state program visit right now or call during business hours. hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing your day with us. president trump trying to clean hawpe mess he made yesterday. yesterday he told people to vote twice. well, that's illegal. president trump is saying people should vote, and if you vote by mail you should still show up at the polls to make shure your vote has been tabulated. it's a little confusing, and we think that's the president's point there. a margin of error race shown between the president and joe biden in north carolina. today the former vice president focused on a different battleground, wisconsin, trying to promote healing in kenosha,

biden's first trip to that state since becoming the democratic nominee and since the first trip to kenosha became a white powder keg after a police officer shot jacob blake in the back search times. this afternoon the vice president will do what the president did not do and meet with blake's family. more on biden's trip and the pot-stirring ahead but first the coronavirus challenge. in a new interview last hour with dr. anthony fauci the headlines a coronavirus vaccine will not likely be ready by october, fauci says, and americans should let data guide everything on coronavirus decision-making. that's what dr. fauci says. the president thinks differently and dr. fauci urging americans to have faith that the fda will do the same and career officials will not be swayed by politics when it comes to vaccines and there is this, a warning about the coming labor day holiday weekend. >> we don't want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following other holiday weekends. we don't want to see a surge under any circumstances, but

particularly as we go on other side of labor day and enter into the fall. we want to go into that with a running start in the right direction. we don't want to go into that with another surge that we have to turn around again. >> very important listen to what you just heard. dr. fauci says we need a running start heading into the labor day weekend because of what have happened memorial day and after july 4th, a running start. the numbers will take a loesser look and tell us we don't have the running start on this day in early september. let's take a look at the state case trend. 18 states trending up, orange and red. many you familiar with our map. that means more cases now than a week ago. 18 states trending up. you see essentially the northern part of the country having the biggest part of the country with new numbers. some of the numbers, especially in the northeast, not huge but states are trending in the wrong direction. 23 states are holding steady including florida. nine states trending down, significantly texas, arizona and california, a big part of the

summer surge. at the moment fewer cases this week than compared to last week. this week until you get the cases down more, this map will be full of sadness. this is our new deaths this week versus last week. 12 states reporting more deaths this week than a week ago. 16 states, again, the base holding steady. 23 states, you see 17 plus 5, the light green trending down some and the darker green trending down more quickly in terms of deaths compared to last week. a lot of pain and suffering on this map. this is what dr. fauci is talking about. getting a running start. that means get down here or even lower. get down to 20,000 cases a day or lower. this is the summer surge. this is where we are now and if you just draw this out it appears at the moment that you want to come down the hill. you want to come down the hill as quickly as you can, instead trickling down slowly over last week to essentially a plateau at 40,000 infections a day, 39,670 reported yesterday, a plateau at 40,000 is not a running start

heading into the start in fall. dr. fauci means get it down below 20,000 or more and because the case count is still stubbornly high, 40,000 is still better than 70000, the peak of the summer surge, 40,000 is better and if you still have 40,000 cases on average a day then you have there several weeks on average 1,000 americans dying still, 1,000 americans dying still every day because of the coronavirus. you have to get the case count down to get the death count down. we focus a lot on the big states because florida, texas, california, they added the big numbers to the summer surge, but if you look at it differently, states with the highest rate of infection per 100,000 residents, not the big states that are quote, unquote leading, full okay or losing. might be a better way to put, it south dakota, idaho, iowa, alabama and missouri, the states with the highest infection rate per 100,000 residents and this is why dr. fauci is worried. still averaging 40,000 new infections a day and in 20

states, 20 states right now still have a positivity rate of 10% or more. that's based on yesterday. 10% or more of the people getting tested coming back positive. that means so is about of the people with new infections and then the spread of infections. you can not get down to get that running are start unless you push this down. dr. fauci says the problem in the country right now is everywhere, but particularly among younger americans. >> we're seeing now in certain states, particularly states, for example, like montana, the dakotas,ish in mish dakotas, michigan, minnesota, there's an uptick in positive, people 19 to 25, that's predictive, jim, that if they don't do the kinds of things we're talking about, we're going to see a surge. >> let's discuss now with a dock for from the harvard department of immunology and infectious diseases. good to sigh again. help people understand. dr. you have if ay says because of the fall, because more people will be indoors, because that is

