matthews and had four children together. he later married -- and had nine grand iron which. he had a wicked sense of humor, loved telling stories, loved cars. according to gary his legacy is one of family -- his family is in our thoughts tonight. the news continues. i'll hand it over the chris for "cuomo primetime." >> jon, thank you very much. i am chris cuomo. the president finally admitted the pandemic is getting worse and that wearing a mask, if you can't socially distance, wearing a mask is a must. six months, 141,000 deaths. almost 4 million cases later and as half the states in the country fall backwards, trump is finally admitting the truth. this is at least what you need to be hearing from this

president every day. it's called reality. >> it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better. something i don't like saying about things, but that's the way it is. when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask. whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact. they'll have an effect, and we need everything we can get. we are imploring young americans to avoid packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings. be safe and be smart. >> look, he had to read it, but at least the people who are writing it are putting the right things on the page now, and at least he found the will to say it. and i say at least because that's what that is. this was the first virus briefing since april. that's the least amount of commitment you can have. imagine if our president had been on message all along.

how much pain could we have avoided? i know trump wants praise for owning the obvious. i know his supporters will say, damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. not when it comes to telling you the truth, and not when it comes to hiding the truth for bad reason. so patting him on the back is not the bar here. you know where the bar comes right? november. the election will be a vote on how the president handled this. that's a bar that he has to get over, and it's a bar that you will set. for right now, is it enough that it took him months to echo the need to wear masks and whip one out of his pocket? he said, wearing one is patriotic. is that an admission that he has been unpatriotic all along as he and many of his followers were saying don't wear a mask? that a mask is weak, that a mask is an affront to him.

many of his followers who continue to freak out about wearing a mask all across the country, what's his message to them? it is not enough that this president wasn't an active enemy to the truth today every time he opened his mouth. he will not get a pass for once again pushing lies about testing. we are not ahead of everywhere else when it comes to using testing and tracing and it's a big problem we have here. now that we know the president gets what the reality is, that was a powerful admission by him today. there can be no forget masks, there can be no, it will disappear. he acknowledged it was true what he has been told for months. now our question is what? what will the president do about it? #where is the plan? #do your job trump said tonight and tomorrow, the professionals will tell him

what is needed for testing, and the need the great. how many of you know or hear about how long it takes to get a test still, how long it takes to get results, and how many people have had a result say they're positive and then say they're negative or the reverse or both? when will this president give us a plan to help schools and communities across the country? in places that he won. families he swore to that he would end the carnage. well, the carnage is in full effect, and this president made it worse. how will he make it better? there is a long war ahead, and if every state has to go it alone in figuring out how to plan and pay for school openings when they can barely count cases, the carnage will continue. we learned just today the actual

number of coronavirus infections in this country -- you ready for this? it may be ten times higher than what's been reported according to the cdc. my first guest called the data inconsistent, incomplete, and inaccessible. why? most states fail to report all the data. you have to start asking, is this intentional in any of these cases? and what do we do about it? joining us now, former cdc director in the obama administration, dr. tom freeden. good to have you back on primetime. >> great to be with you, chris. >> let's keel deal with the conceptual pushback. what you mean the da the is wrong? the data is the data. the states put it out. it's always this way, tom. >> what we did is have experienced health researchers look in detail at all 50 states plus d.c. and puerto rico.

what we found is if you define the essential facts that you would like to have, less than half are on the state dash boards and no state is alike. this is not the states' fault. they're working hard. some of the data is hard to come by. fundamentally we don't have a clear strategy, vision, guidelines, accountability, and so we don't have information on early warnings. we don't have information on your risk and your community. we don't have information from a third of states on where the outbreaks are. and for many states on whether they're controlling the outbreaks. and we don't have useful information on testing and tracing. you mentioned testing. one of the most misleading numbers in all of this is the number of tests performed per day. 200,000. 500,000. 700,000. but how many of those tests come back in time to be useful? how many of them are done that result in someone getting isolated or contacts being warn sod they can protect their family? those are the real numbers.

