kaitlan collins, white house correspondt for cnn.ennett, white house correspondent for nbc news.hn dickerson, "60 minutes" corresndent, political analyst for cbs news and author of "the hardest job in the world: the american presidency." and susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today. geoff, when you talked to your sources in the white house about this election standoff, wha do you hear? what is the end game? >> well, you know, republican sources i talke to were quick to dismiss the president's notion of delaying the election, dismissing that as more esidential trumpian bluster and bravado. democrats say it' evidence of if fact that this -- the fact that this president will stop at nothing to question the vality of an election that at the current moment he appears tocke on to losing. they also say it's no idle threat. a top trump donor who he appointed as post master general has made a number of budget cuts and changes at the post office that right nowte have res in about a two-day delay in the delivery of mail, even with expr

. >> kaitlan, what are you hearing? >> geoff is right. single major republican has agreed with the president on thise i think h realized it was a mistake that no one was going to support m on,ecause today when he was asked about it, he said actually he would like to move the election up. that he is so confident he's going to win, he'd like to move it ahead af couple o days. but his allies viewed this as a political mistake, because not only is he not legally able to do this, but they said it revealed his weak standing and how even he is admitting that th himself, thoe's denied that internal polls have him down. campaign sources say they do. it's the president confirming that hs fully aware that he is trailing joe biden in several of these major polls. instead of portrayg the same kind of confidence you've heard from campaign officials, the elections still a good 190 days away, the president was adtting that he's worried. >> susan, what's the significance of the president's comments coming on the same week representative john lewis has his

from "on the trail," cnn's dana bash, kaitlan collins, and kyung lah. an all new "closer look.ixon and now seth meyers. >> seth: welcome to "late night. how is everybody doing i just remembered i left half a salmon salad on my desk in march, so it's probably going to be even longer until i'm allowed back in the office let's get to the news. new york state attorney general letitia james announced today she's filing a suit to dissolve the nra for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct. and to make sure it dissolves, she's going to put jared kushner in charge of it. "you can count on me -- oh, no oh, you guys bad news oh, i kushed it. oh, i kushed another." president trump called into "fox & friends" yesterday morning, while joe biden just called in to "friends. "word of advice chandler, quit being a wise ass they're your friends, chandler." i turned him into -- i turned him into clint eastwood. during an interview on "fox & friends" yesterday, president trump claimed children aren't affected by the coronavirus. added trump, "i would know, someone raised five children of my own

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let's begin at the white house with cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins.

the question, kaitlan, is how will the white house and donald trump respond? are they responding, and to an extent, joe biden predicted it, right? joe biden came out there and commented on how all the white house has in response and the president has in response is for the president to hurl the terms he has in the past to women, strong women, words like "nasty," and you know, like 20 minutes after joe biden and kamala harris were done, that the president came out and called kamala harris angry. has the white house settled on a response? or how does that strike you? >> and he claimed that he had not watched that entire speech by biden and harris, but clearly he had watched some of it. because even when a reporter read him the attacks that kamala harris head directly on the administration's covid-19 response, saying he did not take it seriously from the beginning and he failed to listen to the experts, the president didn't really refute that. he didn't say, no, i've been taking this seriously since january or february, and no, i do listen to the experts. and ins

i mentioned it in the open, kaitlan. we saw him testifying, as president trump continues to attack mail-in voting. even, pledging to send law enforcement to polling places. >> yeah. this raised a lot of eyebrows. he said, last night, that he would be sending sheriffs and law enforcement, potentially u.s. attorneys, to polling places to monitor voters on election day. which the president, we should say, likely, does not have the authority to do this. it's against the law to intimidate voters while they're at polling places. it's, also, against the law for a civil or military, federal officer to send armed men to polling places on an election day. but what we do know, actually, what is happening is the trump campaign is preparing to send tens of thousands of these election monitors to polling places. and that's something that has prompted criticism from democrats, who say that they're attempting to suppress votes. >> so, kaitlan, the president did not let the democrats, nor joe biden or kamala harris, have their moment thi

