congress with most members that i think might surprise sort of average americans, right? they know the country is divided and the congress is divided. but this is unusual to hear this language used. >> this is all politics. this is capitol hill. they all know how to play this game. you see this frequently in committee hearings, where they'll really go after each other. cedric richmond really going after matt gates. you know? these were -- they seem like very personal attacks. but then they get out in the hallways and they can have a regular conversation. so, a lot of this is for -- is political theater. this would what happened on the steps was not. they thought they weren't being watched and is what made it strange.

there are rules, there is a decorum here. it's not the senate. and there is a sense of responsibility to be civilized. and that's why you saw hoyer and mccarthy, the leaders from both parties in the houses yesterday really take aggressive steps to say you crossed the line and that's probably the only reason that ted yoho went to the floor this morning. >> thank you so much for sharing with us what you saw. thank you with the hill. >> thank you. anytime. top of the hour now. we start with breaking developments in the u.s. fight against the coronavirus. the latest modeling project predicts fewer deaths because more americans are wearing masks. a resource source often sited by the white house that the institute for health metrics now

predicts 5,000 fewer deaths because more people are wearing masks. listen to what a lead researcher told me last hour. >> right. what i've seen is an increase in mask use, especially in states that have been hit by covid-19, texas, california, florida, arizona. and we're seeing a reduction in morbidity in these states. the improvement has been much higher in states where a mandate has been put in places. a sharper increases in states with a mandate. a mandate is very important and is helping in the national mandate, of course, would do much better. >> professor also points out that if 95% of americans wore masks when they left their house, the death toll would drop by another 34,000 lives. and there's other promising news, the president acknowledging the pandemic will get worse before it gets better.

several hot spots seeing new case numbers, while still high, they're on the decline. and the u.s. is announcing free or cheap vaccines when they're ready. let's turn to athena jones. we still have a long way to go. the president also made that clear. another 64,000 new cases just reported in a single day. >> reporter: hi, brianna. you're right. another day for america. that's 64,000 number isn't good, but there is better news and that's 20 states, the same as yesterday, are managing to hold their coronavirus case numbers steady. still cases are rising in 26 states. and even though the predictions for the future death toll may be falling, right now the daily death toll numbers are approaching april's high. >> we are certainly not at the end of the game. i'm not even sure we're halfway through.

>> reporter: officials say if you don't already know someone who's been infected, that's likely to change in the coming weeks. dr. anthony fauci warning of a long road ahead for the u.s. >> certainly we are not winning the game right now. we are not leading it. >> reporter: the nationwide daily death toll from covid is rising, topping 1,000 for the first time in two weeks. nearing april's highs. driving at least 27 states to pause or rollback reopening plans. california surpassing new york in total confirmed cases. many in hard-hit los angeles county are young people. infection and hospitalization rates painting a bleak picture in the south. more than 500 women at a federal prison in fort worth, texas have covid-19, including former nsa leaker, reality winner. and governor greg abis backing a curfew in the rio grand, while stopping short of issuing a

stay-in-place order, while the judge said he wants to follow the same cdc guidelines that kept numbers low before the reopening. >> if i could get 10% people to follow it, i'm 10% better than today. >> reporter: health officials say 15% of icu beds remain available in florida. >> i think we are on the right course. i think we will continue to see improvements. >> reporter: and with fall around the corner, the mask debate and back-to-school debate are colliding with teachers raising safety concerns and taking to the streets in arizona. >> so important to work together with school districts to figure out how they can take our guidelines and operationalize them in a practical way. >> the cdc director arguing masking will be key to returning to class. >> and one of the most important things is the role of face masks and social distancing in those classrooms. >> reporter: meanwhile, there is news on the vaccine front. the federal government reaching

what's a historic deal with pharmaceutical company, pfizer. >> we can acquire 100 million doses of this vaccine as early as december of 2020 and have the option to buy an additional 500 million doses. >> reporter: while secretary says it shows promise, they have yet to complete large-scale phase three clinical trials. and there is a study out now about one of those basic public health steps that everyone's advising you take. washing your hands and wearing a mask can be easy to do but may not be so easy to physically distance yourselves and others depending on living conditions. they recommend anyone exposed to covid-19 or infected, should be isolat isolated in a separate bedroom or bathroom, while they're finding more than 20% of american homes don't have sufficient space to do that.