and on those indicators,le ar r, reput it this way, the information is abysmal. we don't see it on a single state dash board, and that's because they haven't deny told to put it there and get the number looking good. >> the key dynamic here is schools. it's about when and how, because you got get people back to work. we got to get our kids back to a normal situation. times is important, and it's going to be a coefficient of the planning. how important is it that the federal government lead the way in offering states state by state help. because they have been asking. we know that. for the money, the planning and the purpose in each of these different communities. how important is a plan on the federal level? >> it's really crucial. what we're seeing here is people saying, can you open the schools? that's not the question. the question is, can you open

them and keep them open. that's only going to happen if you can control the disease in the state, in the community. here in new york, the governor is doing exactly the right thing. he's focusing on the percent positive and saying, if you're above 5%, going to be impossible to open. and that's probably absolutely correct. under 5%, maybe you can open if you do all of these things right. that's the kind of approach we need in every state around the country. because that's the only way. i think it's very important that we work hard to get our kids back to school. but it's not going to be like before. we're going to have to shield the most vulnerable. we're going to have to reorganize teaching in many ways. for high school kids we may have to be a combination of online and offline of podding or cohorting kids so if there is a case we don't have to shut the whole school again. but in parts of the country where the virus is splreading

explosively, like much of the south, unless they get it in control the kids are not going to be able to go to school. it's up to us. wash your hands, stay your distance, and yes, stay out of bars, but why are the bars open? >> important points. but at the end of the day it's going take money, human resources a resources and intellectual resources. that's where the government is supposed to come in. dr. tom freeden, thank you for coming in about the path forward. you just heard the doctor say in the south you have to biggest problems right now. covid cases exploding in florida. the governor says his state is on the right course. one of the teachers suing desantis over his plan to re-open schools. we'll counter that. the she personally suffered with the virus and made it through. she has a warning about how we

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according to the teacher you're about to meet, stephanie miller. that's her that you watched there. given florida's education commissioner's order to open schools five days a week in august with no real plan to make it safe enough, so the sunshine state's largest teacher's union is suing florida and miller and a plaintiff in that lawsuit. she's speaking out like many of her fellow florida educators have and she joins us now. >> how are you feel something. >> i'm doing good, thank you. it's been owe long road, but i'm getting there. how are you? >> i'm better than i deserve. are you ready to work? are you physically up to it? >> well, i have been working hard. when i came off the ventilator i could only lift my head. no, move my head, i couldn't even lift it. but through physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech

therapy, i had to relearn how to walk and talk. my vocal choords for damaged so have to get therapy for that. am i ready to work? yes and no. i've made a lot of progress. i can walk on my own now, but not light on my feet, shall i say. >> i hear you. the last thing you want is to put yourself in a position of jeopardy, especially in your particular condition, but you see it as a larger problem. why don't you believe your state is ready to go back to school? >> well, our numbers are through the roof right now. we're not socially distancing the way we should be, and it's spreading like crazy. and it's almost like a science experiment -- pack the school full of kids and teachers and personnel and see how it goes?

especially when they're not taking precautions. we don't have to protective gear. we don't have enough sanitation in the school before covid we caught every flu there was, and bug. now how are we going to protect ourselves and the students and their families? there's no real solid plan in place. in fact, i haven't heard anything. >> other than the need to open, which everybody agrees on. i'm sure you understand that we want to get the schools open. the question is how and how we keep them open. the pushback should be this -- maybe you shouldn't work, because you're fragile. and your mom had it and fiance had it. your family is a special case. but teachers in general will be fine and if children get it they'll get over it and they're largely asymptomatic. not everybody is a stephanie.

let's go back to work. >> you know, i had no preexisting health conditions for me to have gotten hit as hard as i did. it's kind of a roll of the dice. you might get hit hard, you might not. you don't know what you're going to get until you get and it then understand you've got it there's no going back. >> what do you want your kids from your classes to know about their teacher and how you feel and what you want for them? >> i'm doing good. as i tell them to try their best and work their hardest, that's what i'm doing. every day i get up with a good attitude and i do whatever my therapist tells me to do and i practice. and i have a lot of people that help me keep my chin up when i get discouraged just like i do for them. and we're all in this together. we as teachers just want to protect our children, and their families and our families. we're doing what we've always done, which is caring about the

