hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. last hour, the big peace announcement announced in the oval office. israel and the united arab emirates now normalizing relations. >> after 49 years, israel and the united arab emirates will normalize their relations. i expect more arab and muslim countries will follow the united

arab emirates' lead. >> that is very hopeful news on the world stage as the globe is staring down the coronavirus monster. here in the united states a choice today between the president and science. between the president and fact. between the president and simple math. unprepared, this is the candid take of the centers for the disease control, dr. redfield calling coronavirus the greatest public health crisis in a century and now saying americans must brace for the months ahead, a collision of the coronavirus and the flu and warns might be the worst fall ever from a public health perspective. the president? well, very different tone. listen. >> we're still in the pandemic which will be going away as i say it will be going away they scream how can you say that? i said, because it's going to be going away. >> but science and the numbers tell us the truth. ser seven months in.

disruption. the jobs devastation. massive. 963,000 first-time unemployment claims filed last week. yes, that weekly number under the 1 million threshold first time in 5 months but depressing. 1,499 americans killed by the virus on wednesday, a summer high and marks the deadliest day since may 27th. the u.s. case count 5.2 million, nearly 56,000 new infections recorded nationwide yesterday. the seven-day average, the red line, that is down from last week but the pace at which the case count is leveling off has slowed somewhat. that is one trouble sign. this is another. look at the testing levels over two weeks. 850,000 plus covid-19 tests back on july 29th. this tuesday, 739,000, a 13% decline. the scientists agree, fast and widespread testing is only way to navigate the crisis to get

people back to work and keep schools open. the president sees politics at play. >> i want to get the schools open. they should be open. the children if you look statistically it's incredible how strong they are. we have to get the schools and the country open and a lot of reason why it's happening is blue state governors don't want the state open because they think that hurts me november 3rd and i think people are wise to it. >> more on that in a bit but let's take a look at the facts. the numbers. the trends. we look at the state map here. 50 states, 50 plans. in the reopening. seven states relatively stable. more cases right now than they were a week ago. california which had been stable or going down is back heading up. remember california is big driver of the summer surge. texas down. arizona another driver down.

florida holding steady. 22 states like florida holding steady. 21 states down. seven states heading up in terms of case count. we'll see how it goes. the death trend map, this is the map of pain and sadness. 19 states reporting more deaths this week compared to a week ago. 13 states, beige, holding steady. texas and california among those. 18 states reporting fewer deaths this week compared to last week. this map again we hope improves but first the case count map has to improve. summer high in deaths, look at this. just shy of 1,500 yesterday. the highest since may 27th and see the lines here. this is the 1 thousand dollars line in shade right there and show you this way. 17 times, 17 times in the past month we have reported more than 1,000 deaths of american citizens to the coronavirus in the single day.

17 times over a month. now the case count is getting somewhat better but this is a trouble sign. 36 states reporting high positivity rates and people get coronavirus tests. the positivity rate percentage in those states up from the week before. 36 states up. that tells you there's still more virus out there and why listen to robert redfield, runs for centers for disease crimion. says wear your mask, keep your distance or else. >> i'm asking you to do four simp simple things. wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and be smart about crowds. it will bring this outbreak down. but if we don't do that, as i said last april, this could be the worst fall from a public health perspective we have ever had. we need to overinvest, get overprepared. i will say that four or five decades of investment when the

big one came and this is not a little one. this is the greatest public health crisis of this nation that we were underprepared. >> the chief of pediatric medicine joining us and former white house physician and now the medical director of the world clinic. doctor, i want to start with you. as you listen to dr. redfield there repeating wear your mask, keep social distance but he says we could have the worst fall from a public health perspective in american history. what would that mean? >> well, i think that in general in the fall we see viruses like the flu go around and before we had coronavirus, influenza sent many people to the hospital and killed many people including children and so i think there is a genuine concern that with

