here today, sir. thank you for joining us today. stick with us. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a great day and a great weekend. i want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. today we begin with a snapshot of where america is in its fight against the pandemic. if you're angry or confused, it makes sense. the response to the pandemic by the congress and the president is a failure. more than 4 million cases, more than 143,000 lives lost, more than 50 million jobs lost since mid-march and only now dpuz it seem that president trump is kind of bowing to the reality of the pandemic. in politics, admitting you were wrong and changing the position can be difficult and admirable

but his reversible seems insincere, incomplete and wre s wreaks. he's calling masks unpatriotic. look at this with a group of kids. not socially distanced, not wearing masks. that is more in line with what he is doing for months and his dismissal of masks is well documented. >> the masks is going to be really a voluntary thing. you can do it. you don't have to do it. i'm choosing not to do it. i think wearing a face mask as i greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, i don't know, somehow i don't see it for myself. i would wear one if i thought it

was important. >> he sparked a political war over masks because of vanity. he didn't like the way they looked. he thought wearing one made him look weak by the way he mocked joe biden you can see that. he wanted to give off the impression that everything is fine and a president in a mask is a president admitting reality which trump has failed to do for months. now let's look at the approach to large gatherings. he wants credit for canceling the convention he demanded in jacksonville and that he's setting an example. >> it's really something that for me i have to protect the american people. that's what i've always done. that's what i thaualways will d. we have to be careful and set an example. i think setting the example is very important. >> but it is hard to take that seriously. for months he mocked people that follow public health protocols,

ignored safety calls blasting north carolina for raising concerns about the crowds. >> somebody was asking today, will you cancel the convention? i said, no way. we won't cancel. we have a governor that doesn't want to open up the state. and we have a date of august. end of august. the consequences are tremendous for the state. we have to know that when the people come down they will have the doors open. >> so he hastily moved the convention to jacksonville to ensure he had adoring crowds. full speed ahead until the republican sheriff spoke up this week. >> we're simply past the point of no return to execute the event safely. >> that is why the president canceled. so setting an example? this was last month in tulsa, oklahoma, as the city experienced a covid surge. >> we expect to have, you know, it is like a record-setting

crowd. never had an empty seat and we certainly won't in oklahoma. we have a 22,000-seat arena but i think we'll take the convention hall next door and hold 40,000. >> there's a hunger for the rallies. there are lines of people now and we won't be there for three days. >> i'm watching the fake news for weeks now and everything is negative. don't go. don't come. don't do anything. today it was like i've never seen anything like it. >> that rally of course was far from full. yes, he is givering in to reality a little bit only benefitting the allies and maybe the poll numbers, still peddling lies. last night he said that the u.s. is doing great. >> we're doing very well. all over the country. we have done 50 million tests. there's nobody even close in the whole world. you look at the mortality rate, the death rate, different statistics. we are doing very well. >> america is not doing well.

look at the map. look in the hospitals. hear the grieving families or listen to the president's own medical advisers. >> we are not winning the game right now. we are not leading it. >> other cities that are lagging behind that and we have new increases in miami, new orleans, las vegas, san jose, st. louis, indianapolis, minneapolis, cleveland, nashville, pittsburgh, columbus and baltimore. >> on testing, one of the keys to an adequate national response to the virus and president trump is still pushing his nonsensical lie about it. >> you find a case and it gets reported in the news. we found more cases. we'd have half the number of cases if we did 25 instead of 50. i think it is overrated. >> that is why we are in this position. a public health crisis that has also become a man-made disaster. so what's this pivot really

about? the president is trying to convince you to take the risk of fully reopening the economy, sending your kids in person to school. >> it isn't about politics but something very, very important. this is not about politics. >> it's important to note at this point the cdc did a 180 because of this pressure. today stressing that kids should go back to school and a caveat for local officials making decisions based on where they are but the president isn't known for reading the fine print and a new study this week said that children 10 and over transmit this virus like adults too. here's the task force doctor just this morning. >> what i can't tell you for sure, despite the south korea study, is whether children under 10 in the united states don't

spread the virus at the same as children over 10. i think that is still an open question that needs to be studied in the united states. we certainly know from other studies that children under 10 do get infected. it's just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus. >> yet listen to the united states secretary of education. >> i am urging all schools to be open and to be providing their students a full-time education. >> more and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they doan get it and transmit it themselves so we should be in a posture of the default to get back to schools. kids in person in the classroom. >> that is a lie. a gross misrepresentation of the data. it's no wonder that parents having trouble trusting what the people in charge say and how the president is citing northeastern states like new york, new jersey

