last places to reopen here in florida and yet here are the conditions. right now, the daily positivity rate is at 33.5%. this county is -- their goal is to stay under 10% and yet for the past 14 days they have exceeded 18%. when it comes to hospitalizations, covid-19 crisis is really testing the hospital system here. according to data released by the county, hospitalizations of covid-19 patients have increased by 76% in the past 14 days. by 86% when it comes to icu units and ventilators. 124%. governor desantis yesterday acknowledging they have yet another problem, this time they say delays in testing results. that, of course, is a huge

concern because if you are tested and you still don't know that you have covid-19 then you can be out and about in the community spreading the virus. what are they doing? starting next week testing sites will have a specific lane for symptomatic people to hopefully get their results a lot faster. kate? >> rosa, thank you so much. let's get to kristen now. is the white house explaining why there isn't anything covid related on the president's agenda during his visit? >> reporter: kate, they're not but it is not that surprising. i have spoken to many advisers to the president saying this is how they want him to handle it moving forward. they want to really move on from the virus and how we have seen the president handle it since the very beginning saying that the government is doing a good job and there are problems with testing he said there weren't problems with testing and as recently as last night he blamed the surges on the amount of testing that they're doing. this rhetoric is starting to

putt him at odds with some of the nation's top health experts, particularly as you mentioned dr. fauci who just moments ago said that we were in a serious situation here. going completely against what we have heard from the president. that's not the first time we heard this from dr. fauci. this is somebody supposed to be one of the top presidential members, a member of the coronavirus task force and saying that the government didn't do that great of a job, not doing that great of a job and the states opened too quickly. and he responded directly to president trump at one point when the president said that 99% of these cases were not that serious, that they were totally harmless and what he said in an interview with "financial times" i'm trying to figure out where that the president got that number. i think someone told him that the general mortality is about 1% and he interpreted, therefore, that 99% is not a

problem when that's obviously not the case. so here we are starting to see a direct back and forth which is playing out in the media. president trump was asked about fauci last night on fox news and said he was a nice man but made some mistakes but regardless of whether or not they address covid while here, the white house has a problem on the hands or the campaign because americans are less and less happy with the way president trump responded. i want to pull up a poll for you here. this is asking americans about how they feel about president trump's handling of coronavirus, whether or not they approve and we have june and now so you have all americans in june saying 41% approve. now 33%. republicans 90%, now 78%. and that critical number independents, it was 40% in june and now it is all the way down to 26%. whether or not the president himself wants to talk about coronavirus clearly they have an issue on their hands as we head

into the election. >> right. right now as we see florida he is not handling the crisis because he is moving on from the crisis as kristen lays out. as kristen was reporting, it appears that the president, air force one landed in florida. we'll keep an eye and keep track of the president's movements, who he is meeting with and hard to tell who's greeting him because they're wearing face masks. let's see what the president has to say and track his movements and bring you the key moments. so the president is landing there. thank you so much. the president has landed in south florida. let's get a view from two leaders in south florida as we watch this. joining me is mayor of ft. lauderdale and the mayor of miami gardens. mayors, thank you for being here. mayor gilbert, rosa flores is reporting a key metric as i know you think is, as well. the positivity rate right now,

33.5% which is staggering. what is going on there from your perspective? >> from my perspective, a couple things have gone wrong. the testing in the beginning but right now since we have been open, people haven't taken the guidelines serious enough. the wearing of masks, social distancing and trace contact or contact tracing. when you get tested and test positive we need to go in and talk to and contact the people who you've been in contact with. you can't have days and weeks lapse between being tested positive and contact people to let them know that they need to be tested. we know people who will pass this on asymptomatic. you can pass it on and ultimately kills someone or sends them to the hospital. we need to do better in that gap and we need information, we need

