for his part the president today re-tweeted a conspiracy theory from chuck woolery, former host of the dating game "the love can connection chl" the pitchman for blue emu arthritis cream. accord fact-checkers at the washington post, the misleading statements that the president has now made has topped 20,000. i'm joined by my friend and colleague nicolle wallace, host of "deadline: white house." ordination monday, nothing to see here. >> you caught me with the emu arthritis cream. i learn things, too, from you brian. >>> i try to stay on where the extraordinary coverage by the men and women on the white house beat takes us. as do you. the people on the beat of this white house, i think it's fair to say are our guiding light. i almost the thread that men and women on the white house beat were racing to confirm an article in the washington post, opposition dump on dr. fauci. i quickly googled fauci, opposition research, having been in the business of campaigns, not proud to say i've been involved in opposition research. but he's a jewel. this is a sad and dark and depressing day. i think

if he believed the cdc as he re-tweeted chuck woolery, stick with the doctors and not chuck woolery, are the cdc is in cahoots with the doctors and are all lying about the coronavirus to hurt the president. the history of the fauci relationship is well known, tamarah. let's listen to a bit of it. >> well, i think we're in a good place. >> we're facing a serious problem now. >> we're almost up to 40 million in testing, and 40 million people, which is unheard of. >> this is the thing that is had a little bit concerning. the well, we now have 37 million tests have been performed. the question is when you get on the phone and talk to the people in the community, there are still lapses there where the dots are not being connected. >> if you look at the chart of dt deaths, deaths are way down. >> it's a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death. >> it's inexplicable sometimes even if you think the president doesn't want to read the brief and study the virus he is on the ballot. would you think for his own political chances he would understand this better at this point. i wen

fauci with opposition research or quote chuck woolery. eight clear that's not the way out. i spoke to mayor francis suarez. he said it's not in control in miami-dade county, which is alarming, this morning. and i also asked him about his considerations on new stay-at-home orders. what would the tipping point be? he said when the hospitals are overrun, when they don't have any more capacity and we're starting to see some icu hospitals in miami-dade, seven of them have reached capacity. >> i watched the interview. i think he's being very thoughtful. i still have to say, you get behind the curve on this and wait for the hospitals to reach capacity, and you've waited too long at that point, because then you're going to run into the crisis situation where people who otherwise would benefit from care, benefit from being in a hospital won't be able to get one, get a hospital bed. so i understand where he's going with that and i heard similar sentiments from other mayors in texas and arizona. the problem is that, that is sort of waiting too late. if you want to start to put data on

none other than chuck woolery. yeah. chuck woolery. the former game-show host. that says it all. even as he undermines the most experienced, most trusted man in public health today, he is passing on conspiracy theories from a game show host, former game show host, i should point out. actually, though, it doesn't say at all. these two sound bites do. first, former president george w. bush's tribute to dr. fauci. >> as the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases for more than 23 years, tony fauci has led the fight against hiv and aids. for his determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lives, i am proud to award the presidential medal of freedom to dr. anthony s. fauci. >> presidential medal of freedom, dr. fauci got. that is who the president is now undermining. and all the folks around him are dropping lines about him. saying things about him sending out hit pieces about him. and this is who the president is listening to on the outbreak that's now claimed nearly 136,000 american lives. chuck woolery. >> hey, chuck wool

and now he's re-tweeting chuck woolery. [ laughter ] [ laughter ] it's not good. it's not good.dvice from the former host of "the apprentice" whose getting it from the former host of "love connection." well, just when we thought trump's response to the virus couldn't get any worse, this weekend, he took his education secretary betsy devos out of packing peanuts to defend the administration's push to reopen schools in the fall. here's what she had to say >> there is no -- nothing in the data that would suggest that kids being back in school is -- is dangerous to them >> jimmy: yeah she was like, "kids need to go back to school in fact, people even tell me that i should go back to school." unfortunately the data betsy is talking about was provided by chuck woolery. [ laughter ] and finally, as the pandemic rages on, trump spent friday dealing with a more worthy cause. >> president trump on friday night commuted the sentence of his long-time friend and political adviser roger stone. stone had been convicted of crimes including lying to congress in part to protect the president. >>

