to provide revenues now, to solve the problems we know are coming. to solve the problems want restand schools?pen? want the economy to get back on track? you're not alone. and you can help make it happen. stay 6 feet apart. wash your hands. wear a mask every time you leave your home. choose to join the fight against covid-19. do your part. slow the spread. hello, everyone. i'm kate balduan. thanks so much for joining us this hour. president trump this morning is undermining yet another one of his top med cam experts over the

coronavirus suggesting in a tweet just a little while ago that dr. deborah birx, coronavirus task force coordinator is, quote, pathetic. while the president isn't explicit about what he's upset about here, you can assume the alarm dr. birx raised on cnn yesterday is not something he wanted to hear. let's listen to this. >> we are in a new phase, but i want to be very clear. what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural as equal urban areas, and to everybody who lives in a rural area you are not immune for protected from this virus. >> and it also appears now that dr. birx is now not immune from the president's attacks. when speaking the truth about where the country is right now in fighting this virus, well over 4.6 million cases in the country, more than is 55,000 deaths, more than any other country in the world, but apparently now speaking the truth is pathetic. and that isn't the end of where

the president and dr. birx actually disagreed just today. dr. birx also now says that if there is active community spread of the disease, schools should not reopen. >> if you have high case load and active community spread just like we're asking people not to go to bars, not to have household parties, not to create large spreading events, we're asking people to distance learn at this moment so we can get this epidemic under control. >> but as you can see in another tweet from the president this morning, he wants schools open everywhere, exclamation point, and it also must be noted e continues to push the completely misguided claim that more testing is the only reason for the number of -- number of confirmed cases being up, being on the rise, being huge in this country. that is simply not true, and he has been told that. let's get to it. joining me right now is our

senior medical examiner. first it was 4-h and now it's dr. birx, trump saying that she took the bait and calling it pathetic in what she said on the show with dana bash just yesterday morning. what's your reaction to this? . think which eve seen a concerted effort from president trump and his administration to discredit scientists and doctors and plucking officials who are trying to communicate the truth about the state of the pandemic and what needs to be done to control it in this country. >> it's really this us versus them problem. it can be with masks. it can be with schools, i don't know, straight up science that really does no -- does everyone a disservice. but actually what birx was talking about, her warning that the country is in a new phase as the virus is extraordinarily widespread is how she put, it we also heard something very

similar, another warning from professor hazeltine on cnn this morning. let me play how he put it. >> regardless of what plans people have made this epidemic is now out of control, and it's out of control mostly because of our own behavior. >> if the epidemic is now out of control in a way that birx and hazeltine are describing, what does that mean in terms of where we are, how hard it is going to be to crawl our way out of this moment? >> well, kate, we've been warning, public health officials and doctors and others like myself, have been warning for months now, for months, that this was a disease, that this was an infection that would spread out of the cities, that was going to ripple out to suburbs, to rural areas, and it was only a matter of time, and, unfortunately, a lot of people put their heads in the sand, were in denial about the situation and didn't take the measures to really prevent the spread, and while we had a lot of big outbreaks in the

beginning in places like nursing homes and meat packing plants and it's not to say that those places are still -- aren't still experiencing transmission, but now much of the transmission is happening at parties, whether it's wedding parties, bridal showers, baby showers or just your friday night beers on dutch with your buddies, but, you know, this is completely rampant across the country now to the point where dr. birx has actually recommended if you have somebody who is very high risk at home you may even want to be wearing a mask at home to protect those closest to you. >> i thought that was an extraordinary statement as well because -- i mean, when you look at how far we've come on the mask conversation just in and of itself. i think that's a real statement of where we are, but yet it does not -- it does not seem to be breaking through. people do not -- they obviously can understand it, conceptually when a virus is widespread, but not wanting to actually take -- not wanting to actually face the

reality of it. i mean, you have the man in charge of the federal testing effort saying something that i thought was very interesting that i wanted to get your take on, admiral brett giroir, talking about the real impact of what you just were mentioning, wearing masks, listen this. >> wearing mask is incredibly important, but we have to have like 85% or 990% of individuals wearing a mask and avoiding crowds. that is essentially -- gives you the same outcome as a complete shutdown, and why do i say that? well, theoretically we can go through the models, but look at arizona, look at florida, texas, louisiana. these measures are are being implemented and that changes it. >> i -- in that i heard a hopeful very tangible solution to getting out of where we are right now, dr. gander, if everyone wears a mask and everyone avoided the parties you're talking b.do you agree that that would be essentially the same as a complete shutdown? >> i'm not sure, kate, that it would be as effective as a complete shutdown, but if

