after frequently refusing to wear a facemask around the capitol, republican congressman louie gohmerttive for coronavirus but don't worry, his neck is fine that's right, republican congressman louie gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus. "who could have seen this coming," said gohmert about today's date president trump yesterday criticized fox news for their coverage of clashes between protesters and federal agents in portland, but said it was quote, "too complicated to discuss in a tweet. also too complicated to discuss in a tweet, the difference between two and to better be careful with those the secret grammar police are going to throw you into a unmarked van education secretary betty devos traveled to north carolina yesterday to advocate for the reopening of schools i guess as a kind a "scared straight" thing to illustrate the importance of education. "without teachers who care, they could end up like me." no thought at all went into that impression, so hopefully it was in the ballpark. president trump tweeted yesterday about watching fox news while flying on air force one t

he participated in harg alongside gohmert days before his diagnosis.eep an eye on his condition over the coming days. >>> california meanwhile is reporting alarming new numbers in its fight against coronavirus. the state is now the first to report more than half a million cases of covid-19, capping off a month of skyrocketing case numbers that state officials have struggled to contain. in mid july the governor imposed new restrictions on bars, movies, restaurants and other indoor spaces. his efforts have done little to halt the charge. 33 counts are flagged for increased hospitalization and limited hospital capacity it is a frightening reversal from the state's early successes fighting covid-19. >>> meanwhile on the east coast officials in new jersey are sounding the alarm. the state is cracking down on house parties and bracing for another possible yub tick in cases after nearly three dozen lifeguards tested positive for covid-19. the infections are linked to one house party and are prompting airbnb to impose rental restrictions on young people. corey

republican congressman louie gohmert who tested positive for coronavirus the very next day. guess what happened. yes, congressman grijalva has now tested positive, too. i will talk to congressman in just a minute. we are all in danger of that fate when this guy is in charge this is what it looks like if you get out there like the president wants when the virus is not suppressed. okay. so now just think about what school will look like in this environment. as i have said many times on this program, the parent of three children, two school age, full-time in person school in the fall should be and should have been an absolute policy goal for all of society. but it is not going to magically happen. with the virus still running rampid across the country and new cases increasing in 15 states with puerto rico and washington, d.c., it is no wonder parents are worried they kids or they themselves will end up in danger because president trump wants kids to get out there and go back to school. like the photographers at that event, like the members of congress on capitol hill. he wants

congressman louis gohmert, a, it texas republican who frequently refused to wear a mask tested positive for coronavirus this week. he told fox news, he would start taking hydroxychloroquine in the coming dame. and trump's ally herman cain is gone, taken by coronavirus. we don't know where he contracted the virus, but he was in the tulsa rally where several tested positive. yes the nothing to see here attitude from the president persists as july saw ten days with more than 10,000 deaths. as we reach a new phase in dr. birx's words. jeremy, the house speaker today said in no uncertainly terms she does not have confidence in dr. deborah birx. >> reporter: just a few days ago speaker pelosi reportedly told white house officials that she believed dr. birx was spreading disinformation and made clear she did not have confidence in her. today speaker pelosi was asked to respond to that report and dr. birx also responding. listen. >> i think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus, and she is his appointee. so i don't have confidence there, no. >> i have tremendous respect for

grijalva went to quarantine after learning gohmert was positive. when it comes to the bigger picture, a grim projection from the cdc. another 20,000 americans are expected to die from covid-19 in just the next three weeks. the month of july this country saw ten days of deaths topping 1,000 in just a single day. five of those days were this past week. meantime, the economic crisis is just crushing. democratic leaders say their discussions with white house officials today were productive but they're still not close to a deal after a federal $600 a week unemployment benefit expired yesterday. negotiations will continue on monday. >>> and in the world of sports, tonight's game between the st. louis cardinals and milwaukee brewers has been postponed after more cardinals players tested positive. it comes a day after the major league baseball commissioner warned the already shortened season could be shut down alread altogether. let's take you to florida first. this is the first state standing in the way of tropical storm isaias. randi kaye is in palm beac

of course, louie gohmert told my colleague, manu raju, that he would wear a mask, if and when he gotonavirus. but of course, as we know, some people are asymptomatic and spread can still happen, john. so, that's why there is so much outrage on capitol hill that people need to be wearing a mask. >> this is a little bit connected to it. another congressman has tested positive for coronavirus. and we know both of them well. but the trump administration, the interior department, is using this opportunity to attack the congressman? i don't understand. >> there was a hearing last week that grahalva held and he wanted to do it remotely, but the trump administration said they needed to have witnesses in person. of course, a few days later, after being in the same hearing with louie gohmert, rahalva got coronavirus. of course, we don't know how he got this virus. but it's interesting because the statement from the interior department was, "we wish chairman grahalva a speedy recovery. he is paid a lot of money by the american people to be an elected official, a job he sought and was entrusted

