hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, hours ahead of a controversial trip to a tense and damaged city, the u.s. president defends a supporter who stands accused of murder in kenosha, wisconsin. fresh protests in oregon as joe biden says fires are burning across the country and joe bith president is fanning the flames.

and the coronavirus task force says there is a different picture of the virus than the reports being pushed by president trump. in just a few hours from now u.s. president donald trump will be on his way to kenosha, wisconsin. the city has been the scene of protests and violence following the police shooting of jacob blake. the mayor of kenosha doesn't want the president to visit. >> our community has gone through a great deal and there is no time right now for poli political politics to be played. we would have preferred the president had waited at least another week or so before coming to visit. presidents are always welcome. i mean, all cities have presidents that visit at different times. the president is always welcome, but at this time it's just the

wrong time. >> but mr. trump is planning to go anyway. he does not plan to meet jacob blake's family. inst local law enforcement and business owners but blake's father told cnn his main concern is his son, not the politics of the situation. >> first of all, i'm not going to play politics. this is my son's life we're talking about. i saw jacob yesterday. let's say progress is limited and highly sedated but his breathing and his the waist seems to be tapering off and he's holding on for dear life. >> meanwhile, democratic presidential nominee joe biden is slamming president trump for fermenting racial unrest in the country. he says mr. trump has, quote,

failed to protect america so now he's trying to scare america. >> they have no agenda or vision for a second term. trump and pence are running on this, i find it fascinating, quote, won't be saving joe biden's america. what's their proof? the violence we're seeing in donald trump's america. these are not images of some imagined joe biden america in the future, these are images of donald trump's america today. donald trump has been a toxic presence in our nation for four years poisoning how we talk to one another, poisoning how we treat one another, poisoning the values this nation has always held dear. >> but president trump is refusing to denounce the violent actions of his supporters. he defended kyle e, the teen facing homicide charges for killing two protestors and

injuring one another in kenosha. >> do you condemn the actions of kyle rittenhouse. >> we're looking at all of it. that was an interesting situation. you saw the same tape as i saw and he was trying to get away from them, i guess, it looks like and he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that we're looking at right now and it's under investigation but i guess he was in very big trouble. he probably would have been killed but -- >> do you -- >> it's under -- it's under investigation. >> and that's not all. the president also compared police who use excessive force to golfers who miss a sure putt. >> they choke, just like in a golf tournament. they miss a 3 foot -- >> you're not comparing it to golf because -- >> no, i'm saying people choke. >> people panic. >> people choke. >> cnn's jeremy diamond has more

on the president's visit to kenosha and the tense political situation in the u.s. >> reporter: ignoring pleas from state and local officials, president trump is pushing ahead with plans to visit kenosha, wisconsin, on tuesday turning the latest epicenter of the racial justice movement into a backdrop for his campaign's law and order message. >> the president wants to visit hurting americans i think highlighting that the federal government has done a lot in the way of using law and order to create peace but showing up for hurting meshes americans is they concern. >> reporter: but that doesn't include jacob blake, the man who was shot in the back seven times by police or his family. trump has no plans to meet with them, instead touring property damage caused by riots. the president taking credit for wisconsin governor tony evers decision to deploy state national guard troops tweeting,

if i didn't insist on having the national guard activate and go into kenosha, wisconsin, there will be no kenosha right now. i will see you on tuesday. trump's tweet coming after evers asked him not to come. i'm concerned your presence will delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. now is not the time for divisiveness. rather than calls for calm, trump spent the weekend amplifying and encouraging clashes between his supporters and protesters. today trump assailing radical left mayors and governors and his latest threat to send them to portland. if this joke of a mayor doesn't clean it up, we will go in and do it for them. >> our consideration of sending in more federal law enforcement even in defiance of local lea

leaders. >> we need to bring normalcy back to portland. >> do you seriously wonder, mr. president, why this is the first time in decades that america has seen this level of violence? it's you who have created the hate and division. >> reporter: while trump tweeted his condolences, he is still silent on the shooting carried out by one of his supporters who killed two people amid protests in kenosha. on monday we heard from former vice president joe biden who issued a blanket condemnation condemning the rioting and looting that has taken place. joe biden also drew a pretty direct line between some of the violence that has been taking place and president trump arguing that president trump has essentially poured gasoline on this fire by stoking divisions in this country and failing to