everybody did wear a mask and everybody maintained at least six feet apart and socially distanced you would deskies spread and you wouldn't have are the same economic impacts as a complete shutdown. what really are the costs of wearing a mask to you as individual? i think a lot of americans are resistant to the idea, don't want to be told by the government what to do, but what does it mean to be a law-abiding citizen? it means you follow certain laws and regulations set down by the government and those laws and regulations are there to protect is all of us and keep us safe. in the situation of a pandemic where clearly there's a danger to not wearing a mask even if there's not a legal mandate, this is clearly something we should all be doing to protect ourselves and one another. >> it's not clear that who the messenger needs to be to get it through the country because we know the president is not going to be the messenger there. thanks, doctor, for coming in. there is potentially hopeful news to share, the very first

company in the united states to test antibody treatments in humans is moving into phase three trials. eli lilly says it hopes its antibody therapy could help ease symptoms and even protect against the virus. let's bring in cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen who is tracking all of this for us. elizabeth, can you talk about this trial and also what this antibody treatment that elittly is working on could mean? >> right, cade, there's right a bit of enthusiasm for the antibody treatments even among the curmudgeons who i consult with. there is a bit of enthusiasm. it's taking the strongest antibodies produced after someone who has a coronavirus infection, picking just those, so not the ones that are sort of second best or third best but the best ones and making them into a drug, so let's take a look at this trial that eli lilly is doing. they plan on recruiting 2,400 study subjects. they are going to be residents or staff of nursing homes hooray sifted living facilities and

then also they plan on looking at four and eight weeks, did they prevent infection, or did they treat people who were already sick? now there's a reason why they have chosen nursing homes, and the reason for that is so many of these infections are occurring at nursing homes. it was a very smart move. the go there and see what good you can do. >> what are you hearing -- what have you heard from patients who have taken part in some of these antibody studies? >> so i was actually speaking with a woman who took part in a regeneron trial, another company trying out this antibody treatment and she's actually a nurse and she said, look, i'm doing this because i have coronavirus and i want to know will this help me, but i'm also doing it for my patients. >> i've seen people sick from this virus. i've had a friend struggle for his life with this virus. i've had patients in the hospital who are scared because their family can't be there at an awful time in their life. >> reporter: sounds like you're doinging this for your patients?

>> it sounds like an easy decision to me. >> reporter: now, you'll note that jennifer actually had covid-19, so they are trying these treatments or people or this drug, i should say, on people whole have covid-19 and also saying who don't have it to see if it will prevent infection. kate? >> so thankful for people like jennifer and what she's doing and what she's really putting her body on line for. really amazing. thanks, elizabeth. coming up for us, one school in indiana for in-person classes. on the first day one student tests positive for covid. we'll take to you indiana and get you an update. tech giant microsoft says it's going to pursue tiktok pafr president trump threatens to pull the plug on the viral social media sensation. - sir. - we need a doctor. [running footsteps and siren]

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we started school on thursday, the 30th, and we've been planning for that day for many months, so we were obviously a little disappointed when we received a phone call from the health department telling us that one of our students had tested positive. not exactly the start we were looking for. the. >> probably an understatement. that's harold olin, superintendent of an indiana school district that didn't make it through the first day of classes. the student at greenfield central junior high school near indianapolis, that's where it took place, and that forces the school to initiate the emergency protocols already. that's not all, as you can see there on your screen in. another indiana school district a high school football player practicing with teammates has tested positive and another indiana school district, at least one school staff member has tested positive it. three separate school systems in

