hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing this day with us. big changes from president trump today as he tries to shake a polling slump directly tied to the coronavirus summer surge. one pivot, wear a mask is suddenly the message of a president who for months has refused to set that example. back to briefing reporters is another, and here is proof this is about politics, not the virus. top administration doctors and scientists are not invited to today's presidential event, at least not at this hour. a morning tweet from the president tells us he is still not interested in talking truth. he insists the united states is the global leader.

you see it right there, the global model for coronavirus mitigation. by comparison to most other countries the president rights who are suffering greatly we are doing very well. the numbers make clear that that's simply not true. the united states is both the leader in cases and deaths. you see the numbers on the screen. in 20 days since the call tar hit july 1,119,000 of infections in the case. this is the picture of suffering, the u.s. seven-day average measured against that of the european union who has flattened the curve and that have brazil where cases are rights but not near as fast as here in the united states. u.s. hospitalizations are within whisper distance of the pandemic peak. dr. anthony fauci said this morning on npr the white house has not asked him to be part of the president's on-again briefings but, quote, if they want me there i'll be more than happy to be there. you'll remember the daily white house coronavirus briefings were cancelled because the president kept contradicting dr. fauci and other administration experts and

then there was day when he left them speechless by suggesting ingesting bleach or disinfectants could help of you fight off covid-19 and like the virus the tensions have not disappeared. the president demand schools reopen and he should suggest that they should lose money and the surgeon general today says it's just not that simple. >> what i want people to know is the biggest determinant of whether or not we can go back to school actually has little or nothing to do with the actual schools. it's your background transmission rate, and that's why we've told people constantly that if we want to get back to school, to worship, to regular life, folks need to wear face conversation, folks need to practice social distancing. >> the questions, your questions, they are many about schools and about testing delays and about whether some encouraging vaccine news will hold up in the next phase of trials. the '-state look at least on this day is improving some and let's take a look at that, is improving some i say because we

have 25 states heading in the wrong direction. that's the orange and red. 25 states reporting more cases this week compared to last week, but just days ago i was telling you 38 states were heading in the wrong direction, 25 states heading you have as today. don't invest in one day's count but let's watch to see if this turns into a trend. 20 states holding steady. that's the base here and you can see it from coast to coast holding steady florida, including arizona and california, the three states that have been on the leading edge of this summer surge. texas, too, still going up, that's another one, but to see florida, arizona and california holding steady, let's hope that that looks in and they can shift to green soon. five states going down. a 25 up, 20 steady and five going down. if you look at the new cases trend, this is why this has been so troubling, is right. you can see february and then we're down flat and then, too many, june and july have been horrible. one thing to watch. we're on a tuesday in this workweek, you do see the peek here but you see yesterday and the day before will this flatten and come down, that would be great. the question is as we go through

the week can we keep these numbers down. let's just look more closely at at past six weeks or so, seven weeks or so. you go back to the beginning of june, 17,355 was your average new confirmed cases. a record high last week of over 77,000. 77,000 up from 17,000 in june. that's a quick summer surge, and, again, the question, is yesterday 56,000 cases, can that stay flat and can you start to push it down? that is the challenge. in the states dealing with the surge, this is a problem. you want the positivity rate when you're testing more people, you want it in single digits. that means you're dealing with spread. this tells you have community spread. you need to push the positivity rate in the testing down. let's look at those three states. they are all holding steady right now, california, california, florida and texas, this is the florida line. will this downward trend, near 10,000 cases a day? will it come down, texas still

going up and california still going out but flattening here, something to watch as we go through this week. lastly, i just want to look at the florida surge. just the cumulative impact in florida. you go back to june 1st, and then you just see this, it's been a steady rise to more than 360,000 cases total confirmed in florida right now setting records for hospitalizations as well and a high for deaths. let's get straight to cnn's rosa florlsz live in miami. they have been setting records, six consecutive days i believe about 10,000. is this number seven or do we see any hopeful signs? >> reporter: you know, john, the florida department of health just posting those numbers. it went down a bit, but there's definitely no good news here. total for today more than 9,000 new coronavirus cases and 136 deaths as we learn 39 hospitals across the state are the asking the state of florida for help with nurses. that's the situation here in jackson health where i am. the state has already deployed 125 nurses here to miami-dade

county and now we learn that jackson health is requesting 275 more medical personnel. now, this is the situation on the ground, according to jackson. 25% of the covid-19 patients that come to this health system require icu care. now, when you think about that and you think of how icus are broughting in miami-dade county at 130% need. as we look across the state 53 icu hospitals are at capacity meaning they have zero icu beds. despite all these facts and figures the state of florida still mandating the reopening of schools in just a few weeks. well, now there's a legal battle, educators have filed a lawsuit to try to stop the reopening of schools with in-person instruction with teachers arguing in this lawsuit that it is unsafe, that it is unconstitutional and this it is reckless. take a listen.