the president had been asked by cnn's kaitlan collins to respond to michelle obama's criticisms of himthe democratic convention last evening. the president has spent weeks trying to cord a key voting bloc of suburban women. he calls them housewives. critics suggest he is doing so by appealing to racist fears, as cnn kaitlan collins now reports for us. >> reporter: president donald trump is accusing former first lady michelle obama of being, quote, divisive today after she said in her convention speech that he was in over his head. >> she is in over her head and frankly she should've made the speech live. and it was not only taped, it was taped a long time ago because she had the wrong deaths. >> reporter: the death toll from covid-19 is now 20,000 people higher than when michelle obama taped her speech. but it was this stinging criticism that prompted the president's response. >> he cannot meet this moment. he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. >> reporter: trump says it was her husband's legacy that catapulted him into office. >> frankly, i wouldn't even be here if it were

ka kaitlan acollins at the white house. fact check here. this claim about children being basically immune is not only wrong, it's irresponsible? >> reporter: completely. it's completely wrong. i don't know where help is getting this. he seems to be just pulling things out of his hat. children are not immune to this infection. we know that they get infected, and that they get as sick as adults? no. more mild illnesses, sometimes no illness but are getting infected. brianna, it's important, they transmit it to other people. my husband and i used to call our daughters lovingly our little disease vectors. they are little disease vectors for covid-19 as well. trump's own surgeon general said that children can get other people sick. he needs to listen to his medical experts. >> and kaitlan, the president claims the country is doing just fine and just democrats want schools to stay closed. let's listen. >> but to democrats, they're standing in our way. they don't want their states open. even if the state is in good shape, because you know, much of

kaitlan collins is our white house correspondent and our resident fact checker is daniel dale. they both join me. good evening to both of you. kaitlan, so, this president attacks voting by mail but cnn is confirming that president trump and the first lady, melania trump, requested mail-in ballots? what do you know? >> reporter: yes, they have, and those ballots have been mailed to mar-a-lago, of course, their florida residence since they moved from new york to florida and this is something the president's had to wrestle with as he's attacked mail-in voting because he votes by mail and he has ever since he's been in the white house. several of his top aides have. his own family members. these very people, you can see there the information, donald trump, melania trump, getting their ballots so they can vote by mail in the november election. and this is what the president has said. he said it today, i think he summed it up really, you know, pretty briefly, saying that he believes absentee voting is good and mail-in voting is very, very bad. those were the words he used. and you he

>> kaitlan collins, what are you learning? >> well, we are learning that part of the programming tonight is going to focus on covid-19 and what we're likely to see anderson are the allies and speakers coming out tonight defending the president's handling of the pandemic after we just watched democrats for four days hammer away at it as inadequate really. the question is when you walk away from both conventions is whether or not it changed any voters' minds because so far we know they have actually rejected the president's handling of covid-19 but he will be appearing tonight with front line workers in an effort to thank them for their work over the last several months. one thing to keep in mind when you see people like donald trump junior and other major speakers tonight, they will not speak to an audience like the campaign hoped initially. they have been making plans last week to have some people there at auditorium here in washington but because there are restrictions in place in d.c. and you're not allowed to have more than

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kaitlan, so this president attacks voting by mail. but cnn is confirming that president trump and the first lady, melania trump, requested mail-in ballots? what do you know? >> yes, they have. and those ballots have been mailed to mar-a-lago, which of course is their florida residence since they moved from new york to florida. and this is something the president's had to wrestle with as he attacked mail-in voting because he votes by mail and he has ever since he's been in the white house. several of his top aides have. his own family members. you can see there, the information. donald trump, melania trump, getting their ballots so they can vote by mail in the election. the president summed it up briefly saying that he believes absentee voting is good and mail-in voting is very, very bad. those are the words he used. if you heard that, there is essentially no difference in it. there are some states where you have to request your ballot. we have seen several states now say they are mailing ballots to all registered voters in their state

