at the top of the hour, i'm anderson cooper. for the second consecutive day the number of americans dying has fell below 500 and it has fallen 8% over the last two

weeks. confirmed cases continues to fall with 38,000 reported on monday. in an interview with the infectious diseases society of america dr. anthony fauci says when it comes to covid-19 scientists and health officials are learning things in, quote, real time. >> i think we've learned the lesson that i think we should have known from our experience with other outbreaks, is that when you're dealing with a work in progress, things change, and you've got to keep an open mind that you certainly don't know the whole story in the first or the second or third or fourth month. as scientists and public health officials, we need to be humble, to realize that any given moment there may be a lot that we still do not know. >> cnn's tom bohrman joins me now. >> reporter: if you look at cases in the country, this is good news. a lot of the country in the

latest map compared to the week before, you can see a lot of states moving into that steady or green area. that is a real plus. only ten in the red area. but look where the red ones are. cutting a swath up through the middle of the country mainly. that's a worry point right now because, just as dr. fauci was saying, this is a learning process. one of the problems is absent a true national plan, state after state after state, according to health officials, is coming up with their own plan and then it's hit and miss as to how they put it together. then people have a little bit of good news, they think it's better and they start taking off the masks and get closer and problems result. look at the death rate compared to the week before and you can see how many places are still seeing rising death rates. that's a trailing generator because people don't generally pass away right away. watch the middle of the country in the next few weeks and see if the deaths creep up there. and the colleges, that is a genuine concern right now for people all over this country

because colleges are absolutely having a problem. they tried to go back to classes and look what happens. several places have had big spikes. university of alabama had a huge number of cases, more than 500 show up in addition to the 300 we started with. unc chapel hill, iowa state, notre dame, missouri, usc. all of these schools have tried to have best practices and they've struggled to make them work when you bring all the students back in. and even to the point that some schools are really cracking down hard. if you look at those that are pushing against fraternities and sororities, ohio state, university of kansas, penn state, the problem is it's not just a matter of people wanting to go to school or schools wanting to have them back. think about all the schools out there, thousands and thousands of students, who were transported to school by their parents, they moved in, they rented property and now in many cases they're having to reverse that with no idea what comes

next. >> tom, thanks very much. the number of daily new cases are going down. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins me now to talk about it. what do you think is behind the numbers? why are the cases going down? what is working? >> well, what works is separating people out so that the virus has a hard time jumping from person to person, people wearing masks, doing all the things that you and i have been talking about since march and april. it's been really important to sort of have these measures in place. what we've seen around the country is that there's certain places where the numbers will go up, people weren't really paying attention as tom said, and then all of a sudden it hits them that we're in the middle of a significant outbreak, they pause reopenings, as you saw in arizona. mask mandates go into place in certain counties in florida. the hot spots become cooler at that point. the question -- and, again, it's something we've been asking for several months, is that decline

going to continue or are we going to still be on this roller coaster ride as we see waves of new cases in other parts of the country? >> and dr. fauci's warning about approving a coronavirus vaccine before it's fully tested, he worries that people would not volunteer for other vaccine trials. given what we've seen, pressure being put on the fda for emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and now for plasma, do you think his fears are justified? >> yeah, i mean this is a really important critical point. this is probably one of the most critical points of this whole story, anderson. one is there's obviously been a decrease overall in willingness to try the vaccine. we've seen the poll numbers go down in terms of the percentage of people who are willing to try the vaccine. from may until now it's gone down 10% roughly. i think there's also this idea that with the vaccine, unlike therapeutics, unlike medicines to take care of sick people or

treat sick people, a vaccine is given to someone who is perfectly healthy, so the bar by which you measure that and what you're willing to accept has to be higher. you can't rush that through or that's going to erode trust. but i think the other point, and i talked to dr. fauci over the weekend about this, is, you know, once you have an emergency use authorization, you think about it, do you want to be enrolling in a trial at that point or do you say, hey, i want the vaccine at that point, right? i mean, some people may say i'm happy to enroll in a trial that's for the good of science, but many people may say i want the vaccine making it difficult for trial enrollment to get to where they need to be. >> the commissioner of the food and drug administrator, he walked back his initial analysis of convalescent plasma. i know you spoke with him. what did he say? >> he made a mistake and he called me last night to talk about this. he said that he wished he had explained it better, but the

