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the national honor society this year. she was making plans for college and wanted to study interior design. she had no underlying health conditions, it is unclear how she contracted the virus. her family said she wasn't feeling well and found her unconscious in the bathroom. they called 911, tried to administer cpr, but she never woke up. she died at the hospital. she was just 17 years old. that's it for us. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." anderson, thank you very much. take a look at this. what the president did in texas today. you see this? this is why they don't like you, mr. president. nobody wants to see you entertaining the maskless masses, let alone in texas. the people in that state are getting sick in waves. they are setting all the wrong kinds of records. and you do this? i know you heard what i said last night, and i know you
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didn't like it, but someone has to be straight with you. this shameful inaction by you on this pandemic is making us sick and it is killing you politically. so, you're wondering why people don't like you compared to tony fauci, and then you go to texas with no mask, in a state that is being savaged by this pandemic, and you encourage them to do the worst things for them. no masks, not socially distanced. and you know they're there and doing it that way, because they think that's what you want. they're doing the worst things for them, and you encourage it. and the key is for them. because brothers and sisters, the truth is this, he allowed them to act this way. he encouraged it. because even though it is bad for them and he knows it, he thinks it is good for him. but he's wrong. this kind of cavalier attitude, this kind of selfishness,
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this kind of reckless indifference to human life is killing him in the polls. and if he isn't careful, mr. president, this casual covid vibe may make usyk literally. did you know that covid almost boarded his plane today? a congressman who almost hitched a ride on air force one just tested positive. another republican set to meet with trump tested positive, as well. texas republican louie gohmert, who likes to cast doubt on the merit of masks, and is often seen without one, now has coronavirus. of course, trump doesn't have to worry the way you or i would. why? he gets tested regularly, he gets results quickly. he makes sure that happens for him. he just won't fight for that for you. think about that. no plan, no demand. his boy gohmert was struck stupid by the virus, apparently.
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he nonsensicly blames the mask for giving him covid. >> i can't help but think if i hadn't been wearing a mask so much in the last ten days or so, i really wonder if i would have gotten it, but i know, you know, moving the mask around, getting it just right, i'm bound to have put some virus on the mask that i sucked in. that's most likely what happened. >> no, that is not most likely what happened. what that is is dumb on display right there. just yesterday, gohmert was on the hill, walking behind attorney general bill barr, both without masks on. oh, i've been wearing it so much. yeah, just not every time you're seen in public. barr had to get tested today. and we just learned the result came back negative, thank god. we do not need our leaders sick, okay?
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and i hope it stays that way. no mask wearing is contagious among the noncourageous. congressman jim jordan, another republican who wants to please the president, had to be reminded today to put his on. look at this. >> mr. bezos, our investigation -- >> mr. chairman, we have the email, there is no -- >> excuse me, it's not your time. >> you do not have the time. please be respectful of your colleagues. >> someone directly -- >> she controls the time. >> put your mask on. >> when someone -- >> put your mask on. >> many in the grand old party are refusing to wear masks. again, they think this is done in support of the president. because there's this perverse rationale going on that the pandemic is bad. and it's bad for the president. that's why it's bad, not because it's bad for all of us. and it's all political. i mean, come on.
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and by the way, they will only hurt this president, because he will be seen as the sponsor of their stupidity. and apparently, there is no cure for stupid, because even after being told that the ravings he retweeted about this magic pill came from someone who believes in demon seed and alien sex, trump still backs this lady. >> the doctor, do you wish you had not retweeted that? >> i was very impressed with her and other doctors that stood with her. she is a very respected doctor. >> she is not a very respected doctor and you know it. how can you be impressed with somebody who says the kind of crazy things that she says? he can't be. ignorance meet arrogance. that's what it is with him, this deadly combination. you know he can't respect this doctor. he just likes what she said about hydroxychloroquine and he
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is willing to dismiss everything else, everything else, because he likes that message. but he doesn't like it enough to manifest the message and policy, does he? does he? they supposedly stockpiled all this hydroxychloroquine. why isn't he demanding that it be distributed? why isn't he telling the people who work for him to do the testing right now everywhere around the country? vet this drug. i think it's the cure. why doesn't he do it? because the message is all that matters. that's the part that's good for him. carrying it out, meh. if i want it, i could get it. i took it. that's the truth. forget about you. he doesn't care. so, he'll fight this fight about hydroxychloroquine, but he won't do anything to get it to you. think about that. well, they bought a lot of it. and? does he talk about this every day?
