considering, john. >> interesting. appreciate the reporting and insights. i want that map over your shoulder. that's a nice -- brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. we'll see you tomorrow. i'm brianna keilar and want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. today president trump is lashing out at yet another task force doctor and this time it's dr. birx after she gave a less than glowing review of where the u.s. stands on the coronavirus. but here's the reality of coronavirus on the ground. most of the country is holding steady but 11 states that are seeing surges and 3 are in the midwest. the rise in cases in the heartland is leading the white house to mark a new phase of the pandemic. >> i want to be very clear.

what we are seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread, into the rural as equal urban areas and everybody in a rural area you are not immune or protected from this virus. >> that frank assessment from dr. birx is now drawing the ire of her boss. president trump tweeting, so crazy nancy pelosi said horrible things about dr. birx going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing in order to counter nancy deborah took the batd and hit us, pathetic. as for the president claiming to have done such a good job here's what that looks like. see how the case numbers rose starkly in july. we could be hitting the 5 million case milestone by the end of this week and then california topping half a million cases alone, more than any other state but there they be good news. on a treatment. as one company moves into phase

three of a clinical trial on an antibody treatment. eli lilly is focusing the trials in nursing homes and facilities. happening right now on capitol hill, negotiations between top democrats and the white house on a new coronavirus stimulus package have just started back up again. both sides say they're nowhere close to a deal. and as they dig in this millions of americans are suffering. the $600 a week federal unemployment benefit expired last week, money that got millions of jobless americans through paying the bills, putzing food on the tables and the federal moratorium on evictions is also gone. i want to go to lauren fox on capitol hill for us. this benefit, this $600 a week benefit that is a lifeline for so many people seems to be the main sticking point here, lauren. >> reporter: it is one of many and i will tell you up here on capitol hill lawmakers met with the treasury secretary steve

mnuchin and the white house chief of staff mark meadows on saturday for roughly three hours and while they said it was the most productive discussions they had they were still nowhere near a deal. at the end of this week we expect that the senators are supposed to go on recess, whether or not that actually happens is still an open question. just to underscore it's not just unemployment benefit sticking point but including whether or not to give states and local governments more money. democrats argue they should get another trillion dollars, republicans arguing they don't need another penny but give them more flexibility and additional arguments of whether or not to include liability protections for businesses, for schools, for restaurants. that's a red line for majority leader mitch mcconnell and something that democrats argue they don't want in this bill but it goes to show that there are numerous issues coming to why

democrats and republicans can't come together. there's a fundamental disagreement about whether or not more money is needed at this moment and how much to spend and until those discussions really kick into gear, until two parties can come together, it is not clear how we're going to get out of this quagmire. >> lauren, we'll be checking in with you again on capitol hill. thank you. the president is calling coronavirus testing overrated but inside the white house testing is required. they're now conducting random tests on staff one week after the president's national security adviser robert o'brien tested positive for coronavirus. for more i want to bring in cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. what prompted this? >> reporter: there's concern in the white house now just about how close this could get to the president after not only you saw the national security adviser test positive but a republican lawmaker that the president is close with and when these people

come to the white house they're tested before they go in to the meeting with the president but now what's new and what staff notified about today via email is can be randomly selected to get covid-19 testing and before that was voluntary whether or not to go and get a test and now it is mandatory for the staffers to get tested so it is just an extra layer of protection happening here at the white house and it is just a marked contrast of what's actually happening in the rest of the country as you see the president talk about how testing is so much better and improved but people are still seeing the serious delays and whatnot and comes on the president's twitter feed down playing the severity of the outbraeak and doing it again today and being critical of the health officials and still believes the reason there are more cases in the u.s. with more testing, something that's flatly rejected by so many officials and take that and see

what the president is saying about the country and as they ramp up testing even inside the west wing because, of course, they need to protect the president and the vice president and those top staffers from getting covid-19. >> are they -- when they look at the national security add vivis being close to the president was that something that caused a bit of a fear, a fear response to ripple through the white house? >> reporter: yeah. because he has an office notice west wing and that's where he works out of. other top officials who maybe not going in to meet with the president on a certain day but meeting with officials that go meet with the president and even though they do ramped up testing they felt the need to expand that testing and to make it a wider group because it is not everybody in the west wing tested but just those people that meet with the president so say you're a deputy of stephen miller you may not be tested on a daily basis so that's why it

