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the u.s. health system pushed to its limits as they struggle to get control of the coronavirus. that burden falling to the nation's governors. and in the wrong direction. they're racking up new cases and some states, new deaths. target and walmart are the latest retailers trying to stop the spread of coronavirus by requiring all customers to wear masks. and president trump has largely been out of touch with the top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, until the two men spoke on the phone for the first time in a month. >> we know that testing,
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tracing, treating, distancing, masking, sanitation can stop the spread of this virus. and yet the president continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us. >> cnn's erika hill is in new york. and you have more on what's happening nation wide. tell us. >> reporter: one of the things we're learning is the travel bans that went into effect, they happened too late to help. as we know travel was being restricted from china february 2nd. but it wasn't until march 13th, we saw a similar ban for travel from europe. here in new york city the virus was already circulating at least five days before the ban went into effect. and a couple of days after
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restriction for travel from europe, there was already community spread. >> reporter: miami's hospitals are at 95% capacity as the virus continues to spread. >> you can't rule out a stay-at-home order. you can't allow your hospital system to get overwhelmed. >> reporter: cases surging in georgia. governor kent extending the public health state of emergency, but banning local officials from mandating masks. the mayor of georgia says her order is still in efelkt. and governor kent did not give a dam about us. we will continue to keep the faith and follow the science. >> the science is clear, wearing a mask can reduce your chance of transmitting it and acquiring it five times if everybody in the community wears it. >> reporter: at least six states require face coverings in public.
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cvs and target the late to say require them nation wide, as the number of states moving in the wrong direction rises to 39. 16 reporting record hospitalizations. all but two also seeing a rise in deaths. >> you've had a real acceleration of epidemic across the country and i think it's time to get very serious. and things are getting worse. >> reporter: in laredo, texas, this place is being converted to a field office. two texas counties are sharing a refrigeratored trailer. >> these individuals are our family members and friends. >> reporter: maricopa county, which has the most cases in the state has also ordered portable coolers. >> unlike other countries, we never got covid-19 under control here. basically, we gave up. >> reporter: the northeast has been holding steady over the past month. new cases in the midwest, declining in midjune has now
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more than doubled. the west seeing a similar spike while the south has exploded. more than tripling daily case counts since midjune. >> it doesn't have to be this way. closing down the hottest parts of the united states will go a long way to put this fire out. >> reporter: maryland governor larry hogan slamming the president's lack of leadership in a scathing "washington post" op-ed, writing "eventually it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation's response was hopeless. if we delayed any longer, we'd be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death." brianna, as we all know this virus does not respect boarders or state lines. mayor bill de blasio says he's still thinking about what states will look like. there's been talk about moving forward on monday. they are expected to give us an
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update maybe later today, maybe tomorrow. and mayor de blasio saying as he looks at what's happening around the country, that's what is giving him pause. rilg it's the indoor activities that have concern. things like indoor dining will likely not be approved. a significant new clinical trial shows hydroxychloroquine has no benefit over placebos. that's the drug the president took and touted over government warnings. and a former cdc director who served under bill clinton and george w. bush, and also the founding director and senior advisor of the thatcher health leadership at the morehouse school of medicine. tell us your reaction about the news of hydroxy chlchloroquine, consider the president has
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repeatedly pushed this and so have those around him. >> i don't think it's news anymore. i don't think all there were studies that showed hydroxychloroquine was that beneficial in the virus. it is consistent with other studies that have been done. >> it's kind of telling us more of what we already knew but maybe the more you hear, the more definitive it is. it confirms it. so, look, you gave the federal government a "c" for its federal response on the pandemic and tell us what's been the biggest issue that garnered it a low grade in your view? >> my main concern is we are not using the science that we have. we spent a lot of our time
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developing new science through research. but when we have science showing what does work and does not work, and we use it, i think that gives you a "c" or less in terms of how you operate. communication has been a problem also, as you know, between the political components and the scientific components. and that's another thing that would bring your grade down to a "c" or below. i'm not casting negative persuasions on people. i'm trying to say we can do better as a nation. we can do that much better than we're doing now. and therefore, now we'll get a "c. " >> just two states are showing a decline in new infections. are states and cities on their own when it comes to fighting this virus? and if you think that, what's your advice to the nation's governors and mayors. ? >> well, to a great extent,
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they've been on their own. my advice would be we ought to continue to develop science and we should follow where the science leads us. we are very fortunate when we're able to do research and able to come up with answers about what works and doesn't work, as you did earlier. but the question is are we going to use that science to save lives. >> folks like you calling for sort of the foundation as everything that follows from that. you're in atlanta, it's worth noting. and where the governor extended an emergency order.