the season where you expect the virus to spike, also to collide with flu season, but let's just stick with coronavirus for a minute. what does he mean and why is it so important to get to a quote, unquote running start, and i assume you agree with me that 40,000 new infections a day is not a running start. >> absolutely. 40,000 is absolutely not where we should be aiming. we should be much, much lower. we need to get cases down before entering into the fall, and frankly time is running out. this is a virus that is very seasonal, and we haven't seen it yet in october, november and december, but these are the months when drives eds normally spike in our population so we are really running a risk of having major outbreaks if this virus turns out to act like its closest relative viruses and have a very high increase in transmission rates as we move into the fall. >> we're about to move into the fall which is the challenge.

labor day weekend is coming up for us which for many is that page-turning between summer and fall. we're at 40,000 on average new infections a day. how low would you need to shove that baseline for you to feel more confident about the ability to manage this when we get from fall into early winter, and is there anything that can be done to shove it down that fast, that quickly? >> well, i would -- i would want to see zero cases to feel really great about it, but, you know, short of that, if every state had, for example, somewhere about one to two cases per 100,000, that would obviously be ideal, and we're nowhere close to that. i think there's a few ways that we can handle this one. one of the major ways is for the federal government to have a coordinated response. we've yet to see that in any serious way and some of that would be working in a coordinated national to bring on rapid tests that everyone can use at home, for example, and really start sending the right

messages out to the american public about how to deal with this virus. right now the message is just all over the place from the federal government and we need to start having a coordinated response. >> well, again, i appreciate your candor throughout this process. we've been at this for months, seven-months plus into this and we're having conversations about better testing and more available testing, two different things, better testing as in reliable and more available as well and we're also having questions about a coordinated response to. that point what we've seen of late is we don't see the president in the briefing room with dr. fauci and dr. birx urging americans to follow the guidelines and instead the president has checked out, wants people to think all is well and get back to school so what you see is the task force is urgently sending memos to states try to do this quietly so as not to annoy the president. just in georgia, june 29th, ensure public use of masks in all hot spots, mandate wearing of cloth face conversation, july

26th, mandate use of masks in all current hot sports, and august 9th, current mitigation efforts are not having a sufficient impact and would strongly recommend a mask mandate. here is the federal government, the president of the united states task force, urging a republican governor to help, do something, stop this, and it gets ignored. >> yeah, and -- and these -- these -- politics have so deeply engrained themselves into our fight against this virus and i think it does stem from the white house. we -- you know, there are very good scientists and epidemiologists in the federal government but certainly the message that -- that trump is sending to the world is don't worry about this, and that is absolutely the wrong message, but that is the message that many governors around are the united states are unfortunately also distributing to their states. >> we do have fabulous people in

the federal government, you're right, and in the science community and they also have people like yourself that they can rely on around the country as institutions that do amazing research work and normally that's a friendly relationship. people raise their hands every now and then and say i disagree, that's what you want in a conversation and there's a big question because we've seen pressure on the fda and pressure on the cdc, there's a biggiory among some in the public health community that they will rush a vaccine out, that there will be an emergency use authorization before it is quite ready. i want you to listen. this is dr. francis collins, one of the esteemed scientists in our government, saying i think we're okay here. >> i think that's unlikely, but i defend the cdc and their effort to try to be sure people are prepared. this is like the boy scout motto be prepared, even if it's very low likelihood, if everything happened to come together really beautifully and we had an answer by then and we knew we had a vaccine that was safe and effective, wouldn't you want people to be ready to figure out

how to do the distribution? that's all that cdc is saying. >> he was talking there about the cdc putting states on notice, be prepared for the possibility you'll be distributing a vaccine come late october or early november. we know the president wants this out there before about the election, so some people get worried they are rushing it. do you trust the dr. collins approach that this is just be prepared? >> i think it's always good to be prepared so we should absolutely have states -- states should do everything as they can as early as they can to ensure that they know how they are going to be distributing the first batch of vaccines that come out works will be getting them and who will be the priority individuals so absolutely they should be ready. i think the concern by scientists and the public about whether or not these might be rushed are, i think it's a veiled concern given what we're seen but we're also hoping that everything and so far things with the vaccine trials do look like they have been going well and by the book, accelerated by still by the book.

