falcons closed their practice facility due to positive tests and the titans and patriots had games postponed due to outbreaks. hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. john king in washington. thank you so much for sharing a busy news day with us. new interview from the top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci. big clear take away? we have big reason to worry. >> the baseline fluctuated, never went down to the level i would hope it went down to. you can't enter into the cool months of the fall and cold months of the winter with a high community infection baseline and looking at the map, seeing the heat map, how it lights up with test positivity that is more more than 30 plus states is going the wrong direction. >> dr. fauci says it is not too

late to turn around the alarming trend but he says that requires everybody, but especially young people, to take public health seriously and to have a more uniform approach to things like wearing masks from states across the country. the numbers underlying the growing trouble. thursday, 63,000 plus new cases. the united states topping that 60,000 new infections mark for the first time since august 14th. the pandemic truly a nationwide concern. 26 states reporting more than 1,000 cases on thursday. dr. fauci says thanksgiving this year, yes, will look different and we are a long way away from back to normal. the president again at odds with his top expert. the president says we're on the way down. that is simply a lie. listen to a close ally of the president that got infected at a trump white house that ignores basic science and ignores common sense. >> i was doing it right for seven months, avoided the virus. i let my guard down for a couple days inside the white house grounds and it cost me in a

significant way. >> let's take a closer look at the numbers that have dr. fauci so concerned. you start with the 50 state trend map. orange and red is bad. a lot of bad. 32 states headed the wrong direction, by that meaning more new covid infections reported than a week ago. 32 states are trending up. 15 states holding steady. only three of the 50 states have fewer new covid infections now than a week ago. 32 states trending up. you see it, not all of it, florida to washington state across, northern part of the country where it is getting cooler, colder, the bulk of the problem now. if you want to look at cases just yesterday, consider this the heat map. deeper the orange, higher the case count. wisconsin and illinois, florida, north carolina, texas, california, lighter here, but these are smaller, less populous states, dakotas, nebraska, montana. they don't have as many cases, but given the way they're going, still bad news there.

nine states just yesterday setting records, case records just yesterday. you see again a cluster here in the midwest out here across new mexico and colorado, included in there as well and north carolina. the case time line is what dr. fauci is worried about. you hear him say baseline, he means this. the beginning of the summer surge, 18,000 new infections was the average. he wanted it shoved down even more. didn't happen, we got up high. 64,000, august 14th. 77 in the middle of july. why is august 14th highlighted? the first time since then, we went above 60,000 yesterday. came down a bit from summer surge. we began at about 20, came down to 40, and now going back up. concern of all public health experts. you start at 40,000 as baseline, how high do you go if cases explode again. the death trend, you see the blue line, seven day moving average is flat. still sad. between 500 and a thousand. you see a lot of red above the blue line. tells you the trend line will

trickle back up if that continues, if you have the daily count coming in above the trend line. dr. fauci talked about positivity. first the national numbers. 6.3%. again, every public health expert says get it to five, shove it down more. if you're above five, more widespread, more likely community spread. that's the national number. this is the map dr. fauci is worried about. 36% positivity in south dakota. 22% in idaho. 23% in wisconsin. 20% in iowa. 12% in florida. deeper the blue or gray, higher the positivity. a lot of double digits across the country. what can be done? dr. fauci says everybody needs to listen, wear a mask, spread out. he says it is difficult to get that message across especially to young people because many of them get coronavirus that's not so bad. >> it is very difficult in relating to the people how serious it really is because there are so many people who

infected who have no serious consequences. all you need to do is look at the numbers. 215,000 deaths in the united states. 7.8 million infections. if you think by getting infected and saying, poo pooing the prevention modalities that you're living in a vacuum, no. you're becoming part of the problem. >> joining the conversation, the vice president's physician. good to see you. you hear dr. fauci almost every day, there in great detail. he is exasperated, trying to get a message that the president and vice president aren't helping with, they're campaigning, trying to suggest everything is fine. when you see the case count trickle above 60,000 new infections a day, what does that tell you about the trajectory? >> good afternoon, john. thank you for having me back. as a medical provider, i took a

