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his daughter called him a pioneer who fought against racism and injustice as an attorney. he never let age slow him down and truly lived life to its fullest. may they rest in peace, and may their memories be a blessing. i'll be back tomorrow night 7:00 p.m. eastern for a special edition of "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. outfront next, breaking news, atlanta announcing tonight residents will go back to a stay-at-home order as that city, the country moving backwards on the coronavirus statistics. the president claims we're on track and doing el with. nearly 70% of people in one community testing positive for antibodies. it is possible this neighborhood has achieved herd immunity. growing calls tonight to boy got goya after the ceo praised
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president trump. and he's standing by it, not apologizing. let's go outfront. good evening. i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, back to square one in the city of atlanta which announced just moments ago it's due to shut back down. they are returning to phase one of reopening which means residents must stay home except for essential trips. only essential businesses and city services can operate. this is the biggest move yet by a major city in the opposite direction here of progress. it comes as the president grows more and more detached from reality on this and detached from his top medical expert dr. anthony fauci. here's president trump just hours ago. she was speaking in the state of florida, there for a fund-raiser, an event on drugs. it happens to be the place where coronavirus cases are growing faster than any country on earth. >> in the united states, at least before the covid came to us, the flu, the virus, the
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china virus, whatever you would like to call it, it's got many different names. but before it hit, we were doing really well. we're still doing very well, but now we're getting back on track. >> i mean, never mind it isn't a flu, and i just want to point that out because his use of that word doesn't seem to be accidental. it seems purposeful used to minimize the virus's impact. never mind there is no sane person that would say going back to phase one shutdown in one of the biggest cities in the country is not back on track. the facts show this. the coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 134,000 americans. deaths are starting to tick back up again after trending down a little bit for months even as younger people were infected. but we're now starting to see that rate go back up. listen to how dr. anthony fauci describes the situation right now. >> my own country, the united states, i'm sure will be able to discuss a little bit more is in the middle right now even as we speak in a very serious problem.
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>> a very serious problem. and we're in the middle of it. the president's version, we're back on track and we've done very well. well, look. the president doesn't want to hear the facts on this. actually, according to fauci, the last time trump met with fauci was more than a month ago. and the last time fauci briefed trump on the facts, two months ago. let me show you what happened since the last time the president of the united states had the personal briefing from the person who knows the most and is in charge of the infectious disease here. look at the maps. when trump was briefed by fauci, 22 states, that's may 13th, were seeing decrease in the number of cases. 22. the number now, 4. the last time trump got briefed by fauci, the number of cases in the united states is 1.3 million, nearly 2 million more than that today. the last time president trump was briefed by fauci, the death toll in the united states of america was 79,000. it is now on the verge of
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134,000 dead people. but now instead of fighting the virus, president trump is fighting fauci, the leading infectious disease expert in the country, a man who has been in this role since the 1980s, worked for six presidents of both parties. >> dr. fauci's a nice man but he's made a lot of mistakes. >> trump attacking fauci because fauci says we are in the middle of a really big problem, something the president just can't admit. in an interview with the financial times, fauci says, quote, i have a reputation, as you probably have figured out, of speaking the truth at all times and not sugar coating things. that may be one of the reasons i haven't been on television very much lately. he speaks the truth and trump doesn't want to hear it, so trump doesn't want fauci on tv doing interviews because that's the media trump consumes. jeremy diamond is outfront life outside the white house. jeremy, we did see fauci at the white house today, not though,
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when the president was there. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: that's right, erin. dr. fauci showed up at the white house for a coronavirus task force meeting. that was conducted behind closed doors. there was no briefing following it. two days ago dr. fauci was excluded from the task force briefing held in public led by vice president mike pence. and dr. fauci had been told to stay back at the white house instead of at the department of education so he could not attend this force briefing. and it comes, erin as you can see this feud between dr. fauci and president trump increasingly breaking out into public view. the president making clear he believes dr. fauci has made mistakes and dr. fauci undermining the president's false claim about 99% of coronavirus cases being harmless. ultimately, erin, this is about the president not just being at odds with dr. fauci but being at odds with the science. there is one aspect, though, of the science where the president appears to be moving and shifting at least just a little bit. and that's because the president said that tomorrow when he
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visits walter reed national military medical center he is going to be wearing a mask. and sources have told me that he is also going to be photographed wearing that mask. it's designed to be a signal to his supporters that it is okay to wear a mask to try to depoliticize this at least a little bit. there's been a quiet campaign, i've been told, erin, by my sources by who was aides as well as campaign aides to convince the president that he should show this sign to his supporters. just today the president was in florida, the hardest hit state, and he was once again not wearing a mask. even if the president is moving a little bit, he is clearly still very, very reluctant to depoliticize this issue of masks which of course he has been at the center of politicizing this, erin, by mocking joe biden for wearing a mask and not encouraging people in the way that most public health experts have been to do just that. >> all right, jeremy, thank you very much. it's pretty incredible, all this arguing and fighting and arm pulling to get him to wear a mask to a medical center.
