>> hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this busy news day with us. 62 days from the november election and there's a little 2016 deja vu that should remind us all how we pick presidents. a new national poll shows a stable joe biden lead. a new pennsylvania poll, however shows a tightening race in a key battleground, both candidates looking to frame your choice today. democrat biden offers a speech on schools in what his campaign describes as the president barreling forward on reopening in biden's view putting his re-election wishes ahead of student safety. the president is on the campaign trail and heading to north carolina. that trip falls a day on the ground in wisconsin that included a visit with law enforcement and yes, fake news states by the president of the united states.

he stood in front of a boarded up business with its former owner because the current owner wanted no part of the made for tv campaign play. the president did not meet with the family of jacob blake. in fact, he never mentioned blake by name. >> i feel terribly for anybody that goes through that. that's why i was so honored to meet the pastors. i feel ter believy that goes through that. as you know, it's under investigation. i feel terribly for anybody that has to go through, and i didn't get to speak to the mother. i hear she's a fine woman. >> we just learned moments ago joe biden and his wife jill biden will travel to kenosha, wisconsin tomorrow and more on that and the 2020 politics ahead and first a labor day warning from dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci says in a new interview that labor day revelers pose a threat to health and he's worried about another spike. dr. fauci says it's critical to get the new infections down, but

the numbers remind us just how stubborn and resilient this virus is and they remind us the price of not enforcing that baseline down before memorial day. new infections back above 40,000 today. when you have that many cases, this sad statistic is as hard to change as it is to swallow. another 1,000 americans lost their lives to this virus tuesday. where are the cases rising? let's take a look as we go through the next 50 states and you see orange and red across the country. 17 states trending up and that means new coronavirus new infections reporting now. half of the states, 25 holding steady. that's the beige color and it includes texas which, of course, was a big piece of the summer surge. eight states trending down, still including arizona and california. they were a big part of the summer surge. florida holding steady, although in recent days a spike there, as well. we'll get to that in a moment. this is the saddest map we show and 15 states still reporting

more deaths this week than last week. the case count stays up and sadly the 15 states report, and 12 states holding steady and 23 states trending down meaning fewer deaths this week, and the trending down number there. you watch the case trend and you see this is where we were in the beginning of summer and this is why dr. fauci had memorial day and july 4th started to climb up into here and up we went. this is where the baseline was. this is where it is. above 40,000 again and the cases coming in yesterday. too high, the public health experts say as people go back to school as we get into the fall flu season and beyond. look at this, this is a trend we've seen throughout and you've had cases drop on the weekend and perhaps we're starting a new workweek and perhaps we're shutting the baseline number down and this past week we were at 34,000 and this has been a tradition, if you will and case counts drop out of the weekend

and jump back up and you can see it throughout the month of august and the baseline holding at 40,000 and the key to getting it down more is to get fewer positive test results and the positivity rate changed and positivity states is all of the red and it's the southeast and the middle of the country and a lot of red states, to be honest. i don't mean red on the map, i mean red when it comes on to politics, higher positivity rate this week than last week, which means more cases tend to follow that. this is why you look at the positivity rate and you remember what happened memorial day, july 4th which is why dr. fauci says this weekend, as you celebrate the end of summer and the passage into fall, please be careful. >> when you have a holiday like labor day, we have seen after the fourth of july, we saw after memorial day a surge in cases. what i would really like to see is kind of a full-court press to get us way down as the baseline

so that when you get these cases in the fall they won't surge up. they'll be controllable. >> dr. fauci, in addition to calling for the full-court press he also says a vaccine could be available earlier than expected if ongoing clinical trials produce overwhelmingly positive results and let's discuss that with senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. is there reason to be optimistic or are we still in holding? >> we are still in holding in a big way. here's the way that these trials work, john, and you and i have talked about this several times over the past few weeks and you think you'll have to wait until all 30,000 people have run the course which can take a while, but sort of like when you're baking a batch of cookies you open the oven every so often to see if they're done. it is possible that they will talk a look, an early look and they'll see that so many people who got the placebo got sick with covid-19 and so few people