>> it's a very good point. thank you so much for that. dr. nguyen is a doctor at george washington university hospital. i want to begin with the new projection. 5,000 fewer deaths because more americans are wearing masks. that is it good news but also prompts the question should there be a federal mask mandate? >> yeah, at this point there absolutely should be that mandate because we know that all us wear masks, we reduce the chance of transmitting or acquiring covid-19 by five times. imagine if there's a pill we can take now a vaccine that reduces our chances by five tons, we would all want that. but something thels model shows is that so much is within our power. that whatever death and suffering could be projected to come, it doesn't have to be that way. it's not inevitable. but we, as policy makers, as

individuals, have to take the necessary steps right now and that would include, in these very hard-hit states to reimpose stay-at-home orders because we have to stem the tide of rising covid-19 deaths. >> that's a very positive way to look at it, which is this is information you can actually use every day, every hour to try to help your personal situation and that of your community. you just wrote a piece in the "washington post" about how you see this situation playing out, if this doesn't get better. give us your thoughts. >> i outlined the three scenarios and one is the status quo, which is the piece meal, too little, too late decisions. for bars and not restaurants. we know what that will lead to, which is a lot of preventible suffering and death. then there's another option of

another national shutdown and that's all throughout the country and about half the states have stay-at-home ordards. we don't have the political will and will likely need that. you can't close down the states not doing anything at all and for those considering pausing reopening, assessing and having the rest of the national strategy brought up in terms of sufficient testing and contact tracing to contain the infection. >> we learned of a major deal with pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies to get free or affordable vaccines to americans when they become available. there's at least 100 million doses. that's the plan. do you think americans will take the doses, even if they're free? or do you think some will have

skepticism about whether it's safe? >> yeah, this is a really good question. i certainly hope so. and i and other scientists will be doing everything we can in the mean time to educate about how vaccines are safe and effective. but i also think that the work that's being done now in terms of making the vaccines accessible widely and free is going to be so critical because it's the vaccination. and we have to make sure we don't testing. i don't want for us to run out of syringes and viles. we have to think about how do we literally get hundreds of millions of vaccine doses delivered to people. those are the plans we should make right now as we also fight the antiscience, antivaxer movements too. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> up next a biden campaign's

released a new clip of the former vice president's sit down with president obama. how the pair are taking on president trump's handling of the pandemic. plus the fight brewing in the republican party that could put a serious hold up on anymore coronavirus relief funds. and as mayors across the country voice their outrage at federal officer's tactics, the president prepares to send more agents to two cities. -and always will be. never letting anything get in my way. not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. and certainly not arthritis. new voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. and it can help you too. feel the joy of movement with voltaren.

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this in texas, we've been working to keep the curve flat. well, it is not flat, not by a lone star mile. he said show the curve. here's the curve, as you can see. it's disaster. it's a grim chart. it shows the past four months of the coronavirus outbreak. and them are the facts. presidential nominee, joe biden and former president obama have met to discuss challenges facing the country and the video released earlier of the two men criticizing president trump's response to the pandemic, just a short time ago they dropped this new clip. let's take a look. >> he ran by deliberately dividesing people from the moment he came down that escalator. and i think people are now going i don't want my kid growing up that way. >> you know what it's like as much as anybody, to be in the white house during a crisis.

you know what it's like and how lonely it can be to make tough decisions where not every decision is going to be perfect but you got to make them. and to take responsibility for it. >> this full conversation is going to be post said on their social media akoungtsz tomorrow. i want to bring in former virginia governor. a cnn political commentator and i wonder what you make of -- let's talk first about the timing of this. what do you make of the timing? >> it's very innovative. and you got to remember everybody is home. and they're watching. on top of donald trump coming on sighing it's not my responsibility. you have two folks sitting in the white house during many crisis. acted like adults, laid the facts out and the comparison to donald trump, i think, is extraordinary. i can remember when i was governor. i inherited a tough economy,

recession. really hurt us badly. it was joe biden, who i worked with every day as governor too, help rebuild that virginia economy. we had ebola, i worked with joe biden every day. and to have this president, donald trump, say it's not my responsibility, governors you figure it out yourself, it's reprehensible. so, the timing for me is very important to kucontrast what ha ind in the obama/biden white house and the trump white house. pretty soon he's going to attack president obama and he's done that his whole career. it's a very perilous thing for donald trump to do. because a cnn poll before the covid crisis had, who do you think was the better president? 55% said president obama and 39% said president trump. even 18% of republicans said i think obama was a better president. it's very effective what they did today, i think.