and cueonnecticut of great examples how the u.s. is lowering the curve. >> you see from that, it's in great shape. lots of it. the northeast is very clean. the country is in very good shape other than if you look south and west. some problems. that will all work out. >> he blasted the same states are not reopening faster. in fact urks they succeeded in part because they ignored his pressure to reopen quickly. so did the president suddenly feel sorry for americans suffering? hardly. cnn reports that he was primarily motivated by the poll numbers. a senior white house official saying that the push is for women who he's struggling with in the women. not just the administration as well failing here. it's now congress. when both parties start calling the other names remember this. the senate right now is on a three-day weekend despite the

fact that relief expires today. a federal eviction moratorium expires tonight. and the senate just got back from a two-week recess: , in august taking a month off. red days they aren't in d.c. to vote in the middle of a deadly pandemic that's killing americans and taking jobs. they're leaving whether the work's unfinished and americans are struggling. front line workers didn't leave. more than 50 million americans have lost their jobs. millions more are worried their jobs might be next and stressed with working and taking care of children at the same time. they're stressed whether to spend most precious treasures into the unknown, being infected. many are infected. stressed about living to see tomorrow and the senate leaves. they're still employed. their portfolios are doing okay. the stock market which only 14% of americans are directly

invested in, not tied to a retirement account doing fine. largely they're disconnected to the reality on the ground. it doesn't resonate until it impacts them personally. case in point, listen to the form ir white house chief of staff mulvaney in february when he had a chance to make a difference as a member of the administration. >> the reason you're paying so much attention to it today is that they think that this is what brings down the president. i might tell people to turn the televisions off for 24 hours but it is not a death sentence and the same as the ebola crisis. this is something we know how to dee deal with and there's a huge panic in the market. why not every single year over flu? because so many people get it. we are the best country in the world prepared to do this. we have been preparing for years. will you see some schools shut down in probably.

may you see impacts on public transportation? sure. we know how to handle this. and so that's one of the thing that is you -- that's the message you try to get out. there are professionals that are handling this. >> fast forward to july. he's out of the administration but finally spoke up to call out this disaster when it impacted his own family because he said his son had to wait five to seven days for test results and his daughter wanted to get tested before visiting her grandparents but didn't qualify. let's dive deeper now into the new cdc guidelines for reopening schools as they push hard fehr students to return to the classroom. they throw in an asterisk there. areas with a surge should consider closing schools to in-person instruction. an english teacher at guire high school in denton, texas, dallas area. thank you for being with us.

texas is a top five state in the nation for total cases as well as new daily cases and we spoke a week and a half ago and you had major fears of returning to the classroom. do these new guidelines make you feel better about going back? >> thank you so much for having me, brianna. no, not exactly. so a quick update on the texas education agency. since last time we spoke, last time we spoke the t t.e.a. man dating a face to face instruction. since then they have relaxed that and given more decision making power to the local levels and specifically to county health officials. in denton county where i live, according to georgia tech's covid-19 risk assessment tool that they have online, a lot of people have been using, there's

currently an 88% chance of encountering the virus in a gathering of 100 people in the county where i live. that's already up 9% from last week. and schools as we know are much, much larger than that. even just counting the teachers there, my school has over 200 teachers. the county officials, health officials in denton are at the moment declining to make a judgment one way or the other and what they're saying specifically is that because the counties around us specifically dallas county, tarrant county, they have higher levels of risk than we do and saying it's appropriate to hold off on making the decision but like i teach my kids every year when we are -- when we get to "hamlet" choosing not to choose and make a decision is still a decision and that can lead to a disastrous outcome. >> no, that's a very good point. right? decision by indecision.

so as you're looking at that, do you trust what the cdc is telling you? >> it's really hard to trust what seems like a political move rather than one that's based on science. and it's also difficult to trust that people are going to be interpreting what they're saying. you were talking earlier about soft things in the fine print there that people have been overlooking. something else in the fine print of the cdc's new guidelines is saying critical and the word they used is critical that administrators take whatever steps they can to mitigate the spread of the virus including social distancing but that is lost in the conversation because returning to school face to face as districts are on track to do is not going to be possible to do that. >> and if i can just ask you before we part and hopefully we'll speak again soon because this will keep progressing, wlld