the opening days of heading back to class already aiming what may now seem inevitable across the country. what can be done here and what is indiana doing about it. >> reporter: joining us now is an education reporter for "indianapolis star" who is tracking all of this. thanks for coming on. let start with the one school, the junior high student who tested positive on the first day back. how did this happen? i mean, what are you hearing? >> so, what we found out is that the student actually was tested, you know, before school started, was still waiting for their test results and went to school for first day and the health department called the school district partway through the day and said the student tested positive. >> what's the school district doing, did contact tracing are, and how many people -- do you know how many students, teachers, anybody who is now being forced out of school because of it? >> those are great questions that we have asked and haven't gotten answers to. the school district has declined to tell us, you know, how many people were identified as close

contacts, but they did, you know, reach out to anyone who was considered a slows contact in that six feet distance for 15 minutes, but the school so far is staying open. they said, i know, we have a plan in place for this and the plan is working and we feel like we're safe to keep the school open. >> it's not the only school district dealing can covid on the opening day as you've been tracking. i've been following you on twitter watching this play how the. how would you describe as you've been in communication with so many, how the first days back to school are going for the state? >> well, you know, a lot of people are really excited to get kids back to school for very obvious reasons so most people say it's going well in the places that are open, kids that are excited to be back in school and teachers are excited to see their students again and though we do know at the state level teachers are asking for virtual starts because they are nervous about the situation because it's been kind of a mixed back

because places are going well and are excite and then we're seeing the case in queenfield. elwood was opened for two days and now it's having to close for a week because some of its staff members tested positive and then others were exposed, you know, as close contacts so it's been up and down. >> and more schools throughout indiana are starting back this week so you can imagine how this will continue and you'll have to track it and how it plays out. in terms of the role that the state has played in guiding or dictating essentially or making requirements for the various school districts of what a safe reopening looks like for indiana schools, the state has really done very little. it has really taken a very hands-off approach leaving it district to district, not really mandating anything. after this rocky start, i wonder if you're getting any indication of what the state thinks of that approach or any indication that they are rethinking that approach. >> so far we have no indication

that they are rethinking that approach. i think everyone was kind of expecting that we would see cases in schools at some point, you know, just planning and hoping that schools have plans in place and would work with the local health departments. indiana is a local scrolled state so they are very much leaving this up to individual school districts to decide. some instances county health departments are taking a bigger role like we've seen in indianapolis. the marion county health department have put pretty strict standards in place and it will vary widely from county to county and school district to school district. >> in greenfield central did give families the option of remote or in-person learning and according to folks there a vast majority opted for in-person. is that what you're hearing kind of across the state? >> yes. almost every school district has offered kind of both options to families this year. they are offering, you know, the full-time virtual or the in-person and some cases the

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. microsoft says it is still pursuing the purchase of tiktok after a direct discussion with president trump. this could clear the way for a potential monster deal between the software giant and a viral social media sensation, and it may happen just days after president trump threatened to

ban the popular video app from the united states over national security concerns because of the app originating and coming from general. how big is the threat, and when does this potential microsoft deal really mean? joining me right now is graham brooker who served as advisers to the national security adviser and also a top aide to former president obama on cyber security. he's now with the atlantic council digital forensic research lab. graham, it's great to have you back. much of this is centering on security concerns. how real do you think the national security threat is with tiktok? >> kate, it's good to talk to you again. the security concerns are very real. i mean, experts, policy-makers and politicians most of all have pointed out three main security concerns about the social media platform and each concern has varying degrees of evidence so first you have direct access to tiktok's data by the chinese government because the platform, as you mentioned, has a parent company that's a chinese-owned

company. the second is tiktok's user base data based on vulnerabilities that expert have identified. that should be a concern for all social media platforms and speaks to the need for federal data protections and then there's content moderation or alleged influence by the chinese government on what keeps of content are allowed on tiktok or more importantly what's not allowed, for example, recent content moderation related to the treatment of uygur muslims in china was censored. >> yeah. so then working from that, if microsoft buys the company do the concerns completely go away? >> they don't completely go away. it becomes a u.s.-owned company which means that the broad authorities that the president could use to ban or so to speak ban ticket job would be allayed. for instance, they could have data servers that remain in the

