thank you very much. see you back here tomorrow. final night of the democratic convention tonight. join us for special coverage. very busy news day. anderson cooper picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. i'm anderson cooper. i want to welcome viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. at least 173,000 americans died from covid-19. nearly a quarter of deaths worldwide. 1,000 average deaths reported every day for 3 weeks. that is the reality of the toll on this country. but another part of that reality is that each of those numbers represents someone who was loved, whose life was interrupted and will be forever missed. one is sarah montoya who made an urgent plea from her hospital bed just last month. >> never in my life did i ever think that i would be fighting

for my breath. something that we take for granted every day and we wake up. please do not put your families at risk. i did the best that i thought that i could. it is not worth it. put your masks on. don't go out if you don't have to. >> sarah montoya was just 43 years old. she leaves behind a husband, three daughters one whom pregnant with a first grandson due in november. nakoma james was a coach in okay ford, mississippi. he died earlier this month while in self quarantine with

coronavirus-like symptoms. his widow spoke shortly after they laid him to rest. >> my man, everything is going to be all right. this is my husband. it is all right. we'll go to the hospital and everything is going to be right. the paramedic came and -- said, ma'am, we have been working on him for 45 minutes. we've done all we can. >> the commodores which held the first practice this week plan to honor him in the upcoming season. dr. costa treated the sickest patients in this pandemic at baltimore's mercy medical center. his husband david spoke with me about the doctor's final moments. >> i had contracted covid from joe at the time he was dying. i was just not going to not be able to touch him. with my bare hands. with my cheek.

so i took everything off. i just took it off. i know i wasn't supposed to do that. but at that point, it was what i wanted to do for him to support and comfort him. >> unlike so many others he was able to be by his husband's side when he died and david said that the fight is an ethical and moral moment for our country. those are just three of the people who have died in this pandemic. we give you the numbers every day. we thought we wanted to start off this broadcast by showing you some of the lives who we have lost. and the lives that they led. across the country with college campuses becoming a growing hot spot for the virus transmission, dr. birx urging officials to expand the testing efforts now that many students are back in class. >> we just saw a trip through the heartland really brings attention to how each university not only has to do entrance

testing but what we talked to every university about is to do surge testing. how will you do 5,000 samples in one day? >> dr. regina bessette is a medic medical director at bay mlor medicine. how would this work logistically on a college campus? >> good morning, anderson. thank you for having me. so what surge testing involves is essentially testing of a large amount or a large group of people and what dr. birx is urging is that campuses get prepared to test at least 5,000 to 10,000 students per day. that is a significant number of tests that she is urging campuses to be prepared to perform. what we don't understand though is how these colleges and universities are going to get the resources to be able to perform this kind of surge testing. across the country, we are seeing major hospital systems and hotspots across the united

states including georgia and texas that are only able to perform 200, maybe 300 tests per day so how exactly is it that the federal government is urging universities to be prepared to do 5,000 or 10,000? >> and we know some schools in quarantine dorms, others are suspending classes for short period of time or shifting to online classes altogether. if you urge an administrator, what would you tell them to do to protect faculty? >> imagine the behaviors of college students. we have already seen at places like unc in chapel hill there's outbreaks and that they have had to go back to virtual online testing. there have been viral photos that have been released on the internet of students at the university of alabama at a bar with no mask on hanging out with people in the local town where their university is housed. college students are not

following so i belie following social distancing guidelines and why colleges that opened thus far are starting to see surges in coronavirus cases not only amongst the students but the staff, as well. >> there is focus on the vaccine and we all want to know when would the vaccine be available. the top adviser to "operation warp speed" said he expects a covid vaccine between april and june next year and much of the high risk population will have been vaccinated by that time. does that new timeline -- i mean, it's, one, good to know they're confident it will be widely available by then but that's a long way off. >> is it good to know? i'm not exactly sure about that. i need to see data before i have the same level of confidence that the doctors have. what we don't understand and i think what the american people don't understand is that vaccine development is a very, very long

process. one of the top vaccine manufacturers in the united states, merck and company, created four of the last seven novel vaccines in the last 25 years and taken 4 years to develop the fastest vaccine so how is it that we are confident that we're going to have a vaccine to a virus that was just discovered at the top of the year? i'm not exactly sure and i would need to see the data on this. >> interesting. dr. bicette, thank you so much. thank you for all you're doing. breaking news out of the new york where steve bannon will appear in court after he was arrested and charged with fraud today. bannon and three others are accused of defrauding thousands. this is hardly the first associate in the president's orbit to be in legal trouble. michael cohen, paul manafort and roger stone just to name a few. the president asked about the former campaign adviser earlier