>> it's unfortunate that we have a governor that is playing politics with children's lives, with teachers' live and cafeteria workers and bus drivers and secretaries and people who really want to get back into our public schools. listen, there is a risk. there's a risk that we don't know. there's a risk that he's willing to take and one life lost is one too many. >> reporter: and john, et education commissioner richard corcoran going to twitter to say this. parents should choose this. lawsuit is frivolous and a complete disregard for everybody, especially children's health and welfare. john? >> rosa flores on the ground in miami. grateful for your updating. let's get expert medical analysis from dr. craig spencer director of health and emergency medicine and new york columbia hospital medical center. i have a hard time with this. you have six consecutive days in florida above 10,000 and then they come in at 9,000, and i

start to hope that that means they are pushing it down. what does it take? when you look at data like this, do you want to look at a seven-day average and how it plays out over a week? what would convince you finally from a high baseline they are at least starting to push it down? >> that's a great question. there are a lot of things that we actually want to look at. it's not just the number of new cases. that does depend a lot on testing, and as you already pointed out we need a lot more testing. the test positivity rate in many places is high over 10%, 15%, 20% which means we're not doing enough testing it and things we need to look at are hospitalizations. we have over 58,000 hospitalizations in this country, similar to where we were at in mid-april. you want to look at the death rate, and we've seen that the death rate has already started to climb from going up, coming down and now is back on the rise. those are the things that i look at that are concerning. even if in places like florida and california and texas we have a flattening, we have some type of plateau, that's heartening, but let's remember, one, that's

not acceptable. we're at extremely high levels. just a month ago the vice president and the leader of the coronavirus task force was boasting about how we had only 20,000 in the country down to 30,000 and now we're routinely seeing 60,000, 70,000 cases a day and that may continue to go up. >> just at that number, you're dead right. even if you flatten it you're flattening at a trouble spot and you want to push it down. testing, listen to dr. fauche they morning. we have a problem complicating itself, if you will. that's a layman's term it. i want to hear a medical perspective and you have a high case count and you want to do more testing it and want to do contact testing it and there's a backlog and delay in getting test results. listen to dr. fauci. >> i think the thing that we need to make sure if it occurs that we correct it that we get the results of the tests back in a very ample amount of time because if the test comes back multiple days later, it kind of lessens the impact of why you're doing the tests to begin with.

so i think that's one of the important things that we need to focus on. >> there's no doubt it's important, doctor, but how do you deal with it in the sense that quest, one of the big labs, says it could take up to two weeks. that's a useless test. if you take a test and don't get your results for two weeks you could have been exposed in the meantime and so what's the point? >> absolutely, our could expose many other people and going back and contact tracing over the past few weeks will be really tough. look, the reality is we need more testing it and need to do way more testing than we're doing right now contrary to what the president has said that more testing is creating more cases. that's not true. those are cases that are already there, many more out there and many undiagnosed. you're right, we need to have testing much quicker, getting a test three, five a week later. none of that will be really helpful in stamping out the vir. we need more testing it and quicker test and we need way more available testing because rate now we're failing in that department as well as many others. >> in a weekend interview the

president of the united states says that masks can cause problems, too, and he said that requiring masks would be in his view an infringement on liberty, important turn from the president last night. doesn't want a mask mandate, but he did tweet a picture of himself that say many believe that wearing a mask is patriotic. i'm going to take this as progress because he's not set an example for quite some time. let's set the politics aside. from a medical perspective and anyone out there watching whether democrat or republican, independent or not sure, do masks slow the spread and should everybody see the president's tweet there and put one on when they are near other people? >> absolutely. look, for me, it's never political, it's all about public health. this is what we need to be focusing on right now. it can't be partisan. yes, i'm heartened that the president many months after the cdc recommended we wear face masks put one on. great, congratulations, but i'm not convinced he's turning a corner. as you already point pedestrian out, we're going to, have you know, a redo of these coronavirus task force meetings today, but we don't have the