hippocratic oath. it feels at times like the president, vice president and the administration are taking a hypocritical oath doing things that are hurting the american people that they promised to serve and protect. meaning this administration insists on holding large rallies, creating known super spreader events in places like wisconsin tomorrow where the positivity rate is over 20%. in iowa just earlier this week, where the white house experts themselves are insisting against large gatherings and promoting social distancing. i'm concerned about this because it is not just people that attend these rallies, it is the second and third order effects of people bringing the infection home, and we are starting at a bad baseline like dr. fauci just mentioned. honestly, this behavior to me is bore dering on criminal when you drib rattly do something that will hurt the american people, lead to more disease and death. it is extremely concerning. >> we're in a political year, and you mentioned president's rallies. one was in north carolina just yesterday. the president knows that dr.

fauci is saying things that cast his handling of the pandemic in a bad light. he knows dr. fauci is saying people need to double down, that things are getting worse, not better. the president says don't listen to dr. fauci. >> my friend, he's a nice guy, tony. tony fauci. a nice guy. he said this is not a threat, this is not a problem, don't worry about this. there was a problem. it is the craziest thing. then he said do not wear a mask. do not wear a mask under any circumstances. but he's a nice guy, i keep him around, i keep him around. he is a democrat. everybody knows that. he is cuomo's friend. >> at the beginning of that, he is taking dr. fauci out of context, months ago and months ago and months ago, a lot of experts said don't get a mask. dr. fauci has been consistent in recent month about the power of masks protecting lives. the president says don't listen to the nation's top expert because he is a democrat.

you worked for dr. fauci. should we listen to him? >> john, dr. fauci has been the voice of reason in an extremely unreasonable time for our country. i'll tell you, as someone that worked the white house and served this administration, it is a thankless job to be a medical provider in the white house. it is hard to continue to be ethical and moral and comes at a lot of sacrifice. dr. fauci sacrifices every day to keep our people informed of the truth and the science and is owed immense debt of gratitude for his service to this country. he does not deserve to be misrepresented, politicized or insulted. >> one of the big issues in the campaign is when might we have a proven, efficient, effective coronavirus vaccine ready. this is the subject that came up in joe biden's town hall. if the scientists say and certify this is safe, maybe because of all of the public skepticism we should make it

mandatory. listen. >> and once we get it, if it's safe, if it's effective, will you mandate its use? >> i would think we should be talking about, depending on continuation of the spread of the virus, we should be thinking about making it mandatory. >> mandatory in the context of politics and government causes a lot of people to step back, but do you think that's wise and necessary from a public health perspective? >> well, you know, john, there's been a lot of talk about herd immunity concept. i will tell you, the only way we're going to achieve that in this country is through vaccination, not through irresponsible exposure suggested by this administration recently. i will say, public health folks, we lost a lot of credibility because of unfortunate politicizing of the pandemic. it is going to require time to regain trust. vaccination is going to be important. that's only going to come once we are able to fully demonstrate

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joe biden was live in philadelphia, president trump live in miami. it was supposed to be debate night. instead, it was competing televised town halls. there was some news and old habits. democrat biden, for example, went longer than long sometimes in defending past positions and walking through policy options. president trump also defaulted quite a bit to his trademark, saying things that are nowhere close to true. >> just the other day, they came out with a statement 85% of people that wear masks catch it. we're always protecting people

with pre-existing conditions. i can't say that more strongly. we are going to take care of daca. we're going to take care of dreamers. it is working right now. >> joining me, lara burn lopez, julie pace with associated press. laura, let me start with you. the president says we're always taking care of pre-existing conditions. he is arguing a case before the supreme court in a matter of days, couple of weeks, saying get rid of obamacare and the protections that help people with pre-existing conditions. he says talks are ongoing on daca. no. that would be a surprise to me. are there? >> not to me. that's not something republicans have said anything about in terms of moving legislation to protect dreamers. what was interesting in president trump's answer last night was when he was asked why

he hadn't moved to protect dreamers, daca program, a program his administration has repeatedly tried to end or curtail, he turned to coronavirus saying that immigration issues changed because of the coronavirus. he also referenced catch and release. so not answering directly at all why his administration repeatedly has tried to end that program. >> right. if they wanted to act on health care or immigration, they had three years before coronavirus, number one, two of the three years had a republican congress to go along with a republican president, did nothing on either issue. were unsuccessful. julie, something that's interesting, use a polite word when you watch the president, he has access to more information than anybody on the planet, right? he is the president of the united states, has as much access at least some world leaders come close, but he misstates numbers on coronavirus, repeatedly. he is either lying or not doing his homework.

