has now stalled. executives have been blunt that job cuts are coming once federal funding ends october 1st. john? >> christine romans, thank you. busy news day. brianna keilar picks up the news coverage right now. have a good day. hello, i'm brianna keilar live at the washington headquarters. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. tack a look there at the right side of the screen. in the coming hours america will watch the u.s. number cross another devastating threshold, that is 4 million u.s. cases, the most of any naegs in the world. and this crisis is far from over. hospitalizations hitting record numbers, deaths trending up and testing delays so vast the results are rendered worthless as the u.s. surpasses 50,000 new cases a day for more than 14 days consecutively. how did the country get here? january 21, the cdc reported the

first u.s. covid infection. 99 days after that, we hit 1 million. 43 days after that, 2 million. 28 days after that, 3 million and today we will hit the 4 million mark after 15 days. it did not have to be this way. in the last 24 hours alone, more than 71,000 infections were reported. nearly 1,200 americans died. it's gotten so bad in miami the mayor there is calling for people to wear masks at times at home. >> i would tell our residents, and this is voluntary, this is not something that we can mandate, that they should consider particularly if they have a multigenerational household that wearing masks indoors at time with the residents and also respecting social distance when they're at home because again we are seeing the largest center of spread being our house. >> there is still no national plan to get a handle on this.

the president downplaying the need for testing and sharing misleading details at newly revived coronavirus briefings where he is the star and no health experts are present. listen to this audio obtained by the center of public integrity and hear the voice of responsible response coordinator dr. deborah birx and hear her warning local and state health officials in private. >> other cities that are lagging behind that and we have new increases in miami, new orleans, las vegas, st. louis, indianapolis, minneapolis, cleveland, nashville, pets burlg, columbus and baltimore. so we're tracking this very closely. we're working with the state of officials to make sure we're responding together but when you first see that increased test positivity, that is where to start the mitigation efforts. >> a short time ago the cdc

released more details of patients who become more seriously ill from the coronavirus. cnn health reporter jaclyn howard is tracking this for us and the cdc looked at five specific underlying medical conditions. what are they? >> reporter: this study zeroed in on the conditions. copd, heart conditions, di diabetes, conic kidney disease and obesity. they are the conditions to put you at an increased risk of severe illness if you do get covid. and for this study, cdc researchers use survey data to analyze which counties in the nation appear to have the highest prevalence of the five conditions. and here's what the researchers found. they found that the nationwide prevalence of any of those conditions is 40.7%.

so that's the prevalence among u.s., the nationwide prevalence of the u.s. adults and another study finding stood out to me finding that the counties appearing to have the highest prevalence of these conditions were concentrated in the southeast. and the counties were mostly in the states of alabama, arkansas, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, tennessee, west virginia. there were some counties also in oklahoma and south dakota and northern michigan, as well. those were mentioned in the study but overall these data are very important. the reason why, we know that underlying health conditions can put you at an increased risk of severe illness if you get covid specifically if you have an underlying health condition and put you at six times a higher risk of hospitalization, five times higher risk of icu

admission and 12 times higher risk of dying of covid. that's why, you know, this is really important specifically for hospitals to see where there's a higher concentration and lawmakers, as well. >> certainly it's like you know when coronavirus is hitting the areas it is like fire hitting kindling. thank you so much for spelling that out for us. social distance, stay at least six feet apart, wear a mask. a new study continuing to back that up. researchers looking at social distance, temperature and population density across 211 u.s. counties in 46 states as factors as virus spread finding that social distance had the greatest impact on transmissibility. dr. jasmine is joining me now and seems to confirm that we already knew which is that social distancing works.

