community and so as we understand fires we look at the extreme events and the way in which landscapes are more vulnerable. >> grateful for your work, sir. hope to see you sunday morning 8:00 a.m. for "inside politics." have a good afternoon. thank you so much. i'm brianna keilar and i want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. in the middle of a global pandemic crisis the trump mrks is manipulating what you hear and see. it's backed up by evidence. just this week alone cnn confirmed what "the new york times" reported that the trump administration sent the cdc a document of controversial guidance that people without coronavirus symptoms don't need to get tested even if they have been exposed to someone with

coronavirus. we're learning that cdc scientists objected to that but it was published anyway. the president deamericaned and dismissed the cdc director's testimony under oath that masks can be more important than a vaccine and a vaccine likely won't reach the general public until next summer and a top aide of mike pence has resigned and accusing the president of a flat-out disregard for human life saying the response was all about the election. and we're learning the white house nixed a plan to send 650 million masks to americans in the mail in april. a federal judge rebuked the president and the postmaster general for quote a politically motivated attack to make changes to the service that could disrupt the 2020 election. and after rebuking his own cdc director the president defends

russia and putd put, rebuking the fbi director he hand picked after chris wray testified that the russians are interfering in the election trying to hurt joe biden. it is clear that the administration knows the solutions and methods to manage the crisis but actively ignoring them in the service of politics instead of public health. there is no ignorance defense here. this is negligence and it's killi killing people and threatening the democratic process in the united states. at the rate that the u.s. is going it could be a day or so before the nation reaches 200,000 coronavirus deaths, it is a tragedy that doctors, scientists and health experts warned about for weeks saying it was not inevitable but prehaven'tible and the number of casses go up once again across the nation. the map on the right a lot of orange and red to see there shows the difference from just monday. 30 states are seeing an uptick with 7 of them showing a jump of 50% or more new cases compared

to last week. also for the first time this week the new infections in a single day exceeded 40,000 with 870 deaths. cnn's tom foreman is here with more on how the pandemic is impacting the country. tell us, tom, what you are learning. >> reporter: if you look at the seven-day moving average you can see how it was generally going down. that trend once again reversed and it is moving you were to around just on the doorstep of 40,000 new cases a day. that is a 13% increase of where we were just a week ago and it is not just new cases. if you look at the number of deaths you can see the same trend. it was headed down. now it is turning back up now at 838 new deaths per day from the covid virus and it is not limited to one area. look at this graphic that shows you the trend lines across the current. that blue one there high that

was the northeast, that was when new york was just soaring in infections and deaths and brought it way down and everywhere else, look what happened. upturn even though they try to bring it down for a while. texas has become the second state to cross the 700,000 case line in this. so none of the trend lines look good and one thing to notice here is wisconsin. look at what happened to wisconsin with the number of cases that have been happening up there in wisconsin. yesterday they hit the highest number that they have had so far. yesterday they produced the highest number of cases even as the president was at a rally there saying, look, we are doing amazing things with vaccines and therapeutics and specifically said people won't believe the numbers. it is not what he mernt bant buk at the numbers, they are hard to

believe. >> they are. thank you for that. vice president pence's former lead staffer on the white house coronavirus task force is pulling back the curtain on the administration's mismanagement of the pandemic and the president's callousness of the health of americans. olivia troy left the job in july and appearing in a new video by the group republican voters against trump and endorsing joe biden. >> the truth is he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself. towards the middle of february we knew it wasn't a matter of if covid would become a big pandemic here in the united states. it was a matter of when. but the president didn't want to hear that because his biggest concern was that we were in an election year and how's this going to affect what he considered to be his record of success. >> pence's national security adviser keith kellogg said he was in those meetings and never heard anything like that from the president. and then in an interview with cnn's wolf blitzer he called her

disgruntled and no longer capable of keeping up with the day-to-day duties. >> i think olivia's comments are egregious, flat wrong. i have a copy of it now and you do when she left the organization the end of july she talked how valiantly everybody was working and an inspiration to her and everything we had done. >> now it is worth noting that other former administration officials including former secretary of defense and retired general jim mattis, john bolton and former white house chief of staff john kelly called trump a president consumed with the re-election. i want to talk about this with dr. david satcher, he was the u.s. surgeon general and director of cdc and the founder of the health leadership institute at morehouse school of

