extremely concerned about all of this, especially concerned about the situation in larger german cities, like for instance in berlin or in frankfurt, is urging people to abide by the coronavirus measures. all of this comes as the amount of districts in germany deemed to be coronavirus hot spots has jumped from 8 to 11. top of the hour, welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. john king in washington. thank you so much for sharing your day with us. we begin with america's sad coronavirus reality and its anxious reality tv president. this map is the source of the sadness and grave concern. 28 states right now reporting more new infections compared to only one week ago. only two states at this moment trending down. now, president trump says he understands this all better now, he is now the world's most famous coronavirus patient. we're told we will see him on live television today for the first time in four days, the first time since he was released from the hospital back on

monday. we will not, though, be hearing a new white house plan to deal with the troubling rise in new infections. no. instead, the president plans to be back in the friendly embrace of fox news so one of its doctors can give him a televised checkup. that's part of the president's urgent plan to get back on the campaign trail. he says that's imminent. >> i think i'm going to try doing a rally on saturday night, if we have enough time to put it together, but we want to do a rally probably in florida saturday night. might come back and do one in pennsylvania the following night. >> the political imperative is obvious. joe biden is winning the race, 25 days out, and battleground state leads include florida and pennsylvania, two states the president mentioned. the medical judgment here is questionable, especially since the white house refuses to provide key treatment details. now, news a republican has tested positive.

the president is itching to get on the campaign trail. white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us live. prime time appearances on fox news, to say i feel great, i'll be on the campaign trail soon but still not a detailed set of records or briefing to answer questions from the white house doctors about whether this is actually safe. >> no. i keep repeating myself, john. we have not seen the president's doctor in person since monday. he has not taken our questions since then either. we have relied only on very brief updates that he is issuing through the white house press office that are scant on details and that was the one yesterday where he said the president would be cleared, for engagements starting tomorrow. that's in contrast to what he said monday as the president left walter reed medical center, he thought they wanted to monitor the president over the weekend, this saturday and this sunday. and finally on monday he said is the day he would believe the president was in the clear, if

his conditions stayed the same or only improved from there. it is not clear why it changed. haven't heard from dr. conley, haven't been able to ask him. we have not been informed of the trump campaign for travel tomorrow. clearly as you heard from the president in the interview he is itching to get back on the campaign trail. hard to see if he doesn't do it tomorrow if it won't be after that, even though medical experts say it doesn't fit cdc guidelines for isolation periods. so it is raising a lot of questions about that and who will be on the campaign trail with the president. you've seen today, we put together a graphic of the only people that have been around the president for extended periods of time, chief of staff, and jared kushner. several other of his top aides and closest advisers are still quarantining themselves after testing positive. it is a big question of what this is going to look like. we know the president is going to be doing the first in person interview later today, so we

will be monitoring that to see how does the president look, how is his breathing, does he cough like he did twice in the sean hannity interview last night, things like that because we're not getting information from the doctors and we're having to try to report it for ourselves. >> let's continue the conversation with cnn chief medical correspondent dr. gupta. she mentioned this is what we get every day from the white house doctor, a memo that doesn't tell us a lot. it doesn't tell us a lot. among details in the memo, since returning home his physical exam has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progression of illness. overall, he has responded extremely well to treatment without evidence of examination of adverse therapeutic effects. saturday is ten days from his diagnosis, based on the trajectory of diagnostics, i expect his return to public

engageme engagements at that time. we heard the president, clearly he still has issues. listen. >> i think the first debate, excuse me. on the first debate they oscillated the mike. i will say this. absentee is okay because absentee ballots, excuse me. >> help me out, dr. gupta. you know this better than i do. it is a respiratory virus. maybe the president is doing well and that's just what happens but when you hear that and then you hear the president as early as tomorrow will be back on the campaign trail, what is the medical judgment? >> he sounds sick, john. and i don't think you need to be a doctor to tell that. if you were my dad, i would say look, you need to be getting some rest. you are essentially med-evac'd from the house a week ago, dropped oxygenation where you needed supplemental oxygen, have been on three drugs, one is

totally experimental, doesn't even have authorization yet. you're still on steroids i think because that's typically a ten day course, and you sound pretty congested. so i'm worried about you. that's what i would say. you also are likely still contagious. people who are around you, i'm sure you don't want to infect them. it makes no sense to be out and about for his own health and for health of people around him. also, john, quickly, i read a lot of letters from doctors. this is how we communicate, give summaries of patient records. that is not a normal letter. there's a lot of language in there that's not standard language that doctors use. trajectory of tests, advanced diagnostics, is he being tested for covid or not? we know what the testing would be. they didn't mention that. they didn't say if he had a fever. it is a small thing but it is criteria for determining if one is no longer contagious. he is still on steroids.

