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coronavirus. the house subcommittee on coronavirus just released eight weeks worth of state reports, dpi compiled by the white house task force. while the president was painting a positive picture of the crisis, optimistic picture, urging states and schools to reopen, he was receiving increasingly dire reports from the task force about the virus' spread in july and august. top infectious disease expert also debunking another claim by the president. dr. anthony fauci responding to the president's retweet of an article by qanon conspiracy theorist who wrongly asserted that the death toll from coronavirus is much lower than official numbers. >> the point that the cdc was trying to make was that a certain percentage of them had nothing else but just covid. that does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of covid didn't die of covid-19. they did. so the numbers that you've been hearing, the 180,000 plus deaths

are real deaths from covid-19. let there not be any confusion about that. it's not 9,000 deaths from covid-19. it's 180 plus thousand deaths. >> and right now, treasury secretary steven mnuchin testifying to the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic as democrats and republicans stand at an impasse over a new stimulus package. the secretary talking about the administration's response. >> i believe a bipartisan agreement still should be reached and would provide substantial funds for schools, testing, vaccines, ppp for small businesses, continued enhanced unemployment benefits, child care, nutrition, agriculture and the u.s. postal service, along with liability protection for universities, schools and business. >> i want to bring in cnn

congressional correspondent sunlen serfati on capitol hill. what do they want to know? >> reporter: brianna, this hearing that's still ongoing is underscoring the frustration on the part of democrats over the status of these talks, the fact that frankly they are still at a complete standstill. they are still miles apart. and it's underscoring again that very little progress has been done when you're talking about negotiations between democrats on capitol hill and the administration over this next round of stimulus. steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, is one of the lead negotiators. drilling down on the status of negotiations, many warning that this is only going to get worse, the pain that americans are feeling, if congress does not pass something and pass something fast. this was a short time ago. >> republicans rejected the bill

when the house offered to meet them in the middle with a compromised proposal, republicans rejected that too. instead the president offered a fake solution, executive orders that give the appearance of action but were clearly insufficient to address the economic peril americans face. secretary mnuchin, i hope you will return to the negotiating table, prepared to find common cause on legislation that meets the present needs of american families and communities that are hurting from this crisis. >> the treasury secretary said he was and is prepared to sit down with the speaker of the house at any point if she wants to restart negotiations. notably, speaker pelosi had a

phone call with the white house chief of staff also negotiating this last weekend and absolutely nothing came from that phone call. the speaker's office has been very clear they need republicans to come up in price, that price tag is a big stinking point, as well as money for state and local governments. all of this, brianna, underscoring that things on capitol hill are still very much at an impasse over the next phase of the stimulus. brianna? >> snlen, it is lovely to see you. sunlen serfaty on capitol hill. thank you. pushing back on reports that he's advocating the controversial herd immunity strategy to fight the pandemic, the idea that the u.s. should let people become infected in order for survivors to build immunity. "the washington post" first reported dr. scott atlas had been arguing spernlly for that approach which public health experts say could lead to more than 2 million deaths and would not actually guarantee immunity.

michael smerconish, he told on his radio show today that, the media is lying about him. >> there's never been any advocacy of a herd immunity from me to the president, to anyone in the administration, the task force, anyone i've spoken to. the president does not have a strategy advocating herd immunity. the task force does not have a strategy advocating herd immunity. there is no change in any kind of strategy that i have seen. the whole thing is an overt lie. >> quote, he has advocated that the united states adopt the model sweden has used to respond to the virus outbreak. true or false? >> values. >> you've not -- have you discussed to any extent the concept of herd immunity? >> i explained what immunity and what the recent immunology literature shows. i've never advocating doing what sweden did or what anyone else

did. >> however, dr. atlas did mention herd immunity in an op-ed he wrote for the hill in april. he wrote, quote, infected people without illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immooin immunity. by transmitting the virus to others in the low risk group who then generate antibodies they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people ultimately ending the threat. >> michael, thanks for coming on. tell us what more you learned in this conversation. >> well, he vehemently objects to any characterization of him being an advocate for herd immunity. he said that's never been the case, that he has never had that conversation with the president, nor would he have the conversation. he believes it to be it shall i don't think he used this word.

