hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. the final six days of the 2020 campaign and the president needs to change his map and his math if he hopes to reconstruct his 2016 path to victory. one simply wow number today, the 2020 vote total is nearly half of the entire 2016 turnout.

73 million ballots already cast so far. there are still several days left to return your mail-in ballots. but democrats now worried about postal delays and urging voters still holding those ballots, find an election dropbox. how much of the country votes this year is different thanks to the coronavirus pandemic now entering its most dangerous stretch. 73 new cases on tuesday, nearly 72,000 cases per day now is a record daily average across the united states. the end of 2021, that, dr. fauci says, is when we can expect to return to normal, not around the turn as the president says now every day. the president insists these rising case numbers are fake because of increased testing. the country's testing czar says it's wrong. he said rising hospitalization cases shows it's real. nationwide map, almost nothing going right. cases increasing in 40 of the 50 states. only one state moving the covid

needle in the right direction right now. an official white house document asserts it's ending. numbers show it's a lie. the president's denial is a reminder of voters worn down by the pandemic and thinking about who should lead the country through it. let's take a look where we are in the final days of the campaign. 290 electoral votes assigned to joe biden. takes 270 to win. if nothing changed, joe biden is the next president. the president 163, a lot to make up. deep blue solid biden, light blue lean biden. michigan, pennsylvania, trump states four years ago lean biden now. how does the president get back at this? here is one way to look at it. look at the map right now. iowa, georgia, north carolina, iowa, ohio, north carolina and georgia are toss-up states plus maine's second congressional district. even if the president held them all, won them all, and he won

them four years ago, it's within reason, joe biden competitive in all those, within reason the president gets them all, he still would not have enough. that's why he's on the road. he has his vice president here today trying to get those back. the president wakes up in nevada moves onto arizona, two states. democrats won that four years ago that would be a big win. lean blue. kamala harris will in arizona, vice president joe biden focusing on coronavirus, delivering a speech at home in delaware. fine days of the campaign advantage biden on the map, coronavirus the biggest issue. we have correspondents deployed across the country in critical battleground states. let's begin with sarah murray in philadelphia. >> reporter: john, 20 electoral votes, a big prize in pennsylvania. ivanka trump is going to be here campaigning for her dad. already more than 3 million voters here have requested these early and mail-in ballots. secretary of state is urging them to get those ballots in as

soon as possible. do not wait until election day. she's also urging counties to prepare to start pounding those mail-in ballots or precanvassing them as soon as they possibly can on election day. they are allowed to start at 7:00 a.m. some counties say they aren't going to start the canvas until the next day. we could be in for the long hall in pennsylvania and officials are trying to prepare everyone for that. we may not know in pennsylvania but we will get a definitive answer in this state. over to you in north carolina. >> here in north carolina, more than half of all the registered voters in the state have already cast a ballot. more than 3.6 million voters already have banked those ballots. to give you an idea how astronomical we're talking about nearly 75% the total number of votes that were cast in 2016. most of those are people who are doing what the people here are

doing. they are voting in-person absentee. that goes through october 31st. the other early voters voting by mail that the 100,000 of them. they have until election day to send off their ballot. but much of what has defined the north carolina early voting period is litigation, the courts. they are still involved in that. two cases have been appealed to the u.s. supreme court. both of them dealing with a ballot receipt deadline. the u.s. supreme court is going to have to decide whether those ballots have to show up postmarked by election day on november 6th or on november 12th. that's what they are waiting to find out in north carolina. here is bill in wisconsin. >> diane, thank you. we're here in the capital of madison in a state that is setting records, the best kind when it comes to voter engagement and democracy, the worst kind when it comes to this pandemic. this is a drive-through covid testing facility. a couple hundred cars in line

here. since the surge they tell me they are doing a test every nine seconds right now. the real concern is that this might translate into a wave of people hitting hospitals in this state. right now there's about 11,000 hospital beds in wisconsin, 84% of those are filled up. icu units are at 87%. they have an emergency field hospital on the state fairgrounds just outside of milwaukee they hope they won't have to use. only a handful have used it so far. as the vote goes, same story around the country. they are surpassed half the total vote with six days to go, what we saw in 2016. joe biden is coming on friday. no announcement how he will handle that rally but you know it will be very different from the one president trump held yesterday over on the western side of the state near la crosse. the people i talked to, when they see the crowds, many of them without masks, john, they

say it makes them angry. >> bill weir on the ground. thanks to all our correspondents spread around in the final days of the campaign. when we come back, the president's son-in-law jared kushner talking about a key moment early on in the coronavirus response when he says the president took this back, took the coronavirus back from the doctors. as we go to break, i want to bring you flashback from previous elections, this one in the final days of 2016. >> i regret deeply how angry the tone of the campaign became? >> not your fault. we've got the retinol that gives you results in one week. not just any retinol. accelerated retinol sa. for not only smoother skin in one day, but younger-looking skin in just one week. and that's clinically proven. results that fast or your money back.

