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first woman of color on a major party presidential ticket. here's how she responded to biden's big question. >> you ready to go to work? >> oh, my god, i'm so ready to go to work. >> is the answer yes? >> the answer is absolutely yes, joe. i'm ready to do this fl you and with you and i'm deeply excited. >> we're going to bring that to you live when they appear. and there's a trend in coronavirus cases. the u.s. has recorded fewer than 50,000 new infections. this week verses last week, the data shows new cases trending down, the average number of infections down by 11:%. but averaging over 1,000
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coronavirus cases a day. and it's not just the number. that is a life lost. that is a family. many people for each person, devastated and we have to wonder if it could have been prevented. just yesterday they recorded their highest day death tolls, florida and georgia. both governors are refusing to mandate. and what is the best type of mask and when should you be wearing it? they're releasing straight forward guidelines to answer the common questions. quote the, the kwiger we make face coverings our new normal, the faster we can gain control over covid-19. tell us what we're learning from the new mask guidance and why, several months in, this is
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necessary? >> because some people still aren't wearing masks, right? and they do have basic questions and it's great this group did it because these are the daily, literally, hour by hour questions americans have, even though the answer dooz seem obvious. first of all, they should cover your nose and mouth. i will tell you i've seen many people with masks not covering their mouth and nose or on their chin. you don't breathe through your chin. as tight fitting as you get it. and if you're going to use a cloth mask, two or three layers is better than nothing and these recommendations cover indoor and outdoor spaces. a mask is only as good as how you wear it. it has to cover your nose and mouth and pulling you t down to talk to someone is not going to cut it. >> and there's this new modeling study that shows state-wide
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physical distancing policies work. >> yes, this is really so interesting. it shows us all the hard work we're doing really made a difference. this is by scholars at harvard and university college london. if there had been no social distancing rules, 80% of the united states would be infected. within three weeks of instuting social distancing policies, we reduced cases by 600,000 cases. i can hear some people saying who cares? so you get covid, no big deal. most people are fine. why do we even need to reduce cases? and here's your answer. these policies reduce the death rate by 2%% day because of the policies. 2% per day. so, those are deaths that went down because we managed to keep six feet apart. >> wow.
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when you put it into perspective, you can see the difference it made. thank you so much. and new this afternoon, new jersey governor, phil murphy, signing an executive order to allow schools and universities in his state to open in person for the upcoming academic year. this as more than 400 teachers are refusing to go back in one district in elizabeth, new jersey, siting health risks and the resistance is forcing their school system to go virtual for the start of the fall term. i want to bring in beonau. >> she's saying they just can't get the schools reopened because they don't have the staffing. some 400 teachers have said they have specific considerations they have to factor in and this, they won't be able to return to school.
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you see this happening across the country. any governor conva we're getook reopen, but without teachers, there's no reason to go back the classroom. what we saw was meeting teachers halfway, saying, yes, we can reopen schools for in person universities. that's all public and private schools, as well as colleges and universities and those that can't open, must submit reasons as to why, why they can't meet safety and health guidelines. as we've seen, there's been a lot of plegs -- pressure from the teachers union and the governor has been aware of that. we saw the superintendent from elizabeth and we've seen superintendants from jersey city saying they don't have the capability or staffing to reopen their schools. and in newark saying he would recommend those in his city don't return their students back for in-person instruction just
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because of what the city and state had gone through. they were one of the hardest hit early on when the pandemic first struck in the spring. they've come a long way. their state infection rate is at under 1%. compare that to states like georgia, where we're at some 11% infection rated and they're reopening schools and you're seeing the consequences of that. this is a big step forward for the state. and the governor is saying you don't have to reopen, or at least offer an in-person instruction as he had originally mandated. but he says you have to submit an explanation as to why. >> thank you for sharing that with us and walking us through it. it is a question so many parents have. should i send my children back to school for in-person learning. dr. sanjay gupta is a father of three and recently made this decision himself.