people that should be out there talking to the american public. i don't need to hear anything more from president trump about coronavirus. i need to hear from fauci. i need to hear from the cdc and people and amplify those public health messages that have an understanding of what's actually going on, not the president who has waited many months to take steps many months ago. >> he's been reactive and behind for months now. you are correct, dr. spencer. you can see what we can get from the president. united states. i'm grateful for your expertise and for your time. i know you're busy. thank you so much. >> thank you. up next kentucky's governor joins us live with his state adding restrictions on social gatherings because, yes, is too, part of the coronavirus summer surge.

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new restrictions in place from kentucky's governor because the coronavirus trend in that state, the commonwealth, not a good one. the governor says social gatherings with more than ten people no longer allowed and put out new guidelines on travel asking anyone who comes from a state with an infection rate of above is a% to quarantine for two weeks. the numbers tell you y.nearly 8,000 new cases in the month of july for kentucky and is a hundred cases just this past weekend. joining me now is andy beshear. thank you so much as you deal with this. you have an uncouple place on the '-state map. your state early on which was doing a very solid job flattening the curve and pushing it down and now the only state of the 'in the deep rate which means the rate of case growth this week, 50% or higher, than it was last week. if you look at testing and you do every day. the positivity rate in kentucky is 7.2%. by comparison, connecticut, one of the early states like you to deal with this is below 1%.

what happened? >> well, kentucky was a success story and i think still is in how that we have dealt with this virus. we came together early. we did what it took and we natened our curve, but what we have seen is states to our south and in the west with exploding cases and devastating consequences. will since then what we have seen is anything from traveling to the beach which kentuckians do during the summer to people maybe just becoming a little more lax. we are seeing an escalation in our cases. now what we're doing in kentucky is we had such a low number compared to other states, while you see us in the deep red, we still have 40% our hospital beds that are open. we have a vast majority of our ventilators and significant icu capacity. we're asking before this thing spirals out of control, making sure that we don't become a state that has 8,000, 9,000,

10,000 cases reported each day. we've got to do a couple of things. number one, we have far too many clusters of people who have gone on vacation, primarily to the beach, come back, go to work, go to church and spread it through their community. number two, we're seeing backyard barbecues that we all love, something critical in kentucky and maybe in america, people letting their guard down and trying to provide that reminder that you still need to be careful and still heed to wear that mask. now about two weeks ago, rhyme sorry, ten days ago we did a statewide requirement for facial conversation, and that hasn't caught up in the data yet, but my goal is to take serious and significant action right now to make sure we don't become what we're seeing in some other parts of the country, and i'm certainly epping who and praying for folks in those states so it will turn around. >> first let me ask you a political question and then a personal question. the political question, you're a

democratic governor who is fighting with your republican attorney general who says your mask requirement and other restrictions in the state are hurting the economy. i'm assuming it's your view and we respect the attorney general's view and he's welcome to come on and explain it if he wishes. the your view i would suspect is a political fight right now doesn't help and number two, you say the restrictions will help the economy in the long run but the attorney general says they are helping them right now. >> well, our chamber of commerce and the retail federation all agree that wearing a mask is absolutely critical to protecting our economy. you know, goldman sachs says 5% of the country's gdp is dependant on people coming together and wearing facial conversation. that's $10 billion in kentucky. our entire business community supports this facial covering requirement and sadly our attorney general isn't just opposing that. he recently went to court to try to overturn every single rule and restriction that we have,

and to prevent me from putting any further guidelines in place in the future. think of where texas is and the governor in the midst of this started putting in new necessary rules and restrictions. we wouldn't be able to do any of that. it would be devastating. it would cost us the lives and health of our people. it would cause business shutdowns hurting our economy and it would make it very hard to get kids back into cool, so i'm not in this to fight light battles with my attorney general. i'm in this to protect lives, the health, the economy and the education the people. >> let me ask the personal question now, 4.5 million citizens in your state, governor, in your commonwealth of kentucky including your son. you pulled him from a baseball game because you thought this doesn't real right. walk through, that and i ask the question that i have a rising fourth grader. i'm hoping he plays fall baseball. summer baseball got cancelled. we talk about schools and about all of these things. what was it that made you say