seems to be to see them expand who it is that they test and trying to make it more of a widespread idea happening at the white house. >> all right. ka thank you live from the white house there. the president is now attacking another one of his white house coronavirus task force doctors. this time it is dr. birx. it's the first time that he's gone after her just a day after she issued new warnings. the president responding to house speaker nancy pelosi's comments that she lacks confidence in birx. here was pelosi in morning explaining why on cnn. >> i don't have confidence of anyone who stands there while the president says swallow lysol to cure the virus. it will kill you and you wont have the virus anymore. >> i should note that the white house called it deeply irresponsible for pelosi to attack birx but now the president is attacking birx. with me now is dr. jonathan

rhiner, a professor of medicine at george washington university. first it was dr. fauci who came under the president's attacks. now it is dr. birx to walk a fine line but to the point where she is i think you could say irked a lot of liberals about doing that. so why what is the effect of this, the president now attacking her? >> the president values loyalty over everything, over science, over the facts, values loyalty over lies and anyone who has the temerity to disagree with the white house talking points gets shunned. this is why we no longer see doctors birx and fauci at any of the coronavirus task force press briefings because they will

speak the truth. i think dr. birx has tried to walk a very tight line over the last several months. i think she's tried to remain effective while not offending the president but now she sees just how impossible that really is. at some point the cabin has to start coming to the conclusion that the president is not fit to run this response. he values only one thing. he values his own message for his own political purposes but the stakes are very high here now and one wonders what is going to -- what it will take for the cab net to start assessing whether the president is competent to manage this. 150,000 plus people have died this and more are on the way. >> so you do sense a change in her. i will say i think a lot of us observing how she has been

publicly addressing the coronavirus crisis during interviews had noticed a bit of a change and even last week talking about hydroxychloroquine she still threw out this idea she was basically shooting down the fact that it was effective for treating coronavirus but she also threw out the possibility that perhaps there were some, you know, small cases or pods of cases where it could be effective. i talked to a doctor who found overall her response to be good but that part of it to be irresponsible. what does it tell you even as she is not completely defying the president, she is still coming under fire? >> he just will not tolerate any kind of dissent. you know? we teach our trainees in medicine that when we ask people a question during a procedure or on rounds, we want to know what they think. we don't want to hear what they think we want to hear but what

they think and any president of the united states, any leader needs to surround themselves with people willing to speak truth to them. this president does not want that. he only wants to hear what he wants to hear but this is science. so now you see how that really clashes. >> yeah. i mean, we have seen that kind of saying what somebody maybe not challenging and planes crash that way, right? for instance, just this can be a very deadly effect and very key moments. so the president has repeatedly criticized testing, down played it. calling for cutting back on testing because in his view it leads to more cases and now though the white house is requiring it more broadly and he gets tested himself. what do you make of that? >> so the white house is using testing the way most public health experts want testing used in the united states, to test widely, to test people without symptoms, to do it frequently.

and that's how you find particularly the sasymptomatic and we think as many as 40% of the pop lulation may have littl or no symptoms and trialing that in the microcosm of the white house with relatively good effect to protect the president and the vice president and same technique that most of us want to see extended throughout the united states. the president says that we test more people than anywhere and that's right on an absolute basis but not a per capita basis. the u.s. did 60 million tests, 180,000 tests per million people. the uk about 240,000. even russia has tested about 200,000 people per million population.

we need to do more. we need to do much more. and it's laughable that the white house is using this technique to protect the president but the president thinks it's overrated for the rest of us. >> the president's own head of testing says if 90% of people wore masks it would be the equivalent effect to staving off coronavirus as if there's a total shutdown. do you think that's the case? >> you know, it is hard to know. i think in places where the virus is so widely extensive and spread in the community it's hard to see how we can avoid shutdown. but yes. broadly speaking, universal mask wearing is the way we are going to suppress this virus. and even this is becoming politicized in the united states. all the president's task force members have said unequivocally how important universal masking

is. but you haven't heard this from the president. you haven't heard this from the vice president unequivocally but with qualifications and the president has reluctantly done a photo-op or two wearing a mask but this is the way we extension wish the pandemic. massive testing and universal masks. this president is incapable of giving this message. >> dr. reiner, thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. georgia's largest school district is reported 260 positive cases and exposure as officials push to reopen schools there. scientists are increasingly concerned that president trump may politicize the vaccine by interfering and releasing it too early. is the coronavirus mutating? dr. gupta has a new look at this mystery question. this is cnn's special live coverage.

