risk that somebody in a ballroom in new york city would have. you don't have the congestion. >> appreciation your time and i hope that you're right. thank you very much. appreciate it. thanks so much to all of you. anderson starts now. good evening. we start tonight with breaking news. president trump right now speaking from his golf club in bedminster new jersey, talks that appear to have collapsed in washington. if he takes questions, we'll bring it to you live. on a day the government reported the economy gained 1.8 million jobs in july but with unemployment rates above 10%, the president's moments ago lashed out at democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer for pushing for budget items he says have nothing to do with the virus but suggested he's still open to a deal. >> my administration continues to work in good faith to reach an agreement with democrats in

congress that will extend unemployment benefits, provide protections against evictions. a terrible thing happens with evictions, not fair. it wasn't their fault that we were infected with this disease from china, and get relief to american families. >> we're joined by jim acost a and maggie haberman. can you layout the plan from his side is? he's not actually enacting executive action but saying what he will do if congress doesn't reach an agreement, is that correct? >> that's what it sounds like so far based on the president's remarks he's laying down another warning to democrats up on capitol hill that if they don't come to an agreement with white house officials on someway forward on a coronavirus relief bill that he's going to take executive action. he's talking about suspending the payroll tax that americans pay in their paychecks and talking about enhanced unemployment benefits, as well

as putting in place some kind of moratorium on evictions in this country. it's unclear how the president could do any of those things for executive action, which may be one of the reasons why he didn't take those actions this evening but worth pointing out the president was continuing to engage in this sort of magical suspension of reality during this press conference. he was talking about how the virus is disappearing. he was describing testing in this country as tremendous even though people wait sometimes a week or longer to get test results for the coronavirus and so on. i think, anderson, we're seeing more of the same from this president. it's another day that ends and why. >> maggie, i'm wondering your reaction to the press conference. it seems like starting out it would be the president actually announcing some executive actions. now it just seems like it's him and again, it's kind of unclear him just threatening to. >> right. he hasn't gotten to questions yet, anderson. so far i don't think we've heard anything new.

he's not threatening to use executive action and authority to enact makct measures to prov relief to those suffering. it not clear what actual power he has to do any of this. i think there are people who are concerned in the president's orbit about an overly broad use of presidential power that's not really something that appeals to the president's base of support and also, look, i don't know what a great image it is if you're the president, this conversation is going on in washington. you're condemning leaders still in washington adding these conversations. the president has basically been a by stander for most of these discussions and delivering a speech or press conference or whatever it is from his private club with numbers looking on. so holding glasses of wine as people face threats of eviction and getting laid off. i understand his aids want him to seize on presidential moments. i'm not sure this is the way to do it. >> maggie, one of the things

he's pushing is the payroll tax cut, which is not something really republicans, certainly democrats don't want and not a lot of fans among republicans on capitol hill. >> anderson, that's exactly right. this is not something republicans wanted. they have tried to place this for many weeks now. there is not an interest among the republican caucus and speaks to the fact the president has been sort of a by stander to most of these negotiations but he's also separate from his own party in terms of these negotiations, something he wants a moratorium on evictions will appeal to a lot of people. i understand why he's pushing that but that wasn't part of the republican's initial offer. >> sanjay, i've discussed this many times and as jim mentioned, the president has been, you know, since the beginning saying this is just going to magically disappear and leave our shores, et cetera, et cetera. he said it in a way that someone he really leaned into it and made it seem like it's a done

deal and disappearing. let's listen. >> you need a magic want to get manufacturing jobs and we're getting them even in a pandemic, which is disappearing. it's going to disappear. >> is it disappearing? going to disappear? >> i mean, it's clearly not. i mean, the numbers are going up. i mean, this is one of those types of things, anderson, where there is numbers and data and objective sort of things to look at here and the numbers are going up and frankly, the numbers because we've had inadequate testing have gone up far more than we realize according to some of these studies as you know well, anderson. we talk about 5 million people potentially being infected. those are the confirmed infections. it can be five to ten times higher than that. no, it's a contagious virus and we didn't -- because we didn't contain it and we still have not contained it, it just continues to spread. not going away. >> sanjay, maggie mentioned the