there's a lot that doesn't make sense. purposely being vague as you point out, but if you put pieces of the puzzle together, there's still concern as the doctor said himself, until next monday or longer, there's still concern. >> the doctor did say that himself. let's go back in time. last time we heard from dr. conley was the day the president was released, before the president was released, but he laid out a time line. >> we're in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received the therapies he has so early in the course. so we're looking to this weekend, if we can get through to monday with him remaining the same or improving, better yet, then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. >> it may turn out that it was wishful thinking on the president's part to think he is doing a rally tomorrow night or saturday, but dr. conley was clear, if we can get through to monday, and then issues the memo yesterday saying go for it, sir.

>> yeah. dr. conley is being pressured. there's no question about it. everyone talks about he does have a stellar reputation, but he is being pressured. he is contradicting himself. he said before the president is not out of the woods. this is uncharted territory. the president has been on a regimen it is possible he is the only person in the world to have received that of the antibody therapy, remdesivir and steroids this early in the course of the illness. he should be in the hospital frankly, john. he should be in the hospital, in isolation. he should be getting closely monitored, not just because he's the president, because he is a 74-year-old vulnerable patient with risk factors who has shown that the disease had an impact on his lungs. he needed oxygen. is he seriously ill, is that why they gave him the medications or are they throwing the kitchen sink at him. we don't know. sometimes presidents and vip

patients are treated differently and that doesn't always mean better. but we don't know and they're purposely not giving us critical data. is the president -- does he have the virus, fever, pneumonia. basic questions dr. conley could answer but he is not. >> i'm sorry, whatever your political views, we deserve transparency on the health of the president. i am going to walk through national trends in a few minutes. i know there's one that troubles you greatly, you are watching projections. we are back to about 50,000 new infections a day now. that's the here and now. what worries experts, if we're at 50 plus new infections a day now, especially as the weather gets colder, people go inside, and you're seeing some stress on hospitalizations, you have been looking at projections going forward and they are alarming. walk us through it.

>> some of these types of reports are deeper within models that look at number of deaths projected, number of infections. what is the toll on the hospital system. this is critical. i want to show you this from the imhe model, looking at the demand on hospital beds, how that will change in the next few months. this is a model. anything can change. that purple line is basically a number of staffed hospital beds that are necessary, and you're getting over 100,000 for covid alone on top of what typically happens this time of year. let me show you the next graph of the united states and looking at hospital occupancy now. if you are purple, dark purple, you're high occupancy now, october, early october. we haven't hit flu season yet. some of the hospital systems are well over 70% occupied. john, the reason i bring it up,

we talk about the virus, about the fact it is obviously contagious and lethal. one of the real issues is the idea people are sick that won't be able to get hospital care, people who could be saved, get some medications we're talking about but won't because the hospital beds are going to be too full. this is a planning issue right now, has to happen. people are going around big cities that are going to be cold in the winter, can't do outside tents. they're saying that convention hall has to be a potential hospital site. we went through this in april, javits center, remember, those conversations are happening now and they need to. we're going to run out of basic hospital beds potentially according to models. >> when we went through it in april, hope was that everybody would get the message and do the steps necessary to make sure we didn't have to go through it again, but here we go. chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. thank you so much. we'll stay on top of that. i will breakdown numbers later. back to politics. the presidential debates are up

in the air. president trump pulled the plug yesterday saying he won't take parking lot in next week's planned debate because the commission wanted it virtual. that leaves one matchup on the schedule as of now. as we know, things can change. senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny joins us. the president pulled the plug. biden campaign says we're ahead, we'll do our own event next week. will they get back to talking is the question. >> reporter: that is an open question. as of now at this moment and there has been debate whiplash, no question, that the next and likely only debate is october 22nd. that will be what was intended to be the third debate. both sides agreed to that. there was unusual back and forth yesterday as you mentioned, the president is not agreeing, then agreeing, then not agreeing. the biden campaign says look, the president doesn't get to make the rules on this. both agreed to three debates over the summer. bottom line is what you were talking about with dr. gupta. the president and the white