who got the actual vaccine got sick with covid-19 because remember, this trial was divided equally between giving people a shot of sal een and giving them the vaccine. if that overwhelmingly positive data comes through early or a strong signal comes in early there is a possibility for an early emergency use authorization or eua from the food and drug administration. let's take a listen to what dr. fauci had to say about this. >> i believe that by the time we get to the end of this calendar year that we will feel comfortable that we do have a safe and effective vaccine. i've been through a number of vaccine trials in which euas have ultimately been done and they've been done that there is enough data that you would feel comfortable that it was safe and effective for the american public. >> dr. fauci has been very consistent about this, john. back in january, he said,

elizabeth, 12 to 18 months until we can have a vaccine, and he's said that over and over again. 12 months from january would be the end of this year. note that he did not say november 3rd. he did not say by election day and you might think, november 3rd, december 31st whatever, and in a vaccine trial of this kind from november 3rd to december 31st that is a big chunk of time. >> that may be another issue. the president said yesterday he disagrees with dr. fauci a lot and that could be another disagreement. elizabeth cohen grateful for the insights. thank you very much. open classroom windows on chilly days to the wrinkles of our new normal. it's a reflection of research that air flow is absolutely critical. if people are going to be in one location for extended periods even if coronavirus precautions like social distancing and wearing a mask is in effect. the professor at the school of public health and the co-author of healthy buildings and how indoor spaces drive performance

and productivity. mr. allen, grateful for your time today and i just want to show and i was reading about it yesterday and new york city public schools and older buildings. sometimes you can't even get the windows open and you've had the surge of a handyman essentially going around the new york public school system to make sure the windows can open. explain what the research tells you about why this air flow is so critical. >> thanks for having me on. that's great to see in new york city and we're short on time and short on resources and what can you do to prove ventilation. it is as simple sometimes as opening up windows and making sure what's happening and you can get the outdoor air flowing in. the reason why this is so important is since february we have known and every piece of information has supported that airborne transmission is happening and it's nothing to be feared and it just means zee wee to add additional controls like hand washing and distancing and now we have to add ventilation

and filtration and opening up the windows allows you to bring more outdoor air that dilutes any airborne particles. if you can't do that, we recommend bringing in a portable air cleaner with a hepa filter so you can clean airborne particles. >> you recorded on the wall street journal piece and we have graphics from that. you can look at some where you have the place ment and air purifiers and doesn't have great ventilation and you say placement matters. you have air purifiers. explain what you mean about changing the air. it sounds like a bit of an odd concept and you need to change the air in the room by getting the old out and new in. it really is that simple and some of the terminology people have been familiar with and we understand and in terms of air changes per hour and let me demystify this a bit. when we say a classroom, five is

excellent and six is ideal and six air changes per hour. that simply means every ten minutes the full volume of air in the classroom is either diluted with fresh outdoor air or clean through one of these portable air cleaners and to put numbers on that, your home, a typical home has half an air change per hour and that takes two hours to clean the volume offa irin your house. you can't do it through opening windows and the mechanical ventilation system and there's always something we can do in this case and we like the portable air cleaner with the good hepa filter. for a parent watching this with the option to send their child back to school. connect the dots. say the school does all it can and it opens windows and brings in a new purifier and something to distribute the air. do you still need to keep the desks six feet apart and keep the masks on as long as possible? >> keep the masks on.

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quote, in the dark shadows are controlling joe biden and he says no -- he just says no when asked key questions about the country's racial reckoning, no systemic racism in america, the the president says and no systemic violence against black by police, he insists. he gets offended at the suggestion or the question. >> do you believe systemic racism is a problem in this country? >> well, you know, you just keep getting back to the opposite subject. we should talk about the kind of violence that we've seen in portland and here and other places. it's tremendous violence. you always get to the other side, well what do you think about this or that? >> joining me now to discuss, josh stosy also from the post. it's very interesting. that's a choice by the president. he can say yes, but, he can say yes. instead he chooses to ignore the question about racism entirely and move on to defending the police and lashing out against

