had la he last time in the election. very busy week here. don't go anywhere on this busy day. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. ♪ john, thank you so much. i'm brianna keilar. welcome to our views in the united states and around the world. a widespread disaster is unfolding. not one state that is looking good with its coronavirus numbers. not one state is moving in the right direction right now. new cases looking at the seven-day average are at the highest level ever in the united states. hospitalizations are up. many hospitals are nearing capacity and becoming overwhelmed. more americans are dying. despite these facts, the white house says it's not trying to control the pandemic. >> here is what we have to do. we are not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact

that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitt days ago. >> why not -- the pandemic? >> it is a contagious virus like the flu. >> why not make efforts to contain it? >> we are making efforts to contain it. >> by running all over the country and not wearing a mask? that is what the vice president is doing. >> let me say this. we have to make sure we have the proper therapies and vaccines and treatments on to make sure people don't die from this. the white house and president are on cleanup after that statement. here is president trump ahead of his pennsylvania rally. >> no, not at all. quite the opposite. exactly the opposite. we have done an incredible job. we are doing a great job. we are absolutely rounding the corner. other than the fake news, who wants to scare everybody, we are absolutely rounding the corner. >> absolutely, we are not. in the meantime, the president is hosting another

outdoor event today. once the senate is expected votes to confirm amy coney barrett to supreme court. this is a book end to her announcement that turned into a superspreader event last month. this time, an outbreak is already under way in vice president mike pence's inner circle and includes his body man who is assigned to be his shadow and take caring of everything from handling his papers and handsing him pens for autographs. the body man holds the breath mints and hand sanitizer for context on his proximity to vice president. the vp is ignoring cdc guidelines after exposed again to covid and he is continuing to campaign. front line workers are living with the consequences from people who do not follow the guidelines. a hospital association in utah even warning that health care rationing could become the next step if the numbers do not fall. i want to bring in cnn's tom foreman who is in washington and following this closely as we are watching the spread. tell us the most worrying areas

right now, tom. >> reporter: if you put aside all of your political beliefs and just look at the numbers no way to reconcile what the white house is saying with reality. johns hopkins says right now, the u.s. is averaging close to 800 deaths every day, a 13% increase from just a week ago. we talked about how a lot of things happen in fall return to school and people back from vacation and people packing together because it's cold out and indeed have the backimpact the numbers say it is. pennsylvania where the president is going right now, they just saw their highest daily case average in pennsylvania and, yet, people, again, for the president's call are packing together to say let's cheer on the president despite the fact many health experts say that is a terrible, terrible idea. wisconsin up where we saw the return of big ten football over the past couple of days here, they are doing a lot of things to try to protect the athletes there to try to eliminate the

crowds. nonetheless the numbers in wisconsin rocketing up and if you go down south to texas, look what is happening with hospitalizations down there. also going up. bottom line, there is no sign whatsoever that it is getting better with this virus right now and all of those warnings that we have been hearing for quite sometime tell you it's no surprise. we have been told that we were in for a bad fall and here is the proof in the pudding. >> we are watching it. a bad map there. tom foreman, thank you. the second coronavirus outbreak inside the white house. right now one week before election day at least five members of the vice president's inner circle are testing positive. we all know cdc guidelines clearly state that he should quarantine 14 days after exposure but he is not doing that. cnn's john harwood has details. >> reporter: despite positive coronavirus tests for five people in his inner circle including his chief of staff and body man and political adviser,

vice president pence is back on the campaign trail today defying cdc guidelines to go into quarantine. the white house justifies that on grounds that mike pence is an essential federal worker. now, this reflects the desperation of a campaign that is behind joe biden significantly nationally and in swing states but it also underscores their core problem. the biggest issue in the election is the coronavirus pandemic. the public judges the trump administration harshly for his management of the pandemic and vice president pence's behavior will not help with that problem. >> john, thank you. as the white house continues as of nothing is happening, president trump plans to host a swearing in ceremony for judge amy coney barrett tonight following her expected supreme court confirmation. there are fears, though, of it becoming another coronavirus superspreader ercvent like the e last month for her nomination.