truth is he made a mistake that was a pretty critical mistake. the data out there, a lot of people have said the data is not there. it's not adequate data, it's not very impressive data. that's what the fda has been hearing. that's what the fda itself said this past week, we want to wait. they halted the emergency use authorization. so we looked at the data carefully after steven hahn, dr. hahn made these comments on sunday to try and understand what he meant. because what he said was that there's a 35% reduction in mortality, meaning that if 100 people get this convalescent serum, 35 lives would be saved as a result. that's what he sort of said on sunday night. that's not true. we can show the data specifically, and, again, i spent a good chunk of the evening last night looking at this, going over it with him again. some 35,000 people were in this mayo clinic trial. what they found was that people who got the higher dose of this convalescent plasma, a dose that

had more antibodies in it, their mortality was 8.9% and that's compared to people who got the lower dose where it was 13.7%. so there is a difference. if you get higher doses you had a lower mortality rate. but that is not the same as saying 35 out of 100 lives will be saved. if you do the math it's like five lives, 4.8 lives would be saved out of 100. but the bigger point, and we've talked about so many drug trials, they didn't compare this to no convalescent seer yum. that's how you do a randomized trial. you compare them. that wasn't done. essentially it was comparing it against itself, higher dose versus lower dose. when we looked even deeper at the study we found that nearly half the people got steroid medication, which we know can be effective. so was it the steroids or the convalescent serum. you don't know and that's the problem. you wouldn't know does it work, you wouldn't know the dose to give, you wouldn't know who to give it to, you wouldn't know when to give it.

that's why you do studies. a lot of people have said just try it, why not. >> that's what i was going to ask you. given we're seeing people dying, why not just give it if we think it might work? >> right, because we don't know that it works and we can actually show this, you can study it 70,000 doses have been given out. this could have been studied. but the other thing is who do you give it to, when do you give it, what is the right dose, is there a potential harm, should you combine it with another medication? at the end of the day you want to give the best treatment possible based on science. everything is not a hail mary here. there's a lot of promise because it's been used for other diseases, but sometimes it hasn't worked as well and sometimes it's actually caused harm. you obviously don't want to do that. >> sanjay, thank you very much. i appreciate it. the rnc is ready for round two. tonight's headliner, first lady

melania trump, the speech has not been vetted by the west wing. and we're getting word that jerry falwell has resigned involving a young man he met at a pool. and outrage grows across america after police shoot a man in the back at close range in front of his children. his father says he's now -- paralyzed. details ahead. when we started carvana, they told us

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her speech apparently was not vetted by anyone in the west wing, nor did anyone in the president's staff approve the content. mike pompeo will address from israel. pompeo is drawing intense criticism for using dipt travel and the backdrop of jerusalem. two other presidential family members, eric and tiffany, are also scheduled to speak this evening. we've also learned that president trump will appear more than once during tonight's programming as he did last night. on night one, kimberly guilfoyle gave quite a speech and he reacted online saying she was screaming at times to an empty room, certainly speaking loudly. the room was empty because the country is still grappling with the coronavirus pandemic. there was something specific guilfoyle said that caught people's attention. >> as a first-generation american, i know how dangerous their socialist agenda is.

my mother was a special education teacher from puerto rico. my father, also an immigrant, came to this nation and pursued the american dream. now i consider it my duty to fight to protect that dream. >> pointing out her mother was from puerto rico, which is obviously part of the united states. it's u.s. territory, its residents are u.s. citizens. her father is from ireland. cnn's carlos lopez joins me now. what has the reaction been? >> reporter: it's surprising because puerto ricans have been u.s. citizens since 1917 and it's a key demographic and a key electoral objective for both campaigns. now, it's interesting that she referred to herself as a first-generation immigrant. her mother was from puerto rico, making her an american. now, in this case if you look at the president's track record with puerto rico, it's not really helpful to have these