numbers of people who are kind of in -- you know, brought into this room to watch the president make this. it looks like folks out golfing, this is them, i believe, it was -- these are pictures that were tweeted out. you see some kids there. you see a lot of older adults. there were a couple of people wearing masks but really most people were not and they were all obviously milling around and talking with each other above the new jersey indoor gathering capacity limit, which is supposed to be no more than 25 people gathered. there were more than that there. when these pictures were tweeted out, all of a sudden people from the campaign handed out masks so by the time the president got there, masks had been handed out because clearly -- or actually, we're told it was somebody from the club, not the campaign. somebody from the club handed out the masks. clearly, you know, they were aware these pictures were being tweeted out so they got people to put on masks.

what do you make of an indoor gathering like this? >> as you point out, first of all, just according to the law in new jersey, you're not supposed to have 25% capacity or more than 25 people and there is a mask ordinance, my understanding there as well. there is the legal part of it. but, you know, to your point, anderson, the idea is people don't think this is real. they're not physically distancing. they weren't wearing masks until they had to. they don't think this is real. they put masks on because they have to. they have to placate people. it's stunning to me. i see images like this on social media and other gatherings and stuff like that all the time. in clear defiance often times of what the law is or ordinance is but more of a suggestion with so many people infected and so many people who have died, there is a significant percentage of people that don't believe this is real. they won't get it. it doesn't affect them.

somebody else. >> 160,000, somebody else's. jim, the president saying congress needs to act. the talks have collapsed. been no progress, where do negotiations go from here? >> it's a very good question and i'm just hearing from a white house official in the last couple minutes the president is not expected to sign any kind of executive actions this evening and so it is essentially a continuation of the threat of executive action. he did say he was going to take some executive action later on next week with respect to health care saying he's going to sign an executive order mandating that insurance companies cover people with preexisting conditions. again, it's one of those situations where we're going to have to wait and see if that's ultimately what the president really does end up doing. in terms of where they stand now, democrats on capitol hill, house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer came out of the talks essentially saying they're potentially a trillion dollars

or more apart from mark meadows. if there is anything they agree on, they agree they are very far apart. while the white house wants what they call more of a skinny agreement, which is basically extending these enhanced unemployment benefits and that sort of thing, democrats would like to see aid to states and counties to pay forg getting kis back to school in a safer way and so on and the president dug his heels in and said no, he doesn't want to cover that thing. one interesting thing to talk about, anderson, to pick up on what maggie was talking about, concern about the president taking executive action, you have to go back and look during the 2016 campaign, then candidate trump went off on president barack obama for taking executive action on a whole slew of issues including immigration. to some extent if the president does this, he'll look like a hypocrite on that issue. >> the number of things that have been hypocritical, obviously, is quite long. but this, these alleged executive actions he has already

done a number of executive actions and to jim's point, he was -- he and frankly many republicans on capitol hill of course when president obama was doing executive actions were outraged. >> i guess i don't understand how the president thinks that he's going to help the court cases that have been taking place related to the affordable care act and preexisting conditions and whether those should be covered as he's going to sign an executive order saying they should be covered. these executive orders he keeps talking about signing, with the exception of the runs related to tech platforms that came yesterday, those did have a little bit of meat on the bones it seems. in general, these have been often times things that he has signed and they haven't had much by way. if you are the president and i understand again as i said before why he's pushing an eviction moratorium, i understand why he's doing it. he's a former landlord, current landlord. i understand why he's saying that. if he doesn't actually go

through with it. if you don't give relief to people and holding this out. that is going to rebound and for more conservative supporters that don't like federal government over reach and objected to obama using executive authority, i understand the president has often flip-flopped on things but his voters might get tired of it. we'll see. >> jim acosta, maggie haberman, sanjay. the pandemic is disappearing. i'll show you photos again of bedminster's patrons gathered around. a news reporter with routers gathered clearly not social distancing, wearing masks and the white house staff began handing out masks which began after reporters were tweeting out pictures of the lack of the mask wearing. joining us is a fellow infectious disease society of america and chair of the hiv medicine association and cnn

chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta is back. dr. feinberg, you'd like to see masks across america as would many people, those people currently wearing masks and wish everybody was on board with that. what do you make of what you saw in bedminster before they were suddenly handed masks? >> i thought that was extremely discouraging. being an infectious disease physician, masks are the most effective tool we have right now in addition to social distancing to get any control of this terrible pandemic. as you already noted, next week we'll have 5 million cases in the united states. we have already had exceeded 160,000 deaths. that's just an awful lot of people. models suggest that by the end of the year if things don't change. we'll have lost 300,000 lives. that is just a stunning loss.