>> reporter: mike spence is not scheduled to tenant that final confirmation vote for amy coney barrett to supreme court. this comes after multiple staffers in pence's office tested positive for the virus over the weekend. the vice president tested negative on monday, his office announcing that unless the vice president's vote is needed he won't be on capitol hill. we expect this nomination is going to sail through with just republican votes in a matter of hours. now there is still some concern about an event scheduled at the white house this evening where president trump is expected to swear in barrett as a supreme court justice. of course, in a time of coronavirus when large events happen, there is always a risk of spread and, remember, it was just about a month ago that the white house held that superspreader event in the rose garden when amy coney barrett's nomination was initially announced. >> lauren, thank you. you heard the white house chief of staff mark meadows says

the white house will not control the pandemic. the next guest says the president didn't put up a fight from the beginning. in op-ed, jeffrey sax writes the following. jeffrey sach is joining us now. a professor of health policy and management at columbia university. dr. sachs, thank you for being with you wius. you say president trump will be remembered as the greatest failure in american had history. why is that? >> 230,000 deaths to date, roughly a thousand deaths each day now, and they say we are not even trying, as the chief of staff said yesterday. this is boundless. the incompetence of it is

unbelievable because it has been clear that there are ways to approach this for months as other countries are successfully doing and we have just about the worst outcomes of the entire world. taking into account the size of our population that is measuring cases per million or deaths per million or the number of new infections. it's out of control in this country because they have not done anything right since the very start of this. lives, confusion, this idea we have to keep the economy open as if that is the only thing to think about. and so it's been one fool after another and here we are with mass suffering in the united states today. >> you outline how there is a false choice between the economy and health and make that clear in your op-ed. you say also that how you react to a public health crisis like this is basic, that every first

year health student would have known what to do. so how does that make his pandemic response that much more egregious that it's not like reinventing the wheel. this was basic stuff. >> in fact, this was all known as knowable in march. i wrote it every few days since then essentially, but countries as varied as japan, korea, australia, new zealand, they have shown for months this can be brought under control through basic rapid testing, case tracing, wearing face masks, safe isolations of people and safe work places and stopping large superspreader events. this is the basic checklist, but trump, he is really such an idiot, i'm sorry to say it

because he is president of the united states but the complete arroganir in accordance but the arrogance not to listen to people who know. it's not about politic. 800 million dead and many living with long-term disabilities with brain impairments. it's unbelievable the incompetence and benevolence that went along with it. experts were trying to say day after day, week after week, do this, complete shutdown of thinking by this president. maybe that is just beyond him, but this is really something we have never seen before in this country. >> you're watching how the vice president is now reacting here. he has been exposed to people with coronavirus. he has five of his closest aides, including his chief of staff and his body man. what should he be doing? and what does it mean that he is

not doing that? >> he should be self-isolating, but the failure that they couldn't even after the first white house outbreak stop this shows that they don't take any precautions. really? you cannot account for this at any level of responsibility. but i don't know what it is they are really thinking because all of those countries i mentioned that have had success, they have the economy open. so the whole idea we are doing it so we can keep the economy open is exactly backwards. how can you keep an economy open with surging pandemics? you can't. you keep the economy open by controlling the pandemic. but trump's idea all along is never tell the truth, never acknowledge, never learn. that is what we have today, which is say whatever you want, we are turning the corner,

whatever it is. it's complete fantasy world for his followers. i don't know how they can still listen to this because they see around them in their neighborhoods and their families with their friends, with their parents, their children, their siblings, people are getting infected all over this country and the president, the vice president are out there as if nothing is happening. the chief of staff is saying we don't control, we can't contain it because, obviously, his statement reflected this fundamental ignorance to this day that, of course, it can be contained. >> yeah. it's a sad, sad situation. dr. sachs, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for covering it. president and joe biden are hitting the campaign trail with eight days to go. what their choices say about their strategy. plus, a spat erupts over a billboard in times square that shows ivanka trump and jared

kushner on it. the couple are threatening legal action but do they have a case? and a public health official breaks down as she reports the state's coronavirus deaths. >> today, we are reporting 3,874 new cases for a total of 364,033 cases since the start of this pandemic. excuse me, please.