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except in these absurd ways? he doesn't need this doctor telling him that you need hydroxychloroquine, you have the greatest scientists in the world. have them do it. the science hasn't been coming back good. say you don't believe it. commission your own study. do it. instead, all window dressing. and it's not just him. i get when you say, look, just ignore him, he's just noise. no. he's not just noise. he is why we're not having any plans made. mike pence is his echo. the head of the coronavirus task force. who did he meet with yesterday? some of the doctors in that local video, with the one with the science fiction lady. a video that was removed from social media for misinformation. you want to debate if the tape should have been removed? i'll have it. that's not the main point for me. the main point is the substance of it, and it's being relied on by our president.
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we just surpassed 150,000 deaths in this country. we have never in history had a president fail to take a lead in a crisis like this. he looked you in the face and said, i take no responsibility for what's happening with testing. the vice president heads the task force, he's meeting with people, pushing a magic pill, instead of making a plan to help schools open. instead of making a plan to get the testing and the turnaround he promised months ago. there will be tests for everybody, there will be results, it will be easy. none of that is true. the call remains the same. we must be in this together as ever as one. we must do the things that we know we can do. we must socially distance. we must wear our masks. and we must be hygiene-obsessed. we can do that. you can do it, i can do it. but we must also force power to
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account for what they do and do not do, and that starts with us having the right information. what needs to be done right now, and by whom? okay. we can answer that. we have dr. ashish jah of the global harvard health institute. welcome back to "prime time." so, what needs to be done right now and by who on the federal level to man any fest itself in a way that gets us back to school and work any time soon? >> chris, thank you for having me on. you're absolutely right. most americans are not interested in this debate -- there's not much of a debate on hydroxychloroquine. what they want to know is, how do they get kids back to school, how do they get jobs back, how do they get some semblance of their life back? and that's where we really do need federal leadership. we're leaving it to states and local communities. we know what we need to do. we need to suppress the virus. we have to fix testing.
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we have to maintain a certain amount of social distancing. we have to keep bars and restaurants closed. >> but how? what does the federal government need to do that they're not doing? >> well, first and foremost, actually, what's really interesting about the federal is that it is speaking out of both sides of its mouth. on one hand, you have people like dr. fauci and dr. birx giving good advice. >> they have no juice. they have no juice. they can't direct dollars in any real way. >> correct. >> they can't make a strategy. it has to be the president. i know people saying nore hiign, he's ignorant. he's the key to everything. >> he is. the president is undermining the message of his own scientific leaders. at the end of the day, they can't be effective if the political leaders, the president, the vice president and others, don't back their own scientists, that's not what's happening. that's why there's so much confusion and that's why so many
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states are struggling. >> message matters, of course, what could the federal government do to get more pool testing and faster reaction times? is that a fantasy or could they do things to accelerate them? >> no, chris, we have the technology now. we have a whole set of new testing capabilities that can give results in 15 minutes or half an hour. those tests exist today. the federal gove could partner with those companies, ramp up production and make sure there are tens of mfl millions of tho tests available around the country within weeks. this is not a fantasy. we've got that now. the federal government just has to decide they're going to make testing available to the american people. they haven't made that decision and that's what's so frustrating. >> ordinarily, we say haste makes waste, right? do it right so you don't do it twice. you say testing is different. that speed actually matters more than accuracy. help us understand that, because people are frustrated that the quick tests are inaccurate, so what the hell worth are they?