chuck woolery. boy, i haven't seen chuck woolery in a long time. but he's, i guess, alive and well and on twitter. yeah. that chuck woolery, who claims the cdc, the media, and democrats are allel lyi lying a the coronavirus. and that's the guy the president wants you to believe. the guy i used to watch on tv, when i was a kid in the 1970s. one official telling cnn, quote, several white house officials are concerned about the number of times dr. fauci has been wrong on things, and going on to provide a lengthy research-style list of examples. senior administration official telling cnn tonight, quote, it's just the white house tired of getting media questions about their relationship with -- with st. anthony. but, seriously, the white house is concerned about the number of times dr. fauci was wrong? seriously? roll the tape. >> we have it totally under control. it's one person coming in from china. and we have it under control. it's going to be just fine. >> we're in very good shape. and i think china's in very good shape, also. >> we have very littl

covid-19 has hit chuck woolery's own family.ing this tweet before deactivating his twitter account. to further clarify and add perspective, covid-19 is real and it is here. my son tested positive for the virus and i feel for those suffering, and especially for those who have lost loved ones. i'd like to say that i wish the woolery family well and i hope his son recovers. a spoebsman says that he is asymptomatic and that he is doing well, but chuck woolery with amplification by the president of the united states helped to push the idea that coronavirus is all about partisan politics. doctors fighting coronavirus trying to desperately stop it. they are not lying. that kind of rhetoric doesn't help anyone. the virus doesn't care about your politics. and, again, i hope your son gets well. >>> another disease infecting this country, and that's hatred. white supremacy, racism, anti-semitism. guess who i'm going to talk to about it? there he is. w. kamau bell is here to talk next. out what it actually was. dust mite droppings? ewww. de

chuck woolery. >> drying to make a love connection. >> that following the president's tweet on school reopening as tough and expensive. >> we're not being guided by science and by public health partnerships. we've seen a side lining of the cdc. >> four former directors wrote an op ed decrying did overriding the once vaunted agency. dr. tom frden. isre spent decades figuring out what's the best way forward. >> dr. fauchi changed his mind on the travel to china. >> he'll admit that. it was a good decision. >> linsey graham knows it runs deeper and warnds the white house to reverse course. >> any effort to undermine him is not going to be productive, quite friendly. >> and neither have an unblemished record. mr. trump on disinfect eblt. is there any way we can do that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? >> and u.v. light. >> supposing you brought the light inside the light in the body. >> and rallies. >> big onen florida, big one ne>> no big foreseeable future. less than a month ago vice president pence wrote an op ad in the wall street journal blaming the media for hyping ongoing

the president targeting his own cdc by re-tweeting a claim by a former game show host, chuck woolery, the message accusing the agency and most doctors of lying about coronavirus. just a reminder here the ydc is part of the president's own administration and it's the president that names the director. >> yeah, and it's a false claim. the facts don't back it up. that as white house officials are also pushing a coordinated effort to discredit dr. anthony fauci, the man who is helping to lead the white house task force in batting this virus. one of the premier infectious disease experts in the nation. the u.s. now tops 3.3 million coronavirus cases. 135,000 deaths. 35 states, those you see there in red, in orange and yellow seeing a spike in infections. >> in florida, a staggering 14,000 cases diagnosed alone. rosa flores has been covering the state's response for some time so it's key now, and this happens. it's in the data. cases rise and then sadly hospitalizations rise as people get sick. tell us what you're seeing there now on the ground. >> reporter: you know, jim, those metrix keep

chuck woolery, former game show host, he said everyone is lying. the cdc, media, democrats, our doctors. chuck woolery said it's all about the election and keeping the economy come fromming back, which is the election. i'm cig of it. the president promoted to the 80 million followers and those around the president are also criticizing dr. fauci with the posts and then what's notable is someone who left the white house is now saying about covid-19. that's mick mulvaney, john, the president's former chief of staff back in february at the end of february was saying that the media hyping stories of coronavirus in order to bring trump down and now writing an op-ed for cnbc of testing and said in any of the bills of congress should be directed at the root cause of the recession, dealing with covid. he said i know it's not popular to talk about in republican circles but we have a testing problem in this country and goes on to cite firsthand experience saying the son was tested and they had to wait five to seven days to get results and his daughter didn't

