the president orders new coronavirus relief. >> i'm taking executive action. we've had it. >> executive action because talks on a bigger package collapsed. >> they're nickel and diming us. >> plus, back to school stress. >> if the teachers aren't safe, then the students aren't safe, then the community is not safe. >> it's a work in progress. but to just stay home and not be able to deliver education is not

an option. as joe biden picks his running mate, new democratic voices hope he's listen ~il. >> it's time for regular, everyday people to have a voice. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to viewers around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. the coronavirus in the united states will pass 5 million infections today. the experts now project the united states death toll will hit 300,000. that's the population of pittsburgh before christmas. despite those numbing numbers, this in a south dakota town this weekend, the 80th sturgis motorcycle rally. to some a tradition of freedom. >> we got the first amendment, we got the bill of rights. we love it, right? we're here to live it. tell people what the risks and dangers are and let them decide and expect them to be responsible. >> to others that event a

reckless affront to common sense and a likely coronavirus super spreader. schools are another flash point right now and we'll dig deeper into that debate in a moment. but first the president and the coronavirus, and how risky it is to believe what he says. he is facing executive orders because of disagreements over financial help during the pandemic. he said it would be a $400 weekly unemployment bonus, a payroll tax holiday for those making $100,000, an extension of a federal evictions moratorium, and additional student loan relief. >> we're doing $400 a week extended benefits. we should have been able to do this with the democrats, but they wanted all these additional things that had nothing to do with helping people.

nancy pelosi and chuck schumer has chosen to hold this vital assistance hostage on behalf of very extreme partisan demands. >> a lot of politics there, but if you actually take the time to read what the president signed, you discover something quite different. the unemployment bonus plan relies on states putting up money they say they don't have. plus a lot of experts, even a lot of republicans question the legality of that plan. and what the president called an evictions moratorium is no such thing. the document he signed is recommending existing powers try to help renters. top dem kralts callocrats calle house actions a stunt more than a plan. this from speaker of the house nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who were disappointed instead of putting in the works to solve america's problems, the president himself decided to stay at his luxury golf course

to announce plans to slash the unemployment benefits that americans desperately need and endanger seniors' social security and medicare. tulou, i want to start with you. the president said, i'm going to sign these documents. i want to help people because these collapsed. but this is a president who said the pandemic would be gone soon, the case count would be down to zero. if you read what he signed, it's not what he said it was. is there a point where republicans can't get away with this anymore? >> there is no strategy here. you're not seeing a national strategy, you're seeing day in, day out, i talk to trump campaign officials who say we're trying to win every new day until the election. that's what the president is

trying to do, not having a long-term strategy but saying if i can get the cameras in front of me showing me signing something that's consequential, then the american people will see me taking action. but when you look at the actual text of what he signed, there is not actually much of what he's doing in terms of getting people money, getting people eviction relief, getting people support that they need in terms of cutti cutting taxes. he's delaying taxes and people know there will be a big tax bill at the end of the year. so he's trying to do the optics of the presidency, trying to win this with how it looks optically, but not do what he said he would do as a candidate in 2016 which is get all different sizes in the room, lock the door, come up with a solution and be the great dealmaker that he said he was. now instead of making deals, we're seeing him take executive

actions that are not as powerful as legislation. >> i get, julie, that this president has a casual relationship with the truth. that has been the case as a candidate and now as president. the part i don't get is their own self-interest. they have to understand on the campaign staff that we're going to read these things, that members of his own party, like senator sasse, are going to say, no, this is what obama tried to do with executive actions. it doesn't work, it's not legal, and the democrats are going to put the final one to the test. you can't fool people about getting an unemployment check. they either get it or they don't. >> i think this all stems from the fact that the president and the people around him really understand that he has no good options here. it would have been in his self-interest and their self-interest to have negotiated a deal with democrats to get this recovery package passed. it's been a bit of an irony watching these negotiations over the last couple weeks, and of course everyone wants the economy to bounce back, but one

would think that the president, who is up for re-election in three months, would have a big investment in wanting that to happen and would want to seriously engage in these talks so they could get a result. but that didn't happen, so now you have to question what the wisdom is of their strategy here, because as you say, people are not going to get these checks in the same way they were every week, $600, which a lot of people depended on. they may not see this tax relief. they may not have a ban on evictions and people may not be able to pay their rent. but the president thinks that he will get the credit for having nudged them forward, and even if they don't, some republicans will blame the democrats for having stood in the way and forcing his hand even if it wasn't quite enough. >> how do the democrats handle