>> what do you think about maybe they voted for president trump before and not so sure right now and possibly looking for an alternative but joe biden doesn't quite swell with them, what if they don't like president obama? is that something that can backfire? >> president obama is one of the most popular politicians in the country. i put him right up there with his wife, michelle obama. before covid crisis, he hit nearly 60% of americans said he was a better president. i think it energizes folks. i think for independents, who greatly admired the work president obama had done, for those independents out there, and other individuals who may have voted for trump before said let's give it a try. they saw what they saw with obama and biden and said we have

to go back. so, there's no down side. i think it just energizes folks. look at the polling today but let's be clear the election is more than 100 days away. we can't take anyone for granted. we got to run like we're 20 points down. but the trajectory that trump is on, the only people supporting donald trump are his family and those that work on his campaign. they're pretty much the same people nowadays. there's not a lot of movement for new trump voters. >> i want to ask you about -- look, yesterday we covered the former vice president, giving his -- giving an economic policy speech and then he walks off the stage and doesn't take questions. and look, we have a lot of questions about this very important thing, economic policy, right? americandizeserve to have questions answered.

but he hasn't taken questions from the media in quite some time. do you think he should? >> he will. look at 2008. hillary clinton did not even get into the race until late june. in 2016, bernie sanders not until late july. we have plenty of time, more than 100 days to go. >> what does that have to do with answering questions though? >> i think the most important for him is to put his plans out so we can all digest them and the press can ask him questions. we got more than 100 days to go, there will be plenty of opportunities for questions to be asked and he's ready to answer those questions. >> harry, he's not taking questions. it's kind of weird to not take questions. >> we got plenty of time and i promise you joe biden is going to answer all the questions you're going to have for him. people are concerned about the coronavirus. how we put people together, how

we do press events. but as we head into the summer and get ready for our convention and into the fall, many opportunities for the vice fooz answer these questions. he's happy to answer these questions. he's got so much to talk about compared to donald trump and the disastrous presidency he's had. and he will do it. >> okay. well, urging patience is pointless. thank you. >> thank you. so, there's a convent outside of detroit that has been hit brutally hard by the pandemic. 12 sisters lost to coronavirus in one month. plus the president of brazil testing positive for a third time. 49... 50!

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republican. >> i asked what are we doing? >> it's republicans against themselves. . >> reporter: a raucous lunch laying bear a series of divides between president trump and the gop. >> there are differences in opinion on the question of the payroll tax cut and whether that's the best way to go. >> reporter: and between senate republicans and senate republicans. >> if a number of senators stand up and go we need 20 billion for this and 100 billion for this and they're eager to spend and i'm like what are you guys doing? >> reporter: senator mcconnell attempting to thread the needle on questions about spending and a push on priorities republicans simply don't back. >> the legislation i began to sketch out is nor another cares act, nor a typical stimulus bill for a nation ready to get back to normal. our country is in a complex middle ground between those two things. >> reporter: republicans planning a $1 trillion proposing with $105 billion for schools

for rejecting the idea of tying all those funds to reopening. another round of stimulus checks tew marecons who are weary of his push for a payroll tax cut. new money for the cdc and nih. despite the administration's insistence there is more money available and isn't necessary. as millions face losing unemployment benefits, the biggest unanswered question, how to restructure the program. kau kaunl, however, making clear his conference will unify. >> i'm going to introduce a bill in the next few days that is a starting place. that enjoys fairly significant support among republican senators, probably not everyone. >> for democratic leaders, a

waiting game. >> the sooner we can see their bill, the sooner we can understand our differences and we're clearly our similarities. >> and start negotiating. >> and this sharp critique. >> we have been united in our priority. i think their delay is their disarray. >> reporter: phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. >> let's bring in one of the democrats playing the waiting game here. kirsten gillibrand, thank you for being with us. >> hi, brianna. >> hi, there. so there, are still big differences between the republican proposel and the democrats in terms of cost, and certainly a lot of differences between republicans themselves. the democrats are looking at $3 trillion. republicans are looking to come in at a little over 1 trillion. what are you willing to compromise on to get this over the finish line? >> well, some of the biggest

priorities are ones they're not paying attention to, which gives me grave concern. we need money for the state and local governments desperately. i travelled through the whole state. every city and county is in desperate need and they're on the verge of having to fire police officers, emts, firefighters, other critical frontline workers and this is no time to increase unemployment and decrease services people need to survive. second, they're not doing anything to relieve suffering. they're not willing to make sure there's more money for food stamps or rental assistance or housing to make sure mortgages could be forbeared or more rental assistance. and we're unsure whether they'll extend unemployment insurance. so, what they want to do is liability protection. they want to make sure that every company in americaina can be sued regards all of how they treat their employees.