med sirn. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. let's start with sources saying that someone in the department of health and human services published that very confusing coronavirus testing guidance over the objection of cdc scientists. how significant is that for the cdc to be railroaded by political appointees and hhs like this? >> i think it's quite significant. i think testing is one of the major weapons that we have in a pandemic. we need to know where we are at any given time and the only way to know that is repeated testling. you don't wait until people get symptoms before you do the kind of testing we need to be doing all the time so i think one of the real struggles in this whole feiging this pandemic is the fact that testing is not utilized appropriately. >> i know when we look at some of the voices that adhere to science that are within the

administration or on the task force, there's certainly an argument to be made for them that staying in their positions to act as a counter weight to the anti-science advocates in the administration is a service they can provide and then this argument that at some point, you know, they just enable the behavior and perhaps need to surround the alarm and resign. you have headed up the cdc. where do you think the line should be for current director robert redfield? >> i think ultimately the american people look to the scientists and that includes the top scientists at the cdc and nih and other places. the american people look to them for honest, accurate reporting, even though that means putting the job at risk and i always felt that you had a responsibility to the american people once you were sworn in to a position like that so i have

to say there is a responsibility that you have to the american people that can't be compromised i think. >> is it becoming compromised right now do you think at the cdc? or do you think he stops it from being compromised by staying? >> well, i think it's a little bit of a combination. what i heard from dr. redfield this past week suggests that he was trying to make sure that the american people received the truth from the cdc. he's trying to do that without directly disputing president trump. it's very hard to do. it is like the surgeon general said, it's tough to fight a pandemic in the midst of a presidential election. and that's what's going on here

now. >> the white house nixed a plan to distribute 650 million face masks through the mail and official said the reason that happened is because they didn't want to panic or concern people. what is your reaction to that revelation? >> i think it's sad. given all that we know about the role of masks and now the mask protects, i must say protects not onlt the person wearing a mask, but other people, as well. and not only other people but also to a certain extent the person wearing the mask so i would disagree with that. i think we're missing a great opportunity. dr. redfield said this week that the mask may be more effective than vaccine. we don't know that but it just goes to show how much difference a mask can make in terms of fighting this pandemic.

>> there was a cdc report out earlier this week and it showed that 75% of covid deaths for people who are under 21 years of age are moirinorities so that's% but minorities only make up 41% of the population. you know, what needs to be done here? even when we talk about young people who are supposed to have a better shot at this. >> well, you know, for last 20 years or so we have been fighting disparities in health. in 2000, we set goals. we set goals of eliminating disparities in health. we set the goal of improoufring quality of life for everyone. now the only way that can happen is that we work at it all the

tir tim time including in a pandemic and this reflects the situation we face in terms of the health care system. african-americans, hispanics suffer greatly in this health care system. tend to receive care later than others. and -- but also tend to be more at risk, exposed to more risk factors involved with the virus, especially. i think we are in a situation where we have got to put people's health first and i don't think we're doing that. >> dr. satcher, thank you so much for being with us. >> you're quite welcome. >> see you soon, sir. dr. fauci says the u.s. may not have a double whammy of the coronavirus and the flu after all. hear why that is. a nurse wakes up after two mompb months in a coma in a battle with the coronavirus.

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we have a miraculous story of survival out of san antonio, texas, where a nurse contracted coronavirus and ended up in a medically induced coma. justin vines' told his wife anna that they didn't think her husband would live. when justin went to the hospital in june he was almost immediately put on a ventilator but after two months justin awoke from his coma and he and his wife are joining us right now from the hospital as you can

see. justin, it is so wonderful to see you. i know you still have a little time before you get to go home but how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. i'm on the rehab floor right now. just moved me. i'm making strides every single day, getting better and better. >> you have a smile on your face. anna, how are you doing? this is amazing. >> just very happy to see his progress and after all the bad news, then the lost hope, it's -- i'm just very happy. >> and tell me about that because we're here with you in what is a high moment but i know for you here in the last almost three months there have been some low moments. doctors had told you that justin wouldn't survive so tell us about the last three months. how did it go? >> well, it's been a little hard just after the first week that's

when the first time i hear that he wasn't going to make it and to be prepared for the worst. and just -- i think just hanging in there and, you know, praying that everything continue well and justin took a little while to get to where he is right now but we've just been positive and praying god for the best and after two months he finally came out of the vent and he's been doing great. >> what was that like when you found out? was that a complete surprise? were you xerexpecting he might off the ventilator? what was it like? >> it was a surprise because we knew or i knew that the hardest thing for him was going to be to get out of the vent.

