i'll be here 8:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. busy news day. stay with us. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. i'm brianna keilar and want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. america is burning and washington goes home. in another tragic and deadly week from the coronavirus, there is still no uniform federal response and as millions of americans go without relief and face evictions the senate goes home for august without a stimulus deal. and in moments the president is expected to take questions from reporters inside the white house briefing room. we should be clear, the coronavirus crisis is still killing far too many americans. 1,076 lives lost thursday. take a look at this. deaths from coronavirus over the last month -- too many days with hundreds and hundreds of americans dying. for the 18th consecutive day the

u.s. averaged more than 1,000 deaths from covid. and while americans are dying, the testing czar says it's sufficient. over the last week, the u.s. has reported more than 365,000 known coronavirus cases. that's enough to fill up a stadium in atlanta. this stadium in atlanta over five times. california leading the country in the number of infections becoming the first state to surpass 600,000 covid cases and the new warning from the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. fauci says the consequences will be devastating if the u.s. does not get coronavirus under control and reopen safely. >> you will never get a good marching back economically back unless you control the biologic. you have to be able to control it. and one of the problems is in

your understandable zeal to quickly get back to normal and revive the economy you can do it if you do it in a measured, prudent way. the lesion is the jumping over the benchmarks and the guideposts put forth so to think to ignore the biologic and get the economy back is not going to happen. >> another warning this time from the white house. the atlanta journal constitution obtaining recommendations from the white house coronavirus task force for the state of georgia saying that current policies in the state are not enough. the report found georgia's rate of spread was nearly double the national average and strongly recommended a massik mandate whh the governor refused to do. dr. fauci said scientists are working on a possible plan "d"

in the race for a coronavirus vaccine, an approach involving vaccinating healthy volunteers and then infecting them with a strain that researchers created. i want to bring in cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. the fact that recommendations are ignored this might be the direction that things go but tell us how exactly this would work. >> i got to tell you, i was on the phone with dr. fauci earlier today and he could not emphasize enough that this is -- what we are doing now is a contingency of a preliminary maybe and people don't want to do challenge trials but be prepared if we end up doing them so a challenge trial as you mentioned is where you intentionally -- you vaccinate someone and then intentionally put the virus literally up the noses and see how well the vaccine works. in order to do that you have to create a special strain.

you want to create a strain that is the same from person to person to person in your study so they need to create that strain and that takes a while. they want to have it sitting in the freezer in case we need to do challenge trials but dr. fauci says he does not think we will ever get to this point but sort of no harm in having it in the freezer just in case. brianna? >> and yet, it is a just in case which brings us to the question of is that -- i mean, is this something that's ethical? sounds like it's been determined to be but i think just nornlal people would have that question. >> well, it is ethical in you design the study right and if you fully inform people, hey, do you want to do this? no one is forced to do this. people volunteer for it and already there are groups of people that volunteered for this. they know the risk and doing it, some people are very young -- not children, obviously, but young adults saying, look, to help the world here i am.

use me, challenge me with this virus. i know that if i did get sick and the vaccine doesn't work i will likely be okay. so there are people who are willing to do this and it is ethical if you properly inform them, true informed consent. >> okay. i want to turn to testing now and listen to admiral brett giroir had to say on the current state of testing in the country. >> you beat the virus by smart policies, supplemented by strategic testing. do not beat the virus by shotgun testing everyone all the time. it is just a false narrative. i'm really tired of hearing it by people not involved in the system that we need millions of tests every day. >> the u.s. averaging i think about 700,000 tests a day and experts say that's not nearly enough so what do you make of his remarks there? >> he sounded quite upset and i think he maybe overstepped saying people want us to test

everyone. i've never heard anyone say let's test everyone every day. that is not the case at all. people say we need to do much more and doing about 700,000 to 800,000 a day and a doctor saying we should do 4 million to 5 million a day for a better idea of who's infected, where to implement the public health strategies, all of that and not saying -- no one's saying test everyone every day. they say we need to do more than we are currently. >> that would be hundreds of millions of tests a day and no one calling for that. elizabeth, thank you so much. we always love you explaining it to us. president trump and the first lady requesting their mail-in ballots for florida's primary despite the fact that he continues to attack mail-in voting altogether. florida of course led by republicans and deemed a must win in november. it is the only state that president trump claims is safe and secure. tried and true when it comes to mail-in voting.

