campaign headquarters in recent days and weeks. nebraska today the latest state to send out absentee ballots joining more than two dozen others with ballots in the mail including from fl, michigan and north carolina. another judge stepping in to block changes at the postal service. judge sullivan of the d.c. district court saying the changes put the timely delivery of election-related mail at risk. top of the hour now. hello to the viewers in the united states and around the world. thank you so much for sharing a very busy, very important news day with us. judge amy coney barrett plans to visit capitol. coronavirus new infections here in the united states heading up. dr. fauci warns states that continue to drop restrictions are, quote, asking for trouble. and a truly eye opening report on the president's finances reshapes the first presidential debate and reveals a president staring down huge financial

trouble. new and incredibly detailed reporting of "the new york times" paints a damning picture of the president as a money manager mapping out millions of dollars of losses, a crippling debt load and year of year of avoiding the taxes. the president tweeting that the story is nonsense. he says the story ignores the values of the asets and denies one of the core findings. paid nothing of taxes for 11 of the 18 years they examined and paid $750 in federal income tax the year he won the white house 2016 and in his first year in office 2017. the documents also show a history of massive write-offs, ongoing battle with the irs over a nearly $73 million tax refund and a money boon thanks to his presidency. the president facing a coming

huge money crunch, personally on the hook for $420 million of debt and loans and most coming due within the next four years. the president dismisses the story as fake news and lawyers say he paid millions in taxes since 2016. a former top irs lawyer frames the avoidance this way. >> they fund effect, right in they fund health care, social security, building roads, they fund administering the system and army. and we all pitch in to do that. i think most people pay more for their rent per month than he paid in taxes that year. >> let's get to cara scanel. the reporting is stunning. raises a ton of questions. >> reporter: this is an extensive report by "the new york times" combing through 20 years of tax returns. here's a bit of the story they patient. they show that the president had

made a fortune several hundreds of millions of dollars from his work on the apreprentice and licensing deals and losing money put in the golf kourszs, dlrks 300 million to offset the taxes on the money that he had made and he was able to use the losses in order to wipe out some of what he owed but not the only way that he was able to do this. according to "new york times," he also paid a number of people through consulting fees in the last ten years, $26 million he wrote off on the taxes in consulting fees, 700,000 according to "the new york times" to his daughter ivanka trump while she was an employee of the trump organization. according to "the new york times" the president had written off a number of personal and business expenses, over $300 million at mar-a-lago. and he also wrote off more than $70,000 on hairstyling that he had used when he was on "the

apprentice" and "the new york times" reporting a hefty tax loans or he is personally on the hook for, $43 -- $421 million and the golf courses are losing money, the hole the in washington, d.c. is losing money. it was before the pandemic and that's certainly not going to help those types of businesses so the president feeling the heat here and the issue out democrats is the president profiting from the presidency? based on the tax returns "the new york times" put numbers on that specifically that they say the president made $5 million a year in memberships as people looking to buy access to the president. john? >> very important detailed reporting. appreciate it. now bloomberg news tax reporter and kaitlan collins. laura, you know, the question of fairness, number one, may not seem fair to president trump but

a list of other presidents and what they paid in taxes, federal taxes in the first year in office, ronald reagan paid $165,000 plus. george h.w. bush $101,000 plus. president obama just sold a book. when you see $750 for a guy who says he's the midas touch billionaire it strikes you as stunning. this is your area of expertise. is it a question in your mind of tax avoidance which is legal or tax evasion which is not? >> there is sometimes a very fuzzy line in between what is legal and not. some of the things like these losses is a very common tactic but there's more aggressive tax moves that they laid out, the consulting fees paid to ivanka trump, for example, the $70,000 for hair cuts. these are things that tax

lawyers have said are highly unusual, maybe trump can defend this but more likely problems and the tax audit of ten years which is unusual and the trump pick for irs commissioner said it was hypothetical answering saying a tax audit would be very weird of this length. >> there are questions for the account an accountants and the lawyers and then for the voters. "new york times," six-column head line. the reporting is detailed and damning and if you read this story and crunch the numbers it is 180 degrees counter to this of the president and his midas touch. >> i used to come up as a businessman. i was very successful. the last election i was a successful businessman running for president. i said i was going to do things and really successful. i have a lot of common sense. great business sense. i made a lot of money.