because a lot of people have trouble just breathing on their own. and being on the vent for so long, almost two months, it was going to be complicated but when the hospital finally allow me to come see him and just be close to him and talk to him, that when he started to improve. i guess the touch of the family and hearing a familiar voice helps a lot for the recovery. >> it must have been some good medicine, justin, to have that. tell me a little bit about that and so the viewers know, you have a baby at home, right? you have missed out on the last few months of your eight months's life and somebody so happy to be working toward that to see her and your older daughter. >> absolutely.

she's eight months and turned eight months yesterday and did miss a few milestones while i was down. our anniversary was august 3rd, too. but yeah, i just -- keeps me going to see my wife at home, my baby. i haven't seen her in almost three months and, yes, my 16-year-old daughter will come back, too. she's got covid, too. but did better than i did. going through the process. but yeah. i can't wait to get home to see them. interarchite int interact with them. be out of the hospital. excited about that. >> as a nurse you have been on the front lines before you contracted covid, you have seen the damage that it can do to other people and now you have experienced it first land hand

wo wonder when you heard you would be going on a ventilator what was your first thought? >> i have feeling so bad at the time, i just wanted to breathe and that was the hardest part is just like hard to keep that -- my medical side, you know, knowledge and really kick in and all because it was -- i just felt so horrible and so i was just want to do better and pretty agreeable to whatever they wanted to do at the time and wasn't until i got the calls when i told some people about a ventilator that i was realizing how serious this was and i had seen a lot of people either, you know, have bad outcomes or just -- it was just real tough for them to be on a ventilator. >> you've said that you're here because it wasn't your time. and so certainly i know as a nurse you know how lucky you are. how are you refleckiting after

waking up after two months on a ventilator and the toll this pandemic has taken? >> it's changing my perspective on life. i see this in a more real way. i knew it was serious but this is a real -- like it hits everybody differently but for my life it is just the time we have is precious. time is a most valuable thing we have and that time wasn't my time and god is good and he just -- urge, that's the only reason i made that 56 total days on the ventilator. and i had no concept of how long i had been when i woke up but it was just amazing, just that he filled in the details when i was woken up. >> justin, it is amazing to see you, it is a miracle. we are so happy for your family

and excited for you to see your baby daughter. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. seven weeks from the election and the mystery health care plan the president has been promising for a year is still not here. we will look back at the empty promises on that. plus, the creator of the 1619 project of slavery will join me. and podcast host joe roggin pushing a debunk conspiracy of the wildfires out west. hear why it's bs. by the struts

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breaking news, the cdc just changed that guidance for coronavirus testing on their web side. i want to bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen to talk about this. this is quite a back and forth. it seems look it's more orion the side of science and explain what happened here, elizabeth. >> it is. it is more on the side of science and basically back where it was before. it says if you have had a close

contact, a close exposure to someone with covid, you should be tested even if you don't have symptoms. this is very basic. very basic science. if you have had close contact, within been six feet of someone 15 minutes or more you should get tested even if you don't have symptoms because those symptoms may be on their way or may never appear but either way you should be tested to protect yourself and those around you. that's the way it was before and then a few weeks ago they changed it to say, hmm you don't need to necessarily get tested but that came directly from the department of health and human services in washington and the cdc didn't review it and now changing it back to science instead of the way washington wanted it. >> this interference by political appointees overturned. very good news. thank you, elizabeth. tragic development in these california wildfires. a firefighter who went missing

while battling the el dorado fire east of los angeles is found dead, that fire in the san bernardino fire was sparked by a device that was used in a jerger reveal party. crews were searching for a missing person as part of the hot shot crews. this el dorado fire burned more than 18,000 acres. it is burning on the coast coast right now. in oregon nearly a million acres burned and 27 active fires and some make it a political issue. joe rogan taking aim at the madness of protesters in portland even claiming that left wing activists have been arrested for starting the fires. le let's listen. >> there's a madness going on there. the madness of crowds exemplifies that right now and