today. >> i feel very badly. i haven't been dealing with him for a long period of time as most of the people in this room know. he was involved in our campaign. he worked for goldman sachs. he worked for a lot of companies but he was involved at our campaign and for a small part of the administration very early on. i haven't been dealing with him at all. i know nothing about the project other than i didn't like when i read about it i didn't like it. i said this is for government. not for private people and sounded like showboating and i think let my opinion strongly stated at the time. i didn't like it. showboating maybe looking for funds and you will have to see what happens. i think it's a very sad thing for mr. bannon. >> cnn's cara scanel joining me from outside the courthouse. what can we expect from today's court appearance? >> reporter: anderson, we are just learning that steve bannon

is expected to appear in court in person this afternoon whenever that court appearance is scheduled and face the charges, likely released on bail and bannon was arrested this morning on a boat off the coast of eastern connecticut. along with -- where he was charged with three others with misleading investors into this border wall fund raising scheme of we build the wall and prosecutors say that bannon and others toll people that all of the money raised $25 million worth of it would go toward construction but prosecutors say instead they used the money to pay for personal expenses. here's specifically what they say about steve bannon saying that bannon through a nonprofit organization under his control received $1 million from we the build the wall and used among other things to secretly pay a co-defendant and to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in bannon's personal expenses. this is a significant development. these charges, one count of

conspiracy to commit wire fraud, a count of conspiracy to commit la and 20 years in prison. now, bannon will not likely enter a plea today. we have reached out to his lawyer who declined to comment on the charges. you mentioned what the president has said and bannon is certainly just the latest in a number of people who have been close to the president who worked on his campaign including paul manafort and michael cohen who have been caught up in criminal investigations. anderson? >> did you say he was arrested on a boat? >> reporter: yeah. that's right. sources tell us that bannon was arrested on a boat, one person said it was actually his boat that was docked in -- off the coast of connecticut in the long island sound. sometime early this morning and arrested by investigators.

>> oh. fascinating. cara, thank you so much for the reporting. preet bahari, how serious are the charges? >> very serious. serious because they carry, you know, incredibly difficult prison sentences, potentially not -- up to 20 years but the defendants convicted wouldn't get 20 years but fairly straightforward. there was an elaborate scheme to prevent this from coming to light. funds coming in for the purpose of building a wall. they decided to do private construction of a wall but the evidence that's laid out in the indictment is bank statements, text messages and all they have to show at the end of the day to prove the guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is certain

expectations that no compensation or salary by the people named in the indictment and then if they show transfers of money the case is over. and guilt is proven. so it's serious because they're serious charges, wire fraud, money laundering and serious because the case seems to be overwhelming. >> i mean, if these allegations are true, this is your life's work. do people think they get away with this stuff? if it's so cut and dry of the documents tell the story, he is in the public eye. it just seems pretty brazen. >> look. we have had brazen frauds before. the most extreme of which maybe is bernie madoff. by my office, as well. it is hard to understand why. i know with respect to steve bannon himself, a man of great means. and what's also sort of

contemptible about it to get money from -- not investors but small-time donors who believed in a particular cause of building a wall along the southern border which the president assured us for four years to be paid for my mexico and people said we want it to go to the purpose an enso they said over and over again no money's going to go to line the pockets of the people in the enterprise. 100% of your small dollar donations go to building the wall and that was an inducement to some vulnerable people who had a belief in this cause. and it was a lie. and over and over again they went through the -- the indictment is 23 pages. it would be shorter but for the fact that the indictment lays out again and again and again how many times the leaders of the scheme put representations forward on the website, on social media and emails and other places that zero dollars

were going to go into the pockets of the people behind this program. and that turned out to be false. >> what's also so sleazy about the whole idea is this is the guy running or co-running the president's campaign in which building a wall was the driving force, a clarion call over and over again at rallies that he would then take that and his association with that and according to prosecutors try to profit off it by creating this thing and, you know, building a private wall. >> yeah. look. it shows that -- putting aside the legal aspects of this on the political side and the policy sides, shows that people have no belief in many of the things they put forward. it is a cynical attempt to line your own pockets with money from people who have been brought