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warning him about the covid threat. jared kushner talked to pulitzer prize winner bob woodward back in april, with the president's blessing. the early task force guidelines were issued mid march. one month later the white house issued reopening guidelines as the president grew anxious the coronavirus restrictions were hurt the economy and his re-election chances. listen to him describe the critical moment. >> the last thing was doing the guidelines, which was interesting. that in my mind was almost like trump getting the country back from the doctors. what he now did is open up, the panic phase, pain phase and comeback phase. that doesn't mean there's not a whole lot of pain and won't be pain for a while. what that basically does is we've put rules to go back to

work. trump is in charge, not the doctors. we have a negotiated settlement. >> we have this audio because of our great correspondent jamie here with more. just the tone, the president getting the country back from the doctors. >> this is, they wanted to sideline the doctors simple and clear. they saw the doctors as adversaries. when you say negotiated settlement, it sounds like the end of a war. it just underscores the trump kushner political strategy. they had one concern, election d day. once again as woodward showed, a failure of leadership, a betrayal of trust. as we see the numbers surging again, it's going on today. >> in this audio, jamie, give us context. we know jared kushner is really close to the president, if not his most trusted adviser in the white house. they have had a lot of tour mill on the staff.

he has harsh words for many colleagues. >> for the past four years, this is not a surprise. we have seen trump call people names. we have seen him blame the top people around him. kushner in this audio echos those sentiments. but listen carefully to how he describes the people who are now at the white house. >> the most dangerous people around the president are overconfident idiots. that has a way sometimes of getting past his defense mechanism. if you're overconfident, sometimes on a topic where he doesn't have other people around to kind of validate it, he can sometimes say, okay, let's go with that. if you look at the evolution of time, we've created a lot of overconfident idiots and now he's got a lot more thoughtful people who know their place and

know what to do. >> john, i just want to emphasize those words "know their place." it's clear whether it's administration officials, doctors, health experts, no surprise, trump wants to be the one who is in charge. >> and we are four years now, jamie, into the trump takeover of the republican party, and jared has some pretty blunt thoughts about that. >> i don't think this is going to sit well with lifelong republicans. it's probably not a surprise to them. but hearing kushner's words, he is dismiss of the party, the republican platform, and he credits his father-in-law with a hostile takeover. >> and so you look at the republican party platform, it's a document meant to piss people off more than done by activists. so you have a disproportionality

between what issues people are vocal on and what people, the voters care about. what trump has been able to do, he basically did a full hostile takeover of the republican party. i don't think it's even as much about the issues. i think it's about the attitude. >> it's about the attitude. it's about the person. it's about the person this is the trump party. it's not the republican party we grew up covering, if you go back. there's one last clip you have, and this one we get some insights about how important jared is to the president. >> this is actually new sound of donald trump. i just want to say six dpas before electi -- days before election day, the president might not be happy about these words played by kushner in public, but he will have a hard time divorcing himself from them. here is what he told woodward about his son-in-law. >> i told jared to speak to you, and i believe he has. i just told him a little while

ago that if you would do me a favor, jared, and coordinate a little bit with bob so bob can speak to anybody he wants to. jared, very capable guy jared, you can't get people like this, one smart cookie. if you can get to jared, see me whenever you want. >> so many ways to unpack this. i want to get back to the point you were making earlier about the people around the president and who is in charge. that works both ways. jared clearly made clear there if you work in the white house the president is the boss. the president has the thing where jared is his eyes and ears to keep in line. he's the lieutenant he trusts the most. >> no question. i've spoken to cabinet members, senior former white house officials. when jared calls, you pick up the phone. you listen. there has been a strategy here. it was trump's strategy but also jared kushner's strategy.