influenza and coronavirus that this fall could be pretty bad. >> so, dr. lang, listen to the president. every day i try to go through the data. what's the case count? leveling off? going down? what's the positivity rate? states testing more or less? the president says don't focus on that number. >> the number of cases is not by any means the most important metric, far more important is who the virus is infecking. that's why the strategy and attention, our focus on preventing the cases that are most likely to require hospitalization or result in death. >> i get to a degree what he is trying to say. i would say as a layperson without cases you can't have hospitalizations and won't have deaths so all cases matter. more to prevent the fewer hospitalizations and deaths and the president trying to say we try to keep people who would die

of the coronavirus from getting it. 17 times in the last month the united states has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths, 17 times over the last month. is that a successful strategy? >> no. but what we see is demographics of this is changing. as the president said we're still having this persistently high case rate and the death rate is not paralleling that because we're not perfectly but effectively preventing the cases in the more at-risk population. so our numbers go up and don't see the deaths and the other big thing going back to what you said early on is what happens when we super impose covid-19 and flu? there is some positive way to look at that. if you go to australia, australia right this week, these weeks right around here is at the peak of their flu season. the average flu season 11,000 to

10,000 cases a week. the number they see this year approximates zero. similar in new zealand at the peak of the flu season. if we can do the things that we need to do to prevent covid, just the four things that dr. redfield said we are going to be able to prevent flu, be able to prevent that horrendous, very scary, combination of flu and covid. but the people of the united states need to do those four things. >> i certainly hope you're right and hope people listen to you and dr. redfield. you write something quite interesting and i agree with you in theory about kids in school because of the side effects of not having them in school. you write the absence of consistent school probably led to 1 out of 3 elementary school students losing skills in reading and writing. we are putting an entire generation of children at risk for a lifetime of worse health outcomes.

it is time to safely and cautiously get students back into school. their future health is at stake. i could not agree with you more it is critical to get children in school. are you convinced that states are doing enough, local school districts do enough, whether it's preparing the schools, scaling up testing? or is that a goal and not achievable reality at this moment? >> i think it is achievable as was said before if we all do our part. right? so the number one thing to happen is that community transmission needs to go down. and everybody needs to do their part in order to have that be the case. now, once the case rates are low enough to consider safely reopening schools, then we do have a number of strategies that can help keep transmission from happening in the school setting. so these include what was already discussed before, universal masking, physical

distancing, good hand hygiene and then enough testing, right? so obviously the third thing that really needs to happen is resources. schools need resources. they can't do it on the current budgets they have, especially public school districts but there needs to be more resources and more attention paid to reopening schools at a priority of that in our society. maybe even over some other business sectors. i know that's controversial but obviously i'm biassed but i would say that schools are very important to open. >> putting children first should not be controversial. i understand the economic factors and will continue that conversation. appreciate your insights today and we will continue this conversation for quite sometime. next, team biden tries to create a stark distinction of the current president's handling of the pandemic and what they would do, what the democrats would do, if elected.

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a coronavirus contrast is the day two focus of the biden/harris ticket. they'll hold an event after a briefing from the campaign's public health experts, it is a deliberate effort to provide a contrast to the president's and the strategy clear as the former vice president introduced senator harris as his partner yesterday. >> the joe biden and kamala harris administration will have a comprehensive plan to meet the challenge of covid-19 and turn the corner on this pandemic. >> we're reeling from the worst public health crisis in a century. the president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression. >> with us now, national

political reporter for "the new york times." it is an interesting moment. the coronavirus is issue number one, two and three in the presidential campaign. the biden/harris team happy with yesterday's rollout and the decision to come at this a second day, get your own task force briefing if you will and then make a presentation. they believe that this, what? frames the choice for voters? >> yeah. that's exactly right. not only does it frame the choice for voters between what they would like to present as a ticket that's taking action, that sees an expanded federal response, there's more the government can do to deal with this pandemic. they also think it helps make the case that really biden has been making since the beginning of his primary campaign against president donald trump which is that he's unfit both in terms of his abilities but also in terms of president's morals and ethics in the job so they see a great opportunity to drive a contrast and frankly seems like a no-brainer. this is the only issue in americans' lives, a dominant