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coronavirus is actually a new viral strain. every day scientists are learning more about how it spreads and affects those affected but a complication to our understanding of the virus is mutations. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta takes a look. >> mutation is a word that conjures up all kinds of images. viruses, generally not pleasant but the truth is mutations aren't always dangerous. for coronaviruses, they're pretty mundane usually. we have genetic material. dna in all of our cells. as cells multiply and dna is copied, mistakes get made. your dna mu tatds all the time and you almost never notice.

but sometimes those changes do matter. they can be good changes, linked, for example, lower risk of diabetes or harmful. the mutations to cause cancer. viruses mutate, especially those with genetic material made of rna. rna is one strain instead of two strands and mutates more easily than dna does. usually these mowations are neutral or even harmful to the virus, possibly making it less lethal and explains a new flu vaccine every year. the antibodies we have from last year's shot no longer really protect us. the novel coronavirus has mu tatded in a way this affects the spike protein, that's a protein to allow it to enter human cells and while this mutation may make it spread more easily person to person it doesn't seem to make people any sicker.

the big question looming, how might mutations affect our search for a vaccine? >> we are awaiting right now a tape of president trump who just spoke at the white house. he actually was in the cabinet room having a hiring event and asked a number of questions including about the coronavirus task force which there have been contradictions of it from him and asked about coronavirus and that tape at this moment is walked out and let's listen in. >> very much. anybody have a question? yeah, please, go ahead. go ahead. >> mr. president, you said you're planning to ban it -- spoke to the ceo of microsoft after that. could you give us a date? >> we had a great conversation. he called me to see whether or not -- how i felt about it. i said, look, it can't be controlled for security reasons by china.

too big. too invasive. can't be. here's the deal. i don't mind if -- whether it is microsoft or someone else, a big, secure company, very american company buy it. probably easier to buy the whole thing than to buy 30% of it. how do you do 30%? who gets the name? the name is hot. the brand is hot. how do you do that owned by two different companies? my personal opinion was you probably better off buying the whole thing rather than 30% of it. i think that's complicated. i suggested that he can go ahead, try. we set a date. i set a date around september 15th at which point it is out of business in the united states. but if somebody and whether it's microsoft or somebody else buys it that will be interesting. i did say that if you buy it, whatever the price is, that goes

to whoever owns it because i guess it's china. essentially. but more than anything else. i said a very substantial portion will come into the treasury of the united states because we're making it possible for this deal to happen. right now they don have any rights unless we give it to them so if we give them the rights then it has to come in to this country. like the landlord tenant. the tenant has nothing without a lease and pay key money or something but the united states should be reimbursed or should be paid. substantial amount of money because without the united states they don't have anything. at least having to do with the 30%. so i told him that. i think we're going to have maybe a deal is going to be made. it is a great asset. but it's not a great asset in the united states unless they have the approval of the united states. so it will close down on september 15th unless microsoft

or somebody else is able to buy it. and work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the treasury of the -- really the treasury i guess you would say of the united states gets a lot of money. a lot of money. okay? >> can you explain why so many of the public health experts on coronavirus task force contradicting you on things like why the virus is so widespread, efficacy of hydroxychloroquine? why are they contradicting you? >> i think we are doing great on vaccines, therapeutics and will be seeing that very soon. i think we are -- when you look at a map, this is a map of the -- i've sort of shown that around a little bit but that's the red the area most concern. pretty recent map of the country. and there is a lot of people that -- a lot of areas that have gotten very better very fast.

hydroxychloroquine has tremendous support but politically it's toxic because i supported it. if you would have said do not use hydroxychloroquine under any circumstances they would have said it's a great thing. many doctors have come out strongly in favor of it. they want it very badly. a great malaria drug. so for many years. let me finish my answer. i guess 60 years a malaria drug successful, as you know. a drug for lupus. virtually nothing in having sickness or problems with it. add the zinc and the zythromyacin and i happen to take it myself. the threesome. i took it myself for a period of two weeks. i had no problem. i had no problem whatsoever.