to me -- they have arrested people for lighting forest fires up there. >> yeah. >> left wing people for lighting these wildfires and this is also not widely being reported. >> it is not being widely reported because it is not true. what has been reported is that there are local and state officials all through that region who have been coming out and refuting these conspiracy theories. i'm joined by miguel marquez to break this down, claims circling that antifa members are responsible for the fires but like i said you have law enforcement officials who have been coming out publicly saying that's not what's happening. they have been trying to dismiss these allegations. what more are you learning? >> reporter: look. this is happening at every level. it's just not true. whether it's douglas county or jackson county or clackamas county, the sheriffs there, the

fbi has investigated. they are begging people, stop posting and spreading false information. it is not helpful. the agencies not only fighting fires, the destruction coming through here and protecting the areas throughout the fire burned areas in oregon. that's national guard down there, police and sheriff in other areas and it is not true. there was one report of six people in custody in one county. it never happened! they said they were antifa individuals. never happened. they have had about 30 major fires burning in oregon right now. most of them are lightning caused that they have determined what caused them. two are under investigation for human cause but it's not clear whether those are arson at this

point. there was even a rumor of people stashing gas in -- this was in clackamas county. stashing gas in the forest and afraid to start fires with it. good say mmaritans are keeping generators running. the sheriffs are just begging people to stop sharing bad information, stop calling in with bad information and know what you're talking about. they want to hear it but you have to have seen something and you have to know what it is you're talking about because it is a sign of the times. there are just -- you know, people are angry, upset. emotions are running high. people have lost their homes and you can understand. they want somebody to blame but they're asking people to stop with the rumors, stop repeating them, stop posting them to social media and let officials investigate these fires.

lightning is a big cause. they had massive winds through here which caused a lot of electricity poles to go down and transformers blowing may have been a part of this, as well. some may have been human causes but could be somebody mowing a lawn. the good thing is we have rain here in oregon, especially along that western side of the cascade mountains where a lot of those big fires are and things are looking up here in oregon. brianna? >> that is very good news, miguel. thank you so much. the president defends russia while slapping down his own fbi director as christopher wray warns that moscow is attacking the elections to hurt joe biden. the creator of the 1619 project will join me to respond to the president calling it ideological poison. the american pediatrics group is warning young athletes with moderate covid symptomins

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highlighting innovators who came up with fresh solutions to big problems and today we meet a young dutch inventer removing trash from rivers. >> i warranted to get my scuba diving license at 16 and i was just really, really surprised because just more plastic bags than fish. that then kept me asking the relatively simple and benign question, why can't we just clean this up? i would say i've been an inventer all my life really and that kind of started something that got a bit out of hand. our mission is to rid the world's oceans of plastic. >> the ocean is very broad circulations of water masses and over time the currents pick up the pieces of plastic and then

they converge towards the great pacific patch between hawaii and california. the problem with plastics is huge and what this young man has done is to awaken us at this problem. >> we launched system 001 from the san francisco bay, headed to the great pacific garbage patch. we put so much hope on catching plastic with that first system and it didn't work and it broke down. we are just learning to walk. the plastic is within's arm's reach really. the idea is to accept that and to say, okay, we are going to make mistakes. within a few weeks at sea we learned more than years behind computers doing simulations. what we are trying to achieve by definition is never been done before. in about half a year, we were already out again in the great

pacific garbage patch with system 1-b where it was successful in capturing the plastic. we also need to stop new plastic from entering the oceans in the first place. the research has found 1% of rivers is responsible for 80% of all plastic that's entering the ocean around the world so by stopping plastic in rivers we hope to not address the big global plastic pollution issue but really help make life better for the people that live near the problematic rivers. >> saying that they don't fish here anymore. only downstream because here the xae water is so contaminated they can't use the water anymore. >> the intercepter is a fully solar powered autonomous cleanup system that uses the current of the rivers to collect the plastic. >> quite satisfying. >> we have three intercepters

chlorining rivers, one in ir indonesia, ma lay yeah and dominican republic getting out tons of plastic every day and brought the first plastic from the great pacific garbage patch back to shore to recycle into beautiful sustainable products with which we then aim to achieve funds to continuation of the cleanup. when we started out i thought that perhaps the real problem wasn't necessarily technology but more the public willingness to make something like this happen. i learned that that actually wasn't true. that people do really care. honestly it's been hugely humbling and inspiring to see the amount of people that are behind us and count on us to succeed. >> be sure to tune in to the champions for change one hour special that is tomorrow night