you normally reopen the school year as you wait to see what is going to happen? you don't know what will happen. when would that normally occur? >> this is -- this is a very unprecedented situation. right? our school district, a lot of them in texas and this is something that t.e.a. allowed, push back the start date. ordinarily we would be going back middle of august. currently it's set for august 26th. teachers report back at the same time. you know? for various reasons. we need to be trained on how to be prepared for any number of things that might come up. >> yeah. wow. august 26th. that is just right around the corner to not have questions answered. we wish you luck and will check in with you. thank you. >> thank you so much. just in, some new revelations about the long-term impact of the virus and what happened to people two, three

weeks after the positive test. plus, dozens of leading health experts say it's time for the u.s. to shut down again and start over. one will join me live. 75% of i.c.e. detainees test positive in virginia. this is cnn's special live coverage. are you a christian author with

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white house response coordinator birx said she is beginning to cases plateau in texas, california, arizona and florida and dr. anthony fauci working with birx on the white house task force said that states can get the outbreaks under control. >> in the states that have been trying to open, particularly the southern states which have gotten into trouble, i would say the first thing is you don't necessarily have to go all the way back to a complete shutdown. but you certainly have to call a pause and maybe even a backing up a bit. what my advice would be, timeout and maybe go back to a prior check point and from that point try to proceed in a very measured, prudent way according to the guidelines. >> more than 150 top medical experts, nurses and teachers are warning it is time to shut down the country again. to start over they say and this time to do it right and sent a

letter to trump administration and others urging the shutdown as virus cases soar past 4 million and joining me now is one of the experts who signed the letter, dr. seth truger in chicago. the cdc issues guidelines in favor of reopening schools. what are people supposed to believe at this point seeing the mixed messages? >> you know, i certainly understand that this is very difficult for a lot of people. this is a new situation for nearly all of us. this is an unprecedented, historic pandemic but unfortunately we are seeing what we are doing isn't working. the patchwork of partial shutdowns, partial activity and pushes to return to open is not working and what i'm very concerned about is a lot of places that have been through pretty big curves like chicago where we were hit badly in march and april will see it hurt bad again. >> i want to listen to what dr.

fauci said this morning an enthen discuss this. >> i don't think it's necessary to do that. you know? it might come to that but right now i think if you look at what's going on in some of the southern states, particularly, having the resurging of cases, you can put a pause on what you are doing or even maybe take a step back. if certain of the states or cities are in a phase two of the guide leans of opening america again, you might want to either pause or go back to phase one or if you're in phase one go back to the gateway component of the guideline so i'm not so sure you need to all of a sudden everybody go back to a complete lockdown. it could come do that. you have to leave it on the table but i think we can probably get around what we're doing now and put a lid on it. >> so what do you make of that?

he says it's not necessary to do that, to have a shutdown. but he is still talking about pausing or dialing it back in certain areas. >> it is really tough. i have a ton of respect for dr. fauci doing great work under incredibly difficult circumstances. it's, however -- what we are seeing is partial measures don't seem to be working well and part is fatigue and dealing with this for months and months and really hard to ask people to make sacrifices such a long time especially when it's an abstract threat to most people. >> it is not welcome for people saying that there needs to be a shutdown and part of that is because they've been through it but the reality is that it was also largely squandered. right? the shutdown was largely squandered. so how would you do another shutdown and do it differently

so that that time is not squandered? i don't know if people have the appetite for doing this all over again? they won't have the appetite for doing it a third time. >> right. yeah. the way i think about it is it's not a question of a second or third time but that we are doing some measure for years if we don't do it right. i'm not sure that we need to shutdown completely. again, looking at what we are doing it is not working and for me a painful thing of what's going on is went through some of the worst parts in chicago and now hearing the same expeengss in other places that are now only in the last few weeks hit and the same stories. not enough ppe. not enough icu capacity and testing capacity. you know? what seems to be very little test and trace capacity for trying to stamp down individual outbreaks. we have been doing this for months and barely made any progress and what we can do and it's terrible. >> yeah.

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the cdc has just release add new study showing just how much we have to learn about the coronavirus. it found that it can cause prolonged illness even among young adults who have no chronic underlying conditions. i want to bring in jaclyn howard to talk about this. this kind of hues to the anecdotal things we have been hearing from young people who have been -- you know, long haulers, dealing with symptoms for months. tell us more about this.