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what's your argument? >> there are new tests that are maybe not quite as accurate as the one we're using right now, but they're cheap, they're available, you get results back in 15 minutes. so, here's the bottom line. right now, so few people can get tested in america. you have to wait ten days. it's borderline useless. if we use the new tests, even if they are not as accurate, you are going to capture 80% of people who have it. people can test themselves at home. we, if we made that available, we could drive this epidemic down and we could bury it and get very low level of cases, opening up our schools. we have to decide that's something we are going to prioritize. >> all right, so, let's say he did. instead of what's on the lower third of our screen right now, which is the most embarrassing thing, trump promotes fringe alien dna doctor as covid-19 deaths top 150,000. let's say he gets struck by lightning and says, i got to fix this. i got to own this.
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the states aren't going to get it done, this will win me the election, i'm going to go all-in right now. how does he get those tests? >> you got to sit down with the companies. you got to invoke the defense production act. what are the supplies those companies need? you have to get other companies to make those supplies. you have to fix the supply chain. the pentagon does this all the time, by the way, so, there are people who have real expertise in this. and we have the technology to make millions of those tests in weeks, not months. we can get this out to people my mid-august. late august -- >> you've been consulted about this all the time. you talk to people in government all the time. when you say this, because it's said by a lot of guys on the smart side of this, what do they say to you about why it's not happening? >> first of all, when i talk to folks in congress, they all agree, republicans and democrats, they all agree this is doable and that it should be done. what they're not so sure about is whether the administration is actually going to execute on it or not. and whether what we need to do
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at this point is maybe just give it to states and hope that states can figure it out. it's going to be hard for states to figure it out on their own. i do think we need the federal government fighting this pandemic 50 states at a time has been a huge challenge for our nation. >> right. >> hey, quick thing. what's the chance that gohmert's mask made him sick? >> it doesn't make him sick. this is sort of like the testing causes infections, now the masks are causing infections. this is silliness. and, in the middle of a pandemic, things are hard enough. and these kinds of distractions make fighting this pandemic so much harder. people need to wear masks. masks don't cause people to get infected. we need more testing, testing doesn't cause people to get infected. we know our way through this, we just have to focus on what's important. >> now, before i tell the audience to believe anything you've said, you haven't fooled around with any aliens lately, have you? >> no in the last few weeks, no. no. >> all right. well, if anything after ten days, we don't have to worry
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about it. doctor, thank you. what's ridiculous is, the president is listening to her more than he's listening to us right now, more than he's listening to tony fauci. that's when the laughs turn into tears. thank you very much. appreciate you giving this straight deal. the more people know, the more they can demand. now, house speaker pelosi just announced a new mandatory mask policy on the hill after congressman gohmert tested positive. why did it take so long? why isn't she more loud and proud about these kinds of tests that dr. jha was just talking about? fair criticism. now, on the republican side, will they comply? when so many are resisting out of political favor? even for their own safety. here to help us get in the mind-set of the gop mask resistance, some sensible party members, next. this is a tempur-pedic mattress.
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you know that elected officials saying to you that masks don't matter or masks can make you sick, you know it's b.s., right? you've known for a long time. so, the question has to be, why are they saying this? and why is it all coming from the republican party? it certainly can't be based in science. so, let's talk about why this is being politicized this way and what we can do about it. let's bring in a couple of longtime gop leaders. john kasich and pennsylvania's
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charlie dent. good to see you both. i'm glad you're healthy. the best to your families. >> thanks, chris. >> thank you. >> simple question. gov, what the hell is going on with republicans who don't want to wear masks and see it as some kind of show of strength? >> you know, i was talking to my wife and she said, look, john, i don't like when the government has to tell me what to do, but you know, this is science. this is not like the government telling me to paint my house pink. this is science that's telling me that not only do you have to be responsible, of course, for myself, but i have to be responsible for others. so, chris, you know, i guess one way we can yell at them and tell them, you know, they're crazy or they're wrong, or maybe we just say to them, look, you just can't hurt other people. and there's personal responsibility. that's like a republican hallmark, right? personal responsibility. personal responsibility not to hurt somebody else. and it's ideology that's crept
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into science, and when that happens, this is what we end up with. and it's -- it's nuts is what it is, chris, as you know. somebody that had it, you know how tough it is. >> listen, i -- it's still tough. my big fear is that a year from now, we won't have the same kind of cases, but people are going to have all these funky ailments in the aftereffect that they would have never had to have had if we had just been smarter about it. that's my lament. that's fueling my urgency. i don't want people to go through what i went through. charlie, a lot of guys are seeing this mask as a scarlet letter. if you wear a mask, it pisses off trump. there's reporting out there that people have been told, don't wear masks, man, he doesn't like it. >> yeah, it's -- the whole thing is idiotic. what's happened here is both reckless and unsurprising. it's like saying -- we all wear our seat belts because it's in the public interest. nobody hops in a car without putting on a seat belt. motorcycle helmets don't cause helmet injuries, either.