house had not been transparent about the last negative test and condition. the debate commissioners we speak to, the independent bipartisan commission that plans debates say they simply do not know the status of the president's health. so that's why under the recommendation of the cleveland clinic they recommended a virtual debate next week. and it wouldn't be on zoom, it would not be the type of conversations we have all had several months, it would be held in remote locations like a live broadcast held remotely, the president said he didn't want it, then he did. bottom line, there's likely to be one more debate on october 22nd. the trump campaign now said they want one end of the month, biden campaign said we're not going to do that. the reality, i am in iowa where early voting is under way, millions of votes have been cast across the country. every passing day is a diminishing set of returns for both candidates in terms of debating. that's why biden is not

interested in having more debates and why the trump campaign is eager to reset the campaign suddenly now wants to have more. >> and the fact that it is worth your trip to iowa, that iowa is in play and competitive 25 days out tells you everything you need to know about the steep hill the president is facing in the race. jeff zeleny, grateful for the live report. up next, new numbers, new warnings, case counts. the coronavirus case count is on the rise. many experts worry about an explosion heading to winter. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! (announcer) and you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost on average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 pounds! oh! (announcer) for those also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events

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the coronavirus is trending the wrong drerirection, leading public helalth experts to worry. 28 states, orange and red, with more new infections compared to

a week ago. 28 states heading the wrong direction heading into the cold weather. it is just about everywhere, particularly the northern half of the country, a lot of orange, a lot of red, but it is elsewhere as well. 28 states going up, 20 holding steady. only two states, hawaii and alabama, have fewer new infections now compared to a week ago. only two states heading the right direction. a lot of trouble when you look elsewhere. go back to june 1st. back then, 23 states were green. northern part of the country. see the green now on june 1st. that's where they were then. more red there now, states holding steady. if you look now, sadly we have been through this for months. wait a week or two, you have more deaths. again, largely in the northern part of the country. 17 states, orange and red. that means reporting more deaths now compared to a week ago. 14 states trending down. 19 states steady when it comes to sad coronavirus death count. this is the source of the problem. double digit positivity.

again in the northern part of the country, mostly, not exclusively, where things are getting colder. 24% in idaho, 20% south dakota, 19% wisconsin, 17% iowa. 15% kansas. double digit positivity means more cases today and more likelihood those cases will infect others and more cases tomorrow. that's a problem here. this is the sad history of the last eight months. you go back. june 1st, 17,364 new infections. this was the moment to keep infections down. summer surge, up to 77,000 new infections on a daily basis, coming down some, but back up again. 56,000 reported yesterday. so near the end of the summer surge, 57,000. going back up now. here's what public health officials worry about. from 17,000 and went up got close to 80,000, what happens if you're at 40 or 50,000 and you start to go up. that's the worry.

we go up steep again, we blow past that, get here. that's the worry of public health officials. adding to worry, you're starting to see hospitals filling up again. down, back up in the summer surm surge, now is starting to trickle back up. looking ahead to winter, public health experts, rick bright, former top scientist that left in a dispute with trump administration, he looks forward, sees a troublesome winter ahead. >> this winter we're going to have an explosion of cases of coronavirus. this winter we're going to have an explosion of influenza infections and other respiratory infections that's going to overwhelm the health care system again. we still don't have enough personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses. we still don't have enough tests. we are still not doing enough testing.