trace contacters and need it to happen right now because we are just getting through the fourth of july and we know that the surges to see from the fourth of july are not built into the system yet. >> that's right. >> we will see higher numbers. >> that lag seems to be a problem for people to understand, the lag of your behavior and when you start to see the consequences of your behavior. mayor, you have a mask mandate in place. you closed beaches for the fourth of july. you have not reopened bars but you are also still seeing an explosion of new cases. what is then the solution? >> well, thank you for inviting me on the show today, and you know, i'm not someone who comes up with solutions. i look to the medical community to give us the protocols that we need to follow but what i'm noticing is that when this pandemic first knocked on our door locally the first reaction we had was, okay, shut

everything down because we didn't know the answer. we didn't have a sluiolution ano we'll figure it out and now that we started to open up slowly, broward county and miami-dade did not really open as quickly as the rest of the state. we never went into phase two and still in phase one and yet we're still seeing this disease spread like rapid wildfire so it's -- i think it's starting to seem a little simpler in terms of the reaction. the reaction should be to stick with the protocols, maintain distances, wear face masks. do the right thing. m america is a can-do society. and those that won't do are just being un-american. they don't seem to understand the message that needs to be followed in this community and this country and that is, we can lick this. we can suppress the spread of this disease. >> mayor, i love that outlook.

i love getting back to we are a can-do society and not hearing that very much from a lot of people. we are saying i won't do is hearing from a lot of different places. that gets me to as you will see in the other part of the screen, everyone at home, waiting for the the president to de-plane in miami to head to the first event. i wonder, the president is headed to miami-dade county. is there in the county now. are you happy he is coming right now? on the agenda nothing about the pandemic. >> well, i really honestly until you mentioned it didn't know that he was coming and concentrating on the health and safety of the residents of miami gardens. the more attention to pay to this the more. listen. we saw the president and governor spike the ball before they got in the end zone. they said, see, florida has done it? we hadn't done it. i agree with the mayor of ft.

lauderdale. we can do this but what's measured right now is our ability to discipline ourselves, wear a mask, maintain proper distancing, follow guidelines while there sanjay gupisn't a v will help us keep people alive. we can do this. we have to focus on it. whether it is the mayor, the county, the president of the united states bringing attention to that, kaling on evecalling o americans, this could kill someone in your family. >> 100%. jumping off of that, mayor gilbert, the fact that the president and hearing from reporting wants to move on from this in the midst of dr. fauci say we are squarely in the middle of a very serious problem, you can't ignore the way out of the problem. what impact does it have on the local efforts to get people to

be can-do if the president ignores it? >> the president is in complete denial of what is going on around him and that's to the detriment of everyone in our country but fortunately we have local leaders who understand the importance and the urgency of maintaining the protocols and maintaining the discipline we need to follow going forward. i don't think anyone's really looking to the national media other than to hear the medical experts. nationally we are listening to the medical experts, not the politicians. locally we are able to try to focus our attention on the protocols that need to be followed to squelch the spread of this virus and look at the statistics. you pointed them out earlier in the show that the statistics are going in the wrong direction dramatically and not just in florida but in many states in this sun belt so there goes that theory that the heat and the humidity kills the virus.

that's obviously a falsehood so the reality is that americans need to buckle down and take the responsibility and be personally responsible for their own conduct to protect themselves and protect others. the not they're vie lattiolatin oath as americans to overcome this national disaster and that's exactly what we have here. >> mayor gilbert, i'm struck and it is a testament to how focused in you are that you weren't aware that president trump was going to be coming to miami-dade until just now. are you -- what is always involved with a presidential visit in keeping the president safe and preparing the areas, do you have any concern that his visit can if he is not going to be drawing attention to the

pandemic will divert resources? >> clearly. we have to make sure that the president is safe but more than diverting resources it is our attention. we have press conference with local mayors and talked about contact tracing, social distancing, wearing masks and need as much attention on this, the president actually bringing attention to the fact that people should be wearing masks and businesses following the rules and residents and citizens need to be following the rules because ultimately that's the only way to stay safe. independent of the actual resources necessary to have a president here, no matter who the president is, they come to south florida and make sure that the president is safe. we need to be focused as a country and as a community on how we actually get through this together. the question is not -- never whether america will get through it. we are resilient and get through virtually everything.