this? you saw pelosi and schumer saying, a, it's a scam, it's not what the president said it was, and b, it doesn't get to key issues like funding for schools, funding for security, benefits and the like. the convention is coming up. joe biden says, this is no art of the deal, this is not presidential leadership. these are not solutions. they are just another cynical ploy to deflect responsibility. some measures do far more harm than good. democrats are saying, no, nice try. what now for the democrats? do you say, let's get back to the table, or do you say, you know what, what the president signed here doesn't do as it says. let it play out. >> the democrats are definitely not without risk in this entire process, and i think they realize they have said they are willing to come down $1 trillion

from their original ask if the president was willing to go up $1 trillion. they have shown they are willing to negotiate. they have a large unity in their caucus, unlike the republicans are split on whether or not to do anything at all, so they seem to be trying to attack the president saying his payroll tax would essentially defund social security. they're using that talking point to attack this plan. they're essentially saying if the president wants to actually help americans, he should get back to the negotiating table, come up with a deal, a deal is to be had. there are a lot larger areas of agreement and they're trying to say they're still willing to negotiate. that seems to be their tactic here while also bashing the president for his executive actions that don't solve the problem. >> it's an interesting question, julie, just how they're deciding to do this. the president loves this. the problem is do people that have to decide if he gets four

more years? he's at his golf club. he has to invite people in the room with the reporters, so they laugh at his jokes. he got testy yesterday when he was corrected by paula reid of cbs news. he said he signed the law for veterans, the va choice. president obama signed that in 2014. but he's using these events. it should be executive actions for the coronavirus help. he said, i couldn't cut a deal with the democrats because they wanted this. >> they want to try to steal this election because frankly it's the only way they could win the election. the bill also requires all states to do universal mail-in balloting, which nobody is prepared for. basically what they're trying to do with all these requirements, including no signature verificati verification, they're trying to steal an election. >> one thing he does do is keep

the fact checkers in business. if you read the paper, it's not what he promised, but most of the event was an airing of his grievances. >> for the second evening in a row, he had what was essentially a political rally sort of disguised as or billed as a news conference and talking about the economy. it was a bit ironic because he's at his private golf club, as you said, and toluse saw that firsthand. our colleagues in the press kept us apprised of what the scene was there of people sipping wine and applauding him, and him blasting democrats. actually, some of these orders he put out yesterday kind of read like political documents less than they did like official presidential statements, and clearly he is looking for a forum to, you know, tout these claims he just played about the election being stolen. there is no evidence of that. the one thing he was right about, though, is that a lot of states aren't prepared for the amount of mail-in voting that's going to be needed, and that's why democrats and some republicans have been pressing

for more money for that in the recovery package which, of course, he has pushed back against. it was a pretty interesting forum for signing executive orders that were billed as helping ordinary americans who lost jobs and are really struggling in this recession. >> the debate on every point discussed will continue. we'll see how it plays out. julie and toluse, i appreciate you coming out on a sunday morning. the nation's largest school district now cleared to reopen. there are already some new lessons and coronavirus cases in districts already back in class. excellence crème by l'oréal paris. three steps for one hundred percent gray coverage. and rich, radiant color. oh my god, i'm so happy! excellence crème, by l'oréal paris. we're all worth it. ♪water? why?! ♪ ahhhh!

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different areas of the country are making different decisions about getting back in the classroom. much more encouraging than last sunday. it doesn't mean challenges aren't ahead, but six dates trending up. that means more coronavirus cases this week than last week. 25 states, half of the united states, trending down, trending down. better, better. still challenges ahead, but this is a better map than we had last sunday. however, most school districts decisions are made at the local level, not the national level, so this map might be helpful where you live. if it's red or orange, that means you have more cases. if it's lighter, that means you're improving. these are communities the coronavirus task force is worried about because the percentage of positive tests are going up. see where you live in the country and decide, is it safe for my children to go back in the classroom? that's part of the debate. if you watch this play out, some states have already reopened schools in indiana, mississippi,