>> yeah. this study done in patients not even hospitalized. this study outpatients with mild illness so that adds to our understanding of this disease. but overall this study involved telephone interviews with more than 200 outpatient covid-19 patients. they had mild illness. researchers called them asking them about the recovery and how they were doing two to three weeks after they tested positive for covid and the study found that 35% of the patients were still on their path to recovery two to three weeks later so they were still having some symptoms and among the most common symptoms that they were experiencing is cough, fatigue and shortness of breath but what really stood out to me, brianna, the age range here. so here's a breakdown of the age of these patients who were still having some symptoms.

the study found that you will see here 26% of the patients for ages 18 to 24, 32%, 35 to 49 and 47% for ages 50 and older. so, you know what really stood out here among the younger patients some them still had symptoms two to three weeks later and this shows this is a persistent disease. >> that's amazing. seems to show you if you're under 25 you have this 1 in 4 chance of having those continued symptoms. under 50 looking at -- under 35. but under 50 it is 1 in 2 chance and pretty eye opening. jacqueline, thank you for that. texas recorded the second highest single day death toll, 173 people died from covid complications in texas thursday following 197 deaths on

wednesday. the rising number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in texas are now forcing stay-at-home orders in some counties there. ed lavandera has more on that as we check in with covid-19 headlines across the country. >> reporter: i'm ed lavandera. there's another sign this morning that the rio grande valley of texas is a troubling hotspot here in texas. leaders in star county with a shelter in place order to get the coronavirus spread under control. remember, neighboring hi dahlda with a similar order described as a tsunami of coronavirus cases but a point of contention in state and local officials. the governor said local authorities don't have the power to issue these kinds of orders. >> reporter: i'm stephanie elam in los angeles where more than half of the deaths in the state of california have happened here in this county.

this as california has hit a record number of deaths reported in one day of 157. we also saw a very high number of cases reported in a day, 12,040, second highest number behind yesterday's and also looking at the da ta here in lo angeles county, hospitalizations above 2,200 and positivity stabilize at a higher level than we like to see at 10%. >> reporter: in washington, d.c. keeping an eye on an i.c.e. detention in virginia where 75% of detainees tested positive for covid-19. when you talk to add voluntary katds and lawyers they tell that they believe it's transfer of detainees from arizona and florida but asking i.c.e. they say they're not deliberately transferring those testing positive and adding more hand washing stations, providing masks and recently they're

beginning comprehensive testing. >> reporter: in new york, actor mel gibson hospitalized for a week after testing positive for covid-19. a representative for the actor tells cnn that this took place in april. he was hospitalized in los angeles and treated with remdesivir and since tested negative and joins a growing list of high-profile people with the virus including tom hanks, pink and many others. >> thank you so much to my colleagues for the updates there. a judge ruling the trump administration retaliated against michael cohen, a move that sent him back to prison. plus, homeland security officials admit falsehood to expel new york residents. in the case of an armed couple in missouri, a prosecutor getting death threats since the president intervened in the case. she is next.

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the self-declared law and order president has explaining to do over the interpretation of the law. the former personal attorney motor vehicle is released from federal custody today and

returning to home confinement after a federal judge found the government sent cohen to prison in retaliation of a tell-all book about the president and then trump's businesses. this week we learned a government watchdog investigating allegations against trump put pressure on the barmes to the uk to bring the british open tournament to turn resort in scotland. it is a claim that the president denies. there's the department of homeland security admitting to makes false claims in court documents. the depts disclosed incac rat statements to defend the decision to block new york residents from participating in trusted traveler programs including the global entry program. the ban was in response to a new york law protecting the information of undocumented immigrants applying for driver's licenses. the dhs made the admission on the same day announcing rescinding the block on new york residents. governor cuomo called for an

investigation. >> you cannot use government for political exploitation. news flash! it's called government. you can't play politics with government. you can't use the department of justice as a political tool. you can't use the department of homeland security as a political tool. it doesn't work that way. it is not just not right and unethical and immoral. it is illegal. it's illegal! >> the st. louis prosecutor who filed felony weapons charges against a couple caught on tape waving the guns at peaceful protests last month says she is targeted by her governor and president trump. both governor mike parson and the president criticized kim gardiner pursuing the case against mathem. it's prompted more than 60 state

and federal prosecutors to issue a statement defending gardiner and condemning the political attacks but she says ever since the president got involved she is the victim of racist attacks and death threats and kim gardiner is joining us for an exclusive interview. thank you so much for being with us, kim. please tell us how things changed once the president involved himself in this case. tell us about the threats. >> it's been disheartening and been a racial motivated sexist attack on myself as the local elected prosecutor. i have had people leave messages on my car. say i should be strung up on a tree and hung by the kkk and others say they can't wait to see a bullet in my head and disturbing that the president and the senator in my state and the attorney general and the governor seek to stroke the rhetoric of fear and racial decide in our country as well as the state of missouri.