be getting this coronavirus from a source -- >> trump is getting his advice from game show host chuck wooleryt's interesting but before i make any decisions i want to hear what wink martindale has to say. chuck willard. for those that don't know him, he's a crazy ex-tv host with a bunch of ex-wives that loves conspiracy theory is and now he's re-tweeting chuck willard [laughter] . >> it's not good we're getting medical advice from the former host of "the apprentice" getting it from the former host of "love connection." just when we thought the response couldn't be any worse he took his education secretary to reopen schools in the fall. here's what she had to say >> there is nothing in the data that would suggest kids being back in school is dangerous to them >> she was like, kids need to go back to school in fact, people even tell me i should go back to school unfortunately the data betsy is talking about was provided by chuck woolery. finally, as the pandemic rages on, trump spent friday dealing with a more worthy cause >> trump spent friday defending the sentence of his long-time friend rog

but this morning, the president retweeting chuck woolery's rant accusing the cdc and doctors for lyingbout the virus. what would you say to the president if you were in the room with him? >> i would say the cdc works for him. when you say you shouldn't listen to the cdc, you're saying you shouldn't listen to the federal government, which he runs. i would ask the president to implement a federal mask in public rule. i think his cancelled new hampshire rally. >> we don't need a mask. it's a brainwashing. there's no reason to be scared. absolutely not. it's a joke. >> and there's not a pandemic anymore. >> reporter: president trump talking about his relationship with the government's leading expert on infectious diseases. >> i have a really good relationship with dr. fauci. i don't always agree with him. >> we've been told that senior officials refer to dr. fauci as dr. gloom and doom. >> reporter: dr. fauci focussing instead on the raging public health crisis. still, the president plans to republican convention next month in florida. >> hospitalizations are at an all-time high. icu beds

why do we give a rip what chuck woolery thinks? we don't but we have to pay attention because the president is retweeting this conspiracy theory drivel that accuses the administration, the cdc umpbd h -- under of him of lying to the people. i want to bring in dr. peter hotez, dean of tropical med season at baylor college of medicine and in the race for a vaccine. first, doctor, what is the damage of suggesting, of having the president suggest that the cdc is lying to people and that doctors are lying to people? >> yeah. i don't know what the president's end game here is. this is an abandonment of human rights. it's certainly a total absence of intellectual curiosity. this is terrible for the country at a time when we need leadership. our epidemic is now spiraling out of control, especially in the southern half of the united states. we heard about the rise in hospital admissions and icu admissions. hospital staffs are exhausted and sick across the country. that's why we have the fly-in of hospital staff. that is a very bad sign seei

here is specifically what chuck woolery was doing when dr. anthony fauci was helping find a cure for aids. >> what i would like to do this evening is to review for you some of the most recent advances in aids. >> i'm going to give the wheel a final spin of the day and see what happens here. >> i'm working directly on aids, both clinically and from a basic science standpoint. >> i'm still trying to figure out nathan's problem with his japanese plant. >> overall in the study, there was a 44% decrease in the risk of hiv infection. >> according to kool-aid, what are their current four best-selling flavors? >> and as president trump battles falling polls and a rising pandemic across this country, some of his allies are actually breaking with him. trump's former chief of staff and ond director mick mulvaney criticizing the way testing works in the united states. >> anybody that needs a test can have a test. i think we're doing a great job on testing. i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> joining me now is dr. megan ranee, an emerge

chuck woolery tweets it out. the president re-tweets this. this attack on science, this attack on truth, and now this attack on doctors and an attack on public health efforts, i just didn't know this could happen, but the president is fully at the front of this train. >> one of the things political scientist who is study this phenomenon, study populism, one of the victims of this is expertise. the fact that people actually know something and what they know is valuable to actually addressing a problem. and we have had an attack on expertise more than 20 years in this country as the populism of the republican party has gone up. and that is what you're seeing. you don't like the facts, attack the messenger. that is not a good way to actually survive, and we know that biology, you can't bamboozle it. you can't just through rhetoric and we're great and our response is fantastic, you're not going to beat this virus. the virus can withstand all of that because it doesn't really care about the rhetoric. it cares about science and behaves by biologica

on wednesday, chuck woolery deactivated hihis twitter accou. and those are some of thee headlines. this is s democracy now!, democracynowow.org, the quarante report. i'm amy y goodman.n. we begin today's show in yemen which already faces the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and now unicef is warning children face deadly hunger and aidid shortages as covid-19 the pandememic spreads. this comes as medical workers say a u.s.-backed, saudi-led bombing raid on a residential neighborhood in northern yemen wednesday killed 25 civilians, critically injuring nine others. a local doctor treated several injured children. the only injured victims are all children. we received three or four people, eight martyred women and children. today is a painful and sad d day fothe free yemeni pelele. amy: the yemen data project estimates the saudi-led coalition has carried out more than 21,000 airstrikes in five years of war, killing more than 8700 civilians. most of the raids were carried out with weapons sold by the united states. they have not stopped even amidst the global pandemic. meanwhile, the