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and mask mandates in a lot of the cities and counties, even though he wore one yesterday when he met with president trump and urging georgiaens to wear them while he's on a recent tour of the state. it's a mixed message from the top official in your state. what is the impact on every day georgians? >> i think it's unfortunate. i think they need clarity about what works and doesn't work and they need leadership in terms of what we need to do at this time in our history. so, i think it's sad we can't speak with one voice about the importance of wearing masks because it's very clear masks work. they significantly reduce the spread of the virus. can't think of a reason we wouldn't be pushing that for everybody. >> dr. anthony fauci has been the subject of a smear campaign by the trump white house recently.
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this reached new levels when the top trade advisor wrote fouchy has been wrong on everything they've discussed. dr. fauci calls the attacks against him bizarre. how do you see it? >> well, i have two responses. number one, i go back the importance of listening to the science. number two, i've known tony fauci for a long time. when i was surgeon general and on the campus, i had a lot of interaction with him. personal, great integrity, and who really cares about people. he's not just doing this as a sign tist. he cares about people and what works best for people. so, i'm a strong supporter of him. i support the office of the president. i want to make that clear too. i'm not here to say negative things about the office of the president. it's a very important office. i've enjoyed the opportunity to work with it.
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but tony fauci is one of our best scientists and best people, to tell you the truth, in terms of my interaction with him. >> the former u.s. surgeon general, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, brianna. we have breaking news from the cdc. a new study shows the u.s. travel ban came too late for new york city as the virus spread in march. plus another study shows what covid patients all have in common when it comes to symptoms. and as sports leagues are getting ready to return we're getting word how many nfl players have tested positive. managing type 2 diabetes? you're on it. exercising often and eating healthy? yup, on it there too. you may think you're doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...but could your medication
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breaking news from the cdc. while president trump often says he saved lives. there's a new study that found the u.s. travel ban came too late for new york. the u.s. began travel ban february 2nd, but did not restrict travel from europe for another month, march 13ing. the cdc says new york city was already seeing community transmission by march 15th. so, that ban was too little, too late. dr. rob davidson is an emergency room physician joining us now. they actually looked at the genetic makeup of the virus so they could tell really what mutation, where this came from, whether it was from europe, china. what is your take on this new
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cdc finding? >> i think it's critically important to look back and what we didn't know happened at the time and later from europe as you said, as he wasn't preparing us to handthal virus. he wasn't taking it seriously. he was dismissing it, wishing it away, thinking it would be gone quickly and wasn't preparing us for the massive amount of tests we need, would still need. he wasn't prepared to get the right amount of ppe on the front lines, taking care of patients. and we saw over 300 health care workers die in the early wave of this virus. it's extremely frustrating to find out the only thing he can claim he did do turned out did almost nothing. >> there's another study out that has new information about the symptoms most covid patients are experiencing. so, in addition to the yulgsz
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fever, cough, shortness of breath we hear about, which is something nearly all experience, the cdc is adding chills, muscle pain, headache, fatigue and gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea. >> it is and it's making taking care of patients challenging because they're pretty vague. someone comes in with nausea or fatigue, body aches from any number of illnesses, we're putting them in severe respiratory precautions, dawning our effective ppe and treating them as if they have covid until proven otherwise and i think it makes it for a challenge as we're talking about opening up schools. i was talking to the superintendent of our school district. they would have five kids gone with influenza in any season.