i think it is still so important for us to be confirmed because everything is evolving with the coronavirus. what else can we take away from this? >> this study is really a gut punch because what the researchers are saying is based on their findings they believe that here in america we could be in a very different much better situation right now, we could be having a much more normal summer if we had stayed in lockdown a bit longer, if we had reopened later and had reopened more slowly and what the researchers are saying is that after gradually reopening if we had mask mandates, had been really telling people to physically distance and if we had said have small gatherings we wouldn't be seeing this surge in cases, these record high numbers of hospitalizations and deaths right now. and this is based as i don't said on data of 211 counties across america which are home to about 55% of the country's population. they're showing that weather,

temperature don't factor into viral spread as much as physical distancing. that's really key in stopping the spread of this virus. >> and let's tack about something that we just heard the mayor of miami say which is that there is evidence of coronavirus spread in the home and that this is actually the place seeing the most spread and he suggested particularly in the case of multi-generational households that people in miami wear masks even when they're in their home and said we can't mandate this but this is a suggestion seeing the spread. what should americans other places take away from that warning out of miami? >> so this is absolutely true that we are definitely seeing transmission of this virus within homes. and really highlights a key deficit here in the u.s. in management of this pandemic because think back to other countries, hong kong, champion and other places, they have quarantine facilities so if you test positive for covid you are not told, okay, go home and

might infect your kids, partner, parents who live with you, no. in those places you are told you have symptoms, tested positive go to a dedicated quarantine quaflt designed in a way where you can't infect anybody else. of course, we just don't have that in the states and saying to people stay at home at least reduce your exposure to others outside of the household but, of course, then your kids, partner, elderly parents are at risk. could the masks in the home help? they could but how feasible is that and physical distancing in the home? like the miami said you can't mandate that so that's the key issue there. >> dr. yasmin, thank you so much. we are standing by for senate republicans trillion-dollar coronavirus relief proposal which they have been fighting over internally as well as with the white house on. gop senators now say that the

white house conceded on key demands. cnn congressional reporter lauren fox is following this on capitol hill for us. lauren, tell us if republicans are close to introducing this proposal. >> reporter: we are still waiting. i will tell you, all week long republicans in the white house and in the senate have been trying to negotiate legislation between themselves. there were vast differences over how much to spend on testing, what to do about getting people back to school. and how to deal with an unemployment insurance benefit that expires at the end of the month. that $600 additional in addition to the unemployment benefits that people normally received so what we know right now is that they are still working on legislative text and that can take quite a bit of time to take the ideas that you think you have agreed to and put them on paper but there's $105 billion to get people back to school. we also know that there's $16 billion in additional money for testing. that is a little bit of a

concession of senate republicans that wanted $25 billion in new money and we know that's stimulus checks for individuals and steve mnuchin the treasury secretary said that they're expected to look a lot like what we saw last time around but we are still waiting on some key specifics. we know that the president is not going to get his payroll tax cut he said was required in order for him to seen this bill and enstead mnuchin said the president wants to get the money out the door but unknowns and just a reminder, these are republicans negotiating with themselves. we haven't gotten to the part of republicans to sit down with democrats to hammer out an actual deal. >> yeah. you say $105 billion in education funds there to get schools back up and running but house republicans want what? like $400 billion or something like that, right, lauren? >> exactly. that shows you -- >> house democrats. >> house democrats have this idea that they want four times

that amount of money and remember republicans are tying some of this money about $35 billion to schools that actually physically open up classrooms. that's not something that democrats have supported. >> no. certainly isn't. lauren, thank you so much for that from capitol hill. we are learning the president and vladimir putin spoke today but it does not appear they discussed the bounties on u.s. troops in afghanistan. plus, once again, the president brags about a test he took designed to detect dementia but this time he goes into bizarre detail. and the president calls the fox news doctor his guide. we'll take a look at the doctor's questionable advice from the past few months. $9.95 at my age?