there are eight days until election day. more than 60 million americans have made their choice and cast their ballots. but with millions left to go, the candidates are making a mad dash to reach voters in key states. here are the travel plans as they stands right now. president trump spending today

in pennsylvania. he'll be in wisconsin and nebraska later this week. then former vice president biden has multiple stops planned in georgia and florida. cnn's ryan noble is in pennsylvania where president trump is making his second stop today. ryan, the president is moving from the lehigh valley to amish country. it shows how important the state was for him in 2016. what do you think about how this could indicate how he is feeling about the state? >> reporter: well, it's become increasingly clear there are few paths to victory for donald trump without winning pennsylvania. it's become one of, if not the most important state for the presidential re-election hopes and you remember four years, it was a surprise victory for the president. pennsylvania was a state that had not voted republican in quite sometime. so for the president to win here was a big accomplishment and he would kernel slik to keep it in his corner. but as you see his travel here,

particularly today, what you see the president doing is making a concerted effort to drive out his base. you mentioned that the president spent the morning outside of allentown, pennsylvania. he was in north hampton county, a state he won by four points. he is coming here to lancaster county in a few minutes. that is a state he won or a county i should say he won by 20 points and then he is going to end the day in altoona in blair county. the president won that county by 40 points in 2016. so this is, you know, very similar to the message that we have seen from the president for basically all of this campaign and that is driving home the vote. his republican base is, you know, the section of the electorate. that is the message and what they are trying to do today. the president is spending time in republican counties here and needs everyone to come out. as we look at the vote totals

come in in terms of voting and absentee balloting and align that with party, democrats have the advantage and republicans hope to make up that on election day and another reason you see the president making a case to republican voters here in the coming days. >> thank you, ryan nobles, for that report from pennsylvania. the travel plans of the candidates and their surrogates tell a story. they reveal where the candidates are worried and where they believe they can gain ground even in this late part of the race. cnn chief political chor correspondent dana bash is with me now. >> let meet pick up where ryan left off. pennsylvania is so incredibly crucial to the puzzle pieces that the trump campaign is trying to put together that gets them to 270 electoral votes.

florida is always key in every election, particularly for republicans and without florida, it's pretty much curtains for donald trump if you look at the math and the electoral votes across the country. pennsylvania, the reason that the president is going there and spending not just one stop there, but several stops in multiple days is because he does think and his campaign thinks it is fertile ground for finding more trump supporters that didn't vote last time because they didn't really understand the concept of a trump candid y candidacy. i was there. i was near where ryan is right now where the president is going and they are registering more voters and they do think that there are more members of the trump base to mine. the question is whether or not the energy you're seeing in early voting. 70% of the early vote, almost 1.5 million ballots, that is for

democrats. so the question is whether or not democrats can make up or, obviously, excel and exceed the kind of, you know, base mining that trump is doing through all of these rallies. >> i wonder what you think about florida. because you have joe biden, as well as former president barack obama who are going to be there being week with separate events there. trump won florida in 2016. with biden going there, how does that tell you how he sees the state? >> it is neck and neck as florida always tends to be. the biden campaign feels and, you know, those of us who are looking at the map understand that if joe biden wins florida, it will be next to not entirely possible but next to impossible for president trump to win re-election which is why they are trying to push him over the line in florida because we could see it early and it could be potentially decisive. now i'm not saying that there

isn't a path for donald trump without florida. but it will be so much harder. >> "the washington post" is reporting that last week, trump was talking to donors in nashville and saying it's tough for republicans to hold the senate. they have 53 seats right now. which senate races are you keeping an eye on mostly? >> there are so many. but, to me, some of the most interesting are those that are also in battle grounds on the presidential race. start with arizona. i mean, arizona is a race where democrats are feeling very, very bullish that mark kelly is going to win and turn that seat from republican to blue. but i'm talking to republican polsters who are familiar with that saying that that might be a reverse coattail situation that could help joe biden because, obviously, that is also a big swing state, one that democrats are hoping to reverse from four years ago. then there is maine. this is not a presidential swing

state but it is one you have a marquee senator and that is susan collins. you and i covered her for years on the hill. she has kind of held out. she is one of the last, if not the last actually kind of moderate republican in the northeast which used to be full of moderate republicans and she is trying to hold on to the seat there and it's going to be very hard for her. then iowa. this goes back to the presidential swing state question. i mean, joni ernst is in the fight of her life. only a first-term senator but very close there. people close to her and following her race saying her fate could very well be in the hands of president trump, not just what we have seen in terms of policies over the last four years, but in terms of how he does in iowa. he won handily there four years ago and now it's kind of income and neck for him. and then quickly north carolina and south carolina. north carolina falls into that

presidential swing state question. thom tillis in a tough race trying to keep that in the republican column. then, of course, south carolina. this is ruby red state where somebody like lindsey graham who has been, you know, tried and true conservative for that state, but also very, very tied closely to the president over the past few years especially, should be running away with it, but jaime harrison, his democratic kalgchallenger i thi the most well-funded democratic challenger in the country and giving lindsey graham a run for his money so we will see what happens there. >> the money in south carolina and all of these races is unbelievable. >> it is. >> dana bash, thank you for the tour. we appreciate it. utah hospitals are now warning that icus are so overwhelmed, doctors will have to start rationing care. plus, we take you to times square where a billboard showing