i think we need to have oceanau standards revised on an emergency basis, then you would not be sued if you were not absolutely breaking the law. >> then businesses might have guidelines. >> yes. >> and we've heard the senate majority leader say the second round of stimulus is going to include stimulus checks, ppe funding for businesses in this proposal. is that welcome news to you? >> i think stimulus checks are very helpful. i think continuing to fund small businesses is also very helpful. i just wouldn't do it at the exclusion of state and local budge tsz. you have to make sure the greatest and most urgent needs are met and unfortunately mitch mcconnell is unwilling to meet with us, unwilling to negotiate the house bill, he sent everyone home and president trump spent time golfing. he should have been working with

leaders on a bipartisan commonsense solution. >> the clock is ticking here and til tilts it's looking lying congress is probably going to miss the deadline for so many americans who need the help to come very soon. when do you anticipate this wrapping up? >> we should have been working over the last two weeks but we stand ready to negotiate. you heard from senator schumer and pelosi that we have a host of good ideas. we want to find out which ones can be bipartisan. i'm sure senators, republican and democrats, heard from their mayors at home. and there's no state immune from the crushing effects of shutting down the u.s. economy. many states have seen an escalation in numbers of covid cases because those governors aren't following science and the recommendations of the cdc. >> could this go -- i'm trying to see though could this go into august? could this potentially go to the middle of august.

>> the employment checks run out run out. and they're also -- we don't want hundreds or thousands or millions homeless because congress can't do its job. i call on senator mcconnell to work with us, get this done and get it done before these programs run out. >> i want to ask you about a label we've heard house speaker nancy pelosi use. when she's talking about the virus, she's referred to it as the trump virus. and i wonder if you think that is approapriate or helpful? >> it's not a term i've used but i can understand her frustration with president trump. he refuse toads wear a mask for months and made fun of people who were. he's somebody who refuses to use

the defense production act to guarantee universal testing. his administration's been unwilling to spend billions that have been made available for an increase in testing. he's not worked on making sure that we can have contact tracing and testing that works around the country. and so, he's not doing what's necessary to stop covid. i'm not surprised she's frustrated because he continued to call this a hoax, until a couple of weeks ago. it's incredible how badly president trump handled this epidemic. >> he announced he's sending federal forces to two more cities. what happens if he is to send them to new york? >> i think he is misusing military and governmental assets. it is not the role of the u.s. military to go into cities and states and undermine local law enforcement and governors and

mayors, who are in charge of keeping the peace. he is really tearing up the constitution and the separation of powers in a way that's deeply worrisome and concerning and i hope the american people speak out. we have an opportunity to do that in november. and i look forward to defeating president trump and electing president biden. >> right. what is the scenario with him sending federal troops in? >> i hope we can avoid any serious issues. what happened already in oregon is so deplorable, it's so concerning because they were using military assets to harm peaceful moms who were protesting. i mean, i can't fully comprehend how president trump believes this is an appropriate use of force. it's not. and i think governors are going to do everything in their power to prevent this from happening

again and they're going to use the powers that they have to push back on the white house and this administration's plans to use force inappropriately. >> senator gillibrand, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. and up next is more than two dozen u.s. mayors express outrage over the use of federal agents in u.s. cities, i'll be speaking to someone who warned this would happened when creating homeland security. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag.

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security even criticized the president's use of the department. take a listen to tom ridge. >> the department was established to protect america from the ever present threat of global terrorism. it was not established to be the president's personal militia. be a cold day in hell before i would consent to a unilateral, uninvited intervention in one of my cities. >> those comments join a chorus of calls from city mayors angered by the president's decision. more than a dozen mayors joining in portland in asking the president to withdraw forces. these are tactics we expect from authoritarian regimes, not our democracy. the mayor of albuquerque, quote, there is no place for trump's secret police in our city. and i'm joined by democratic senator, one of a small group of law makers, who voted against the homeland security act in 2002, who's the only one to vote

against the patriot act in 2001. senator, i guess your reaction to the deployment of federal officers to u.s. cities. how do you interpret what you are seeing? >> in an era of crisis after crisis where it's hard for people to absorb all the things happening, this one cannot be exaggerated in terms of its seriousness. here we have a president of the united states, who was exploiting loopholes, basically, in laws from the post 9/11 era to do things even the most conservative supporters of the department of homeland security wouldn't have supported. so, i oppose the u.s.a. pate reat act which provided huge authority for the government, offen intend said only for drug cases. and now we see another piece of legislation from this era, the department of homeland security. why is he using them? because the military in this

country has stood up to the president and the administration. they said after the fiasco in lafayette park where he wanted to stand with a bible. so, now he's using this to suppress the right to protest and to protest the racial injustice that has greatly infected our nation. >> you're one of the few, we said, who vote said against the dhs law. is this exactly what you feared might happen or did you ever even imagine something like this? >> well, it's a little hard to matter this extreme of a use but it was fuzzy. was jammed through for political reasons in 2002, frankly because the republicans wanted a good issue and those that voted against the bill would be accused of being soft on terrorism. this was done to help defeat the democratic senator from georgia. so t was politically motivated, as i believe the iraq war vote