greater good of all. >> what would you say to governor desantis? >> this is not worth taking a risk on. this is human's lives. we don't just throw us in there with no solid plan. it has to be well thought out with a lot of -- a lot of protection in place. what's going to happen when a teacher or student gets sick? what happens? then the whole class has to isolate? who takes over the class? we have a sub shortage as it is. where are we going to get the subs to cover if a teacher gets sick or a child gets sick. what happens if it happens in the middle of a day that someone starts feeling good? what is the exact protocol that we would be handling? because before covid, parents sent kids in sick, and you hope

that they would pick them up. not always did they do so. so -- >> these are real questions and you would think that the state would have answers if they're going to send kids back to school. we'll be staying on the story to see what florida does about it, not just because of the lawsuit but the reality in that state reflecting what's happening all over the country. i want to end on one good note, though. this is video of you being discharged from the hospital, and i know it was a big cause for celebration from the team that took care of you. you were in really bad shape. people were worried. but look at you today. you're back on the right track, and we all wish you very well, and i look forward to staying in touch and to hear about how strong the recovery can be. hopefully you're doing it and finding a way to teach when it is right and a way that it is right. stephanie miller, thank you. >> thank you. all right, that's the

situation in florida. we've got all kinds of angles on it. we'll stay with it. it's a metaphor for all over the country. states can't just do it. they have to figure out how to do it and governors have been begging the president for federal help with their covid fights, whether it was ppe, testing, tracing, money, helping augment their state budget lapses, and now figures out, how do we do this thing the right way? and can you help us pay? they say they have been largely ignored. and yet the president sends in unwanted federal forces to oregon to control the inequality protests. our next guest had some big concerns about it as a navy veteran, and it got him beat within a baton and pepper sprayed. he wants you to hear his story, next. when we started carvana, they told us

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navy veteran chris david went to the protests in portland, oregon, hoping to speak to federal agents after reports they were arresting people without explanation. video shows u.s. marshalls beating and pepper spraying david, who they labeled a subject who was not complying with lawful commands. chris david joins us now to respond. chris, welcome, and first, thank you for your service. >> and thank you for having me on your show. it's an honor, chris. >> no, no, no, the privilege is ours. this is what they said. the subject on the video presented a threat to the deputy u.s. marshalls by continuing to approach them and failing to comply to lawful commands to withdraw as they continued to enter the courthouse. lethal force was only applied until the individual retreated. the deputies believe the force was necessary to protect themselves and others from physical harm. your response? >> well, does their training

with batons include hitting me in the back as i'm walking away? or hitting me in the hand and breaking my hand? because as far as i know, i don't think those are standard tactics with a baton. >> when you approached them, were you trying to get into an alter communication, were you trying to start a fight? >> no, absolutely not. in fact, when they came rushing out of the courthouse, they ran into the intersection and plowed into a bunch of protesters and knocked them down. i walked out of the park and into street and stopped in the street a few feet from the curb and stood there. after they dealt with the folks in the intersection it seemed they started to approach me. i started to have a discussion with them about whether they were honoring their oath to the constitution. at that point one of the gentleman came up and levelled his semiautomatic weapon at my chest. another individual plowed into

me and knocked me back a few feet. at that point i got ready for the beating. i relaxed my body and stopped talking and they proceeded to beat me and pepper spray me until i would leave. >> why dod you decide to let that happen? you're obviously a very big dude. did you allow them to hit and give them the salute walking away to make a scene, or did you feel you had no other choice. >> well, there was a gentleman there away semiautomatic weapon, so i felt the best plan was to just not move at all. and i knew the beating was coming. >> why did you know? >> i could sense it. they were out of control. they had no tactical plan with what they were doing. they just came out the fight, that's pretty much it. >> did they have any reason to believe you or any of the other people were trying to make a move on the building? >> well, i was still stand in

the street while everyone retreated and i stood there until they surrounded me so i could have a discussion with them. >> what's your take on why they were there and what it means about the situation? general? >> they're trying to precipitate violence, protests and chaos, in order to achieve, i think, a certain type of optics that appeals to a segment of our population. >> do you think they're necessary there to protect the build something. >> absolutely not. . i in fact they're enflaming the situation. >> explain. >> when they arrived i think the protests were starting to taper off a little bit and when they started showing up, they started with the aggressive tactics. and the more aggressive tactics they used the larger the protest grew. when i was there that nighted there were maybe 400, 500 people. i believe last night they may have been 4,000 people. they're doing is same thing over and over again and they're not