i think he can characterize it properly, reckless for people to say that that's a role that he has played because he thinks it preys on the anxiety and depressive feelings that many americans already have about the pandemic. in other words, they're worried about enough and now if there's this characterization that we're just going to let it happen and a lot of people are going to die in the process, it comes at a horrible time and it's untrue. >> you know, i did hear some semantics in what -- i thought you asked a great question when you asked him did you discuss this idea of sweden, which was much more open and still hasn't gotten any close to herd immunity, with a huge death toll. and, you know, something that conservatives argue might be actually a good route to go, even though you can't really compare it to the u.s. and he basically said that he's discussed it, but he hasn't advocated for it. am i right in what i heard there? it sounds like he's saying he

talked about it but is trying to draw a line between the fact that he highlighted something instead of advocating for it, when they could be one in the same. >> my perception, brianna -- he didn't say this. my perception that the word "herd" is perceived as toxic in this conversation. while he's perfectly willing to discuss immunity and how we're going to stop this virus, either by a vaccine or by the antibodies produced by people who have had the virus, you know, one or the other or some combination thereof, but doesn't want this to be characterized as the administration participating in herd immunity because there's some perception that the doors are then open and they're just going to let it happen, overlooking the measures that he argues are being taken to safely re-engage schools, safely re-engage businesses, make sure that hospitals aren't overrun and that those who can

ill-afford covid-19 are protected. so, look, he came in hot, as they say. i was happy to have him on my program because i wanted to hear what he had to say. he describes this, a guy who relocated 3,000 miles from stanford and is bewildered by what he regards as the media not giving him a fair shake. >> he's broadly discussed, you know, college football reopening. we've seen some of the issues there. he has talked about opening schools broadly. you say safely. but when a lot of people look at some of his proposals, they don't think that they're particularly thoughtful. they think he's zoning in on the fact that kids have fewer problems than adults but he's really minimizing the impact that there could be even on a small number of children. >> you know, i don't want to overstep my bounds and speak for him. i'm not just looking to promote my day job on radio, but i

really do want people to listen to the interview. it's widely available. i think his response would be to say that he's data driven and that he thinks it's important for both schools to reopen and businesses to reopen but not to do so laissez faire, with some level of oversight. >> and he said that today? >> that was not a subject we got into today because the time that we had was consumed with him address i addressing "the washington post" piece, which was very prominent and very popular on their website. >> all right. we'll check it out, michael. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, brianna. >> and sharing this interview with us. you can catch him on sirius xm every day from 9:00 a.m. to noon and saturdays at 9:00 a.m. right here on cnn. you heard sweden there, which has come up in conservative circles as a model to how to respond to the pandemic. it's recorded more than 84,000

cases and 5,800 deaths. per capita, the death rate is higher than the u.s. and its scandinavian neighbors, pardon me, but lower than other hard-hit european countries. cnn's max foster is in stockholm to investigate these numbers. >> reporter: there's not been a reported death in this country for more than a week now, since august 23rd. adding fuel to the theory that the population here has built up some level of resistance to the virus, because there was never a full lockdown. herd immunity is a very controversial subject. and, according to all of the antibody tests that have been carried out on people in stockho stockholm, for example, there's no evidence that herd immunity has, indeed, built up here, which requires 70% of the population plus to have the right antibodies. but there's also a theory that perhaps they're testing for the wrong thing. it could be t-cells that are

protecting the public. that's a much more complicated test and will require widespread testing to be proven. either way, officials here point to a wide range of factors that speak to sweden's success, such as the universal health care system, such as the high number of single-person households but also the high trust that the public tends to have in the government of public institutions here. the government also points out whilst there wasn't a mandatory lockdown here, many people chose to lock down themselves and socially distance from others. max foster, cnn, stockholm, sweden. >> max, thank you. more than 6 million americans have contracted the coronavirus, and that number is rising. in part because of super spreader events. 20,000 covid cases in 36 states have been reported at colleges and universities. plus you may remember the motorcycle rally in sturgis, south dakota, last month.

at least 260 coronavirus cases in 12 states that were associated with the rally. and the washington post reports that a wedding in rural maine generated dozens of cases. by the end of august, officials with the maine center for disease control and prevention had linked at least 87 cases to that one wedding. the wedding was maine's first cluster outbreak linked to a social gathering, but experts say it's an example of just how fast the virus can silently spread. chief health improvement officer for maine health, noung northern new england's largest hilt health care provider and former director of the maine cdc. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> rural communities, of course, they tend to be tight knit, even if you have a little more space between people at times. does that make them more at r k risk, kind of that sort of small town community vibe? >> yes. you know, i'm from rural maine

