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it is the top of the hour, i am brianna keilar and the president is questioning his own people over a vaccine, as 23 states are experiencing a spike in cases compared to last week. and as the u.s. averages a number that health experts say is way too high as flu season is approaching and the coronavirus is severely more transmiscible. first, the very public contradictions between cdc and

the head -- and the president. >> i might go as far as to say this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take a covid vaccine. >> i said to him, what's up with the mask? he said i think i answered that question incorrectly. maybe he misunderstood both of them. >> or maybe he didn't. he said he was confused when dr. redfield said a vaccine wouldn't be ready until next year. a dean at baylor college of medicine and involved in the race for the vaccine. what do you think about what the president has said here that -- let's just start with the vaccine and the time table for that. do you think redfield is confused? >> no, we've been talking about for six or seven months about

timelines and it's the time period when a significant percentage of inamerican public will be vaccinated and that's what he said in his testimony, maybe as early as quarter two. look, we don't even know if any of these operation warp speed vaccines work yet. and then there's going to have to be a rollout and remember, the first vaccines, like the maderna vaccine, that requires a deep freeze. rirt going to be extremely complicate said so, i think dr. redfield said it spot on but the president needs that vaccine, he feeled, out sooner than that because the entire covid national response has been

so disastrous, he has nothing to show for it. so, this is the vaccine with the only part that's working and even then he's trying to undermine it by insisting it has to be utprematurely. >> i wonder whautyou think about where the line should be for someone like dr. redfield or enough is is enough. >> i think all of these guys, they want to do what's in the best interest of the american people and i know it must be really tough for them to work with this white house. the president and the people the president surrounds himself with.

and so, i'm sure it will be easier to resign but they're genuinely concerned about the welfare of the american people. that's my interpretation. >> we've heard joe biden and vice presidential candidate, harris. people saying not when it comes to a vaccine. you have the president blasting biden and harris, what he is calling antivaccine rhetoric. how do you see this and also how the president and republicans should be navigating this, how democrats should be navigating the discussion of whether they would take a vaccine to make

sure they're in the service of public health and not politics? >> the irony is extraordinary. let's flash back to 2015-the president announced his campaign. he campaigned, in part, on an antivaccine, antiscience platform. he made both statements, which were not true. falsely linking them to autism. it also created a pivot to the far right. and when they brought rfk jr., one of the lead antivaxers, calling me the original gangster villain. yeah, right. i know. so, this created, not only a

massive vaccine misinformation campaign, it brought it to the far right and look what at has happened now. they have campaigns against masks, social distancing. one of the major reasons why we have 200,000 american deaths is because of the antivaccine, antiscience initiative that the president helped launch in 2015/2016. so, for him to turn around and make any statement about vice president biden or senator harris is actually ridiculous. and let's face the only reason he's speaking about vaccines now is he sees it as a way to rescue his failed response to covid-19 nationally. i guarantee you, if he does get re-elected, that will be the last we hear about vaccines from the president. it's purely a transactional

device to help poll numbers. >> it's important to see. >> good seeing you, brianna. and wray testifies about the national mr. plo testers -- >> i think it's important to understand that, although i do agree that the majority of the people out there protesting, in general across the country, are peaceful protesters. there's no question the biggest number is peaceful protesters. that should not diminish, which i think is the point you're making, from the fact that, even though it might numerically be a smaller group, that's very dangerous activity that that smaller group is engaged in.

and that's why the fbi is focussed, as much as your question was, we're focussed on the violence. >> cnn national security correspondent is joining us. he said nor about the threat of domestic terror. >> reporter: terrorism is the biggest threat the country is facing, according to director wray and said they were less concerned about group than they were lone individuals radicalized online. he said the biggest bucket are those motivated by race. they carry out racially-motivated extremism and within that group, the majority are white extremists. wray said there are around 1,000 domestic terrorisms a year. wray was repeatedly questioned

about what they call a terrorist organization. he said they are not a group, more an ideology or movement. he says they are a real thing and that there are individuals being investigated and what he called regional node. but he cast antifa as part of the spectrum of antigovernment on the left and right. >> and i want to play what dr. wray said about russia's ongoing interference in the election. >> we certainly have seen very acti acti active efforts to influence in our election through more social media, use of proxies, stase mead yeand i think intelligence community has assessed this publicly.