gohmert had been adamant about not wearing a mask on capitol hill. his daughter caroline a recording artist by the name of bell, st. said on twitter wearing a mask is a non partisan issue she continued with the advice of medical experts should not be ignored or politicized my father ignored medical expertise and now he has covid she described his battle as heartbreaking and urged people to listen. 2 medical experts. negotiations between the white house and congressional leadership continues on capitol hill, both sides are looking for consensus and the next covid relief package, a major sticking point in the negotiations thus far has been the extension. a federal unemployment benefits which expired last friday. kron four's washington correspondent morgan wright has the story. >>with extra unemployment benefits already expired democrats say they're united in their efforts to bring them back for the next several months if not longer until the economy recovers connecticut, senator chris murphy says the increase consumer spending created by the benefits i

and louie gohmert who has consi consistently refused to wear a mask. >>> and despite 30 states pausing or rolling back reopening plans, another 20,000 americans are expected to die from covid-19 in just the next three weeks. the month of july saw ten days of deaths tops 1,000 in a single day, five of those just this past week. and we've learned that california has recorded 219 covid related deaths in the past 24 hours, the most reported deaths in a single day in that state. also today, negotiations continue between top democratic leaders and white house officials, they are trying to hammer out a deal after a federal $600 a week benefit expired yesterday. and tonight's game between the cardinals and brewers has been postponed after more cardinals tested positive. it comes a day after the major league baseball commissioner warned the shortened season could be shut down all together. let's begin our coverage in florida where hurricane isaias is expected to affect at least 7 million people. and let's go to the meteorologist chad myers in the weather center. what is the latest on the storm'

this comes after representatives grijalva and louie gohmert tested positive last week.essman davis, look, thank you very much for being with us this morning. your dog is right behind you, i think soiling your lawn. how are you feeling this morning, congressman? >> you know, i feel great. take my temp every night and every morning. i had -- i usually have a temperature around 97 and yesterday it was 99 because i had a bunch of public events i went ahead and went up to the rapid scan testing facility we have in the district, got tested and surprisingly i tested positive. to be honest with you, if i wouldn't have tested yesterday morning -- i was home all day yesterday and tested last night and it was 98 degrees. i'm glad i went in and i can keep people safe. >> only a temperature of 99 sent you to get to the test, but you're extra vigilant, correct, because your wife is a nurse and a cancer survivor? >> you know, i do my best to be vigilant. everybody we're never perfect. but in the end, i found that a protocol of taking my temperature with the same thermometer so you can

. >> reporter: and days after texas congressman and vocal mask critic louis gohmert tested positive, arizona representative raul grijalva now says he's contracted the virus as well. grijalva had been in isolation after attending a hearing with gohmert on tuesday. >> we are at a danger point everybody. >> reporter: officials across the midwest now sounding the alarm. in illinois, contact tracers have linked multiple cases to a private high school prom attended by nearly 300 people. >> it was not a good idea getting that many people together, not observing social distancing. >> reporter: and the major league baseball season in jeopardy. two more st. louis cardinals players and staff testing positive, bringing the team total to four. today's game against the brewers cancelled. 17 games now postponed in just 10 days. and in new jersey, governor phil murphy says his state is cracking down on massive parties. one held this week with 700 people. >> as i said, the alarms are going off. the only way to silence these alarms and get back to the process of moving forward is for everyone to take

grijalva and congressman gohmert, and how do you feel, congressman clyburn? are you feeling safe at work? >> well, i do. that is not to say that everybody is doing what they ought to do. you know, i had some problems two weeks ago with the members of my select committee. i had to tell them that they are not going to be recognized if they came in there again without a mask. so, this week it worked much better, but we had to find out this week, that this same committee that gohmert was in without the mask and the chair of the committee now has tested positive. what we have to do is that people have to stop playing games. they are playing political games with this issue. the president is talking about masks as if it is a joke. he is influencing people all over this country. and the fact is that the president of the united states ought to be setting an example for people to follow and that is what leadership is. when i was growing up, and trying to learn what i would call ministerial stuff, one guy once told me that leadership is as leadership does. now, always b