achieving the goal that they say they're trying to achieve, which is to end the protests or end the violence. they're making it worse. so i think the generous interpretation here about chad wolf is he either doesn't have a plan for what he's trying to achieve or, i think the less generous interpretation is, this is intentional. >> people were looking at the video of you and there are a lot of people giving you a lot of praise for how tough you are. oh, boy, look how he withstood that. i got to be honest, it breaks my heart. i know you went down there because it's your right and that you served this country and you care about the stewardship of the same, and it breaks my heart, chris, that you had to go through something like that. and i just want you to know that i know a lot of people -- you're going to become part of the political maelstrom like everything else. even the people celebrating you for how tough you were, i'm

sorry you had to do that. it brakes my heart. thank you for your service and for explaining the situation. >> can i make one last point? >> of course. >> i'd like people to stop focusing on me and focus back on the original reason the protests started, which was the murder of george floyd. the black lives matters movement has been completely eclipsed by this little war that the administration has initiated in the streets of portland. i think we need to get back to the real reason why we're protesting, which is black lives matter. >> you are absolutely right, and we will keep it in focus on this show best we can for as long as we must. and i wish you well. i know you have to have reconstructive surgery on your ring finger. hope it goes well. keep in touch and let us know how you are. >> thank you, sir, it was an honor. >> the honor is mine. thank you for your service to the country. can you believe this is going on?

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all right, you just heard from the navy veteran chris david about what he experienced on the streets of portland, and his questions about why those federal authorities are there. let's bring in acting deputy dhs secretary ken cuccinelli. good to see you. i hope the family is well. >> chris, thank you. good to see you. >> all right, what is your response to chris david? he said these feds don't have to

be there. they're there to make a point, which is might makes right and they're looking for fights and fomenting the situation. your response? >> i appreciate that opinion. i don't agree with it. certainly the federal protective service, a little known agent within the department of the homeland security has been protecting these federal buildings for decades. literally, the hatfield courthouse since it was open in 1997, and the weekend of july 4th, we had intelligence suggesting there was going to be heightened targeting of these facilities, which turned out to be correct, and we advanced other officers there to support fps in their mission, and they were cross designated to do that. they're operating under legal federal authority, protecting the facilities and the people at those facilities as best they can. and they have been there for about two weeks. you have seen the violence every night from portland, but it was

there every single night. they have had violence for 35 or 40 nights before we had expanded our presence there. so the idea that somehow the federal government caused this, which mayor wheeler there has occasionally asserted, is just belied by the facts. there's more violence at facilities we have to protect. >> the law is clear. you get the building and what they call in the law that they understand -- they'll use the phrase, a pertinent there to. you're there to defend the building and anything close to the building. fine, that's the law. now, there is a political question i'm not going to burden you with, which is these states are asking for a lot of help and he's not giving to it to them and here he's taken it on to his own. the mayor can't say you started to fire there. it's not fire.

the mayor can argue as chris david is that you're making it worse by being there. is that the strategy? i know that's a terrible exception except -- why do i ask? >> oh, gosh, no. >> here's why i ask. awork a lot with dhs. i have a lot of respect for what the men and women do there. the dhs says officials are instead focusing on placing blame on law enforcement and focusing on fewer offices in their community. their failed response emboldened the violent mob. that does not sound like a man who's following the la you to protect a billing. sounds like a man who's taking a political position on a state of play in the city. >> well, no, we have a situation, and it's a repeat in portland. two years ago the same mayor wheeler publicly announced the withdraw of police protection from an i.c.e. facility that was under siege there, and so what happened? the siege exploded and literally

people invading the facility and so forth. so this is a repeat performance as it relates to intentional noncooperation by local political authorities. i don't want to lay it on the police there. they have a tough job there. the portland police officers. but this is a pattern for this political leadership, and we -- this isn't so much a complaint. we have to protect ourselves, meaning the facilities we're responsible for and our ourselves. in most of america, it's a partnership with the local authorities, and we desire partnership. we accommodate -- >> wolf doesn't sound like he desires a partnership. wolf didn't say anything you just said. >> we desire it. that's not what he's saying here. he's taking a shot at them about how they're policing the city and not saying any of the things you just said. i have no problem still with what you're doing as long as you're following the law. but the anecdotes and what we