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just think about that. the president, as jeremy said, spent much of his day in florida which is the epicenter right now. he didn't wear a mask and he did fit in a fund-raiser. he was there for an event on drugs and there to raise money, raised $10 million. he wasn't there because of the viral crisis or to speak about that or to address that. erica hill is outfront. >> reporter: long lines for testing in florida as the numbers there continue to move in the wrong direction. >> the situation is really concerning here in south florida. >> reporter: florida is now averaging more than 9,000 new cases a day. the president in hard-hit miami-dade county today, though not because the positivity rate there is nearly 30%. >> there seems to be this lack of understanding or awareness that we are in one of the most extraordinary public health crises that our nation has ever faced. >> reporter: georgia, one of the first states to reopen, smashing
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its previous daily high, adding more than 4,500 new cases. in response atlanta's major says her city is moving back to phase one which includes a stay-at-home order, setting up a battle with the governor who called the plan unenforceable. ten states seeing increase in covid-related deaths over the past week. half of those posting their highest average for new cases since the pandemic began. >> i think the numbers are going to look worse as we go into next week. and we need to make sure that there's going to be plenty of hospital beds available in the houston area. >> reporter: it's not just hops capacity and icu beds. personal protective equipment is, once again, in short supply in some areas. >> we've had plenty of time to plan and take action, and it has yet to happen. >> reporter: uncertainty growing with many jobs on hold. the $600 weekly unemployment boost will run out at the end of july. but the needs of struggling
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families will not. back to school looming with some states just weeks away. >> i don't think there's anybody who can make an argument that this is especially risky for kids wechlt ha kids. we have to accept that and figure out how you fashion policy around it. >> the viral loads in children are equivalent to that in adults. what does that mean? that means they can transmit the virus equally well to other people whether or not they show symptoms. >> as districts work to find the right balance, the one constant in every decision, a virus that is here to stay. >> in our current situation, it is very unlikely that we can eradicate or eliminate this virus. >> and just one more note about georgia tonight, erin. we also learned from the governor that they are reactivating the make-shift hospital at the george world congress center in downtown atlanta amid this rise in new cases. all right. >> thank you very much.
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i want to go now to dr. sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent in atlanta tonight. dr. jonathan reiner, cardiology who advised the white house team under president george w. bush. sanjay, let me start with the breaking news this hour that atlanta is going to go back to phase one, locking down again. look, i know this doesn't surprise you. but what do you make of the timing, how long it took to get there? what does this say about other places that think, oh, we reopened early, but we're still going to be okay? >> right. no, nothing makes you feel like you've gone back to square one again or even worse than that than the fact that these mobile hospitals are now going to be re-deployed. there's a real concern at these hospitals that they're simply not going to be able to take care of these patients. i mean, it's not just the beds. it's the staff. it's the respiratory therapists. it's all these things, all these same discussions that we had back in march and april that we're having again that we thought we were past. so, it's demoralizing, erin.