the is promoting the medical violence of chuck woolery, the game show host. shattered the single-day record for positive cases, more than 15,000 cases. no state has had that many cases in a single day since this began. that by the way is more cases than south korea has reported since the start of the pandemic in total, the whole country over six months combined. this morning 35 states all the states you are seeing there in red are seeing new cases, an increase in new cases of coronavirus. many hospitals in texas we are told are nearing capacity this morning. some counties there are asking for refrigeration trucks as the morgues begin to fill up. officials in houston, top officials are now calling for a new lockdown there. >>> as hospitals reach capacity, the trump administration is trying to damage the reputation of the country's top doctors and scientists. moments ago, as john said, the president retweeted then deleted the comment from game show host chuck woolery filled with all kinds of madness. the trump administration also has released a list of negative

>>a former game show host chuck woolery revealed on twitter that his son contracted coronavirus and then he deactivated his twitter account woolery made headlines last weekend after president trump re tweeted one of his posts it read quote the most outrageous lies are the ones about covid-19 everyone is like the cdc media democrats are doctors not all but most if his final tweet he wrote quote covid-19 is here and it is real. he also said his son tested positive for the virus in a recent podcast hillary claimed he never said coronavirus is a hoax or not real. but just that he believes we've been lied to. the confederate flag will no longer fly over us military bases secretary of defense mark esper issued a new defense department >>in national news tonight, new york city police have arrested a suspect in the grisly killing of a young tech ceo faheem so lay was found dismembered in his luxury manhattan condo tuesday. and today officials charged his 21 year-old assistant with murder 10's of thousands of dollars they say to sew lay. police say the 33 year-old ceo died of multiple stab wounds

today he even retweeted former game show host chuck woolery who suggested everyone is lying to keep president trump from getting a second term. >> today president tru's former cstaff micke testing inexble.g td e use, thank you. the own rn whington's nfl team had vowed this day would never come. but in the face of calls for racial justice and threatened loss of sponsors, today the team said it is dropping the name redskins which many see as a slur against nativericans, here's cbs's nikole killion. >> for the first time in its 87 year history washington's marquee football franchise is getting a make over. monday morning the team announced in a statement it will be retiring the redskins name and logo. quarterback dwayne haskins tweeted it will always be hail to the redskins but looking forward to the future. >> i have had to live with this name for all of my life. >> congresswoman eleanor holmes norton fought for the name change. >> what does this mean for the ? inkwilbeds part of the georg revolution justice proest its the team faced mounting pressure to remove the native american moniker from

chuck woolery revealed on twitter that his son.>now has coronavirus and then he deactivated his twitter account. well are you made headlines last weekend after president trump re tweeted one of his post that read quote the most outrageous lies are the ones about covid-19 everyone is line. the cdc media democrats are doctors not all but most in his final tweet he wrote quote covid-19 is here and it's real. he also said his son tested positive for the virus. in a recent podcast woolery claimed he never said the coronavirus is a hoax or not real but just that he believes that we've been lied to. the confederate flag will no longer fly over us military bases secretary of defense mark esper issued a new defense department policy today. it points out the importance of quote rejecting divisive symbols the policy does not specifically mention the confederate battle flag, but there is a list of flags allowed to fly and the confederate flag is not on that list. the new policy comes as the debate continues over removing confederate symbols na

president is also taking shots at the medical experts at the cdc, retweeting former game show host chuck woolery, who said the cdc is "lying." today, trump's own testing czar said that's not true. >> we're learning every day, but nobody lies to the american people. we're completely transparent and honest. >> reporter: four former heads of the cdc warning in "the washington post," "sound science is being challenged with partisan potshots, sowing confusion and mistrust at a time when the american people need leadership, expertise, and clarity." and biden's message today, follow the science. >> mr. president, please listen to your public health experts instead of denigrating them. do your job, mr. president. >> mary, president trump dealing with two crises at once. the pandemic, and the national outcry sparked by the police killing of george floyd. we know the president was asked by cbs about black americans being killed by police. here's how that question played out. >> why are african-americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country? >> so are white people. so are white peopl