. >>> last week texas congressman gohmert announced he tested positive for coronavirus and now he iszed by his own daughter. gohmert's daughter in a post wrote that wearing a mask is a nonpartisan issue and that because her father ignored medical it's not worth following a president who has no remorse, leading his followers to an early grave. gohmert has said he will self quarantine until over the infection. >>> i'm dianne gallagher in atlanta. the largest school dist rlktd in the state of georgia says roughly 260 of its employees can't work right now because they eethver covid-19 or have been exposed to a piece of it. the districts says it does have contact tracing measures in place and determined most were case ochz community spread. but school is supposed to start in guwunet county although it's supposed to happen online. >>> i'm kate bennet in washington. as president trump pushes for schools to reopen in person and on time across the country, the private school attended by his own son, barren trump, is not scheduled to reopen now until october 1st. based on an order from montgom

gohmert: thank you for your service. i am sorry for the abuse you have taken when you're just trying to do your job. appreciate it very much. i yelled back. >> the gentleman's time is expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. >> i am the chairman from the subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties. this is a permanent hearing to me. i would like to ask you if you will work with us and allow the head of the civil rights division to testify before this committee this fall? a.g. barr: i will talk to him about it. we encourage it. a.g. barr: i will talk to him about it. >> i have closely watched actions in lafayette park and portland oregon. according to a document received by this committee, 1500 federal agents were deployed to confront protesters in washington, d.c. at lafayette park which has long been honored and accepted as of place of protest in our nations capital. on the first day of june, the world watched in horror as federal agents deployed by the administrations and with

certainly is, particularly in the aftermath of the louie gohmert situation that played out last week. we have been hearing rumblings mccarthy, the house republican leader, the minority leader may be trying to come up with a system to get some sort of testing available for republicans in the house. it may be broader than that, outside of the normal scope. last i heard, speaker pelosi and others were and saying it was up to the office of the attending physician. the problem that is going on in congress is that members keep going home to their districts and coming back. when you have that many people traveling to that many different parts of the country, there is a real argument for their needing to be more testing, and certainly my colleagues in the press corps on capitol hill regularly, a lot of them are getting tested. close contact in with mr. covert. there's certainly this concern, even among the press corps that there is probably more testing that we would like to see as well. host: our guest is a familiar face here on c-span, the white house and congressional chief correspondent f

certainly louis gohmert said i'm not going to wear a mask. as you take all this into context, what comes to mind, kimberly? >> it just shows that even in -- on capitol hill where there has not been a testing program in place, the leaders of both republican and democratic leaders put aside that idea of testing members of congress at capitol hill the same way they're tested at the white house saying that they wanted to leave those resources available to others, but you are seeing when you're in close contact indoors, even sometimes when year wearing a mask that shows how this virus spreads. i have to tell you, alex, i have asthma so i do not go to the capital for that very reason. and it shows the need to have testing in place, to have a system where you can monitor outbreaks so you are not spreading the very people who are in charge of protecting americans can't seem to protect themselves. >> yeah. let's move on to tiktok. as you know, the president told reporters last night that he plans to ban this very popular chinese owned video sharing ap

gohmert has been seen regularly out on capitol hill not wearing a mask.k, there is absolutely no th exactly where he got the virus. how are you processing this? among your colleagues, getting sick? >> well, it took us more than three months on this committee, the coronavirus response committee, to get the republicans to stop fighting us about having to wear masks to committee meetings. in other words, the house committee that is supposed to be managing the crisis and coming one legislation to deal with it has had to spend its time fighting with members of the committee who have refused to wear masks as some sort of ideological protest. against what? this isn't taking place in other countries around the world. there's an entire political party here that has turned itself into a religious cult. and if donald trump says we don't wear masks, they don't wear masks. and then there are no critical thinking skills applied. i guess word has not gotten back that at least the president at least half hardly began to embrace masks. so i'm outraged on behalf of the sta

last week it was texas gop representative louie gohmert he tested positive for lead before he was set to fly on air force one with the president. no word though has repeatedly refused to wear a mask. what's changed uptown talk about our 4 zone forecast as we take a look outside of what should be our sutro camera showing us the golden gate bridge but that fog rolling in fast and furious tonight. let's check in now with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow for a look now at our friday forecast which sounds like it's going to be a little bit warmer butler do some free just in you said your little disappointed with weather lately so. >>we're going to see if we can make it a little nicer head and you see more sites like this little blue skies out there looking from timber on you can see that fog back out toward the golden gate bridge we're going to start to scour some low clouds and fog out watch to see right here on the computer model and we got a weak cold front coming through and there you go we start to mix up the low clouds and fog by tomorrow morning. >>i think really just very pa