to primarily to den great vice president biden and what the russians see as an anti-russian establishment. >> you watch that and it's a clear reference that the goal is to help trump and you can see almost the discomfort because you know what comes along with an official telling the truth about that. >> when you talk to election officials, cyber officials and wray, what they talk about is how active russia is and specifically on the influrnlscise of things. they tlies to hack into the state election center and they're active, particularly to try to den great biden because he's seen as this anti-russian establishment, much in the way that hillary clinton was seen in 2016.

so, they are working in favor of president trump. now, president trump and his supporters are saying look at what china's doing. and the intelligence community says yes, they are extremely comp tnlt. there's a huge potential for them to do something but it is russia who are the most active working against the biden in favor of trump. and next president trump grotesquely splits the 200,000 dead into two piles. those from red states and those from blue states. and an er doctor who died by suicide during this pandemic. what they're doing to get critical mental health hech -- and and they wanted to use a. by the struts

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i want to talk about the toll this pandemic is having on frontline workers. she was on the frontline for weeks when the city was the nation's epicenter, even contracting coronavirus herself. she recovered and a few weeks later, she died by suicide. it is stories like hers that show us the true cost of the pandemic. and yet president trump continues to politicize what is a health care emergency that sees no political lines. most recently he blamed blue states, led by democrats, for the rising death toll. >> so, we're down in this

territory and that's despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. if you take the blue states out, we're at a level that i don't think anybody in the world would be at. but some of the states, there are blue states -- and by the way, we recommend they open up their states. >> i'm joined by senator tim kaine who has been working with dr. breen's family on a mental health bill and we're joined by dr. breen's cystser and brother in law. you know, we track wed when you sister passed away. it was so clear this was something beyond your sister, as we watch what our frontline workers are going through. and you're taking this unimaginable loss and you're making action out of it. so, tell us what happened to your sister and what you want to see done.

>> hi, thank you so much for having us. i can start by saying it has been an unimaginable loss and my sister was a fighter. she was super smart, super strong. she'd been an emergency physician in manhattan for 16 years. she'd seen a lot. and this was overwhelming to her, to the health care providers, our frontline heroes, who are still dealing with this, i should add, around the country. and it's been such a shock and such an incredible loss for our family that it made us realize that this has got to stop. and we need build awareness of issues related to the stigma of mental health. rir it's an issue in our society and even more so in the health care profession.

we need to fund things to improve well being and reduce burnout. rirtz got to change. >> and that's where you come in, but you heard what the president said. and i want to ask you about that because we've talked a lot about military suicide and one of the things we've discovered in our coverage is one of the factors that contribute to ptsd and suicide risk is when a conflict is politicized. this fight against coronavirus is becoming politicized. i think you're familiar with this. you're a blue star father. what is your reaction when you hear the president making the distinction between blue states and red states? >> i can hardly believe when i heard it yesterday and i thought of abraham lincoln's favorite quote, one of the most powerful, a house divided against itself shall not stand, he said on the

eve of the civil war. she was a healer trying to heal us and most presidents try to be healers. they try to make sure we're not divided. but he said if you didn't count all the deaths in blue states, we'd be doing great. you cannot write off 10s of thousands of deaths that easily. you cannot write off people getting sick and losing their jobs or worrying about the health of spouse or children that easily. there's never been a president whose instinct was not to try to bring us together, with the kpepgds of donald j. trump, who continually tries to divide us in the ways of lincoln. >> and so what is your effort going to be senator cane? >> on this one. here's something we can agree on.

i introduced the health care provider protection act after i heard this story about lorna. and every time i hear it i have the same emotional reaction as though i 3rd 30 sexs ago. and being confronted with death and illness at an unimaginable stale and yet, what she was worried about, second only to trying to take care of patients was what if my colleagues think i'm suffering from mental illness or anxiety? i could lose my job, my credentials to practice medicine. and it's an unbelievable tragedy that people labor under stigma and even reg tlelgss and prul

nooz andfrp underwarp so, we started to talk and decided we hadded to do better. the good news is this is bipartisan. todd young, republican of indiana, jack reed, democrat of rhode island. we've put together a bill in lorna's honor to basically establish grants to train health professionals to allow hospitals to do training of their employees too, do researchl and do a public education campaign so we can break down the spinning mu. we was to. >> and these are incorrodably challenging circumstances. they are heroes, as the senator said. they're the walking wounded,

too, as they're going through all of this and i think with the whole nation in the middle of this, it might be easy to underestimate or not fully grasp the trauma of what we're asking our doctors and health care workers. what do you think is going to be the long-term impact? one, to reduce the stigma with mental health karmt. they tlrm have team stheertd hath narm what they need, they need ask for help and that they view as an akdf courage. we're trying to reduce the health care professional burnout and improve their well being.