that is not true. along with many other claims about mail-in ballots. >> president donald trump made many baseless and misleading claims casting doubt on mail-in voting. >> we have a new phenomenon. it's called mail-in voting. >> not true. >> mail-in voting in the united states since the civil war. we have been doing it for hundreds of years, many states have actually had a majority of their votes cast by mail for decades. >> let's begin here. five states conduct elections almost entirely by mail. by cnn's count, 37 states and the district of columbia allow you to vote by mail without giving an excuse or using the pandemic as your reason. these remaining eight states like texas and new york do not allow voters to use the pandemic as an excuse to vote for mail. how you get your ballot depends on where you live, too. in light of the pandemic

vermont, california, and new jersey joined the universal mail-in voting states sending ballots to every registered voter. others send request forms to voters in the mail and most americans must request a ballot sent to them. >> they'll blanket the state, anybody that ever walked frankly will get one. >> nope. registered voters. just registered voters get ballots and noncitizens are not permitted to register to vote in federal elections. next -- >> you look at some of the corruption having to do with universal mail-in voting, absentee voting is okay. you have to apply, go through a process. >> you have to apply for mail-in. same thing. >> it is done by mail. so it's mail voting. you have similar procedural checks in both cases. >> pause. rewind to the most dangerous claim of mail-in voting. >> you look at the corruption having to do universal mail-in voting, there's no way to go

through a mail-in vote without massive cheating. >> what election officials will tell you of both parties is that voter fraud is extremely rare. might be in dozens or hundreds of cases out of 150 million ballots cast. >> mail-in ballots, foreign countries will be printing their own ballots. >> foreign government or anyone else trying to flood the system with fake mail ballots would be detektd detected immediately. they differ by state. they use special dimpfferent paper, ink. usually coded ompb tn the outsi the envelope. these things detected, a clumsiest attempt to interfere in the election. >> once the ballot arrives, is filled out and signed and sealed it is yusually delivered or han

delivered and a team verifies identification envelopes and secures the ballot until it's time to be counted. generally votes are kournted coa voting machine. >> you have people from different parties or at least two people doing the counting and checking each other so it's hard to kind of run away and commit blatant fraud. >> last but not least -- >> i don't want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that's what's going to happen, steve. that is common sense. >> it is not going to take three months to count the ballots. in fact, the term ends in january which is less than three months after the election and by constitution a new president would have to take office january 20th unless president trump is re-elected. >> president trump is right about one thing. the volume of mail-in ballots is going to be far higher than any previous election in history. >> many states haven't seen more

than 5% of the ballots cast by mail in the past elections. everything you hear on election night is unofficial. it is a partial count. >> and the president is fully admitting that he's pulling funding from the postal service in the lead-up to november's election. former president tweeting in part the postal service can't be collateral damage for an administration more concerned with suppressing the vote than the virus as states scramble to ensure that every vote is counted. california is shoring up staffing for election day. alex padilla is joining me now. secretary, thank you for coming on and tell us when you announced this state wide initiative this week you warned the younger generation to step up given the pandemic. are they stepping up?

>> so far, we are off to a good start. 81 days until tuesday, november 3rd which i should ask us not to refer to as election day but the last day to vote bauftd multiple options that there will be to vote early, safely by mail or safely in person. but i think it's common sense just as covid impacted all aspects of our daily lives, elections are no different and a lot of the individuals who have volunteered in prior elections think of all the senior citizens and retirees, that have helped administer elections, will not be available this november for obvious reasons so we are trying to recruit the next generation of poll workers for this, november's election and beyond. >> how many do you need? and how many do you have so far? >> don't have a hard count but at least 100,000 hits on the site since it went live. and what we're doing is just trying to serve as a portal and connect people interested and

willing to serve ads poll workes with the county poll office. we want to remind people to make a plan and vote early. but if you're willing to serve as a poll worker we need your help. know that you will have both the proper training to serve as a poll worker and all the proper protective equipment to keep you and voters safe. ppe, masks, gloves, sanitizers, et cetera into the in-person voting experience. >> secretary, i want you to listen to something that the president said on fox about funding for the u.s. postal service. >> they want $25 billion, billion, for the post office. now they need that money in order to have the post office work to take all of these millions and millions of ballots and meantime they aren't getting there. by the way, those are just two

items. if they don't get them you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to make it. if we don't make a deal they don't get the money and can't have universal mail-in voting. >> he is saying that he doesn't want to fund what the postal service needs to handle an election with a lot of mail-in voting in a pandemic. what is your reaction to that? >> it's -- there he goes again. attacks and outright lies. and it's not just our democracy on the line with the postal service but the economy. which we know matters to him and matters especially to voters as we prepare to vote this november. so here's a suggestion that we have for voters. make a plan. you know? most states do offer a vote by mail opportunity. ballots will go out and most states are like california where we get ballots out early to voters. don't sit on it. i don't think there's anybody waiting until two days before