they wanted trump to be the good news, open up, cheerleader president. here we are losing more people than ever, record numbers, and that strategy has not changed. >> again, i'll go back to the beginning. you started with sound back in april, one month in to the white house response. in the middle of march they introduced 15 days to stop the spread and extended guidelines. the president gets antsy, worried about the election. the plan they put on paper was actually a very good one. you hear jared, they are taking the country back from the doctors. the president is in charge again. within days of releasing those sidelines essentially gave governors the green light to blow through them. >> correct. i think what's very important was you see there was never a federal plan. the plan was, as jared says, put the hard stuff on the governors. foist all of that onto them. no federal mandate, no testing

and tracing, and trump was going to be there just to be the one who was good news, open it up, not his fault. >> not his fault. we're five days away from the election where we'll see if the american people agree with that perspective. grateful for this important reporting and the contenth to put it in. thank you. joining us to discuss this cnn analyst emergency room physician. doctor, if you go back in time, we've been talking about this, let's go back to april. you're a month in, the white house issues reopening guidelines. the guidelines on paper, if you read them today, pretty good guidelines. meet test a, take two weeks, look around, doing better. go to post two. on paper they are pretty good. the toep there, trump took the country back from the doctors. they make it an either-or as opposed to of course the president calls the shot. he's the president. they make the doctor seem like the enemy when you listen to

jared kushner. >> you know, john, it is a nauseating statement to hear as a frontline physician out there treating patients with covid-19 as our nurses, janitorial staff, techs who put their lives on the line to treat these patients, to put us up as the enemy, people standing in opposition to the president rather than people working potentially hands in hand with him to save lives of americans and prevent more people from getting infected. it is, again, a nauseating statement for me to listen to. >> again, i think for people who have coronavirus fatigue and understandable when you look at the numbers on the right of the screen there, let's remind the tape for context. the president issues guidelines. you just heard jared kushner in his own words say trump is now back in charge.

it's not the doctors. listen to one of the doctors intimately involved from the beginning including writing those reopening guidelines, talk about his frustration they weren't followed. here is dr. fauci. >> when we were trying to open up the economy again or open up the country and we did -- i was very much involved with dr. deborah birx in putting together these guidelines, which were a gateway of phase one, phase two, to tell you how you can gradually, safely and prudently open up the country. that would have been nice if all the states did that the same way. if everybody had done that uniformly, i don't think we would be in the position we're in right now. >> when you listen to dr. fauci, that's what puts kushner comments in context. within days of releasing the phased reopening guidelines, the president, who was antsy, started urging governors to ignore them, blow through them, open faster. that is what dr. fauci is so

frustrated about. you hear it from jared kushner in his own words, trump is now back in charge. it's not the droctors. >> yeah. when you look at the result of doing that, john, the result is where we are right now where virtually every state in the country is seeing rising numbers of coronavirus infections. virtually every state in the country seeing rising numbers of covid-19 deaths. we have 50% increase in hospitalizations in the last month alone and we're only just starting to head into the fall. had we listened to those guidelines put together by the experts, we could have reopened safely. we could still be reopened. we wouldn't be facing what idaho and montana and north dakota are facing currently and what most of the rest of the country is going to be going through in the next couple of weeks. to denigrate expertise puts literally all of us as risk. >> what goes through your mind?

i think i have a clue. look, i get it. it's it. we're in a political campaign. any piece of data the president can spin favorably, i get it, that's how it works. if they can say we're surging testing to places, good for them. if they can say wets people ventilators when they needed them, good for them. they released a document last night to tout the president's accomplishments in his first term. this the president's accomplishment according to the white house, ending the covid-19 pandemic. ending the covid-19 pandemic. you see the document right there. if you look around the country right now, 40 of the 50 states are trending in the wrong direction. they published a document at the taxpayers' expense, ending the covid-19 pandemic whach. what does that make you think? >> i would invite the president and his close advisers to come to virtually any emergency department or hospital in the country right now. if he really thinks he's ended the covid-19 pandemic, how does

he explain the increasing numbers of really sick patients coming to our doors, increasing death count and increasing impact on communities literally across this country in all 50 states. that just seems delusional to me. we know that 90% of americans still have not been infected. unless the trump administration acts, unfortunately we're going to be facing a much more difficult fall and rising case counts. this sort of denialism sets us up for so much trouble over the weeks and months to come. >> if somebody watching doesn't believe you, they think you're a doctor who doesn't support the president, i want them to listen here and i want your comments. you sense this, we live in a polarized word and people are skeptical of what they hear, especially when the president says don't believe the news media, doctors. this is the testing czar. he's on the campaign trail saying all is well. i survived covid, tough it out.