georgia and north carolina. schools have reopened and inevitably they have coronavirus cases. how do you handle that? do you keep kids in quarantine? do you shut things down or keep them going? cnn is tracking 160 school districts in the country. here's what we know so far. 16 of them start all online. 17 all online or in person, 11 hybrid. 3 undecided. how can schools reopen? because new york now is at a much better place. you can see they have flattened the curve. this is the data a lot of school districts say to watch. the positivity rate, new york can reopen because its positivity rate in tests way, way down, around 1% right now, somewhere in that ballpark. what about indiana? that is a castate where the cas

count is still rising. friday a single high of new cases. numerically not a huge number, but that's a trend line you do not want. also take a look here. the positivity rate. you take a test in indiana, what percentage are coming back positive? it's just below 10%, trending up a little bit in recent days. near 10% in indiana, down almost a flat line in new york. listen to the new york city school superintendent. he runs the largest public school district in the country. he says this number is what he will keep an eye on. >> we are going to be looking like hawks at these numbers. and if the numbers -- the positivity rates are inching upward, and if it gets to 3%, we will remote learn for the entire system. so we have a number of protocols that we've already worked through, and we're very conservative about it. it's a matter of life and death for our children and those who serve our children. >> joining us now to discuss this challenge, the indiana school superintendent, jennifer

mccormick. superintendent, grateful for your time. i know you're very busy. you just heard the new york city commissioner say he's going to watch the positivity rate. some of your schools are open. what are you looking at tracking, and i'm just asking straight up, what's your biggest worry? >> yeah, so many of our schools have already started. we have several that have pushed it back until after labor day, but of all that have started, only 41 of our districts are going to go 100% virtual. just like you said, we're watching the positivity rates, we're watching the trends, we're watching closely the regional activity as it is very different in some of our areas versus some of our urban, more populated areas. it is a challenge but we're watching things closely along with many of the health departments. >> is it a statewide standard, or is it up to each local school district to decide what the trigger is? you heard the new york commissioner say 3%. we get to 3% positivity, no more kids in the classroom. is that your decision, the governor's decision, or every

school district? >> it's interesting, we only have one health department county, which is our largest district in indiana, that has set that mitigation threshold. health departments and other districts are kind of left to themselves to set those thresholds and we have not seen that to date. we have asked for that for statewide help and assistance from the state health department, from the governor's office. we feel it's obviously a medical issue that you're putting a lot of districts in difficult situations. >> if you look at polling, and i applaud you for what you're doing. there are people who will disagree with what you do, not my job. i know how hard your job is right now and you have people going through this. you have people open schools, you have parents say don't open schools. 56% feel it's unsafe to send kids back to school. 71% are uncomfortable with kids in a full classroom. 16% think school should be fully

in person. a big debate. what is your word for parents, especially with districts that have reopened and you've had cases? >> it's interesting, we had 30 to 40% of our families who felt unsafe and they were going to opt for the virtual option. now that the numbers aren't looking good and the trends are going up, that percentage is higher, so many of our districts are relying on that dual platform of parent choice. but this week our governor's office and our general assembly came out and there is a little bit of squabble over reducing our funding if we don't open our doors. so that is a concern when we're starting to hear those threats of funding and we're also getting that from d.c., and honestly, it's not helpful. >> not helpful when you have politicians essentially trying to impose their will on you as opposed to letting you make this decision, because that's why you're the superintendent. am i reading that right? >> that is correct, and also you have a lot of health departments put in the middle of that, a lot

of local superintendents put in the middle of that. i was a local superintendent. i would not appreciate the threat of money being put over my head in a pandemic. >> you said districts get to decide when to pull back. what about quarantining in the school? is it just kids in the classroom, kids who were exposed in the hall? how do you do the contact tracing and decide, all right, this school had a case, no yw w do what? >> i commend the health department, they have been helpful in those decisions. one child, one adult, several adults come up positive, what does that look like for contact tracing? i'll be honest, that is reliant on a testing system that gives you really quick, reliable results, and it also is reliant upon a lot of people participating in contact tracing. that has probably been our biggest struggle to date for

schools is the contact tracing piece. it requires a lot of people and participants to -- who are willing to help us out with that. >> it's a sad echo we've had through the months, testing and contact tracing, and now our kids are going back to school and we still hear from people like yourself that it remains a problem. jennifer mccormick, good luck as you approach this challenge. >> thank you. some rising democratic stars out of wisconsin and michigan join us too assess the battleground stakes and the coronavirus impact on campaign 2020. now, staying home isn't just staying in the place they love. it's staying safe. home instead. to us, it's personal. olay's new serum is so powerful, won. home instead. it renews skin better than $300, $500, even $600 serums.