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kaitlan collins, more from the president moments ago.s been attacking mail in balloting unless the state's governor is republican. the poll workers, by the way, they are a majority of the people who work in the polling locations are elderly. he says he doesn't think that will be a problem by november because he thinks the virus will be in a very good place by then. this sounds like the president who says the virus will go away in march. >> yeah. that's only three months from now is when the election is and the president is expressing this optimism that he thinks by then, people will be able to go stand in line, wait, be around others, be in proximity to others and be able to vote. that is really not something you're hearing from many other people, if anyone else outside of the president's circle, at all. because they have voiced that have concern. these are the people as the same age as you. they're in the at-risk category for this and the president is dismissing that. what is notable about what the president is saying by november things

straight to the white house and cnn's kaitlan collins.tlan, the president and allies call it cancel culture. all-in today because he feels offended. >> reporter: yes. the president always been at contradiction on this, someone radio rails against cancel culture. did it on mount rushmore, july 3rd. this is different. an american company headquartered in a swing state he needs to win come november. it's something that makes people wonder, because, of course, not only is the president going after this company for what happened at this training session in kansas, this visual that went viral where the president is now saying they're claiming they are banning maga hats, but the company, putting out a statement saying they're not against these statements. don't want people making political statements while at work, and what they intended to do with that statement. though they said it did not come from goodyear corporation. but the president doesn't seem to care about the details here. instead encouraging people not to buy these tires, going off

let's bring in kaitlan collins. what are you hearing, kaitlan?rter: anderson, this is where the vice president will make a headline speech tonight. it's a big night. they have been preparing for for weeks. we have a backdrop of what is unfolding in wisconsin that's really going to be hanging in the background of what it is the vice president is expected to say tonight. one thing we are told by a source familiar with the vice president's speech is that he is not expected to address what is going on on the streets of wisconsin, what we've seen unfold over the last several days since jacob blake was shot by a police officer. that's notable for several reasons but one because earlier a source told cnn he was going to make a reference to it. of course, you could assume that would be in the lens of how the president has viewed a lot of this what's been happening over the last several months since george floyd was killed, he's gone after not the protest but the riots that happened in the city while aids said maybe the president wasn't handling the prote

kaitlan collins, thank you so much.it. >>> speaking of the republican convention, last night at the convention donald trump jr. said, "we are not going to tear down monuments and forget the people who built our great nation, instead, we will learn from our past so we don't repeat any mistakes." i thought that donald trump jr. was referring to confederate monuments but he told me today that he was not. he was referring to monuments of the founding fathers which he had referenced earlier. i regret the error. >>> the biden campaign is trying to diminish the rnc today by rolling out another group of former republican officials who are backing biden in this election. and they are getting help at undermining the president's message by his former lawyer, michael cohen. cnn's jessica deans joins me lye from washington. who are the latest endorsements? why does the campaign think may might be important? >> jake, today these are eight former appointeed appointed by past republican presidents, reagan, president george h.w. bush, p

and kaitlan collins is in washington. and we're learning details about a meeting in which white house officials raised the possibility of a emergency use authorization vaccine before it is ready and the phase three trials are complete. >> reporter: this is at a meeting at at end of july when mark meadows was up on capitol hill meeting with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer about the coronavirus legislation talks. and it was during that meeting that shummer and pelosi asked for an update on how the vaccine progress was coming. they talked about astra zeneca, potentially ready as soon as next month but talked about the idea of potentially having an emergency use authorization before it is ready to be administered to the public are completed. it said if there was enough data showing that point for them to do an emergency use authorization, that is similar to what the president announced yesterday when it comes to the plasma treatment for coronavirus. in response to the story, the administration is pushing back saying they're no

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biden's comments, i want to bring in kaitlan collins right now. kaitlan, biden suggested comments made by kellyanne conway the more people see unrest in the streets of wisconsin, the more that they will embrace a law and order message. that's what biden was talking about. president trump we should note has so far not said anything specifically about the blake shooting. >> reporter: he hasn't. that's why he was pressed on it. we haven't really had the opportunity to question the president this week given events going on. he was asked multiple times had he seen the video, aware what was going on? anything furtherer to comment on what was happening in wisconsin. he refused to answer those questions, jake, but weighed in on the nba boycott first time after boycotting their games yesterday in response to the police shooting of jacob blake and this is what the president said about the nba decision. >> i don't know much about the nba protest. i know they're rate ares are very bad because i think people are a little tired of the nba frankly, but i don't k