and i know when i'm in my hometown, there's some sense of feeling more protected from this pandemic, because it is so less dense, it's so rural, less populated. yet the tight-knit communities that you do feel in rural america also make us more vulnerable in some ways when we're there. the wedding is actually a pretty good example of it, because you do feel this false sense of security, but also there were people from all over that community who attended that wedding. and, as a result, there are places that are closed in the town, such as the schools, the town office, the hospital even, except for essential services, are shuddered. it makes rural america -- there's a small sense of security and they're more vulnerable because of that tight-knit community in rural america. >> this lodge said it

misinterpreted safety protocols about crowd size. it was issued a citation for doing so. how difficult is it for public health officials to enforce masks and social distancing and even crowd size at these kinds of events? >> yeah. it's very difficult, particularly because there's so many different events all over the country, that it's very hard to be everywhere. that's why public education is so important. and making sure people realize the importance of all these strategies. you know, you can look at them as layers of protection. so the numbers of people who gathered, that is very important, but it's not just the numbers. it's making sure that people are masking. i've got my own mask here, my red lobster mask. we're wearing our masks. we're watching our distance, staying at least six feet apart from others and while we're masked as well, doing both. there's masking and distancing, and that we're washing our hands a lot.

ventilation situation. outdoors is better ventilated than indoors. the duration of the event is important, if you're together a few minutes or an hour is less risky than if you're together for hours at a time. people are screening themselves, making sure if they have any symptoms that they don't attend an event. or if people are coming from afar, from another state, that they isolate for a bit. the cautionary tale out of this wedding is that covid is an uninvited guest at many of these events, so we want to be careful no matter where we are. >> yeah. i think we sympathize with people. they want to have weddings, of course. there are ways to do it safely where you're not endangering especially your elderly guests, who whoa all love so much. dr. mills, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. thank you. >> love your mask. giving me ideas, by the way. as the president is touring kenosha, wisconsin, the

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blake was shot seven times in the back by police. two people were allegedly killed by an armed vigilante. many fear trump's visit could inflame the divisions that put the city on edge. ryan nobles is in kenosha. can you tell us what the president is planning on doing there, and how has he been received so far? >> yeah, brianna, the president just arrived to this high school behind me in kenosha, his motorcade pulling up five minutes ago, after he toured a burned-out building, furniture store, five minutes from where we're standing right now, to survey the damage that's come out of these protests and the violence in the wake of the shooting of jacob blake. at this high school behind me, he's going to tour the emergency operations center, which local law enforcement has set up in the wake of all the protests and violence. then he's going to hold a round table discussion with local law enforcement, local sheriff as well as high-level federal

officials, as well as the acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf and attorney general william barr. so that's the conversation the president is having right now. as you can see, brianna, it is mainly focused on the law enforcement response not so much about the initial act that led to all these protests and that is the shooting of jacob blake. as you mentioned, the president, at this point, not necessarily reaching out to the family directly. there have been attempts for the two sides to come together, but it has not been received and there has not been a definitive connection between the two. as for the reception that the president is getting, where we are standing, there is a relatively small crowd, mix of protesters and supporters. there were loud cheers for the president as his motorcade came by. as you mentioned, brianna, there is real concern from leadership here in kenosha, the mayor of the city of kenosha, the governor as well asking the president not to come. they do not view his visit as something that can bring this community together and solve

some of the problems that they're dealing with right now, brianna. >> reporter: the white house, ryan, has promised a unifying visit, that that is the purpose of president trump's visit, but it's worth pointing out that that would be quite a departure from the rhetoric that we have heard from him. he has essentially encouraged his supporters to patrol protesters, and he has defended the shooter in kenosha and even li likened in the case of jacob blake police officers who make the wrong call and shoot someone in the back seven times like that, he has likened them to golfers who flub a three-foot putt. this would be quite the departure, right, that he would have to make in order to have a unifying visit. >> that's exactly right, brianna. if you look at his schedule there doesn't appear to be the effort to reach out to the other side in this conversation. if he were interested in a

unifying message of bringing the two sides together, you would think there would be a round table with some of the local activists and protesters even if the blake family themselves wouldn't be interested in meeting with the president, there are voices here that would be willing to take an audience with the president. so far those folks not on the schedule, brianna. >> mark nobody else, thank you. born and raised in kenosha, joining us now. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, brianna. >> i know this is something very personal to you, something that's happening in wrr community. i wonder, overall, what you think about the president visiting kenosha today. >> well, i was in kenosha this morning, in fact, visiting my 91-year-old mother. we talked to a lot of folks downtown and we talked to some people, just to try to get their reactions. this is a town that's healing