the election day to decide who they vote for. send your ballot in early and know the rules in the state and some states the ballot has to be back in the county elections office by election day and give it ample time. drop it off in person if that's an option in the jurisdiction. increasingly there are states like california with a postmark policy. as long as the ballot is postmarked on or before election day we have extra time after the election for it to arrive and be counted. >> you do that. we know nevada does that. pennsylvania just decided that they're doing that. you get as long as it's postmarked counted three days after the election. so that brings me to the question -- is it possible that we do not -- do you foresee a situation where we do not know who is president, who will be president on election night? >> yeah. so before i answer that, let's end the prior question with for

all the trump talks about a rigged election he is confessing because he is trying to rig it by undermining postal service and attacking vote by mail. we should be looking for more safe opportunities for people to vote, not less. california has unique experience coming to vote counting. we are such a big state and ensure that valid ballots are counted and we have a sense of most elections but for close races and final results, it does take a couple weeks to finish counting and with so many critical states expanding vote by mail like michigan, pennsylvania, ohio, arizona it's a possibility that if it's too close to call in several key states we may not know who won the presidential contest two, three days after. people should prepare to be patient and understand it is the ballot processing, counting and auditing at work and don't buy into the lies and conspiracy

theories that we know will come from the tweeter in chief. >> secretary, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. in moments the president is expected to be asked about this. plus, how he amplified a racist birther lie of senator kamala harris. just in, former president obama weighing in moments ago on the attack on the postal service. including how he says the president is kneecapping votes. this is cnn's special live coverage. too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? grubhub's gonna reward you for that with a $5 off perk. (doorbell rings) - [crowd] grubhub! (fireworks exploding)

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just in, former president obama speaking to his own former campaign manager, david plouffe

on his podcast and calls joe biden the right candidate and kamala harris an outstanding candidate. >> i worry about everything as you said but joe biden is the right candidate. he's now picked an outstanding running mate. and those are big pieces of the puzzle. i think the convention will be an important opportunity to describe for the american people his vision for digging us out of the hole that we're in, but let's face it. the fact that it's not a live convention probably alters its impact somewhat. we don't yet know. we have never been in this circumstance before. all kinds of events can change. there's no possibility of a vaccine for covid being developed and distributed between now and the election,

but it is possible that some of the trials that are being done result in us knowing before the election that a vaccine is on the way. that might relieve people's anxieties and that's good. we should hope for that. but that also can change the dynamic, particularly when you have a president who takes responsibility for nothing but takes credit for everything. and you don't know how the economy might react to that. so there are a whole bunch of circumstances, most of which joe biden can't control. here's what joe biden and democrats can control. making sure that we vote. so if you ask me the single thing that i'm most concerned about between now and november, it is that we do everything humanly possible to ensure that

everybody who wants a change in administration actually registers that change at the ballot box, whether that is in person or by mail-in voting. now, what we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting. right? i mean, usually the republican party for quite sometime has actively tried to discourage people's votes from counting in all kinds of ways, whether it's voter i.d. laws or, you know, blatant gerrymandering, making it difficult for people in certain precincts to find the polling places, all that stuff is contrary to american democracy but, you know, i think

the republicans' view has been it's all fair game as long as it helps us gain power. what we've never seen before is a president say, i'm going to try to actively kneecap the postal service, discourage voting and will be expolice sit about the reason i'm doing it. that's sort of unheard of. right? and we also have not had an election in the midst of a pandemic. that is still deadly and killing a lot of people and we still don't know the long-term side effects of contracting the illness. >> i want to bring in john berman. we are sort of starting to see and we have been seeing this now for weeks, i think we saw it at the john lewis funeral, now seeing the president, the former president's message here. this is like his job in this election is talking about the president trump sowing doubt,

attacks on the postal service. he is taking it as his job to get people to vote. >> kneecap the postal service. he says it is unprecedented. used to republicans doing things to impede ballot access but so openly he said is unprecedented. when president obama left office he said a thing to weigh in on is attacks on voter access and ballot okay saccess so this is a he is clearly concerned about. you're right. i think he is eager to address this and it is interesting, obviously democrats don't want their path to the ballot impeded in any way but the fact it's happening now, there is a door open for them to focus on it in a much more organized and concerted way starting now, at the convention next week and made clear to democratic voters what they need to do to make sure that the ballot is counted.