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you wrote an op-ed on why you're not sending your kids back to school. i know you walked through this with an eye to science. so, tell us how you came to this decision. >> i mean, it's a scientific decision, a public health decision but not an easy one, as i think you're eluding to, as a parent. my kids very much want to go back to school. they miss their friends, the social structure, they want to be immersed in humanity and i've realized, i think over the last few months how important that is and i don't think any of us should dismiss that. you have to look at the community around you. where we live we know the rate of viral spread has been increasing. we know that the positivity rate is higher than 10%. it's around 11, close to 12%, which means we're still not doing enough testing. those are big issues in themselves.
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as i started to look at the data around kids, and this has been question mark throughout the summer. we know kids are less likely to get sick. and it's remained true. so that's good. but the question has been how much can they still spread the virus and add to the trajectory of the pandemic? and as we look at all the data, it's becoming increasingly clear to me that they can spread quite a bit. the latest data shows kids 10 and older spread just like adults and frankly, i think kids younger than that, the jury is out, because they've largely been at home. the numbers go up and it's likely young kids are contributing to that. you can see where georgia is. it's dark green on the map. and we've had a 90% increase in new cases in the last four weeks among children. so, almost a doubling throughout this entire pandemic of children just over the last month.
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so, again, i don't mean to say this is an easy decision. a tough one as a parent. i was talking to one of my kids who's still taking me to task over this, but it's the right decision, i think, for us at this time. >> i can imagine what you're getting at home with your kids. you talked about the diligence you took. you visited your kids' school to check out the safety precautions. tell us what you found. >> we took the cdc recommendations and tried to layer it on top of what's happening at our kids' school. keep in mind in georgia there is no statewide mask ordinance, unlike in other states. so, our school did take the extra step of saying we're going to have a must-mask policy. they have hand hygiene stations all over the place. they have this physical distancing set up in a way i think is possible. going to be very challenging in
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hallways, on buses in classrooms to maintain six feet could be challenging, just getting enough square footage. but they're getting creative with gyms and cafeterias and getting creative with outdoor classes. it's a herculean effort to make this happen. and another thing ours did is called assurance testing. testing not because people are ill or because you're doing surveillance, but giving people assurance that they themselves are not carrying the virus and those they come in contact with in school aren't carrying the virus either mp you can get false negatives and test negative today and possibly positive tomorrow, but it does add another layer of protection.
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figure out what's going on in your own community. if testing is not adequate, i think it's a tough time to send kids back to school. >> good point. people are in different situations. you're obviously in atlanta and there's a lot of people in situations you're in. appreciate it. just then the president said he added a coronavirus advisor. plus, fox news posts everything but the kitchen sink at kamala harris, calling her everything from a radical to a leftsh. and moments from now, joe biden and harris will appear together for the first time since she was named his running mate. managing type 2 diabetes? you're on it. you may think you're doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease... but could your medication do more to lower your heart risk?
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we are less than two hours away from a historic event you can see right here live. presidential candidate, joe biden, appearing with his vice presidential candidate, kamala harris. that is not all. harris is also the first nominee non democratic ticket from any state west of the rocky mountains. this is the first time in american history that a candidate is choosing itty mail vice president when they weren't trailing in the polls. it is the sixth straight democratic ticket where both served in the senate and the first time ever both democratic nominees have served on the senate intelligence committee and the first time in 36 years that democratic ticket has not included a candidate with an ivy league education and the third
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election in a row where neither party's ticket included a nominee with military service. what won't be the first time for kamala harris is the criticism, the scrutiny, and even name calling. i want to bring in sophia nelson, a life long republican and author of "black woman redefined." discovering fulfillment in the age of michelle obama." thank you for being with us. in your latest op-ed in "the beast" you write, when all is said and done, it's more than historic, it's an act of deep faith in america. it is heroic." explain that to us. >> i mean, look at it like this. he could have easily taken what i considered the more easy path. governor whitmer of michigan or someone that was going to bring him something on the ticket, instead he chose an