i have had great success and when i tell you these things i'm not saying it in a bragging way. >> he was saying in it a bragging way actually and if you read "the new york times" it's a lot of it just straight outright false. >> reporter: yeah. john, i see all of this reaction from the president's allies, dismissing this breaking news from "new york times," extensive reporting on the president's finances saying we knew he did not pay a lot in taxes and goes counter what you still hear from voters today, they did vote for the president because they thought he was this successful businessman and they thought that not only he did a good job running the companies and giving up that lifestyle to become president seemed a positive trait to them and runs counter with "the new york times" saying the president played a successful businessman than he was at being one and it is not just about the $750 which is

pretty damning because that is something that voters measure up to what they paid in income taxes, federal income taxes and what is going to come for the president with those $400 million in loans that you were talking about that are going to come due in the next few years, the questions are what's the president going to do about that? is it a situation that leads to bankruptcy? who does he owe that money to? those are big questions that voters will have because it is not just that. if you also read in this reporting it says that the president has a $100 million mortgage in new york for trump tower due in 2022, that's within two years. what happens this november could have a big impact on the president coming the loans, to these finances and whether or not he is going to have to do something about it or whether or not people pursue him while he is in office over it and it does may recollect t make the idea of november weightier given that the president's finances are in such play here. >> laura, a challenge is that

there's really no context for this in the sense that barack obama made money off the books he wrote and most presidents are politicians in modern times and governors or senators and the bush family with some money and had some taxes there and if you look at the president he is complicated, made money from "apprentice" between 2000 and 2018. endorsing and licensing in real estate. properties. they sell the brand essentially. it is a much more complicated picture looking at how the president made the money or lost money. you see the trump-owned companies there and the red on the golf properties. the challenge is to put this in context and with all that debt coming when you read through this, where are the red flags to you looking at this? >> a thing raidsed is how much money coming from overseas, from foreign countries. it is some allies, england and

scotland where he has golf properties and looking at more authoritarian leaning countries, philippines, india. turkey. this could be a concern, all the details about those business relationships aren't laid out there and did note there's no disclosed or previously unknown information about the ties to russia but still this fact of so many ties dmesingally and internationally leaves concerns for how to be influenced particularly if his financial position gets more precarious. he has debt to pay and he also has some tax bills to also pay depending on how the irs aud it is resolved. >> grateful for the reporting and the insights and the biden campaign thinks there's something to be gained here quickly overnight. no words in this ad. pay close attention. ♪

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the world is closing in on what will be a very grim statistic, more than 1 million people dead from coronavirus. nearly a quarter of that total here in the united states of america. today a bit of a sad feeling of deja vu. experts see signs of a false surge. you do see 21 states, the orange and the red, reporting more new infections now compared to a week ago. 19 is the beige, those states are holding steady. the same this week to last week.

ten states with fewer infections than a week ago. florida and arizona. better news there at the moment but red and orange going in the wrong direction. the case trend started early, down to here by memorial day. up the hill through the summer surge. you come down some and see the red line. that's the trend line watching now. back up above 40,000 new infections a day. remember, the sunday totals tend to be down and hope it stays down there and lower and watch this. the trend line at the moment going in the wrong direction. in part because of the high positivity rates. in 28 states the positivity rate is increasing. this week compared to last week. 22 states decreasing in terms of positivity. if you look at the testing in the united states, 22 states

more testing compared to a week ago. most public health experts tell you that's a good thing. the president has an event on testing later today. this is the total testing, the united states is now conducted more than 101 million coronavirus tests. across the united states. that's the cumulative total. is this enough? sunday more than 806,000 coronavirus tests across the united states. you see pretty much a flat line. we have been around 800,000 tests on a daily basis. go back to the end of jurne. 806,000 yesterday. that is more but listen here. this is over recent months, the trump administration promising more and failing to meet the number. >> in august 50 million tests available. if we have pooling we will have measure than that but we are not going to have 300 million tests a day. in september we expect to have

well over 85 million tests available. the capacity. we are at an inflection point in testing. this month we will have available on average 3 million tests per day. >> again, later this afternoon the president and the vice president will give an update on the coronavirus testing at the white house. now professor of epidemiology at harvard. doctor, nice to see you again. we're going to hear from the president later today. you heard admiral giroir saying testing will go up. where are we today especially as we see the rise in new daily infection count? are we testing enough people or are we still missing stuff? >> it really depends on how we want to be using the test. as a surveillance test to keep a pulse on the country, we have enough testing the know our cases is going up or down but to use testing as a real means to