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unfortunately, congressman gohmert has a history of defying. this is not surprising. john boehner said that louie wasn't operating with a functional brain. louie shouldn't try to prove him right. >> where did you get his brain from, it was a woman, abby something. abby something? abby normal. do you remember that from "young frankenstein?" you had covid also, charlie. you don't want people to go through what we went through. let me get a take on this from both of you guys before we go. the president is talking up this crazy doctor now, because he believes in hydroxychloroquine. but john, if he believed in the drug, why doesn't he talk about it all the time and commission a study to vet it so that he can
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put it out there? why doesn't he operationalize his interest? and why doesn't he own a plan and a strategy here the way you would and charlie, you would, if it were in your wheelhouse? >> well, i mean, i can't explain it other than this, chris -- we have now breached 150,000 deaths. so, the question is, had we, from the beginning, not called it a hoax, had we, from the beginning, said, we're going to wear masks, we're going to socially distance, we're going to wash our hands and we're all going to do it, where would we be today if we had been that aggressive? and that's the tragedy. and how many people have been affected? and you're right about the fact about what happens later to the organs, were they damaged? there were so many missed opportunities here to get it right. and frankly, it's why the voters in this country now are turning away from him, those who were lock city for him are now saying, they don't think so.
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and a lot of it is connected to this and connected to the economy and connected to race. and i don't know how he gets out of this spot, to tell you the truth. >> well, there's still time, john, and charlie, that's the point. voting starts in october, not really december. you have a couple of months here. and these things turn if the right things are done. what would it take for people in your party to go to home and say, you're going to kill us with this, and we need a plan on testing and we need a plan to help these states with schools. is there any chance the party goes to him, it's not just about you. you're going to kill us with this. >> well, it seems like to me we're long past that time. it would be really helpful if members would go into the president and say, your behavior, the way you conducted yourself during this covid, without a serious national plan, by dismissing the seriousness of this whole issue, has caused problems for all of us politically. the covid response, which is
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contributing to the economic decline and, of course, the civil unrest. these three things -- i said the cake is largely baked. you're not going to change the president. he's just got to take this tough seriously and lead. but his communications on this has been absolutely atrocious for all these months. he has all these experts around him who he's keeping from the public and how hard is it to allow your experts to stand there on television and make the case and tell white house we should be doing? this isn't hard. but it is for this president. he just doesn't have any message. >> chris -- >> last word, john. >> one other point here. when you think about, who are these people that won't wear masks? that's who these republicans are afraid of. they're afraid that all those people are going to be against them. but we're not talking about politics here. we're talking about science, we're talking about health. we're talking about our neighbors and our families. and, you know, it's a shame and we're going to look back on this time and i don't know what the party is going to do going
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forward. it's going to be, well, we'll see what happens after november. it's going to be interesting. but it's a sad time in our country. there's too much fighting. you've said it right, we have to come together. and we're running out of time with this guy, this president, we're going to have an election and then we're going to see. >> the key is the we. i tell you this, charlie, get strong. john, enjoy yourself now, make any money you want to, because the party is going to come to both of you and ask you to get back in the game. remember i said it. i can't wait to ask you what you're going to do when the latest news cycle has you both back in the game. be well, the best to your families and thank you for your perspective. >> thanks, chris. states are still waiting for federal help. you heard that, from republicans, they're being forced to wait, because the president doesn't want to lead in a time of crisis. and after all that trump bluster about the need for the feds to help quash protests in portland, guess what? mayor wheeler on the show last night, he was right. the feds have agreed to pull out. now, there are conditions. but if it's such an emergency, how can they leave?