then there's the issue of qanon. this is a conspiracy theory that believes there are satanic worshippers and pedophiles in a deep state running the united states government. he praised them, has been asked about it repeatedly. comes out last night, says i don't know. listen. >> let me tell you what i do hear about it is they are strongly against pedophilia, and i agree with that. i agree with that. >> there's not a satanic. >> i have no idea. i know nothing about it. >> this week you retweeted to 87 million followers a conspiracy theory that joe biden orchestrated to have s.e.a.l. team 6 killed to cover up the fake death of bin laden. why would you -- >> that was a retweet. that was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. i will put it out there. people can decide for

themselves. >> savannah guthrie was wise enough to say you're the president of the united states, not somebody's crazy uncle. whether it is qanon, the president thinks it is okay that he is putting it out there. >> he absolutely does. he does not see the difference between an average american spreading something like that and the president of the united states doing that. when the president puts something out there, that is the backing of the office. that sends a signal not just to his millions of followers but to so many americans around the world that there's legitimacy to what he is spreading. he bristles sometimes when he gets asked about this, but there's a reason this is important. he just has this real power behind that megaphone and he does not seem to sometimes recognize that there is risk in spreading conspiracy theories. when it comes to qanon in particular, he has had multiple opportunities now, particularly since the congressional candidate you mention won her primary, he had multiple opportunities to disavow this

conspiracy theory and he won't do it. he claims ignorance at times or cozies up to that, but he will not condemn, call them what they are, which is a conspiracy theory. >> a conspiracy theory. laura, joe biden got a question about court backing, has been asked this before. will you try to expand the number of members on the supreme court if you win the election. he has punted before, he punted again. this time added a promise. listen. >> if they vote before the election, you are open to expanding the court? >> i am open to considering what happens from that point on. >> don't voters have a right to know? >> they have a right to know where i stand and they will before i vote. >> you'll come out with a clear position before election day? >> yes, depending how they handle this. >> there was a yes, a comma after the yes. but he essentially put himself in a box, didn't he? >> biden is saying that if the

senate moves through with barrett's confirmation and all indication is that they will end up confirming her before november 3rd, then he is telling voters that he will have an answer for them on whether or not he wants to expand the court and that's something that if he says yes, that could ultimately rally members of the base behind him because the progressive wing certainly supports that. we heard that more and more from progressives. again, there are a number of moderate voters who wouldn't necessarily like it if he said that's something he would do. i will add when i talk to voters in states like arizona and pennsylvania, so far a lot of them don't have the supreme court on their mind, say they aren't paying attention to barrett hearings, and we haven't seen any indication that the scotus nomination is impacting the presidential race. >> key point.

i think biden believes that's more of a washington conversation than american conversation now. julie, i have been at this awhile. there's a time tested bipartisan tradition. if asked by a reporter on the campaign trail or in debate, what will the lesson be if you lose, the answer is i'm not going to lose. not joe biden. listen. >> mr. vice president, if you lose, what will that say to you about where america is today? >> well, could say i'm a lousy candidate and i didn't do a good job, but i think, i hope that it doesn't say that we are as racially, ethnically and religiously at odds with one another as it appears the president wants us to be. >> is that refreshing or is that joe biden wasting time by answering the question, he should pivot and talk about something else? >> look, i find it refreshing when candidates actually answer

that type of question because of course they're considering what happens if they lose. they don't often publicly say that, but of course that's the reality of the situation, and i think that biden did give voice to what a lot of americans who are planning to vote for him are wondering what it will mean for the country, if he did lose, what it says about who we are as a nation, what we are willing to accept given how much we know about president trump and how much his politics are tied to stirring up divisions across race, across gender at times, he put it front and center, americans are clear eyed. yet there's a good chance he could still win this election knowing all that. >> start counting them in 18 days. grateful for the reporting and insights. busy two weeks plus ahead for us. up next, coronavirus front and center, including the new mexico governor urging residents to stay at home.