what he views as violence, looting and anarchy. >> this is a clear strategy by this president and he wants to focus on the issue of law and order because he thinks that works for him politically and that's an issue he'll be able to drive over the next two months over the campaign and racial justice, inequality and these are issues that one, he doesn't want to talk about because they're harder for him to score political points on, but also because he doesn't believe that they exist. he doesn't believe that the country has issues, racial inequality and he wants to be able to tell people that he's done more for black america than any other president since possibly abraham lincoln. statements that on their face are just preposterous, but the president wants to put those talking points out there and wants to move on to his broader message which is law and order. i'm going to protect the suburbs and protect people from violence, chaos and anarchy and rather than healing the wounds

that exist in the country when it comes to police violence and racial injustice. he doesn't want to focus on that. he'd much more rather focus on law and order and presenting hips himself as a candidate of law and order. >> josh, you write in the newspaper by now, the president saying things that are outrageous that make you stop in your tracks. there have been quite a few in the last 24 hours or so. let's listen to the president yesterday defending the police because one of the more startling things he said is included in this. >> we have to ondcondemn the dangerous anti-police rhetoric. most people joke, they have a quarter of a second to make a decision and if they make a wrong decision they're either dead or they're in big trouble. they choke sometimes and it's a very tough situation, right? >> it's kind of a crass way to describe a police officer who yes, in a tense situation might make a bad call, but he was using this after using it the

night before in an interview with laura ingram in fox news and she tried to stop him. he described this as a golfer missing a clutch putt and seven bullets in the back of a black man and she tried to stop him and people in the dark shod owes and this is what he is choosing to say. >> the president made a lot of revelations in that interview where laura ingram tried to guide him back to safer territory. he obviously said in that interview because he thought black lives matter was a marxist organization. he was talking about police, as you said with the golf comment. at one point he suggested that more low income housing would lead to crime where laura ingram would lead to crime, you're not suggesting all poor people are criminals or minorities are criminals. it was an interview where she was able to steer him back in a more guided direction, i guess you would say. the interview was not viewed internally by many of the president's advisers as a

helpful one. one, he's better than joe biden on the economy and recovery after coronavirus and two, that he may do more to stop prioting and mayors and the democratic cities are to blame. those are two somewhat challenging messages for the incumbent and they're messages that they work. they don't see the comments that the president has been making in recent days as helpful. >> toluse, we learned before coming on the air for this hour that joe biden and jill biden will travel to kenosha. there's been a debate in the democratic campaign about how directly do you respond and how much time do you spend on law and order and the racial reckoning going in the country right now and that takes you away from talking about the coronavirus. joe biden is trying to connect the dots and they've made this decision to go in after the president of the united states. do they see risk in that or do they see all gain? >> there is definitely power in

the presidency in setting the agenda and the president spent a good portion of last week during his convention talking about law and order and talking about cities on fire and that did break through in the national conversation and that does require joe biden to have a forceful response. we saw him go to pittsburgh and condemn looting and violent protesting and there is a difference between protesting peacefully and burning a city on fire. i do think because the president has made this campaign for the past week or so all about law and order, has used the power of the bully pulpit to focus this issue that that has changed the narrative and pushed joe biden to have to forcefully respond and he'd much rather be talking about the coronavirus because polling shows that people trust joe biden more than donald trump on this issue, but because president trump has successfully changed the narrative over the last couple of weeks, joe biden and his campaign feel the need to respond and to show to kenosha and show that they can take the role of more of a

healer and flip it to president trump and says this is president trump's america and he seems to be egging on the vigilanty groups and he is not calling for calm in a way that brings both sides to the table and joe biden will show that he will be a president that will do that. >> it will be interesting to watch biden on that stage, if you will. josh stosy, and yesterday did not meet with members of the blake family. he refused he would not do that. members of the blake family were harshly critical of the president and you don't want to understand that the president wants to walk into that. in his effort to point out destruction, he went and stood in front of a camera shop that was burned to the ground with the former owner because the current owner wanted no part of it. every time trump touched it it turned into a circus. he runs around blaming others for such a thing. >> the president yesterday, his visit was determined to show one thing, that he could get these