address issues of racial inequality. the president for his part, he once again in the white house briefing room trying to tie joe biden to the rioting in some of these cities arguing that biden did not explicitly condemn antifa but the president for his part, he refused to offer blanket condemnation when he was asked if he would condemn the right wing supporters. the president refused to do so. >> joining me now is tear are sedmeyer, a cnn political commentator and senior advisor at the lincoln project. good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> tara, the lincoln project just put out this video. i want to listen to a portion of it. i'll bring that up now. >> it's just so sad. just watching the republican convention and spewing this

fear, donald trump and all of them talking about fear. we're the ones getting killed. we're the ones getting shot. all you do is keep hearing fear. it's amazing why we keep loving this country and this country does not love us back. >> so, tara, message of fear there, but the big message overall from that video was you don't need to be black to be outraged. you need to be american and be outraged. is that getting through though when we see caravans of trump supporters taking over streets, shooting paint bombs or pepper bombs or worse, in kenosha, a trump supporter being charged with homicide and the president not condemning that shooter? >> yeah, it's really, really disconcerting what we're seeing going on, even worse that we see no leadership whatsoever coming from the white house. if anything, the president is

making it worse. when the lincoln project put that video out we took the words of doc rivers, the famed coach of the l.a. clippers, who's actually the son of a police officer. his dad was a 30-year police officer in his hometown outside of chicago in illinois, and you just hear the pain and emotion in his voice conveying what the experience is for people of color in many places across this country. i think in the beginning of the summer we started to see white america begin to understand this and look at this from a different perspective after the george floyd killing that we saw on camera. it was jarring for a lot of folks, and it started the conversation about a racial reckoning going on in america around police brutality. now unfortunately because we've seen some people in the looting and rioting space there, they have co-opted this message and it's given a life line to use this law and order feigned

outrage over something that's really not the majority of the people who are protesting but it's giving them this ability to try to pin this on democrat if i can -- democratic mayors and i think they're beginning to overstep. when that 17-year-old who allegedly killed people who was a trump supporter who there was a militia called to go and defend the property, we don't have vigilante justice in america. that is not something we should be encouraging and unfortunately donald trump is doing that. joe biden is pushing back on that, which he did very effectively today. >> right. despite pleas from wisconsin's governor not to go, president trump is still pushing ahead with his visit to kenosha tuesday, but he won't be meeting with the family of jacob blake, the black man shot seven times in kenosha at point black range. what is your reaction to the president refusing to meet because the president wants a

lawyer present? what does that mean to you? >> i think it's smart on the family's part. we know the president is a liar and we can't trust him to be an honest broker. they're smart to make that request. what's unfortunate is that we have a president who clearly it's not about comforting the family or being there for them in leadership, it's about him and wanting to exploit it politically. when they rejected that, he walked away from it. it shows you right there how transparent he is about why he's going to kenosha, why he's doing this now. kellyanne conway basically said the quiet part out loud last week when she said this type of violence is good for the campaign. >> where does that leave the president's rival, joe biden, who historically receives strong support from black voters? could this pud him in a very difficult position while supporting law and order for

moderates? >> i think up until today he was beginning to lose the narrative somewhat because they had not come out forcefully against the looting and rioting and trying to thread a really, really small needle here by not upsetting the left but also by making sure suburban voters and white voters felt comfortable joe biden would be tough on these issues. today he gave a speech that i think put that to rest. he was unequivocal that looting and rioting is not protesting and it should be prosecuted and he talked about the importance of racial justice and making sure that the bad cops are punished and he did an excellent job by pointing out the fact that all of this chaos and violence is happening in donald trump's america. not joe biden's america. donald trump is currently president. i think as long as biden continues to push that message consistently because trump will.