>> many years of long, long time ago in the boy scouts. i know what be prepared, i know the oath and all that. i sure hope they are right about that and you're right about that. thanks as always for your expertise and insights. >> absolutely. >> joe biden heads to kenosha, wisconsin two days, of course, after the president. ♪ you can't give them everything they want. but you can find lots of things they'll love at petsmart's labor day sale. get a $10 bonus card with every $50 purchase. petsmart. for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant;

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>> the president of the united states is supposed to uphold the law, not urge people to break it. >> well, they will go out and they will vote and they will have to go and check their vote which going to the poll and voting that way because if it -- if it tabulates, then they won't be able to do that, so let them send it in and let them go vote and if their system is as dad as

they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. >> that there the latest effort to undermine confidence in voting. north carolina officials were clear, deliberately voting twice is illegal. joining me now is north carolina's attorney general josh stein. thanks so much for being here. i hate to put you in the position of being a trump translator but what the president said yesterday was at least suggesting perhaps illegal conduct. he's tweeting this, mo, i'm going to call it an effort to clean it up, i'm not sure that that's the right phrase or not, but the president in a sires of tweets based on a number of solicited and unsolicited vote, he said sign and mail in your vote as early as possible and then go to a polling place or early voting location to make sure it's been tab late. my understanding was the whole thought of having increased early voting was to avoid crowds at polling places in the middle of a pandemic. is that responsible of the president to say cast your early

ballot, but then also show up at a polling place to make sure it's been received and tabulated? >> it's very poor advice, john. they have a system here -- we have a really strong election administration system here in north carolina that ensures that every eligible voter can vote easily, safely and securely. when you mail in your absentee ballot, you can track it online, and it will show on the website that your ballot has been received. there is zero reason to go vote in person once you've mailed in your ballot. >> so you are the attorney general. you're also a politician. help me here. do you think the president is confused, that the president doesn't understand how elections work or the president is trying to sew doubt and uncertainty? >> a sires of actions he has taken concerning elections gravely concerns me. our country is unique in the history of the world.

we've had more peaceful transfers of power than any nation ever, more than 20, and the reason that it has succeeded here is because we all have faith in the outcome reflecting the will of the voters so that when your side loses, you don't go to the streets with pitch forks. instead you redouble your efforts to win the next election and he's trying to create this widespread belief that the election outcome is not going to be legitimate, and it's wrong. in north carolina the person who wins the most votes will be the winner of the election. that's what's -- we have a very secure system. his comments are troubling. frankly they sadden me as an american that he's doing this damage to people's faith in our democracy. >> well, one of the things that is troubling to a lot of people that he's getting help, you're the state attorney general of north carolina, the attorney general of these united states just yesterday with my colleague wolf bhitser added this.

>> so far we haven't seen widespread fraud. >> so far we haven't tried it. the point it -- >> but a lot -- >> there are several states that only have mail-in voting, including a republican. >> wolf, this is playing with fire. this is playing with fire. we're a very closely divided country here and if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government and people trying to change the rules and this methodology which as a matter of logic is open to fraud and coercion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire. >> i'm going to go first here. the attorney general used the words reckless and dangerous. this is -- this is the attorney general, part of an administration that's actively tried to undermine confidence in the elections and says it's vital that people have confidence in the results. is it fire for people to vote by mail, or can you handle this? >> absolutely we can handle it. in north carolina, we have a system whereby anyone who wants

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joe biden takes his turn in kenosha, wisconsin looking to draw a leadership contrast with president trump on issues of race and policing. the president's visit tuesday was all law and order. biden's itinerary does include conversations with law enforcement but also time with the family of jacob blake. he, of course, is the black man shot seven times in the back by kenosha police 11 days ago. cnn's shimon prokupecz is on the ground in advance. former vice president's trip in kenosha. shimon, what's the mood on the ground there? >> reporter: yeah.