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we have some bracking news. word that president trump and russian president vladimir putin spoke today but in the readout of the conversation there is one key topic that is missing. conspicuously missing. i want to go to kaitlan collins at the white house. he reportedly made zero mention of the bounty on american troops in administration. >> reporter: the white house readout does not mention that. it does say that they talked today, discussed efforts to defeat the coronavirus but also how to reopen global economies, brianna. it says they discussed critical bilateral and global issues and then it says president trump reiterated his hope of an avoiding of expensive three-way arms race of china, russia and the united states and looked forward to the updates on the arm control negotiations in i sven that. of course, it does not mention something that has made a ton of headlines in recent weeks which

is that report of intelligence that is first reported by "the new york times" about these purported russian bounties to the taliban for the lives of u.s. soldiers. the white house pushed back strongly on the neoguri basically saying that the president had not been briefed on it saying that the intelligence community could not come to agreement on the intelligence was and whether or not this was actually happening and therefore that's why the president wasn't briefed though that was a strange excuse given we know that a lot of intelligence is not unanimous and not airtight and why it's intelligence and the president is briefed on things without a full picture and what they did know and did it come up on the call because if it did the question is why didn't the white house mention it in the readout and if it didn't why didn't the president feel the need to bring it up and said he was later briefed on it with lawmakers asking questions and this is the

first phone call since the stories about those purported russian bounties had actually come out. >> thank you so much for bringing us that live from the white house. president trump is once again bragging about the results of a cognitive test he took last year, a test that's designed to detect cognitive impairment like alzheimer's. on fox news he went into detail about the questions he answered and how he says doctors were amazed by his ability to recall a simple set of words. >> so the last time i was at the hospital, probably a year ago, i said to the doctor, dr. ronny jackson, is there an acuity test? he said there was and 30 or 35 questions. first questions are very easy. the last questions are much more difficult. like a memory question. it's like you'll go person, woman, man, camera, tv.

so they say, could you repeat that? so i said, yeah. so it's person, woman, man, camera, tv. okay. that's very good. if you get it in order you get extra points. okay. they ask you other questions. other questions. and then, ten minutes, 15, 20 minutes later, remember the first question -- not the first question but the 10th k. you do that again? person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order you get extra points. they said, nobody gets it in order. it is not that easy but for me it was easy. and that's not an easy question. in other words, they ask to you, five names and repeat them and that's okay. if you repeat them out of order it's okay but, you know, not as good but when you go back 20, 25

minutes, they don't tell you this, go back to that question. and repeat them. can you do it? you go, person, woman, man, camera, tv. they say, that's amazing. how did you do that? because i have like a good memory. because i'm cognitively there. >> he sounds as if he's describing how he just discovered electricity and all he did was identify an elephant like he is trying to create content instead of addressing a health crisis in the country and the tough questions at the end of the test he constantly talks about is which city are you in? what day is it? what month is it? the montreal doctor that designed this test 25 years ago said it's supposed to be easy. quote, this is not an iq test or how a person is extremely skilled or not. this test is supposed to help physicians detect early signs of

alzheimer's and became popular because it's short and sensitive for early impairment. the president said that former white house physician ronny jackson administered the test. this is what ronny jackson said about the president's health at the beginning of his presidency. >> overall he has very, very good health. excellent health. he has a lot of energy. a lot of energy and a lot of stamina. >> can you explain how a guy that eats mcdonald's and all those diet cokes and never exercises is as good of a shape as you say he is? >> genetics. i told the president if he had a healthier diet over 20 years he might live to be 200 years. i don't know. he will be fit for duty in this term and maybe the next term if elected. >> not only a doctor but apparently also a psychic and just to reinforce to consider the source, this is what the dr. ronny jackson said last week

about wearing masks. >> i'm a firm believer that that's at this point a personal choice. and i encourage people that want to wear masks to wear a mask but i don't wear a mask all that often to be honest with you. >> a personal choice? well, it is some kind of choice but it is by definition not just a personal one. from the dictionary, personal, of affecting or belonging to a particular person rather than to anyone else. so not wearing a mask is a choice that may belong to one person and also affects other people, too. the proof is in the model that the white house uses showing if masks were universal almost 34,000 americans who will be dead by november 1st will instead by alive. personal? please. the president gave quite the compliment to the fox news doctor questioning him. >> i watch you all the time and i watch you almost like my guide to this because, frankly, you