no? >> so i'm a parent. i have a 10-year-old and an 11-year-old. when we talk about opening schools or youth sports, it's very personal to me because it is the safety of my own child. let me say that i believe low-touch sports can be played properly if done under the right guidelines and i went to a tournament where the tournament director had tried. he put some rules into place, but they just weren't being followed, and i just saw too much. i saw kids congregate in the dugout which is, you know, the big no-no. it's a really small area. the. >> that was it for you. you decided at that point that our son has to go? >> i'm sorry, i was getting feedback. it's a very small area where it can spread and then i just didn't see the types of facial conversation on coaches and parents that were too close together and i hate it for my sop, the fact that he was

supposed to pitch that game and it's not easy being my son right now, but i wanted to make sure that the environment was safe, and i think we want to do that for everybody. >> we wish you the best, circumstances as you deal with the issue in kentucky, and we certainly hope your son is back on the diamond pretty soon. i hope my son is as well. i hope we all figure this out in a safe way. appreciate your time today. thank you, sir, so much. coming up for us president trump set to resume his coronavirus briefings or daily briefings and none of the coronavirus experts scheduled to be at his side. you try to stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. now there's powerwash dish spray it's the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse.

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president trump pumped the plug on his daily coronavirus briefings because they were doing real damage to his political standing, ingest bleach and all that, remember? today he'll be back before reporter hoping to stem a polling slide that continues long after the briefings went on hiatus. we have lived this cycle before, many times. the white house signals a reset and the president aimed to show us he gets it and is ready to right the ship. here you go promoting mask wearing as patriotic just days after an interview in which the same president of the united states says masks cause problems and that mandating them is an

infringement on your rights. today marks is a weeks exactly till election day and as of this moment no doctors or scientists from the president's coronavirus team are invited to today's briefing. the john, i would expect that as we go from later into the week is consistency and discipline. >> reporter: no question about that, john. i think this is going to be a fascinating teach of whether the president is capable of acting racially in his own self-interest. he stopped the coronavirus briefings because they were hurting him, because his own comments were hurting him. now, the devastating polls that he's seen over the last week or so have persuaded him to resume the briefings, to send that tweet about mask-wearing although he equivocated and said many people say it's a patriotic thing to wear masks. he didn't say when he thought it was patriotic and what is his

message going to be? he tweeted this morning that we're doing very well on the virus, repeatings things that are at odds with the reality that the mefrp people are living is not going to help him political standing, so i'm betting that at the end of the day he is going to have some mick health experts birx, fauci, redfield, maybe surgeon general, he needs someone there to deliver a more realistic assessment our situation and predicament that we're in that he seemed capable of doing but he's the president, he can make that decision and obviously we know that fauci and birx and others have not been told whether they are going to participate or not. >> well, that part there just tells you a little bit haphazard putting it together. tell us point blank they won't be there or invite them. the confusion just adds to the question, john, like do you guys have your act together? >> exactly. >> john harwood for us at the white house. >> we'll watch this one play

out. with me now to share their reporting and continue their conversation, our chief political correspondent dana bash and our political analyst here and political report are for "the washington post." dana, the president is coming back. dr. fauci today, listen, this sounds like common sense. it's important to speak to the american people. let's get it right. >> if they want me there, i'd be more than happy to be there, and if they do not, that's okay, too, as long as we get the message across. if we in those conferences come out and have consistent, clear, non-contradictory messages i believe it would be very helpful in getting people on track knowing the direction that we need to go to get this pandemic under control. >> consistent, clear, non-contradictory messages, makes a very important point admitting that the pandemic is not under control. that's what dr. fauci wants. that's not, let's go back in time, this. >> we're going very substantially down. we're testing everybody that we

need to test, and we're finding very little problem. very little problem. >> now, you treat this like a flu. we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. i hope we can do this by easter. >> hydroxychloroquine. try it. >> i see that disinfectants where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or -- or a form of cleaning. >> long windup, is consistent clear non-contradictory messages, that's not the president's strength or at least has not been. can we get there today? >> it's going to be very, very difficult to see the answer to that question being last. i mean, last part of the long equip you just played was the last time we saw the president do a coronavirus briefing. it was almost three months ago to it the day, and it's because he couldn't control himself, and