how many of us will lose on the way? we can minimize that number by just disciplining ourselves right now and minimize the number giving this the attention it deserves from all of us. >> gentlemen, i'm not sure if you're capable of seeing the images of the president off air force one and met by local officials and hard to make sure i'm confident of who they are with face masks on but that's the point. i think i saw the mayor of miami-dade county who the president talked to first. all the local leaders coming down had face masks on. the president did not. that is a testament for the example that local officials no matter their political stripes are setting right now. >> exactly. you know, let's talk about why the president is here. you know? there's a fund rai-raiser for hp the street. half a million dollars a couple to attend it and going to

mar-a-lago. it's unfortunate because there are many people who have supported the president over these last several years who really want to do the right thing and there's so many people who feel that, you know, that trying to ignore the disease away is not going to make that happen. so if he doesn't want to set the right example that is his choice but as far as americans are concerned i think most americans are looking to us locally to set the right example and enforce the protocols. we have been very aggressive enforcing protocols in restaurants and other places, the gyms. we have been pretty aggressive making sure that people abide by the rules that have been put in place. i think we are going to do better. i think we are going to turn the corner soon. i know our hospitals are about at the peak so we really need to buckle down and get this to happen but the president, you know, this is his marquee.

he will not wear a mask. unfortunately that's not the impression that he needs to be giving the rest of the country. but everyone knows that's his thing. we are not following that. we need to follow the medical experts and the medical experts tell us maintain distancing. if you can't maintain distance do wear a mask, wash your hands and do stay out of touch. you mentioned earlier how we close the beaches down for fourth of july because those are crowd gathering opportunities and we wanted to avoid that but there are a lot of parties going on that weekend. house parties and so forth. no one was distancing themselves. no one was wearing masks because people felt, you know, it wasn't necessary because the president wasn't doing it. we got to change that attitude. we need to focus on that can-do spirit, not the won't-do spirit of america and i think that will be the only way to succeed in

combatting the spread of this virus. >> mayors, thank you very, very much. i really do like that mantra of getting back to can-do. it is empowering and what a mask does, empowers the society so get back to opening up eventually. thank you both very much. we have some breaking news coming in to get to. cnn just learned that president trump's rally in new hampshire tomorrow that we were just talking about with an official on the ground there it's been delayed. cnn's kaitlan collins back with me now. what is going on here? >> reporter: the president's return to the campaign trail has really been doomed from the start. he first tried with a rally in tulsa and you saw, of course, the fallout from that when not as near as many people as the campaign thought showed up and decided to hold one outdoors in new hampshire in an airport hangar tomorrow and now that has been canceled. we are told postponed the white house says because that tropical

storm is of course heading up to the east coast. expected to bring a lot of rain with it so, of course, that causes problems with a big event outdoors with a lot of people and moved it outdoors, in between the two rallies, the campaign made the plan to hold a rally in alabama tomorrow ahead of the run-off and heard opposition of state officials and then they switched to new hampshire and now a tropical storm is headed to new hampshire so they're not going to be holding that rally there tomorrow which is really significant because one thing that's different about this is seeing the campaign language saying to strongly encourage people to wear a mask and not similar message for the rally in tulsa and changed the messaging for new hampshire and now told new hampshire is often. no campaign rallies right now for president trump. >> kaitlan, thank you for the breaking news. wow. up next, a warning from the country's front line health care

workers, why the hardest hit states are battling with dwindling supplies of protective gear. still this many months in the fight. the president said he quote aced a cognitive exam he took recently. why that is raising so many new questions today. instead of trying to decide

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and let's now look at our goals, which we can control. in other words, we only want to take as much risk as is necessary to achieve our goals. we need to protect the money that's there. and that says you should be investing in... hospitals warning of reasoning out of beds for patients and running out of protective gear for doctors, nurses and medical staff. that was a major problem three months ago. now the country facing another shortage of ppe and medical equipment supplies. listen to what one icu nurse in phoenix told cnn. >> we are stretched so thin we are at the point of compromising patient safety. we are working with ventilators left with single digits of ventilators left. we have triple patient assignments now. we have three covid icus that are completely full.