was. and they got a result. they got the majority of the united states senate. the reality is this agency is not properly defined or regulated. prr and the president is taking it further by not having a confirmed secretary. so, there is no accountability. he takes it to the limit. that's what you have to understand. when you face a crisis like we did 20 years ago, what you decide then, may not come to its worst results in that crisis, but in future crisis. of course, we're now in a position where the administration is brutally using this in a way that i think most of the people in the bush administration never would have even considered. >> and hopefully you just heard, right before the segment, we put up some sound from former secretary ridge, who just did an interview with michael smerconish yesterday. and he said dhs isn't meant to be, quote, trump's personal militia. what's your reaction to him

saying that considering -- i mean, it's tom ridge? >> he's a man integrity and he knows what's going on in portland. it's not some kind of a crazy violent thing that needs to be crushed. it's legitimate protest after george floyd. i heard senator gillibrand refer to the mobs. they're here to protect the protesters from these militaristic troops. and they are not even properly trained to do this work. so, now you can see it's not really about portland. it's being threatened to be done in other major cities in america. this is an examplople of the use of secret please and i admire tom ridge for being direct about this, even though he and i didn't agree at the time on this legislation. he is dead right about this abuse. >> the video we're getting out of these cities, specifically portland, it's just wild. we interviewed a navy veteran

who was talking. he was standing there and the federal agents just went after him with a baton and pepper spray. they broke his hand. i think he's in surgery the next day or so. it's unbelievable what we're seeing. thank you so much. we really appreciate you coming on. >> our constitution is under assault. >> a bleak warning from american labs processing coronavirus tests. we won't be able to do it once flu season hits. can you imagine that? and at the center of scathing allegations. his reported sexistice and racist comments are the beginning of a watchdog investigation.

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president trump's billionaire ambassador to the united kingdom is under fire because of claims he tried to uses a role as ambassador to help out the president's positions. kylie atwood is part of the team of reportings uncovering the story. tell us what the stories are tell us you about ambassador woody johnson. >> i want to take you through some of the specifics that we have reported in this story. with regard to the racist allegations, ambassador woody johnson is said to have questioned why the black community would want a particular month to celebrate black history month in conversations with embassy staff and when they were planning an event to take place two commemorate that month, he asked if the audience would be filled with black people. he also said that the serious

real challenge for the african-american community is that fathers aren't part of the family. and one source told us that those comments stunned them. that is a source who overheard those comments being made. with regard to the sexist allegations, ambassador johnson is said to have hosted official gatherings at a men's only club in london. he was told by another diplomat that he would no longer do that. if he hosted events there, women from the embassy could not attend. he also made sexist comments about women's looks at the embassy and what they were wearing. and i also think it is important to note that there are also allegations about him attempting to use his government position, abuse that position to press in a way that would benefit the president's personal property. so he traveled to washington and met with president trump in 2018. he returned to the embassy and told officials that the president wanted to host the

open which is a british golf tournament at his personal property turnberry, that is a golf course in scotland. and officials told the ambassador he couldn't do that. it would be unethical to raise that topic with british government officials but he did so even though they warned him not to. and the british government told us that there were no requests made regarding any specific sports tournaments but they didn't say that turnberry did not come up in the conversations. and brianna, we're hearing now from a number of folks who are reading this story. and i want to point to one player on the jets team, the nfl team that woody johnson owns and he tweeted this afternoon saying, we need the right people at the top. wrong is wrong. and so we have asked ambassador johnson for a comment regarding all of this reporting and what he said back to us was that being the u.s. ambassador to the

u.k. is an honor of a lifetime. but he did not specifically refute or comment on the specific allegations that we are reporting on. and the state department said that they still have confidence in the ambassador. and that they stand by him as a loyal and also as someone who -- i want to read you the quote, led honorably and professionally. brianna. >> interesting. that statement didn't answer the question at all that you had asked of them. kylie, thank you so much for the great reporting. kylie atwood, we appreciate it. up next, one convent outside of detroit lost 12 sisters to coronavirus in just one month. we'll have that story coming up.

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hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. the coronavirus pandemic has affected 15 million people worldwide and the u.s. is home to a quarter of the infections with more than 467,000 new cases in the last seven days. the number of deaths per day is back above the 1,000 mark after declining the last two weeks but a new model cited by the white house is lowering projection showing mandates for masks. hospitalizations are poise to set a record high and for the seco