i can't explain peter navorro. he is that he a world by himself so i don't want to go there. >> reporter: navorro's op ed came after they sent unflattering talking points about fauci. he said that was unwise too. >> if you talk to reasonable people in the white house, they realize that was a major mistake on their part because it doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them. >> reporter: now white house officials are trying to distance themselves from navorro with one aide saying the peter navorro op ed didn't go through white house channels. the president values the opinions. one white house official said navorro had been told by staff member meadows to de-escalate. mitch mblg come -- >> what's your level of confidence in dr. fauci at this point? >> total. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham, both are battling for re-election. >> we don't have a dr. fauci problem. we need to be focusing on doing things that get us to where we need to go. i have all of the respect in the world for dr. fauci. i think any effort to

i can't explain peter navorro. he's in a world by himself so i don't even want to go there. >> the president didn't have much to say about navorro's actions except to deflect any blame. >> he made a statement representing himself. he shouldn't be doing that. no, i have a very good relationship with anthony. >> condemning the content of navorro's op ed. >>> the first big shakeup in the trump campaign. the president demoting brad parscal. the president is trailing joe biden by bubble digits. the president was furious after a much behind return to the campaign trail in tulsa fell flat last month. >> this is not the campaign the trump team had in mind. the relaunch is going to include big battleground states. his actual travel this month does not include much of that at all. he can try to pin the staggering numbers on this, brad is not the one going off message. brad is not the one going off mask. he, trump, is not focused. everyone has told him that and he's made his own choices. >>> the president's handling of coronav

just today i spoke with peter navorro. listen what he told me. >> everybody thought, and this was a reasonable presumption, that come summer the heat and humidity would get rid of the virus. this looks like a weaponized virus, whether intentionally or unintentionally. >> first of all, nobody thought the disease would just go away in warm weather. secondly, there is zero evidence this disease has been weaponized. america lost control of the pandemic because of poor leadership right here in america. now nbc news reports that rather than develop a strategy to get rid of the virus like every other country in the world has done, the new coronavirus message from the trump white house is we need to live with it. considering more than 130,000 americans have died from the virus, we need to live with it seems like a cruel response. right now if things continue on this path, there is every indication that the outbreak we are experiencing will only get worse. joining me now for more on what we are dealing with is the staff writer at t

peter navorro, leading the u.s. response, dr.auci. >>> nancy pelosi saying masks will be worn in the house chamber. republican congressman gomer tested positive. he was blaming his mask for giving him the virus. >> i know, you know, moving the mask around, just right, i'm bound to put some virus on the mask that i've soaked in. that's most likely what happened. >> taken up, gomer and others are calling for testing on capitol hill. >> someone will catch covid. you want to be able to trace it, put them out and just as congressman gomer says, he doesn't have any symptoms, there could be other people. >> congressman covid. just as a fact, given what we know about covid-19, it is incredibly unlikely he became infected by wearing a mask. this is spread by person-to-person contact. the we will point of wearing a mask is to protect others not just yourself. it's difficult to figure out how you got tested and the kind of tasting that is not alone. many attending that hearing not wearing masks. the doj says barr has tested negative for the

trump said, that's peter navorro. i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. he's not condemning the op-ed written by navorro. the white house insists no issue going on with dr. fauci and president trump although we know behind the scenes the president has been critical of him and not wanted to see him on television as often in the previous days and has complained about the fact dr. anthony fauci has gotten high approval ratings. >> kaitlan collins. non-responsive, the legal term there. insights, important, from an infectious decease expert from the harvard school of public health. doctor, good to see you again. i wish we could have a more optimistic conversation. look at trend lines. 60,000-plus new cases a day, pretty much retain in recent days. 14 states reporting record hospitalizations. the death count in many states starting to go back up. where are we? >> well, a bit like a deja vu unfortunately, in many ways we're back we were were months ago. tests, seeing tests are delayed. cases going up, and now we're unfortunately seeing the ramifications of those

the specific nonsense in this case is peter navorro, a senior trade official, who is, i got to say, widely viewed in the entire economics field as a total crank. yesterday he published a brief, flimsy, sad 270 word take-down of dr. fauci in a national newspaper. the l.a. times reports he had trump's permission. not only was he authorized by trump, he was encouraged. this is a few days of the white house circulated opposition research on dr. fauci, pointing out that like many experts he had been wrong amid the pandemic. the president managed to get one of his most unhinged, distracting really upsetting hard to watch confused rants about nothing. but here's the thing. people do know who donald trump is, by and large. people know who dr. fauci is. dr. fauci has been working in public health for s60 years. he's most known for his aids work in the '80s. called fauci, quote, the only true and great hero among government officials in the aids crisis. five years ago, when anthony fauci was 74 years old, he suited up to battle the ebola virus itself because he wanted to show his staff that he would

. >>> usa today has added a note to white house trade adviser peter navorro's op ed saying several ofisms were misleading the white house has already distanced itself from navorro's article. and in a clash of cultural references, the savannah bananas of the coastal plain leagues celebrated sint patrick's day in july by wearing kilts as they defeated the macon bacon 5-1 >>> strange times indeed that is the news update at this hour sara, baseball in kilts, i'll send it back to you. >> at least they're playing again. thank you. sue herera coming up, when school is out, the economy is out we'll talk to the president of the university of arizona to find out how he is planning to return to classes. how important it is for the recovery and managing that return in a covid hot spotlight now. be sure to tune in tonight a virtual live town hall featuring financial experts helping americans affected by the crisis rebuild their financial future that's tonight 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnbc. >>> sponsored by comcast business, committed to keeping you and your business connected. (music) anncr: give cust

peter navarro attacking fauci in an op-ed. saying "he's been wrong about everything" the two discussed. the white house denying an effort to discredit fauci earlier in the week said it hasn't happened claiming navorro went rog in his column and went around protocols for that. first, we dig in on the crisis that is unfolding in florida. 54 hospitals in the state reached capacity when it comes to their icus meaning no icu beds available, period. another 40 hospitals have 10% capacity or less. now one study shows of the 20 u.s. metro areas with the highest daily growth rate, nearly half of them are in florida. cnn's rosa flores is live in miami beach, and rosa, the staid-wide numbers are alarming. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: they are alarming. the florida department of health reporting more than 10,000 cases today, brianna. that brings total for the state of florida to more than 300,000. the epicenter is right here where i am in miami-dade county. accounting for 24% of all infections. the situation is only getting worse. city of miami mayor francis suarez said yesterday he's being pressured to shut down in the next week or two, and that quite frankly, they have between one week and four we