united states. it would have u.s. ownership and would have more oversight and less potential influence by the chinese government. so bytedance, the company that currently owns ticket yok, they put out a statement overnight defending themselves and says it's been facing unimaginable difficulties including a quote, unquote intense international political environment. i'm not defending the company, but when it comes to -- when it comes to politics at play or the relationship between the united states and china, that -- that should also be noted and really can't be overlooked, but what role do you think it plays here? >> well, i think that the intense international pressure that they are alluding to is the fact that tiktok has been banneded in a number of other countries that have tense relationships with china. most notably and recently india. now, this move in the united states has been alluded to by a number of senior administration officials in the past month, but like many other announcement last friday night by president

trump it seems to have been off the cuff, and it's a complicated and very valid policy challenge but this teams to have been mostly political on the part of the president. >> the way you put it earlier was so-called banning it from the united states. can the president do that if this deal with microsoft would fall through? >> the general question of whether the president can ban a social media platform is no, but in this case because of the broad authority on foreign commerce, mergers and acquisitions that congress has given to the president over the last few decades, the president could likely take steps that would make it extremely difficult for tiktok to operate in the united states, like disabling the u.s.-based data servers or freezing financial assets or profits to tiktok that come within this country. >> fascinating. that gets to a being lather discussion that we can have later of what role should any president or white house have on

that level of dictating censorship when it comes to anything that we're working on. good to see you, graham. thank you very much. really appreciate it. thanks, kate. speaking of somewhat bold and questionable claims made by president trump two weeks and one day ago the president made a very direct promise that he would be signing, not just announcing, signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan. that's a direct quote. that was two weeks ago, and that has not happened. but when you make a pledge like that you, as he has before, you really should be held to your word. here's john avalon. >> reporter: remember this? universal health care. >> i'm going to take care of everybody, far less expensive and far better. we are going to be submitting in a couple of weeks a great health care plan. >> reporter: that was candidate and freshly minted president trump vowing to repeal obamacare and replace it with a miracle

health care plan in his magic cup. >> here we are three years into a trump presidency and six months into a pandemic and here's the plan q.crickets chirpi chirping ]. >> he has managed to get something done, abolishing certain parts of obamacare in the court, the individual mandate and just as america is suffering through a pandemic that's killed more than 150,000 of our fellow americans and infected millions more. although the second quarter gdp number was the worst on record, nearly 33% in the red if it were extended to the whole year so no wonder the president keeps promising that his mission to get rid of the affordable care act. >> pre-existing conditions will not be affected. >> that claim received the coveted bottomless pinocchio award because covering pre-existing conditions is

something obamacare does right now, a position that polls really strong, even among republicans because it turns out that having a pre-existing health condition occurs across partisan lines, not to mention president trump has no answer for the fact that since the affordable care act was passed upwards of 20 million americans who weren't insured before now are. so this is the old arsonist as a firefighter routine with possibly your live on the line. but wait. now we're in an election year so you might have heard something like this. >> this health care president is the one that is governing, this health care governor started out with transparency that's what we're focused on that the health care president continue to deliver for america. >> reporter: really, kellyanne conway is the president said you don't take the oath to tell the truth before you go on tv but where's the plan that had alleged health care president told chris wallace would be released again within the magical -- >> two weeks, a full and complete health care plan. >> reporter: we've heard all this before, and even if there were a plan there's virtually no

chance it would get put into place before election day. look, good people can disagree over the details of health care, it's complicate asked whether it's the aca, public option, medicare for all or a more free market plan that has some evidence that it might lower costs, but we can'tig for the fact that decade over observing air's passage and endless demonization by the gop there still isn't a serious republican plan for replacement. it's all repeal all the time, even in a pandemic. no matter how many people might get hurt, all for short-term political gain, all bolstered by apparent ignorance. >> nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. >> yes, mr. president, we pretty much all did, but at a time when so many people are suffering it would be nice if you remembered the hippocratic oath. first, do no harm, and that's your reality check. >> john, thank you, very much. very comprehensive and complete. what is it with him and two weeks anyway? coming up for us, an entire

