hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. 4 million. that is how many confirmed cases of covid-19 the u.s. is set to surpass likely at some point today. just two weeks the nation crossed the 3 million mark. you can see on your screen increasingly the time to reach these milestones is shortening dramatically, and still president trump continues to tell you that this saall just a result of testing. >> to me, every time you test you find a case and it gets reported in the news. we found more cases. if instead of 50 we did 25, we'd have half the number of cases. so i personally think it's overrated. but i am totally willing to keep doing it. >> health experts including members of the white house coronavirus task force repeatedly said that the president's claims are not true. as the cases surge, so did

s brooke baldwin then weighed in listen that quite simply is b.s. duckworth record of service is how we now just looking at her is how we now right shot john is it out of line to call out people like duckworth or john mccain or max clearly and i remember he was a kerry surrogate it and i remember criticizing him they're injured war heroes they are they untouchable i don't think so i mean look i would kick this off with tucker . or in the 1st place was she just out now to lie about president trump's speech at mt rushmore she said he was lionizing confederate you know dead confederate traitors and he didn't say a word about it and then you know this whole thing. went ramped up when he attacked her for saying we should change the names of military bases in the south and and take down statues look. i think that's a completely fair part of the the debate about statues in the south and the civil war and whether or not we should have these things out some people think they should go down others and so should stay up i think it's entirely. you know within b

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the new number of coronavirus cases in the united states, second highest single day total since the pandemic began and the latest sign dr. anthony fauci told congress the u.s. is going in the wrong direction. put it in perspective for all of us. what things look like today on this first day of july and compare it to a month ago. june 1st, 24 states showing double-digit declines in new cases compared to the prior week. now -- almost the entire country is the exact opposite. look at that. the explosion is forcing 19 states to now pause or roll back reopening plans. one of them is california where the governor is said to announce new restrictions a little later today. in california, leading states with the number of new cases, just over 7,500. texas, florida, arizona and georgia rounding out the top five. and as the nation begins the sixth full month of dealing with this crisis, president trump remains largely silent. even as a growing number of republicans a

you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin.e the quote, not worth the time and effort, the president's reason for scrapping the briefings back in april after he was widely criticized for saying this. >> i see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we could do something like that. by injection, inside or almost a cleaning. >> yeah. well, now, with cases surging and his poll numbers tumbling over the covid response, the president has decided that today is a good time to be back in front of the cameras. but there is one key question. will two of the top doctors from his task force, anthony fauci and dominican republic deb are you birx be with him. kaitlan collins is live as is dana bash, our chief political correspondent. ladies, welcome. kaitlan, first just to you. this morning dr. fauci told cnn that neither he nor dr. birx have been told to attend the briefing this afternoon. do you have any updates if they will be there and why would the white house even consider holding a briefing on a pand

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you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin.as already suffering from surging coronavirus numbers is now reeling in the aftermath of hurricane hanna. the storl brought heavy rain and flooding to the state over the weekend. thousands of homes and businesses are still without power. cnn's ed lavendera is in dallas with more. ed, what are you seeing? >> reporter: last week a critical care doctor describe the the coronavirus pandemic in south texas as a tsunami of cases. and that was before hurricane hanna came roaring ashore as a trong category one hurricane. this storm comes at a devastating time for that region of south texas. it is been described as the hot spot within the texas hot spot and it has been the number one priority for state officials trying to get this virus under control. the storm brought heavy flooding, strong winds throughout the region. obviously putting a lot more pressure on hospital systems that have already been pushed to the brink because of the coronavirus pandemic. this comes at a time when fortunately t

our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> brianna, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin and thank you for being we many on this friday afternoon. you're watching cnn. let's dive right in. dr. fauci said he hasn't been briefed -- hasn't briefed president trump on the covid-19 pandemic in nearly two months. and the top infectious disease expert said the last time he saw the president was june 2nd. and since then, look at what has happened. the number of new cases per day breaking records day after day. in records have been set in two of the last three days ending with more than 63,000 cases on thursday. we are also seeing several states setting new records every day for hospitalizations and deaths. so when president trump throws out this number, you have to wonder where it comes from. >> we show cases 99% of which is totally harmless. >> so guess who else wonders where that number comes from. dr. fauci. this is what he said today and i quote, i'm trying to figure out where the president got that number. what i think happened is that someone told him that