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federal forces pulling back in portland. how far back? depends on who you ask. the governor says they're leaving town. the acts dhs secretary says they're sticking around just in case. the president says nonsense like this. >> either they're going to clean up portland soon or the federal government is going up and we're going to do it for them. the governor and the mayor, who are weak, either they clean up portland or we go in to do it for them. >> i'll tell you what's weak. creating a false crisis and ignoring a real one. the idea that he's cleaning out portland is garbage.
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we're talking about a single city block. here's what the federal courthouse looked like a week ago. there was already graffiti. but otherwise it was fine. here's what it looks like today. there's still a lot of graffiti. now there's a barricade. all right? as for whether it was worth it, consider in the weeks the feds were in charge, they beat up and pepper-sprayed a navy veteran we had on the show. they gassed the mayor. they gassed a bunch of moms. they snatched an american citizen off the street and eroded trust in our democracy and definitely amped up the protests. this is not what these men and women signed up for. i feel badly for these federal officials and agents. the tactical team sent to portland work for i.c.e. and customs and border protection, they should be doing their jobs where it matters. not here doing the bidding for trump. in other words, they were pulled away from securing the border.
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i thought that matters, mr. president. a place where this president's practice of claiming credit for a mess he started is still playing out. the humanitarian crisis on the southern border, we've shown you on this program, and shame on me, shame on you, we don't give a damn, do we? even as crossings are up the last two months. for all the b.s. about the wall being a panacea, we're a wall away. crossings are still higher than they were in trump's first year. again, every politician plays to advantage, but no president is as grotesque in doing it as this. this man creates conflict just to claim credit for solving it by finishing and letting things get back to norm am, where it was before he created the trouble. kids in cages. stoking tension in north korea. having to bail out farmers because of his own trade war. shutting down the government three times, a pattern you'll
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see play out when it comes to the recent spike in homicides around the nation. i'm telling you, cleveland, detroit, milwaukee, the latest to learn, a so-called surge of federal agents is coming their way. how do you think the federal agents stop homicides, by the way. what is this, cowboys and indians? it's setting the stage for him to claim a win this fall, just in time for the election, when homicides normally drop after summer spikes. wait for it. what we need is more federal action on covid. it's a real crisis. what's the plan for schools being told to reopen? one of the nation's biggest teachers unions warns, teachers may go on strike if they're forced into unsafe conditions and that's what's happening. we have the president here of the union. and a mom who is facing what so many of us across the country are. her call for action, both of their sides, next.
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not met. meanwhile, republicans want to tie federal school funding to reopening in the next stimulus bill. so, what could all this mean for our kids? joining us now is randi we weingarten and tina carroll. she's the parent calling for schools in her colorado district to offer some kind of in-classroom instruction. welcome to you both, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, chris, thank you, tina. >> randi, what is the chance that the teachers go on strike? >> so, i don't -- so, as you know, chris, i worked on your brother's reopening plan and i think in new york, you'll see a lot of schools reopening. i think in new jersey, you'll see, you know, you'll see some schools reopening, some not. colorado, i think you'll see some, some not. but i think in places with that
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surge, like florida, texas, arizona, i think you'll see people saying, there's no way we can reopen schools when we have huge community spread, no testing and no resources for any of the safeguards that are needed. >> quick follow-up question to you, and then i want to turn to tina for a second. why am i wrong to hate the hybrid model? which is where kids go to class a couple of days and home a couple of days. i see it at the worst of both worlds. that you create chaos for us at home figuring out how to balance work and school and then they go to school and they get exposed. so why is the hybrid so popular? >> so, the hybrid is popular for only one reason, which is that we feel like we need to see our kids. and that kids have to have some