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now with those symptoms, they could be covid, how many classrooms are going to have to be shut down until we know better? another reason we need a massive testing regime, rapid turn around testing so they can manage the safe reopening of schools. >> today coronavirus hospital data is gone from the cdc website. this is following the trump administration decision to reroute this medically important information from the cdc, instead to the hhs, which is clocher to the white house. what do you make of that? >> i think this is highly concerning. they've dealt with this virus in the only way they know how. they've worked on the messaging and politicization of the virus, instead of how we actually stop it. and the way we stop it is by oversharing, getting every bit of information to everyone possible as quickly as possible and using the information, the data so we can inform the next decision.
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we understand right now more young people have the virus. probably in new york, before we saw deaths and hospitalizations go up, that was happening as well. this is a time to clamp down in places like texas arizona. and the people on the ground just aren't going to be able to make the decisions they need to make. >> it's good to see you. thanks for being with us. >> great to see you again. thanks. >> we have news just in. the national football league data base says as of last week, 72 players tested positive for the coronavirus. the data base does not specify how many in total were tested. but it is meant as a way to keep players and personnel update would the spread of the virus around the league. and this is just weeks before nfl training camps are to begin. the president gets a new
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while coronavirus cases in the united states continue to surge, president trump's approval rating is trending down. trump announcing a campaign shake up, demoting his campaign
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manager, parscale, behind trump's digital strategy in 2016, was replaced by a long-time republican operative. the president reportedly lost confidence in him after his highly touted return to the campaign trail failed to reach expectations. i want to bring in hogan, joining me now. thanks for coming on. >> thanks so much for the time. i do appreciate it. >> so, why has there been this shake up? >> i wouldn't necessarily call it a shake up. the president runs his campaign. we want the message out there about the historic successes the president has had making lives better. and brad is not leaving the campaign. he's handling the digital side of it.
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he's done an impressive job and a long-time trusted ally of donald trump and the trump family. he's built an organization here i think is unmatched. you've seen dollars raised in this campaign no one thought possible, in record time, for that matter. and the digital infrastructure is historic and quite frankly, the envy of the entire political world. and a friend of mine worked with me in the white house as well. another trusted man in the trump orbit. he's going to handle the day-to-day managerial part of the campaign. with about 110 days left to go, donald trump told bill to steer the boat and brad to man the guns. >> i know you're pushing back on the idea it's a shake up. but the vibe at campaign headquarterers is telling a different story. brad parscale spoke with those in the campaign. one person said it was sad. he was saying goodbye to them
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and it would make sense that there is a shake up when you look at how the president is performing. what is the plan for turning this around, hogan? >> i understand that. i was in that meeting. i heard the speech. i don't know that characterization is necessarily accurate. brad gave a speech the campaign staff and let them know he's loyal, in the fight for the long hall, he helped get the president elected in 2016 and going to do it again. and bill spoke and said guys, we've been here since day one. he and brad have worked together several years in fact and it's the same team. so, no one has experienced anything new or odd because they've both been around working on the campaign for some time. so, we're going to move forward, comparing and contrasting what this president is able to accomplish, verses anemic joe biden who barely has anything to
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show for it. >> the president's really struggling, hogan. >> i wouldn't say he's struggling. the polls people are pointing to are hewed heavily to democrats. those are designed to tear apart the trump voter, the trump base. it's never going to happen. and let's be clear. no one in middle america cares about titles. it's only the beltway -- >> i got to interrupt you there. because you know polsters are trying to compensate for the problems they had in 2016. they have increased the representation of whites without college degrees that they lost. the they're still seeing, even with the adjustments to favor president trump, they're still seeing a big drop in women who would makeup for a big part of this group undercounted. you may be down playing polls because of what happened in 2016. but pollsters are correcting mistakes that they made.
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this must be alarming to you what you're seeing? he's down in the nationals, down in the battleground significantly? >> again, i reject the premise they're correcting things. if they are, it's by a small fraction. it's still undersampling of republicans based on the 2016 exit polls. what they care about is your life better today than yesterday? and the overwhelming response is absolutely yes. >> so, let's talk about issues. who is best to handle a crisis? 57 to 38 in the new poll say biden. best to handle coronavirus response? 59 to 35 biden. that is a 24-point spread on the biggest issue that this president is handling right now. >> i understand. this election is probably going to come down to several issues. a few -- >> 14-point spread there.