he has to continue to push back. if he does so like he did today, i think they'll be able to inoculate themselves from that message. >> good to talk with you. >> thank you. the united states has now topped 6 million cases of the coronavirus and the latest data from johns hopkins university also shows the virus has killed more than 183,000 americans. countless others have been left with long-term problems, but there is some positive news compared to the beginning of august, daily cases are down. deaths are starting to decline. hospitalizations are down. data from the white house coronavirus task force released monday showed the dire reality about the spread of the virus in july and august. at that point president trump was painting a positive picture of the pandemic even as he was

receiving those grim reports from those own task force. now as cnn's diane gallagher explains there's trouble brewing in the race for a vaccine. >> there is growing concern political pressure could be rushing the covid-19 vaccine process. after fda commissioner dr. steven hahn said the agency might approve a vaccine under emergency use, even before the trials are complete. >> the problem here is the credibility of the fda is crumbling before our eyes. >> reporter: dismissed concerns telling "the financial times" we have a convergence of the pandemic and we just have to get through that and stick to our core principles. over the past two weeks on average daily new cases are down 18% and new deaths per day by roughly 11% even as the united states did surpass 63 million confirmed cases today. deborah birx is urging people to take precautions now before

there is a vaccine. >> do the right thing today because if we do the right thing today we go into the fall with much fewer cases. >> reporter: yet the washington post says dr. scott atlas is pushing for the country to adapt a herd immunity approach similar to the strategy in sweden. some on the white house's own task force has said this approach would likely cause a massive death toll. >> if everyone got infected, the death toll would be enormous and totally unacceptable. >> reporter: today in florida at la lass denied those claims. >> the president does not have a strategy like that. >> reporter: president trump did retweet a false tweet to claim that the death toll was 9,000 instead of the more than 180,000 people that have died. that's simply not what the data says at all so twitter took down

the tweet. >> is he trying to downplay the death toll? >> no. he was highlighting new cdc information that came out that was worth noting. >> reporter: college campuses are examples of how quickly the virus can spread. cases have been reported in at least 36 states. >> we noticed that there was a large party early last week. it resulted in several covid cases. 20 covid cases became 105 cases. we stepped in immediately. >> reporter: college campuses really are the source of so many of these asymptomatic outbreaks we're seeing in the united states right now. temple university is going temporarily back to online classes after it identified more than 100 cases at the university of alabama. more than 1,000 students have tested positive since school started back on august 19th and in part that is why coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx has said that

students who plan to go home and visit should quarantine at their school for 14 days before doing so, so they don't unknowingly bring covid-19 to their family members or back to their home community. diane gallagher, cnn, atlanta. >> so let's talk now with dr. amy compton phillips, a cnn medical analyst and chief clinical officer of providence health system. always good to talk to you. >> always a pleasure, rosemary. >> one of president trump's medical advisers, dr. scott atlas, has been pushing for the controversial herd immunity to combat this. dr. atlas apparently walked this back a little bit on monday because of the pressure, but what are the dangers of this approach given we watched this fail in sweden. >> we did watch it fail in sweden and the dangers are

exactly what they experienced there, in that the virus can completely get out of control. the theory that proponents of herd immunity, which is a fringe theory, by the way, not accepted in typical well-respected public health realms, is that if you get younger, healthier people x exposed and therefore immune you can protect older people. the problem is, you can't control it. once it gets broadly out in the community, everybody gets exposed to it. first of all, some young, healthy people have bad outcomes. second of all, there's a lot of people in the country with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, the things that can make this virus risky so that current predictions are that should we go "the herd" immunity route and just go for broad scale exposure, over 2 million people could die. so it's terrible enough already with over 900 people a day dieing. that's equivalent to having three planes crash a day full of people.

could you imagine if it allowed 2 million people overall to die. it would be horrific. >> it is absolutely horrifying. of course, as well, a food & drug administration chief steven hahn says he's willing to consider emergency use authorization for covid-19 vaccine before phase three trials are completed. this has triggered a bit of debate prompting prominent doctors to call for an independent panel to review vaccines. how concerned are you about this? >> reporter: i'm very worried. we already have a lot of sentiment that's antivaccine, that doesn't trust vaccines. if we put a vaccine out on the market not fully proven and later is shown to have some uncommon but dangerous side effect, very much similar to the swine flu did in 1976 that caused guillon-barre syndrome,