this is good. this is admiral giroir saying, no, it's not. >> we're at another critical point in the pandemic response. we still can control this by the types of smart policies, wearing a mask, indoor spaces, avoiding crowds, being very careful around the holidays and having more testing. but if we don't do those things, it may force local officials or government officials in the state to have more draconian measures. cases will go up if we don't make a change. >> if we heard that from the president at his rallies, we could all say thank you, sir. instead this brings me back to where it began, trump is in charge, not the doctors. that's jared kushner's words, and that's what we've seen since apr april. >> that's exactly right. i couldn't agree more with admiral giroir. to be clear, this is not a political issue. this virus does not follow partisan rules.

it's not a system of belief. it's a virus. it follows science. doctors within the administration and doctors outside of the administration are, for the most part, in total agreement about how the virus spreads and how to prevent it with a couple of notable exceptions, of course, like dr. atlas. the rest of us agree if we mask up, adequate testing and tracing, follow riles about isolation and testing, we can both keep america safe and reopen more quickly. allow our kids to be in school, allow our businesses to be open. our goal is to keep people healthy and out of our ers and hospitals. this is not political, not partisan, i want my patients and community to be safe. >> dr. ranney, i'm grateful for your time and important insights. thank you very much. up next, back to the campaign trail and huge challenge in the days ahead. how record breaking early ballots are going to be counted.

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this is a wow number, more than 73 million americans have already voted that number, half the total vote count in all of 2016 election. that's according to survey by cnn, edison research and catalyst. in pennsylvania those votes cannot even begin to be processed until election day.

that's state law. even then different counties have different processes and different counting place in place. this from pennsylvania, other areas plan to work on mail-in votes. swing counties like erie, cumberland intending to wait until after the polls close or even the next morning to begin. kristen holmes joins me now. kristen, this is one of the battleground states where we might be waiting for a while 9/11 it's a blowout. a complicated process, the president says i want it counted on election night and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. >> absolutely. we continue to say this. just because we don't have results on election night doesn't mean something bad has happened, it's just the system at work. now, the problem with different systems of counting mail-in ballots, it might cause some confusion on election night. here is why. i want you to see this latest number, 1.84 million early ballots cast. keep in mind pennsylvania is not a case who has a robust,

in-person early voting program. most of these are mail-in ballots. that's not something to sneeze at. they will all have to be processed. as you membershintioned philade will start at 7:00 a.m. so when the polls close they will have some information to give to the public. erie, lucerne say they are not going to start counting until after the polls close or even possibly later or the next day. so just something to keep in mind when you are watching those come in. it could be skewed, could be more democratic or republican. we have to wait until vote is counted. two other headlines, one out of minnesota. this was a really interesting decision by conservative justice kne neil gorsuch. he decided to reject an appeal from republican congressional candidate in the state after the death of a third party candidate in the race. gorsuch didn't take it up to the full court meaning that election

will go on as planned in november. lastly, john, i want to point to something here. look at this number, 8.14. this is the early ballots cast in texas. this is really incredible. despite the fact we do believe there's finally a button on the issue of dropboxes in the county, a texas supreme court ruling in favor of governor abbott to have only one dropbox in the county there. >> remarkable. numbers are mind-blowing. we'll see how it affects election day math. wow, kristen holmes, grateful for helping us through this. >> the mayor in denver warns the city one step away from a stay-at-home order. hi,

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now and now we have to step back and address it from a more serious point of view. we're one step away from a stay-at-home and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. >> denver part of the surge of infections, one of the 20 states seeing the highest coronavirus cases. the governor warning the number on the rise. just under 7%. with us is the colorado governor. i want to say up front i'm sorry joe biden speaking in wilmington after a briefing with his coronavirus task force. let's listen. >> i'm going over to vote with my wife and then i'll be happy to take your questions after i vote. okay? i just completed another public health briefing with my team of public health experts. we looked at the latest reported data how it indicates we're on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than

anything we experienced to date. we talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by this administration's declaration of surrender to the virus. we discussed, again, the vital importance of wearing masks, of protecting yourself, protecting your neighbor and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. this is not political. it's patriotic. wearing a mask. wear one, period. focus on the way the virus is hitting communities of color much harder, particularly black, latino and native american communities. we're seeing race-based disparities across the aspects of this virus, higher infection rates but lower access to testing and harder time quarantining safely because of the financial circumstances. lower access to quality

treatment when they are infected. tragically higher mortality rates. one in 1,000 black americans have died from this virus. this is a staggering statistic. 60% of black adults, 46% of latino adults know someone who has died or been hospitalized from this disease. folks, we've lost more than 220,000 lives to this virus already, but this administration is just giving up. over the weekend the white house chief of staff mark meadows went on television and admitted that they have waved the white flag and declared surrender. he said, quote, we're not going to control the pandemic, end of quote. the american people deserve so much better than this. just look at what happened last night in omaha after the trump rally ended. hundreds of people, including older americans and children were stranded in subzero freezing temperatures for hours.