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you know what i mean? i was at the hospital this week talking to people over there. people are worried once again. they're worried -- it's amazing. the same conversations. am i going to have enough ppe. is it going to be risky for me to take care of patients? am i going to take the virus home. the numbers are going up. in the south, erin, schools schedule to open very early in august, just a few weeks away. and now you hear what's going on with the going back to phase one. that probably means those schools are not going to open at this point. we just need to be realistic about this. this is not the news i like hearing. it's not the news i like sharing but it's what's happening in my home state. >> it's what could happen nay lot of other places. dr. reiner, fact checking trump's claim that 99% of the coronavirus cases are harmless. he said, i'm trying to figure
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out where the president got that number. he's referring to very, very ill hospitalizations of up to 15% and people who could have life long implications of this unknown and not insignificant number. what do you think it is that the president really didn't understand the numbers or he wanted to paint a false picture? >> well, my old colleague has reluctantly come to the conclusion that this is purposeful misinformation coming from the white house which would be horrible if it's true. the only other explanation is that the president does not have the capacity to understand this. there's no other explanation. the president constantly touts incorrect crucial information about this virus. look, when you tell the public that 99% of people are
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unaffected by this virus, that it's harm es less to 99% of peo what you are explicitly telling them is that you can go out and do your business. you can live life normally. there's no reason to wear a face mask. it's incredibly dangerous. either the president lacks the capacity to understand this, or he is sinically and in an incredibly damaging way providing direct misinformation to the public. >> you know, sanjay, when he went to florida today, the biggest hot spot in the country, right, so if you look at the world and say what is the country with the biggest increase in cases, it's the state of florida. the president went there for a $10 million fund-raiser and went there to talk about drug trafficking, not going to help the virus. and a presidential visit is not helpful. but all he said about the virus is we're back on and track and doing very well. at this point as a medical
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professional, sanjay, how dangerous is this sort of talk? >> i'm not even sure if it's a medical story at this point. i think everybody fundamentally understands what's happening here. as you point out, this is the biggest public health crisis of our lifetime, the biggest public health crisis on the planet and florida is the worse spot on earth right now. so, how could you not address this. i mean, people are dying. it's really remarkable to me. and that's to say nothing of the fact that there's risks involved, right? jonathan reiner was reminding us that when they went to oklahoma all these secret service agents subsequently were diagnosed with covid. people go to the hospitals over there in anticipation of a presidential visit in order to scout things, make sure things are ready should it be needed. they donned ppe. they used resources that are needed here at this time to take care of patients with coronavirus. it makes no sense, probably the trip itself, but then not to address what is the biggest public health crisis in the
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world in our lifetimes right now. it boggles the mind. it's not even a medical story anymore. >> it really is. as i said, he went to talk about drugs and venezuela and a $10 million fund-raiser. dr. reiner, "the washington post" is reporting tonight that the white house and peter navarro is pressuring the fda to grant emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus, another one that had been revoked. it had been revoked because study after study after study found the drug was not effective and in some cases deadly. navarro and trump are touting the new study that found patients were less likely to die when given the drug. we also have the study -- it's the only one that shows that since it's been released, many top experts have raised questions about the finding. where do you come out on this? is it possible that this really works and all the studies that said otherwise are wrong. >> i think the medical term for this is craziness.
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look, the henry ford study suggested which was non-randomized observational study in which they looked at outcomes in patients that either got hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin versus those who didn't and that study suggested that people who got hydroxychloroquine did better. since it was not randomized, subject to confounding effects. and one of the big confounding effects in that trial is that the patients who got hydroxychloroquine also got steroids and that's a drug that subsequent trials have shown does work. we know steroids work in sick people with covid-19. three randomized clinical trials, one from the ni, hh, th trials have come to the same conclusion the drug doesn't work. there's nothing else to talk about here. hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. we have to stop with this nonsense. >> all right. i appreciate both of your time tonight. thank you.