there is an urgent need for a clear and consistent national help to slow the spread of the coronavirus. i seen something in every city and county should be making their own decisions about. >> dr. feinberg, we see the person now handing out masks to people. it's extraordinary to me and sanjay and i had a town hall about this. we talked to chris murray that does models for this and he said with the 300,000 figure by december, that 75,000 lives could be saved or 77,000 lives could be saved if 95% of these people wore masks from now until then which is extraordinary when you think about it you can quanti quantify, if you and your neighbors and people around you and other people across the country just stand up and be responsible and be good citizens and do this, however

inconvenient and itch ing or annoying it might be, you will save 70,000 plus people. it's stunning to me not everyone would be on board with that and stunning to me dr. feinberg you talk about clear messages, the president tonight saying it's going to disappear. it's disappearing already. >> he's been saying that for awhile. >> sure. >> i think that we saw that national guidance can make a difference that when the white house says it takes 15 days to slow the spread and areas people thought were quote unquote safe like rural areas are clearly suffering from the spread of the coronavirus and as a result, the infectious disease society of america is falling on this administration to issue a strong

federal directive that really, really sends for action for statewide mask requirements. there are 16 states that still have no requirements. you get in your car and drive ten miles to the other side of the border and be in the next state and things are completely different and i think that when you're facing a national public health problem, tragedy like this we need to be in this together. >> yeah. >> not piecemealing it. >> sanjay -- sorry. >> the same -- >> it's not a sense of working together as a society to do something. >> yeah. i mean, sanjay, you and i have talked about this, the messaging a all over the place from the white house and the president clearly wants it that way. he's not -- he under cut his own task forces very clear

guidelines and recommendations. >> yeah, i mean, it's been chaotic. i think, you know, i've been talking to people all day today different health officials in different states and a lot of people still try to figure out what to do with schools. they don't have clear guidance as you and i have talked about with various officials but there is still as dr. feinberg said, very different sort of policies and i would even say different attitudes towards different public health measures like masks. i imagine where you are because it got frankly so bad there, places have to red line and hospitals have to become overwhelmed and people have to near panic before they say okay, we'll do this now. we're starting to see some of that in the south now. these lessons have been painfully learned so many times but not being remembered and that's obviously a huge problem. >> as you say, sanjay, in new york i'm hardened going out

today walking around just the sheer numbers of people wearing masks if they didn't have the mask on, they had it hanging over the ear because they were talking to somebody on a block that wasn't busy at all. again, maybe it is just places where people have actually seen the death toll. they have seen what can happen but it shouldn't take that. i mean, people wear seat belts and it's mandated and you know what? people grumbled about it when it happened and now it normalized. >> yeah, totally. you paint the picture where you are and i will tell you where i am, it's a different sort of picture, anderson. i wear mask everywhere that i go, as you might imagine and i get funny looks, you know, around people are questioning why you're wearing it. do they think it's a political statement often. not everybody. there is a lot of that that happens and you can see exactly that difference. same country, same time, same pandemic, very different

attitudes towards a basic public health measure like this. so i mean, it's painful to say but it does seem like people do need to get to that point where they have to be confronted with this or slapped across the face with the reality before the change happens. >> i want to bring in jeff mason from reuters who was in the room at bedminster before and after the masks were handed out. jeff, if you can explain what you saw happening. who was this crowd? how many people were there? how were they brought there and how were the masks handed out? >> sure, there were several dozen people who came and they were present here at the president's golf club resort. we saw them coming down the stairs from the top floor and entering into the room where the press conference was held before the press was brought then. then the press was brought in and we were preparing for the press conference. they did not have masks on