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joe biden makes a very consequential choice this week, and he will make it facing additional pressure because of a comment some took as insulting or disrespectful to black voters. >> unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions, the latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. >> five women are said to be on top of biden's running mate l t list, senator kamala harris, tammy duckworth, karen bass, susan rice and governor gretchen whitmer. governor barnes of wisconsin, let me start with you. you're both african-american and rising stars in the republican party. when joe biden says something like that and then has to clean it up, saying i did not mean to

offend anybody, i respect the african-american community, what goes through your mind? how big of a problem is it? >> one thing i would say is unlike the president, joe biden is the person who acknowledges mistakes. if he says something wrong, he apologizes for it. i wouldn't expect him to get things right 100% of the time. joe biden is not necessarily a stranger to gaffes, but it's how you respond to incidences when those comments are made. are you going to own up and be responsible for what comes out of your mouth, and that's one of the many differences of joe biden as president, accepting responsibility. >> and senator gilchrist, how do you respond to this when we lived through 2017, the president saying we don't deserve any black votes. it's like hiring the arsonist to be the fire chief. but we do know that in 2016 they

used digital ads and the like to try to convince african-americans, just don't vote. if you don't like donald trump, you shouldn't like hillary clinton, either, just don't vote. is that a problem now for biden? >> no, i think, one, stepping up and taking responsibility for the comments, that's a great thing. what's even more important is the vice president has put together a comprehensive agenda to respond to the needs of people of color. donald trump has been a dangerous disaster for black people. look no further than the actions he took yesterday, so he needs to step up. >> let me stick with you, governor gilchrist. i call you governor, that's your formal title, but your boss, governor whitmer, is on the vice president's list. she flew to delaware to meet with biden, one of the

finalists. the remarks he just made, do you believe he should pick a woman of color, or do you believe your governor would be a better choice? >> i think joe biden needs to make this very deep and personal decision based on who is going to be his best partner and who is going to help him implement an agenda for the american people, including people of color. people of color voted for joe biden because they know he'll be responsive to them in the primary, and i expect that will continue in the general, so he needs to have the best partner to help him do that, regardless of who he chooses. >> do you have a preference, governor barnes? >> we're going to need a vice presidential candidate with a vision, one who is going to back joe bid on hen on his plan and out that vision. i think it's up to us to be as

bold as we possibly can in this moment of taking on the big fights of who is going to be the vice presidential chase and the best. >> we know this campaign is going to play out in the context of the pandemic, and you guys have been kind enough to come on before and talk about the challenges in your states. i want to stick with you, governor barnes, for a minute, and look at wisconsin right now. wisconsin had gotten the numbers down a little bit, then you're part of this summer surge. you see right here your numbers are up again. a lot of states in the midwest are going through this right now. a lot of things i saw in the research over the weekend is a lot of your local health officials in wisconsin are training the number of tests are down because they say supplies are being diverted in other states. is that a fact, six months in you still can't get the supplies you need to have adequate testing? >> like you said, numbers were going down, then we saw numbers surge, so the picture is a little bit different right now. but more than anything, we need help from the federal government. that's been the case from the start. we need a plan from the federal government to keep out of this

in the first place, to keep the united states out of the dire financial situation we're in in the first place. but president trump hasn't responded. you can look at national guard funding where some states are going to have to kick in 25% funding to institute these tests while some states get 100% of funding. this is an acknowledgment of donald trump's willingness to play politics with people's lives, and that's all he's done. we are seeing this in realtime as people become ill with this virus and people lose their lives. >> to you, lieutenant governor gilchrist, same question. in the context if you look at the michigan numbers, in june you were going down and you see this trickle up. a plateau at the moment but still an area of concern. children are going back to school, numbers going up like

this. we learned in the reporting in the "washington post" today that white house chief of staff mark meadows is one of those questioning masks, saying, i don't see the science behind it. i know in your state you had an episode this week where an elected official questioned the efficacy of masks and blamed a certain community for it. walk us through that. >> well, it's just yet another chapter in the way too long book of donald trump's disastrous response and deadly response to covid-19, or frankly, lack thereof. the science on masks is clear. it is the simplest thing we can do. si it's a seat belt to help protect people from dying of coronavirus. that's why we issued a mandate for masks in michigan, and that's why michigan has stepped up and done what they need to do. that's why the numbers are going down. but the continuous failure of the trump administration to step up for people is why we are here, why things are keeping back up, but we've done what we can in michigan, and the people of michigan are stepping up and they're frankly rejecting that