cities back under control if he was given power to do so. you know, that was a visit that was not about the blake family. they have been -- as you said, john, it was a visit just to show carnage and american cities in disrepair and sometimes a lot of these cities have not welcomed the president. the mayors have not often wanted him there. the mayors have been resistant of his rhetoric and resistant of his treaties and the president decided it was worth of going anyway. you saw the wisconsin governor say it was not helpful for him to come, but it doesn't top him from going. >> thank you both for sharing the insight and we thank the post for sharing two of their best. we are reminded how we pick presidents. grinnel college gives democrat joe biden an eight-point national lead and that's in line with other national surveys and those national surveys are full of trouble signs for president trump, but a new pennsylvania poll by monmouth university, and you see the numbers right there shows a very tight race in that

key battleground. biden up 49% to 45%. pennsylvania, of course, is one of the industrial states president trump flipped from blue to red four years ago. ohio also included on that list. president obama carried ohio twice, but the electoral votes were solid for trump in 2016. ohio is viewed as more republican leaning than pennsylvania or michigan. just the fact that it is in play for biden gives democrats some hope of a more favorable electoral map. jeff zeleny is there for a reason talking to voters in columbus. what is the lay of the land in battleground ohio? >> reporter: john, there is one clear sign that the trump campaign believes that they need to spend some money, time and attention here in ohio because they have reserved millions of dollars in television advertising here in ohio for the final stretch of the general election campaign, about $6 million this month alone and about 18 overall and it is a sense of post-convention, this discussion between the law and order message versus the leadership of coronavirus.

we've been spending the last couple of days here talking to a variety of voters, just how these messages are resonating and it's fascinating, john, when you drive through these neighborhoods. you see trump signs next to biden signs and all lives matter next to black lives matter. that is the tension underneath this here. the president talks about the suburbs. we talked to a democratic candidate who is running for the delaware county commissioner about what she thinks of the president's message on suburbs. let's take a listen. >> we're not talking about the 1950s. we're talking about a time when people are moving where they can afford to move and living where they can afford to live and people walk together. they take walks together. we talk, we hang out together. i think it will be very competitive here. >> reporter: so no question that these suburbs right around here in columbus, these counties have long voted republican, but it's been changing and local

elections, we saw that in 2018 and that is one of the places where this race in ohio will be won or lost in the suburbs of cleveland and columbus and in cincinnati, and of course, the president is strong in rural areas and it's certainly these underlying tensions here and this message of law and order versus how he has handled a coronavirus that was coming up again and again. so once again, ohio, it's not on the top of the set of battlegrounds and if they're defending this, they know they need to win this. joe biden doesn't necessarily, if he had it it almost blocks president trump's chances of re-election. >> no republican has won the presidency in mod earn timern t without ohio. grateful that you're on the ground in a key battleground state. appreciate the reporting. coming up for us, florida fire is a lab company. it failed to report tens of thousands of coronavirus test results.

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look at the giant spike from the day before. 1885. that giant spike yesterday coming at a time the state is in a fight with quest laboratories. it fired that company saying it was too late and too stalled in reporting coronavirus results. let's get right to rosa flores live. we've been through this with the state of florida, when you look at one day compared to the day before, that's a wow. >> reporter: you're absolutely right, and very conveniently john, in a report by the department of health, they said if you take out the records the positivity rate in the state is lower than what they had posted for that given day. look, here is what we know about this. the florida department of health is severing ties with quest diagnostics. this laboratory failed to report 75,000 covid-19 tests that date all of the way back to april. according to the state, by law,

these lab companies are required to report the test results to the florida dartment of health in a timely manner. governor ron desantis making this announcement yesterday and blasting the quality of the covid-19 data in his own state. tack take a listen. >> these test results are not the best indicator when we're looking at covid-19 data. the best indicators are things like ed visits for cover id-like illness and a number of covid-positive patients in the hospital, the number of covid-positive patients in the icu. >> quest diagnostics issuing a statement yesterday saying that they apologize, that they regret the situation and they say that the delay was actually due to a technical issue that impacted those 75,000 test results out of the 1.4 million results that they performed for the state of florida. meanwhile, more than five months into the pandemic, governor ron