along, the wall on the southern border and it just sort of -- it pokes a hole in the whole idea that some of these people, steve bannon, ceo of the campaign, that they don't actually believe in these things and they use the efforts in a cynical attempt to defraud people in the president's own base and legally serious, it's politically odd and cynical. and it's also just i think an affront to anybody, not just the people that gave money to everybody else. >> also for a president that ran on i know how to choose people and you look at the gallery of people who have been charged -- >> asked for a reporter -- sorry. i saw earlier today he was, the president asked by a reporter that listed off a number of people close to the president charged or convicted of crime and said what does that say

about your judgment? the president said, i don't know. i think reasonable people can say we know what that means. he has very poor judgment. he knows that the reputations with the people associated with them. hires them anyway. roger stone is case in point and i guess the question is now going forward, that a lot of people asking, what are the implications for the future? >> yeah. >> going to get into this round of speculation of when motichae cohen was arrested. facing what is potentially a long prison sentence and there's an incentive to tell the federal prosecutors, agents things that they know and that could be to the detriment of the president and to others. >> preet, appreciate it. fascinating. president trump under fire from a dangerous conspiracy group. the fbi believes they're

dangerous. i'll speak live with someone who's been getting death threats from qanon. after the predecessor launched a stinging rebuke hear how the president is hellbent on making next week's convention a spectacle. no sweat! try it and love it or get your money back.

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multiple appearances. masks and social distance not required. alexi mcgammon from axios joins me now. how does it compare with the message of unity you think we've been hearing from the democrats? >> that's exactly right, anderson. thank you for having me today. the rnc and the dnc in terms of messaging could not be more different. this week we have seen how democrats have pushed a message of unity which is not totally different than what dems want to do at any convention but that's a lot easier to do when it's virtual to have the protests and boos from the crowd and pushes the image of unity and we have seen republicans cross party lines to attend virtually the democratic convention and make the case for why republicans should be supporting joe biden over donald trump. we won't see something like that from democrats crossing over to tell folks why to support donald

trump at the rnc next week and to your point about culture wars, that's something that president trump has relied on time and time again since he was running for president and certainly throughout his presidency but you even see that kind of theme or contrast in the speakers released. one stood out to me of a huge contrast with the democratic contrast is that couple from st. louis seen in a viral video pointing guns at black lives matter protesters after george floyd's killing and they will be speaking at the rnc convention and i think that just shows where the two parties are on one of the biggest issues of the country right now which is police brutality. >> last night a speech by kamala harris and incredibly probably the speech of her political life thus far and also really a remarkable speech by former president obama, a speech kind of backing, trying to fill out the profile of who joe biden is and the relationship.

but really, i mean, attacking i'm not sure is the right the word but devastating critique of president trump and of really kind of an emergency call about the future what he believes is the future of democracy in this country. >> yeah. that's right. former president obama said in no uncertain terms that democracy is at stake at in this election and i think that's a strong rebuke from the former president who tried to stay in the shadows or the sidelines not coming out to attack trump or criticize trump for different things he does and now the urgency the democrats feel to not just defeat trump but move their own party forward in a really substantial way and we saw that everyon in the lineup t knight. that night. obama was supposed to be the closing speaker and switched spots for kamala harris to pass

the torch to a new generation of leader and showing what democrats want the country to look like after trump whenever that is but for the party to represent and talk about. >> interesting that they switched places, that's very interesting. senior adviser tells cnn that the biden speech tonight won't be centered on trump. he has made his thoughts on trump very clear in his announcement video and all throughout the campaign thus far. do we know what he's going to be focusing on? >> so my understanding is that this speech is being fine tuned and we won't have a preview until a little bit later this afternoon perhaps and maybe not at all but we know that throughout this convention we heard folks like former first lady michelle obama or senator kamala harris i think they both only mentioned president trump by name one time each. that is an interesting theme of democrats focusing on unity and

what the president -- why folks should vote for joe biden not just against president trump. i have been thinking about this, anderson, and the coronavirus pandemic i hear from voters all the time that there's fatigue of partisan politics and i think this moment for democrats is something that they take to hart and not trying to rely on attacks against president trump but talking bigger picture, why voters should support the party and why this moment is bigger than the incumbent president and that's what we can expect to hear from biden tonight. >> alexi, thank you so much. >> thank you. new warnings of possible covid infections at a biker rally last week and the president essentially endorsing a conspiracy group. we'll look at the nonsense conspiracies that they believe in. >> you guys are -- >> you don't believe in the first aemtd? >> i totally do. >> you said -- >> you're weaponized by the cia.