the federal government's failure is putting our communities in jeopardy, so we're doing everything we can at the state level to be prepared for fall. i have second graders right now who are thinking about what happens for school in our state, but across the country and am michigas -- in michigan, if we wear our masks and have supplies and the federal government doesn't cut them off, we can get rid of this and get treatment. >> governors, best of luck in the days ahead. the case count improves some, but a drop in testing has some experts worried new spikes are lurking. what getting fueled with three energy packed proteins feels like. meat! cheese! and nuts! p3. because 3 is better than 1

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curve, you see we were down here, 17,355 cases on june 1st but then began the summer surge, up to a high, just shy of 80,000 cases on july 13th. now we're down to right around 60,000. let's bring in doctors to share our expertise. from brown university and global health institute. doctor, with we've talked about this for months now. at what point can we say we have the virus under control? that is not control, right? if it's a plateau, it's a plateau at too high of a baseline? >> good morning, john. thanks for having me on. there are two parts of that. one is absolutely right, it's a plateau at too high of a baseline. it's still going to be many, many hundreds, thousands of americans dying every day, so that's not okay. the second is we've had a real dropoff in testing.

if you look at cases like texas where cases have come down, tests has gone down even more and positive cases are rising. i think we missed many cases because our testing is really starting to buckle. >> you see the death curve right now, and we all lived through this. even as case counts go down, the death indicator is a lagging indicator. you go back more than a week now, it's getting close to 1400 sometimes. to dr. jha's point, the positivity rate still very high. new york is down to 1% now. that used to be epicenter. 8% of people getting a test are coming back positive. that means you don't have the virus under control. 29 states said the testing rate was down last week compared to the week before. 29 states going down, meaning

fewer tests, and yet -- yet -- look at all these states. the clear overwhelming majority of states where the positivity rate is up. you're taking fewer tests, more people are coming back positive. to dr. jha's point, a lot of coronavirus could be, quote, unquote, hiding, correct? >> absolutely. this mirrors what we saw in the early days of the pandemic where we were really only testing the really sick people that were coming into the hospital. our positivity rates at that point were through the roof. we were only catching the sickest of the sick. we're seeing something similar now with these high positivity rates. it tells us that the asymptomatic or the minimally asymptomatic aren't even showing up to be tested because they know they'll have to wait a week or two weeks to get results. as we said before, that's almost pointless. add on to that, of course, the tropical storm that affected many of our southern states this past week, including much of the northeast, that may also explain some of the drops in testing, but at the base of it, i think, is that people know there is really no point to showing up at

these drive-thru or walk-in testing centers, because they're not going to get actionable information, which is what they would be searching for. it's on us to have a national strategy to create that national testing structure that dr. jha talked about. >> absent a strategy or testing strategy across the country, people said, maybe a vaccine, that would be our way out of this. dr. jha, you had a conversation with dr. fauci about this. let's listen to a little. >> wii believe we'll get a vaccine, but we don't know if it's 50%, 60%. i would like to see 75% or more. but the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach. >> translate that for laypeople who are saying, wait a minute, we're going to have a vaccine and it may only help half of us?

what is he trying to say there? >> what he's trying to say is don't think of the vaccine as a silver bullet, that somehow we get the vaccine, everything is over, it all goes back to normal. that's pretty unlikely. he's been pretty optimistic about vaccines, as have i. they will make a big difference when they arrive and when we have the data that they're safe and effective and they become widely available, but the bottom line is they're not going to work for everybody, they're not going to offer full protection for everyone, and people have to understand that the pandemic, while benefiting from a vaccine when it's available, won't be over. we still have to maintain a certain amount of public health measures to get through this. >> a certain amount of public health measures to get through this, dr. ranney, and we learned this about chief of staff mark meadows. meadows maread the scientific evidence that masks helps contain the spread of the novel

coronavirus, officials durisaid. is he right or wrong? >> not wearing a mask goes against all the scientific evidence in the past several months. we've had studies and observations of communities that have put mask mandates in place. we've had studies where we take masks and try to filter the virus through them. all of those point to the fact that masks, certainly surgical masks as well as many cloth masks, prevent the transmission of the virus. not only that, but there is emerging evidence that if folks are all masked, it may not just prevent transmission, but it may also, if you're infected, it may lessen the degree of infection or the degree of severity of infection that you get. we just heard these stories out of georgia of kids going back to school without masks already. there are multiple kids and teachers infected. if those kids and teachers would have been wearing masks, it would have prevented that. for meadows to continue to say