importantly i didn't test positive. that's very nice. okay? very happy about that. negative. and so, so that's the story. it's very highly thought of. interestingly, a great doctor what i understand from yale feels very strongly about hydroxychloroquine. the ford clinic in michigan came out with a very, very powerful paper saying it's very good. many other, in france as you know, a positive statement. many individual doctors have come out with very positive statements. i will tell you that if i was surrounded by people, as i was at the time, the reason i took it, we had some people that were relatively near me that tested positive. and i took it for that reason. just because i've heard good things. >> fauci says it doesn't work. >> i don't agree with fauci on everything. i don't agree with fauci. look. he didn't want and i like him. i get alodge with him actually

great and didn't want to ban people from china coming into the country and i overrode him. he said face masks are not good a short while ago. i like him. but we disagree on things. now i will say this. we've done an amazing job with ventilators. supplies the world with voortds, hard, expensive, complex to make. very complicated machines. very -- very expensive. hold it. hold it. >> so many deaths. the u.s. has so many deaths. >> hold it. >> so many countries around the world. >> fake news, cnn, hold it. we have done a great job in this country. we haven't been given enough -- not me. vice president, the task force have not been given the kind of credit. if you look countries all 0 ever the world exploding right now. people that you said were doing a wonderful job, so wonderful,

but right now look at the countries exploding. italy back. spain back. france back. you have germany back. you have a lot of countries and not to knock them. it is a very delicate, contagious disease. it was released by china. it should never have been allowed to release. there was the source where you could have stopped it and they did stop it from going into china. although now they say that china is having problems. moscow in russia is having tremendous problems. what china unleashed was a very, very sad situation. with all of that being understood, the united states has didn't an amazing job, a great job and you're going to see that because we have vaccines and we have therapeutics coming very soon. go ahead. >> why are you not involved directly in negotiations with capitol hill? >> the fact i'm not over there with crazy nancy? i'm totally involved. totally involved. we are doing things that are very good because we don't think

that she -- look. what chuck schumer wants more than anybody and i would say nancy pelosi would be second, they want to bail out cities and states that have done a bad job over a long time nothing to do with coronavirus or china virus. whatever you want to call it. they want bailout money. a trillion dollars in bailout money and people don't want to do that. because we don't think it's right. the democrats have run some very bad states and some very, very bad cities and a lot of people don't want to give them a trillion dollars to reward them for doing a bad job. if you look at some of the states, i won't insult anybody but you know who they are. they're not interested in the people or unemployment. not interested in evictions which is a big deal. they want to evict a lot of people but i will stop it because i'll do it myself if i have to. i have a lot of powers with respect to executive orders and

we are looking at that very seriously right now but what the democrats want, slow rolling it. all they're really interested in is bailout money for radical left governors and mayors like in portland and places that are so badly run, chicago, new york city. you see what's going on over there. bailout cities and states who have been poorly run and spent a fortune doing it. they want a trillion dollars and we are really not interested in that. okay. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. >> let's go! >> come on, guys. >> thank you, jim, very much. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. i want to bring in experts to talk about this but a quick fact check on what the president said about hydroxychloroquine because he was not accurate at all

there. touting a study that's been discredited. touting a doctor who has touted studies not randomized or controlled so just do not take what he said as any sort of medical advice going contrary to what experts overwhelmingly say. i want to bring in jim acosta at the white house. you were there at that event with the president. >> reporter: i was. and we tried to ask him about why there is so many members of the coronavirus task force now contradicting him on almost a regular basis now coming to hydroxychloroquine or just a widespread nature of the coronavirus hi coronavirus here in the u.s. dr. birx was on cnn saying that the virus spreading so quickly around the country is because it is now seeped into both urban and rural areas, essentially can't escape it and as you saw he retreats to some of the same talking points and we should

note admiral giroir on the task force was on one of the sunday talk shows yesterday questioning the effectiveness of the hydroxychloroquine. a drug that the president has touted time and time again. how the president is citing studies that have been discredited by very senior and respects members of the public health community but this i think all comes out of and stems from the president for the first time really taking aim at dr. birx who up until just over the weekend had really been sort of a team player, not really questioning the president's statements publicly. that seemed to change over the weekend and i think that question about why there are members of the task force contradicting him, not just dr. fauci anymore. you heard the president talking about dr. fauci and tends to treat dr. fauci as a punching bag from time to time and not just him contradicting the president anymore and other members of the task force and

shows i think that some of the members of this task force are thinking of themselves, you know, we can't just stand idly by and let the president putt bad information out there to the american people and i think that is why you're seeing some of the other members of the task force contradicting him and news about tiktok saying if the platform with teenagers and so on is not sold to microsoft or some other acceptable company by september 15th that he is going to pull the plug on the social media platform in the u.s. but as you know you cover this as much as i do, the president makes threats but doesn't always follow through them on. >> he said they better buy basically the whole thing and not 30%, microsoft or another company he said. all right. you said he uses dr. fauci as a punching bag. he did that again and also misrepresenting the things that dr. fauci has said but he also trying to start with good news there about vaccines and