>> joining me right now is deborah burger, co-president of the national nurses united. thank you so much for being here. shortages of masks, gowns, gloves and more, that was a problem back in march. how big of a problem is it now? what are you hearing from your members? >> the issue is that it is continuing to happen. we are four, five months, six months depending on how you count into this pandemic. we have had plenty of time to plan and take action. and it has yet to happen. president trump is the only person that can authorize the defense production act to mandate that masks and other protective gear be mass produced and has yet to do. he's only done a small component of that by improving the supply

of ventilators but for nurses health, for patient health, for the community health he needs to take action and authorize the defense production act to make manufacturers increase their production of n95 masks and other safety gear. it is u it is unfortunate he hasn't done that. there's a lack of leadership at the national level and the patience of our nurses are suffering. it is also unfortunate because all of these deaths and illness have been entirely preventable. and nurses have done everything in their power to get the attention of the politicians, the president and we have yet seen significant action on these issues. >> we just heard there from one

icu nurse in phoenix what she is up against but what are the stories that are sticking with you that you're hearing from members? what they're facing, what they're -- how they're forced to improvise to protect themselves and their patients. >> well, two examples are the fact that nurses are being asked to use a single use n95 mask over and over again multiple shifts for days on end. they're also asked to use reprocessed masks which we know is not a safe situation because of the chemicals that they use to decontaminate the masks. we know that nurses are having to make do with less protective pieces of gear like surgical masks and just cover your cough masks or bandannas. they're having to put together

gowns with garbage bags and using gloves to cover their shoes and they're being stretched then and they're trying to do the best they can with the lack of resources and the lack of leadership at the federal level. it's really heart breaking because we know that our country is the richest country in the world. and we can mass produce any number of things when we put our minds to it and it's just not helping. >> i hear the stories that you're telling me. i hear the stories from other nurses about the shortages they're facing that are real. and then i'm curious as to what you think then of what vice president mike pence just this week said about ppe. he pointed to it as a success story. i see your frustration. let me play how he put it just this week. >> ppe, we hear remains very

strong. the good news is because of the historic mobilization that president trump initiated we literally have hundreds of millions of supplies of personal protective equipment, 59,000 ventilators in the strategic national stockpile. >> look. mike pence doesn't want nurses to be infected, doesn't want nurses to be sick, so what do you say to that? what is he missing? >> i'm at a loss because i don't understand how he can say that in the face of the stories that i'm hearing every day, that every reporter in the media hears every single day. i think there's a total disconnect from what the trump administration is seeing and what nurses are actually experiencing on the ground. and i think that they need to look at their lines of

communication or actually look and see whether they're telling the truth or not because it can't be that there's plenty of supplies and then on the ground nurses are having to reuse masks on a daily basis, on a weekly basis and it is really beyond infuriating at this point that the richest country in the world isn't protecting life, isn't valuing the work that nurses and other health care workers do by not giving us the resources we need to take care of our patients safely and make sure that we protect them because if we get infected we're out and we can't help in this pandemic and if we get infected we can pass it on to our patients and family and community and we need to pass the heroes act, that's part of the issue of mandating use of the defense production act and it has yet to be passed in any

stimulus program that has been passed so far. and it's extremely frustrating because nurses know how to deal with a pandemic if they're giving the resources they need and the proof of that is to only look globally and see how well every other country's doing. >> deborah, thank you for coming in. i really appreciate your time. >> thank you for really highlighting our plea. we appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, president trump is bragging that he quote aced a cognitive exam. what was this test and why would he be taking it?