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terrorist and yet the president of the united states essentially just embraced them. >> i don't know much about the movement other than i understand they like me very much. which i appreciate. >> there's a belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. does that sound like something you are behind or -- >> i haven't heard that but is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? i mean, you know. if i can help save the world from problems, i'm willing to do it. i'm willing to put myself out there. >> i mean, this is just a -- pause here. this is remarkable. the president, this is a group that believes there is a -- based on anti-joouish, anti-catholic tropes that have been for generations. you know? used to be that there was a ka

ball of jewish bankers pulling the strings of everything. this group qanon, people who believe in it or follow it online, they believe that the world is essentially run by a secretive group kabal of pedophiles who worship satan and plotting against the president and communicating in code involving pizza. they believe falsely that the leaders are barack obama, dalai lama, i'm on a list somewhere or my mom is. they believe falsely that in addition to molesting children this group of satan worshipping celebrities and democrats kills and eats their child victims in order to get a chemical from the blood of children that extends their lives. they actually believe this. they believe that a grouch of military generals recruited

president trump to break up this conspiracy and end their control of the government and the media. in fact, a couple years ago when this started and it's just -- started from some anonymous person posting under the letter "q" on a -- you know, internet chat site and all these people continue to believe little, you know, obscure clues or hints that are put out by this anonymous person or could be russia, could be anybody. who knows who it is? they build a conspiracy theory and used to be that the -- that robert mueller according to this conspiracy robert mueller was actually secretly working for trump to indict hillary clinton and all these other people on child sex trafficking and that turned not to be true at all. but then the conspiracy theory just kind of forgot about that and invented and kept going and

attach themselves to anti-vaccine groups. people who actually do work on child trafficking because for all these people talking about child trafficking doesn't seem like they raise money for groups that work on child trafficking. gary tuchman spoke to trump supporters a few years. >> it is the shift. some call it the great awakening. >> it is an entity of ten or less people. >> okay. >> that have -- >> reporter: involve the government? >> high, high clearance, you know, security clearance. >> reporter: how do you know that? >> i'm just telling you this is what it appears to be. >> reporter: you don't have any proof of that. >> you don't have any proof there isn't. >> reporter: you believe there's a deep state? >> yes. >> reporter: what do you believe they're doing? running the country? >> i think they were and we tremendous if ied now. >> reporter: who are in it? >> i believe the clintons, the bushes, the obamas. >> qanon is the people that believe in what trump's trying to do to change our country.

>> you guys are -- >> reporter: you don't believe in the first amendment? >> i totally do. you're weaponized by the cia. >> so it would be actually kind of funny if it wasn't as something that had real world consequences. a few years back a person showed up heavily armed to a pizza parlor in washington believe i think that clintons were running a sex trafficking ring out of the basement of the pizza parlor and wanted to liberate it. the guy is in jail. accused of murdering a mafia boss. one threatening to kill joe biden. yet a supporter won a republican primary in georgia and a 9/11 truther. doesn't believe a plane went into the pentagon and favored to win a seat in congress in november and the president said that person is a bright future star of the republican party.

guess why the president refused to do the easy thing? a former dhs official, guess why the president was unwilling to basically distance himself from qanon? he pretended not to know anything about the whole cannibalism, child sex trafficking -- oh, satan worshippers. yeah. here's what he said. >> if we have learned one lesson of donald trump it is that he thinks if something aligns with his personal interests it is good. if it doesn't align with his personal interests it is bad. in the case of things like qanon and conspiracy theories, as long as they support and reinforce the president's world view he will embrace them with a full hug but if someone walks into his office with a contrary world view or something to dispel a conspiracy theory they won't get over the threshold without a full cavity search. this president isn't interested

in truth. he's interested in his truth. >> and you know how the reason you can know that's true? joined by brian seltzer. the first thing he said when asked about it yesterday, they say very nice things about me. and that's for him, that is -- that is the number one bullet point on qanon. doesn't matter they say the slanderous, outrageous, insane, you know, things based on anti-semitic tropes about a kabal of democrats drinking the blood of children which is literally something nazis said about jews long ago. it is extraordinary the president of the united states doesn't have the moral courage to even, you know, stand up and just say, you know what? this is ridiculous. >> he's claimed that he doesn't know what qanon is all about but he's retweeted twitter account