masks are not effective does a huge disservice to our nation. >> science, science, science, science, science. dr. jha and dr. ranney, thank you for coming on on a sunday to help is with this fact. next up, cori bush. she's held a political seat for 50 years and she thinks the old guard should take note. how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. (burke)eighbor) oh, just puttering, tinkering... commemorating bizarre mishaps that farmers has seen and covered. had a little extra time on my hands lately.

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cori bush is most likely coming to congress with the most unlikely of resumes. once homeless, uninsured, a crime victim, and more. >> it is historic that this year of all years we are sending a black working-class single mother. [ applause ] >> yes, ma'am! >> who is from ferguson all the way to the halls of congress. >> who held the st. louis area house seat for 20 years. clay's father was the congressman for 30 years before that. cori bush, we're grateful for your time. first, congratulations. it's a major upset of a figure who had the establishment on his side. i don't know if this is going to make you laugh or cry. but in doing some research i went on the internet just to search your name. and the first thing that came up

is cori bush, politician. [ laughter ] >> did it? >> association why do you think this happened? a lot of people understand there's a lot of energy, especially in the democratic base, the communities of color for next generation, for a new generation. we've seen alexandria ocasio-cortez beat an incumbent in 2018 who wasn't keeping in touch with a district that was changing. what is your biggest takeaway? if speaker pelosi is watching, if the democratic nominee joe biden is watching, what do you think is the biggest takeaway, the democratic voters want what? >> an active leader, a leader that speaks to them, a leader that is going to be with the people. it makes a difference when you feel like someone is so above you that they won't come to the district, they won't spend much time with just the regular people. when the community is out in the streets protesting injustice,

when the community is mourning or grieving, when the community is hurting because of a pandemic, because of a second pandemic hitting the community, people want to see their leaders just show up and be with them, not behind closed doors with big donors and special people. they want to -- where are you, like, what about the regular people, the ones that vote you in? and that's where i've been the last several weeks, i'm on the ground. >> the president is going to say you're part of the party that's tugging joe biden to the left. among the things he is now saying about joe biden and the, quote, unquote, radical left, i want you to listen to the president and i'll get your reaction on the other side. >> he's going to do things that nobody ever would ever think even possible because he's following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy

your second amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the bible, hurt god. he's against god, he's against guns. >> you're an ordained minister. is joe biden against god? is the radical, quote, unquote, left against god? >> not at all. and i can't speak for everyone. but this particular person, if you want to call me the radical left, actually i think i'm just a democrat. but if you want to call me the radical left, i'm not against god. that's why i'm sitting here right now because when you don't see me, often times i'm in my own personal prayer closet. that's how i made it to this point. i'm not against god. as a matter of fact, if i get off of this stage, i can go preach in a church today. so not against god at all, not against people having guns. but we have to make sure this is done right because when i go to sleep at night i'm hearing gunshots all night long. do i want my children going to school with the possibility of

them not coming home from school when all they did was they went where they were supposed to be and they weren't protected? no. so we have to work around figuring out what our gun laws should be. we have to stand up for our children. we have to stand up for our community. but for us to say that we are against god, now he just went too far and he won't pit us against humanity. this for me is about a love of humanity. the president is wrong. >> quickly before i say good-bye, you won this primary. did joe biden reach out to you? did he reach out sue and say congratulations, let's work together? >> not yet, but the phone lines are open. >> that he hasn't is pretty stunning actually. so that's why i wanted to ask you the question. that tells you they've got a little work to do at biden headquarters. best of luck in the campaign ahead. we'll see how things play out. and that's it for us on "inside politics." up next a very busy "state of

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no deal, with millions of unemployed americans growing more desperate, congress is at an impasse on how to help. now the president says he'll act alone. >> i'm taking executive action. we've had it. >> is it legal and will it work? i'll talk to house speaker nancy pelosi and president trump's chief economic adviser larry kudlow next. and grim prediction. health experts project 100,000 more deaths this year as coronavirus spreads and state officials scramble to gain control. >> this virus has a mind of its own. we have no idea of how it's going to progress. >> a leader whose false positive test result kept him from meeting with the president this we