>> kaitlin rivers, epidemiologist, scholar at the john hopkins center for health security. good to see you again. wish the circumstances were better. we're back above 50,000 new infections a day. you start to see hospitalizations on the rise again. sadly we know from the june experience if you start around 20,000 and have a surge, then you go quickly up to 70,000 or more. is there a risk? have we put mitigation in place or are we at risk of going from plateau of 40,000 back up to 60, 70, 80 or more? >> there is a risk. we saw this in the summer when we had a relatively quiet may and june, saw a severe resurgence in july and august. the risk is that we start up the hill again in fall, starting from a higher spot. it would be difficult for health systems to experience something like new york city experienced in the spring, that's the outcome we want to avoid, why it is important to use mitigation measures, stay home, social

distancing, wearing a mask that helped to keep the virus under control. >> doctor that's dean of brown university school of public health put together a time lapse. i want to put it on the screen for people to see. we have been having conversations, you have been gracious with your time for months now. this is how severe is the pandemic where you live. watch this play out. here we are, eight months into this, and this is filling in, the deeper colors get, you can figure it out for yourself how bad it is. going through august now. and so the question is back when we were in june at 17,000 new infections a day, what should have been done then since everybody knew once it got cold we were going to have a problem. >> i think there are individual measures we can all take to slow transmission again. it is the stay home, masks, hand washing. there are policies to prevent people coming into contact with

others in high risk settings and activities. for me, closing bars and indoor dining, limiting those activities is important and we need to continue to follow through with closures or limitations through fall. i think also continuing to scale up diagnostic testing and contact tracing which breaks chain of transmission by focusing specifically on people that are sick and their close contacts instead of putting limitations on everyone. those are strategies we could use to slow transmission in the past and should continue to focus. >> please disagree with me if you think me wrong, but i don't hear that. i don't hear that from the white house and top public officials, the specifics that you're mentioning every day or sometimes when the president's team tries to do it now, they travel the country to do it quietly to state governors because they don't have a national platform, the president won't give it to them, in part because of that cdc ensemble forecast says we will have 224 to 233,000 deaths by end of the month. we're at 212,000 now. cdc says another 20,000 americans are likely to die by

end of the month. and one of the questions on the table is when will we have a vaccine that may help us stop this. listen to secretary of health and human services. >> pending fda authorizations, we believe we may have up to 100 million doses by end of the year, enough to cover especially vulnerable populations and we project having enough for every american that wants a vaccine by march to april, 2021. >> do we see evidence in regulatory approval process, emergency use applications, do we see evidence now before us to validate that time line that we would have 100 million doses by end of the year to cover people on the front lines? do we see that happening or is that aspirational? >> we don't know exactly. there's not much available yet in the public information sphere. we know that vaccine manufacturers and research and development organizations have been working very hard to test the vaccine candidates.

i think that's good news. i think the other good news is that the companies that are producing vaccine candidates that aren't yet authorized, not yet approved but in clinical trials, manufacturing doses. if a vaccine makes it over the finish line, becomes available to the public, there's already a lot of product available. i am hopeful the supply will be fairly robust when there's a vaccine authorized or approved. >> when there is. let's hope on the science. kaitlin rivers, grateful for your time an important insights. thank you. still ahead, the governor of michigan calls people that plotted to kidnap her domestic terrorists. if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. ha! these drops probably won't touch me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. what is that?

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new information that could be a wrinkle in the process to confirm judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court. cnn's k file team found on paperwork provided to the senate for confirmation hearings, judge barrett did not disclose two talks given on court cases dealing with abortion rights. they were hosted by two anti-abortion rights students groups during her time as a law professor at the university of notre dame. andrea, it could be important new reporting as democrats try to make the case they don't want her on the court, number two, they'll say she's withholding information. >> reporter: that's right. this raises questions whether or

not barrett's paperwork was filled out all the way, if there's other things that might be missing. and to get into the reporting, these were two speeches she gave both in 2013 and what's interesting about 2013 is that was also the 40th veranniversarf the roe vs wade. one was called right to life, the undergraduate anti-abortion group at notre dame, the other was called just tie, the law school version of right to life. now the speech to the undergraduates, there was an hour-long seminar, part of the right to life series, advertised as speaking with professors that were opposed to abortion, the other one again to the law school right to life that happened in november, 2013, that was again also discussed roe v

wade, and again, we don't know what was mentioned in the chats. we know roe v. wade was the topic of them, but again, she didn't disclose these. so there's new questions being raised by that. >> new questions because on that questionnaire to the senate committee it specifically asks in the case of judges and especially supreme court judges, list speeches you've given on topics that could be relevant before the court. that's why we're asking the question today. >> right. you're supposed to disclose basically any, probably very hard for people to fill out, it is like give any speech you've ever given and talk, article, so the question is was this an oversight, was this left off intentionally, like we obviously don't know what happened there. but when we spoke to the senate judiciary committee, what they told us is it was very normal practice that nominees may update their paperwork. the white house claims she was being transparent on all of this