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around the clob. do it yourself testing kits takes a few minutes. my team and i got results in 24 hours, all negative. >> how often do you get tested? >> twice a week. >> twice a week. >> you don't have to wear a mask? >> no, i'm usually the safest person in the room. >> danny young has teams working 24/7. >> we've had to hire more people to meet the demand. >> demand is so high the office is getting crowded. each of those clear plastic bags is somebody's covid-19 test. they basically spit into a cup. >> they are processing 15,000 of these every day just at this lab. they have a capacity for up to 20,000 and there is the demand. people want to know if there are cases out there in the community. >> reporter: to find those hidden cases hong kong wants to test the entire population. more than 7 million people. the city set up more than 100 testing labs.

3,000 medical staff are prepared to handle half a million tests per day. assisted by a team of experts from mainland china raising concern the tests could be used to collect dna. >> how the experiment of that company provides the service and the education and with the collection it's time to realize how beijing and hong kong government pretend and facilitate the interference in hong kong using covid-19. >> a lot of people ask the question whether this important private information will be transmitted or handed to other institutions, laboratory, going back to institutionness china. >> reporter: hong kong's leader carrie lamb says this is purely political. >> translator: they just need that one thing to smear the

central government and undermine the relationship between hong kong and the chinese government. >> reporter: hong kong is one of the few places outside of mainland china to offer free testing for everyone. unlike china, it's voluntary. privacy fears keep too many people away, the hidden cases may stay just that, putting the city at risk for an even deadlier outbreak. will ripley, cnn, hong kong. there's been another deadly law enforcement shooting on the west coast and police have declared a riot in portland. the latest on america in crisis. that's ahead.

a group of protesters gathered in south los angeles on monday. this after deputies with the sheriff's department shot and killed a black man during a confrontation. it is the latest protest in the u.s. involving police conduct. an investigation into monday's shooting is now underway. we don't have video of the incident, but these protesters are gathered near the scene, and according to officials, the confrontation started when two deputies observed a man violating vehicle codes while riding a bicycle. when deputies approached the man, officials say he punched one of the officers in the face. they also say he had a handgun. cnn will bring you more information as it becomes available. further up the west coast, police in portland, oregon, have declared a riot after fires were set and other criminal activity

occurred near an apartment believed to be the home of portland's mayor. this scene has become a nightly occurrence with demonstrators facing off against police. at least two nearby sheriff's departments are refusing to send deputies to help contain the protests after a fatal shooting over the weekend despite a call from oregon's governor for help. they say policy disagreements and a lack of political support createn acceptable risks. more details emerging about the fatal shooting on friday night. cnn's brian todd breaks down what happened. >>. >> reporter: shooting witness justin dunlap seemed to think trouble was on the way. seconds later he was proven right. police are now looking for a suspect in this shooting which occurred saturday evening in portland. the victim who was killed, according to the "new york times," was wearing a hat with

the insignia of a far right group called patriot prayer. that warned the man's loss. they have identified 39-year-old aaron danielson. the shooting came during a series of confrontations in downtown portland on saturday which occurred when a group of trump supporters drove into the city in a large convoy. videos show fights breaking out between people in the trump convoy and our demonstrators and the trump supporters are seen spraying mace and firing paint ball pellets. justin dunlap was asked by cnn what the victim was doing just before being shot. >> he raised his hand and the mace came forward. i don't know what he had in his hand, if it was mace, if it was something else, but that's the direction the mace came from was him and it was a huge cloud. like 20 feet long and then the

cloud just exploded and the shots rang out. >> reporter: then dunlap says the victim took four steps and fell face down and two other men, he says, ran in another direction. portland's police chief said his force had a strong presence on the streets on saturday night but still couldn't get its arms around those confrontations. >> we had folks stationed at different areas, but it's very difficult when you have small groups of people spread throughout the city to sometimes engage in violent acts with each other. we only have limited resources so we can't be everywhere at the same time. >> president trump tweeted rest in peace referring to the portland shooting victim but the president has said only this about jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin. >> i'm looking into it strongly. i'll be getting reports. i'll let you know soon. it was -- it was not a good sight. i didn't like the sight of it certainly. >> reporter: the wisconsin department of justice and federal officials are