louie gohmert is just one of many irresponsible willfully ignorant members of the other side. take a look at that dais when we were in the hearings or the markups in judiciary with jim jordan, the ranking member sitting next to jerry nadler most of the time not wearing a mask for hours on hours, mr. johnson, the same thing, scoffing and holding up his cup of coffee. my con stitt wants want serious lawmakers. my con stitt wants want people who will lead and protect others from the possibility of the spread. how this mask thing became an issue to the irresponsibility and to the lives, to the deaths of many americans, i will never understand. but we will hopefully get control over it because we'll do the right thing. we just need to do a measure of the right thing when other leaders fail to lead. >> sounds to me like your con stitt wants are ago asking the t questions. >>> a spike in case, what caused an outbreak of coronavirus here in the northeast and a doctor's take on what could bring it all under control. rol. >>> a flood of house parties with covid-19 infections and one clu

three times, the president has fueled an anti-mask movement embraced by republican congressman louie gohmert, who just last week announced he was positive with covid-19. his daughter now pleading with americans, tweeting, "my father ignored medical expertise and now he has covid. it's not worth following a president who has no remorse for leading his followers to an early grave." >> so, let's get right to rachel tonight. we heard the president asked about dr. birx, but he also made news just moments ago, rachel, as you know, on the upcoming presidential election, saying about mail-in ballots, that he has the right to get rid of them? >> reporter: david, the president was asked today if he would issue ative order baotch he claims are subject to fraud, saying he has the right to do it, but that he's not there yet. experts say voter fraud is extremely rare with mail-in ballots. many states are preparing for an increase in the middle of this pandemic. and any effort the president would take to stop it would likely be challenged in court, david. >> rachel, thank you. >>> and there are images comi

earlier this week texas republican louie gohmert also tested positive. >>> it all comes as top congressional democrats spent the day trying to hammer out an agreement with administration officials over the emergency unemployment benefits that have been a life line for millions. kelly o'donnell reports. >> reporter: for married mother of two sara gard, today a new reality hit hard as extra unemployment help expired. >> i never anticipated being on unemployment, period. that was never something that i thought would happen to me in my life. >> reporter: today more than 25 million jobless americans begin an anxious wait for a new round of covid emotional health isr: the $600 weekly payment from the federal government, added to state unemployment insurance, just ran out. that money has been a life line for families like the gards after es and misses. >> what is at stake for my family is being able to stay who we are, being able to maintain the life that we have. >> reporter: today the job of making a deal brought both parties' top negotiators to capitol hill. >> people need resources in order to

reporter: representative gohmert tested positive for coronavirus, other members have gone into uarantine. sit time for you and senator mcconnell to reverse your decision from early in may to not have rapid testing here for members, for staff, for people who are on on this complex every day? speaker pelosi: it's not a decision of mine it's a decision of the capitol physician as to what the need for testing. it would be, you think of members of congress, there are 535. no there are about 20,000 people ho make the capitol run. and the capitol physician has not said, yet that he thinks that we should be tested. but it's not just us. it's not just us. it's others as well. and as i said earlier, there are many people in the country who should be tested, should have access. in order to quantify the problem but also to trace and to treat. so that people don't die. and i don't think it's a good idea for members of the congress to say, we should have it but maybe not necessarily the people who work here at the expense of others. comes back to equipment. it comes back to equipment. we would probabl

office of any kind and you are worried you don't have the qualifications, i want you to remember louie gohmert is in congress and there are a lot of -- if you don't know who they are, look them up. there are men in congress who never questioned if they were right for the job or had the right experience. clearly they don't and they are in office. if you think there is a problem in your community that needs solving, figure out what role it is in a run for it to go solve it. we are more willing to compromise once in office and for having more would make for a better government. if you are a young woman out there, you don't have to be aoc on the first try but try to be a leader within your community to include the problems around you and then virtually i would recommend doing that. presidential campaigns are the best experience for every job. they learned the skills for any job. >> host: i believe that to be true. in your book you talk about politics and focusing on people of color and changing the democratic agenda. what is your advice for white allies and helped him they ensure that there is cul

louiessman gomer gohmert is a perfect example.wice.as worn a mess history books will look back on this and show the greatest failure of leadership that we have ever seen during a pandemic like this. to the gentleman from georgia leadership?teaches this is an example of bad leadership that costs america sad. in its side -- people cannot even do anything to try to save lives in this country anymore, we are so selfish and there is such a fringe that has a platform to talk. you are a fringe part of the country. in november, god help us, let's hope that we vote out these folks destroying the country and -- destroying this country and our lives. vote out these people. it's enough. let's get back to some normalcy in this country, please. right, kevin, maryland. this is richard, athens, tennessee. caller: that was an interesting previous caller. these people that he talks about, there's a lot of republicans out there. we are not all fringe. but anyway, i live in southeast tennessee. i'm a factory worker, my wife is a schoolteacher at an e