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center in front of the doctors and they said rarely does anybody do what you just did. >> he was talking about joe biden to take a test but that is not what we focus right now. let me bring in a forensic psychologist at yale school of medicine. thank you for coming here. you have been outspoken about your concerns as a physician about the president's mental health and wellness. we don't know when he took this test. he said very recently but i just want to work through what this means. why would a doctor order a cognitive exam on someone? >> i don't know what the reasons are for his physicians to think that they needed a test or why this test and not another. cognition which is the ability to process knowledge and thoughts alone does not determine whether someone is able to do a job. what we as independent mental

professionals, mental health professionals have been concerned about is whether the public is safe. that involves a different test. what we would like to know about is whether the president is fit for duty and not dangerous. those are the questions that would be of concern not just cognition. >> what would a patient -- what is the range of what a patient could be exhibiting that would warrant needing to be at walter reed for an exam like -- an exam like this? >> i couldn't comment on that because i don't know about the personal medical history of the president but what we can say from -- as mental health professionals who have a public health duty is the president

showing signs of dangerousness? is he showing signs of unfitness? we have been outlined on a number of occasions that are only confirmed over time with more information that's available. what we would recommend is a mental capacity evaluation. without mental capacity there is no fitness. so a mental capacity evaluation involves elements such as this. does the person have comprehension? is the person able to take in information and advice without undo influence from delusions or excessive emotional needs? can the person process information? or, appreciate and make flexible use of information that they're given? and is there sound decision making or the ability to weigh different options and consider consequences before making rational, reality-based, sound

decisions that don't -- that are not interfered with by impulsivity, magical thinking, conspiracy theories, self contradiction? these are the kinds of things that we test in a mental capacity evaluation. >> what does it say then that the doctors according to president trump were quote/unquote surprised that he did so well, surprised that he aced the test? >> i hope it's not the cognitive assessment which is what former white house dr. ronny jackson administered which is a ten-minute screen recommended not to be used to screen out -- to rule out cognitive problems because full-blown alzheimer's patients and hospitalized schizophrenic patients have been known to ace the test and so i

believe the creator of that test recently put out guidelines not to misuse it for what the president exhibited which include cognitive, quite obvious cognitive defects but also psychological and psychiatric defects. we would recommend a full psychiatric evaluation but at minimum what concerns public health and us as independent health professionals who have a public health duty is that he is fit for duty and mental capacity is the minimal evaluation that is relevant and that would be needed to determine that. >> dr. lee, thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> still ahead, it's been the question every parent, child and teacher is asking since march.

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i think to reopen schools we need to look to the edge ray or thes to decide what it takes to make the schools safe. >> that was the president of the american academy of pediatrics joining us just last hour as educators across the country try to find a way to get students back in classrooms safely. how to do that and what it will look like are the key questions and they remain unanswered in large part. >> i think there's commonality in the schools and the school leadership and the teachers and the administrators that we all want to protect the safety of the children that are in schools. >> reporter: the cdc director on cnn's coronavirus town hall attempting to clear up the mass confusion caused by the president's shocking threat to withhold school funding for

those that fully reopen something he doesn't have the legal authority to do on his own and the rebuke of the cdc guidelines. >> we stand by the guidance. with we think it's an important strategy for helping the schools reopen. >> reporter: for months districts nationwide have been scrambling trying to figure out how to reopen safely as the acting superintendent of the houston district showed cnn in may. >> students per table, possibly two per table or might turn to one student per table as we think about having 11 students in a classroom at a time. >> reporter: other districts have similar plans, mayor deblasio telling new york city's more than 1 million public school students they should plan to only spend one to three days a week inside a classroom. the other school days will be held online. >> some points in the week you're learning in person in the classroom. other points in the week you learn remotely. >> reporter: local officials

relied on guidelines by health authorities as well as the cdc. one of its top recommendations to maintain social distancing. the hybrid model of rotating hours and days in class seems to be the most feasible but the trump administration is now pushing hard for schools to reopen full-time in the fall. and an endeavor more challenging as sit states continue to see spikes in cases. in florida the education commissioner issued an emergency order this week requiring all schools to open five days per week for all students. >> if you can do home depot, if you can do walmart, if you can do these things we absolutely can do the schools. >> reporter: but some educators in the state saying they won't follow the order if cases don't start to go down. >> i think it would be counter intuitive with positivity cases