>> and now you are investigating but there was obviously a question of whether you would. and i wonder if things have -- did you see things escalate when the president got involved. >> of course it escalated because it was a political pandering to distract from the failed atertempts of addressing the real issue and the covid-19 pandemic that the president and others in the state like the governor and the attorney general have failed to address so it's political pandering to distract from the real issues of what's going on, covid-19 pandemic. >> and how does this impact the case? >> well, this case is treated like every other case. you know? i cannot speak to an open case but what it does is it brings into question the powerful few what want to chime in on facts

and circumstances. they have no interworkings of the day-to-day investigation of this case and of course i can't comment on that but we never, my office never brings any charges on a case we're not confident to prove at trial. >> governor parson, your state's governor, asked this week if he would pardon the couple and this is what he said. >> without a doubt, sean. i'll do everything within the constitution of the state of missouri to protect law abiding citizens and they're that and attacked by a political process that's really unfortunate. it is a sad day for us here in missouri. >> what's your reaction to that? >> it's a sad day that a governor to use political pandering to inject himself in the elected officials' prosecutors elected duty to investigate criminal activity in the jurisdiction so it's

disheartening and a dangerous proposition that the state is going into and the president and people that support this type of usurping the will of the people for that elected official and to do his or her job. >> the republican senator of your state josh holly is calling on the justice department to investigate how you have handled this case. he say that is the couple were simply exercising second amendment rights. are you concerned about a possible investigation? >> first of all, i'm concerned that the senator who has a law license would actually call for an investigation when this is not about a second amendment right. this is about an elected prosecutor doing their job, what they do every day without fan fare or political pandering and evaluate criminal activity in the jurisdiction and prosecutors have that discretion and it is

unfortunate that the senator needs to weigh in on the covid-19 response to the state of missouri and bring resources so we can have adequate testing as well as adequate response to help the people that are losing our lives every day. the governor the same thing. he should be worried about how the response of lack of testing, contact tracing in our state as well as resources to help support the essential workers fighting every day and people in the state of missouri who are dying at an alarming rate and needs to have the attention as political pander and distract from the real attention. the failed leadership on every level of government in terms of that response to this deadly virus. >> as we go through this, the senator, the governor, the president, we realize, you know, just how many officials are weighing in on this case in missouri. and you know, that's a lot. i wonder, you know, how concerned are you for your safety?

>> i'm concerned for not just my safety. from the safety of the community. when you stroke the fears of racial divisiveness that we know exists in not just the state but the country you have many people saying enough is enough. enough is enough to the systemic racism that we know exists in the criminal justice system but to have people who want to use political pandering to stroke that fear, to stroke the divide when we should be coming together to address the issues of the covid-19 pandemic calls into question whether they're competent for the job they have and it calls into question do they have the will to do what's right and that means to stand up for right regardless of what political party you are associated with, to stop the divide and to bring people together at the time of the greatest need that we see around this country as well as in a state of missouri. >> kim, thank you for being with us. st. louis circuit attorney, we appreciate your, kim gardner.

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wearing a mask is now mandatory for all shoppers in the uk. while the new rule has widespread supports, most british residents say they don't wear masks. anna stewart has the story. >> reporter: from today it has become mandatory in england to wear a face covering in shops, airports, train stations and post offices. failure will result in a fine of $125. enforcement is expected to be lax. some retailers have said they will not be pleasing this themselves. and police forces in the country have said they will not be on face mask patrol. they will only intervene as a matter of last resort. the latest poll shows 9 out of 10 support the new rule, but only 3 of 10 currently wear the face masks. a heartbreaking situation in texas. doctors are deciding who gets treatment and who is sent home

to die. plus, dr. sanjay gupta takes us to ground zero inside the place cameras are not allowed to go, the hospital. this is cnn's special live coverage.

it's the top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar. lock down the country and start over again. that is the written plea for more than 150 doctors, scientists, nurses, urging political leaders to institute new stay-at-home orders as the pandemic continues to dominate the u.s. six months after the country's first-known case. they're reporting more than 1,000 covid deaths in the last 24 hours. this is the fourth day in a row we've seen this. at this hour, u.s. cases exceed 4 million.