he was at the hearing last week on capitol hill where gohmert, the republican from texas, he was walking around the hearing, defiantly not wearing the mask. turns out he tested positive. he's not sure he got it at that hearing, but that is certainly one thing they are looking at or considering. staff members are also having to quarantine. that's the sort of thing you see all across arizona. people say it's people from california bringing the virus here. the reality is there's a lot of community spread and it's going to take a lot of that before it comes to a level where they can start to reopen again in earnest. >> every state likes to blame outsiders. we've seen that across the board. ed, in texas, some positive signs there, too. do officials have a sense there of what's working. >> reporter: there are some good signs that we're seeing. the number of people hospitalized because of coronavirus has dropped under 9,000 people. we haven't seen a number that low in several weeks. the number of overall cases being reported has also dropped under 10,000, a little more than 9,000 cases per day.

any kind and you're worried you don't have the qualifications, i want you to remember that louie gohmert is in congress -- post go look them up if you don't know who they are. >> guest: but there are some in congress who never questioned whether they were right for the job. its importance to say if you think that there are problems in your community that needs solving figure out what role it is and whether you can run for it to go solve it. they are more willing to compromise once in office. if you are a young woman out there you don't have to be toc on the first try. just try to include the problems around you and then you can volunteer or work on the campaign. i would recommend doing that. presidential campaigns are the best experience for every job, you've earned the experience of jobs. >> host: i believe that to be true. in your book you talk about white politics and the importance of focusing on people of color and changing the pathetic agenda. what is your advice and how can they ensure that this cultural change? >> guest: part of the problem is the lack of acknowledgment of white

and congressman louie gohmert, how else could you explain his flat refusal to listen to science and wear a mask. but no. like so many republicans the representative would prefer to live in the mythical, distant past of america. if that is the case he should consider leaches as a cure for his case of coronavirus. senator tom cotton is stuck in the anti-bellum south calling slavery "a necessary evil upon which the union was built." but even in the 1850s there were senators who knew slavery was just plain evil, no necessary about it. senator charles sumner gave a fiery speech and was beaten by a fellow congressman on the floor of the senate for the his moral stand. we should be relieved tom cotton expressed had his soft spot for enslavers with words and not violence. but even 1854 is not far back enough for senator cotton who penned an editorial in the "new york times" last month calling if for the military occupation of american cities. it seems seeing black dpeople demonstrate for their lives made the senator long for the days when new york was under siege from an oppressive government. b

amy: the daughter of congresess member louiegress gohmert is speaking out about her father's battle with covid-19. the texas republican tested positive for coronavirus last week after he consistently refused to wear a mask in the u.s. capitol, forcing several congressional colleagues to self origin, including 72-year-old grijalva,mocrat raul who later tested positive. caroline gomer tweeted a statement reading, "my father ignored medical expertise and now he has covid. this has been a heartbreaking battle because i love my dad and don't want him to die. please listen to medical experts. it's not worth following a president who has no remorse for leaving his followers to in early grave." the 15-year-old daughter of senior white house advisor kellyanne conway has reemerged on social media. in july, 15-year-old claudia conway posted a tiktok video with the caption "last video because my parents are making me delete all social media." she later reemerged on social media, making videos in support of black lives matter and lgbtq rights and mockingng president trump. japapan, temple bells told

despite all of the evidence, all of it, gohmert blamed his mask for why he caught the virus. >> whenmask on i am moving it to make it comfortable and i can't help wonder if that puts some germs in the mask. anyways, who knows. >> much of the house freedom caucus has railed against masks. during a new conference a number gathered together not wearing masks. many of them. and gop staffers say they have been required to come to the office and that masks are not encouraged and some are ridiculed for wearing masks and there is fear of retaliation for saying anything about it. this is still going on despite the reality that some around the president have caught the virus. robert o'brien announced he had the virus and kimberly gillfoyle, donald trump jr.'s girlfriend caught the virus. house speaker pelosi put a mask man date on the house floor. our own elected representatives have been forced to do something that all-the health officials say they should do. they refused to do the basic decent thing to protect others and all of the people's families. they refused even after health officials