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and the next the president's top economic adviser, larry kudlow, on opening schools. >> you can social distance, you can get your temperature taken, you can be tested, you can have distancing. come on, it's not that hard. >> depends on how old your kids are, lair. is it that easy. in one new york neighborhood 70% tested have coronavirus antibodies. can you trust it. is this hard hit community the place in this country that has actually achieved vaccine-like herd immunity? the doctor behind the research is outfront. devastating new poll numbers for the president, highest disapproval rating yet on his handling of coronavirus. don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... discovering that feeling has never been more effortless.
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tonight shutting back down, at least 26 states rolling back or pausing reopening. i just said that atlanta is going back to phase one. they just announced tonight. another is new mexico. they're stopping indoor dining at restaurants and bars, hospitalizations there up 27% from five days ago, cases keep rising. so, you can see a little bit of look in the future. you just don't know whether that future is a week, ten days, two weeks or more away. the governor saying the trend lines are going in the wrong way. and she's outfront now. i appreciate your time, governor. what is the biggest factor in your state that is leading you to make this decision, shutting back down is the right thing to do? >> well, erin, thank you very much for having me on.
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the numbers speak for themselves. when you're tracking the data every day, the number of infections and positive cases, the number of hospitalizations and deaths, it's pretty clear. so, our rolling five-day average, for example, right now in about 259 is twice what it was a month ago. so, new mexico flattened, crushed that curve, and we were really managing. so, we split our opening phase one into two parts. i wanted to go really slow because when you introduce risk, you've got to make sure that you can mitigate that risk. you only have two tools. people's personal behaviors were limiting their access to goods and services. and we don't want limited access, so you have to rely on personal behaviors. but what's going on around the country and people coming into the state and i think far too many new mexicans who were getting mixed messages nationally about mask wearing even though we had a mandate and
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that it really is safer, it's not safe, i think very lackadaisical and i've asked new mexicans to go exactly where they were more than a month ago, stay home, gatherings no more than five, only leave if you have to, mandatory masks including for exercise. no one really from out of state is supposed to be here and no indoor dining. we never opened up bars. >> wow. okay. this is -- look, i think this gives people a sense of how things could go. no one from out of state, masks even while exercising. you do plan to open schools in the fall. i believe governor. but you've said if you don't go back to flattening your curve, if you aren't able to see you can do it safely, of course you saw the president's tweet this morning with the threat schools must be open in the fall, if not open, why won't be federal government give funding? it won't. and larry kudlow said this this afternoon. i wanted to play it for you. >> just go back to school.
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we can do that. and you know, you can social distance. you can get your temperature taken. you can be tested. you can have distancing. come on. it's not that hard. >> what do you say to them? not that hard. you just keep getting tested. no big deal. >> it is another indication that the federal government has no plan, has no concept of what it takes to safely reopen to protect kids and their families or has any interest in doing so. and frankly it's the most callous kind of statement that we have all come to expect out of the white house. what about all the medically fragile children? what about families with chronic care conditions? what about the fact that most individuals are asymptomatic? what about the fact that most states including new mexico have a much older work force in education because it's a vocation, right? educators stay the course because they're in love with what they do and want to make a
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difference. they're in indoor settings. you try and tell a 5-year-old that social distancing and mask wearing is easy. >> yeah, well, i have a 5-year-old and i know exactly what you're talking about. >> so, you know. >> well, they have the best intentions but it isn't going to work. they're all going to be start trading masks. i'm not saying that to be funny. people don't realize the challenge we're going to be facing when these kids go back to school. it's going to be hard. you are the first la tina democratic governor in america. it looks like we lost her shot. looks like we lost her. are we going to get her back? no. we're not. okay. well, i appreciate her time if she can still hear me. thank you very much, governor. i appreciate it. and next it was one of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in new york. now nearly 70% of those tested have the antibodies. is it possible the community could achieve herd immunity. the doctor with the research is my guest.