i think you will see a push over the next few weeks for people that get mail-in ballots to return them early, extra early, maybe in person to a ballot drop-off drop-off box and i think part of the strategy and maybe in a backhanded way an advantage to them going forward. >> yeah. we just spoke with the california secretary of state who's a democrat and he was making that point, making that sort of emphasis and call to people, make a plan he said and he's walking folks through what that is. but, john, i also want to talk to you about a cnn special report airing tomorrow because you're taking an in-depth look at the way that the electoral college actually works. >> the present system is dangerous, outdated, archaic. >> born hundreds of years ago -- >> it was a frankenstein's monster of sorts. >> challenged and criticized but

resilient until now. >> there are some issues. >> for better or worse i tried a hail mary. >> we can do something about this. >> i decided maybe someone should take a stand. >> bad news bears of the political world. >> going rogue meant taking risks. >> did you think you were committing a crime? >> no, no. >> we were fined $1,000. >> the backlash was brutal. >> plenty of death threats and hate. >> a desperate political plea to try to keep one man from becoming president. >> i think it scared people. no one used the electoral college this way. >> you thought you had the power to change history. >> to prevent a demagogue from taking office. >> election 2020. >> on the path to defeeting donald trump. >> could it happen again? >> america should not take lectures on racial justice from joe biden. >> we will be in unchartered territory. this is a pandora's box. >> and, john, a look at the

electoral college is probably more timely and relevant than ever but what inspired you to take this project on? >> i get so excited seeing that. it gives life to the thing that we know exists but no so little abo about. mathematicians saying that trump could popular vote by even more. he could lose that by even more, maybe 5 million votes or more and still win and then just to try to understand how we got where we are with the electoral college. your heard a professor saying it's a frankenstein's monster. it really is. it is a deviation from what the founding fathers ever intended. we have come so far and it's almost impossible to see how what we have ended up with is anywhere near what they intended. namely the electors picked. hamilton wanted the men at the

time to go in and vote for whatever they thought was best no matter what the states decided and now clearly that's not where we are and legally speaking most can't do that anymore. >> that's right. while i have you, i want to ask you about president trump's comments that new york state in play this election because of a spike in crime and high taxes. which i hear like this record scratch in my mind. does anyone else think that's the case? >> no. i don't think donald trump even thinks it's the case. look. i cover the bush campaign in 2000 when they actually competed for california. it's unbelievable to think that 20 years ago the republican party devoted serious money to competing in california. they won't compete for new york now. there's an interesting electoral vote tie-in to this that is that new york has 29 electoral votes. what happens to the voters that vote for donald trump in new

york? how much does the vote count in the end? zero. double zero. two hands for that. double zero. the votes mean nothing because we have a winner take all system and ultimately if the candidate you want loses by one vote in the state your vote means nothing and there are people and you will hear them in the documentary tomorrow night who think that's incredibly unfair. >> i can't wait for this, john. you always make -- you see politics so fun as interesting and always comes through when you cover it and looking fathord to this. >> there's music, too. it is set to music so it is even better. >> xlenexcellent. we are looking forward to that. a special report of "count on controversy" with john berman airing tomorrow 10:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn and there is music. the white house task force warning georgia of a dangerous spread and issuing guidance to

stop it. the problem is georgia kept it secret from the public. plus, hear what happened at one of the first football games to be played in america since the pandemic began. and the president will head to new york this afternoon to see his younger brother who has been hospitalized. we'll take you there.

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president trump's younger brother robert is in the hospital, a source saying that the president is expected to pay him a visit today. joe johns is following developments. >> reporter: the white house announcing that robert trump, the younger brother of president trump, has been hospitalized in new york. robert trump like the president is in his 70s. this is the second time he's been hospitalized this year. we are told the president plans to visit his brother in the hospital in new york later today. a senior administration official telling cnn the president has a good relationship with his brother and his brother is very special to him. brianna? >> joe johns, thank you so much.