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>> and donald trump wins on all three of these things. we saw it for eight years. >> he wins on all three of what? >> i'm about to tell you because the fact is elections are about choices, binary choices between donald trump, who served admirably and made the country a better placed, both feared, respected and loved across the globe like never before. and joe biden, who's still complaining about the same things today as 50 years ago when he first took office. we dial down. and you have one with real results, positive results in the last three years and zsomeone like joe biden with nothing to show. >> hogan, canada won't let us in. just look at the coronavirus number about who's best to hand alcoronavirus response. >> i'm not sure why you would want to go to canada when we
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live on the greatest face on the planet. >> if you want to get away from coronavirus you might. >> let's be clear. you don't have to guess what the economy would look like under joe biden. we saw depressed wages, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs leaving our shores, 3.5 million to china alone. you don't have to guess what our culture would look like, our city streets. when you saw the looting and rioting across the country, people beaten within an inch of their own lives just for protecting their own businesses. joe biden didn't say much at all and when he came out from his bunker, he said we should think about defunding police. some are enemies to this country. that's a big difference between what donald trump wants with an uplifting patriotic message about the country and its greatness. we can be greater. joe biden, and you pointed out coronavirus response. it was joe biden's white house that said during h1n1 that they
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were going to cancel all testing because why waste resources on that, quote/unquote. >> hogan, they left you a plan -- no. they left you a plan. it's been like four years, you know that? 53% of registered voters -- >> running against george bush for eight years. what are you talking about? it's a clear choice. it has been 3.5 years. they let biden in office for 50. >> 53% registered voters dis proving of how he's doing on theconomy. and we have to be clear when it comes to joe biden he has not said what you said about defunding police. >> he said yes, absolutely. that's the way it was written and said.
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i understand the desire of cnn and others to try and makeup for joe biden's mistakes and horrible position. that's completely fair on your part. but the fact is when this campaign continues on forward and strong in full blast, we're going to make those differences. we're going to point out what the mainstream media refuses to tell them that joe biden has been horrible for this country. he's crushed the middle class, kicked the american worker in the teeth for the better pat of 50 years and we're going to show it. >> he hasn't been the president for the past three years. we see the economy. biden does not supported defunding police. he reiterated -- he reiterated police should not be funded. this is what he said, quote, he doesn't support defunding police departments. he said i think we should be holding police departments responsible. the vast majority of police
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officers are ethical, brave and decent. the vast majority of them. he said we need police, we need police departments but we need basic fundamental rules. moments come for a wake-up call, call to action to confront, to end racial injustice and that's prevlent in this country for as long as we've all been around. that is his record, hogan. >> that is an amazing campaign ad for joe biden. i appreciate that. but the fact remains -- >> that's his quote, hogan. that's his position. >> right and you cherry pick ours and use his in totalality. but the fact is this president has helped this country get out of an anemic economic growth, taking us to highs no one thought possible 347 half a million manufacturing jobs. that's because of new trade deals. not nafta, sending 700,000 jobs away from the country. and hillary clinton ran on a
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plan to raise taxes on americans by $1.5 trillion. joe biden took a look and said hold my beer, i'm doing 4 trillion. so, we've seen record economic growth with jobs added in the last two months. now joe biden says i'm going to do a complete 180 and take it back to the policies of the pasts that would not allow the american speirit to flourish an american worker to have a job? i think the voters are going to reject that every time. >> they're not now. 53% of registered voters disprove of how the president is doing on the economy. and that's a change of 8% from june. he's trending in the wrong direction. you know that, you're watching this, you're trying to work on this. but it's an uphill battle right now. >> everything's an uphill battle with 97% of the news coverage is against you. the fact is results speak louder than bogus polls. the president's performance
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speaks louder. the american people feel the real results. they can afford more things, they're buying more, spending more, saving more because of the president's economy and we were hit by an unforeseen pandemic from china, who lied about it, and the w.h.o. is complicit. this president took bold, solid action for the economy. you don't have to guess. he's rebuilt the economy once. he'll do it again. >> hit by a pandemic americans do not think he's handling well. 59% say biden is best to handle coronavirus response. >> it's about differences. >> no, what's he doing to turn it around? americans aren't buying it. so, you have to do something different. how is he turning it around? >> again, campaigns are about