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tonight nearly 70% of people
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tested in one hard-hit new york city neighborhood showed that they had coronavirus antibodies, 70%. this is stunning. it's incredible. and why? because that's getting you up towards the level of herd immunity, you know, which is what you do a vaccine to get, get to between 70% and 85%, all of a sudden you get herd immunity. if this is true, it is incredible. and it is what city md, which operates dozens of walk in clinics in new york is reporting. outfront now the senior vice president of medical operations at city md trained er doctor. i appreciate your time, doctor, tonight. one of your clinics in all places corona queens showed 68% of people tested have antibodies. just so people know watching nationally, corona queens is next to emherst hospital.
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how significant would this be, 68% antibodies? >> i think we need to understand the data a little bit better. but when you're looking at a large population of people and a large number of -- a large percentage of those people are potentially immune to a virus you could start thinking about that herd, that it'll be almost impossible for the virus to penetrate and for people to get sick. we have to be extraordinarily careful, however. we are measuring antibodies. the real question about is antibodies do, they confirm immunity? are they actually protective? how long do they last for? we have to be very careful about what kind of advice we're giving. at this point we can't anything more than you have these antibodies wechlt can't tell people to act differently, not wash your hands, not wear masks. >> right. >> it's interesting and compelling but we have to take
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it with that pause and that caution. >> which i completely understand. there's that, right? there's the issue of we don't know if the antibodies confirm immunity and we don't know the level of airnt body con if you remembers immunity which leads me to what we know about the antibodies itself which is the test. the cdc says coronavirus antibody tests could be wrong up to half the time. they say if you get a negative, they're more confident with that. but if you get a positive, you could have had had the common cold. how confident are you that these antibody tests are indeed accurate, that they mean what they mean? >> well, i'm an er doctor, not a lab person. i don't want to talk to the accuracy of the test. what we can correlate is the prevalence of the virus itself, test for the virus itself through pcr methods. and the numbers of patients in corona queens were equally staggeringly high during the
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peak of the outbreak. 70 or 80% of the time these paes patients were testing positive, certainly higher than other areas of the city. it looks like it's correlating closely to those patients that produced the antibodies. >> which is interesting. 70% to 80% positivity rate. it's pretty stunning. i know you're working on a study here. you're going through your data. corona, you have nearly 64% of the population in that particular neighborhood, hi hispanic, 15% black, 6.5% white. compare that to cobble hill in brooklyn which is a different neighborhood, predominantly white and wealthy, and only 13% of those people who came into your clinic had antibodies. i should note, obviously not all but many of the people who would have gone into the clinic at this time would have had reason to think i need to be tested. it's not just i'm completely healthy. when you look at your data, when
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are you seeing across demographics because this looks pretty stark? >> we're seeing consistency across most of the city. i would say across the board, low 20 to 25% of the neighborhoods that we have tested good data on are positive. those hard hit neighborhoods, parts of brooklyn and certainly corona queens and other neighborhoods in queens really jumped off the map and very striking. and it's something that we thought we were very compelled to share early. we still have a lot of work to do with the data. we want to understand it a whole lot better. there certainly is a selection bias as you alluded to. i think patients coming in from corona, queens, usually have an inkling they've had it or been exposed to it. so, that number 68, how reliable is that? is that a true cross section of the community? these are all items that need to be answered. i think it's extraordinary and we follow what's going on if there's a second wave, if there are more cases, what's happening in each one of these communities
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isolated, what's the prevalence as we move forward. >> i appreciate you sharing it and i appreciate the nuance and caveats. but it's crucial information and going to add a lot to the conversation. i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. and next trump and fox news host tucker carlson calling senator duckworth who lost both legs in iraq calling her a coward, fraud, and moron. she has something to say. plus tonight trump bragging about results of a cognitive test he had. >> i took it at walter reed medical center in front of doctors, and they were very surprised. to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. [grunting noise] i'll take that. woohoo! 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. with nutrients to support immune health.
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tonight a new low, a poll showing the president's highest disapproval yet on the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 67% of americans disapproving of his handling, up nine points since mid-june. i want to bring in john kasich.
