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here with the latest, our white house correspondent kaitlan collins.dent is talking about ending the fair housing rule, is this an appeal to white suburban voters he's just trying to get? >> i mean, that's definitely what it looks like because the president has now been in office for this long and he has not rescinded this regulation yet, and if you look at this regulation anderson, basically, what it goes to do is try to combatdiscriminatory practices you've seen and if it's an yar that's getting any kind of grant or aid money, they have to assess the segregation in their area and deal with it if they do find that to be a practice. when the president rescinded this, the department of housing and urban development called it this unworkable rule but though there is no evidence that it drove crime up in these areas, you saw what the president said there on twitter. you know, your housing prices will go up based on the market and crime will go down. of course, there is no evidence that crime went up so it's not clear where the president is making that sta

i want to bring in cnn's kaitlan collins, abby phillip and dana bash. that message that joe biden was trying to convey there is really what the biden campaign is all about, restoring a sense of normalcy. but the truth of the matter is any election involving an incumbent president is truly about the incumbent president. >> it is. and what the incumbent president has tried to do, as soon as they could, is to define in a negative way, obviously, the person who wants the job. in this case, it is joe biden. and what the trump campaign has not been able to do is just that in a way that is politically beneficial enough for one main reason, which is the coronavirus. because it is totally a referendum on president trump for lots of reasons. the main reason is the way he has handled or mishandled the leadership during this unprecedented crisis. and so what joe biden said there is very true. we all heard him when he announced that he wants to run to restore dignity and leadership and all the things he mentioned to the presidency. he was aided in a big way by the p

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more now on this from kaitlan collins at the white house. the president went to florida not to address the pandemic. what is the rational the white house is providing for that? >> not a lot, really. if you had looked at the president's schedule today, anderson, you would not have known there is a pandemic going on. he goes to florida for a drug trafficking and south america briefing, something he said they thought about doing on the phone but he said he wanted to be there in person despite that 28% positivity rate happen income miami-dade county where he was and then he went to a round table with supporters around venezuela and goes to this campaign fundraiser where he raised about $10 million we're told and he's on the way home. he's commuted the sentence of roger stone and it's just, he made one brief mention, just one about covid-19 today and that was just him talking about what things looked like before the pandemic hit the united states and that was it. >> when you and i talked a couple days ago, i was stunned when you told me that acco

let's bring in white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the numbers up in trump states across the country. the president not saying this is what we have to do to make it better but p.k.ing fights with experts and agencies. >> reporter: yeah. the experts who have offered the sobering warnings of where the country is right now and where it is headed, a different message than seen from the president and we saw this play out when the president went after fauci directly this weekend and you saw the white house circulating that opposition-style bullet point list of thing that is fauci said at the beginning of the pandemic come paured now without noting statements like that that happened from the surgeon general that urged people not to wear masks and false claims that the president made himself and then look at what the president retweeting this morning. chuck woolery, former game show host, he said everyone is lying. the cdc, media, democrats, our doctors. chuck woolery said it's all about the election and keeping the economy come fromming back

our white house correspondent is kaitlan collins and she joins us now live from the white house. kaitlan, good evening to you. the president came out and made more false claims about the virus today. i think it was because he wanted to distract from the attention the former presidents were getting. he knew that he can't change the date of the election. why does he talk about this instead of talking about the virus? >> reporter: that's a good question. and i think what he's realized is his aides have been like you need to focus on the virus so your standings with voters can be boosted again and get back to the levels at least that you had been several months ago. and instead of, you know, doing that precisely at these briefings, the president reads these scripted remarks and then he often goes off script either in the answers to reporters or when he's on twitter that morning, and that's why he's faced with questions about delaying the election. it doesn't seem like the president even seriously thinks he can move the election. i think he heard what these republicans were saying toda

more now on all this from cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house. so, kaitlan, with the national security adviser testing positive for the virus, what is the white house saying about when the president and o'brien last saw each other? >> they haven't answered our questions about that. neither, the white house, nor the national security council's office, and so, all we know is that the president said today he has not seen robert o'brien lately. he said, though, that raises some questions because it wasn't that long ago that the press secretary told us they sometimes see each other twice a day and o'brien is on half a dozen calls with the president. so it's unclear. what we do know, anderson, o'brien was last seen here last thursday. we are told he abruptly left after receiving a phone call. it's not clear if that phone call was about his diagnosis. but larry kudlow, another top aide today, said he believed it's because o'brien's daughter had tested positive for coronavirus. so they were trying to do some kind of contact tracing that way. but another s

