dana bash, and dr. jonathan reiner, who advised the white house medical team under president george bush. so dr. reiner, president trump in wisconsin. we can see those images right now. it is quite jarring. record hospitalizations, record deaths in that state. yet a rally, largely maskless, no social distancing. as the governor of the state is pleading for people to heed these warnings. the president's strategy, though, is covid, covid, covid, fake news. >> right. the president is gaslighting the country, and he's putting his supporters and the rest of the country at greater peril when he does that. imagine winston churchill or fdr saying war, war, war, why do they always ask me about the war? because it's the predominant, preeminent challenge we're facing right now is covid. we had 73,000 new cases today. we've averaged 71,000 new cases every day. we have had 500,000 new cases in the last week. you can close your eyes to it, but this is not going away. hospitalizations are at the highest level since the middle of august. if you have a rapidly growing cancer, you can say it's not there, but it w