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you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin.onths of telling the nation krocoronavirus would disappear in warm weather or otherwise, that the risk to americans was low and democrats were overreacting and 99% of the cases are harmless, president trump now said things will get worse before they get better, making the comments for of the first of the relaunched press briefings but he did not offer a plan or a path forward to fight the virus. so with me now gloria borger in washington, d.c. and gloria, we know the president is set to hold another press conference in a couple of hours. some of his supporters and pundits said he showed a quote/unquote new tone yesterday and my question was that all just show and what do you expect from him today? >> well we'll have to see what happens today. it was just show. this was an effort to try and regain his credibility. he was reading from a script. and at least he talked about covid as if it were something that still exists. which is something that we haven't heard before from him. what we d

i'm brooke baldwin." with jake tapper starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our health lead today. the united states is on the precipice of another grim coronavirus milestone. 150,000 dead in just six months with a brand new projection today from the association of american medical colleges that hundreds of thousands more americans could die if the current trend is not stopped. hot spot florida reported today a new single-day record for covid deaths. across the country the daily death toll topped

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our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> brianna, thank you.ny on this friday afternoon. you're watching cnn. let's dive right in. dr. fauci said he hasn't been briefed -- hasn't briefed president trump on the covid-19 pandemic in nearly two months. and the top infectious disease expert said the last time he saw the president was june 2nd. and since then, look at what has happened. the number of new cases per day breaking records day after day. in records have been set in two of the last three days ending with more than 63,000 cases on thursday. we are also seeing several states setting new records every day for hospitalizations and

i'm brooke baldwin. 34,000. that is the staggering number of new coronavirus cases in the united states. it is the single -- second highest single-day total since the pandemic began and the latest sign, that as dr. anthony fauci told congress, the u.s. is going in the wrong direction. just a month ago, nearly half were showing declined and now reopening plans in 19 states are being rolled back. >> and what's the word from the governor? >> reporter: we are going to hear from him within the hour. we are expecting big news. we are expecting bad news if you call rolling back reopening bad news. california is right now hurdling towards a quarter million cases. more bad news from arizona, the highest death toll, the highest case count. in miami a hospital system in southern florida said they're going to stop elective surgeries to free up spaces, just in case. this is not the fourth of july that we've been looking forward to. bars and beaches closing for the 4th of july, fireworks cancelled some places. sounds wrong. b

and our special coverage will continue now with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin and cnn. thank you for being with me. months after trump said the coronavirus with disappear the u.s. is setting single day records for the cases and the please is in denial. 12 states are seeing the highest seven-day averages for new cases and deaths are rising in at least 20 states. more than 50% in several of them. hospitalizations in the u.s. are near the record levels that we saw back in april. and one of the top officials at the health and human services department is telling cnn that despite the alarming numbers, the federal government is capable of handling the surge. >> we are approaching this with extreme seriousness. it really is all hands on deck. this is serious. but we know how to stop this. >> one thing that could stop the

i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn, thank you for being with me.rim pliel . the nation has 3 million confirmed cases. it is about a quarter of all cases worldwide. more than 60,000 of those cases are brand-new. that is the highest single day total since the crisis began in late january and during a briefing today dr. deborah birx urged americans living in states with urges to add lear to the guidelines initially offered by the white house. >> to all of the americans out there that are in these four states and the states that have in the report were in the red zone because there is a series of other states that we have in that zone, it is really asking the american people in those counties and those states to not only use the face coverings and not going to bars and indoor dining but really not gathering in homes either. and decreasing those gatherings back down to our phase one recommendation which was ten or less. >> dr. birx was speak

hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. 4 million. that is how many confirmed cases of covid-19 the u.s. is set to surpass likely at some point today. just two weeks the nation crossed the 3 million mark. you can see on your screen increasingly the time to reach these milestones is shortening dramatically, and still president trump continues to tell you that this saall just a result of testing. >> to me, every time you test you find a case and it gets reported in the news. we found more cases. if instead of 50 we did 25, we'd have half the number of cases. so i personally think it's overrated. but i am totally willing to keep doing it. >> health experts including members of the white house coronavirus task force repeatedly said that the president's claims are not true. as the cases surge, so did fatalities. 20 states showing double-digit increases at the nation-wide death top tops 1,000 second day in a row. the last time that happened was in late may. in total, hospitalizations are kwurntly currently their record and the current state

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our coverage continues with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin.special holiday edition of cnn "newsroom." new cases of the coronavirus are hitting record numbers in the united states with more than 52,000 more people testing positive. the number of cases now tops 2.7 million and the cdc projects

our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> thank you.rooke baldwin. you're watching cnn, thank you for being with me on this friday. how about this. shut down the united states and tart over. that is the plea for more than 150 experts in an open letter to president trump and other officials warning if tough action isn't taken now as cases

. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin and you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. months after trump said the coronavirus with disappear the u.s. is setting single day records for the cases and the please is in denial. 12 states are seeing the highest seven-day averages for new cases and deaths are rising in at least 20 states. more than 50% in several of them. hospitalizations in the u.s. are near the record levels that we saw back in april. and one of the top officials at the health and human services department is telling cnn that despite the alarming numbers, the federal government is capable of handling the surge. >> we are approaching this with extreme seriousness. it really is all hands on deck. this is serious. but we know how to stop this. >> one thing that could stop the spread, a federal mask mandate. the head of the cdc saying just last week that if every american wore a mask, the virus could be under control. yesterday president trump said this about why he's still refusing to order masks nationwide. >> no, i want people to have a certain freedom. and

brooke baldwin picks up the coverage from here. >>> we'll take it, i'm brooke baldwin. hi there.are watching cnn. the coronavirus pandemic is being handled and the u.s. is getting it under control. that's according to president trump who took this victory lap today on the latest jobs number and touting the administration's approach to a virus that has killed more than 127,000 americans and infected more than 2 million people. >> we have implemented an

our coverage continues with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. you are watching a special holiday edition of cnn "newsroom." new cases of the coronavirus are hitting record numbers in the united states with more than 52,000 more people testing positive. the number of cases now tops 2.7 million and the cdc projects another 20,000 americans will die from the virus over the next three weeks. 36 states now entering the weekend with sharp increases in about the comparison to the last big holiday in america, the numbers are still all the more startling. the week of memorial day people getting together and the majority of the country was holding steady or declining. now just 14 states. here is dr. anthony fauci. >> i think it's pretty obvious how we are not going in the right direction. right now if you look at the number of cases it is quite disturbing. we are setting records practically every day of new cases in the numbers that are reported. that clearly is not the right direction. >> texas and florida just two of the states shattering the single day

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me.nce this afternoon that we are nowhere close to getting a grip on this coronavirus pandemic. the world health organization just revealed that a record number of new cases, nearly 300,000, were reported around the world in the last 24 hours. more than 17 million people globally have now been infected. and here in the united states, the situation is just as bleak. the u.s. is on the verge of surpassing 4.5 million cases today. after once again topping 60,000 new cases on thursday. even more troubling, more than 1200 americans were killed by the virus yesterday alone as the daily death toll exceeded 1,000 for the eighth consecutive day. eight states in the south recorded record hospitalizations today. and let's talk about florida. hurricane isaias is barreling toward the state forcing florida to shut down some covid testing sites. this comes as the state, again, added more than 9,000 new cases in the span of a day. it is also breaking its daily death toll record for a fourth consecutive d