initially and after that and before the president walked in, masks were handed out and they did put them on. there were -- we figured there were at least 100 people between those visitors, the press, secret service and white house staff in this m radroom. >> right, which is obviously more -- you're not supposed to have gathering of more than 25 people in new jersey by law. a reporter asked the president about the president said it disappearing, it's going to disappear. a reporter i know asked him about how it's disappearing when 6,000 people died this week. what did he say? >> yeah, he was asked about that and he sort of brushed that off and he was also asked a terrific question about the issue we're talking about, which is setting the example with this many people in this room and that led him to say no, there are exceptions for political activity, which is true in new jersey. but it is interesting he calls this official white house press conference a political event. it was not a rally.

it was put together by the white house but it sort of was turning into that and he referenced that and called it a peaceful protest. again, as a justification for the group of people that were allowed to be in this room without social distancing. >> jeff mason, appreciate your reporting. thank you very much and dr. judith feinberg and sanjay will stick around. up next, randi kaye on how reliable the testing is or isn't. that is coming up next. into a smaller life? asthu are your asthma treatments just not enough? then see what could open up for you with fasenra. it is not a steroid or inhaler. it is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. it's an add-on injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. nearly 7 out of 10 adults with asthma may have elevated eosinophils. fasenra is designed to target and remove eosinophils,

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updating breaking news. president trump speaking from his golf club says the coronavirus is disappearing. siting no evidence. it not happening. this time over the accuracy of coronavirus testing on thursday ohio governor mike da wine was scheduled to meet with visiting president trump in cleveland, positive coronavirus test prevented the meeting and the governor said a more sensitive test was conducted. he was negative. randi kaye with the confusion sometimes caused by testing. >> we have the best testing anywhere in the world. >> reporter: if that's true, why are so many coronavirus test results wrong? >> the fda basically has created a wild wild west environment for this testing where under their approval process and emergency basis, they have tests on the market that basically have a very, very wide range of results. >> reporter: part of the trouble with the standard nasal swab test is the virus isn't always

lurking in the nasal passage so a swab test may show the person is virus free, even though the virus might be in the lungs or maybe the intestens. >> the quality vary as great deal. that's a challenge if you get a negative result, is it really negative. >> reporter: other factors that could affect the accuracy of the test include the stage of the disease. a boston pathologist tells cnn there is window of about one week to catch the virus. human error in administering the tests and how the swab is transported may also lead to a false negative. on top of the inaccuracies, results are often delayed. here in florida residents waited days, sometimes weeks to get results possibly allowing the virus to spread which is why there is so much excitement about the rapid tests which return results in just minutes. there are several rapid tests on the market but the president toted this one in march. >> the fda authorized a new test

developed by abbott labs that delivers lightning fast results in as little as five minutes. that's a whole new ball game. >> reporter: trouble is, abbott's id now rapid test used at the white house has proven to be less accurate. back in may, researchers at nyu found abbott's rapid test returned a false negative nearly 50% of the time so they deemed it unacceptable for their patients. on its website abbott said the nyu study is inkconsistent with others that show it's unreliable. the fda received 176 reports of adverse events related to abbott's id now test, ten state health agencies said they specifically recommend or require individuals that test negative on the rapid device be retested. still, some experts including scientists believe despite the

inacurcuratcies shown, it's sti better to have more tests. quantity over quality they say may be our best hope. randi kaye, cnn, palm beach, florida. >> sanjay is back to talk about testing and coming in contact with the president is not 100% accurate. possibly, do we know how accurate it is and in your opinion is that an acceptable level of risk for the president? >> well, you know, there is two things that's interesting because governor da wine had this test to meet with the president and the test he called is called an antigbountigen tes that's 20%. 20% of the time it gives a false negative. so that means someone actually has the virus but are told they don't have the virus. that's a false. that's obviously a problem, right? if that's a test they are using, someone could easily test