things are very quiet here for the most part, john, since the days of the protests and the looting and some of the violence. things have been very peaceful here, and it continues to be so. we're not seeing the same anticipation that we saw ahead of the president's visit here. there aren't people walking around on any kind of signs. we're not seeing the same level of law enforcement that was out during the president's visit so the mood is much different and it just continues to be almost like a normal day here. things are really getting back to normal. stores are opening up, some of the coffee shops are now here serving outside and this is all in anticipation, as we anticipate at vice president and the former vice president's visit here. he's going to meet with the family, the jacob blake family, and what this is really about from the campaign is they are focusing on the community here, talking to the community, meeting with the community, and as you said some of the law enforcement here, but much different from what we saw from

the president who made it a pain to go visit a business owner and focused on some of the destruction and the violence that went on here whereas the former vice president is coming here more to kind of try to bring and unite the community. john? >> shimon prokupecz on ground. we'll continue to watch developments throughout the day including the vice president's conversations. thanks so much. president trump you might recall compared the shooting to jacob blake to a golfer missing a clutch putt saying perhaps the officer got nervous and in the president's words choked. democrat biden says the officers in kenosha and in another shooting in kentucky should face charges. >> last week your running mate senator harris said that the officer who shot jacob blake based on had a she has seen should be charged. do you agree with her, and do you also believe the same for the officers who were involved in the death of breonna taylor? >> i think we should let the judicial system work its way. i do think there's a minimum

need to be charged, the officers, and as well as breonna taylor. >> joining me now is wisconsin state representative david bowen. representative bowen, good to sigh again. last time we talked you were battling covid. i hope you're doing well. >> doing excellent by the grace of god so thanks so much for having me on. >> great to see you and glad you're doing better. the former vice president comes in today. you heard him say he believes the officer involved in the blake shooting and the breonna taylor shooting in kentucky, the officers should be charged. is that the what you think? >> absolutely. that's what justice looks like. we need to hold police officers and law enforcement accountable in these situations and allowing them to escape prosecution is no way to be able to show the folks that are out there demanding justice, that have been out there advocating and protesting for more than i think 918 days today, it's about making sure that this system can be accountable to the community and which it serves.

can it be accountable to black families and communities across this nation that continue to get the short end of the stick? they are looking for transformation from the system, not just the same old same old with the status quo. >> and you're counting back the days to the death of george floyd under the knee of a minneapolis police officer that obviously drew national attention, deservedly so and drew people into the streets, remarkably so. you talk about your demand for justice. i want you to listen to the attorney general of the united states saying what happened in minneapolis is very different than what happened in kenosha. >> i think it's different than the floyd case. >> what's different? >> well, floyd was already subdued, incapacitated, in handcuffs and was not armed. in the jacob case he was in the midst of committing a felony and he was armed. >> is that factual in your view? we know there was a knife in the car. i have seen no video evidence that the knife was ever in

mr. blake's hands around the police officers. there was a knife in the car and he conceded that point. is the attorney general describing the events in kenosha there accurately? >> no, i think he's trying to mislead the public and let's be very clear. white people are able to fight the police, run from the police, even use weapons against the police and they still survive those encounters. lethal force was not used in thosizations and that's why we're trying to prioritize our escalating with the law enforcement officials but the attorney general is misleading the public. the details of jacob blake also are being missed, that he was there trying to protect his community, stepping up to keep the peace in his community and officers were called, and they weren't originally called to deal with him. they were originally called for the dispute that he helped to diminish and then they turned him into a problem, so i -- i'm disappointed in the word of the attorney general. >> we will follow the investigation, and in any event,

seven shots into the back of any suspect, white, black, slept, nonviolent, seven shots in the back of anybody should require close scrutiny. joe biden, the democratic nominee for president, you have this case and a very serious conversation about race and policing and you also have because of the calendar a presidential election that's two months away and you live, sir in, a state that could well decide who the next president is. what is joe biden's challenge today as he comes into this community? >> his challenge is to make sure that he can serve the contrast between him and president trump. literally a few days ago president trump came to fan the flames and the i think it's important for joe biden, vice president, to come in here and come with a fire extinguisher, come with love to bring healing back to this community that donald trump want to three of on