. >> texas republican congressman louie gohmert tested positive this week.in mccarthy says he would like to bring rapid testing to the capital for lawmakers, staff, and reporters. speaker nancy pelosi said it's not up to her. it is the capital's position on this call, shannon. >> shannon: interesting. mike emanuel, thank you. nightly protests continue in portland, even after what if an agreement for federal officers to eventually leave the city. across the country, mass gatherings continuing without restrictions in many places as churches nationwide remain under restrictions or even full lockdown. tonight more that one to engage with their calling civil disobedience and to hold worship services. celeste discussed the growing conduct. fox contributor, good to have you both both back, gentlemen. >> thank you, shannon. take my shannon. let's start here, dissented with a disease -- supreme court decision days ago the vatican church could not fight the orders locking down at the casinos could remain open and saying that spear of the world we inhabit today with a

. >> mike: there's been discussion about bringing rapid testing to capitol hill after louie gohmert testedive, house g.o.p. leader kevin mccarthy called for testing for staff, where are you on this testing issue? >> believe it or not, i agree with the speaker, we have to continue to consult with a capital position about what should be best practice for us. on the senate side, we've been wearing masks and practicing social distancing and we've been in session almost continuously since may 1st and we are doing fine. i think we are demonstrating that you can learn to live with the coronavirus until we get the vaccine, we're going to have to learn to live with that, that means wearing masks and doing social distancing and working smartly in which we could put this awful experience in the rearview mirror rearview mirror. >> mike: sports a huge part of our culture, you've got the derby coming up in a month, you've got the programs and university of kentucky into louisville, your thought on sports in the covid era. >> i'm hoping like a lot of other sports fans can we can figure a way to safely pl

your upand comers like new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez seen here igniting louis gohmert's scalp with her eyes. aoc is the most dime you can raising star on the in the democratic party which is why she is only getting 60 seconds to speak at the convention. oh come on, democrats. this is lick when they told us cher would be in mama mia here we go again and then she was only in the bls five minutes. we were robbed! of cher! what i am saying is i demand to see aoc sing dancing queen. this isn't the first time an important speaker has been cut short at a convention. we all letter this piece from th 2016dnc. >> when they go low-- (cheers and applause). >> stephen: they do go low. now the decision to short change aoc has flooded the democratic party with complaints that party leadership is out of touch with yung voters. well, i would hope the party leadership sowt of touch. their average age is 75. touching anyone is very dangerous right now. speaking of aoc, trump was, specifically complaining about her bill. >> the new green deal is something that the likes of which nobody coul

you may recall late last month congressman louie gohmert tested positive before he was supposed to travel with the president to texas. also worth remembering the president routinely blasts the need for expansive testing and likes to call testing overrated. ryan nobles traveling with the president there in cleveland. ryan, how did this all play out today? >> reporter: you know, brooke, you mention the fact the president often downplays testing. simple fact is anyone who comes in close contact with the president of the united states is given a rapid coronavirus test. governor mike dewine of ohio among those scheduled to meet the president on the tarmac in cleveland today. given one of those tests and it came back positive. dewine went back to columbus to quarantine at his home eventually in cedarville, ohio. expected to get another test and president trump talked about dewine testing positive earlier today. take a listen. >> very good friend ofminejust tested positive. do you know that? our great governor, governor of ohio, dewine, just tested positive. just here. and we want to wish him t

the president's trump and behavior he modelled comes in the week of louie gohmert's diagnosis and bizarre speculation covering his face actually made him sick. >> i can't help but wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place that if i might have put some germs, some of the virus onto the mask and breathed it in. >> well, that's garage and it was debunked today. >> does wearing a mask give people covid-19? >> does wearing a mask give it -- no. not to my knowledge. >> okay. >> he had a smile when he said it. also debunked, the president's repeated defense of hydroxychloroquine and a doctor who totes it. a doctor also happens to believe women can be impregnated by witches and spirits in their dreams. we're not making this up. >> i was very impressed with her and other doctors that stood with her. i think she made sense but i know nothing about her. i saw her making a statement with very respected doctors. she was not alone. she was making this statement about hydroxychloroquine with other doctors that swear by it. they think it's great. she was not alone. >> that's the president ju

there have been close calls where people were in close contact with the president, louis gohmert of texas and the ohio governor being tested positive shortly before they were to be in proximity of the president. the ohio governor later testing negative, creating more questions whether the tests being used to protect the president are really working. >> josh, really quickly, i know you have to go, there's new reports about the russian meddling in the elections. >> reporter: there certainly is. the top u.s. counterintelligence official coming out yesterday saying, yes, china and iran are interfering and do not want trum top get re-elected, but russia is working to undermine biden. in our new reporting from nbc news, kendis, focuses on how lawmakers who had been briefed on classified intelligence for weeks now had been basically pleading with the administration to release more details. these lawmakers couldn't say what they knew because the nufgss with classified. but they've been sounding the alarm. now the administration going in a different direction, sharing what the president knows abou