therapeutics and bringing in paul ofett from infectious diseases at children's hospital in philadelphia, as well. doctor, if you can speak to that, he said good news coming on therapeutics which we have heard good news on that, good news coming on vaccines. >> we don't know that yet. you have to give credit to the administration for one thing. we only had the strain that causes this infection covid-19 in january and now i really do think by the middle of next year we can have a vaccine to some extent is shown to be safe and effective. what the administration has done is right is that they basically taken the risk out of it for pharmaceutical companies. they would never have mass produced a vaccine without first showing that it worked and safe. that's great and what they should do is not blow it at the

end to say we can't let the phase three trials to finish up before we release them because if we do that and release them before they're ready and know enough to say that some level safe and effective then shake what the the confidence in the vaccine in this country. >> i look forward to the day i don't have to do a fact check again on hydroxychloroquine but unfortunately today is not that day because the president touting it again saying that it has tremendous support with certain doctors but politically toxic because people don't want him to be right about it. he pointed out that he's used it himself which is odd because, of course, it is not a prophylactic, not recommended for treating covid or a prophylactic. fact check the allegations there that this is something that's really good for treating coronavirus. >> it's perfectly reasonable to raise the question, could this particular drug treat covid-19? it's an answerable question and

answered in scientific venue. the way you answer it is take people who are similarly ill with this virus and either treat half with hydroxychloroquine and then don't treat the other hatch and see what happens. it is the scientific method. you have had three studies to show you're not better off with that drug than didn't receive it and frankly worse off with cardiac toxicities. i can only imagine that president trump either doesn't understand the scientific method or he has disdain for it. it is the scientific method that brought us into the age of enlightenment. >> and to that point, look. this is a new virus. everyone is searching for answers. and it's evolving as we get it but one of the studies and this is the study that they will point to which is the henry ford study. it was observational and it also treated patients with steroids and we know is an effective

treatment for many patients when it comes to coronavirus and he also highlighted a doctor from yale who we now know has been touting studies including one study that's discredited and others not randomized or controlled. why is it important to not focus on -- you know, what sounds great, a doctor of yale but read the fine print, it is not. >> yeah. the beauty of science is it doesn't matter what you believe. you have to -- doesn't matter what donald trump says or i say. only thing that matters is the data and you introduce bias and only way to know if a drug works is assign it to a group and another and make sure they're alook in terms of illness and see what happens. never is a value to say this person thinks this, this person thinks that, just do the study and then the data will tell you whether it works or doesn't work. >> yeah. doctor, thank you so much.

your expertise is so needed and appreciate it. back to you, jim, at the white house. the president made news. tell us, calling for someone to be fired. tell us about this. >> reporter: yes. this is an issue that he's been harping on over time. it didn't just come up today but the head of the tennessee valley author the president said is making too much money and the president before taking the questions talking to employees of the tennessee valley authority who are complaining that they are being replaced by foreign workers and the president again and again railed against the head of the tennessee valley authority saying that he makes $8 million a year so on and threatened in the remarks if the board of the tennessee valley authority does not replace this ceo that he will replace the board and during these remarks that the chief of staff mark meadows for the white house came into the room, handed the president a note card and the president said

he read it and claimed that it said something to the effect of a message coming from the tva ceo saying that they're going to try to rectify the problems that have been brought up but the white house and so the president is calling for the ouster of the tennessee valley authority. it is another example of the president trying to throw his weight around inside the federal bureaucracy but in this case and east tennessee with tva workers there isn't a whole lot of sympathy for the head of the tennessee valley authority and one thing is the event politicized toward the very end with a woman in the room who at one point referred to former vice president biden as slow biden. she appeared to be there for the tva event and the president went after the former vth so this was another one of those examples where an official white house event is politicized turned into

a campaign event on the taxpayers' dime. >> who was the guest of the president who said that? >> reporter: you know, i need to look this up in my notes. i just came out of the pool spray but it is a representative from an organization who does not want to see outsourcing of u.s. workers in the u.s. it is in my pool note and can find it for you and sebld it to you. sarah blackwell who works with protect u.s. workers matte this remark, described himself as a nationalist and there was a bit of that vibe in the room, as well, where the president tapping into some of the sen sentiment of foreign workers taking the u.s. jobs ofst work es. >> sorry. didn't mean to put you on the spot.