kind of events. let's go over what's happened since 2017. you were there for hurricane maria. well, president trump was criticized for his reaction to hurricane maria. also, he was criticized for throwing paper towels at people during his visit. he complained about people not being trahankful enough. we heard recently miles taylor says that he had mentioned the island was dirty and the people were poor. so talking about puerto rico and puerto ricans as a foreigner is not really helpful. >> yeah, carlos lopez, appreciate your time. thank you very much. we look ahead to the second night of the convention and new analysis makes the case that the republican party is now president donald trump's party. ron brownstein joins me. you wrote the question is whether the republican party can survive in that form, in a country that will grow more

diverse through 2020. what did you find? >> i think it's very clear at this point that donald trump is posing a distinctive bet on the republican party both for 2020 and for the future, and the bet is that he can squeeze bigger margins out of shrinking groups at the price of provoking greater antagonism among the groups that are growing, even compared to 2016. i think all the indications in the polling are that trump in this election, win or lose, is going to be more dependent on the voting groups and the parts of the country that are the least touched by the way american is changing -- and republicans are going to run even more poorly than they did in 2016 in those places, the big metro centers in particular that are the center of that change. so he is pushing the republican party toward greater reliance on a shrinking share of the electorate that he needs to turn out and deliver enormous numbers. >> in 2016, trump won just four of the 20 states where immigrants composed a larger

part of the population. he's now losing two, arizona and florida, and he's facing a serious challenge in georgia and texas. can the president turn this around? you look at 1988 and michael dukakis was up 17 points after the democratic convention back then and he didn't become president. >> right, so a couple of things. first, what you're describing on the immigration is true across the board. if you look back at 2016, he won only seven of the 25 states with the largest share of college graduates and he's at risk of losing about half of those. he won only nine of the 25 states where white christians are not a majority of the population and at least three of those are at high risk. so to the extent that he had inroads in places that reflected the growing religious racial and cultural diversity of the country, that's where he's suffering the biggest erosion, can he win again? i don't think he can win the popular vote again. i think it's highly unlikely. can he find a way to squeeze out

the electoral college by drawing the line in a few states where his constituencies, which are sticking with up, his numbers are down a little from '16, but can he find a way to squeeze out the electoral college? sure, the long-term implication is he is stamping the republican party in kind of an image of hostility to the way the country is changing and the risk in that is that, again, the parts of the country that are most resistant to him are the ones that are growing, both dem graphically and geographically. >> yeah, it's not just -- i mean, it's going to be so interesting to see what comes out of this convention in terms of if either party really gets a bounce. that's traditionally what you look to a convention to do, and it's not clear either of the conventions will result in that kind of thing this time. >> it's hard when the country is -- again, obviously biden didn't get much of a bounce. he was up to the ceiling for a democrat, he's polling at 52 or

53. no democrat has been that high for a very long time. certainly not getting 53% of the vote. trump may have a little room to grow but he's dealing with the anchor of his disapproval rating. he's not going to poll that much higher. there's only so far he can go by raising doubts about biden. ultimately he has to improve perceptions of his own performance and denying the reality that people see in their lives every day about the coronavirus doesn't seem like the first way you would go about doing that. it's not like he's reporting on what's going on in afghanistan. he's reporting on something that's happening in people's lives and saying it's been perfectly handled from day one. it kind of jars with their actual lived experience in a way that it more compounds than alleviates his problems. >> appreciate it. thank you very much. protesters in kentucky are gathering and demanding justice for breonna taylor and anger growing in the streets of

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while she was sleeping. the officers involved have not been charged. jason carroll, cnn's national correspondent is where the protests are taking place. it marks the end of a four-day event which was meant to draw attention to breonna taylor's case. what's happening now? >> reporter: right now we've got a number of protesters, several hundred who have gathered at a park in south louisville. you can see the organizers are up there giving instructions about how to proceed from this point. so all of the folks that you see, plus more that are expected to gather, are going to march from the location where we are to a police training facility about a mile away. now, what we've said is they want everyone to be vocal, they want them to get out there and have their voices heard, but they want this protest to be, quote, nonviolent. when i said nonviolent, also meaning peaceful, they said not in terms of peace because there's nothing peaceful about

what happened to breonna taylor. but they say this will be a nonviolent protest. there are a couple of hundred folks who plan to march over to the police training facility. in terms of the reasoning, you touched on a lot of it, and speaking to folks out here, some have come as far away as florida, some from detroit, others from new york. they say it's time for the three officers involved in what happened with breonna taylor to be charged. that is why you've got these folks who are out here today and they say they're going to be out here every day until something happens with those officers, anderson. >> thank you very much. protesters in kenosha, wisconsin, there have been a number of protests in kenosha. we'll have more on that coming up. also, one of the most well-known evangelical leaders jerry falwell resigns from liberty university. more on that when we return. when we started carvana, they told us