several folks ended up in the hospital. it's an image that captured president trump's whole approach to this crisis. he takes a lot of big pronouncements and makes a lot of big pronouncements but they don't hold up. he gets his photo-op and gets out. he leaves everyone to suffer the consequence of his failure to make a responsible plan. it seems like he just doesn't care much about it. the longer he's in charge, the more reckless he gets. it's enough. it's time to change. meanwhile yesterday the white house science office, and this stunned me, put out a statement listing ending covid-19 pandemic as a top accomplishment as president trump's first term. top accomplishment of trump's first term. at the very moment when infection rates are going up almost every state in our union, refusal of the trump administration to recognize the

reality we're living there, at a time when almost 1,000 american a day are dying every single day is an insult to every single person suffering from covid-19 and every family who has lost a loved one. there's nothing more personal to an american family than their health care and the health care of their loved ones. i know all too well what it feels like to have your heart ripped out losing a loved one too soon. to sit at the hospital bedside and feel like there's a black hole in the middle of your chest knowing there's not much you can do. i and many of you know what it feels like to watch a beloved person die, lie there dying of cancer, some other disease, without wondering -- having to wonder about whether you can pay for the medical bills, or what would happen if, god forbid, the insurance companies come in and say we're not going to cover the treatment. yet today president trump is on

a single minded crusade to strip americans of health care. that would only create another enormous crisis in the public health system. in two short weeks, exactly one week after the election, the trump administration will make its case asking the supreme court to strike down the affordable care act, quote, in its entirety. in its entirety. let me say that again. they are arguing that the entire law must fall, which will strip 20 million americans of their health insurance overnight, rip away protections for pre-existing conditions for more than 100 million people, in the middle of an upswing of a pandemic, the upswing. look, just this week on "60 minutes," we heard what trump told lesley stahl about the upcoming supreme court case on the affordable care act, and i quote. i hope that they end it.

it will be so good if they end it, end of quote. there's no question that's why president trump nominated justice barrett to the court, and that's why the republicans jammed her through with a confirmation in the middle of an election. republicans tried and tried and tried since the affordable care act was passed to overturn it and every single time they failed. president trump has tried everything he can on his own to sabotage the law. so now to what i've characterized the craving abuse of political power, they have added to the court a justice who criticized chief justice roberts previous decision to uphold the affordable care act in hopes they can destroy the affordable care act once and for all through the courts, no matter how many americans they hurt in the process. so let's remember exactly what's at stake in this election. if you have diabetes, asthma,

cancer, or even complications from covid-19, you're going to lose the protection this law provides. insurers will once more be able to jack up your premiums or deny your coverage. women could again be charged more for their health care just because they are women. children will no longer be able to stay on their parents insurance policies until age 26. on top of all that, overturning aca could mean that people have to pay to get covid-19 vaccine once it's available. that's right. that's right. the law that shares insurers are required to cover vaccines for free is the affordable care act, and he's striking that down or attempting to. unlike donald trump, i believe health care isn't a privilege, it's a right that everyone have access to it. this country can't afford four more years of a president who thinks he's only responsible for

the well-being of the people who voted for him. we can't afford four more years of a president who instead of fighting the virus attacks doctors. i can't get over this guy. he attacked doctors claiming they are overreporting covid cases because they want to make more money. doctors are overreporting cases because they want to make money. you know, our doctors and nurses and our frontline health care workers are putting themselves at enormous risk every day. more than 1,000 of them have already died in an attempt to beat back this pandemic and save lives. they deserve to be treated with respect by our president. we can't afford a president who would spend his time desperately trying to strip people of their health care than even once bother to put forward a health care plan on his own.