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cnn has identified at least 16 false or misleading claims in the president's interview with "60 minutes" which he ended abruptly and stormed out of. he is still upset over this interview with leslie stahl. his favorite emotional support anchors joined in the parade claiming that joe biden was not asked difficult questions during his interview with "60 minutes." >> you give him a layup! you give him an out! why cbs is third at night. >> we should know that jason miller the president's senior adviser at the campaign complimented norah o'donnell. look at the questions he claims

so unfair. before i roll the tape, we should note leslie stahl fact-checked his answers to these questions and he lied or dodged and that is not on her but him. >> are you ready for some tough questions? >> should be. it's "60 minutes" he is the president up for re-election in the middle of a pandemic and the troubled economy. >> why do you want this job again? >> that is a basic one and essential one for a presidential candidate or really any job. haven't you been asked that question? i know that i have. >> let me ask you what think your biggest domestic priority is for you right now. >> that is an important question. it's also an obvious one. except his answer was a lie. he claimed he led the greatest economy even before the pandemic which stahl fact checked him on. >> and who is our biggest foreign adversary?

>> he answered china. pretty straightforward question there and timing given the timely interference against the u.s. election. then the topic turned to polls suggesting he is bleeding support from suburban women. >> one of the reasons is that they don't feel you're being up front about the pandemic. are you delicate downplaying it? >> a fair question since he is downplaying it and he admitted that on tape. >> i wanted to -- i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down. >> yes. >> because i don't want to create a panic. >> the next question from leslie stahl that the president thought was out of line. >> i wonder if you think that masks don't work. >> he mocks masks even though they are proven deterrent to the coronavirus spread. he both sides them here and he rarely wore them before contracting the virus or after contracting it so, yeah, an

important question. >> i'm watching all of these people jammed in together and i'm seeing most of them without masks opinion and i'm wondering the message that you're sending with these pictures coming up on television. >> after this, he brags about the size of his rallies and then maybe this is the question that the president's favorite network thought was just too tough. >> tell me about the mask wearing. >> you're so negative. you're so negative. these are the biggest rallies we have had. >> a question he is asked five straight years and four he occupied the white house and a question he can't answer which makes it more imperative to ask. >> okay, i'll ask you another health question. okay? >> okay. >> you promised that there was going to be a new health package, a health care plan. >> yeah. >> you said that it was going to be great. you said it's ready. it's going to be ready. >> it is. >> it will be here in two weeks.

it's going to be like nothing you've ever seen before and, of course, we haven't seen it. so why didn't you develop a health plan? >> it is developed. it is fully developed. it's going to be announced very soon. >> when? >> back to fox for a second. just listen to the sunrise trio. >> the end of president trump's interview when he said i'm done, kayleigh mcenany brought the health plan. >> it was gigantic. >> it was huge. >> i know they are impressed by big books but no comprehensive replacement plan to be law in that binder and they know it. it's political theater and a bunch of executive orders put out by the white house to look like they are doing something about health care as they try to kill the current health care law and long walong with the trees to help fill that binder.

when some of trump supporters are from far right wing groups or conspiracy theory groups deemed a threat by the fbi. >> can you characterize your supporters? >> then the conversation turns to his opponent but not his current one. >> hillary clinton deleted, she deleted 33,000 emails after she got a subpoena from the united states congress. >> but why is this still an issue? they are not voting on that! >> why is this still an issue, staal asks. fair since clinton not running for president right now and neither is hunter biden, the squad, or gretchen whitmer. here is the question about the michigan governor. the recent target of a domestic terror group's kidnapping plot. >> you want to lock her up. >> of course, i don't want to lock her up. why would i? >> president has attacked whitmer over and over again and telling michigan to liberate after her restrictions due to