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prominent evangelicals to support trump and his job as president of the liberty university is over. the board accepted his resignation moments ago, this after a miami man has claimed he had a long-running affair with falwell's wife and falwell watched them while they were intimate. he agreed to resign from his post and said he wasn't resigning, but then finally told cnn he would step down. professor karen swallow prior taught at liberty university for 21 years. she's now a research professor. you told the "washington post" that morale was low and frustration was growing at liberty university for years under falwell's leadership. can you talk more about that? >> sure, i mean, the kinds of things that have been revealed over the past couple of days are

not things that happen in isolation. there have been red flags for a long time, the kind of arrogance and authoritarian leadership that we experienced as faculty was really just a symptom of this lifestyle that obviously was one in which he thought that he could do anything and get away with it. >> it seems like -- i remember there was a case even before this one of a trainer to the couple who ended up with a advantageous property deal which the university says was all on the up-and-up. but as you said, there have been red flags over the years. >> absolutely. i mean, just as we saw with jeffrey epstein's case and harvey weinstein's and all of the me too moments that we're dealing with today, there are plenty of red flags. it's just difficult to prove something without corroboration. we have to move methodically and

give due process and these things take time. we're just thankful that the truth has come out and it can be dealt with and the university can move on and continue its great mission that it's been doing for 50 years now. >> falwell called a student a dummy for questioning him when keeping students at the campus during the coronavirus this year and later he apologized after showing a tweet that showed one person black faced and another person in a kkk hood and robe. amid that kind of behavior, was his power at liberty university -- i mean, you called it authoritarian. was it power kind of unchecked for a long time? >> it was absolutely unchecked. you have to understand that as christians at a christian university, we are all serving, we believe in the mission, we believe in our students, we want to support them so we're kind of busy doing our jobs, and evangelicals, we tend to trust authorities and institutions

probably too much. i think we're all learning the error of those ways. and so we also just maybe don't want to believe those rumors and we would rather wish that they aren't true. but we have a responsibility to pay attention, to listen to women, to listen to other victims of abuse, and to pursue these red flags until we know what the truth is and the truth is revealed. >> falwell is credited with liberty university's financial recovery since he took over in 2007. he said he was never a minister, he's a businessman. i mean, is there still support for him at liberty university, do you think, among the faculty or trustees or students? >> i think now that these revelations have come out it's clear that for too long money was put before other things. the university certainly did flourish under his leadership in one sense, but you cannot separate financial success from the mission of the school, and while it's healthy now and i

think that we have reached this turning point just in time, we need to, i think, just clean house and reorient the university to its original mission. and i'm faithful that the board now is awake, has their eyes open and they will do that. >> this is not the first time there's been people who seem hypocritical, who profess one thing and then in their private lives seem to be doing something else entirely. so it's not a surprise, in fact it's sort of almost become a stereotype and predictable in some cases, but nevertheless, it is harmful for those -- you know, for people of faith to have somebody who professes to be a model of faith behave like this over the course of many years. it hurts everybody. >> it absolutely does. and of course it hurts not only me personally, but i have many students who were aware of these

things who are hurt and struggling and doubting their faith now. so the consequences are dire. but ultimately it does point to the fact that the core of our belief that we are too put our faith in god, not in man. >> i really appreciate talking to you. thank you very much. protesters in kenosha, wisconsin are outraged about another shooting of an unarmed black man. peaceful protests in the day turned into standoffs with police and national guard last night. all of this after police shot jake on blake seven times in his back sunday, his children witnessing it all. the incident videotaped by bystanders. city leaders are calling for calm amid the unrest. blake's father tells cnn his son has been paralyzed but remains in stable condition.