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choices. you have to compare and contrast what this president has done -- >> hogan, you're looking at the polls. how are you changing it? >> i'm getting to that. the point is when you take a look at coronavirus, for example. this president took bold decisive action and said we're not going to allow people in from europe and china. >> new study from your cdc -- >> bill de blasio was working on curls for the girls. >> it was too late. the shutting down was even too late. that's what the study showed from the trump administration. >> brianna, let's talk about too late. governor cuomo is to blame for too late. 65% of the cases can be traced back to seating in new york city. because governor cuomo refused to listen -- >> because of the shutdown
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happening march 13th and there was already spread in europe. >> he refused to clean all the subways and when he finally did shut them down, he shut down a few, so it would be easier to spread. let's talk about the truth, accuracy and when this campaign gets ramped up, people are going to see the difference between real leadership and an empty vessel like joe biden being filled with the radical left agenda. i think the american people deserve to know that. and we're going to tell them. >> i will say this finally. i know you have to go. but the trump administration itself put out data that showed the shutdown came too late for new york city. it was already there. i hear you pointing fingers but the problem was already hugely about to blow up in new york. and hogan, thank you so much for coming on. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, brianna. still ahead we have more
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lack of leadership at the federal level and at certain states that have not mandated masks in the face of the rise in coronavirus cases. now, the reason retailers were reluctant to do this in the first place is because masks have been so controversial, unnecessarily so. they were reluctant to wade into that politicized debate, on top of the fact that it's complicated to enforce it. it puts employees in the position of having to tell customers to put on the mask, and in some cases, that's results in violence from customers. now, cvs actually acknowledged this problem in its statement saying, to be clear, we're not asking store employees to play role of enforcers. what we're asking is that customers help protect those around them and heed the call to wear face covering. target, who announced the change
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today, said it's going to try to ease the burden on consumers by making free masks available before consumers walk in, adding signage, and making sure the overhead systems in stores remind people to keep their masks on. this is not something corporate america wanted to do. in fact, they wrote to a governor's association essentially asking for the governors to take leadership because it would make it much easier on them to go ahead and make these policies across the board mandatory, brianna. >> all right. and let's add publics to the list, the grocery store chain as well. a lot of retailers and big box stores joining them. still ahead a st. louis circuit attorney says she's receiving more death threats after the president throws his support behind a couple being investigated for pointing their
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passed by their home. authorities confiscated their guns and they have not been charged. the prosecutor is accusing president trump of getting involved and missouri governor and missouri's senator speaking out. judge holly asked for a federal civil rights investigation. roy austin, attorney for st. louis circuit attorney kim gardner joins me now. you're joining us instead of prosecutor gardner because of the threats against her. tell us what's happened since she opened an investigation into the mccloskeys? >> good afternoon. brianna, quite simply did what any elected prosecutor would do. opened an investigation to look at two people pointing guns at other and since that time received numerous threats to her life. some vile racist sexist commentary, and it's a real problem that is being exacerbated by the president of
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the united states. >> tell us how you see that? that he's involving himself in his case? >> well, he recently fwe lly twt something about her and her investigation. which is insane given that this is a state and local matter that should stay a state and local matter, but we see people trying to elevate this for no reason other than to try to intimidate ms. gardner. >> after he tweeted or amplified that, what was the effect when it came to the thetreats? anything you saw? >> receiving threats just at the beginning of the investigation, and since the president's tweet, she received even more threats and even more, really, horrific emails, posts on social media. people are reaching out to her with vile language through every way they can try to find her.
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>> what's your reaction to gop senator josh harley accusing gardner of targeting the mccloskeys now calling for a federal civil rights investigation? >> honestly, it's hypocritical, it's gaslighting. his letter is really a joke. to think that a, an elected prosecutor conducting an investigation and using her discretion rises to the level of a civil rights matter is insane, and he is the former -- he notes what he makes is making absolutely no sense but doing it purely in an effort to rile up people to intimidate ms. gardner. >> roy austin, thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much for the time. it is the drug that the president took and he touted despite medical warnings against it, and the results of the first significant clinical trial of
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