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way of relating to each other and not be as socially isolated as they've been. it's not just about feeding kids, we could do grab and goes while you're still in remote. there are a lot of kids that have not been able to -- you know, to have what they needed in remote, but that's separate and apart from the child care issues. we really need to have a parallel child care system so that remote -- so that hybrid is not a substitute for child care. >> well, that comes to the federal plan. tina, this is right in your wheelhouse. you got a 6-year-old kid, she needs the socialization, but you need to figure out how you balance making money to take care of the kid and being there for the kid because now she can't go to school. do you believe your state is going to be able to find a way through this? >> you know, to be honest, i don't know what my son is going
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to do. it really puts me between a rock and a hard place. i'm an essential employee, i must go to work every day for my livelihood. if the schools don't reopen, i really don't know what i'm going to do at this point. i mean, at night, i'm fighting back tears, trying to figure out a plan for a single working parent. i just don't know what to do at this point. i have to depend on my community at this point to help me. >> and there is no help coming. and that's why the federal government has to step up. you're going to have pay for home care for your kid to be somewhere that you can't do on your own right now. fair point? >> fair. i think that's a fair point to say. but i'm really hoping that my district and the state of colorado is going to pull together, as we've been standing through this entire time together and i have confidence in them, that we're going to
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come up with a plan that's going to help critical and essential employees. >> what is the hardest part for you as a mom dealing with this emotionally? >> that i feel like i'm being -- i'm being asked to make a choice between my child and my job. and my career, one i've looked forward to working in for years. i enjoy getting up and going to work every day. i enjoy seeing my child go to school and really develop and grow. and i think right now, i'm being asked to pick between the two. i'm being torn. >> randi, what do you say to this mom and what do you say to the federal government? >> so, to this mom, i wish we were not physically distant and i wish we could create the child care that you need that, frankly, we created in new york and in other places for essential workers. we cannot put people in this situation of this choice between
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their job, safety for their kids and teachers and, frankly, that is where i blame the federal government. the federal government should have been giving us this funding since april. you know, chris, we put this plan out in april about how to reopen schools safely, we need the funding to do that, and we need the funding to create these safeguards and we need funding for parents like tina to have child care for essential workers. >> randi, thank you for fighting for teachers. >> i want someone to educate, not just child care -- for me, it's more personal. these are the fundamental years for my child. he's only going to first -- >> 6, yes. >> absolutely. >> you are absolutely right. >> we totally agree with you. >> so, tina, let's do this. we got to keep pushing those in power to do the right thing by families and by moms like you, but i'll tell you one thing your son has going for him already. he's got a mother that's willing to work like crazy and to fight
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for him. and you can't put a price on that. and we are happy to get out your story and we will fight your fight. tina carroll, god bless, randi weingartner, keep fighting for the teachers. we'll be here covering the story. if you had any question about what the pandemic means to the election, the numbers are in. the wizard of oz is processing them. we are seeing something we've never seen in an election of a one-term president before. next.
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let's take it to the wizard of odds, harry enten. harry, give me three reasons to believe that the president really is in trouble. >> i'll give you four reasons why, and that's besides the polls that we're looking at. number number two, the coronavirus. the pandemic. mont most voters think he is failing on that. number three, race relations. most voters feel he is failing on that. and, four, which i think is so important, is obviously, when it comes to the economy, we are seeing voters not necessarily loving what he is doing on that. >> what do you see in the numbers, that you find to be so damning, even in context of polls just being a moment in time? >> yeah. i think what's so important, you know, in a state like georgia, is that the polls, generally speaking, at the end of the campaign, have been really, really good, right? if you look back, four years ago, what you saw was that the final polls had donald trump ahead in that state by five.