that condition, tearing americans apart and we though he has a very big stake in making sure that white america is mereful at this time. that is his campaign strategy and he's all in on that strategy. vice president joe biden has to do the opposite. he has to fill the void that president trump is creating to actually heal our communities and help people get past these differences. we could not be more divided than any other time in the view, the politics and the things that we're seeing but we know that black people want to be alive. black people want to thrive in this country, in this state, and they can't do that if they are being killed in police encounters, and i do not expect vice president joe biden to ignore the plight and pain and black people of his visit. he's doing that already to make a priority in kenosha. >> thank you, sir, for your time and perspective. thanks, john, come back to

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midwestern state getting stern private warnings from the white house task force about coronavirus. the white house briefings a thing of the past because president trump wants to send the message all is well, but his experts see the threat differently and are trying to get the attention of governors without the wrath of the president. they want to mandate masks and close its bars. omar jimenez now with more. yesterday we were talking about iowa, today the same situation pretty much in missouri. >> that's right, john. missouri is one of multiple states now in the midwest that are concerning by white house coronavirus tasks force standards and it's why they are recommending a statewide mask mandate be put in place there and bars are closed. when you look at the map of missouri and where some of these cases have been popping up more than others, you can see why there's so much concern. obviously you look to population centers like scloous ant st. louis county as points of concern and as we've seen positivity rates rise and also

around colleges and universities, especially in recent weeks, as students have begun making their way back to campus. then when you look at the numbers overall and the new daily cases that have come up in the state, you can see how those numbers are trending upwards significantly from june to july. they dip down a little bit but now you're seeing sort of the fear that officials have that it could get back up to some of those levels. that's why they asked for that mandate to be put in place and it's similar tore what the situation has been here in iowa as well in that it was also part of the weekly coronavirus task force report that was sent to the governor here that said that iowa had the highest new case rate in the entire country, and it's why they have asked for similar recommendations. now, the governor in missouri hasn't really acknowledged the recommendation just yet. the governor here in iowa has said they don't want to go forward with the mask mandate saying they were able to get the case rate down before without

one and they plan to use that same mentality again. >> another republican governor and red state, iowa, i guess they call it more of a purple state, but i guess we'll watch it through the rest of the summer. omar jimenez, thanks there's more encouraging news about the economy. the number of part-time filing for unemployment benefits fell below 1 million for the first time since march. christine romans is here with the details. it's just so odd to think of this as better news. >> any other time in american news this would have been catastrophic. less than a million but the bad news it's still 881,000 people filing for the first time for unemployment benefits, and, john, when you put all the programs together, the pandemic programs for people who were jobs and part-time workers and freelancers, you've got 29 million americans who are receiving some sort of jobless check. we like to check in on the

continuing jobless claims number, gives us an idea who is running week by week in the state programs and that declined a little bit. that's what you want to see. a little more than 13 million but that's still 13 million people. every one of those numbers is somebody who has lost a job, and now the stimulus money, the cares act money has expired for about a month now, and with washington not making any mess on had a they are going to do next, it's a reminder of how deep the covid damage is to this labor market, john. >> more than 13 million people not experiencing what the president likes to call the super "v." christine romans, appreciate the live reporting there. coming up, president trump is pushing his law and order message to people in the suburbs. cnn's jeff zeleny takes it to voters in iowa and he's asking is it working? neighborhoods hit hard by coronavirus, a look now in this week's impact your world.

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the battleground states get most of the attention in presidential politics, no surprise there. we've seen both candidates in pennsylvania. we lean that one blue. president trump will be there. north carolina, both candidates visiting wisconsin and ohio is a tossup is a big deal is a big map if we go back in time and look at 2016, president trump actually carried ohio pretty comfortably, but it is in play this time. why? bass columbus. franklin county, the state capital. this up here delaware county, the suburbs north of columbus. if joe biden can put those in play he can maybe flip ohio which is why our jeff zeleny is right there. >> john, there's no question that the biden campaign is focusing on ohio as well as other battleground states. in fact, it's part of the new advertising wave that they have spending $45 million just this

week alone in several battleground states, including ohio. so we spent the last several days talking to voters of all stripes, democrats, republicans and independents testing how that law and order message is resonating with president trump is seizing on the suburbs as a weapon in his fight with joe biden. >> will totally destroy the beautiful suburbs, suburbia will be no longer. >> reporter: here in ohio the sprawling communities have long been changing. just ask angie jenkins. >> i have no idea what he is talking about because the suburbs are not what they were in the '60s. >> reporter: jenkins is a city council president and elected last year she believes in reaction to trump. >> i feel like he is trying to put fear in people and people know what we have had and what he's been as a president.