kaitlan collins is "outfront" at the white house tonight.aitlan, the president doubling down tonight, saying yet again that the virus is going to go away. >> reporter: yep. he has said it from for months and it has not gone away and he is going to continue to say it, it appears, until there is some kind of vaccine or more therapeutics are developed. he also did not back off what he said about children earlier today, that virtually immune comment you just played whchlt he was asked at the briefing about it, he said children don't get as sick as adults do. we know there have been some children that have gotten ill with this. facebook is troubled with the president's post and the comment about children that they have removed a video that was on president trump's facebook page of him making that comment that he believes children are virtually immune from his page saying it's misinformation saying a certain age group is immune from this when the doctors and health experts. that's the notable because it's the first time facebook has removed anythi

cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins me live. kaitlan, we just heard from the president and he once again cast doubt on mail-in voting. >> reporter: this time he's in the oval office with the governor of arizona, doug ducey. going from saying he didn't know anything about arizona's own mail-in voting system to then moments later saying that he was going to endorse it. and he said he believes that there is going to be this widespread mail-in voting come november, that it would be a catastrophe. i'm quoting him now. he said you'll never know who the winner is, but the winner is going to be me. three months out from the election, president trump is stepping up his attacks on mail-in voting amid concern from republicans that he's discouraging his own party from casting their ballots. >> it's going to be months or years. they will never be able to tabulate their votes because they're not set up for it. >> reporter: election officials in many states are now encouraging voting by mail because of the pandemic. while trump is baselessly c

. >> kaitlan, i think it is interesting to explore why the president continually does this. i think that it offers an explanation for why we're in this predicament. his willful blindness about the rising death toll and how many americans die every day, and you saw it in that chris wallace interview -- well, you saw it in both interviews, in the axios interview as well as the chris wallace, where he's cherry picking so-called data. he's calling to his press people, come bring me that other graph, bring me the other graph. do they not show him the real graphs, or is this just another example of where he says, i don't want that bad news. go find something where it looks good. >> i think it is the president seeking out good informtion that tells a good story and not the full story of what this looks like in the u.s., because this has happened on multiple occasions, where the president says, look at this graph, this proves my poison. and people who are interviewing him or questioning him say, these are not the graphs that everyone else is looking at. the one on fox news was reall

let me bring in kaitlan collins at the white house, she was in the room. tell me more about being in the room, what you heard? >> you saw how many people were there in the room. it is not normally that packed in the oval office for any kind of event like this. the president brought everybody in for this announcement, what he's calling this historic deal between the uae and israel, coming to this agreement to normalize relations which the president said means trading ambassadors, having embassies in each other's country and you saw at the end what the national security adviser robert o'brien said, which was also significant, he said there is going to be an official signing ceremony here at the white house between israel and the uae in the coming weeks. though they didn't say exactly when those two delegations are expected to meet. you saw the president reading from a piece of paper there. it appear to be the statement he put out on twitter this was in the top of the statement, but incredibly significant as well, but in that statement, the president said tha

. >> kaitlan collins is outfront.ant to play more of that in a moment, but this is as we learn that he and his daughter actually donated to kamala harris. >> right, which kind of throws a wrench in the president attacking her and going after her in the way that he was just there in the briefing room. but erin, honestly, if you watched the president, he kind of seemed to struggle to really land this line of attack on kamala harris as he was talking about this. he appeared to be reading from this bullet point list. he kept looking down and looking back at us in the briefings room and he was talking about fracking, how she grilled supreme court justice brett kavanaugh over robert mueller. he says he found her disrespectful in that way and he talked about the memorable exchange she had with joe biden on the debate stage saying that he found it to be disrespectful. but he really didn't seem to have a clear line of attack on senator harris. even at one point i tried to ask him about the donation that not only came from the

kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. >>> let's talk about these kw developments. he's a visiting professor of the london school of economics. good to have you on. let's begin with the controversy over mail-in balloting. is mail-in balloting on the line here? >> well, he seems to be taking it so by defunding the post office. some sorting machines removed. this aligns with a broader voter suppression and strategies that democrats have championed for a long time that violates the voting rights act of the 1960s. trim down the voters that are going against the republican party in key areas and thereby affect the election. it seems a clear strategy to do that. >> we're hearing more leaders, joe biden and hillary clinton, saying that trump is trying to steal the election and may refuse to accept defeat. is this something that america needs to be concerned about. hillary clinton said she wasn't trying to scare people, but in her words, trump would not go silently in the night, if he loses. he will try to confuse the american people, she said, even bring lawsuits. >> absol