negative for the virus which makes the case, this is obvious you can't rely on the test alone. ideally if this test result comes back positive, that's a pretty good indicator you in fact do have the virus. it a lot lower false positive rate. those people need to be isolated. contact traced, that stuff is,you bring down the overall trajectory of the outbreak. >> the governor i assume had a false positive. >> well, we don't -- i mean, his story is confusing because he had an antigen test which again they had a false negative about 20% but the false positive is pretty low actually on those. it one of those things if you find the virus you can be pretty confident you in fact have the virus. if you don't find the virus, you didn't find it. it doesn't necessarily mean you don't have it. it means you didn't find it if that makes sense. so his story is a little

confusing. >> are there better testing options available for the white house? >> it is a situation now two things. i was doing reporting on this today. first of all, you do trade speed and accuracy a little bit. when you increase speed of these tests you do decrease accuracy a bit and that's part of the issue with these abbott tests that randi kaye was just talking about but also these antigen tests. the larger point i think anderson is that we have the same discussion several months ago at that point ambassador burkes and others said we'll have major big breakthroughs in testing. and they have had more testing types available but we still don't have the really rapid accurate point of location testing. it can happen. i mean, you can get really high accuracy tests that are much quicker and cheaper and all of that. we just haven't been, you know, creating those. there is tests we're keeping an eye on that may becoming out getting authorization over the next couple months but, you

know, we're six, seven months into this now. >> we've seen the number of tests that has gone down across the u.s. in recent days. does that make sense? >> no, i mean, demand goes up and the testing goes down. i mean, that's the exact opposite where it should go. so part of this could be that the storms we are told may have had an impact on overall testing. the hurricane going up the eastern seaboard. the tropical storm. there is some i.t. issues. there is some i.t. issues that have actually reported some results. there is a backlog of tests and different things contributing to this but you're right, the overall number of test haves gone down to i think just around 700,000 now, down about 10% compared to last week. >> sanjay, thanks so much. appreciate it. a teacher interrupts the minnesota governor at a news conference and tells him she's scared. i'll talk with that teacher tonight. why she did that and what the governor told her next.

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to minnesota's governor on thursday by a middle schoolteacher in the state. >> thank you executive director. >> she's scared, that's what the person said. democratic governor tim waltz left to talk to that teacher and hear her concerns. that teacher ellen grola joins us now. did i totally mangle your last name, ellen? >> no, you got it the second time. ellen garola, thanks for having me. >> as schools reopen, there is so much uncertainty and fears. why did you decide to speak out. it's obviously a brave thing to do to interrupt a press conference. >> well, i had actually been taking to my -- took my son to the dentist in the same building and we got off the elevator and i saw waltz turning the corner

to the building and so i thought oh my gosh, there is governor waltz, but his security and everything was there, so i took my son and we walked out and put him in his car seat but the whole time i'm thinking i wish i would have said something. and i even called a teacher friend or texted and said i just saw governor waltz, i should have said something. so i turned around and i thought okay, what am i going -- >> you actually turned around and decided to go back and say something during the press conference. when you finally were able to talk to him, what did you say? are your concerns? >> the main thing i've been in teacher facebook groups and for just even teachers in our district and also concerned we feel like we don't really know clearly what's happening. we are not really being the communication, we all have so many questions and asking us to go back. we just want schools to be safe

and these hybrids rolling out, i said it not necessarily what we thought and a lot of us don't feel safe and we want to open and do it safely. and i think he expressed yes, you shouldn't feel that way. teachers need to feel safe. i shared with him personal stories of teachers in our district who are going back even though they are really high risk and risking their lives because we still don't know from our district whether they will be able to teach from home or on personal leave or not. >> right, if you're a teacher who has concerns, you know, if you have a medical issue can you as a teacher say you know what? i can't do this. i'd like to teach from home. is that an option for you? >> we're being told, you know, that's why i wanted to talk to governor waltz because we have a whole thread in some of these facebook groups of questions we have from teachers from all over multiple districts saying i don't understand, like do i have

to choose between an income, putting my family at risk or being able to do what i love which is teach? and the message we thought is you'll be able to do distance learning, child care putting other people at risk watching my own child is scary. i would say we don't really understa understand. we haven't gotten a clear message from our district. ours is the biggest in the state and confused what it means and asked for medical histories. so. >> when does school open again? >> couple weeks, first week of september, i believe. >> it's got to be scary. >> yeah, i think when i talked to waltz, that emotion and what came out is finally being able to convey is this is what i'm