investigating the blake shooting as protests have continued. 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse faces homicide charges from kenosha last week. the sheriff says more than 200 protesters have been arrested there since the blake shooting. more than half the people, he says, from outside kenosha. >> there are people from outside kenosha, outside wisconsin and we've had some that are outside the united states calling in here to scare people of what's going to happen. >> reporter: president trump, meanwhile, still plans to travel to kenosha, wisconsin, to meet with law enforcement officials and survey damage despite politicians asking for him not to come now. the white house says there were no plans to meet with members of jacob blake's family. brian todd, cnn. a conspiracy theory that

started its life in the u.s. appears to be spreading in other parts of the world. thousands of people gathered in berlin last weekend to protest against coronavirus restrictions. among them were supporters of the qanon community. they're plotting to destroy president trump and engage in child sex abuse. fred pleitgen joins us. how did this u.s.-based right winged conspiracy movement find a home in germany? >> reporter: it certainly seems something that's been building up, rosemary. something that's been hotly debated here. the police union here in germany came out and said that these protests against the pandemic measures have been put in place by the german government are in danger of being completely hijacked by right wing extremists. we saw a lot of people who follow qanon among the right

wingers. a lot of them told us they believe they are followers of president trump. here's what we saw. an attack on germany's democracy. demos from the restrictions tried to storm the german parliament on saturday. people carrying flags of the german right, a symbol associated with germany's far right along with russian flags but also u.s. flags. we also found many supporters of the qanon conspiracy theory. this man waiving a rice flag with the qanon flag and the likeness of donald trump. >> do you like donald trump? >> yes. >> why? >> deep state. i have long-time thought to human. that must end. >> reporter: qanon claims

without evidence that a group of satin worshipping members are plotting to destroy president trump and establish world domination. they claim the pandemic is part of that conspiracy. some say president trump is an angel. >> he's an angel. >> reporter: why? >> yes. the connection. he has a connection. >> reporter: to who? >> humancy. in november, the pandemic is finished worldwide. >> reporter: president trump has retweeted claims from accounts related to qanon hundreds of times and has repeatedly refused to denounce them. >> i don't know much about the movement other than i understand they like me very much, which i

appreciate. >> reporter: but the president's words are undermining germany's response. angela merkel is successful in combatting covid-19 but at saturday's demonstration, they are pictured in what seem to be concentration camp inmate suits calling for her to be locked up. another man in a trump shirt and a maga hat saying this. what do you think of angela merkel? she's been praised. >> i think she is hitler's daughter. >> reporter: you think she's hitler's daughter? >> yes. >> reporter: rosemary, lang merkel is not hitler's daughter. she was born long after adolph hitler died. one thing we've seen build up is that at events like the one we saw this weekend, people who follow conspiracy theories, in

the past you would see people like that having russian flags on them but it's increasingly the case that there's american flags out there as well and people who pledge loyalty to president trump, rosemary. >> concern, isn't it? it's so anti-science and anti-logic. frederick pleitgen, many thanks for joining us. appreciate it. just ahead, good news for air travelers. some top u.s. air lines are now changing a policy that will help customers save money. we'll explain. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.

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welcome back, everyone. delta, united, american airlines are hoping to tempt travelers back to flying by letting them change their flight plans without any fees. the three biggest u.s. carriers have lost billions amid the coronavirus pandemic and are

waiving change fees in an effort to attract more customers. it's a big move for the industry. it made close to $3 billion a lone on these fees. john defterios joins us now. good to see you. dumping these changes will mean big losses for these major airlines. they've obviously done the math. will it pay off in the end? >> reporter: i was going to say, you put the number out there. nearly $3 billion in 2019 and with lower traffic numbers they were expecting a hit across the board anyway. it's an expensive move, desperate move during desperate times. because everybody is asking for flexibility of the employees, the airlines had to take something drastic in terms of an action to show they could be flexible at the same time. how did this unfold? they came out with the announcement and it was followed

by delta and american airlines. the thing that stood out for me, united said we're not waiving these fees for now, we're doing it forever. it's like a politician saying no new taxes forever. it is a substantial change. it's giving the power to the consumer because the demand is so low. the effort is to entice not only the consumer to go back out and fly again but the business traveller. if you do the math here and the overall general flows, they've cut expenses 25 to 30%. furloughed their workers but the traffic numbers are much worse than that, rosemary. this is an effort to recharge the industry, particularly in the united states. then you have to big the question if you're not going to make the change fees ever come back again, what happens with very expensive luggage fees in the united states? when i was on assignment last year i was alarmed everything checked in has a charge these days. that may be the next to go. >> we're going to pay in some