straight to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins now. kaitlan, good evening, thank you so much for joining. kaitlan, did the president talk about coronavirus, at all, during his trip today? >> it came up once, and it was only briefly. if you had really looked at what the president did today and his entire schedule, you would not have known there was a pandemic going on. he went down to florida, attended this drug trafficking briefing and he said they talked about doing it over the phone. but he wanted to go, in person, to miami-dade county, where we noted the positivity rate hit 28% today. before going to a campaign fundraiser where he raised about $10 million. but really overall, then of course the roger stone commutation came as he was on the flight back to washington. but if you really looked at what he was doing, the fact that he went into one of the nation's worst hotspots on coronavirus right now. the president did not acknowledge the fact that what the cases have looked like over the last two weeks. it's not the same message that y

. >> cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us and alana plott.is a colorful figure but the trump factor gives it national attention. sessions was the president's attorney general. this is up to the republican voters of alabama. >> you know, it is interesting, john. i think this race really does stand to lay bare the extent to which trump's most ardent supporters are drawn to him with an ideology or a cult of personality i should say. you know, it is interesting. jeff sessions is in ways the most trumpian candidate in the race and a true believer of the ideals of trumpism, whether it relates to immigration or trade or china more broadly and, of course, he is loathed by donald trump. tommy tuberville has been on record several times saying things like donald trump's trade policies have put a noose around the neck of american farmers and yet he is the one beloved in this race by donald trump. so depending on who voters ultimately pick this evening i think it's a signal as to why the president supporters are drawn to him. >> kaitlan collins i know yo

cnn's white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. kaitlan, thank you so much for joining us. how much time did the president spend today focused on the pandemic? >> well, don, the white house today insisted the president is focused on it. but you can see his priorities in what he is talking about and what he's tweeting about. today, the one event we saw him at, he barely referenced coronavirus. it was just in passing. it was the vice president who was the one who really actually tried to give somewhat of an update on it. and the president is not tweeting on it. if you look through his twitter feed and see what he is actually talking about on there, he hasn't really talked about it at all. and he hasn't had any events dedicated to coronavirus this week, which is striking when you see what is he happening across the country. but when the white house is asked why not, today, he just said he's focusing on it and other things and expected to do more on it next week. that's always a tbd with this white house. >> kaitlan collins, thank you. appreciate your time and reporting. breaki

i'm going to bring in now cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. aitlan, good evening to you. the president is ignoring the pandemic and now we are learning where the white house intentions -- intention, i should say, is. moving former presidents' portraits out of sight? >> yeah. this is quite a story because it comes in a week where the president didn't hold any events dedicated to covid-19. and we've been asking the white house about that. they'd been insisting that he was focused on it. and now, with this great reporting from my colleague, jeff zeleny, we have learned that, in the last week, since last wednesday, they have moved these portraits. that normally, when you walk into the front doors of the white house in the grand foyer, you sigh theee these portraits. you can see them there of presidents george w. bush and bill clinton. they're no longer there and typically it's the two most recent presidents when you walk in. barack obama's portrait, of course, has not been unveiled yet. that's why it's not up there. but instead, they have moved the

that is a question for kaitlan collins, dr. pea tter hotez, af the break. >>> the coronavirus surging all across this country. especially, in california, texas, florida. at least 35 states seeing an increase in cases. the death toll in the u.s. from the virus, now more than 135,000 people. let's bring in cnn's white house correspondent kaitlan collins, as well as dr. peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. good evening, to both of you. doctor, i'm going to start with you. so let's talk about california rolling back its reopening. shutting down all indoor activities. los angeles and san diego, students won't be returning to school buildings next month. should other states with surging cases and hospitalizations do the same? should they follow suit? >> yeah. they're going to have no choice, don. these cases are rising, precipitously, in multiple states. really, in a whole band across the southern half of the united states. it's worse in some than others. it's the worst in texas, florida