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imagine you or your spouse goes to the hospital to give birth to your third child, and when you all come home, the entire family is exposed to the coronavirus, the entire family gets covid, and your days old newborn then becomes the youngest suspected case of covid in your county. that's exactly what happened to one family in north carolina. molly grantham is the mother who is living through this nightmare in realtime. she's so wonderful to be joining me. she also is an anchor and investigative reporter with wbtv in charlotte. molly, you wrote this, and it is so true, that you wrote that you could not have script what had you have been through if you had tried. how are you all doing? >> we are good. i'm the only one that's still kind of tired with no energy, but the kids are fine which is the only reason that my husband and i -- the only reason that i truly felt like it was right and safe to write about because i didn't want to cause unnecessary alarm if you're in the throes of

it, but i -- i am a little tired, but i'm okay and i think i'd be tired anyway with a newborn. >> that's what you would say. you have a 20-day-old newborn and you by definition are required to be exhausted. i cannot imagine, molly. >> yes. >> so from hospital to home, first symptoms, a drive-through covid test that turns into a hospital visit and a pneumonia diagnosis for you. how did this happen? well, when i went in to have our third baby, my husband and i went into the hospital and there's a lot of restrictions of covid and having one guest and you have to be covid tested before you go in so the morning i went into labor we went to the hospital and i got a test and it was negative and that means that they assume that the guest you're bringing with you was negative so we thought we were fine. my husband's parents and in-laws had driven in from out-of-state to watch the other kids. he got tested before they left,

their home state and were very, very cautious and drove into town and we thought they were fine, but when we got back from the hospital, we don't know if my mother-in-law was exposed. we really don't know. you just don't know. is it airborne? did she get it at a gastation, did my husband pick it up in the cafeteria at the hospital, we don't know, but my 9-year-old daughter got it first. we were home and hoby, he was 4 days old or three days old at the time and my daughter started experiencing allergy-like symptoms and didn't think about it except i left the hospital and i was paranoid about it because they have a lot of warnings and at that point we were all here and kissing on the baby and all got it. >> molly, we were talking in the break. i have two little ones. in reading your account i'm trying to put myself in your shoes and i cannot imagine. having a newborn at home, especially with other kids around is already an exhausting experience, but then dealing with what is a life-and-death

disease, it -- you have an amazing outlook on it, and as you said you all are doing well, but it really must have been terrifying at times. >> it was at times, kate, but i think because we're all okay you can kind of have bad twisted how manior about if in some way. oh, of course, we all got it but it's only because the kids are okay and any parent would sort of understand that. it's only because the kids are okay. i did not think that i had it. i thought i was like going to be fine from it. everyone else had it. i was taking care of them. i didn't think that my exhaustion or body aches was anything more than port partum or having a baby, and when they said i had pneumonia and they had the chest x-rays and saw nodules, you have to go sleep or get better or the household doesn't really work, that to me was like, oh, you know women aren't immune to you. i'm not immune to t.kids aren't immune to it, but because the kids are okay i feel better. it was scary. it was scary some nights

watching a newborn breathe, watching his rib cage sort of rise and fall and not even knowing if that meant -- i just like what am i looking for senator is this breath different than that breath? >> exactly, but he is fine, and that is the key in all this, he's fine, but you don't hear a lot of stories. i wrote it because i like to write but i don't hear a lot of stories happen to me unless it becomes dead lid and covid is deadly but it's impacting a lot of people that don't die and i thought maybe this could be educational. it's, you know, a public health issue. >> well, and that's -- i think that's an important part of it, and what's also striking is your story goes against some of the assumptions that we've been told, you know, getting reassurance that -- that children really don't get it, and if they do get it, they don't really spread it. that -- we know that there's so much unknown about this virus. what do you think -- i mean, look. you're a reporter. you're an anchor. i would go about it the same way i'm sure that you are, but what are the lessons that you've learned from this and your message to everyone?

>> i think my message is that kids can get it and that it is a public health issue, that it is in some ways being politicized all over the place, but it's a public health issue at the core of it and you can have an opinion about how it should be handled, but fact is it's impacting everybody and it is very real and i didn't expect it. we wrecksceptionly careful. me and my in-laws were tested before they came. we were tested in the hospital. my pediatrician was so comforting saying molly, the cat's out of the bag. people are getting this everywhere and most people we see aren't even aware. >> can you just describe for a me some of the moments. you described there were not only difficult moments but kind of a comity of errors in certain situations because i can only imagine what the household was like in the midst of this. >> right. you know, with you were going to have help come in, step-mom was going to come up and all of that