that is promote this idea and there are lots of qanon supporters that used to show up at the rallies when they had rallies wearing qanon paraphernalia. whether he knows what it is or not it is disgraceful. too many of his support ers are buying into the lies and endangering fellow americans. if he is winking and nodding to them that is incredibly dangerous. i hear this as a conspiracy theory, just a conspiracy theory, no. this is a virtual cult. this is dangerous to the country, dangerous for trump supporters as well as for trump's opponents to buy into the ideas on the fringe but because people like president trump are giving winks and nods it is no longer fringe but mainstream. >> again, they believe a group of hollywood celebrities and democratic leaders are torturing

children, trafficking children and then harvesting their blood for some sort of a chemical that supposedly in their blood that will keep i guess the people young or something? i'm not sure on the blood drinking thing. >> it should not be hard to denounce this. i interviewed adam kinsinger and speaking out about this problem. conspiracy theory thinking, people want to get wrapped up in crazy ideas, they go down rabtd holes on the internet, facebook and twitter. people need to be helped away from the nonsense. facebook and twitter are both removing qanon aligned accounts but it is probably too lat. this stuff is spreading for years and now even the president is being asked about it. >> yeah. brian, appreciate it. amc theaters reopening in some cities tonight. plus a puerto rican official responds to the claim that the

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california, where a wildfire is raging out of control and happening during the middle of a pandemic. there are nearly two dozen major fires burning in the state and resources are stretched thin in part due to the virus. the state traditionally relies on prisoners to battle wildfires but this resource is being depleted with outbreaks in the prisons, some 10,000 prisoners released early because they were nonviolent. the state sy trying to augment the fire fighting force to make up for the shortfall. >> reporter: a person who spent hours at a bar in the sturgis michael cohen rally last week in south dakota tested positive for covid-19. now health experts were already concerned of this being a super spreader event because it is one of the largest events we have seen over the course of this coronavirus pandemic since it took hold here in the united states. moving forward this potential exposure at the sturgis bar is one of several covid-19 cases

that are now being connected to bars and even concerts over the past few weeks in south dakota. >> want to thank the correspondents. l.a.'s mayor making good on a threat to turn off power. a former dhs official said the president was serious of trading puerto rico for greenland. don't settle for silver ♪ gold bond champion your skin

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you remember a while back when president trump floated the idea of buying greenland. a former member of his administration filled in the rest.

>> the president's talked about wanting to purchase greenland. but he told us, he wanted to see if we could sell ported rico. could we swap puerto rico for greenland, because, in his words, puerto rico was dirty and the people were poor. >> i want to be clear, behind the scenes he can be irreverent, but when you're expecting him to be presidential and he makes statements like that and he means them t gives you a great deal of pause. >> i want to bring in pedro, formerly represented puerto rico in congress from 2009 to 2017. what was your reaction when you heard this? >> well, you know, it's hard to find someone who president trump has ont fended at some point. but that was such -- so disrespectful to the american

citizens of puerto rico, it is so hard to fathom. we have to remember we're american citizens, we've fought in all american wars. and we've gained five presidential medals of honor. what is he talking about? it's so disrespectful. >> and it's worth noting, he apparently made the comments ahead of a hurricane-relief trip. >> exactly. and that's when we were in need of federal assistance like it happens everywhere in america. and by the way, since then, what we've seen is you know different requirements for puerto rico. we're not getting equal treatment. and we should. we're american citizens. there shouldn't be two types. you should be treated like an

american citizen regardless of where you reside. and that's what's wrong with the current status of puerto rico and the way the federal government deals with us. >> i appreciate your time today. thank you so mitch. >> thank you. any moment we could get our former political manager in court for fraud. and sharon stone detailing her family's fight with covid-19.

despite a continued decline across the u.s., the colleges and universities becoming new hot spots. at least 17 states reporting positive new cases. now, white house task forces member, dr. deborah burks is making this recommendation to schools to help contain the spread. >> the last trip through the heartland really brings attention how each university, not only has to do entrance testing and what we talk to every university about is doing surge testing. how are you going to do 5,000 samples in one day or 10,000 samples in one day? >> the 17-day average showing a gain of 5%, compared to a week ago.

while some are showing decline in new deaths, an average of 1,000 deaths have been reported every day for the last three weeks. 170,000 americans. the cdc out with a new report on covid testing in the nation's prisons and jails. jacqueline. >> reporter: anderson, this cdc report shows nat mass testings can identify thousands of covid-19 cases that would be ms.ed if tests were conducteden people showing symptoms. now, the report looked at 15 facilitiz bfore and after testing was done. all of the facilities identified at least one case based on people having symptoms but the mass testing increased the known number of cases from 642 to more than 8,000.