two months and on monday trump retweeted former game show host turned conservative commentator chuck woolery accusing the cdc, doctors and others of lying to the public about the coronavirus in order to keep the president from winning re-election. administration officials also making the remarkable move of sending reporters information criticizing fauci. the press secretary denied this was opposition research. >> there's no opposition research being dumped to reporters. we were asked a very specific question by "the washington post" and that question was president trump noted that dr. fauci had made some mistakes ane at was a direct question. >> reporter: but from dr. fauci himself a steady drumbeat delivering a dire warning. >> we haven't even begun to see the end of it yet. >> reporter: the administration is also being criticized by former white house chief of staff mick mulvane in an op-ed, mulvaney called the current coronavirus testing capabilities simply inexcusable. the white house dismissed that comment saying, quote, our reaction is that we lead the world in testing. kenneth and mon

game show host trump re tweeted outlandish claims posted by chuck woolery a man that some americans know as the former host of the t.v. show love connection will he writes the most outrageous lies are the ones about covert 19 everyone is lying the c.d.c. media democrats our doctors not all but most that we are told to trust i think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back which is about the election i'm sick of it. from a love connection to a declaration of divorce trumps war on science and scientists to discuss that tonight i'm happy to welcome back to the day dr arthur caplan he's one of america's leading voices in medical ethics dr caplan is a professor at n.y.u. grossman school of medicine dr caplan it's good to see you again we wanted to speak with you tonight because you in a way so all of this coming in a blog entry from 2016 entitled the end of civilization and the real donald trump now this was written before trump was elected u.s. president you imagined a pandemic during a trump presidency and that log in for you right the media had long ago given up

today the president re-tweeted a message from longtime game show host chuck woolery. woolery accused the cdc of lying to the public about the virus. the former acting director of the cdc pushed back, saying the country needs to follow the advice of medical experts. >> we need to be led by public health science because it's the only way to get our economy back and running. it's the only way to save lives in our country. >> all of this comes amid the high-stakes struggle to try to figure out how to reopen schools. today the white house suggested there may be additional funding for states who do reopen schools in the fall. >>> now, back here in the bay area, the governor's order today says closing portions of zoos across the state. it came just hours after the san francisco zoo actually reopened. luckily for today's visitors, the zoo doesn't believe that the new state order actually impacts all of its plans. nbc bay area's joe rosato jr. was there for the reunion of people and animals. >> reporter: it was one of those standard gray mornings at san francisco's ocean beach

but on sunday he retweeted former game show host chuck woolery who said doctors and the cdc were, quote, lying. woolery today revealed his own son has been diagnosed with covid-19 and he deleted his twitter account. and now at the white house, damage control. officials are insisting fauci remains an important advisor. vice president pence posting a picture of him at a task force meeting, and today the president talked over the phone to dr. fauci, their first conversation in weeks. but doubts about the president's handling of the virus are hurting him politically, a new poll shows him trailing biden by 15 points. >> all right, so let's get right back to jon again with us tonight, jon, the president obviously well aware of those polls. he's now shaking up his campaign replacing his campaign mc? >> reporter: brad parscale is out. bill stepian who has been a trump political adviser since the last campaign is the new campaign manager. and the president signaled he will also step up his political activities in the coming weeks. he said that he would, quote, have many exciting things to announ

just days after chuck woolery accused everyone of lying about coronavirus, the former game show host announced his son has tested positive. you'll recall president trump retweeted woolery's comments about the whole pandemic being a hoax. on thursday's woolery's tweet was very different. to further clarify, he says covid-19 is real and it is here. my son tested positive for the virus and i feel for those who are suffering especially those who have lost loved ones. woolery has since deleted his twitter account. >>> the fallout from the massive hack could be devastating. this is not just about hackers trying to steal bitcoin, it's what they could have done if their intentions were more sin nistster. we have a pivotal year. twitter says there's no evidence passwords were stolen and there's no need to change them, but peace of mind could be trashed. >>> the fbi is leading an investigation into a twitter breach that led to the compromise of accounts belonging to former vice president joe biden, former president barack obama and other high profile users on the platform. there are some big qu

i remember chuck woolery from "the love connection."eems like the president is loving what he has to say. what else is the president saying? >> good morning, gayle. good morning to everybody. president trump continues to falsely claim that the nation's reported case numbers are only rising because we are doing so much testing, even though we just saw many states are struggling to meet soaring demands creating a brand-new testing crisis. in fact, the president's own former acting chief of staff is now saying we still have a testing problem in this country. >> i get along with him very well. i like him personally. >> reporter: president trump described his relationship with dr. anthony fauci as very good. but -- >> i don't always agree with him. >> reporter: as a result of those differences, fauci tells cbs news he is not appreciated at the white house. >> if i were advising -- >> reporter: after months of speaking his mind and contradicting the president, even after some administration officials called him out, fauci did not change cours