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if you don't have to go out, don't go out. if an errand is not required, food, life, safety, school, work, don't do it because it is thatter a that errand and traveling that's moving the virus around. >> numbers from new mexico support that urgent tone. more than 600 new coronavirus cases in the state yesterday. hospitalizations, the governor says up 74% so far this month. state's top health official worries beds are getting scarce. new mexico human services secretary is with us. 74% up for hospitalizations, the number itself sounds hard and high. listen here to dr. john fleming from university of new mexico hospital putting it in context for us. >> things are bad now in the hospital setting. we're full. we ran out of space in every way you can imagine this week and it was a little bit scary.

>> it sounds a little bit scary. walk us through the crisis in your state right now. >> well, john, i think i would echo words of dr. fauci earlier about the slightly higher baseline. we were doing very, very well three, four, five weeks ago with test positivity rates in the 2 to 3% range, case counts, in 6 to 8 per 100,000. over the past five weeks, we have seen a very rapid up tick as one would expect with a virus like covid-19. >> what is it. obviously you're in a better part of the country but it is getting cooler everywhere, especially in mountain areas, northern part of your state. is it the cool, is it college campuses, is it all of the above in. >> yeah, you know, we believe it is just people being with other people, breathing the same air which there are lots of opportunities to do in new mexico. we think indoor gatherings, more

dangerous than outdoor gatherings. new mexico is a large family gathering state. we had a fair amount of that over labor day. people are getting tired of hunkering down. i don't think they want to believe it is another year ahead of us with this. so i think we just as a state and group of people let our guard down a bit. got too relaxed. >> the governor putting restrictions, limiting gatherings to five or fewer. serving alcohol, close by 10:00 p.m. says the greatest crisis the state ever faced. do you worry because of fatigue, people will not listen? >> you know, i think that the most potent way that people do listen is when they know someone or someone in their family is

infected or gets hospitalized or god forbid should pass away from coronavirus. obviously when we have six to ten times as many cases, it is that many times more people that have that firsthand experience and that does change behavior. the curves as we tell people in new mexico, coronavirus is just a straight line. the curve going up and down every time is how we behave, how we interact, whether we mask, whether we stay apart. we're hoping with new outreach to younger people which was until recently the primary driver of our up tick in cases, trying to speak more their language, get their attention, that we can get them to listen, but it is a challenge. as you know, we are facing it in every state of the country. >> we are facing it everywhere. grateful for your time. wish you luck in the days ahead. we'll circle back and check in. >> thank you very much. up next, republican senator sounds off on president trump

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some republicans are beginning to say out loud what they have been whispering the past four years. the way president trump conducts himself is driving away key voters, driving the republican party to the edge of a demographic cliff. this is republican senator ben sasse speaking to constituents home in ruby red nebraska. >> if young people become permanent democrats because they've just been repulsed by the obsessive nature of our politics or if women who were

willing to still vote with the republican party in 2016 decide that they need to turn away from this party permanently in the future, the debate is not going to be, you know, ben sasse, why were you so mean to donald trump, it's going to be what the heck were any of us thinking that selling a tv obsessed narcissistic individual to the american people was a good idea. it is not a good idea. >> joining us now, former republican senator and cnn political commentator rick santorum. senator, again, a lot of republicans have been whispering things. you yourself, while trying to help the president sometimes said sir, please stop conducting yourself like this. is ben sasse right, is donald trump driving away young voters and women to the point the party will be on the edge of a demographic cliff? >> hello? >> senator, i don't know, can you hear me now? >> i just heard someone on the feed come over, i didn't hear

the question. >> that's all right. >> i apologize. >> no, it happens in this wacky world we live in. senator sass says young people, women, are leaving the republican party in droves because of the way the president con dulk conducts himself. do you agree? >> as you mentioned, i have said that repeatedly on cnn that the issue of the president's demeanor is the reason i believe that he is not way ahead in the race. he should be way ahead in this race and he's not because his personality has turned off a lot of voters. i think we saw it unfortunately in the first debate. i think that's why a lot of -- we saw it in the polls, a lot of conservatives got very concerned after that first debate. i think in the last two weeks, the president has actually been on message. last night i thought he was on message and did a couple of bobbles, did a good job, connected with the audience.