desantis made an announcement that he will allow limited visitations to long-term care facilities and nursing homes, but there will be some rules according to the governor. visitors have to make an appointment. there can only be two individuals visiting someone at one point in time. no children will be allowed and everyone will have to be wearing ppe. now, john, governor ron desantis became very emotional yesterday during this press conference while he made this announcement and of course, he was the one to make the decision to stop visitations because of the covid-19 pandemic and he said that many people in florida died alone. john? >> rosa flores on the ground for us, grateful as always for the live reporting in florida. we'll continue to track those numbers and see if they even out, thank you very much. as students return from summer break schools are becoming hot spots for covid-19 infections. more than 25,000 cases reported in colleges and universities in 37 of the 50 states. as these outbreaks emerge dr.

anthony fauci urging schools, do not send infected students home. >> keep them at the university in a place that is sequestered enough from the other students, but don't have them go home because they could be spreading it in their home state. >> nico henderson is from the university of texas. baylor has 400 active cases and a positive rate of 10% and today is nico is the last day of school-mandated quarantine. i'm a big fan of waco. i used to get down there a lot covering the bush presidency when he went to crawford to the ranch. you do not have covid, but it was in your dorm hall, is that what happened? ? yeah. thank you for having me. i do not and my roommate does not have covid, but there were a couple of cases around us, yes. >> and so what has quarantine meant for you? do you get to leave the room? how are you getting your meals? >> we are brought meals at 8:00

a.m. and noon it's been cool and a unique experience from anything i've ever done, so -- >> that's a positive outlook. it's a unique and cool experience to be in covid quarantine. okay. are you doing class work while you're in quarantine? >> yes, i am, and a lot of it. >> a lot of it, that's good. your parents will be glad to hear that. >> in terms of that, how much of an adjustment was that in the sense that you came and were you expecting to be back in the classroom or were you expected to do mostly remote learning anyway? >> i was expecting to be in the classroom, but baylor has done just an amazing job of adjusting and being available if we needed to go to an online platform and they made so many preparations before school came back and before students returned that they basically said hey, we're not going to be afraid of this and we're going to attack this

head-on. we're going to take a lot of safety precautions and measures, but we're going to do everything we can to make sure that our students have the best semester and that they can be in the face-to-face environment and on campus. >> when you look at this, 25,000 cases, we can show a map, 37 states. this has been a pretty common occurrence as students your age head back to campus. different schools handling it in different ways. you've been in quarantine for the last few days. do you talk to friends who go to other schools and other colleges and universities and is it a similar experience or do you think baylor is doing something different that you think is better or worse than the others? >> i'm actually from north carolina so a lot of my friends go to north carolina schools and it's -- the approach that baylor is taking is a lot different from other schools. they prepared in ways over the summer building tent space for students to use for studying or for eating and enforcing a lot of cleanliness measures, cleaning a lot, social

distancing, mask policies, but they have prepared in other ways that other schools haven't, and i would love to see other schools look at baylor as an example because what they have done so far has been amazing and all of the students here are loving it. the approach that baylor is taking where they're not afraid, but they are taking safety precautions and they just want the students to have the best semester, so -- >> that's good to hear. seven months into this. i learn something new every day and to hear someone say quarantine at college has been cool, i'll mark that as a positive new. i'll mark that as a positive new. best of luck in the school year ahead and as you transition out of cool quarantine back to the real world. >> thank you so much. shout out to my family. >> i'm sure they're happy to see you and happy that you think this is cool and doing your school work. we'll circle back and see how you're doing. >> the vice president says he does not recall being told to be on standby when the president went to the hospital.