identifying infected people, pull them out of the population before they have a chance to infect other people and stop transmission chains i would say we're still woefully inadequate in the number of tests we need given that we haven't done a good job at social distancing and mask wearing. >> it's sad to hear that seven months in. woefully inadequate. let's hope we hear a sign of progress from the wte house. you tally the new infections, we dipped a little bit on sunday but back above over 40,000 new infections a day now. 15 states with positivity rates over 10% in the last 7 days and the darker the blue, the deeper the shading, the bigger the problem. what does that tell you when you have 15 states with positive above 10%? that to me based on the track record we have had here says

more cases today and tomorrow and the next week and the week after because if you're infected you're spreading. >> yeah. absolutely. this is something that many of us who epidemiologists and follow seasonal viruses have been warning about since this really began. we expect that transmission will increase again in the fall and winter. it is very likely to increase dramatically as we move further into the fall. at the same time, restaurants and businesses open k-12 schools, universities and we're still more or less in the same place from a control perspective that we were five, six months ago and an unfortunately all too expected rise in cases and i expect that it will just continue getting worse. >> part of the challenge as a public health or politician, leader, what steps do you take? governor of florida deciding to allow restaurants, statewide,

restaurants can come to full capacity again. dr. fauci says that concerns him. listen. >> that is very concerning to me. we have always said that if you do it in a prudent way, in a prudent way means focus on the things that are important, you could open up businesses, you can do things like that but when you start congregating at bars without masks, where people are crowded together indoors without masks that's asking for trouble. >> do you agree with that? everybody gets that everybody's tired and especially in a state with a tourism based economy the economy is suffering without bars open, can't have restaurants at higher capacity but there's an important but, right? >> absolutely. i completely agree with what he's saying. if we continue to bring people into close quarters, especially indoors, we're very likely to see major outbreak so essentially society has to come to a decision and that's do we just let this thing go rampant

or do we try to work in a concerted way to keep it at bay while balancing the economic ramifications of our actions? i think we continue to fail at controlling this because we haven't had leadership, we haven't had a concerted plan that is national and if we don't focus on this across all 50 states we keep seeing imports into states that control it. >> i don't pretend to be anywhere in your ballpark with expertise but i can do basic math and looking at the positivity rate that's high and see the account of new infections above 40,000 a day on average, and then you take this into account from dr. scott gottlieb that the greatest majority of americans not exposed yet it tells me the risks you're talking about. listen. >> about 10% of americans have been exposed to this virus. the best modeling that i've seen

suggests a higher rate of exposure suggest as high as 15% but most of the models project 10% so a lot of the country is susceptible to this virus, a lot of room for it to run. >> if there's a lot of room for it to run then our behavior, every individual's behavior really determines how well it runs, right? >> absolutely. we are not anywhere close to herd immunity. might be small pockets and probably pockets of the country driving that to 10% or 15%. and so we're kind of where we were and, you know, i'll appeal to the white house to start acting like leaders in this case and figure out how to get it under control in a real way because this isn't something to stop this week, we keep saying next month, a month away, and it is not. we are in this for the long haul and we need a plan. >> doctor, i wish we had a more

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republican leaders in the senate are fast tracking the supreme court nomination process for president trump's nominee judge amy coney barrett. gop setting an ambitious calendar to get the president's

pick in place before the election and before possibly republicans lose the white house and the senate. cnn's phil mattingly up on capitol hill. it is ambitious and set by political realities. >> reporter: yeah. i think this is a little bit of a simplification but you know this well and that is if you have the votes you can pretty much move as fast as you want in the united states senate and that's what leader mitch mcconnell and chairman lindsey graham clear they will do and heard from the white house, the white house wants this nominee confirmed before the election so do many rank and file republicans and therefore kicking this into high gear and doing it quickly. in fact, the confirmation hearings are set starting on october 12th, going four days, the main question and answer period on the 13th and the 14th and by the 15th the committee will start the process of actually considering the vote for that nominee. that will be held over a week so the expectation right now is amy coney barrett's nomination out of the judiciary committee by