he -- what he said was embarrassing and it was not only embarrassing and the not only the opposite of informative for the people who are watching but when it comes to what hesayers the most about which is his personal political poll numbers and viability for november it hurt him very badly. what he has been urged to do, according to sources that i'm speaking to, is to get out there, stop ignoring the coronavirus, stop pretending like it's going to go away because it's not. stop pretending that it's not the number one dominant issue. nothing else can break through it because that is the reality but the way he's approaching it is not the way these sources who i'm talking to have suggested that he deal with it meaning get yourself involved with first responders. do a photo-op and go out and be among the people who are trying to fight it, not have a press conference without the people who are the number one experts at their side in order to

explain what the real deal is. >> and if you look at the map, i mean, hopefully some progress this week, only it a states heading up in the wrong direction as opposed to 38 so we all hope for progress but one of the problems for the president is he keeps saying things. this is personal to people. they are seeing it and living it in their community and town every day whether they are democrats or republicans who are the in the middle and the president keeps saying things that are simply not true. this morning he's tweeting that the united states is leading the world or a coronavirus mitigation example to the world. this is four months ago. on this very day four months ago the united states and the european union beginning, this is march 21st, beginning to head up the hill, right. the european union much higher than the united states and much worse shape going up the hill sooner. that's four months ago, let's look at two months ago. the european union starting to come down that hill getting below 5,000 cases on a daily basis and the united states maybe natning thought at that point. you see it it up there between 25,000 and 25,000 cases and here

is now. the now is stunning. the european union down and flat for a long time. the united states still climbing and we hope plateauing at 60,000 there or so, but the president seems saying things that people know are not true. >> and we know that in some other instances throughout his presidency. president trump has created this alternate universe of alternate facts as some of his advisers would say to make his record look better and prop up his agenda, but when we're in a public health crisis truth really matters. that's why it's important to have public health officials and republican senators are telling me even as early as april when those briefings were still going on that -- and in a gentle way, of course, but they told me that they would really prefer trump hand over microphone to the public health experts, yes, have the briefings and talk with reporters every day but let the experts talk. let them give the clear and public information, clear and

correct public information to the white house and now white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany who is briefing reporters as we speak is telling reporters that you'll just have to wait and see to see if dr. fauci or dr. birx shows up to the briefing, so this is not necessarily, as you were talking, john, earlier, clear and consistent message that the administration should be pushing at this time. >> the president likes to produce television. he has some experience at that. the question is can he turn around these numbers? he's in a steep ditch at the moment. appreciate your insights. we'll watch to see what we get from the president today. hospitals are in need of more beds an supplies. will they get there? we'll have that coming up.

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up 50% and ventilator use up 57%. from your work, especially when you see the ventilator number, that was a warning sign when we were going through the early peak of this wave. the how deep is the problem? >> the problem is significant. back three weeks ago our ventilators in the icus where i work we were down to one or two patients with covid-19 event. today we're reaching capacity just as you a said, about 100% in our icus. this is a problem that, unfortunately, will be with us us for a while. we know that the increasing cases is followed by prolonged stays in it is icu and increasing mortality. >> if you look through, you're trying to find some glimmer of hope, florida reported at least 10,000 cases, today it was in the 9,000, so down a little bit. let's hope that that continues, but one of the warning signs is if you look at the positivity rates. arizona is above to% right now and florida right around 19% and

our massachusetts problem which i had earlier is down 2.3%. and a closer look of florida statewide just shy of 19%, miami-dade and 28% positivity. it you have a 27% plus positivity to rate in you are community what does that tell you, sir? >> it tells me we'll still see a significant number of patients in our hospital and that we still need to do a lot of work together, that we need to embrace the need of social distancing and embrace the need of use masks and we need to work together as a community to help us lower the number of cases? >> and so as we go through this right now, what -- what have you learned, if you will, from the lessons -- lessons of the earlier state when you dealt this or when you were dealing with a much smaller baseline of patients in tells of treatment. obviously you're trying to do the emergency care that these patients need, but are there things that you're finding work

today that are not on theible it a, say, two, three, months ago? >> absolutely. we see the number of people staying in the icu longer. this is a lesson that we have all learned with this pandemic. we also have learned that for some patients remdesivir tends to work. we have seen blood thinners help our patients and obviously the use of steroids has helped, but nonetheless there's a lot of things that we can still in the people that are out there in the community and this is part of research that i'm doing. >> doctor, thanks so much for your research today and let's go back through this. hopefully we can have a day talking about lessons learned, not about numbers that simply alarm us, but grateful for your time, sir. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> coming up, an unidentified federal agent use tear gas into a crowd of protesters in portland oregon? just swap your sim card you can also keep your phone, keep your network, keep your number, $20 a month, no contract.