stuff, so we'll see what happens. again, it raises what other things might be missing from paperwork. >> and we know on the k file team, you'll be on top of it. thank you so much. important reporting. we're learning about an alleged terrorist plot to kidnap michigan's governor and to overthrow governments in several states. 13 people face state and federal charges. the attorney general telling cnn earlier today it is not an isolated incident. >> there are multiple groups that are operating across multiple jurisdictions in many different states and it is something that we need to be very concerned about. what we're seeing here in michigan right now, it is not just a michigan problem, it's an american problem. i think there's going to be more incidences to come. >> authorities allege in that michigan plot, members of local extremist groups talked of storming the state capitol in part of the anger over the

coronavirus lockdown. let's discuss this with peter bett bergen. you tracked this for quite some time. when you look at the details of the alleged michigan plot and from all of the work on this over the years, what jumps out? >> well, one thing that jumps out when you read the indictment is the government was all over it. there were quite a number of confidential informants, undercover officers. i think what happened, speculating here, i think that we've seen this in many cases, people post on social media, fbi looks at it, puts a confidential informant in, pays that person money, they make recordings, the whole case rests on recordings from confidential informants. it is threatening, but on the other hand, feds were on top of it, not surprising because i am interested, john, in the fact that department of homeland security and the fbi are very

kind of vocal on the subject that right wing, far right wing extremists, the threat they pose, three days ago, department of homeland security said this is white supremacists, so the leading national security threat in the united states in terms of terrorism, unusual given track record of department of homeland security in the past sort of downplaying the far right threat. >> you raise an excellent point. you read the indictment, they planned to storm the capitol, maybe harming the governor, talking about doing it in other states. you mention department of homeland security, fbi director quite transparent about this right now. we often focus on what the president says, understandably so when he refuses on debate stage to condemn white supremacy. what about what he doesn't say and do. he has the bully pulpit of the white house to have an event when his homeland security and fbi say this is a grave threat facing the country, but the president has done zip on this

issue, right? >> well, people who support him no matter how kind of abhorrent their beliefs are he will not criticize. one of the principal goals is to attract law enforcement, it is not something new. law enforcement is concerned about this. go back to oklahoma city in 1995, 168 people were killed in the federal building by timothy mcveigh. he had a pretty strong contact with michigan militia at the time, so this is also not new in michigan where you have the anti-government militia. obviously when president barack obama was elected, they picked up steam and then we have this rather serious plot which on the other hand was well surveilled by the government. >> thank you for helping us understand this and the important work on this over the years. thank you so much. when we come back, the

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of mental health and addiction is finally over. president trump right now as we speak taking time to talk to rush limbaugh on the radio, revealing a little more about the state of his health. let's get to kaitlan collins listening in. >> reporter: the president is talking about his covid-19 diagnosis and it is interesting he is talking about treatment here, john. the president got multiple drugs while in the hospital in addition to supplemental oxygen that he also received, but one

is the antibody cocktail he got from regeneron. this is something we should note is not widely available, doesn't even have an emergency use authorization yet, yet in this call the president talks about it like a cure. it is not a cure, it is thought of as a treatment, and not widely available or close to it, john. he talked about the experience. he even brought it up during the interview. listen to what he said. >> there's always that little lingering thing for a couple days. but no, my voice is now perfect. i mean, for a couple of days, it is called a lingering thing. if you have hay fever, you have that, too a little bit, but no. this is the most amazing thing that's happened. i was asking the doctors today, i said how bad was i. they said you could have been bad. you were going into a bad phase, so it wasn't like with the kids where they get it and get

sniffles and are better two days later. this looks like it was going to be a big deal. >> reporter: even though a few days ago the president was saying he wasn't having a lot of symptoms, he is conceding that he was in position where doctors said they were worried about his condition until he received the drugs that he received. we should note, we do not know it is the antibody cocktail the president received that helped him, it could be the several other drugs that he was on as well, including that aggressive steroid, john. we haven't heard from the president's doctors in order to find out what they believe was the most beneficial to him. the way he is portraying it as a cure, not as a treatment, how it is being currently exploring is misleading and inaccurate at best, john. >> kaitlan collins, we appreciate the update. we'll cut back to you. a latest development. former new jersey governor chris christie remains hospitalized today, nearly a week after testing positive for covid-19.