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cnn is following a patient who still feels sick months after her initial coronavirus diagnosis. shelby hedgecock first tested positive back in april and continues to battle a variety of health issues. she and her doctor spoke to cnn's chris cuomo about her situation. >> i'm going on month five and i'm still dealing with neurological issues, cognitive issues. i was back in the hospital about three weeks ago and i had to wear a heart monitor for two weeks because my pulse skyrocketed to about 150 beats per minute, it stayed that way and i've been having weird shortness of breath since then,

chest pain. >> doctor, when i spoke to you and i was telling you the symptoms i was hearing about you said, yes. part of the reason that the scientific community is surprised, as you have deduced to this point, is that it was seen as just a lung virus but now you see it as something else that is starting to make more sense to you in terms of what you're hearing from people like shelby. explain. >> well, when the pandemic hit and we started to take notice of the lung aspects of the coronavirus, everybody was focused just on the breathing, but one of the things we started to notice that was really keir yous is the covid tow. the brain syndrome, the strokes, the heart attack like syndromes that turned out not to be a heart attack. one of the things that now needs to be discussed because we're seeing it far beyond the acute covid syndrome is the long-term syndromes that are surfacing everywhere. this is the conversation that

needs to be had in the medical and research community and not just in the sufferers dealing with it. one of the things we did in my group is we started to take a deep dive to figure out what was happening that could connect all of these apparently unconnected symptoms and syndromes and it turns out it may be blood vessels that the coronavirus is infecting which of course connect to everywhere in the body. >> very sobering. another reason to wear that mask. children headed back to school today in several cities across china, including wuhan where the pandemic is suppothouo have originated. authorities say they have the virus under control but are taking precautions nonetheless. how is china reopening the schools across parts of the country? what safety measures are they putting in place? >> hi there, rosemary. good to see you there as well.

this is not your typical back to school. what many school systems are trying to figure out is how exactly they can get students and staff into a classroom, into a physical space that's shared and yet keep everyone safe? here they're still continuing the social distancing, still continuing the requirements of masks. the exception, rosemary, interestingly enough, is wuhan. the place where this virus was initially detected. where the outbreak is deemed to be the epicenter essentially. yet that place is perhaps inarguably the most lax of all regulations when it comes to going back to school. they are not requiring that students wear masks on campus. they do ask and encourage students to bring them with them, but the requirements stop there. now wuhan's also a place that has university students, a lot of them. this is a big college town. we're talking 1.2 million university students that will likewise be going back to

campuses starting today. this is not the first time that the elementary school students, middle school students and university students are being put-back into classrooms. we should say this has been phased over the past several months. this is the official start where you have droves of students, collective of pretty much every major city in china bringing the students back into the classroom. of course, it is concerning for some parents. we've seen on chinese parents saying one, just one elementary student might have the virus. it was a rumor. they tested negative several times. that shows you how on edge they still are in some of these communities that that could come back. that was one concerning possible case that turned out not to be a case and that puts it in perspective with how the rest of the world is obviously dealing with far greater numbers but here in china, at least

according to the government, it's seemingly under control, rosemary. they feel like they're going back into a safe space. >> still makes you wonder why they would drop the masks and not just be a little more cautious going forward. >> that was curious. >> we'll watch very carefully. david culver, pleasure to chat with you. many thanks. american actor chadwick bosman's untimely death sent shock waves around the world. now fans are coming together calling for a memorial in his honor. thousands of people have signed several online petitions for a confederate monument to be replaced with his statue. it stands in anderson, south carolina, the actor's hometown. they say bosman not only broke barriers but gave back to his community and is deserve of the

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