saw with chris david is he wasn't making a move on the courthouse. when you rush out into the street and make arrests that have nothing to do with the courthouse -- what is it, 43 people now? now you're doing something else. you're policing a community, and that is not your jurisdiction nor your place, nor have you been requested to do so. are those requests wrong? >> so all of the arrests that we have been involved in, which is somewhere over 20 -- i don't know the exact number -- have been related to the damage to the federal property or attacking law enforcement officers protecting that federal property, which are felonies of course, or the attack on officers is. they're all related to that base mission. we are not patrolling this city. we are not taking on portland police bureau responsibilities. >> but what happened with chris david? chris david goes up there, asks

them about thinker constitutional duty -- you can say that's a little bit of a provocative thing to be talking about, but he wasn't making a move on the building and they made a move on him? you watch it. they got lucky he's so big. if that guy was your size or my size he would have been knocked down on the ground and beaten badly. he's disadvantaged by size, that man. what is that about? >> so, there are four agencies there. there are the u.s. marshalls, which is who you saw sbraking with david -- >> that's not dhs. that's doj. >> there are three doj entities. i can get every ounce of detail out of dhs officers. i don't have the ability to do that with the marshalls. they're not in my chain of command. >> that's a little too convenient, isn't snit? you got guys in that head. >> wasn't designed by me. >> i'm just saying what they did there wasn't about the building

and your guys were brought in to back up those marshalls. seems like a lot of force to protect the building. >> actually, we're backing up fps. the cvp and i.c.e. agents there are cross designated with -- that's what we're backing up in this mission. the marshalls have responsibilities with respect to the courthouse. don't have responsibilities with other federal buildings or property there that we do. so we have more to cover and we have to interact with them. they're willing to be partners. that doesn't mean we control their activities. >> they're also willing to beat the piss out of a guy in the middle of the street that wasn't threatening the building. go ahead. >> we're also willing to partner with the portland police bureau. the mayor is the -- if that's the proper title, i think it is.

and he refuses that cooperation. a lot of that cooperation can be designed and is designed to de-escalate, to identify ways to de-escalate or deconflict responsibilities. >> that's not what the president says. >> we're not doing it. >> that's not what the president says. >> and that's not what we're doing. >> that's not what the president says. >> well, we're acting first of all at the president's insistence to protect this community -- let me finish -- but only within the boundaries of our jurisdiction. that doesn't cover portland. >> he's not talking about buildings. he's saying, i don't like what's happening in these cities that are run by democrats. >> that's true. >> and i'm going to send more of my guys around to quell these situations. that is not your job. that is posse comatats. everyone though it's not the military, it's de facto. >> that is a military legal term.

>> you know what i'm saying. you're using federal authority in a municipal situation. >> what i'm telling you -- that's right. you are equating his specific words to everything we're doing. >> yes. >> and that is simply not the case, chris. >> but he's the president. >> okay, but we're staying within the boundaries of that federal legal authority, part of the executive branch. we work for the president. >> but do you think the president should be sending your guys to every city? where he doesn't like the situation on the streets? >> chris, there are a lot of cities he doesn't like the situation on the streets. >> i know. he said he's thinking of chicago. >> and he hasn't sent us to every city. >> he said he's thinking about it. do you think that's a good thought. >> if you watch the superintendent brown in chicago, he was speaking in terms of

cooperation with the federal government. he wants our help to try to bring peace to that community. >> of course. of course. it's one of the biggest problems for the president with urban centers. >> it's easy to believe -- >> no, no, no, i have no problem with federal government stepping up to help cities to ease their burden, but you should be asked and it should be help that goes towards a common goal. the question is, what's the common goal here? you beat up navy vets that aren't approaching a building and make the protests more angry. >> >> there's two types of situations. there's the one you described, which is ideal and which, by the way, is the overwhelming majority the presence of the homeland security officers plays out in communities across america. it's with some level of partnership. >> pre-trump, yeah. >> that's the overwhelming portion. and the other way is when we act on our own under federal