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governor, i appreciate your time. you've got disapproval at an all-time high for the coronavirus. what may be worse, 73% and 22% of republicans which is more than double of what it was last month in his own party. can you turn all this around, governor? >> i kind of think she's jumped the shark. that's "happy days" when fonz jumped the shark and that was about the end of the show. and i've been saying that i think he has jumped the shark. people want bed him to mix it up. they said let's take a chance on this guy. this is about our families. it's about our kids going back to school. it's about mom and dad. it's about grandma, grandpa. the guy won't wear a mask. we're behind the curve on all this. he's dismissing it. when you do that, you are now messing around with people's
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lives and people don't like that. so, you can see the republicans beginning to retreat, and we see independents retreating in mass. it's a very hard thing to fix. it's never over until it's over. as yogi said, it ain't over till it's over. but at this point, losing all these people, including increasing numbers of the religious faithful is very, very difficult. it's a very tough thing to dig out of. >> so, the president's cancelled his new hampshire rally. he's cited storms from tropical storm fay. the weather forecast shows the storm will be past where the rally is by the time it was scheduled to start tomorrow. it comes as kellyanne conway down played crowd expectations. they recently cancelled a rally in alabama. in tulsa, they were stuck with photos of a pretty impty stadium. does this all say anything to
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you? >> yeah, he's losing momentum. the thing about tulsa that was interesting -- i just saw a few of the clips. you saw people looking at their watches and people were yawning and reaching across. and i would say four years ago people were kind of transfixed by this show. but the show's kind of -- the show's winding down. they cancelled because they weren't going to get the crowd. new hampshire is such an interesting place. i've spent a lot of time up there. i did 115 town hall meetings. people are very independent and not looking on this favorably if had terms of what he's done with corona and what he's done with the protests. that's another thing he's missed. both virus and the protests. strike two. >> tucker carlson has been going after senator duckworth, called her a coward, a fraud, a moron for proposing a national dialogue over whether statues of george washington should be removed.
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senator duckworth whatever you think of that conversation is a recipient of the purple heart, lost both legs in a helicopter crash while serving in iraq. i u.just want to play for you wt they said. >> you're not supposed to criticize tammy duckworth because she served in the military. most people ignore her. but you're reminded what a deeply silly and unimpressive person she is. these people hate america. they're all according to tammy duckworth dead traitors. >> just to be clear, she never said george washington was a traitor. she said that this should be discussed. i have interviewed her many times. she's deeply impressive and thoughtful person. she responded to the attacks in an op-ed, and in that, she wrote what i actually said isn't the reason mr. carlson and mr. trump are questioning my patriotism. they're doing it because they're
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december t pra for america's attention and they think it will be better to turn us against one another. you used to work at fox news. do you think what we saw there from mr. carlson is working or backfiring? >> you know, it's a different place now than it was then. and it was a place where you heard both sides. things have kind of changed across the media world. but, erin, doesn't it kind of take your breath away when you think about the attacks on the gold star families, the khans, the president attacking him. and then attacking john mccain, saying he wasn't a hero because he got caught. i knew john well. he had great difficulty being able to put his coat on and off because of how many times they broke his arm and how much they tortured him. duckworth loses two legs. it's one thing to say disagree with her opinion. but to call her a coward and a moron and to say that people like her hate america, you know,
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my mother would have washed my mouth out with soap if i had been using words like that when i was a kid. and i don't do that now. it's one thing to argue. but attacks are terrible. maybe they think they're damaging duckworth. one thing i will tell you, even though trump's in electoral trouble, the democrats better be careful not to lurch to the left. a lot of those voters out there are wondering is it safe to vote against trump and perhaps to vote for biden. that's what we've got to keep our eye on. thanks for having me on. >> whether those independents feel that way. i appreciate your time, governor, as always. governor john kasich. next president trump revealing the results from a cognitive test, but why did he take one in the first place. and the ceo of goya not backing
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tonight president trump claiming he took a cognitive test recently that surprised his doctors. >> the radical left was saying, is he all there? is he all there? i proved i was all there because i aced it. i aced the test. i took it at walter reed medical center in front of doctors and they were very surprised. they said that's an unbelievable thing. rarely does anybody do what you just did. >> okay. there's a lot there. dr. jonathan reiner is back with me because obviously he advised the george w. bush white house for eight years. one official's understanding is he's acting like he just took this exam but he's referring to the one in 2018 he bragged about he time. it's unclear when he took this test. when you look at this, why would president trump undergo a test like this? is that business as usual? >> no, it's not a part of any routine medical
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or vice press presidential yearly examine. they recommend this testing only when there is a suspicion of impairment. we know he had one two years ago because ronny jackson described it. we didn't know he had one this year. he did actually have it in november, we need to know why. what was their suspicion. >> so you're saying only on suspicion of impairment. advising george w. bush white house for eight years, he had never had to take anything like this. >> actually, general tubb gave a brief mental status exam to the president awakening from sedation after colonoscopy and reversing the 25th amendment. he did a technical quick mental status for that purpose but no other team, no. >> when president trump continued here, he said the results were unbelievable. that's an unbelievable thing.