issue not only in the election but in everyone's day-to-day lives. >> and at the moment they have the advantage. this is just one poll and see the president's national poll numbers. this is from wisconsin. marquette university. 4 in 10 wisconsin voters approve. see the similar numbers in other battleground states and the national polls. my question is, we could see a bit of this yesterday. the democrats say they would have better experts, they would put the government on a war footing to deal with this. another point they seem to be trying to make is they understand struggle and they have more empathy than the president and the current vice president. >> i think that's right and a member we often look at is who understands the concerns of people like you. and that's something that i think democrats are really trying to push, that they understand the struggles that americans are going through, economic struggles, health struggles and they have a level

of empathy for the country dealing with that and that matters, too. not just the experts but whether you feel it in your bones as joe biden would probably feel it matters to voters. >> interesting on your take. this is senator harris advising someone from sarah palin. she didn't think she was treated fairly. here's her take on senator harris. >> i think she's in a better position in terms of what to expect than i or geraldine feraro back in the day because people have come before her, treat her fairly but at the same time no kid gloves. you know? the american voter wants to know we have the most capable people running. >> we're back in a debate that we lived through with the palin's candidacy. we, of course, didn't mention

2016 with hillary clinton. how's a woman candidate in this case the vice presidency not the presidency like four years ago and with harris the first black woman, first indian american heritage, parents from jamaica, as well, what is the impact of that? >> i think sarah palin has a point in that the dynamics of this have shifted dramatically since she ran and hillary clinton ran for the presidency and so much more awareness of sexism and what racist and sexist attacks look like and people are much more on guard for those lines of attack. doesn't moon they're not happening and have seen how deeply personal the attacks on senator harris have been from the get-go. the other thing that's really struck me about the trump campaign's response to senator harris is there's no clear narrative for her ricochetting between a cop but also a liberal

radical and so some of it is just resorting to these personal attacks because they haven't been able to frame her and striking given how long she's been on the presidential stage and ran in the primary and certainly had time to prepare to go after her and doesn't seem like the line of attack from republicans is very clear. >> i think they're still trying to figure that out. ly sa's news letter on that point the other night worth reading. appreciate your insights today. i interviewed senator harris last year in iowa and at that event i had the great pleasure to meet and chat with a mother and daughter big harris supporters. nora made such an impression she got a role in the harris campaign ad. >> i went to an event and kamala harris was there and i decided to ask her for some tips running for vice president of student council. >> senator harris spent all the time in the world with her.

>> what does it mean to see harris tapped for the number two spot on the democratic ticket? >> personally i find it really empowering that kamala is nominated to the second highest office because other young girls like me can look up and see, oh, someone like me has been here and i can do that and even go further. >> great family, great to see you both from afar again. see you soon i hope. ahead, president trump admits he is refusing to fund the postal service. he says, no more money, no more mail-in voting. hey man, you're here! you don't trust me here in vegas, do you? uh, well, i thought we had a breakthrough with the volkswagen. we did, yeah! we broke through. that's the volkswagen? that's the cross sport. wow. seatbelts!

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voter suppression plain and simple. that is the take of colorado secretary of state today after some remarkable comments from president trump. listen. >> they want $3.5 billion for the mail-in votes. okay? universal mail-in ballots. they want $25 billion. billion. for the post office. if we don't make a deal that means they don't get the money and can't have universal mail-in voting. >> so let's walk through that. the president says universal mail-in voting can't be done unless the post office gets more resources and the post office can't get that money if he refuses to cut a coronavirus

spending deal with the democrats but the president is incorrect saying that democrats came up with that $25 billion request. the house speaker nancy pelosi noting this morning that number actually came from the postal service board of governors appointed by president trump. cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us from the white house. candid comments from the president there. can't have mail-in voting if the post office doesn't get more money and i'm not in the mood to give more money. >> reporter: yep. he is making this argument indirectly and now so in the plainest terms that you are going to see the president say this saying that this is the reason he is blocking this funding not only the funding for more election resources but that $25 billion for the postal service and desperately needs that money we should note and saying strictly because democrats want to expand mail-in voting and he doesn't want that to happen and explicitly linking the two saying that's the reason to block this and democrats are pushing back on what the president is saying.