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president trump is now vowing to quote, restore patriotic education to our school. and says it will be done through the 1776 commission, marking the year the declaration of independence was signed. now, the president speaking at the white house conference on american history rebuked efforts to review history, calling it

toxic propaganda and ideological poison. >> there's no better example than the "the new york times" totally discredited 1619 project. this project rewrites american history to teach our children that we were founded on the plinsple ofpression, not freedom. >> the creator of the acclaimed project is joining us today, hannah jones. a pulitzer prize staff writer for the "the new york times." first off, this executive order speaks to a misconception i know you have tried to address that is being prop gated about what the 1619 project is. it's not an attempt to rewrite history on when this nation is founded. if the president had read the essays in this, what do you think would be an honest take away of what they're about?

>> the 1619 project is about giving us the history and the understanding to see how slachbry was foundational to america and the way the legacy of slavery still permeates modern society. of course we know 1776 is the found ogthch country. the project does not argue it's not the founding butted what it does argue fl is we have largely treated slavery as an asterisk, as marginal to the american story and this project is trying to place slavery at the center, where we believe it belongs. >> why do you think the president, and look, millions agree with him are so resistant to this examination of what slavery has meant to this nation, even when you look at present day and it's right before you. you can see the fallout from slavery very much today. why is there this resistance? >> i mean, this is a very

challenging history, of course. we are raised to believe that america was founded on these ideas of liberty and freedom. so, to have to grapple with the fact that we were also founded on slavery, it's very difficult, but that is the truth. and it's very ironic that president trump would be saying that he needs to vindicate true american history by attempting to cover it up. we have to be able to grapple with both the good and the bad of this country and american school children and educators are able to understand a complex history about this country and its founding. >> and what do you think about -- there's actually discussion about whether basically schools using the 1619 project, which is founded, whether they can be penalized. >> so, the president doesn't actually have the ability to

control school districts. curriculum is agreed on and there's a federal law on intervention into the way local communities set their curriculum. so, we know this is really trump's effort to bring 1619 into the culture wars. he's clearly running on a nationalistic campaign trying to soak racial division and he sees this as a tool in that arsenal. >> thank you so much for joining us to talk about this. >> thank you so much. coming up why dr. fauci says they may not have to worry afterall. plus, the growing list of trump officials speaking out and endorsing joe biden. and we're waiting to hear from president trump at the white house. we'll bring that to you live when this happens. ♪

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today on digital, where we try to bring you stories of military fam families we're talking about burn pits, sometimes hundreds of acres incise that the military uses to burn waste in iraq and afghanistan.

and the smoke remains known cancer-causing smoke. and jon stewart is championing the heroes breathing in the toxins. >> they live next to toxic smoke, dioxins, everything and now they're being told, hey, man, is that so bad for you? i don't know. we don't have the science. it's bull [ bleep] . >> he's joining a string of veterans that would promote a bill exposed to the harmful fumes. former vice president and presidential nominee, joe biden has repeatedly said he believes his cancer was burn related. we spoke with retired staff sergeant who, at 31, was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer related to burn pits. >> the va failed me, personally.

it's my story. they failed me in diagnosing me with colon cancer because i was outside of the parameters of the typical person who has colon cancer. you're essentially looking at a dead man walking. >> you can find that story on cnn.com/home front. please email to homefront@cnn.com. it is the top of the hour, i'm brianna keilar and any moment we're expecting president trump to speak to reporters add the white house. we will be listening live to that and there's a lot the president has to answer for because there's plenty of evidence the trump administration is manipulating what you see and hear in the middle of a global pandemic. cnn confirmed the trump administration sent the cdc a document of controversial guidance that people without coronavirus symptoms don