and our coverage will continue now with brooke baldwin. >>> we will take it. there, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for joining me. you're watching cnn. here is what i could tell you. president trump is in texas right now. texas. the state on the verge of surpassing new york for the total number of coronavirus cases well over 400,000. but the president is not there to talk covid. nope. instead the president has been meeting with supporters and a fund raising committee and this hour he will tour an oil rig. the lack of focus on this pandemic is even more galling when you consider that the fact that the u.s. is coming off the deadliest day since late may. more than 1200 deaths were reported yesterday. nearly 150,000 americans have now been killed by this virus. and as just devastating as the situation is right now, a respected medical group is warning that it could get much worse. listen to this. the association of american medical colleges said that we risk seeing, and this is a quote, multiple hundreds of thousands of deaths in this country if we do not get this

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. you're watching cnn.reaking news on the spread of covid-19 in the united states, the number of americans who have been infected could be as many as 6 to 24 times higher than the total number of reported cases. that is according to the centers for disease control which analyze results from ten different cities and states between march and early may. and the startling statistic comes as the u.s. inches closer and closer to 4 million confirmed cases. and while half of the nation is holding steady or showing a downward trend, the other half

anchor brooke baldwin listen silently as your guest calls president trump terrorist in chief and more when baldwin does respond. those are. wrong strong words what she says and doesn't say may surprise you that has been terminated from fox news out at fox morning anchor and rising star ed henry was abruptly fired by the network we'll tell you why did the l.a.p.d. pressure the l.a. .

anchor brooke baldwin listen silently as her guest calls president trump a terrorist in chief and more when baldwin does respond. those are strong strong words what she says and doesn't say may surprise you at has been terminated from fox news outed fox morning anchor and rising star ed henry was abruptly fired by the network we'll tell you why did the l.a.p.d. pressure the l.a. times to fire cartoonist ted rall because of his anti police drawings.

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. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me.avirus pandemic has affected 15 million people worldwide and the u.s. is home to a quarter of the infections with more than 467,000 new cases in the last seven days. the number of deaths per day is back above the 1,000 mark after declining the last two weeks but a new model cited by the white house is lowering projection showing mandates for masks. hospitalizations are poise to set a record high and for the seco

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me.verage continues now on "the lead" with jake tapper thns this is cnn breaks news. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper, top republican and democratic leaders in the house, senate and intelligence committees known as the gang of eight are wrapping up a classified briefing with top intelligence officials regarding information about the russian bounty plot. a scheme allegedly paying taliban terrorists hundreds of thousands of dollars to target american and other coalition forces in afghanistan. moments ago house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer accused president trump of failing as commander in chief. "our armed forces would be better served if president trump spent more time reading his daily briefing and less time planning military

. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn thank you for being with me today.d are accelerating worldwide according to the world health organization which said thousands of cases are reported each day. here in the united states, the tally is under 45,000 with only four states, let me say that again, four showing declines in new infections. dr. deborah birx telling governors on a call today

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. our coverage continues now on "the lead" with jake tapper thns this is cnn breaks news. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper, top republican and democratic leaders in the house, senate and intelligence committees known as the gang of eight are wrapping up a classified briefing with top intelligence officials regarding information about the russian bounty plot. a scheme allegedly paying taliban terrorists hundreds of thousands of dollars to target american and other coalition forces in afghanistan. moments ago house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer accused president trump of failing as commander in chief. "our armed forces would be better served if president trump spent more time reading his daily briefing and less time planning military parades and defending relics of the confederacy." this comes as the "new york times" reports u.s. intelligence identified an afghan contractor believed to be a key middleman in handling those cash payments from the ru

i'm brooke baldwin.to you and our coverage continues now with the lead and jake tapper. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to this special edition of the lead. i am jake tapper and we begin today with the health lead. the coronavirus pandemic. the united states continuing to set record highs for the number of new daily infections. the new record, more than 52,000 in one day. the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, saying it's obvious the united states is not going in the right direction. the escalation of this crisis coming as americans prepare to celebrate july fourth, sparking fears this pandemic could