kaitlan collins is here. mark short said the administration would not weigh in and yet he's weighing in there. it's also entirely within the realm of past history that the president would weigh in on. >> reporter: yes. we have seen what he said before about nba players who kneel in the anthem or stay in the locker room for it called them quote very nasty and not weighed in on twitter which is surprising and during this convention week the president has made appearances, come out to speeches, done pre-recorded videos but not close to reporters like normally in a regular week in the white house to ask the president about the news of the day so that may be a reason and you are getting a sense of people in the white house viewing this. jared kushner is a top aide to donald trump and speak for the white house making these comments saying that dismissing these boycotts because nba players are paid a lot of money and not sure that's the point of what the boycotts were from the nba bubble but on a larger point consid

with me is white house correspondent kaitlan collins, and laura lopez at politico. laura, let me start with you. the biden campaign has said coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. we won't take the bait but it is not bait. there's protests across the country, another man shot in wisconsin last week. biden's challenge today is to connect the dots, more than just rebut law and order. correct? he wants to say the common denominator is coronavirus, safety in the streets, racial reckoning we see we have a president who's not done his job. >> yes. even though this is a notable shift for biden today, he in the immediate aftermath of the george floyd's killing did give a speech on racial injustice. he also has repeatedly condemned violence when protests have occasionally turned to riots since june but what's different about this speech is he's starting to connect all of the dots rather attack trump on the handling of coronavirus or just tackle racial injustice and police violence against black people he is connecting it altogether and turning a trump attack on him back the

let's go to kaitlan collins. and katlyn, we know that dr. fauci has been the president's cross-hairs for a while and is dr. birx now joining him? what is going on. >> reporter: this is the first time, brooke, that we've seen the president publicly attack dr. birx in this way. and it is a little bit different than his sustained attacks on dr. fauci, because dr. fauci's office is not in the west wing. he's over at nih and he has to drive to get over to the west wing and so there were reports of he and the president not running into each other. dr. birx briefs the res regularly on updates of what is going on with covid-19. so it does put her in this awkward position that the president is saying the only reason she was offering blunt warnings about coronavirus is because of those criticisms from house speaker nancy pelosi which we should note that dr. birx pushed back on those criticisms. she said she's never been accused of being pollyana-ish or data driven during her time in the field and pushing back while also offering the blunt warnings. so

kaitlan, let's start with you. listen to the president yesterday describing how i met with dr. birx, we'll be fine. >> i told dr. birx i think we are doing very well. she was in my office a little while ago. she's a person i have a lot of respect for. i think nancy pelosi's treated her very badly, very, very badly, very nasty. >> nancy pelosi has said she doesn't trust her. the president called her pathetic because he was not happy that she said that the virus is spreading and she said in places where it is spreading in some places you have to keep schools closed. >> reporter: yeah. john, basically he argued he thought the reason she was saying that, giving that blunt assessment of the outbreak in the u.s. is as a direct response to nancy pelosi criticizing her and saying that she was enabling the president to spread misinformation. we're told by sources that dr. birx was stung by that comment about her where the president called her performance pathetic and been warned something that could happen and everyone has

but let's start with kaitlan collins at the white house. and kaitlan, this interviews with extraordinary. it is ride ranging. but the comments on covid are getting attention. my question is what is the reaction within the administration to that interview? >> reporter: i mean, brooke, these are the same comments the president is making behind closed doors to the members of his task force and we saw this this week with dr. birx because he offered an accurate assessment of what is happening in the country. these are the things the president said privately, even when he's confronted with data disproving what he's saying and proving he is not an accurate description of what is going on. he continues to argument the reason you're seeing more cases in the u.s. is because there is increased testing. when you see this interview at a whole, the president is viewing the pandemic through himself and how do voters respond to declare victory and project optimism but this wide-ranging aspect of the president not seeming to grasp what is actually happening

let's bring in kaitlan collins.s attacks or have no effect. >> reporter: it doesn't seem likely based on what the president said this morning as he was granting that pardon to susan b. anthony who was convicted of voting illegally. and the president continued his attacks on mail-in voting and without offering real detail or basis for what he was saying. he said there is a chance they have to redo the november election if it is overwhelmingly done by mail. because he is that against it and continued to ramp up his attacks so much on it even though there is no widespread evidence of fraud like the president has suggested. now whether it comes to the u.s. post master, louis de joy is the president's guy. he put them there in may despite lawmakers were concerned that dejoy has no experience in the post office unlike those that came before him and in recent days the president has defended what he's doing, saying he wants to, quote, make the post office great again. it is not likely the president has issues with what he w