feeling and i've read nasty things saying teachers don't want to work. we want to work. all summer i've been working on over 160 postcards to send to my former students who are going into ninth grade to tell them i'm thinking of them and care about them that i need to mail. teachers were up all night in these facebook groups just saying does anyone know anything? do i have to choose between my family what happens if i get sick. >> yeah. >> who will -- and we have so many questions that aren't being answered and i understand it's new territory for everybody. >> you deserve answers. i mean, it's ridiculous you wouldn't be able to get answers. >> yeah. >> it's so lovely you're sending notes to your former students going to ninth grade to wish them well. ellen, i wish you the best and would like to continue to check in with you and hope you get answers soon. >> thank you.

we appreciate it. >> we go to georgia where schools have reopened. a high school student has fought back after coming under fire for posting a photo on social media raising concerns. more from gary tuchman. >> reporter: a jam packed high school hallway as students many of whom are not wearing masks change classes. sophomore hanna waters took the photo and posted it on twitter. >> i took it out of mostly concern and nervousness after seeing the first day of school. >> reporter: the high school in dallas, georgia about 45 miles northwest of atlanta had the first day of school this week. while many countries in the school have or will have mandates for mask wearing, this one does not. >> i was concerned for the safety of everyone in that building and everyone in the county. >> reporter: after hanna posted the picture, she was told she had been suspended for violating simple parts of the school's code of conduct, only one of which she acknowledges, violating students' privacy by taking a picture and posting it

on social media but channels the late georgia congressman john lewis. >> i like to say that this is some good and necessary trouble so i don't regret this because it needed to be said. >> reporter: school officials have not responded to cnn but in the letter to parents, the superintendent does admit there is no question that the photo does not look good but he also says he believes the photo is being shown out of context to credit size the schools' reopening efforts and he defends the lack of a mask mandate by making this debatable statement. wearing a mask is a personal choice. and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them. and the school's principal made another statement according to hanna and her mother, a personal one. calling hanna's mother and telling her the suspension is overturned and a suspension will not appear on her daughter's record. >> behind every teacher, student and staff member there is a family. there is friends, and i just

want to keep everyone safe. >> reporter: hanna matters will be back at school on monday. gary tuchman cnn, atlanta. ahead an 8-year-old boy and his mom shared his amazing recovery and incredibly difficult and dangerous experience he had linked to covid-19. he suffered two strokes, had heart surgery and other complications. he's here to tell us about it next. tist, i appreciate what makes each person unique. that's why i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. almost done. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

as the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. approaches 5 million, we focus our survivors. we have the story of a brave and strong man. he's jordan hutchens, 8-year-old from new york came down with multi system inflammatory syndrome, a rare illness associated with covid-19 found in kids. jordan faced a ton of complications including heart surgery. he fought to live. he joins me tonight with his mom abo beverly. great to see you both looking healthy and happy. i understand it was may 15th you come home, jordan had a fever. you gave him tylenol. you had a zoom call with the pediatrician. they said just watch his fever, give him tylenol. you watched him over the weekend on and off. fever continued. monday jordan says i'm having

trouble breathing, you say we're going to the hospital. by tuesday, he's on a ventilator. >> correct. >> that's so fast. you must have been beside yourself. >> i was scared. i was scared. i was, you know, i didn't know what to think. i didn't know what was happening. >> at that point everyone said kids aren't affected. >> at that point, even i believed that. because the entire family, my husband, my older son, we were all sick back in april, and he didn't have any symptoms, any problems, anything. and then weeks later, this just started, and i thought it would just run it course just like ours did and -- but no. you know, i rushed him to children's hospital in new york and that's when the nightmare began. >> and jordan, i mean, everybody who knows you is so proud of