we can't afford four more years of donald trump. the good news is we have a chance to turn this around by voting. there's six more days left in this election. the american people have it in their hands to put this uncan in a vastly different path. this is my commitment to you. i'll protect and build on the affordable care act so you can keep your private insurance or choose a medicare-like option. can you make it stronger. i'm going to make it stronger with your help to lower premiums and deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. we'll bring down drug prices by almost two-thirds by taking steps like allowing medicare to negotiate with the pharmaceutical company or billions of dollars making the price lower. when medicare says we're only going to pay you x amount for following medicines, that will lower prices drastically making

it available to everyone. we're going to make sure every american has access to free covid-19 vaccine. this isn't beyond our capacity. now, if we come together, we can stand together. if we stand together as the united states -- the united states, democrats, republicans, independents, we can transcend old divisions and show what's possible. there's nothing beyond our capacity. there's no limit to america's future. if i'm elected president, as i said yesterday in warm springs, georgia, i'll be a president who is not in it for himself but for others. a president who doesn't divide us but unites us. a president who appeals not to the worst in us but the best in us. a president who looks not to settle scores but to find solutions. a president guided not by wishful thinking but by science, reason, and facts.

even if i win, it's going to take a lot of hard work to end the pandemic. i'm not running on a false promise to end this promise by flipping a switch. what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. we'll let science drive our decisions. we will deal honestly with the american peoplers and we'll never, ever, ever quit. that's how we'll shut down this virus so we can get back to our lives a lot more quickly than the pace we're going at now. i'm going to fight to protect your health care, i promise you, just like i fight for my own family. we can do this. i promise you. but now i'm going to go do what i hope all of you do. i'm going to walk out of this building and i'm going to go vote, going to go vote. there's a lot of people on that

ballot. not just me but the down ballot as well that are going to change things for us, make it better. so may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. >> the democratic nominee for president, former vice president joe biden speaking in wilmington, delaware. he's heading to vote. he says he will take questions from reporters after that. in the remarks you just heard, damning assessment of the president's handling of the coronavirus. if he is elected, it's not like flipping a switch. the pandemic won't go right away but he will take a more serious science-based approach. he will be guided not by reason but science and facts. at the beginning of his remarks saying the trump administration surrendered in a fight against coronavirus at a time when it is spiking now in 35 states across the country. joe biden saying it is not

political, it is patriotic, wear a mask. kaitlan collins joins us now. he took time laying out what democrats see in the final days of this campaign. it is a fact the trump administration is asking the supreme court in a case to be heard one week after election day to throw out the affordable care act, obamacare, in its entirety. joe biden making the case that would strip health care for millions of people, take away protections if you have a pre-existing condition, take away the piece that allows you to keep your children on your health care until you're 26. taking the pandemic is issue one, the broader health issue in which the democrats think they have a political edge. >> we saw in midterms they do have an edge when it comes to health care. that's why you see biden hammer it every day on the campaign trail. what was striking about his remarks, pointing out contradictions from the white house on the pandemic. as the president has been on the

campaign trail holding several rallies every day, it is an unavoidable topic. it is shaping the way this 2020 race is coming to a close. he was talking about the things happening today where you see the testing coordinator at the white house dispute what the president is saying on the campaign trail, which is the rise in cases in the u.s. is due to rise in testing. today admiral giroir told the "today" show that is not the reason they are up. look at the hospitalizations as a point of fact when it comes to that. he also disputed what mark meadows said on sunday, the chief of staff, which said we're not going to get control of the pandemic. admiral giroir said we can control the pandemic if we take smart measures like wearing a mask, avoiding crowds, watching what you're doing over the holidays. the ultimate straw out of the white house was that document released touting ending the pandemic as an accomplishment of president trump's first term in office when obviously it is not over, it has not ended. we are still very much in the middle of it.

of course, that's something the director at the white house said today was a poorly worded statement. you heard joe biden hitting self notes when he was speaking there after getting this briefing on coronavirus. so i think the ultimate question that we still don't know the answer to is how do voters view the two candidates in the way they are taking this on the campaign trail and seeing the president holding large rallies as he did yesterday, as he's expected to in a few hours today compared to joe biden's approach. we don't know the answer to that yet, john, but, of course, we can see had you they are responding to it so far on the campaign trail. >> we'll know soon enough. maybe not soon enough for make but soon enough. kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks force sharing your time today. with the new freestyle libre 2 system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose with a painless, one-second scan. and now with optional alarms, you can choose to be notified if you go too high or too low. and for those who qualify, the freestyle libre 2 system is now covered by medicare.

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. hi there, i'm brianna keilar, i want to welcome you. six days to go and more than 73 americans have cast their ballots. that's more than half the ballots cast in 2016. for those who have not voted yet, president trump and vice president joe biden are in an all out sprint to win you over. biden in his home state of delaware keeping the focus on the pandemic and saying he'd do things