have a good take on it. >> so since dr. marc siegel is the president's guide in this historic pandemic it is worth looking at what the good doctor has advised millions over the past few months on. here he is in march. >> this virus should be compared to the flu because at worst, at worst, worst-case scenario could be the flu. >> all right. obviously that was not true and see that by the heartbreaking numbers on the right side of the screen and not true at the time. one week after siegel's remark, this is what dr. fauci said. >> it is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu. >> dr. siegel also went after the world health organization much like the president has. >> there is a quote from the head of the world health organization today saying this is a time for pulling out all the stops. >> they're alarmists, saber rattlers. >> fast forward to may

downplaying the potential of a sec wave in the u.s. >> regarding this fall, the 1918 second wave? i've been monitoring australia and so's dr. fauci. you know how many cases are in australia today? tucker, 11. 11 new cases. that is the southern hemisphere, essentially our november right now and predicts not having a big second wave. when our children go back to school, there is plenty of testing, test teachers and students. we have very mild, mild cases among the young and asymptomatic but keeping an eye on them. >> all right. two things, the u.s. isn't everybody out of its first wave and in the weeks after making that comment cases in the u.s. increased by 2.6 million, 63,000 more americans died and siegel mentioned that we would have plenty of testing for kids and teachers? testing is a disaster. it's taking two weeks for many americans to get results.

on dr. fauci who white house officials are publicly trying to undermine siegel has said he should just shut up. >> what is going on with dr. fauci talking in one direction, dr. birx talking the opposite and why is he talking in direct opposition to the president? he is serving. >> he is there to serve the president and he's not -- more of a virologist than a public health official. >> dr. siegel is more of a sycophant than a doctor and not president trump's coronavirus guide. president trump appears to be his. back and forth between the president and his rival joe biden after biden calls him the first racist american president. the campaign will join us live. plus, a new case of coronavirus at the white house puts staffers on edge. news on the future of movies and theaters as the preponderance of the evidence is predicted to drag on for much longer than previously thought.

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stupidity on full display in palm beach county. 600 floridians attending a block party this past weekend. not wearing masks, no social distancing and their behavior prompted the county chief administer to threaten a curfew. commissioner, how likely is it that a curfew will go into effect? >> well, good afternoon. nice the see you again. you know, we spoke with the county administrator yesterday, spoke with the mayors of the three cities out in the glades area, and their city managers along with law enforcement officials. we are looking at doing some outreach to the faith-based community to try to encourage people to not do this. we're discussing right now the possibility of shutting down businesses rather than trying to

do a curfew. curfew would be the last resort. but if we can't get cooperation from the community then that's what we're going to have to do. >> do you think that you would be able to enforce a curfew? >> it's a tricky situation right now when you're talking about a gathering, that big and the risk for something to go wrong. you know? law enforcement is on full alert these days and understandably so. given what we have seen happen in communities across the country. we have got to do something. the fact is that gatherings larger than ten right now are not allowed in our county. per the governor's orders. we are still only a phase one county in florida so we have issued citations. there have been a few arrests. that occurred over the weekend because of this. i hope they hear the warning and

they don't try to do it again this weekend but if we have to there will be a larger law enforcement presence. >> and a shutdown is easier than a curfew? >> the problem with a curfew is there's parts -- the cities right now, they could go ahead and issue their own curfews. the mayors are reluctant to do that. the problem with trying to do spot check curfews by the county and not the whole county, that has its own challenges and so we're trying to get the cities to take care of this situation first. i hope big brother county doesn't have to step in and do it but if the situation and what happened last weekend happens again this weekend i will indeed support the administrator's push for a full-on curfew. >> thank you so much for joining us, commissioner. >> take care. the president and his education secretary make false

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race relations is one of the many issues in the 2020 election but presumptive democratic nominee joe biden put it front and center with this blunt assessment of president trump. >> what president trump has done in going -- his spreading of racism, the way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they're from is sickening. no sitting president has never done this. never, never, never. no republican president has done this. no democratic president. we have had racists and they have existed and tried to get elected president but he's the first one that has. >> when the president was asked about biden's comments he side stepped the issue and used a