you, your family, the doctors, i mean, how are you doing? do you remember your time in the hospital? >> yes. >> what was the best think about getti -- thing about getting out of the hospital? >> i could see my whole family again, especially my cat. >> what is your cat's name. >> simba. >> cool. we're seeing video of when you left the hospital. it's nice. there is a lot of people applauding for you. is there something special you wanted to eat or do when you got out? >> yeah, after when we got out, there was a whole parade of firefighters and police officers and these came, too. >> pizza. so beverly, there is still so many unknowns about covid-19 and multi system inflammatory syndrome in kids and i believe you're a health care worker, as well, if i'm not wrong, what

happened? he gets put on a ventilator. then what -- how long did this go on for? >> we were -- let's see. the 18th of may is when we went to the hospital, and on the the 18th of may is when we went to the hospital. his breathing wasn't getting better, and even with the ventilator things were just not happening. and so the doctors, they came to me and they told me that they wanted to put him on an ekmo machine to help the machine pump his lungs and heart for him so he could rest. they did that. basically everything happened so quickly. the ventilator. the ekmo machine, the kidney

failure, he was on dialysis. his pancreas was inflamed. everything happened so fast, but it actually turned around that quickly. >> wow! >> he was on the ventilator from tuesday -- exactly one week, seven days from the time we went to the hospital. the ekmo, i forgot he had heart surgery and two strokes. all of this happened within seven days all of this transpired. >> were you able to be with him? >> yes. i am forever grateful to the hospital that my husband and i -- we were able to -- monday through friday i was there, and he was able to come on the weekends. we were forever grateful. the most heart wrenching thing

is to not be there with your child or your loved one. but not at this hospital. the parents are able to be there with their kids. >> when you hear politicians saying, kids are immune. it's got to -- how does that make you feel? >>. >> like i said in the beginning, i thought, yeah, i thought that maybe kids are immune, until my child took ill and -- i don't know maybe the numbers are not that high, i don't know why they keep saying that, i know for my son that was not the case. so -- >> what a blessing that you're home together. thank you so much, and jordan, it's great to see you. i wish you the best. and i hope you get some pizza tonight. you probably already had something. >> thank you. >> thanks very much, see you later. >> thank you. >> so adorable. up next, how china and

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breaking news, the top u.s. intelligence officials are warning china, russia and iran are all trying to earner fear with the upcoming presidential election. what do we know about this intelligence assessment? >> this was a very unusual statement from the top elections security official in the director of national intelligence office. what he was warning about today is the activity of china, russia and iran. they've all apparently chosen their favorite candidates in the 2020 election. he says, we assess that russia is using a range of measures to denigrate former vice president biden and what it sees as an

anti-russia establishment. this is along the lines of what we saw from the russians in 2016 when they were trying to hurt the campaign of hillary clinton and trying to boost the campaign of president trump. with regard to china. china prefers if president trump who beijing sees as unpredictable does not win re-election. according to the intelligence community. the information they have, is that the chinese are doing a variety of things, including working behind the scenes on social media, trying to take on anyone who is criticizing china. with regard to iran, it appears what they're trying to do is more sow division among americans. and in some ways also trying to hurt president trump's campaign. >> president trump responded to the russian part of the assessment tonight. let's take a look. >> i think the last person russia wants to see in office is

donald trump because no one has been tougher on russia than i have, ever. >> well, that's not -- >> i don't care what anybody says. >> evan? >> that is obviously not exactly true. one of the frustrations for people inside the administration has been that the president has pulled his punches whenever he talks to russian president vladimir putin. he's not brought up anything about russian interference in the election in quite some time. it's quite the opposite of what the president portrays. >> or even the alleged bounties offered to the taliban. >> exactly. >> startling. i mean, it still seems like the intelligence community does not have the support of the white house, is reflected in the president's comments. >> right, and that's where it gets complicated. if you're talking to the people who are the career people who are trying to protect this

country, they believe they have a job to do. as far as responding. they don't know what he will respond to. welcome to prime time. repeating lies is a very effective way to sell them. he doesn't get checked every time he says something that's untrue. right now especially, he must. the only thing worse than this president's inaction is his active deception about the reality and this statement from the president of the united states is a lie. >> a pandemic which is disappearing, he's going to disappear. recent cases are up because we're doing -- one of the reasons, we're doing a lot of testing.