house speaker nancy pelosi had something to say about it earlier this morning. >> they did not ever really like the postal service because they find to a way to make money off of something but now at a time of a pandemic you would think they'd have a little sensitivity. >> reporter: so what she appeared to be referring to there is how the service delivers prescriptions in the mail and important at a time in the pandemic when people don't want to leave the homes as much as they were before but it's not just pelosi criticizing the president. the former vice president joe biden is saying that this is what he believes basically an assault on democracy. >> kaitlan, the president's also wants a payroll tax cut holiday now and then if he wins re-election to cut the payroll tax. how does that square with the president's promise to never touch social security? >> reporter: doesn't seem to. this is a thing where it depends on who you listen to.

here at the white house, what you are hearing. larry kudlow there in the briefing yesterday and sunday saying that the president did not want to eliminate the payroll tax cut permanently and just meant that the deferral that right now that the president signed in this memo would be forgiven at the end of the year. of course, congress would play a role in that but the president repeated what he said again yesterday. he wants to make the payroll tax cut permanent. of course that would need broad congressional support and doesn't have it and because they're worried that this is the way that social security gets funded and no alternative to funding it so far. when the president was asked for more specific details yesterday the only thing he said is coming from the general fund but of course there is already a massive deaf sit there so the president isn't really explaining where this money would come from and helped put the president in the office and heard voters vote to is promise to protect social security important to a lot of people and

threatening the primary way it is funded. >> another question we'll watch the evolution of that one as it goes forward. kaitlan collins, thank you so much. up next, compare and contrast. the president says kamala harris is radical. he says a georgia candidate is a real winner. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old. i do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my calling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now. people say to me periodically, "man, you've got a memory like an elephant." it's really, really helped me tremendously. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

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climate change. okay. they can make that argument but radical compared to what? the president is very happy to help us here. on the very same day calling senator kamala harris nasty and radical you called marjorie greene a real winner. nancy pelosi calls her an un-american, spews racism, islamophobia and this. >> q is a patriot, loves his country and he's on the same page as us. according to him, many in our government are actively worshipping satan. or they call mulak. is it true the child speed feel yeah and elites in washington, d.c., is that what we really see come out? is it true? is the type of corruption come to see out is satanic worship? >> if you didn't follow that,

the q conspiracy alleges among other things that our government, you government is controlled by satan worshipping pedophiles. the top republican in the house says greene will be welcomed into the caucus should she win in november and will be given committee assignments. welcome to today's republican party. kamala harris is radical. marjorie taylor greene is a star, a real winner. >> there is an islamic invasion into our government offices right now. you can have a whole bunch of wives or sheep or goats or whatever you want. you stay over there. but in america, see, we made it a great, great country. we don't want it messed up. >> cnn's manu raju joining us live from capitol hill. are there republicans raising the hands saying we got a problem here? >> reporter: only a couple. one of them adam kissinger of illinois said that there's no place in the halls of congress for such conspiracy theories and

such rhetoric and not the message from the house republican leadership. most are silent after her victory on tuesday including steve scalise. liz cheney is a member of the republican leadership in the house. house republican leader kevin mccarthy through a spokesperson said yesterday he welcomes her and other republicans winning if they do win in november and do expect her to win because of the fact of that district heavily republican district and nancy pelosi the house speaker told me yesterday that it appears that the republicans are comfortable with this qanon conspiracy theory and just asked at a press conference moments ago about the comment that marjorie taylor greene said about her cursing about her a couple of days dog and nancy pelosi said this. >> you know what? do you know how little attention i pay when the president of the united states calls me horrible