the president of the ncaa state branch is with me. the video of the shooting has been seen by millions of people all over the world. it has sparked demonstrations, obviously outrage. i'm wondering what your reaction was when you saw it? it starts with mr. blake moving from the passenger rear side of the vehicle -- of a vehicle to the driver's side. we don't know what happened before. but what was your reaction when you say it? >> when i saw the shooting for the first time, my wife and i were sitting on our coach watching the evening news and my first response was, how could this person just follow this man to a car and shoot him in the back? it was almost unbelievable. but having things happen the way they've happened in wisconsin with the george floyd and all the other black men i've seen

shot in the back, shot and killed in the state of wisconsin and around this country for many years, it almost becomes normal and that was my first response, just plain anger and bewilderment. >> i talked to the governor of wisconsin yesterday and he said it might be some period of time -- you know, it's not going to be immediately that we're going to hear from investigators. do you have confidence in the investigation that is ongoing? because the kenosha police immediately handed it over to other authorities to actually investigate, which i guess is the procedure. >> well, for me as a state conference president of the naacp and a national board member, it's not a question of whether we have confidence. we demand that there's a thorough investigation, a fair investigation, and we're going to receive that. we're going to get that. we now have a governor in wisconsin who has called for a

special session on police accountability, a governor that has clearly shown that he and his administration is about all the people in wisconsin being treated with respect and dignity, unlike his predecessor. so we turned the clock back one day and the predecessor was in office, i would have no confidence that we were going to do anything to alleviate some of this anger and fear that the police department have concerning black men to where they take their guns out and shoot us at the drop of a hat. i know that this is going to change under the new governor and the naacp is going to be at the table and making the policies that bring about change. >> we've heard from our correspondents that the blake family has said that they're happy that -- i don't know if happy is the right word, but they appreciate that people are focused on this and are

protesting and having their voices heard. they're also calling for it to be nonviolent protests, not any kind of destruction linked to mr. blake. what is the scene, the situation now on the ground in kenosha? >> well, as protests are taking place right behind me, i can hear it coming from on the right side in the plaza. you know, i can't step away from the camera to give you a full description, but the protests are still taking place. and, yes, we do not -- the naacp does not support the violence or the looting, for that matter. we want to work this out and protect other people's property. we want everybody to be respected regardless of race or what political affiliation they're part of. this is about us coming together as a nation and respecting each

other as people and that's what we're fighting for and that's what we're going to continue to fight for. but i certainly support, as the wisconsin state conference president, i support the young people's right to protest. i don't want anyone to get the impression that the naacp don't want to see the protests, because i'll be the first one out fighting with them if anyone tries to take away that right. >> wendell harris, i appreciate your time and i'm sorry it's under these circumstances. thank you. >> thank you again for having us on the show. >> take care. thousands of families across the country are living their worst nightmare losing a loved one to the coronavirus. coming up, one family's story after losing not one, but two members of the family. what they have to say to others who aren't taking the virus seriously.

every day we hear about the number of coronavirus cases and the death toll. more than half a year into the pandemic people have become numb to what the numbers mean. but behind every number is a person who suffered, along with their families. a family today is facing a reality they couldn't fathom two months ago. on june 28th, coronavirus took the life of 72-year-old ron, and at 3:48 p.m. a little more than an hour later, it claimed the life of his son, 43-year-old dan. diane, her daughter cindy and dan's oldest son dillon join us now. thank you for being with us. i am so sorry for your losses. cindy, tell us about how this has been for you. the timing of this, how this happened, who got sick first,

cindy? >> my brother danny got sick first. he was -- actually, the way it first started was his wife, liz, worked in a nursing home and she was working on the covid unit and she tested positive one day, so she went and isolated herself in her room and my brother went in, was tested a couple of days later, and found out he was positive and their youngest daughter was positive as well. dillon and gavin were negative. so that's how it started. >> and, diane, i can't imagine how you are -- how you're

holding up. i mean, your family is incredibly strong. you've lost your husband, your son. did they know each other's condition? were they aware about each other? >> well, my son -- my husband was told, my husband was told but he has dementia. he was in a nursing home. so we asked him to pray for my son who ended up at rhode island hospital on may 14th. so i asked my husband to pray for his son. but unfortunately, he did keep forgetting because of his dementia. and my son did not know that my husband had gotten it because by then my son had been in the hospital already for four, five, weeks. >> five weeks. >> so he didn't know about my husband testing positive. and my husband ended up at the