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there are three republican senators right now infected with coronavirus, but their leader, majority leader mitch mcconnell making something clear this morning, he does not believe they were infected under the capitol dome. >> the only thing each of us can do is take responsibility for our own behavior by wearing a mask, practicing social distancing. we've had little or no incidences in the senate by doing exactly what i said, wearing masks, practicing social distancing. >> that today. yesterday, mcconnell said he hadn't been to the white house since early august because, he says, he takes coronavirus protocols one way, white house differently. >> i haven't actually been to the white house since august the 6th because my personal opinion was the approach to how to handle this was different from mine and what i insisted to do

in the senate which was to wear a mask, practice social distancing. >> joining us now, long time political adviser to mcconnell, scott jennings. good to see you. you know how to translate the leader. let me give you my attempt. he says their approach is different. that's why he hasn't been to the white house. he is so valuable, especially with a supreme court fight, not been there since august because their approach is different. he means reckless. >> well, i think he means different. and i think he's also practicing what he practiced many years, he rarely lectures other branches of government how to operate. but he will tell you how he intends to operate the senate and why he is doing it that way. sometimes it means he is doing it a different way. i think mcconnell has been one of the most consistent voices from beginning of the pandemic regarding personal responsibility and following the cdc guidelines. you heard him say it over and over, wear a mask, practice social distancing.

i don't think he's in the business of rebuking others so much, he never hides the ball and tells you exactly what he's thinking. on this, his thinking on following cdc guidelines has been clear from the beginning. >> let's go back through some of that. as i go through this, i'm sorry, he had no hesitancy talking about the obama white house, criticizing things in the obama white house, i'm sorry, that's just a fact. you have a republican president now, he might be more gentle, but you're right. from the beginning he said things like this. >> we must have no stigma, none, about wearing a mask. wear a mask. wear a mask. and practice social distancing. since may wre operated successfully in the senate, we know what we're doing, we're following cdc guidelines. >> he is telling the president he thinks what the president is doing is wrong. i want to ask you about the political dynamics. this is how republican political professionals sound to me.

ready for a jail break, afraid to dig a tunnel. they think the president is going down and all too willing to pull the rest of the ballot down with him. a few will cut loose and be gracious like tony montana was gracious saying hello to my little friend. little scar face reference there. how nervous are republicans the president's bad numbers will cost them the senate? >> i think all republicans are nervous. any of us can read a poll. the president's job approval is down, the president is struggling to get over the hump against joe biden, didn't have a very good first debate. i think all republicans would rightfully be nervous. every race is different. senate race in maine is different than in north carolina or georgia, so i think these things have their own unique character and quality. anybody who can read tells you they're not nervous about the election now would be lying because obviously republicans are in a precarious position. >> well put. scott, grateful for your time. great to see you. the nobel peace prize was

awarded today. among the recipients, a former governor. we go back for some important history.

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condemned national security agency for banning the confederate flag. nobody knows this debate better than most. he is director of world food programme. i met him when he was in south carolina. he lost bid for re-election in 1998. to this day, blames that loss on conservative outrage. his proposal in late 1996 after several ugly racial incidents to stop flying the confederate flag over the south carolina capitol. >> my friends, our children will not learn charity unless black parents and white parents start practicing charity towards one another. the bible also tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. it is time for the races to compromise on the confederate flag, show judeo christian love that will bring the races closer

together, teach our children we can live together in mutual respect. >> congratulations today to governor beasley and everyone at the program for their heroic work. that's it for us. brianna keilar picks up coverage right now. have a good day. hello, i am brianna keilar. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. with 25 days until election day, enough to be knocked off the campaign trail battling the coronavirus, president trump is a planning to return to the 2020 spotlight in a big way this weekend. >> i think i'm going to try doing a rally saturday night, if we have enough time to put it together. we want to do a rally probably in florida saturday night, might come back, do one in pennsylvania the following night. >> the president announcing his itinerary, including rallies in florid