october 22. setting up a floor vote the week after, before the election, with all signs right now pointing to at least republicans that i'm speaking to she will be confirmed during that week and i think one thing to keep in mind here a lot of people wondering how could it move so quickly and looking at past supreme court nominees they have the votes lined you were a lined up and talking to republicans they were lobbying the white house for amy coney barrett's nomination, a lot of concerns that perhaps past nominees had to deal with on issues of abortion, health care, mod rat republicans, the two primary ones, murkowski and collins said they're not on board with this vote and mitch mcconnell still has a majority and everything is pointing to the remaining 51 republicans on board with this and the fact that democrats don't really have any options to block the nomination. they can slow it down. procedures plays to make it more

complicated and pay attention to what democrats say and do right now. they're upset with past press dernt and that the nominee is considered right now at all but they have quickly shifted to the policy issues, they want to talk about health care, roe versus wade, issues they believe are advantageous because they can't necessarily stop this so long as republicans don't break so focus on that, keep an eye on those things going forward. if you looked at the 40-plus democratic statements that came out after amy coney barrett was nominated, every one about health care. those are the battle lines but it will be quick and amy coney barrett certainly is on track to be confirmed before the election, john. >> it is a remarkable pace and understand the basic power play to this. the republicans have the power and use it before they might lose it. appreciate the important reporting. tomorrow president trump and joe biden share the stage for the first presidential debate.

the pandemic, the economy, the supreme court nomination fight all front and center. the president's taxes also likely to be a hot topic. jessica dean joins us from the debate hall. i'm very envious. >> reporter: it is good to see you, john. i'm wearing a mask inside the debate hall. those are the rules. strict rules in place here in cleveland. but first, let's talk about the two people to see on that stage tomorrow night. president trump has said that he's not really take part in formal preparations, seeing the press conference as a preparation. yesterday he said chris christie, rudy giuliani, playing the role of biden in that way and advising him but no formal full-blown mock debates or anything like that from the trump campaign and remember, too, differing things from the

trump cam papaign and trying to raise the bar heading into tomorrow night. on the other side, former vice president joe biden who has no public events today and has no virtual events today in full-blown debate preparation mode right now and having aides pepper him with questions and kind of rapid fire. they believe, the biden campaign, that trump will be unpredictable on the stage tomorrow. their key thing that they want to focus in on and biden to continue to come back to is what we heard him talk about time and time again which is the president's response to the covid-19 pandemic and that they believe that his lack of response and bungling of that response led us to a public health crisis and an economic crisis. anticipate hearing him coming back to that time and time again and quickly in terms of the debate itself i'm wearing a mask. everyone in here will be covid

tested. typically 900 people on average inside. we are told it will be 60 to 70 and no hand shake between trump and biden due to covid as well. john? >> another remark sable slice o the new normal. a big night tomorrow night. up next, the global coronavirus head lines and russia taking a new step with the coronavirus vaccine. tomato [hard a] tonight... i'll be eating four cheese tortellini with extra tomatoes. [full emphasis on the soft a] so its come to this? [doorbell chimes] thank you. [doorbell chimes] bravo. careful, hamill. daddy's not here to save you. oh i am my daddy. wait, what? what are you talking about?

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expelling political opponents and will take part in human trials. more of the global headlines now from cnn correspondents around the world. >> reporter: i'm melissa bell in paris where here in ten other french cities, bars will have to chose at 10:00 p.m., social gatherings limited further still and gyms have been closed. this as the french try to take on those covid-19 figures that continue to worsen and particularly on a national level when you look at the number of people in intensive care, that figure has nearly tripled over the course of the month of september. the city worse hit down in the south. people in icus there more than tripled over september and the regulations being introduced there are even tighter. bars and restaurants made to close for at least a week entirely. a great deal of pushback on that from local mayors worried of what is the fragile recovery of

the country so far and yet it is authorities say all about insuring that the health system once again can cope with those rising figures. >> reporter: in new delhi, india surpassed 6 million cases of covid-19 monday morning and second number of highest cases confirmed of the virus than the u.s. it's taken the country two months to report over 5 million cases of covid-19. india has a third highest death toll with over 95,500 fatalities. since september 2, india reporting over 1,000 deaths a day. one reason for a surgery in the covid-19 caseload is aggressive testing. over 71 million samples have been tested for covid-19 as of sunday. according to the health ministry, the country reported more recoveries than active

cases on monday. the western state has reported over a million cases of covid-19 and southern states remain severely affected. >> reporter: i'm matt rivers in mexico city where on sunday night the deputy health ministry said it might be years before the actual death toll from the virus is truly known here in mexico. the reason he said is the different methods used to classify the mortality. the death toll is 76,000 and counting, good enough for fourth highest in the world and with fighting the virus it is easier for some than others here in mexico city. the government obviously always says wash your hands constantly but this is a city roughly 20% of the residents here don't have access to water every single day. we went to a poor neighborhood in mexico city last week and spoke to a 26-year-old in a house without running water with 12 relatives saying in some