v.a. hospital five weeks after my son ended up in the hospital with it. so, it was very difficult. >> yeah. >> to say the least. >> yeah. of course. dylan, i know more than 100 family and friends, church members, were on a zoom call saying good-bye to your dad. what was he like? >> just a joyful person. he could put a smile on anyone's face. >> he was awesome. >> everybody loved him. everyone loved my son. he was so helpful to everyone. he had more than 100 calls through zoom -- >> wow. >> -- on the day that we decided to pull the plug on him. i hate to say it that way, but it was remarkable how many people called to say their

good-byes to my son and while we were saying good-byes to our son is when i got the phone call to my daughter and getting the phone call that my husband had just passed away. >> oh, my gosh. >> so -- >> i just told -- i just said when i received the phone call, we were still on zoom so i just -- >> oh, my gosh. >> -- went on and said, go with daddy, danny. daddy's waiting for you. i'm sure he was right there at the foot of the bed waiting for my son because they were best friends in life. you know? so it's just fitting that they left together. >> i mean, that's incredible. how do you -- i mean, it must have been a comfort to know how many lives that they both touched. i mean, to have so many people there on the zoom call. >> yeah. >> paying their respects.

it shows what kind of lives they led. >> yeah. they were awesome. dylan, he was a great father. has a great son. oh, my god. he was unbelievable. my husband was doing that really, taught him all the values. i admire him for that. i'm grateful. had such a great family. my daughter as well. she's all i have left now as far as, you know, i had only two children. my daughter and my son. and i have a lot of grandchildren and my daughter-in-law who's having a hard time with this as well. and we all are. we're having a very difficult time. we're dealing with both losses. >> it's also -- >> it's difficult. >> cindy, what do you want people out there to know about what you've been through and

about what they should do? i mean , obviously, there's a lt of people who don't take this seriously. don't think this is, you know, as potentially threatening to them as it has been to others. what would you say to them? >> it's not -- it's not a hoax. this is real. and it's serious. it's like a silent killer. you, you know, my father went through the vietnam war, survived that. my brother survived a motorcycle accident. to be killed by a germ. you know -- >> a virus. >> it's -- >> a little -- something you can't see. >> and they -- people are saying this is just a hoax and it's all the government doing this and it's real. it's real. we felt this firsthand. we don't want anybody else to have to go through what we're going through. it's devastating. and it -- it hurts.

>> i know at the beginning of, you know, the virus, i wasn't taking it serious. i kind of, like, you know, just about when, you know, ebola was going around, you know, me being in school, you know, all me and my friends would just laugh about it, make jokes about oh, yeah, i got ebola and stuff like that so this was one of those things that i kind of thought was -- it would never reach, you know, me or my family oor, you know, my family. it was something i never thought of then when i got that phone call that day that my stepmom had it and, you know, and then, you know, i was worried about everybody. my dad had been through the motorcycle accident. he had underlying conditions. >> right. >> and it was just, you know, them being with the two kids in the house, gavin and isabella, you know, it was just -- it worried me and then, you know, i

started getting the phone calls that dad was going into the hospital and all that. >> yeah. dilyn, i'm so sorry for what you experienced. diane, cindy, i wish you peace in your grief and strength in the days ahead. thank you so much. our thoughts and prayers are with you. >> can i say one more thing, please? >> sure, yes, please. >> i just want to say thank you so much to all the nurses and doctors that took care of my son at rhode island hospital. and all the nurses and doctors at the v.a. they did an awesome job. they really did. >> yeah. >> they worked so hard to keep them alive as long as they did. >> yeah. >> i appreciate it. >> diane, cindy, dilyn, thank you so much. we're back in a moment. and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza... [mmm pizza...] is your part b medical expenses.

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welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the health lead. coronavirus pandemic. new covid-19 cases in the united states are thankfully declining, declining from the peak in july. the midwest seeing cases rise. the governor of kansas,state's infection rate an alarming trend in the wrong direction. a top trump administration official is also walking back a false statement inflating the effectiveness of a potential treatment for the virus. the fda commissioner dr. steven khan now admitting this major mistake as dr.