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would you be willing to accept the $25 billion for the postal service including the $3.5 billion -- >> if they give us what we want. it's what the american people want. so in addition to and just i think, john, as part of the answer i can read this but in addition to the executive orders that we signed which are going to be doing terrific things in terms of payroll tax cut, which is a lot of money coming a lot of people very quickly, i directed the secretary of the treasury to get ready and send direct payments, 3,400 for a family of 4 to all americans. democrats are holding this up. i am ready to have the u.s.d.

and sba send additional ppe payments to small businesses that have been hurt by the china virus. democrats are holding this up. so we're talking about those are two things directly involved. and really victim of the china virus. we're ready to send, democrats are holding up. i'm ready to send rental assistant payments to hard working americans hurt by the china virus. democrats are holding this up. i'm ready to send 105 billion to the states to help open schools safely with additional pppe and democrats are holding this up so that's 105 billion to the states to help open schools safely with additional ppe, democrats are holding that up. right? and i'm ready to send more money

to states and local governments to save jobs. of our great police, our firefighters, our first responders and teachers. it's all ready to go. democrats are holding it up so they're holding all of that up. >> if they give you that -- sign off -- a they're giving it to the american people. >> you would agree to that? >> yeah. i would certainly do that, sure. i would do that. >> follow up on that. a quick question. when you said you directed secretary mnuchin are you spoke of something independently to do -- >> waiting for the democrats to approve it. okay? >> you congratulated marjorie greene in a tweet. greene has been a proponent of the qanon conspiracy theory, saying that it should be worth to listening to. do you agree with her? >> she done well in the lerks. won by a lot. very popular. comes from a great state and she had a tremendous victory so

absolutely i did congratulate her. please, go ahead. go ahead. >> do you agree with her on that. that was the question. >> i want to ask you what ails your brother robert and how is he doing? >> i have a great brother. we have had a great relationship for a long time. from day one. it's a long time ago. and he's in the hospital right now. hopefully he'll be all right but he's pretty -- having a hard time. >> i wanted to ask you also about putin's vinvitation for a summit with iran and other world powers. >> i haven't been told of it yet. i heard there's something but i haven't been told of it yet. >> mr. president, two questions on vaccines. first, once a vaccine is ready, who should get it first? >> i will rely on the doctors to tell me that. i would say probably the elderly, i would say nursing hom

homes. i'll take it if they want. first or last, whatever they want me to do but i would think that the elderly, the people that are most vulnerable to the disease. and we're actually making those lists right now. mostly nursing homes and retirement centers. yeah? >> russia has proved a vaccine, what do you know about the vaccine? have you spoke to russian officials? >> i don't know much about it. we hope it works. we do. we hope it works. they have cut off certain trials. and we just feel it's important to go through the process. we have numerous different vaccine that is we think are going to work but we want to go through a system of trials. we are very advanced. we are very -- we'll be announcing something in the not too distant future and therapeutics that are very, very important. yeah, please? >> mr. president, i have two. one on china and one on oil. first one on china. there's a lot of alarm among american companies of the order

own wichat, apple, diz n. it is a big communications platform in china that if you been u.s. businesses from working with them they won't be able to sell iphones into china or similar markets. >> whatever. >> so you don't mind if this -- >> will do what's good in terms >> we've been very badly letdown by china. what's your next question? >> the oil seized four iranian oil tankers going to venezuela. >> they're not supposed to do that. we'll be announceal four tankers going to houston. and they're there. they're not supposed to be doing that. iran's not supposed to be doing that. so, we seized tankers and we're moving them and moved to houston. >> two questions, if you don't mind.

first of all, kamala harris, you've been blunt about how you feel about her. biden now saying -- >> i haven't been blunt. i said she created worse than joe biden worse than anybody else. i watched pretty good parts of them and she treated biden worse than anybody else by far. there was nobody, including poke haunts, nobody treated biden so badly as kamala. >> do you have have an issue with a strong woman of color being in this presidential race? >> none whatsoever, as you know, none whatsoever. not at all. >> and stimulus question, if you don't mienld. before being president, you talked about being the ultimate deal maker. why why not cut a deal?

>> they do a bad job running certain states and cities running badly. most of our country is setting records in terms of low, but-you look at chicago, what's going on in illinois and new york, and other places, both economically and in other ways, it's horrible. it's horrible. look at oregon. i don't think they have a clue. if they would request it, we would stop that problem in one hour, like we did in minneapolis. we could stop it in one hour. it would be over. it's so easy to do. in the back, please. >> yesterday,ia announced an historic peek deal and later in the day, joe biden tried to take credit. >> we announced it and i appreciate it. even the "the new york times" gave it great coverage.

"washington post" everybody was saying great and this is something we've been working very hard on. i saw where sleepy joe tried to claim credit for it. no, what he did is they made a terrible deal with iran and the deal was a horror show and i ended it. they gave them $150 billion for nothing. $1.8 billion in cash for nothing. they got nothing from that deal but trouble. just like they've been weak on china, they've been weak on russia. thavlg been weak on everyone and the weakest of all against iran. that was a great deal by very talented people that work with me and it's been praised all over the world. what you'll see is you'll have peace in the middle east and biden doesn't even know the name of the countries i'm talking about. thank you very much, everybody. thank you.