things? i don't pay attention to that. it's a judgment to be made about them as to who they welcome into their ranks. >> reporter: and one of the reasons why the republicans have not really spoken out much is the fact that the president gave her a full throated endorsement yesterday morning calling her a real winner, a republican star. putting republican leadership in an awkward spot and that's why we haven't heard much from them and notably, john, the republican national committee endorsing typically all republican nominees refusing to say whether or not they will endorse her candidacy instead of deflecting questions to an attack against democratic congresswoman omar. john? >> okay. look at the own family before you go after the other one. appreciate that. greene is not swayed by this criticism. if republicans want to win in 2020 they need to listen to the message that i'm speaking. that's what she says. joining me now is former

republican congressman charlie dent. congressman, thank you for being with us today. just why? why can't somebody in the leadership of the republican party stand up to the president and stand up to this candidate and say, i'm sorry. you are not welcomed. we do not want people that spew racism and believe in this crackpot qanon theory. why? >> well, john, that's a mystery to me because i think what republican leadership ought to be doing right now is giving this woman the same treatment they gave steve king. steve king treatment. that is deny him committees or her. they should not welcome her into the house republican conference. they should let her know that should she win this election that they will, in fact, work with the georgia gop to defeat her in the primary. make her a persona nongrata. senate republicans walked away

from roy moore and lost a seat over it. sometimes you have to take the loss and then come back with a sensible candidate and a mistake. kevin mccarthy, kicked steve king off the committees and should do the same thing with this woman should she win. >> there's trump supporters watching or other republicans saying charlie dent, he is an rino, a guy not with the president all the time. i would make the case the republican party without charlie dent and others is a party in the minority. that if you want to be back in the majority broaden not shrink the tent but listen to the president talking about his view on the election to come. >> we're going to take back the house, hold the presidency and we'll -- fighting very hard in the senate. i'll be honest as the senate is tough. we have a couple people not as supportive of trump as they should be and will lose.

if they don't support trump, they lose the elections. >> that's the -- the last part there, i don't know anybody that thinks the republicans would take back the house. the senate is very much in play. but it's the last part there, if they don't support trump they lose the elections. is that why you think there are not more republicans to stand up and make your case against kamala harris and joe biden? call them radical, liberal? that's why we have campaigns but how can you call them radical when you embrace somebody who says what she says about black americans, about george soros? calls him a nazi. racist, islamphobic and this q theory. how can you make your case if you won't stand up to this? >> you can't, john. and the truth is you mentioned earlier, they call guys like me rinos and others and i can take that but there's a reckoning. if the president loses this election which is looking more and more likely and if the senate goes democrat, guess what. we will have a real conversation

at some point about what this party should look look. socially tolerant and has to become constructively internationally engaged because if you elect this woman this is just crazy. this is black helicopter tinfoil hat brigade stuff. so we have to condemn it. after this election, let's have this conversation. we'll find out who's a real republican and conventional and traditional values. >> your former colleague raised his hand and the trump campaign tweeted out supporting her and not him. we'll continue to see how it plays out. really appreciate your insights and courage to stand up for this. someone needs to do it. >> thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi slamming republicans as stimulus negotiations are not just

stalled, off the rails right now, arguing the trump administration doesn't care in her view about the needs of the american people. the speaker says the two sides still very far apart. >> this is not half a loaf. this is not being in the same room. board room table. kitchen table. i appreciate the goodness that you asked that question with. perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gave a damn. that isn't the case. up next, a new intelligence report that could undercut the president's hopes to discredit the russia investigation. looking for superior protection against uv damage and early skin aging? try neutrogena ultra sheer. it provides exceptional cellular protection

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the u.s. intelligence community says russia is interfering right now in the 2020 election and that they're doing it to help president trump. and that threatens to undercut the president's hopes that prosecutor john durham will discredit the origins of the fbi's russia investigation into the 2016 campaign. this morning the seems to be counting on the fbi director and attorney general for help. listen. >> bill barr can go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country or he can go down as just an average guy. it depends on what's going to happen. christopher wray was put there. we have an election coming up. i wish he's more forthcoming.