coronavirus. where would his supporters get that impression? >> you got to get your governor to open your -- up your state, okay? >> lock her up! >> lock her up. lock 'em all up! >> pretty clear, why leslie stahl asked that question. >> do you take any responsibility for the country being divided against itself? do you feel that? do you think that your tweets and your name calling are turning people off? >> we hear over and over from voters that trump has lost from 2016 until now that this is a concern for them. he should answer for that. >> then you've brought up a lot of subjects that -- >> i said i was going to ask you tough questions. >> to recap. the kubts brought up that president trump deemed inappropriate -- the pandemic,

the economy, foreign policy, his health care plan or lack thereof, his supporters, the election and his rhetoric and tweets. those are fine topics, standard even. it's not the topics or the questions that are out of bounds, it's his answers and that was pointed out by leslie stahl. he doesn't want to be told he is dishonest which he is verifiably is. he expects a compliant media to get away. here is the problem. he is the president of the united states where a journalist can challenge a president with fact and she is protected by the constitution. so, too, is his temper tantrum. despite the first event being a superspreader, tonight the president planning to host another event for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. plus, we take you to times square where a billboard showing jared kushner and ivanka trump

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lawyers for ivanka trump and jared kushner are firing back and threatening to sue after these billboards were put up in new york city's times square. one shows ivanka next to statistics about covid deaths. the other shows kushner with a quote attributed to him from "vanity fair" saying that new yorkers are going to suffer and that's their problem. cnn has not been able to verify

"vanity fair's" reporting of that quote. they were posted by a lincoln project, a prominent group that opposes president trump. and the image has altered from a photoa where she walls promoting goya beans. jared and ivanka's attorney said in a letter to" the lincoln project said, of course, the lincoln project's misrepresentations that they did are outrageous. if the billboard ads are not immediately removed, we will sue you. alexandra field is following the story, she's in times square. give us the latest there. >> reporter: hey there, brianna,

one of billboards is still up. the other is missing. this is raising a lot of questions. while you have jared kushner and ivanka trump both threatening to sue the lincoln project, the lincoln project has adamant in their defense. they have said in response to threats of a lawsuit that they would welcome a suit, they would look forward to the opportunity to use the legal process to prove the truthfulness of those billboards that they put up. they went on to send this message to ivanka and jared. they said, the level of indignant outrage they have shown for exposing their indifference for more than 223,000 people who have lost their lives due to their reckless mismanagement of covid-19 is comical.

their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take ivanka and jared. now, attorneys have called those billboards, false, malicious and defamatory. for a bit of context, brianna, that quote did come from "vanity fair." "vanity fair" cited an unnamed source, who said they were in a meeting with jared kushner and overherd or heard directly jared kushner saying that in the meeting. the question is why does one billboard remain up? why is one suddenly missing? >> we know you'll be looking into that campaigned ra. joining me is legal analyst eli honig. if they do see, what are the chances that they would win? >> i know lawyers are trained to

hedge. if the family files a lawsuit, the chance is 0.0. jared kushner and ivanka trump are public officials. the first amendment gift of highse defense to political satire all way up through "saturday night live" this weekend and these bill boards. they would have to show actual malice, meaning the lincoln project knew the facts were wrong and they still put them up. we're talking about statistics, number, forget about falsity, these are just simply facts. >> okay. so you're a legal analyst. this is sort of the pr question of it, but it appears that the lincoln project thinks they baited a hook, and ivanka trump

and jared kushner bit. would the billboards be getting as much attention if they had not threat everyone to sue? >> this could blow up in their faces. think about how many more people have now seen this billboard because they're pounding their chest about bringing a lawsuit. also, legally the lincoln project's position here is bring it on. if the trump family brings a lawsuit, means we'll gelt into discovery, depositions under oath of jared kushner, ivanka trump, get into their e-mails their text messages. this lawsuit i think is doa, and if they get into it it will brow up on them on the trump side of things. >> elie, thank you. >> yeah. the u.s. is see its worst week ever in this pandemic. plus the white house is seeing a second outbreak among at this time staff.

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hello. it's the top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar. right knew the u.s. is losing the fight to contain coronavirus. the seven-day average of new daily cases has reached its highest level ever. saturday topped 83,000 new cases. every single state is not moving in the right direction. hospitalizations are you want, more americans are dying. on sunday the without admitted it's not trying to control the pandemic. >> here's what we have to do. we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and