i still think there's a chance, but i think ben has been a pretty consistent critic from the very beginning, so this is not new for ben, but i think he is voicing what a lot of republicans the last couple weeks were concerned about. >> you mentioned the town hall last night. he looked good, energetic. if you worried about his health, he turned in a strong performance in the town hall. you said a couple of bobbles. savannah guthrie tried to get him to denounce the qanon conspiracy theory, that there's a deep state of satan worshipping pedophiles. the president kept saying i don't know anything about them. praised a congressional candidate that's a qanon believer. he has been asked it many times. if he doesn't know anything about them, he could have learned by now. senator mitt romney saying the president's unwillingness to denounce an absurd and dangerous conspiracy theory continues an alarming pattern. he goes on saying the party is

going down a rabbit hole that could eclipse them. it is dangerous for any leader, certainly the president of the united states. agree? >> yeah, look, it was a huge mistake last night. hopefully, i'm sure he'll get this question again, he'll have an opportunity to hit it right, just like he did with the first question out of the box last night with savannah which was, you know, are you going to denounce racism. i understand he is frustrated because he has done it 20 times, in politics you're going to get that 21st, 22nd, 23rd question, that's how it works in politics. not fair. the media is not always nice to you, and you have to answer the questions and not worry about them, worry about who you're talking to beyond them. don't let them distract from your message. >> talking about the media sometimes not being nice. governor chris christie came to the white house to help the president with debate prep, an ally of the president. he is not being nice to the

president now either. listen. >> i was doing it right for seven months, avoided the virus, i let my guard down a couple of days inside white house grounds and it cost me in a significant way. >> a couple of issues. number one, the senator saying they're not doing it right, not being careful in the trump white house when it comes to coronavirus. you can talk about it in that context. you have won in tough climate, lost in tough climates. my bigger question, when you have chris christie, ben sasse, mitt romney, larry hogan, moderate, yes, still republican governor of maryland, following the republican governor of massachusetts saying we're not voting for donald trump. when you have that dissonance in the party, it is hurtful, is it not? isn't that self-evident in the final days of the campaign when you're already behind? >> i mean, you look at it, it is pretty clear people of watching polls and they're all, ben is up for re-election, others have political futures and are looking at polls and already trying to get out ahead of what

they think will happen in november. i'm not convinced that's going to happen. i still think this race is very much up in the air, but i'm not surprised. you see individual members sort of cutting your own path to make sure that they separated themselves should bad things happen. >> and to that point, i was talking about republican dissonance. a lot of it is coming at the president. he started some up this morning, tweeting this morning about susan collins. says there's a nasty rumor susan collins of maine will not support our great united states supreme court nominee, goes on to criticize her, not worth the work. susan collins made clear she doesn't like the process, not so much about judge barrett, doesn't think the process is right. again, the president makes a choice how to use his time and twitter feed at a time he is trailing and trailing badly. wise? >> no. it is not wise on a couple of fronts. number one, there's a vote in maine he can win, one of those congressional districts. i don't think trashing susan

collins helps him win that. and susan collins isn't out of the race either, whether it helps or hurts her, i don't know if it helps politically. susan was a courageous vote in his last nomination, and paying a huge price for it in the state of maine as a result of that. sometimes leave well enough alone, allow a senator in a tough state to run a race. >> senator rick santorum, you know what it is like to win and lose a tough senate race. interesting 18 days ahead. up next, u.s. thorlts are investigating whether recently published emails are tied to a russian disinformation campaign aimed at the bidens.