was out of the window and my husband is still working remotely in the house and i have the kids and i finally realized i have it and i get on an antibiotics for the pneumonia, and i got allergic to the antibiotic so i broke out in hives everywhere. this visual like connect the dots big red face and itching and scratching and antibiotic was really, really strong so we had to switch the newborn's diet to all formula and it wasn't just the illness and kids and then they have cabin fever. like 9 and 5, nobody wants to sit in the house all day every day with just their mom sort of telling them not to do anything. looking out the windows at all their friends playing so it was just like oh, the hives and the stuff. honestly hoby's like birth story and scrapbook is going to be something to be rivaled. thankfully everyone is doing well. it's wonderful to meet you, molly. thank you so much for coming on. i really appreciate it.

>> thank you, kate. >> all right. take care. i mean, everyone says this. get as much rest as possible, but, i mean, we all know when you've got kids at home good luck with that. thank you. coming up for us, her son was shot and killed by a gunman posing as a fedex worker. now a federal judge is speaking out for the first time with her last words with her son and now her call for protection.

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this morning a federal judge is now preparing to bury hr only son and is now speaking out. for the first time. u.s. district judge salas was at the home in new jersey with a family when a gunman dressed like a fedex worker came to the door and opened fire. her son was killed, her husband is still recovering in the hospital. cnn's alexandra field joins us with more on this. the judge is speaking out making an emotional plea understandably so. >> reporter: she is a federal judge but now a mother who lost her only son, only child. she is on a mission to protect

families from like hers from the unbelievable pa unbelievable pain she is in. she is talking about the final moments with him and she is making a desperate plea to lawmakers. >> as the afternoon progressed it was time to clean up from the weekend festivities. daniel and i went down stairs to the basement and we were chatting as we always do. and daniel said, mom, let's keep talking. i love talking to you, mom. and it was at that exact moment that the doorbell rang and daniel looked at me and said, who is that? and before i could say a word he sprinted upstairs. within seconds, i heard the sound of bullets and someone

screaming no! i later learned that this monster who had a fedex package in his hand opened fire. daniel being daniel protected his father. and he took the shooter's first bullet directly to the chest. we are living every parent's worst nightmare. macki macking -- making preparations to bury our only child daniel. my family has experienced a pain that no one should ever have to endure. and i am here asking everyone to help me ensure that no one ever has to experience this kind of pain. >> truly gut wrempnching to hea

that in chilling detail but the judge is saying that she believes the family was targeted because she is a federal judge, saying that information for judges is readily available on the internet and asking lawmakers to step in and to stop that in order to protect families from becoming targets. the suspected shooter also died by a single gunshot wound, a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he was an attorney who had argued a case in her courtroom. kate? >> just horrific. amazing her strength to hear her speak out at this point. thank you. still ahead for us, states along the east coast are bracing for a tropical storm that could become a hurricane. the latest on the track next. hey there people eligible for medicare.

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hurricane warnings for north and south carolina right now at tropical storm isaias is on track to strengthen today. chad, what is the latest here? >> the latest is right now, kate, the storm did not strongen for the 11:00 advisory so that's some good news and forecast to get to that 75, 74-mile-per-hour hold threshold but it is a very

small hurricane warning but a very large tropical storm warning. there will be tropical storm winds from georgia, to massachusetts. and think about that for your power lines and the tree and for your power in your restaurant, the power in your grocery store, in your pharmacy. get prepared to live without power in those zones for some days. there's the storm. it's still trying to get its act together. but it's still not an eye. it can't get a round eye with too much wind pushing it from the southwest. now there is rainy coming up all the way into the carolinas and we expect that tomorrow the norm but a storm surge from myrtle beach up into coastal north carolina. that could be about 3 to 5 feet. 75 miles per hour making landfall around 8:00 tonight. to the left is a shorter high

po pot neuse but it is over new york state. big trees, lots of ran, flooding, power outages. kate many. >> just look at that track all the way up. we'll be watching it. thank you so much. thank you for joining me. great to be back. cnn's coverage continues now with john king. hello to our viewers and welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this busy day with us. the president of the united states in attack mode today and in the process telling lies and contradicting his own experts. nothing new there but it still matters very much. back to school season is here or just around the season for coronavirus stressed american families, the president says schools need to open and he says the fake news is hyping