there are documents they want to get and that we have said we want to get. we're going to fine out if he'll give those documents but certainly very, very protective. >> senior justice correspondent evan perez joins me now live. pressure from the president on two top law enforcement officials. >> that's right, john. the president making it very clear, very transactional. he wants an election assistance essentially from bill barr here at the justice department, from john durham the prosecutor looking boo the -- into the or of the russia investigation and looking into whether or not perhaps the deep state, whether the intelligence community, whether obama administration officials like john brennan at the time the head of the cia cooked the intelligence that showed that the russians were preferring donald trump in the 2016 election. of course, now that's a lot more

complicated for durham to undercut that finding since the intelligence community is now saying that in 2020 the russians are interfering and that they're doing that to boost president trump's re-election hopes. that's, of course, there's a lot of pressure for durham to produce something before the election and you can see that in comments that we have heard from bill barr who says that he expects that even if durham doesn't finish the work before november but to release something before the election and to give you a sense, john, of how politicized this has become we have learned that part -- one of the thing that is bill barr looked into before appointing john durham to do this investigation was to talk to michael macasey and considered to have him be the person to do this investigation and went to john duh ham and we'll see what he produces, whether he disappoints the president or gives the president

what he wants. >> we are waiting on that one. we know you'll bring it to us when we know but the words from the president, supposed to be separation between the president, the justice department, and the fbi. not this presidency. thanks so much. up next, the president of the philippines said he has so much confidence in the russian coronavirus vaccine he's willing to test it himself. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪

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deaths. some countries around the world seeing cases rise after lifting the lockdowns. here's a look at how they're responding starting with cnn's will ripley. >> reporter: i'm will ripley in hong kong. new zealand recorded 14 new covid-19 cases overnight on top of the casses reported yesterday and a lot of these are tied to the first household where the cluster of infection took place or the workplace of a member of that household. it's actually a company headquartered in the united states that specializes in transportation and storage and in china incidents where the virus survived on food packaging that was kept refrigerated and looking at the sanitation measures in place at the factory and test everyone, people are told to stay home in auckland and police checkpoints set up to enforce it. >> reporter: i'm in new delhi, india reporting nearly 67,000

new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours. a record high for the country. it is inching closer towards 2.4 million cases of the virus and remains a third most affected country across the world. india overtook the united kingdom on thursday to register the fourth highest number of deaths across the globe. a religious leader next to prime minister modi at a function in august 5th has tested positive for the virus and a cab net minister has taken to twitter on wednesday to announce that he has been infected. the western state and the southern states remain the worst affected. >> reporter: i'm al goodman in spain. six weeks after lifting a nationwide lockdown that slowed down the coronavirus last spring, spain's now recording the highest number of new cases in western europe.

more than in britain. 600 outbreaks in spain but an official said it's too early to talk about a sec wave even though the number of new patients in hospitals and icus is on the increase. officials say it's especially due to young people at drinking parties in nightclubs and outdoors and large family events at weddings without masks. among seasonal farm workers living and working in close quarters. >> reporter: i'm matthew chance in moscow and despite concerns about its safety and effectiveness, a world leader is stepping forward to have the controversial new russian coronavirus vaccine. the philippine president duterte says he has confidence in the vaccine and will take it whenever it arrives in his country. i will volunteer to receive it in public he said in an address to the nation. i believe the vaccine is really good for humanity he added.

critics say that the third phase human trials and the vaccine, the first to be approved by governments in the pandemic, remains risky. russian officials say a billion doses have already been ordered worldwide. >> thanks for joining us. hope to see you tomorrow. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. john, thank you. i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. more families are without their loved ones today after the deadliest day of the summer so far. 1,499. that is the number of american lives lost wednesday to the coronavirus. in fact, it is the 17th consecutive day the u.s. averaged more than 1,000 deaths per day and it's a stark reminder that the u.s. does not have this pandemic under control. and then while deaths are rising, testing is