very familiar talking point. >> i say it openly and not a lot of people dispute it. i've done more for black americans than anybody with the possible exception of abraham lincoln. nobody has even been close. >> senior adviser to joe biden's presidential campaign is a former obama administration official and joining us now. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. good to see you again. >> president trump says and, yes, he does things that are racist, out in the open, things that no recent president has done, i think that's fair. but there have been many slave holders who have held the office of president. why is biden not being more accurate when he is dealing with a serious matter here that requires precision? >> yeah. so i think what the vice president meant to say, what he was saying actually was that donald trump is the first president to have purposefully,

has made racism the center of his campaign, of his administration, clearly, and when you think about the cam pan and type of campaign he runs he won on that. he seeks to divide us. deliberately enflames hate and if you think about donald trump, when he got into his business career, he denied people of color, black people, access into his buildings to get housing. when he got into the political arena, he called, he said that our first black president barack obama was not born in this country. when he started the 2016 campaign he called mexicans rapists. he saw neo-nazis marching down charlottesville and said there's fine people on both sides and recent recently tear gassed black lives matters protesters to get a photo-op. this is who donald trump is and

what he is all about. and what he is trying to do, he is trying to define joe biden in these attack ads and trying to say that, you know, joe biden is -- you can't trust joe biden. joe biden is not going to be the president that you think but it is not working because at its core people know joe biden. people trust joe biden. people understand his character. and i think that is what we're seeing the contrast that we are seeing here in this election. >> but on this issue of how joe biden described president trump, you're very familiar. it is one of the attack points to fend off. president trump made mental acuity an issue in this election cycle. doesn't it make it more important for biden to be accurate on easily verifiable points when it comes to saying this is the first racist president? >> what donald trump is trying to do is trying to distract. one of the things that you have rightfully focussed your show on

is covid-19er a and you have a president that failed in leadership coming to this current pandemic. everyo even when you think about who the pandemic affects the most -- >> i guess i'm asking if biden not being exact can be a distraction for him. >> i don't think it is a distraction. i think biden -- i tried to lay out what biden was saying about donald trump and once again what matters here is what american voters think and what they feel and they trust biden's heart. they trust his character. you see that over and over in the polling. and like i said, the whole, you know, the whole thing about testing, you know, testing who's more -- is a distraction. donald trump doesn't want to talk about his failures and that is what we have seen this. you have covered this. you have covered how over the years, these last almost four

years, when donald trump does not want to talk about something serious like the economy or like this pandemic, he pivots, to something else so we can go down that rabbit hole but the reality is and you like i said your show is leaning into this really well today, almost 4 million people in this country alone, the cases of covid-19. 140,000 americans that died in this country from covid-19 and a lot of that is because of failed leadership by donald trump. he has no plan. we have been talking about kids going back to school and how does that look like for parents? he has no plan. he wants to open up the government. he has no plan and left that at the feet of governors and state and local leaders. that is what he does not want us to talk about and the real issue and you see that in polling after polling after polling. >> so i have some questions about biden's plans.

which is part of the reason why we have you on and we took this economic address that the former vice president gave this week and he didn't take questions from the press after it which is becoming a very -- it's become a very common approach for him. why isn't he taking the questions? isn't that an essential part of running for president? >> i think he's happy to take questions. he did it two weeks ago, i believe. he had a press conference to take questions from the press and that was i think a very positive -- went very well. i don't think that's something he does not want to do. >> but i think it had been months since he had done that. >> no, that was recently. >> before, prior to that -- doesn't do it often so before that he may have done it a couple weeks ago but it's infrequent is my point. >> i gotcha. i think what joe biden is trying to do is what the campaign is trying to do is making sure that

we are making clear what our policies are, what our positions are. like your're talking about, you just said that the policy that you brought me on to talk about, build back better, it is the policy on how does the -- how do we recover? economic recovery plan. and one of the planks that we put out this week was the care economy, deals with caregivers and how families, how do we relieve the burden on working families, especially families who have children, raising children and also taking care of older citizens. and so that is the things we need to be talking about. how are we making people's lives better? what are we doing to make people's lives better in this pandemic? tens of millions of people lost the jobs and this is what joe biden is talking about for months now. he is releasing different parts of the plans to lay out what he would do as president of the united states in this moment. and he's done it before.