let's get straight live to kaitlan collins at the white house with the latest.e west wing. >> reporter: and surprise to some on the national council who found out some told us from press reports that the boss tested positive for coronavirus. this is significant because this is the highest ranking official so far at the white house here who has tested positive that we know about for covid-19. of course, following the president's own personal valet and the vice president's communications director testing positive several weeks ago and now robert o'brien, someone who has an office in the west wing steps away from the oval office where president trump works out of has tested positive for coronavirus and raising concerns inside the white house about, you know, just how efficient the contact tracing will be and whether or not it will change any of the other protocols because, of course, we know that in the west wing most people are not wearing masks because they're tested so often. the white house confirmed this in a statement with no name on it saying that he had tes

kaitlan collins is standing by at the white house. what are we hearing about this press conference? >> reporter: well, we're told so far by a person familiar with the president is expected to say that it is going to focus on china and the big question is whether or not the president takes questions because often you see the white house say there is a press conference and it is not unless he actually takes questions and if he does take questions he's going to be faced with questions about what is happening across the nation with coronavirus. because lately despite saying the surges in cases, the president's former chief of staff talking about how hard it is to get a test and the results of that test. the president has not been focusing on that problem and instead the crisis that the white house has been dealing with is the fallout after they anonymously criticized dr. fauci over the weekend in this attempt to undercut him or undermine his advice. now, many people in the white house do not think that was a wise move for the white house to make. because instead it is creating a feud be

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let's get straight to the white house and kaitlan collins. some changes for the president coming back in to the briefing room today and last night after a weekend in which he said a mask restricts your freedoms, mask can cause problems, last night the president tweeting a mask might be seen as patriotic. >> reporter: last night seen at the fund-raiser at trump hotel not wearing a mask. john, first, let's start with what we expect to see today because this morning we heard the latest plan is none of those task force members, the health experts here in the administration, were going to appear with the president at today's briefing and the white house now is playing a little coy on whether or not those health experts will show up because when they were asked about the reporting that none of the task force experts expected she said you have to tune in. that is not going to help the administration dispel the notion that the president is only bringing back these briefings not to give information to people but because of the ratings he got and the s

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>> kaitlan collins from the white house, thank you so much. >>> joining the conversation is a former attorney general, dr. david satcher and senior adviser for the satcher health leadership at morehouse university. i covered the clinton white house overlapping your tenure as surgeon general and not a guy that loves to dive in politics, yet you joined former colleagues this past week and headline in "the washington post" essay. we ran the cdc, no president ever politicized the science the way trump has. you have felt compelled to step into politics and heard the white house, the cdc says it was going to have school guidelines and delayed again. there's a document presented to the white house coronavirus task force saying 18 states should roll back. it is not made public. the president of the united states has not had a coronavirus event in ten days. what does that tell you about federal leadership at this moment, sir? >> it tells me we have a reason to be very concerned. we have a reason to worry. we're facing a crisis situation going forward. we are in the middle of a crisis now. so

and as cnn's kaitlan collins reports, the new strategy of taking to the podium and trying to sound concerned comes as yet another poll shows the president is trailing joe biden, this time by eight percentage points. >> reporter: after attempts to ignore the pandemic didn't work, president trump acknowledged the grim reality facing the country in his first covid-19 briefing in months. >> it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better. something i don't like saying about things. but that's the way it is. >> reporter: the shift was a political calculus by a president worried about his sinking poll numbers. but it was notable given what he told fox news just days ago. >> i said it's going to disappear. i'll say it again, it's going to disappear. >> reporter: raising questions about mixed messages, trump urged americans to wear a mask as he wrongly claimed that he never resisted doing so. >> i have no problem. i carry it. you saw me wearing it a number of times and i'll continue. >> reporter: days earlier he made this claim about masks without citing any evidence. >> all of a sudd

and just then cnn kaitlan collins discussed the reported bounties and she refused to answer.f defense and i wonder sir. thank you so much for lending your expertise. so, either they didn't discuss this or they did but the white house won't say they did. so, let's start with the possibility this wasn't discussed. how much of a problem would that be? >> i think it would be a very serious problem. if president of the united states did not raise this issue with vladimir putin. when we have intelligence that the russians were putting bounties on the heads of our men and women in uniform, and that indeed we could have lost four marines as a revlt of the bounties being put in place. i think it is extremely important for the president of the united states to make clear to vladimir putin that this is not behavior that will be tolerated by the united states. we are not going to stand by and allow the russians to put a price on the heads of our forces. that should have been the message. i have a feeling that wasn't the message that president trump gave vladimir putin. >> and why is that