authority to fulfill federal legal obligations, and that's it. so you don't have to partnership element. does it work at well? >> no, doesn't work as well when the president sets it up this wait a minute i'm afraid he's going to make the good men and women -- that's not what wolf is echoing. i'm afraid the good men and women of the dhs and you too, ken, are going to be painted and used as thugs by the president to show might makes right in cities where there are protests he doesn't like, especially where it's about black lives matter. >> are you worried about that at all? >> first of all, we -- if you heard the secretary today in his press conference, he said, and we have said repeatedly over and over and over, we are determined to protect peaceful protesters. month night, last night, there were peaceful protests outside the courthouse in portland. there were 75 to 100 people there conducting a peaceful

protest until about 7:00 p.m. they then left. a few minutes later, 1,000 people showed up, surrounded the courthouse and started attacking it. >> the question is, would they have been there if a different atmosphere had been established? i appreciate you making the arguments. you're always welcome here to do so. i wish and the family well. >> chris, it's good to be with you. >> thanks, chris, you too. not to rush, ken, but i got a great thing for you here. you know how we have been talking about the national resolve, how we come together in a time of need? rosy, the riveter? how men and women came forward to build bombers in world war ii? do you remember? at age 94, an original rosie the riveter is about to rivet all of us with her new mission to bomb the crap out of covid. we can do it, she says. look at that face. how can we not spend time with her tonight?

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tonight's american started serving our country before most of us were born. she still is. 94 year-old may crier. an original rosy the riveter. you know the iconic poster the campaign drew millions of women the sew called rosies stepping up to take the place of men during the work force during world war ii. now she is tieing that famous bandanna into something new. rosy face masks. to fight our new war. against coronavirus. may crier joins now. honor and privilege to have you on "prime time." >> thank you, chris. >> so what made you decide that it was time to pull out the poke ka dot bandanna once again to

help the country? >> i always made them for travel. whenever we go they love the ban da na and the i was making a lot of them when the virus started and i switched over to face masks. i said it's amazing. i made 300 by myself and send them out to friends and family. now with the news, we have over 1,000 requests. so now i have to reach out and friends offered to help me. we'll get there. we can do it. >> where are you getting the material from? where are you getting the energy? >> the energy i have. i was gifted with that and good health. people are starting at first i started with material. people are sending me material. and everything that i need from all over the country is amazing. i'm stunned.

i read on facebook and i said i'm mentioned i ran out of the elastic and wouldn't go to the store to get any. i got a whole package of everything that i needed from delaware. and that started it. everywhere people wanted to help many. it's amazing every day i get materials. everything i need. american people are wonderful. 99% of the people are just great. when you need something or need them, they are there for you. >> we're getting drowned out by the 1%. what do you say to people, you have lived through hard times. what had to be done to get through hard times. what do you want people to remember? >> we went through the great depression. and the dust bowl. it was really difficult. when we had the world war ii was declared we all banded together. men, women and children and did what had to be done.

i don't understand why people can't band together now. we wor bandannas and carried had to wear heavy welding things and carried torches. we did that for days and years. wearing a mask seems simple to me. after going through that. >> it absolutely does. i hope people hear you and live by your example. i have to tell you, i have been looking forward to this all day long. thank you for making my night. and thank you for showing people what's right with the country. then and now. god bless you and the family. >> and i love to see you and your brother on the television. fighting with each other. >> you know who is her favorite. you can imagine. i will get one of your masks for him. anything to cover his face is a good idea.

may, god bless and be well. >> thank you very much. >> all right. we'll take a break. wayfair has everything outdoor from grills to play sets and more one of a kind finds. it all ships free. and with new deals every day you can explore endless options at every price point. get your outdoor oasis delivered fast so you can get

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"cnn tonight" with don lemon comes in right now. rosy the riveter one of the original ones she says i just changed my sewing machine. for the rivet gun for the sewing machine and i'm doing the same job. helping my country. >> good for rosy the riveter. they are keeping the people going. and keeping our spirits up. how are your spirits? >> my head and my heart in a good place. better than i deserve. >> i won't tell everybody you tried to run me over the other day. i wasn't paying attention and i look up. >> you got some nerve. if i tell t