right now. last thing you need is anything that's not a healing, unifying message. i haven't seen donald trump in 3 1/2 years do very much that's unifying. all of his messaging on this so far has been backing up vigilantes and militia and talking about, you know, the mother, grandmother of protesters. -- business growing up. i've seen the devastation firsthand. donald trump needs to be not donald trump for a change, if this visit is going to be successful. >> if he's going to deliver a unifying message, as the white house is promising. wuvent things we've heard, all of this has originated, initial protesting originated because of the killing of jacob blake at the hands of police. it was all on video. he was shot seven times in the back. the president was talking about

actions like this, where police in a split second make a decision and they make the wrong decision. and he likened it to a golfer choking on a three-foot putt. i wonder what you think and also if you've heard anything from folks in the area about the president saying that. >> yeah. unfortunately, that's the rhetoric we're afraid he's going to say today, because that will not help any healing in this community. you know, if you think about it, this is donald trump's america where we have people wearing masks because they're afraid of covid, 100,000 small businesses that have closed down because of the reaction. we have racial tensions and now we have a president flying around not to unify people, but to build support among his base, which is not what a president is supposed to do. everything about this visit is likely going to be wrong. and if he were to come and have a unifying message, i would have a completely different take on this. if joe biden were to come with a

unifying message, that would be healing and helpful. when you make those kind of goofy comparisons about as something as serious as people being shot you don't serve kenosha or any community very well. >> i'm told your family knew anthony huber, one of the two protesters killed last week. i think that's important. we're talking about lives here. what can you tell us? >> this is someone who, again, my mother's best friend who recently passed away was the grandmother, great aunt i talked to yesterday. she went to the skateboard park where he used to skateboard and other skateboarders are trying to show her, to make her feel better, some tricks that anthony used to be able to do. but they kept falling and not being able to do. you know, this is a life that people are still trying to take in what happened. and to have someone come and just make political point after political point is not what this community needs. it's not what this country

needs. donald trump wasn't ready to be president when he got elected. he's still not ready to be president. we need someone who can understand what empathy and communication is. that's what we need in this country, not more of donald trump. >> congressman pocan, thank you for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you. next, facebook announcing it has uncovered russian accounts, once again targeting americans after getting a tip from the fbi. this, as russia makes several provocative moves out in the open. are they testing president trump? plus zoom makes huge profit. hey there people eligible for medicare.

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we have more now on our breaking news. after getting a tip from the fbi, facebook says it has uncovered a russian-linked network targeting americans in the 2020 election with sites and pages posing as left-leaning activists. keep in mind the trump administration just decided to stop providing in-person briefings on election security as vladimir putin increases significant violation of

international law. friday russian jets crossed within 100 feet of a u.s. b-52. a few days before that, russian submarine surfaced off the alaska coast of the two days earlier, russian armored vehicle sideswiped a u.s. vehicle in syria, injuring several american troops. john dean is a former nixon white house counsel and cnn contributor with us and co-author of the new book "authoritarian nightmare: trump and his followers." john, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> so what do you make of these russian provocations? what do you think? >> it would be kind of easy to explain in a way when you read the media accounts of them, that they could have been accidental, but on the other hand, they seem -- the pattern seems to suggest that russia is testing.

and i think trump has passed every test that russia has ever offered, whether it be syria, belarus, putting bounties on heads of american soldiers. he just doesn't respond. and putin has got to be very pleased with that. >> and the president, we've been seeing him, right? one of the main pillars of his campaign is running on law and order. and that's happening in the midst of violence and a lot of protesting in the u.s. richard nixon ran on law and order. what do you think about some of the similarities? how does this bode in terms of being potentially successful for president trump? >> brianna, i worked for the last authoritarian president, richard nixon. i watched him play it out and try to use law and order. i never saw him try to inflame a demonstration, but i saw him try

to take advantage of them. that's one of the reasons i wrote the book i did, because trump's followers are a little different than most presidents have had. he has managed to assemble a group of authoritarian followers that science has actually been looking at for about four decades. and there's fascinating material about these people and what they respond to. one of the things they respond to is fear and the other is loathing. and we're getting a lot of that. that's hunter thompson's old motto about what was going on with nixon. well, it also applies to trump. >> the idea of fear and loathing, it's very interesting that you take a look at that. and you're also aware that the president loves his conspiracy theories, and this plays into that idea of fear, and playing into the fear that americans have. he's also pushing a new conspiracy theory that joe biden is controlled by people in the dark shadows and that there are thugs spotted on a plane, he