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african-american woman, who was his rival in the primary and was pretty tough on him, as we all recall, in one of the debates. and heed to the know -- joe biden was vice fooz barack obama,to the first black president. so, he understands, as a white man in america, a lot about race, the nuances of race, the moment that we're in remember, when biden opened his campaign, what did he talk about? we hold these truths to be self evident and used charlottesville as a back drop. so, choosing kamala harris in a moment where we have a president who routinely stokes racial tension and division is in many schools of thought risky but it was heroic in my book. because he drew the line and toads african-american women you've been loyal to us, i'm going to be loyal to you. youvr rur saved this party time and time again and i'm going to give you a spot on the ticket,
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the number two spot, the heart beat away from the presidency spot before i'm even going to give that opportunity to a woman not of color. that is historic and heroic. it's great. >> and what is her objective here? what is the way she's going to help joe biden and what are her challenges going to be? >> i think you saw it yesterday. i've never seen, and i'm old enough to remember when she was nominated. so, i'm dating myself. but i've never seen the other side do what i saw president trump do yesterday. he called her names, said she was not angry but said she was pretty much mean and she was nasty, and his favorite word. so, they came after her out of the gate. tucker carlson was vile last night. so, clearly they're going to play to racial stereotypes and troupes, not just about women
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but about black women. we're angry all the time. we're not team players. we're scary. so, nalts the down side of what they're going to do. on the plus side, joe biden couldn't have picked a more qualified, more articulate, amazing woman who is not afraid to say what she needs to say. she knows how to throw a punch and she's going to do it a couple times, i suspect, but do it with grace and class. she's going to do great in debates against vice president mike pence. and white women, moderate and independent women who do not see her as scary. she's an asset, she's qualified, a top cop in california. it's going to be hard for them to paint her as a lunetic fringe person like they're trying to do. >> sophia, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. did the president just add
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the most prestigious golf tournament in the country will take place without fans. announcing the 2020 masters will happen in november but that fans are not allowed to attend. cnn has more. >> reporter: brianna, like last week's pga championship and next week's u.s. open, the masters will take place without fans. the chairman of augusta national saying in a statement, potential risk of welcoming patrons and guests in november are simply too significant to overcome. first time in the 86-year history it's happening outside the month of march and april. tickets this year will be good for the 2021 tournament. in the meantime, you can add the
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washington football team the inthe number that would not have fans this season. and the nfl currently does not have any blanket policy when it comes to allowing fans. leaving it up to the individual team. >> thank you. just in. another week, another bit of success for the nba bubble. the league says of the 342 players tested for covid on the campus since last week, zeer so have been positive. and that means zero positive in the first month of the experiment. the playoffs begin monday. under president trump 164,000 americans have died from the coronavirus. tens of millions of jobs have been lost and the united states is number one in the world, not for strength or leadership but for how out of control the virus is. today we're learning more about the medical advisor, who's public stance on the pandemic echoes trump's in scientific claims.
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>> this is scott atlas. he's a very famous man, who's also very highly respected, stanford, and he's working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus and he has many great ideas and he thinks what we've done is really good and that we'll take it to a new level. and so, it's great to have scott working along with us. thank you very much. >> cnn's kaitlan collins is joining us now and he's joining trump's team at a time he finds himself increasingly at odds with medical experts in his own administration. >> reporter: he's been informally advising the president for weeks, after he first got a glimpse of him on fox news. and you heard the president listing off his credentials. he's a doctor, of course.
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and a fellow at stanford. but he is one of the medical experts who has a very close public stance with what the president thinks about covid-19, on reopening schools, national lockdowns, college athletes playing football this fall. and to give you an indication of what the president has been watching before he officially brought him on. here's a taste of what he said on outlets like fox news. >> it doesn't matter if children get the disease. they don't get sick from this. and the data shows that they do not significantly transmit to adults. >> the president says politics are at play for keeping kids home and other harsh restrictions that we're seeing across the country. do you believe that? >> i believe that there is zero reason, in fact, zero excuse to not have the schools open in person. >> so, you see what he is saying about reopening schools and what experts who work at the white
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house and on the task force, people like dr. fauci, steven hahn of the fda have said. they've been much more cautious when talking about reopening schools. he's said we need forge ahead, things like that. he's going to be at the president's event on reopening schools. it has comments like that that have them concerned. because they see him bringing in someone who will not push back as some of the other officials do. dr. fauci, obviously, pretty publicly and even lately, people like dr. burks as well. and they say that's the point of bringing on dr. atlas. he is meant to counter dr. fauci. >> thank you so much for that report. i'll be speaking live. what she says happened to her brother.