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important news just in to cnn. federal authorities are now investigating recently published e-mails that purport to deal the business dealings of joe biden's son hunter are connected to an ongoing disinformation campaign targeted joe biden and his campaign. alex, take us through this. >> well, john, we do know that russia is very actively involved in a disinformation campaign against the 2020 election, in particular against vice president joe biden. that is what the intelligence community has said for months now. now according to a u.s. official briefed on the matter, the fbi

is looking into whether these unverified e-mails about hunter biden published by the new york post about foreign business dealings in new york and china, whether they are part of those broader russian disinformation efforts. now, the intelligence community is always critical in helping the fbi with their investigations into russian disinformation since they deal on a daily basis with foreign intelligence. and they have said that russia is working to den grade biden. that's their word. the new york post says they got these posts from giuliani and steve bannon. that politician has been named by the u.s. intelligence community as a russian agent and has been senanctioned by the u. treasury department. also reporting that the white house was warned by the intelligence community last year that giuliani, quote, was being

used to feed russian misinformation to the president. >> his own daughter today. has he responded to any of this? >> he has, earlier today. predictably perhaps he doesn't believe that. he says that he wasn't warned about anything by the intelligence community. reason to what he said earlier on fox news. >> no one in the trump administration warned me. no one in the intelligence community warned me. president didn't say that to me. this is the first time i'm hearing that. and i have a pretty good idea where it's coming from, and these are people that are trying to tear down donald trump and destroy his presidency inside of the intelligence community, of which there are many. >> giuliani leaning hard into the deep state argument. >> as he -- yes, that is his go to and his standby. we'll await additional important reporting. thank you very much. grateful for that important news for us. up next, an eu summit canceled

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europe right now dealing with a major spike in coronavirus cases. take a look here. you can see the comparison with the united states. europe has more than twice the population of the united states. you can see from the numbers there roughly twice new infections every day. as a result of those rising numbers, angela merkel canceling the european union's planned

summit on china scheduled next month in berlin. more now from our correspondents around the globe. >> reporter: i'm scott mcclain in berlin where germany has just recorded two straight days of record new case counts not long after angela merkel set a series of new restrictions. the number of people in german icus jumped up a third in the last week. this week merkel warned that germany does not have unlimited resources. meanwhile, the republic continues to post record high case counts. the prime minister called those numbers catastrophic and said it is not good. this week construction will begin on a pland new field hospital. the health minister told cnn

that the reason for the resurgence of the virus is because restrictions over the summer months were too lax, even conceded the government may have done a victory lap too soon. >> reporter: i'm in man chester where the mayor is in a standoff with the central government in london over their plans to raise the alert level of this city to very high. it is the top tier and would come with additional restrictions that would shut down the night life and ban any households from mixing together. the mayor said he's unwilling to gamble the economy of this city for an experiment their own scientists say might not work. there is a growing number of opposition voices that say a nationwide lockdown is needed to stem the rise in cases. meanwhile in london, the alert level has been raised to tier two. that is high. these restrictions will go in

force on saturday and essentially curtail the social life of londoners and limit it to only those inside your households if you are indoors. meanwhile, political wrangling is going on, the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise. >> i'm in hong kong. more than ten million tested for covid-19 in less than a week. a response to a dozen cases reported last weekend in a northeastern city in china. they tracked this cluster to two dock workers treated at a local hospital. the room where they got ct scans wasn't disinfected properly, which led to infections. two officials have already been fired over this latest outbreak. before this flair-up, china hadn't reported a single locally transmitted case since august. we have seen china use this play

book before where the city goes into wartime mode with this mass testing, contact tracing and restrictions. china is especially concerned about a handful of cases in qingdao since this coming after china's golden holiday. it is a very popular tourist spot known for its beaches and beer. more than four million tourists had come to the city during the holiday. the fear was that people may have taken the virus back home with them. >> and here at home this just in to cnn. the state of michigan announcing it is banning the open carry of firearms at polling sites on election day. in a statement to secretary of state, quote, the presence of firearms at polling places, clerks offices or voting counting board may cause discorruption, fear. it comes amid nationwide concerns of security among

polling cases. those concerns especially high in michigan. remember, the plot to kill the state's governor gretchen whitmer. thanks for joining us here today. if you are up early on sunday morning, we will be up at 8:00 a.m. eastern as well. have a good day. >> hi there. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. the virus is now winning. that is a blunt warning from the governor of new mexico where new cases of covid-19 have surged 50% from a week ago. new mexico is one of 32 states showing an upward trend in infections. just three are on the decline while 15 are holding steady. the u.s. topped 60,000 new cases in a single day. this is actually the first time that's happened since mid-august. nine states are reporting their highest single day of new infections