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he won by five. if you look at the final polls, just two years ago in the governor's race, what did you see? you saw the republican brian kemp was favored to win that election by three. he won it by one. so to me, at this particular point, look, i'm not miss cleo. i can't tell you what's going to happen in 100-some odd days. >> what's the demographic shift that we are seeing, that we didn't expect? >> in a state like georgia, i mean, look, the fact is, you look at the suburban areas and those are the ones that are powering democrats in a state like georgia. and more than that, what i think is so important is the african-american population, in georgia, has risen over the last 15 years. and obviously, african-american voters are heavily in the democratic column. >> the president pulling ads in michigan. you think that's temporary? or is that a, i'm pulling out, i can't win? >> well, i mean, take a look at our last cnn poll from the state. right? what do you see? you see he's down by double
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digits. that looks a lot like the other polling in that state. and the fact is, michigan was one of those states that flipped from barack obama, in 2012, to donald trump, in 2016. and may -- it's a sign -- look, the president may come back in. but michigan is going to be an uphill battle for him, going forward. >> is it a surprise that biden is doing better with white people than was expected? and that he is taking them from trump? or was that always the theory of the case for biden? >> right. i think, you know, in a state like michigan, that's the key thing that's going on, right? trump is still leading among white voters but over ten-point improvement from four years ago with hillary clinton. and that was always the argument, right, for joe biden. that he could, in fact, bring back some of those white voters who had flipped from barack obama, to donald trump in 2016. and right now, we really are seeing that bear out in the polls. >> harry enten, you are a good man. thank you, wiz. and be well. >> you be well, as well, my
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friend. >> the rent is due in three days for a lot of you. the unemployed now have $600 less in the bank, each week. and be on the lookout. we got a bolo because this president just made it tough ever or, actually, easier, if you want housing discrimination to thrive. bolo. next. i use rakuten to get cash back in-store and online. or anything i want to buy is going to be on rakuten. rakuten is easy to use, free to sign up and it's in over 3,000 stores. i buy a lot of makeup. shampoo, conditioner. books, food. travel. shoes. stuff for my backyard. anything from clothes to electronics. workout gear. i even recently got cash back on domain hosting. you can buy tires. to me, rakuten is a great way to get cash back on anything you buy. rack it up with rakuten, sign up today to get cash back on everything you buy.
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for only $11 a month. call or visit a store today. bolo. that means be on the lookout. and you got to look out for this president spending less time trying to hide his racism, as he becomes more desperate for votes in november. >> people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs, and have a beautiful home. there will be no more low-income housing, forced into the suburbs. i've seen conflict for years. it's been hell for suburbia. >> boy, oh, boy. he and his father were fighting against housing for people like this. i remember my father getting into politics to fight classism.
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his miracle fix? ending a fair-housing rule, from the obama era. the law was designed, quote, to take meaningful actions to overcome historic patterns of segregation. promote favor housing choice, and foster inclusive communities that are free from discrimination. it bolstered the 1968 fair housing act. a law, mr. president, you, and your late father knew about, at least by 1973, because you were both accused in a federal civil rights case, on its basis. this rollback does nothing to make neighborhoods safer. it makes them whiter, but not safer. presidential historian shared a reminder of our nation's ugly past, when it comes to openly racist housing practices. look at this 1926 ad. attention, white home buyers.
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largest, restricted white community in washington. it was a selling point. president, both sides, sees a blatant appeal to the days of white flight and bigoted paranoia. he sees it, today, as path to re-election. but in an economy that is cla s collapsing all around us, day by day, as we near 4.5 million covid cases. many more of our fellow americans will need a new place to call home. and thanks to the president's new round of racism, trouble will only get worse. that, mr. president, is the hill you need to think about when it comes to our friends and neighbors. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with don, i created television, lemon, starts right now. >> you're right. i did. why would he -- i know you wanted to say something but i'm not going to let you go there.
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why would he hide it? i saw that. why would he try to hide it, when every one of his sycophants around him, the apologists, everyone, republicans in congress, republicans in the senate, they make excuses for it. they pretend that it's not racist. they pretend they don't hear -- it's not even a dog whistle. he is saying it, out loud, to a crowd, i'm sure, who's very receptive to it. and if they're not receptive to it, then, they're complicit in his bigotry and his racism. >> i think he is losing whites, who wanted somebody who disliked the same things they did and wanted a change agent, because he's not that. he's making a bet, which is a bad bet, don, which is, i can get enough white people who are afraid of diversity, angry enough to come out and vote for me. there aren't enough of them. not in this country. not in this country. we have -- look. is there bigotry? is there racism? is it systemic? yes, yes, yes, of course.

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