said, headed to washington, headed to the rnc. he wouldn't say where they were coming from. let's listen. >> who do you think is pulling biden's strings, former obama people? >> people you never heard of. people that are in the dark shadows. people that -- >> what does that mean? that sounds like conspiracy theory, dark shadows. what is that? >> no. it's people you never heard of. people that are on streets, people that are controlling the streets. we had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend and in the plane, it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms with gear and this and they're on a plane. >> where is this? >> i'll tell you some time. it's under investigation right now. >> john, having written a book on authoritarianism, how do you see what he's saying there fitting into this as a tactic? >> well, as authoritarians go, he's one of the least powerful

and intellectually capable, i think, history has ever recorded. he has gotten that power a lot by fluke, as we explain in the book, but also he has really slipped off the deep end on some of this. you know, if trump actually didn't believe what he was saying, i would be more comfortable. i think he actually believes these wacko theories he's coming up with, and that's actually very disturbing. >> indeed. john dean, thank you so much. looking forward to your book. >> thank you. toformer ceo of google is blasting the administration's response to coronavirus. we have covid headlines from around the country next. when we started carvana, they told us

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in new york. zoom just wrapped up a blockbuster quarter as its profits sky rocketed 3,300%. a net profit of more than $185 million. the pandemic has made video conferencing a staple for companies, as more people work from home. zoom reported that by the end of july, the number of corporate customers jumped nearly 460% from a year ago to about 370,000 clients with more than 10 employees. but the exploding popularity has caused some strains to the platform. last month, zoom experienced outages in some parts of the world. >> reporter: i'm chloe milos in new york. "tenet" will open across the united states thursday, the first major film to debut since coronavirus caused movie theaters to shut down across the

country. the question remains, will moviegoers feel comfortable to go back during the pandemic? making $50 million at the international box office. for now, those in states like new york and california will have to wait as indoor theaters remain closed. >> reporter: i'm pete montine in washington. the new prediction from the chairman of united airlines, oscar munoz spoke exclusively to cnn. he says the industry faces a dire reality and fears more airlines could fold because of the pandemic. passenger levels, the amount of people passing through security at america's airports is less than 30% of what it was a year ago. munoz says the key to getting them back is a vaccine. airlines are set to furlough tens of thousands of workers in only a month. >> thank you to all of my colleagues. russia claims it has the first vaccine for covid, but

many teachers there don't want to be the first to take it. plus schools opening now in wuhan, china, where this pandemic all began and masks are not required.

the pandemic has taken a big bite out of spain's tourism. two agencies report the number of travelers visiting spain dropped 75% in july and spending among those who did visit was also down. meantime in hong kong the government has opened up a massive testing center. anyone who wants a test could get one free of charge. local reporters say that nearly 600,000 people have registered. here are other headlines around

the globe. >> reporter: i'm matthew chance in moscow and it is the first day of school here. the first day since march that russian classrooms have reopened amid the covid-19 pandemic. teachers are meant to be among the first to benefit from russia's new coronavirus vaccine. but what we're learning is that few, if any, have so far taken up the offer to be vaccinated. one russian teachers union started an online petition calling on members to reject it outright on safety grounds. well the vaccine was fast tracked to get it to front line workers as soon as possible. but unfinished human trials and a lack of published clinical data means many teachers see it as a risk their unwilling to take. >> reporter: i'm david culver in beijing where across the country here most students returned to the classroom on tuesday for what is the official start of

school here in china. in most major city students and staff will wear masks and stagger schedules so as to allow for social distancing. but surprisingly in wuhan, more than 7 months since the outbreak, the measures are the most relaxed in all of china. students are encouraged to bring a mask but they don't have to wear it. a sign that city leader feel confident in testing and contact tracing. on social media some parents hoping this does not lead to a resurgence. right now president trump is on the ground in wisconsin where a police slooting of an unarmed black man sparked days of protests. the president making more divisive comments before he left. we'll take you there live to wisconsin. i like liberty mutual.

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you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me today. we begin this hour with the latest on coronavirus pandemic and as flu season is about to be upon us, it is the upper midwest that is suddenly the big concern. nebraska, south dakota, iowa, all seeing a spike in cases in more than 50% over the last week. and just talking about iowa for a second here, the situation is troubling. this new report straight