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. we talk about the numbers and you can see them there on your screen. right now over 165,000 and this is all because of the coronavirus. both florida and georgia, tuesday, setting a new single day record for covid deaths. robert louise was just 31. he worked at the center for people with traumatic brain injuries in florida. he was tested for coronavirus but died before the results came back and they were positive. i'm joined by his sister,tia neck to mills. i'm so sorry you're here talking about your brother and that you lost him. i would hope first you would tell us a little bit about him, tell us about the kind of person that he was and the memories you hold of him. >> well, he was amazing was an
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understatement. he was uplifting and encouraging. he was such a rare sole that words can't describe from the day he was born. he was special, he was special. to say that his clients at work are probably taking the worse is to say a lot. he loves what he did. this is inamazing person he was and so those memories and the love people have and recognizing what a beautiful sole and that
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was something he was working on and none whatsoever. and his asthma was the only issue he had was his weight. and it was all personal for his baby. but this is all really sudden. unexpected. i seen him on friday. i seen him on saturday. he was -- he was fine to say he was up and walking and eating and -- i mean, he was functioning. and so for him to be gone on sunday, yeah, that's a little
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bit. it's just -- it's a lot to take in. it's arlot to take in. this virus is so serious. it really, really is. and i don't think people will understand until it hits home because i would be one to say that i took it really lightly until it hit home. so, >> tell me about that. you say you took it lightly and it sounds like you were looking at him, feeling like he was doing well and then he took a turn for the worst. >> yeah. i really -- when i say i took it lightly, i did my social distancing. i do wear masks out of precaution. but i really didn't take it as serious as this. like, i didn't realize that -- i really thought it was something the media was throwing around. i'm going to be honest.
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i didn't really realize it could take somebody who was 31, who never smoked, who never drank, who -- i mean, to take this person's life means that the isvirus is serious. is something that should be taken very seriously. >> yeah, tell me. >> she's three. and she was the light of his life and to know that she is going to be without him is a horrible, horrible thing. it's a horrible thing. >> it is. it's awful. you know, she needs her dad there. and i know you're really at the beginning of this as you confront what that means for her and for you and your whole family. i know you had a conversation with him.
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can you tell me about that. >> this is when he came home from work on friday. i fds you're really not feel going, go to the hospital. he said it's not that bad. he had to work the next morning. yab said he's 31 and he's a man. he relaxed and woke up saturday. we were keeping our distance just to be safe because one of his clients at work did come up positive. so, out of precaution, my mom was in the home. we were kind of keeping our distance until he got his results back. saturday. he was up and heate something and drank something.
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and i spoke to him on the phone and asked if he wanted to water. i asked how he was feeling. he said his head was hurting him. i told him he should go to the hospital and he said it wasn't that bad, that he would be all right. i went and got him water and he never got up to get the water. when i opened his door, i found him. >> chenique, i am so sorry, i'm so sorry for your loss. appreciate you and starting to mourn your brother and talking for people. and they have not been touched by this. and i think it's so important to
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president trump has a history of promoting people to important political jobs despite troubling statements in their past. just a few examples. rich higgins nominated for a top pentagon position said that obama was a muslim terrorist. john gibbs nominated said the
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former campaign chair of hillary clinton took part in satanic rituals. douglas mcgregor, the pick for germany ambassador called them invaders trying to turn the country into an islamic state. and the head of the bureau of land management said there is no hole in the ozone layer. and lee rizzuto has been tapped for principal officer at the consulate in berm auda and launched attacks on trump's political opponents. today the president is congratulating the winner of the republican primary. she's a believer in qanon, which is a conspiracy theory group that the fbi sees as a potential domestic terrorism threat.