folks can find out more at dr. lorna breen.org. to help build a community of support for all of our heros because before they were heroes, they were humans. and we need to remember that most. >> what do you want the medical community to take away? >> thank you. i want the medical community to know that we see you. we hear you. we have been contacted by so plenny peen and i had to hide it and peep it a secret. freermts you guys are out there saving us every day and we stand with you, just like we stand with my sister. thank you.

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increasing outreach to families, making sure they have devices they need, in addition to deploying coordinators to help students get connected. >> thank you so much. at the university of georgia, officials have revurszersed an earlier decision. initially they said due to the pandemic, they couldn't allow in-person classes. they are allowing an estimated 23,000 fans into the first bull dog home game september 3rd. he's the director of the voter registration group. marshal, thank you for being with us. and tell us what happened when you set up a place to vote in the 2020 election. >> thank you.

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and the information about the active denial system or heat ray, as it's known. and the days after june 1st. >> the prepositioning of live ammunition. the pentagon sent a statement saying a military police officer inform eel inquired of devices as prudent military planning and goes on to sigh innational cooptime region quote, do not request systems and no further action is taken. what is your reaction to that? >> under what circumstance would it be proudant military planning to contemplate the use of a heat ray against citizens of the united states, peacefully exercising their first amendment

rights? when was that okpat and what situation did they contemplate the use of such a system. i'm not aware a system has ever been used in the united states or military. >> i want to ask you, because of your background in counter intel at doj, we've heard a lot from the attorney general lately, including he compared the rank and file to preschoolers. what's the impact going to be on folks in the department? >> there has to be despairting. i've been a political appointee as well as aphone tauz p one

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in addition to the town hall we'll see him here in pennsylvania in a few hours. biden also held a conference call with senate democrats a little earlier today where he talked about the state of the race. several of the senators who were on that phone call telling our colleagues up on capitol hill that joe biden said he is not taking anything for granted right now in this race, despite polls having him up ahead of president trump nationally and in some battleground states. those senators also said they left with the impression biden would be maintaining a vigorous schedule in those final weeks before the election, but tonight we will hear from joe biden directly at this town hall as he makes his case not just to pennsylvania voters but voters across the country why he should be elected in november. brianna? >> thank you so much and don't miss the biden presidential town hall live from scranton, pennsylvania. anderson cooper moderating starting tonight at 8:00 eastern. one nation is making anti-maskers dig graves for covid victims. we take you there.

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and indonesian village is making an example out of people who violate the mask mandate forces them to dig graves for covid-19 victims. we have more. >> reporter: each villager is a place refused to wear masks and forced to dig graves of covid-19 patients as punishment.

the goal, empathy convincing others to do their part. the mask-wearing in indonesia is mandatory, a vocal part of the population has been reluctant. it's infected nearly 230 people and killed more than 9,000 in indonesia. local officials there are able to decide how to punish people for breaking the rules. in this particular area the district leader says those caught not wearing a mask can accept a fine or social punishment and hopes options like grave digging will show "firsthanded real and serious effect of covid-19." jakarta is taking a similar approach. a man required to sit in a coffin in public after being caught not wearing a mask. it isn't clear if these penalties are actually working. indonesia has the second most cases in southeast asia and infections are still on the rise. in jakarta, the health system may be nearing a breaking point.

officials said emergency units in all 20 gentlemjakarta hospit approved to treat covid-19 patients are full. reporting from hong kong. our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. brianna, thank you. hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. we begin this hour with more evidence of the federal government's confused and chaotic messaging on the coronavirus pandemic. during congressional testimony on wednesday, you had the cdc director dr. robert redfield saying wearing a mask may be more effective against the virus than any potential vaccine and testified a vaccine would not widely be available until next summer. fa fast-forward to a few hours later, the president saying he