kaitlan collins, appreciate it, thank you.ore of this convention next year, in contrast to the democrats, joining us is valerie jarrett, former obama senior adviser and author of "finding my voice." it's really interesting, because often times when we talk about what do we think is going to happen in this convention, people focus on policy issues and health care, whatever it may be, i'm not sure that for this white house it makes any sense to be thinking that they're going to be focusing on a lot of -- they're not going to be focusing on health care, there is no health care plan, despite promising it for years and years, it seems like it's going to be painting a picture of a dystopian america with carnage in the streets, even though they're the ones that have overseen this alleged carnage. >> i think that's exactly right. if we can judge from what they've done so far, it's a very negative divisive campaign intended to instill fear. polarize us in sharp contrast to the week the democratic party had led by vice president biden a

i want to bring in kaitlan collins and jackie kusinic. former president of the united states barack obama weighing into the big debate of the president tinkering with the postal service, why to try to undermine the credibility of mail-in voting. president obama tweeted everyone %-pn administration more concerned with suppressing the vote than suppressing the virus. he went there. >> yeah. he did. but the president has sort of opened it up to that sort of criticism with his comments just this week on -- i believe it was fox business saying exactly what you said, that, you know, that if the postal service gets the money it needs it will facilita facilitate mail-in voting. in florida he says it is fine because there's a republican governor and yet in nevada it's a problem. so it really is -- it can be directly co directly corelated to where the president can win. in north carolina he said -- he told a tele-rally this week that people -- that it's safe and should request absentee voting and depends on where he thinks he can win, frankly, as t

kaitlan is in fort mchenry near baltimore. there's more breaking news tonight.ifornia governor gavin newsom says his state will defy new coronavirus testing guidelines just released by the centers for disease control. cnn's nick watt has the latest. >> increasing testing. >> get the testing. >> that's been a mantra. test, trace, isolate. not anymore? the cdc just changed its testing guidance from testing is recommended for all close contacts of persons with infection to this. if you've been in close contact but do not have symptoms you do not necessarily need a test. >> shame on the people in the cdc. what possible rationale is there to say you're in close contact with covid positive persons and you don't need a test. >> reporter: coming from the top down one senior health official tells cnn, from the white house. >> the testing sites really look for asymptomatic individuals. we are trying to get appropriate testing not less testing. >> i think it is more likely this is an intentional effort by the administration to conceal the true extent of transmission and th

kaitlan collins joins me now.ocrats made a key part of the message the notion that president trump is discouraging voting, especially voting by mail. and now the president is giving them more ammunition. he told hannitiy he's going to send sheriffs and law enforcement to polling places on election day. >> reporter: they're accusing him of trying to undermine the election by sowing doubt and asked how he's going to verify that voters are who they are, he talked about sending sheriffs and law enforcement and u.s. attorneys to polling places on election day, something that we should note he likely does not have the authority to do. because federal law makes it illegal to try to intimidate voters at polling places. but it also makes it illegal, prohibiting federal or civil or military federal officials from sending armed men to polling places. so the president is saying that it is something that he actually said in 2016 as well, it is not likely he could do that. but one thing that the trump campaign is doing is tryin

with me elizabeth cohen and white house correspondent kaitlan collins. and elizabeth, first, on this independent review, why do the top doctors think that would be necessary here? >> so these doctors fear that too many americans have become distrustful of the way this whole vaccine approval process has been going. the comments that you mentioned from dr. hahn, other factors have made too many americans say i don't know that i'm going to trust this vaccine when it comes out. in fact, our own cnn polling from this month shows that 40% of americans won't take the vaccine when it comes out. so these doctors -- and these are not fringy anti-vax doctors. these are infectious disease doctors from harvard, from unc, from nyu and their own colleagues don't want to get this vaccine. these are doctors and nurses who vaccinate their own children but say i'm nervous about this vaccine. so for that reason the doctors say, look, let's create an independent commission with all of the access to the data, could consider the data and then they could say whether or not they