increasing, with restaurants just this week shut down again for us to pack up schools. >> reporter: in texas, governor abbott said schools will have to offer more flexibility. in arizona, classes delayed to at least august 18th. in california the governor saying that schools will reopen when the data says it's safe to do so. experts say it didn't have to be this frustrating but there's still time to get it right. >> the time to plan is absolutely right now. in particular, when we think about healthy building strategies, schools have to be paying attention to and looking at the mechanical and ventilation systems right now. this is not to be started in early august. >> reporter: so, kate, parents may be wondering where did the administration and the cdc disagree. the cdc recommended that students remain six feet apart. the administration now is looking to the guidelines from

the american academy of pediatrics to be three feet apart and keep children safe as long as they wear masks and, kate, you know how difficult it is as a mother of two young ones to make sure that the children are wearing masks throughout the day in class. >> don't get me started about those conversations. don't get me started about that. this is all so important and great to see you. thank you. next, the never trump movement failed four years ago and now they're back with a new plan. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪

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never trump republicans are back for round two. the movement to stop donald trump from winning the white house failed four years ago but the small group inside the president's own party say they have a new game plan. cnn's jeff zeleny joins me now with fresh reporting on this. what is the game plan? >> kate, there's no question two of the biggest differences this time around are president trump's own words and his record and they're both being used against him in blistering tv ads that are trying to drive some republican voters to joe biden. of course, it is an open question how possible this is because the republican party is now the party of trump. when president trump said this about spiking cases of coronavirus -- >> so i said to my people, slow the testing down please.

>> reporter: -- a new television ad spread to life. >> slow the testing down please. >> slow the testing down? show down our chance to save tens of thousands of lives. >> reporter: it's not the work of democrats but a small slice of republicans trying to make trump a one-term president. after failing four yearsing a, the movement is back and multiplying with the listen con project and republican voters against trump and new groups like bush alumni for biden. hoping to get into his head, that's the goal of the lincoln project whose videos are designed to mock and needle the president. george con way whose wife is a top trump adviser is a

co-founder. >> thoroughly unfit for office. >> reporter: the president mocked never trumpers taking delight in taking over the republican party. >> some people don't get it. never trump. never trump is disappearing rapidly. >> reporter: polls show as many as 9 out of 10 republicans support the president, the second act may be different than 2016. the trump record and joe biden is not hillary clinton. >> joe biden just simply isn't as scary to them. i think women will lose this election for donald trump. i think that is going to be the decisive and defining group of people. >> reporter: sarah longwell calls herself a proud never trumper and founded republican voters against trump studying the voters since 2016 and watched them stand by the president and now senses a different moment. >> the health crisis, the economic crisis, racial crisis. people are tired. they feel like trump isn't fit for the moment. they feel like the stakes are higher. >> reporter: but it's an open

question how many voters the never trumpers can persuade. her group is collecting testimonials believing the power of individual stories will make other republicans comfortable saying it out loud. >> i'll vote for a tuna fish sandwich before i vote for president trump again. >> reporter: that's jack spielman who voted for trump in 2016 and believes he failed the country on foreign policy and handling the pandemic. >> just as what happened with the reagan democrats now's the republicans turn to be republican democrats. the biden republicans to kind of return the favor, to say the nation needs us right now to get on a corrective course. >> reporter: and talking to jack, he's from macomb county, michigan, a critical county. president trump won it by 10,000 votes, the last state last time, on margins it can be so important. the trump campaign says it's

irrelevant and sad but will let the voters decide. >> interesting look at it. thank you so much. thank you all so much for joining us today and this week. our coverage continues now with brianna keilar. hello, i'm brianna keilar and welcoming viewers here in the u.s. and the around the world. the toppen feck shouse disease doctor is sounding the alarm. dr. anthony fauci who's restricted by the white house from going on television has not briefed the president in two months as america's pandemic is only getting worse. the country just saw more cases in a single day than ever before. with 63,247 new infections on thursday alone. today dr. fauci told a world aids conference that the situation is quote a true