>> reporter: nine weeks before election day, the suburbs are again a critical part of battleground ohio, a state trump won in 2016 by 8 percentage points. this time front yards showing new signs of division, from all lives matter to black lives matter, from trump to biden. often on the same block. ed paxton owns a cigar shop in delaware. >> some people love him or hate him. >> reporter: the view of trump improved in four yores and believes the president's law and order message will resonate with voters in both camps. >> it is trump's america. but i think at a local level our law enforcement is handcuffed. >> reporter: john murphy an ironworker who dropped by disagrees. he says the summer unrest is justified. >> when people are dying for no on other than the color of their skin, they have a right to be angry. >> reporter: you think president trump's trying to scare people?

>> absolutely. i think that's his main tactic. >> reporter: stephanie believe it is scare tactics won't work, particularly on women awakened to politics because of trump. >> it is pretty obvious what, you know, what the future will look like under trump which scares a lot of women. >> reporter: after trump won in 2016 she helped form a group in the republican leaning suburbs of positively blue recruiting women to run for local office and to be politically aware. >> we won't convert any trump supporters but finding the people on the fence, independents and republicans that are just fed up with the way that our country's been run. >> reporter: not long ago many democrats believed the state was out of reach but the coronavirus crisis and economic fallout changed that. plus, biden is a known quantity after being a partner on the obama ticket that twice carried ohio. that's why the trump campaign is trying to rebrand biden among some republicans at least it may be working. >> the democratic party is

extremely liberal and not what it used to be and i think it's scary and i think it's got a very socialist vibe and i think our country will be in great danger. >> reporter: now, this week ohio voters have already began receiving absentee ballot request forms, the secretary of state is sending a request for an absentee ballot and election season is well under way here. >> biggest changes because of the pandemic, we always say two months ago but we are in the election now. jeff zeleny, gradeful you atefu. more americans were paying attention in the presidential campaign and the conventions seemed to be a driving factor. cnn is partnering with university of michigan and georgetown university to test how much americans hear about the candidates and what sticks with them. this word cloud is impressions of joe biden and the convention

and his vice presidential pick senator harris were among the topics that broke through with more voters. convention was most cited of president trump last week, coronavirus still looms large and the first time in nine weeks coronavirus was not the number one thing associated with the president. still ahead, president trump's daughter-in-law hits the campaign trail with a controversial far right conspiracy theorist.

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the biden campaign today says you should judge the president and the team by the company they keep. laura loomer is a republican congressional candidate in florida peddling in conspiracy theories and a self described islamophobe. laura trump with loomer at a campaign event in florida. in a statement to cnn a spokesperson for the biden campaign says the trump campaign's embrace of loomer and the values is another in a ceaseless stream of urgent reminders we must win the battle for the soul of this nation. top of the hour. hello to the viewers in the united states and around the world. thank you for sharing your day with us. a new interview of dr. fauci cements the giant labor day

challenge and says cases will surge if americans disregard the new rules of the new normal. he is urging people, please, wear a mask, socially distant. >> we don't want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following the holiday weekends. we don't want to see a surge under any circumstances. but particularly as we go under the other side of labor day and enter into the fall, we want to go into that with a running start in the right direction. we don't want do go into that with another surge that we have to turn around again. >> there's also a coming trust question, a trust test on vaccines and if americans are willing to take them. the cdc putting out all 50 states guidance to them to prepare to distribute a coronavirus vaccine perhaps by lat october. more ahead but we begin with both candidates on the trail today. the president to pennsylvania. joe biden to wisconsin. for what his cam pane calls a healing trip to kenosha.