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the secretary of state pompeo slated to speak for a conservative christian organization in florida. that appearance scheduled just weeks before the november election. an appearance some say may violate legal and ethical guidelines. a table is going for $10,000 and includes a personal visit with the secretary of state. pompeo has made numerous appearances that are raising questions over whether he's overstepping the role as the top diplomat. secretaries of state avoided the domestic political fray.

secretary pompeo spoke to the national convention and that also unusual. >> i'm mike pompeo, i'm spooking to you from beautiful jerusalem looking out over the old city. i have a big job. as susan's husband and nick's dad. susan and nick are more safe and their freedoms more secure because president trump put the america first vision into action. it may not have made him popular in every foreign capital but it's worked. >> let's talk this over. don fox is former general counsel and kylie atwood is a correspondent. we have talked about this a couple times before. at times he looks very much lirk this is about pompeo 2024, not the quite positiunited states p the world. >> if you look at the events that secretary of state mike pompeo engaged in over the last couple of months in the official

capacity as secretary of state or the personal capacity as mike pompeo, lifelong republican mike pompeo, they seem to be connected to republican politics either formally or create the appearance of being really connected so let's flick through some of those. he did deliver a speech to the republican national convention from tel aviv. he did that in his personal capacity and on official travel as secretary of state mike pompeo traveling on taxpayer dollars when he recorded that speech. another thing that he did in recent weeks is delivered a speech at a mega church in texas. he did that as his official capacity secretary pompeo and clearly a place that can be perceived as somewhere to pick up a key constituency for conservative christians. another thing that he did just last week is traveled to wisconsin, he was there, the

state department said, to give an important policy speech but the thing here is that wisconsin is a battleground state, somewhere that president trump and vice president biden battled the last few weeks and pompeo also traveled with reince priebus. he is deeply connected to partisan politics and then just this week he's going to be delivering a speech at the holy sea symposium on advancing religious freedom in rome and then next week as you said he is going to be delivering a gala event keynote speech at a conservative republican christian group in florida. that's the florida family policy council. there is a price tag on that time with mike pompeo. >> don fox, this is an administration with we use words like unusual or outside of the norms. what is unusual and what is

unethical? what is allowed but maybe a gray area and what is not allowed by rules? >> you are right. three and a half years ago this might have been shocking but as we adjusted to a lot of new normals this is just par for the koursz. so it doesn't take aette irks expert i think to realize that buying access to the senior member of the president's cabinet for $10,000 is corrupt and it happens to violate federal ethics regulations that provide no federal employee in the branch to use the office for the benefit of somebody else personally or to benefit the business or not for profit and that's exactly what this is, secretary pompeo by letting them buy access to them to benefit this evangelical organization. >> if you say it crosses the line, what is the agency of the united states government that should be doing something about it, stopping it or penalizing

it? >> ultimately it's the person's supervisor who violates ethics rule to take action against them so if this were another administration and you had the secretary of state or another senior member of the president's cabinet crossing an ethical line and advised that it crossed this line you would have a white house chief of staff or ultimately the president of the united states telling them to knock it off but i think we know that will not happen here. >> so, kylie, what will happen here? the secretary bristled when asked about these things. there's been investigations into pompeo sending aides to do personal errands and the like and shoves off the questions. >> yeah. he often says this is bogus, a talk in washington that's casting me as a politician but i am really representing the american people. he traveled to iowa and said

he's going there because he wants to talk to iowans of what he is doing as secretary of state for foreign policy on their behalf but as we all know, john, iowa is a consequential state with presidential politics. there are investigations going on into his activities. the first is a state department inspector general. they are looking into his potential misuse along with his wife of state department resources. we don't know when the results of that are going to come out. it is ongoing and then members of congress, particularly democrats, who just announced last week that they're going to be opening an investigation into his speech before the republican national convention so we have a lot of folks looking into this. this is hard to see when those results will come to fruition but it's something that we'll keep a close eye on. >> we will. if anything transparency is the key to challenges like this.

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