positive for covid-19 just days after he chaired a meeting attended by republican congressmember louie gohmertwho refused to wear a mask and later tested positive . in a statement grijalva said quote, while i cannot blame anyone directly for this, this week has shown that there are some members of congress who fail to take this crisis seriously. meanwhile cnn is reporting the republicans are considering barring journalists for the first time from attending the upcoming scaled-down republican national convention, citing health c concerns. the globobal deathth toll from e cororonavirus s is approaching 700,000 with nearly 18 million confirmed cases as the pandemic continues to accelerate. during the month of july, more than 8 million people e tested positive, almost as many as in the fifirst six months of the pandemic combined. the world health organization reports cases are now doubling every six weeks.s. inin india the death toll hass topped 38,8,000, the fifth hight in the world, surpassing italy. one of india's top officials, homeme affairs mininister amit , has been hospitalized after tetes

grijalva said earlier in the week he'd quarantine himself and get tested after fellow congressman louie gohmertted positive for the virus. >>> new today in atlanta, the police department will no longer respond to car accidents unless someone is injured. that's due to health concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. joining me to discuss, former police chief said ricedric alex and joey jackson. how much of an impact do you think it will have from a health perspective in terms of lowering the risk for police officers becoming infected? >> you know, after learning more about this -- first of all, good afternoon to you. but learning more about this, and i really have to applaud the leadership there in atlanta, both the council and the mayor's office who are supporting this idea because anything that we can do at this very moment to mitigate unnecessary exposure to covid, when officers are out there involved in the work that they do, keeping the community safe, keeping those involved in accidents safe, keeping those folks away from each other who are also involved in accidents, i think it's -- because

this just days after he attended a committee hearing with republican congressman louie gohmert who tested positive for the virus and who has repeatedly refused to wear a mask up on capitol hill. >>> meanwhile, a new very grim projection from the centers for disease control and prevention tonight. it now projects an additional 20,000 americans will die from the virus in the next three weeks alone. more than 1,000 americans have died daily over the past five days. >>> let's begin our coverage right now in florida. a state of emergency in 16 counties while people there wait and watch the storm slowly march up from the bahamas. cnn chad myers is over at the cnn weather center in atlanta and rosa flores in miami for us. chad, you just got an update a little while ago. what's the latest? >> they took it from a hurricane down to a tropical storm but went from 75 to 70 so that's the threshold. what the latest is on the satellite is what happened in the past few hours. we'll wake up tomorrow morning and we're going to say remember when this storm almost died? well, it isn't dying now. it is intens

another member of congress louie gohmert tested positive since then, your democratic colleague, raulsaid that he was positive. there's currently no rapid testing at all in the capitol, even though members of congress are constantly traveling back and forth between their districts and the capitol and many are high risk. is it long past time for rapid testing to be done on members of congress? >> we all follow the attending physician's advice. i'm not a medical expert, i'm not a doctor. we have a few in the house. but we have a cadre of physicians that is giving guidance in writing and we do it over the phone. i've been in constant contact with the attending physician's office and in running the select committee, i follow their advice and i think that the speaker is following the advice of the attending physician. i'm not going to tell them how to do their jobs. i'm going to follow their advice. i think the speaker is doing that. >> i want to ask you about something you said on friday night in an interview with pbs. you said that you don't think president trump would be willing to give

we saw an outbreak there last week, louie gohmert testing positive for coronavirus.ng to be an impediment to the process. we are keeping our eyes on several of the leading contenders and whether we do those meetings in person, we'll probably have some indication. we know that's going to be a key moment here for biden as he closes in on a decision, but not this week, craig. it's more likely it's going to happen next week. >> all right. so next week is the timeline now. any indications that he's leaning toward any particular candidate? is the campaign trying to tamp down any speculation? >> reporter: craig, it's interesting. biden has been crystal clear through out this process in terms of what he's looking for in a running mate. he's looking for his own joe biden, right? today is president obama's birthday. it's a good day for a birthday. i imagine we'll see the former vice president call president obama and probably pick his brain a little bit about this process. the campaign, of course, as this process has in some view of democrats dragged out a little bit. it's got