the fbi and attorney general, two men in place himself as cnn's kaitlan collins reports. >> reporter: donald trump admitting he's opposing funding for the postal service in order to block expanded voting by mail. >> if we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money. that means they don't have national mail-in voting. >> reporter: out loud he said the reason talks have collapsed is because democrats want more money for the post office which he thinks will lead to more mail-in ballots. >> they want $25 billion -- billion -- for the post office. now, they need that money in order to have the post office work to take all these millions and millions of ballots. if they don't get hess these items they can't do mail-in voting. >> even for a president who railed against mail-in voting for months, it was a stunning admission. biden calling it an assault on democracy. >> pure trump. he didn't want an election. >> reporter: it puts president trump in direct conflict with democrats who says they won't accept a bill without post office funding. >> the president is afraid of the american

kaitlan collins is over at the white house for us. according to a new cnn poll, kaitlan, 7 in 10 americans say they're embarrassed to the response to the pandemic and are given president trump very poor marks as well. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. he's holding one of the briefings that aides were hoping would boost his numbers with supporters. you're look at polls like this one that show that not only are americans embarrassed by the country's response but 62 percent of voters think president trump should be doing more to fight covid-19. i want to point out one thing he just mentioned a few moments ago, as he has been trying to compare the outbreaks in the u.s. with that around the world, repeatedly talking about what's happening in new zealand, saying they're seeing a surge in cases. new zealand is only getting a handful of new cases a day, which pales in comparison to what we're seeing here in the united states. a new cnn poll today is revealing an unflattering snapshot of the u.s. where the majority of americans are embarrassed

. >> white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining me now.rt about this tweet about florida. why -- now he's -- it's a reversal. now he's urging people to vote by mail. >> tess a complete reversal from what you've heard from the president for the last several weeks, at length, saying it would be rife with fraud, we would not know who was elected possibly ever. it's interesting to hear him in that interview talk about how he didn't believe people should vote by mail because people voted during world wars and other catastrophes. just los angeles last week the president was floating delaying the election because of the pandemic that was going on. republicans came out and said he didn't have the power to do. what's notable at his tweet here, and his press secretary was asked about this moments after he sent this out. they've been trying to draw this zipgs between absentee voting and mail-in voting. when people say there is not much of a distinction to make there. that's the argument they've made repeatedly when talking about the president now say

kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you very much. the white house has not condemned the actions of kyle rittenhouse, an apparent trump supporter charged with potential homicide of an apparent protester in the streets of kenosha. sara sidner reports. >> reporter: protests continue in kenosha, wisconsin as we learn more about two very different shootings. >> we have these two justice systems in america. one for black america and one for white america. >> on the one hand, a black man, jacob black, in a tussle with police was shot in the back seven times by a police officer. while a white teenager shooting at people is able took walk by with a firearm and not arrested. >> it's outrageous, why is a black man walking away from them get shot seven times in the back. a young white man, who killed people, who shot people, is not shot and is taken alive. >> police say 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse is accused in one of the deadly shootings that took place during the protest tuesday night. we spoke to a woman who tried to help one of the shooting

kaitlan collins is live "outfront" the white house today. the democrats spent the week hammering the president on the coronavirus. he's next up to bat. what are you learning for his plans for his convention next week? >> it's not clear there's going to be any kind of focus on covid-19, not significantly at least judging on the conversations we've had as we've been reporting on what the convention is expected to look like and what aides are working on when it comes to speeches and theeps of the day. we do know the vice president said today he will address covid-19. of course he's the head of the coronavirus task force. that's not a surprise there when he speaks on wednesday night. we have not heard from any sources that the president is in any way expected to do some kind of address or focus on that which is notable like you said for the last few days you've seen democrats hammering away on the president's response to covid-19. but really culminating into what joe biden said. he was saying basically the president abandoned the one core princi

let's begin at the white house with cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins.he president is upping his attacks on mail-in voting less than three months before the election. >> reporter: yep. those attacks have continued this week, and they've been part of this element where the president is saying he's going to block new funding that democrats want for the postal service, which, of course, is going to play a critical role in carrying out an election that could be largely conducted by mail. and, jim, his attacks are all coming as the president himself is requesting his own mail-in ballot. even though it could be critical to carrying out the november election, president trump made clear today that his refusal to give the post office more funding is a direct shot at democrats. >> because they want $1 trillion to go to their friends doing a bad job running certain cities and states that are doing very badly. >> reporter: the president argued he wouldn't block new funding for the u.s. postal service if democrats meet his demands in coronavirus legislation. >> they'