. >> reporter: and contradicted him while now promoting the claims of former game show host chuck wooleryhat everyone is lying about covid including the cdc. >> we need to be led by science because it's the only way to save lives in our country. >> reporter: it comes amid a high stakes struggle to reopen schools. starting with online only instruction at san francisco and los angeles. in detroit today protesters concerned of student andfety bl school. florida mandating conditions o 24th are what they are today it would be very difficult for us to reopen schools. >> reporter: education secretary betsy devos under fire for doubling down on the president's threats to withhold funding from schools that don't open their doors without offering a plan for safely reopening. in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >>> dr. fauci weighed in on the cases today focused on a fireside chat with stanford university and blamed the u.s. for not shutting down entirely. back in march and april. he said while infection rates did flatten they were still too high when the country moved to reopen. dr. fauci said thi

really -- and then this morning to read him or to see him re-tweeting the public health expert chuck wooleryeator of the love connection, attacking the cdc and doctors. this is so, so destructive at a time when we need to pull together as a country and deal with what is a major crisis. >> you just kind of think of a statement of priorities. because this doesn't happen in a vacuum. tell me what you think. as someone who has been in many a campaign in the white house, does opposition research happen byun person who decides to put it out. there is a conversation and a strategic choice when you go at someone like this. >> yeah. my guess is this came from the top. and i don't think it was generated by middle management. and they were defending the president who said the night before, i guess it was the night before on fox that dr. fauci had made a lot of mistakes. and so they were trying to back up that ridiculous claim. and that's how this thing unfolded. but, you know, in terms of what is their priority, their priority is one which is to try to win reelection, that is why the president was so e

he has retweeted a false claim this morning from a former game show host, chuck woolery, saying "the cdc and most doctors have been lying about the virus for the sake of winning the election." >> the white house is attempting to undermine the reputation of the nations and one of the world's top infectious disease doctors, dr. anthony fauci. it sent out a list of misleading talking points attacking fauci over the weekend, including comments completely taken out of context or just unfinished statements and frankly, jim, this looks a whole lot like opposition research in a political campaign but against one of their own. >> it's a tact tick we've seen before from the white house. we go to john harwood. you look at the talking points and many deliberately taken out of context here to undermine the reputation of dr. fauci. can you walk us through, because we don't want to give any more oxygen to these talking points than necessary, but walk us through one example here, where they deliberately cut off the second half of a statement that fauci made about the outbreak early on. >> jim, this

amplifies a tweet critical of the cdc and that tweet from a former well-known game show host that chuck woolerywho i don't think is a noted medical expert on any of this stuff and just throws out these things that are just not true. everyone is lying. the cdc, media, democrats, the doctors that we are told to trust. i think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back which is about the election. i'm sick of it. we hear the president talk about himself. he thinks that somehow school superintendents are deciding not to reopen because of his re-election efforts which just -- i don't want to enter into how people think that way but what is this doing to morale at cdc? >> yeah. you know, i worked at cdc for 13 years and there's nothing in my career that i'm prouder of. there's not a group of people, civil servants more committed to helping the public. and that's not just something you see at the federal level. you see it at state, local public health. these are folks committed to protecting lives, to saving lives and so when you see them beat up in the press by politicians,

a retired dating game show host named chuck woolery right everyone is lying, the cdc, democrats, the media, our doctors, it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back. should be said only with tin foil hat on. that's the voice that gets a presidential seal of approval and factual fauci is the one he shuts down, leaking negative things through an anonymous source, relegating fauci to only podcasts and interviews of print lately. i told you this would happen. i told you as soon as people started saying things that reinforce the facts and when those facts hurt this president's performance, they would be silenced. that's exactly what is happening. why? i'll let fauci answer that. quote, i have a reputation, as you have probably figured out, of speaking the truth at all times. not sugarcoating things. look, i'm not trying to drown you in dread. i'm trying to sound the alarm. right now matters. right now is the moment that we must come together, demand truth from power. we have to get our kids back in school. we have to get as many of them as we can. we have to get a