>> all right. president trump there in the briefing room at the white house, taking questions after his coronavirus briefing, which covered a number of other topics as well. i want to bring in our chief political analyst to talk about this. the first thing, gloria,f note here, really has to do with mail-in ballots, because he was asked about $25 billion for the postal service, which is, clearly, look, snail mail is going to be essential when you talk about voting ien pandemic. and he said sure, if they give us what they want, meaning the other things he wants in stimulus negotiations with democrats. but funding the postal service, it does not seem to be a priority, which is mind boggling with an election coming that will rely on the postal service. >> so, it's no surprise the postal workers union has just endorsed joe biden and kamala harris.

this president has been saying it out loud. remember, during the russia investigation, lawyers used to wonder can you obstruct justice in public? i think the question and answer was yes, after they listen to trump threatening witnesses. now the question is can you try to derail the election if you're the president of the united states from the podium inside the white house? and i think the answer to that is yes. he's saying okay. you have to give us everything else we want. before i'm going to give you this money. and this money, of course, is for the american people to be able to vote in a safe manner. and in a fair manner. and i think both sides ought to get back at the table. >> yeah. he was also asked about margery taylor green, who just won her primary and expected to do very well in the general. she's expected to win the general in georgia and he was

asked if he agrees with her. she's a qanon supporter, so she supports these nutso conspiracy theories. he really side stepped that. he complimented her and the state of georgia. >> you know, this is a president whose pretty good at that. yesterday, when asked at the press conference, are you -- do you apologize to the american people or whatever the question was, for the amount you lied, he swatted away that part of the question today as well. he did say she did very well and that matters to donald trump, because she won. she had a tremendous victory, she said. i did congratulate her. and the question was asked again do you support what she stands for? and he paid absolutely no attention to it. but he didn't swat it down either. he didn't say of course not, of course i don't believe in it. and he took the opportunity to say he hasn't been tough on kamala harris.

and he said you know, i forget the exact language. he said, you know, she treated joe biden worse than anybody else. which, in his view, is joe biden is weak because he appointed somebody who actually criticized him during the primaries. and from the joe biden campaign's point of view t shows how inclusive he is. and this isn't the first time a presidential candidate has appointed a former opponent to be a running mate. >> he also deskreebcribed how ss comparable to elizabeth warren in treating joe biden and used, basically a slur, to describe elizabeth warren. it's like to address it every time is to address it constantly, but i think we can't threat slide off our backs. we need bring in kaitlan

collins, who has been watching all of this at the white house. he was asked about the vaccine, who gets it first? and first off, there is no vaccine. the president is projecting a much quicker timeline than other people. he did say there would be, he thinks, announcing something in the not so distant future. that's one of his throw-away lines he uses. asked who would get it first, he said the elderly and nursing homes. talking about himself, he said i'll go first or last. i think we know what that means. he didn't mention pregnant women, first responders. i guess i was surprised about no mention of pregnant women, considering he's trying to make play for women right now? >> reporter: it doesn't seem to be well thought out how the roll out will go. and that's what they need to be ready for. not only how to execute when a

vaccine ready but it's so much more than actually being able to give people a vaccine, it's also convincing people to want to get a vaccine. some polls have shown people don't trust the process or fear it's going too quickly. and you've seen so many experts say we're not cutting any corners, we're not doing this. it's not clear who exactly would be first in line to get the vaccine. the president doesn't seem to be apprised of one, if there is one nside the administration. i want to go back to the president avoiding that question from joe coleman of the associated press about that candidate he recently endorse and congratulated on twitter for winning her congressional race. the president is not being asked if he endorsed her. we already knew he did because he did that on twitter. the reporter was asking if he agrees with the fact that she has embraced and promoted the

qanon conspiracy theory, which is off the walls, if you look at some of it, but he did not answer. and when she tried to follow up, he moved on to another reporter. >> he certainly did. he was very careful to not respond to that follow-up question. so, abbey, we took the question and answer part of this briefing too, be clear, we find it to be instructive as the reporters are challenging the president with questions. but yesterday he floated, essentially a birther conspiracy about kamala harris, which is something that is -- i mean it's very othering, racist. he was asked during this briefing if he has an issue with women of color and he sort of swatted that away and says he doesn't see kamala harris as a threat.