or white house correspondent kaitlan collins is on the scene for us.ome troubling new numbers for the white house in this exclusive new poll. >> reporter: yeah, wolf. those are not the numbers that the white house wants to see this close to the election as they are trying to tout the president's response to covid-19. as you just heard what nick was saying, those numbers about americans being embarrassed also comes down to the president's leadership with 62% of voters saying they wish the president was doing more. while instead today, wolf, of focusing on covid-19, he has been picking fights with american companies even though his motto so far since he took office has been to, quote, buy american. a new cnn poll today is revealing an unflattering snapshot of the u.s. where a majority of americans are embarrassed by the country's response to covid-19. disapproval of the president's handling of the crisis hit a new high at 58%. though his overall approval was slightly up. president trump has continued to skirt safety guidelines and held a packed rally in

. >> kaitlan collins, thank you. david axelrod and reggie love, personal aide to president obama. reggie, you know the impact -- you saw, had a front row seat to this with president obama and his family. obviously, it was a distraction. these are based on just the deepest, you know, generation-long racist tropes again anyone who is different, immigrants of any sort, black americans, you know, latin-x americans. what do you make of the revival of this by this president? >> look, this is not a new play from the current president. like you mentioned before, he has run this play before and, let's be honest, i think it's a distraction and he's using it to try to exhaust and fool the american people. but i think people are more concerned about what we're doing to support our covid efforts and essential workers and all the people who have lost their lives, families who lost -- people who have lost family members throughout this period. i think, you know, unemployment is something people are really interested in having a conversation about or funding the election commission to help make s

contend that that's exactly what's happening and it could lead to dangerous consequences as cnn's kaitlan collins now reports. >> reporter: on the eve of the republican convention, president trump announced the fda will grant emergency approval to use blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment. >> i want to thank the fda. >> reporter: trump and his aides pressured the agency to move faster on granting the approval, claiming deep state officials were deliberately delaying progress for political reasons. >> i think that there are people in the fda and actually in your larger department that can see things being held up and wouldn't mind so much, that's my opinion, a very strong opinion. >> reporter: the emergency approval was held up by concerns among top government scientists who wanted more data before signing off. though, two of trump's aides claimed they were slow-walking the approval. >> if they don't see the light, they need to feel the heat. >> convalescent plasma, that's like going after bambi. >> reporter: the fda commissioner didn't address trump's attacks but praised him before late

kaitlan, thank you so much for that. >>> and meantime, let's go to capitol hill. that's where negotiators are back to work out this emergency aid package. now, both sides are projecting a positive tone. but sources tell cnn the two camps are as far apart as they have ever been. reminder, there is so much at stake here. last week the $600 a week federal unemployment benefit that many americans were using to pay bills and get by expired as did the temporary federal stop on evictions. cnn's phil mattingly is live from capitol hill. so, phil, the big question, was this meeting today any more productive than the meeting on saturday? is there any hope right now? >> i think there's hope because it's capitol hill and things can often come together quickly. the stakes, they're enormous. and at this point in time after this nearly two-hour meeting, the sixth meeting in the last week between the top democratic negotiator and top white house negotiators, productive was about all they've got. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer said they are still a ways away from the biggest most

. >> kaitlan, the president has said in the past, maybe you don't like me, but judge me on my performance. that test is even higher now that you have this scathing account, these words played over and over again from his own sister. his performance is an issue because of the coronavirus pandemic and you're part of the reporting on this on cnn.com, though the coronavirus pandemic will provide an unspoken subtext for the drastic a little altered convention, trump advisers said they did not expect the health crisis to be a heavy focus of the proceedings as it was during the democrats' or has been during democrats'. how can that be? the president thinks he can push aside the biggest threat to the country now? >> it is something that he's done at the white house. there were several periods during the pandemic where the president did not address it, days at a time, weeks at a time. it is not expected to be a main focus during this. you saw what democrats did, they talked about covid-19 and joe biden spoke about what he would do if he was elected, but also most of their response on it was critic