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rarely does anyone do what you just did. and nobody as the test. i mean, what do you say to that? nobody as this test? >> the test makes you draw a clock and put like the hands at 2:30. it shows a camel and hippo and asks you to label them. it gives you five words and asks you to repeat them back. subtract seven from 100. that's the test. so i would hope that the person who carries a card in his pocket with a nuclear launch code can correctly identify a camel. >> so what would your response be as a doctor if a patient says i aced it and bragging, the doctors surprised. this is unbelievable to that reaction. >> really, the big question is why did the president's physician feel they should give him any formal cognitive ass
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assessment two years ago and if the president isn't lying now, again in november on a saturday afternoon in an unannounced way, if he actually had it in november, then now we know that he went there with some sort of potential neurological concern. >> which obviously we still do not know exactly why he went for this unannounced visit. nor do we know exactly when he took this test. appreciate it. thanks again for coming back. >> my pleasure. next, jeannge jeannie on wh and more people are saying go. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance,
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. tonight, the ceo of goya under fire for praising trump. the backlash is fast and furious. here is jeanne. >> the seasons were spicing up the internet, reaction ranged from goya-o-boy to i'm using all goya ingredients. a true trump friendly words left the ceo in the frying pan.
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robert spoke warmly of the president while standing next to him. >> we're all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like president trump who is a builder. >> to which the president replied. >> that's very nice. >> not so nice was the reaction. good-bye goya tweeted john, chrissy teaguen said don't care how good the beans, taste, though, bye, bye and representative alexandria oh cost owe torrez. as the season getting tossed by some into the waste basketball as a boycott spilled on twitter, the #goyaway. that goya ceo really opened a can of worms. but he wasn't saying sorry on fox news. >> i'm not apologizing.
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>> pointed out he'd appeared with the obamas. >> this is quite the honor. >> he labeled the boycott calls a suppression of speech. >> especially if you're called by the president of the united states. you're going to say no, i'm sorry, i'm busy, no thank you. didn't say that to the obama and i didn't say that to president trump. >> the anti boycott by goya campaign picked up steam, going out tomorrow to buy 20 cases of beans and 100 packets of spanish rice. i'd buy more but my emergency pantry is full of ammo. the boycott is mocked. >> i can't eat this. you're going to tell your mom you can't eat goya rice. >> that old tweet of president trump tweeting a taco bowl is rest recollected. this does amount to a hill of bean beans. >> thank you so much for joining us. don't forget you can watch "outfront" any time at cnn go.
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you can get it on any division. "ac 360" starts now with anderson. good evening. breaking news tonight the president just commuted the prison sentence of rodger stone but whatever it means, and whatever it says about the president's view of the law it's a distraction from his fiailure to the american public today. we begin with the most central fact of the pandemic. the coronavirus is winning and the trump administration has no plan for stopping it. that's the truth tonight and every night of this pandemic. it is as sad and simple as that. the virus is owinning and there is no plan. this week new cases topped 60,000 a day. the most on earth and ever in this pandemic and at the end of a day that's seen a major american city atlanta rollback the reopening to phase one because cases there are spiking.