. >> that makes you miss chuck woolery, doesn't it? this dr. immanuel believes that lusting after movie stars can i'm pregnant women in their dreams by demon babies. the leader of the free world overseeing the response to a pandemic retweeting her claims about a disproven drug therapy and praising her for agreeing with his non-scientific gut belief and took a moment to say this about the leading expert on the subject. >> so, you know, it's interesting, he's got a very good approval rating and i like that. so why don't i have a high approval rating with respect and administration with respect to the virus. so it sort of is curious a man works for us, with us, very closely, dr. fauci and dr. birx also highly thought of, and yet, they're highly thought of but nobody likes me. it can only be my personality. >> only my personality. certainly not dr. fauci's actual knowledge and training. his expertise and humility and the fact he's not lying every day all the time, and maybe it's decades of, you know, service as a public servant when he could have b

this morning the president of the united states retweeted a noted infectious disease specialist chuck woolery. actually he's the former host of "the dating game" and "love connection" and is a celebrity spokesman for blue emu arthritis cream. woolery wrote and the president later distributed to the free world, quote, the most outrageous lies are the ones about covid-19. everyone is lying. the cdc, media, democrats, our doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. this afternoon, both trump and the white house seemed to signal their support for dr. fauci. >> i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. i've had for a long time, right from the beginning. i find him to be a very nice person. i don't always agree with him. i closed the border, as you know, to china. i closed -- i did the ban on china, heavily infected, and we saved tens of thousands of lives, and dr. fauci will admit that it was a good decision. it was very early. that was in january, long before it was thought of as the

trump had a couple tweets that were marked because they were potentially inciting violence, and chuck wooleryd because he said the coronavirus was fake. excuse me, give me a break here. the number one site is fox news. the president would be present without twitter, i'm pretty sure about that. let's move on from that. the acts are serious. i obviously it was a scam, president obama wouldn't be a bit coin guide. it is concerning. i'm not against the idea of private companies working with the federal government on this. i thought that they should, as well, when he wanted to get into the iphone of the san bernardino killer, for instance. i think we need cooperation on those fronts. >> melissa: david? >> david: i think what is missing here is the conversation about personal safety. i have 2-factor authentication. we monitor accounts. i choose to use twitter, parlor, facebook, instagram, because it's part of what i do. as for the hack, we've seen this before. according to some of my sources, this is a possibility that they are looking to internal issues. for the sony hack it, it was bad passwords.

on the "today" show, admiral bret addressed president trump's retweet of retired game show host chuck woolery implying the cdc is lying about this crisis. >> i don't spend time looking at any of that on twitter because who knows how it's mean and how it's interpreted. >> the cdc and our doctors aren't lying. you're not lying. >> look, we may occasionally make mistakes based on the information we have, but none of us lie. >> in a new opsaid, four former directors of the cdc say no president has politicized science the way president trump has. writing, quote, public health experts face two opponents. covid-19, but also political leaders and others attempting to undermine the cdc. also this hour, jeffrey epstein associate ghislaine maxwell will appear in federal court for a bail hearing. we'll bring you any developments as they happen in that one. >>> joining me now is my co-anchor for the next two hours, katy tur. and, katy, it's -- i would say happy tuesday, but with the virus, it'syeah, and we also ha politics to talk about, chuck, as we're getting ever closer to the november election. and to

trump appears to be putting his faith in people who aren't scientists retweeting this from chuck woolery who claims the most outrageous lies are the ones about covid-19. everyone is lying. even though he's just recently embraced wearing a mask and is still downplaying the threat. >> we're at about 135,000 and we'll be at somewhat higher than that by the time it ends. >> reporter: mr. trump is offering up a new conspiracy that unnamed forces are working in cahoots to keep schools closed to damage his re-election chances. >> we have to open the schools. i think there's a lot of politics going along. i think they think they'll do better if they can keep the schools closed in the election. i don't think it's going to help them fair and accurately, but i think they feel by keeping schools closed that's a bad thing for the country and therefore that's a good thing for them. >> reporter: that came a day after education secretary betsy devos falsely claimed there is no health risk in sending children back to school when it's likely some students will pass the virus on to teachers. >> there is no