former nfl player myron told brooke baldwin it might be time to call the season off. listen. >> i don't think they should be playing, no. it's rather ambitious to do so. it's hard to social distance when you're in the trenches and battling an offensive line and lifting weights in the weight room. very difficult to do that in that kind of sport. nfl should pause and place the players at premium and delay the sport and cancel it for a year. >> reporter: regular season set to kick-off thursday september 10th with a super bowl champion hosting the texans. let's go to baseball. members of the snaeft reds including former national league mvp joey votto took a knee. this came one day after the giants knelt in their respective exhibition games. kapler said he doesn't say it as disrespectful. >> i see nothing more than standing up for what you believe in. i see nothing more patriotic than peaceful protests. when things are frustrating and upsetting. what matters the most is we're unwavering in trying to do what's right. >> finally here's our latest look inside the nba's bubble

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.ew number of coronavirus cases in the united states, second highest single day total since the pandemic began and the latest sign dr. anthony fauci told congress the u.s. is going in the wrong direction. put it in perspective for all of us. what things look like today on this first day of july and compare it to a

i'm brooke baldwin you're watching cnn on this thursday afternoon. the u.s.onavirus continues to ravage the nation in its sixth month of fighting the pandemic. deaths have increased in seven states. of the now 3 million total cases, one-third, that's 1 million, were confirmed in less than one month. 58,000 cases added just yesterday, and increasingly, president trump finds himself on one side of

i'm brooke baldwin. cnn's brianna keilar picks up our coverage, right here. >>> kate, thank you so much. continuing this special coverage i'm brianna keilar. coronavirus cases in the u.s. have now surpassed 3 million as the nation experiences the highest daily case count since the pandemic started. just over 60,000 reported in a single day, yet a short time ago the vice president, the man who leads the white house coronavirus task force said this -- >> we are actually seeing early indications of a percent of positive testing flattening in arizona, florida and texas. governors in each of those states have taken strong steps to flatten the curve and, again, as dr. birx will describe, we're beginning to see early indications that positivity is flattening, and in arizona and florida, we are beginning to see declining numbers of emergency room visit as well. we believe the takeaway from this for every american, particularly in those states impacted is, keep doing what you're doing. >> he mentioned arizona. he

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. our special coverage continues now on "the lead" with jake tapper. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we begin with the health lead today. an alarming escalation in the coronavirus pandemic with a 75% increase in new cases in the united states compared to just two weeks ago, according to johns hopkins university. totals more than 2.6 million people infected in this country. at least a dozen states are seeing homgs hospitalizations rise as well. mostly in texas where there are curbly more than 6,000 coronavirus patients hospitalized. so far 19 states are either pausing or pulling back their reopening plans, a reminder, it did not have to be this way. the united states has about 4% of the world's population. yet a quarter of all coronavirus cases and deaths, at least official numbers say. and as we see cases spike at the highest level so far here in the u.s., the european union not to mention many other countries throughout the world has

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> and welcome to "the lead." we begin with breaking news. president trump touting what he calls the, quote, tremendous progress on the coronavirus vaccine front at a facility in morrisville, north carolina, one that's involved in development. as new polling shows that more americans disapprove of the president's handling of the pandemic. and just this morning we learned mr. trump's national security adviser robert o'brien has tested positive for covid-19. the white house insists there is no risk to the commander in chief, but o'brien who recently returned from europe and was seen in photographs not wearing a mask or practicing any sort of distancing, o'brien is now the highest-ranking administration official to contract the virus, that we know of. hospitalizations in the u.s. have returned to the peak levels that the united states saw in april with nearly 4.3 million confirmed infections in this country and

. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin thank you for being with me on monday, you're watching cnn.ning from 200 scientists to the cdc and the world health organization that the coronavirus could float in the air in smaller droplets than previously thought and it probably needs to be alert. that message delivered in an open letter as 32 states begin this new week where they ended the last one in a fight to contain the spread. several states posting records yet again. >> clearly our current approach, if you call it that, is not working. by the time we're in the fall election, i'm sure we'll easily by at 100 to you cases a day as dr. fauci