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more tensions between federal agents and protesters in portland, oregon. the president promising to send the feds to other cities despite being told by local officials they're not needed or welcome. this is the scene early this morning in portland. see the tear gas used by unidentified federal agents at the center of conflict for several days now and cnn learning the trump administration preparing to send the same type of federal agents to chicago. sources telling cnn 150 agents will be there to perform law enforcement duties for as many as 60 days. lets's discuss with a senior fellow at new american progress and a cnn national security analyst. carrie, number one, what jumps

at you the complaint from the mayors has been you're not coordinating with the police department. these agents have been using unmarked vans, apparently rental vans and, it's unclear looking at the badges who are they? what agency are they from? unusual? >> it's obviously a problem that the federal agents are not identifying themselves but i think it's part of a bigger issue at the department of homeland security which is this is an agency that has sort of accidentally over time become the largest law enforcement force in the country with over 60,000 law enforcement personnel. and then the agency itself which is a large department does not have sufficient internal oversight and control mechanisms in place. and then when you layer on top of that the politicization that the president is placing on top of the department what we have is we have agents who are not

prepared or trained or part of the mission to be doing police activity and used by the president and the department to make the political points of law and order so it's a toxic mix of politicization,en adequate training and oversight and this local dispute. >> it's a bit of a upside down political argument if you will on paper a conservative republican administration in power in washington. traditionally they defer to the states. the mayors and governors saying we don't want you. can you cite anything like this in your memory where this played out like this before? >> i can't think of an instance where the department of homeland security has been used in this way but it is a young department. it wasn't created until 2002 and combined the different law enforcement organizations together which really were supposed to be focused on protecting the nation against

terrorism. what the trump administration is doing is they're basically concocting this new threat that they are saying is a threat to monuments and clearly there is a problem with activity being conducted against the federal facility in portland but what they need to be doing is using the federal protective service part of the dhs to protect the perimeter of that federal building. that i think is unobjectionable. but they're overstepping the authority and their responsibilities and deploying throughout the city. that's when you run into civil liberties problems. that's where we see individuals who are acting in a way that does not respect fourth amendment rights, detaining individuals without probable cause. and you're basically, the administration has taken this department and tried to use it in a show of force and it is awfully ironic coming from a republican administration because from a constitutional

perspective and we can look to the tenth amendment for this, there should not be federal policing power. >> we'll watch this play out and a court fight about this. the president now says he will do this in chicago. the mayor says do not come. i suspect we'll be back to this conversation in the days ahead. coming up, the shift to sports. the nfl close to a deal with players that could, could salvage the upcoming season.

national football league and the players do appear to be closer to a deal to address coronavirus safety issues and salvage the season and could mean cutting some games. carolyn manno joins me now. >> reporter: we are talking about the preseason, john. based on the public feedback that's a biggest issue with frequency of testing. the league and the players union having ongoing discussions and a source close to cnn said the league is willing to cut all preseason games. as it relates to testing they have agreed to do daily testing for first two weeks and if the results are positive at 5% or less they'll go to every other day. these are two key issues moving forward. >> and as we watch the nfl, if we have a season, last night in major league baseball we saw a

bit of nfl carryover if you will. the giants manager, gabe kapler, some players taking a knee in the national anthem. >> this is a poignant moment. kapler met with the players in small groups and listened to them. ultimately decided that he was going to follow their lead and tell them it's okay however to observe the national anthem and may not be a popular stance but i thought it was beautiful to see players taking a knee. and some players deciding to observe the anthem standing up. however you fall, whatever side you fall on this, john, what the giants are making clear is that they're going to respect everybody's decision and we'll see if other managers and players follow the lead moving forward and decide to take a knee, as well. >> it will be interesting to watch going forward and the president of the united states tweeting the displeasure as he has with the nfl but freedom of speech is a gift. carolyn manno, appreciate that very much. thank you.

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