. >> texas republican congressman louie gohmert tested positive this week.arthy says he would like to bring rapid testing to the capital for lawmakers, staff, and reporters. speaker nancy pelosi said it's not up to her. it is the capital's position on this call, shannon. >> shannon: interesting. mike emanuel, thank you. nightly protests continue in portland, even after what if an agreement for federal officers to eventually leave the city. across the country, mass gatherings continuing without restrictions in many places as churches nationwide remain under restrictions or even full lockdown. tonight more that one to engage with their calling civil disobedience and to hold worship services. celeste discussed the growing conduct. fox contributor, good to have you both both back, gentlemen. >> thank you, shannon. take my shannon. let's start here, dissented with a disease -- supreme court decision days ago the vatican church could not fight the orders locking down at the casinos could remain open and saying that spear of the world we inhabit today with a pandem

last week, of course, it was the texas congressman gohmert scheduled to be on the plane with the presidentas the republican congressional candidate in texas to greet the president on the tarmac. both testing positive again once again as part of those testing protocols and notable john because the president benefits from the most robust testing protocols anywhere in the country and heard him time and again suggest more testing and more simply creating the cases that don't otherwise exist. and we should note, of course, that most americans who are returning to work in the way that the president would like to see the country do, they do not benefit from this kind of testing. john? >> they do not and the governor dewine politely because he is a good republican has been among those pushing the white house for more ppe, testing and the like. we wish the governor the best obviously here. jeremy diamond, appreciate the breaking news there. >>> up next, ohio is a big battleground state. team trump wants to move up the date of the first debate. it's the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe

and that includes congressman louis gohmert, who is actually blaming his contraction of the virus on wearing a mask. and you have herman cain, who passed passed away from the virus this past week, he tested positive just days after he attended a trump rally in oklahoma with many people not wearing masks there. what is your message to leaders in this country who aren't doing what we know will help stop the spread of this virus? >> it really saddens me that wearing masks has become such a political symbol. this idea that you're not free if you wear a mask, i mean, you know, every law-abiding citizen follows stecertain laws. we drive on the right side of the road, not the left side of the road, and to say you don't want to wear a mask is akin to saying, i want to drive on the left side of the road because that's my freedom. that's anarchy. we do have rules we need to follow to contain the spread of the virus. being on a ventilator, that is not freedom. watching your family, friends, coworkers die, as i have in here in new york city, that is not freedom. so, i really hope people start to

kind and you are worried that you don't have the qualifications i want you to remember that louis gohmert is thing congress and there are a lot of men. >> host: if you don't know who they are look them up. >> guest: there are people in congress who never worked questioned on whether they had the experience and clearly they don't and they are in office. it's important to say look if you think there's a problem in your immunity that need salt thing figure out what role it is and whether or not you can run for it. the majority of women who run for office have started with potholes and things like that. we have -- women are more willing to compromise once in office so it just makes for better government. if you're a young woman out there get on have to be able to be on the -- but try to be a leader within your community to improve the problems around you. and additionally you can virtually work on the biden campaign that i would recommend that the president of campaigns, you learn all the skills further job. >> host: in your book you talk very much about white hollow pics and the importance o

louie gohmert. he is himself sick, and he is blaming it on the mask. i wore a mask the last couple days. he was trying to blame it on the fact that we were insisting people wear masks. herman cain died after going to the tulsa, oklahoma rally with donald trump. and he died, and none of the republicans mentioned it today. it took democrats to mention it. i think it was maxine waters who brought it up first at the coronavirus committee hearing. they're just letting these people go. it's like a policy of mass human sacrifice. >> one of the issues that came up today that i have been focused on, and i don't know what to make of it is this data question. and it may seem esoteric. it may seem weedsy, but it's really important. there are three kinds of data we have. there is case, hospitalizations and deaths. and of those three, hospitalizations are the most concrete data that we have, right? because we know we're missing a lot of fatales from covid. we see that in the excess death data. we know cases are a product of testing. we might be missing cases. but yo

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last week, it was congressman louie gohmert, who was supposed to join the president on a trip to texas. joining me now from cleveland, where she's traveling with the president, is nbc news political reporter monica alba. monica, the president is trying to get away from the coronavirus. trying to paint a rosy picture about what's happening across the country. and yet again, he is, as i just said, running face first into it. what's happening down there? >> reporter: exactly, katy. a reality that's impossible to escape. governor dewine was supposed to meet the president on the tarmac here in cleveland just moments ago, but once he got that positive test result, he left the city. what's so significant here, katy, is the events meant to be held in northern ohio aren't specifically related to the pandemic. the president will be touching on that throughout, but he's really here to have a campaign fund-raiser later tonight and to talk about manufacturing and sign an executive order that's related to drug companies. but as you mentioned, it's impossible for him to really separate these two incr