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we are entering a new phase of the pandemic, that is what dr. deborah birx said about a rise in the number of casses in rural america. let's bring in tom foreman to discuss this. tell us about what you're seeing. why is there this surge in rural america? >> reporter: we'll get to the why in a moment but first to address this notion that president ended the comments with the idea that again but this is basically an urban problem. dr. birx and others are making it's clear it's not the case. georgia, south carolina, north carolina, look how they started to spike up around early june. that is largely driven by, yes, there are cities and related rural problems. move across to louisiana, very

high plateau. staying there. keep going across to arizona. very high plateau, staying there. all of these are states that backed donald trump, all of them have large rural populations. why is that a esn issue right n? it is different than the cities with people around each other all the time and rural places people are naturally socially distant and aren't that many people to be around. but here are the big risk factors, older populations than you find in the rest of the country. they're more vulnerable. because they have older populations they have people with underlying health issues. things that can make it worse. they also have the potential for virus centers. if you talk about factories, meat packing plants, prisons. where do you put them? in the country. not middle of cities by and large. it is a huge problem in there

and rural america for a long time has had less access to ready health care, lower levels of healthen shurns combined with that and that's why the areas that supported donald trump is really at such risk now. brianna? >> thank you so much for walking us through that. in addition to rural america, large cities in the u.s. are major coronavirus hotspots including los angeles where an investigation is now happening after dozens of people attended a party at a bar for first responders. there were no masks, no social distancing. cnn reporters have that story and more from around the country. >> reporter: in los angeles, the department of public health is investigating this indoor party at a hollywood bar, held says the bar for first responders. cnn observed dozens of people there with no masks, no social distancing. california's bars if they are

serving indoors have been ordered closed to try to contain the covid crisis in the state. in a statement, l.a.'s public health department said no exceptions to this indoor bar usage ban and that this is, quote, exactly the situation that puts our entire community at unnecessary risk. >> reporter: i'm stephanie elam in california. the san francisco bay area counties on the state's monitors list meaning all indoor operations must be shuddered as they see an uptick in cases and optizations. the mayor of san francisco said contract tracers learning of moren door gatherings as people become complacent and an issue the counties responded differently easing from lockdown mode and another issue is the prisons. if you look at marin county part

of the br wiay area. last week texas congressman gohmert announced he tested positive for coronavirus and now he is criticized by his own daughter. gohmert's daughter in a post wrote that wearing a mask is a nonpartisan issue and that because her father ignored medical it's not worth following a president who has no remorse, leading his followers to an early grave. gohmert has said he will self quarantine until over the infection. i'm dianne gallagher in atlanta. the largest school dist rlktd in the state of georgia says roughly 260 of its employees can't work right now because they eethver covid-19 or have been exposed to a piece of it.

the districts says it does have contact tracing measures in place and determined most were case ochz community spread. but school is supposed to start in guwunet county although it's supposed to happen online. i'm kate bennet in washington. as president trump pushes for schools to reopen in person and on time across the country, the private school attended by his own son, barren trump, is not scheduled to reopen now until october 1st. based on an order from montgomery county, maryland's public health official, rising covid case numbers and scientific evidence is preventing private schools from opening on time. barren trump is scheduled to enter the ninth grade at his private school in maryland.

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perhaps over the next few weeks that will blow the whole industry away. >> a statement of minimum wage. >> in terms of? >> i think i'm going to have a very positive statement. you'll hear a lot more about it in the next two weeks. >> economics commentator and opinion columnist is joining me now. why does president continue to volunteer a two-week time frame when he's going to miss it? >> i think this is the yolo presidency. all that matters is the stock market today. his approval ratings today. he doesn't care about tomorrow, let alone two weeks from now. and this is not just a two-week deadline he has missed, it's arguably a five-year deadline, almost exactly five years ago on this network, he said he was going to propose a new health

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certain cases where we're paying them more to stay home than to work, it's created issues in the entire economy. >> you said he's saying this incentivize people not to work. is he right? >> in normal times, this would be a valid thing to worry about, right? you don't want to pay them more money to stay home than take a job. we have 30 million unemployed, many fewer jobs than that available. the primary reason people aren't working is they can't get hired and there have been five different studies from places like new york, berkeley, that have looked at this question of whether these generous unemployment benefits are disincentivising work and none of have found that to be the case under current conditions. >> thank you so much and i don't know. maybe we'll see you in two/maybe three weeks. >> who knows.