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last month we did a deep dive on qanon and the campaign of disinformation. >> what exactly is qanon. i'm so sorry you asked. get ready for some deep weirdness. it is a baseless theory, followers believe there is a deep state within the u.s. government controlled by a cabal of satan worshiping pedophiles and trump is trying to take them down. sounds weird, right? that is because it is. but it is seeped into the ground water of trump era hyper partisanship. and although he vent spoken directly about qanon, he has accounts and memes and signs in an ad later taken down. this month business insider published data showing the trump campaign relies on qanon accounts to spread conspiracy theories and disinformation and a lot of the accounts are
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inauthentic. three of the top five are q anone related. if you're a follower you're getting duped by a bot. meanwhile michael flynn decided to go full q and post a video reciting some slogans which is not creepy at all. this is much more than a logically extreme extension to play the base politicals. if the fbi declared them as a terrorism threat, and -- local law enforcement officers in arizona. conspiracy theories offer special knowledge of confirmation bias. when i wrote a book called wing nuts, conspiracy theories were defining the obama administration, building on old
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foundations. donald trump's embrace of the racist birther conspiracy theory fit this pattern and he's continued pumping up disinformation from the white house. now republicans may look at likey nominees expressing support for qanon and try to convince them it is out liar. the gop found themselves strange bedfellows, fox news describing arthur jones as, quote, one of several nazis, holocaust deniers or white supremacist would elbowed on to the gop ballot for november. but republicans need to ask themselves why somebody unhinged extremist candidates feel comfortable clustering under the gop banner. in the case of qanon and the embracing conspiracy theories the answer relies at the top of the ticket, president donald trump. >> let's talk about this now with s.e. cupp, the host of unfiltered. it is worth noting. the president is calling here a future star of the gop and a heavy favorite in the race,
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expected to win the general election and you've written a piece that will appear on cnn.com shortly that said when it comes to the republican party, the inmates are running the asylum. tell us more about this. >> well i have no doubt she is the future star of the gop. she's not alone, at least 12 other qanon supporters are currently running for congress as republicans, as you noted at the top of the show. there are other conspiracy theorists, nominated for or appointed to positions in the administration and it does feel like the inmates are taken over the asylum. when donald trump took over the gop and i argue in 2015 or at least 2016, he turned it into a kind of padded cell madhouse, where up could be down. left could be right, blue could be green, as long as he said so. and so now the fringiest
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adherence are really sort of swiping the keys from the last few remaining guards who were kind of trying to keep the place in order. and when you've got people like marjorie tiller green and others getting not just the tacit support of the party but the blessing of the president, i think it is hard to argument they are not the future of this party. >> s.e., i want to switch topics with you. you were one of the first people that i thought about when biden picked kamala harris as his r s running mate because we were talking a few days ago and you said if he picked harris, he would have your vote. you got a lot of blowback for saying that his vice presidential running mate would be influential on whether or not you decided to vote for him. but let's watch what happened on fox last night. >> just tell kamala harris what
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to say and she'll say it. that is the whole point of kamala harris. >> tucker could i say one quick thing because this will serve you and your fellow hosts on fox. her name is pronounced comma, like the punctuation, comma. >> okay. so what. >> that is how it is. kamala. >> out of respect for somebody on the national ticket. >> so i'm disrespecting her by mispronouncing her name unintentionally. you're allowed to criticize kamala harris or kamala harris or whatever. >> not whatever. >> i'm almost laughing. so it begins. you don't need to pronounce someone's name right. okay, whatever. but i wonder for you, personally and, look, there are going to be conservatives, if they agree with you, is this still the case for you that this is someone that will sway you and do you think that she will sway other
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former conservatives as well? >> i think so. what i've said about kamala is that for moderates and rights, independents even conservative never trup pers she's not a bridge too far. there were some other vice presidential candidates who might have been, and i think that is uncontroversial. there were people on the list that, you know, no conservative, even a never trumper could consider it because joe biden is getting older and the person that he puts there could be the next president. so, i think kamala harris was a very reassuring pick for those of us who are considering voting for biden, wan to vote for biden, looking for reasons to vote for biden. i still want to see what kamala has to say about her record and about where she wants to take the country as a vice president. i think she should answer some questions. i think that is only fair of the
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hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. just a heads up, later this hour, joe biden and his running mate california senator kamala harris will make the first joints appearance as the democrats appear to go head-to-head with trump and mike pence in the battle for the white house. team biden formally introducing harris who is the first black woman and first woman to run