he's done it before with barack obama when he was the vice president and they came in and into an economy that was on a downturn and held build that back up so this is the leadership you see from joe biden. >> i hear you saying he's explaining it but i'm a former campaign reporter and i know some of the most important information to get from a candidate is when you're able to ask them questions. right? this is such an important part of it. we have so many questions about the economic plan, whether it is about his coronavirus plan. i think of coming to -- we have been talking today about those russian bounties on u.s. troops in afghanistan. he put out a statement on that but asking him questions on that would get so far. he said himself that it's a betrayal of american families who are sending their loved ones over to afghanistan or overseas. that is my family and i have questions if this is happening what is he saying to do because he says he'll confront vladimir

putin but what does that mean? specifically what does that mean and there aren't answers because we don't get to ask the questions. >> just to be clear here, every speech that he has given or every policy that he's talked about especially with this build back better plan he has talked to reporters. he has taked to reporters, local reporters in different states and so he has actually done that. he's taken questions from local reporters like i said every time that he talks about his policies so that is indeed happening. >> democrats criticize president trump for taking questions only from local reporters. you know when president obama would do that he received criticism for taking questions only from local reporters and i say that not because they don't have important questions but the reporters who are covering the campaign, who are covering the white house, they know the beat better than anybody and the ins and outs of the policies better

and they can ask important questions to pull back getting information, more information of what exactly is in this plan for instance. >> yeah. but like i said, i think that we have pretty much have had conversations with reporters, i'm on here talking to all of you. we are had surrogates across all of the different cable news networks talking to surrogates. we are in normally regularly talking to reporters and explaining the plans and bringing on our experts, policy experts who have helped write the proposals so we are out there talking to reporters pretty regularly and giving -- answering questions as well. like i said, you know, he does speak to reporters. yes, it is local reporters but they're just as critical, as important to have the conversations as well with. >> yeah. no. i'm not saying -- i promise you. i was one once.

they're important but as -- i want to hear from the vice president and national reporters do. >> i hear you. >> thank you. i know you hear me. i've said it so many times. thank you for coming on. air high fives? virtual fans? hear what to expect when and lying about testing in the u.s., calls it overrated, even though it can save lives and stop the spread of coronavirus. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪

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baseball's back and opening day is going to look different. and strict social distancing measures. no spiting, no high fives and no in the face with your umps. and tossing out the first game in the nationals game. go nats. reynolds is a two-time mlb all star. he's going to cover opening day coverage. thank you so much for coming on to talk about what i think is going to be an odd event, in a way, right? how is this going to feel for the players with no fans >> and thank you, first of all,

we're excited to be covering baseball. it will be different. they've had a few days to get used to playing without fans. i will say this and i've said this before. if there's one sport that can get used to not having fans, it's baseball. think about your high school games. how many people went to that? college, minor league ball? so, they're used to playing without fans. so, i think the experience, once they get playing, they'll fall into place and it's competitive and be a good experience, i think. but obviously, missing the fans does effect you, no doubt about it. >> that pre-recorded fan noise they're going to pump in, not a chance. like a laughing track on an old sitcom or something, right? i want to ask because there's a shortened schedule. and a lot of people have been wanting their sports. do you think this might lead to

higher ratings and benefit the sport? the higher ratings will be there because we've been sitting home in the middle of the pandemic and i also think 60 games and competitively seeing and they're working on possibly adding six more teams to the post season. you and 3012 playing for 60, a short season gives everybody a fair opportunity. so, it's going to be a lot of fun. maybe our most competitive time ever because you have over 62 games. may or june. in this case, they want to go out for six games. >> i don't know if you know but dr. fauci says he's nervous about throwing out the first pitch tonight.

so, i'm wondering what your advice is? >> if you bounce if t, you're in trouble. >> thank you so much. he'll be fine. wish him well. thank you for coming on. we're looking forward to this. new studies just in. another naming the medical conditions associate would the most serious covid cases. and alexandria ocasio-cortez, responds at the republican overheard calling her an f'ing b-word. >> having a daughter does not make a man

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