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last year. let's get straight to the white house and cnn's john harwood. this little drama as if there's not enough going on. now we have this drama about was the vice president put on alert when the president made that surprise trip to walter reed last november. >> reporter: john, it's striking what an aggressive white house response both from the president and from his allies that we've seen to questions that none of us on the outside know the answer to that mike schmitt again raised with his book. here is ronny jackson, former white house physician and now a trump-supporting member of congress tried to knock back the idea that the president had some sort of serious medical event. >> i was consulted regarding this trip weeks in advance. this trip was neither urgence nor emergence, and nor did it have to do with his cerebral or cardiovascular health and it was part of a preventive work-up to keep him healthy as president. >> reporter: he described it as

a routine event and we heard whether it was the beginning of the annual physical or the end of the annual physical which ended up coming out six months later and we also had the vice president mike pence being a little evasive on the question of whether as mike schmitt reported in his book he was put on standby in case the president had to be anesthetized during this visit that ronnie jackson calls routine. >> i don't recall being told to be on standby. i was informed that the president had a doctor's appointment, and i don't want to -- >> i just want to clear that up. >> i have to tell you, part of this job is you're always on standby if you're vice president of the united states. >> always on standby is the message we've also gotten from white house chief of staff mike meadows and still does not clear up the central mystery here. why was this visit which had not been publicly announce, and did

not follow normal protocols for going to walter reed including for how the president's doctor traveled there, what was that visit all about? what sort of tests were conducted? they haven't told us that yet. >> one of the things you learn there whether you like mike pence or not viewers at home is he has learned over the years, there are certain questions the president does not want him talking about things. that was very clear in the vice president's eyes when the question came up. john harwood, appreciate the reporting. nancy pelosi having backlash after getting her hair done in a san francisco salon and in apparent violation of the regulations requiring hair treatments to be done outdoors. pelosi and her team relied on the interpretation of someone at the salon about what was now allowed under new city regulations and it turns out that person pelosi's office says, was incorrect. pelosi's staff added that she did wear a mask minus this period you're seeing on tape here where she was getting her hair washed.

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furlough 620,000. 20% of the workforce. they will happen october 1. when it is allowed under the terms set forth in the first airline bailout. the company says those jobs can only be saved with a new bailout before october. president trump says the economy is roaring back. calling it a super-v economy. big dropped follows by what he calls a rocketship rebound. a pitch essential to his re-election campaign. but is it true? christine romans takes a look. >> reporter: the most painful moment in modern american history and the president is cheerleading the shape of the stock market bounce. >> all-time highest stock market. if you take the average. the enthusiasm for the country, enthusiasm for the comeback, the v. look at the v. now i think it's a super-v. >> reporter: here's what that v looks like. s&p 500 soared 35% over the past five months. wall street is riding high on

record stimulus and low rest rates. but the stock market, the stock market is not the economy. on main street, there's a health and jobs crisis as more than 6 million people are infected with covid-19 and more than 184,000 people have died and layoffs continue. the split screen is stark here. rent and mortgage payments due again this week while a few stocks are driving the stock market to record highs. this, right here, the super-v the president is talking about. corporate america is becoming more worried about the recovery from here on out. survey of executives found nearly half think a u-shaped recovery is more likely than a sharp v recovery. fear of this -- so-called k-shaped recovery widening the gap between winners and losers. job losses become permanent in retail and restaurants and leisure. john? >> something we'll continue to track.

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first lady melania trump used private email accounts rather than white house email to discuss official white house business. that's according to her former senior adviser stephanie winston walk-off. during an interview on cnn she offered a new spin on a viral moment from the republican national convention. remember these images maybe. first daud ivanka trump walking onstage to join per father and first lady. gave her a smile. you see moment passed her face shifted quite abit. interpreted on the internet as a serious case of side eye. this analysis was offered. >> i take that and look at it completely different than everybody else. i actually saw melania was

trying to smile, represent properly, not show any type of friction between the two of them and ivanka walked right by her and looked at donald, ignored melania. >> calling the relationship between the two women, "a cold war." top of the hour welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day. a positive coronavirus development this hour. new research confirming common steroids can reduce death among critically ill patients. reason to worry as well, heading into the holiday warning. a warning from dr. fauci. holiday festivities may drive another surge. the new numbers remind us the virus has a plan of its own. we are back above 40,000