kaitlan collins, dana bash, they'll discuss. we will, next. >>> the president cancelling plans to hold republican convention. republican convention activities in jacksonville, florida. just weeks ago, he was playing up the big crowds. but today, he says he needs to keep our country safe. joining me now, cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins and our chief political correspondent dana bash. so good to see bouth of you. thank you for joining this evening. kaitlan, you first. there's no other way to say it. this is a massive aboutface by the president. this is a 180, and it comes after he has struggled to hold the big events and rallies that he's -- that he -- he always talks about. i mentioned that in the open. he really wants to be at those rallies. and now, he is not even going to get the convention thing he wanted. >> yeah. it's so striking to see that, within an eight-week period, the president went from moving the convention in north carolina because the restrictions that the governor wanted, he said, were too strict.

sanjay gupta, and white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. they both join me. good evening. coronavirus is surging. hundreds are dying in this country. every day. the president barely mentioned it in the rose garden today instead rambled about joe biden and this is nothing to address what everyone can see he's not handling this well. >> well, that didn't even really address what he was supposed to address. which was china and hong kong. you heard him start on that and quickly went off topic for over an hour. barely took questions from reporters and only barely mentioned coronavirus and the longest he spoke about it was to repeat the false claim about he says because there is more testing and that's why there is more cases. something debunked by health experts saying that is not the reason solely we're seeing so many more cases in the united states. just the president really trying to put it behind him. the question becomes who is the president listening to and what is he focusing his time on? is he focusing on the response like americans have shown in polls they want the pre

let's go to the white house right now where white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us. kaitlan, another coronavirus case very close to the president. update on that. >> reporter: louie gohmert, congressman, showed up at the white house this morning about 7:00 a.m. to get a coronavirus test because he was supposed to go with the president to texas today. he tested positive. so then he took a second test where he also tested positive again. and this has caused massive uproar on capitol hill where louie gohmert has spent the week. what people are pointing to is that on many occasions he was seen not wearing a mask. and now he is blaming that mask for his diagnosis. president trump flew to texas today with an empty seat on air force one after texas congressman louie gohmert tested positive for covid-19 during a pre-flight test. >> i got it, we'll see what happens from here. >> reporter: news of gohmert's diagnosis sent shockwaves through capitol hill because gohmert has largely refused to wear a mask and participated in multiple hearings this week including attorney general

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get straight to cnn kaitlan collins. the president stopped going to the meetings and stopped talking to experts. what do we look for out of this meeting today? >> reporter: yeah. the president hasn't attended a task force meeting since the month of april. it's not clear if he plans to do so anytime soon. even if the president is not there, we are seeing feuds break out between the president's top adviser especially with this remarkable instance that happened last night where peter navarro, the president's top trade adviser published an op-ed in "usa today" that said he does not trust what dr. anthony fauci says. he said, "anthony fauci has been wrong everything i've interacted with him on. ask me whether i listen to his advice, with skepticism and caution." remarkable instance not only because we already know navarro does not like dr. fauci. they've butted heads the last several months's to publish that in "usa today" in an op-ed, remarkable. another instance this morning the white house said they did not clear that op-e

>>and that was kaitlan collins reporting on friday. it should become more clear what the intelligence agency know agencies no high level intelligence leaders are set to brief the gang of 8 which is made up of the congressional leaders from both parties. >>new details tonight the top fbi agent in kentucky says federal officials are working urgently and expeditiously in investigating possible civil rights violations by the louisville police officers who fatally shot brianna taylor, the special agent in charge called it the offices top priority. >>taylor was shot 8 times by plainclothes officers serving a no knock warrant at her apartment on march, the 13th, it turned out to be the wrong address. louisville has seen weeks of protests over her shooting and activists have criticized the slow pace of the investigation, the kentucky attorney general's office is also investigating her shooting. >>they had to shut this down this is not this i don't know what this is now this and turn into something else now. >>seattle police have dispersed prot

>>more shutdowns kaitlan collins has details. >>president trump is ending the week without holding a single event dedicated to coronavirus has cases are soaring around the u.s. instead he held a roundtable on law enforcement monday gave a disjointed speech tuesday visited atlanta on wednesday but not the cdc and then talks deregulation yesterday where he briefly mentioned the pandemic. >>my administration is also eliminated massive regulatory barriers. in our battle against the china virus americans are taking notice that the president doesn't seem to be paying attention to a new washington post abc poll shows 60% of americans disapprove of trump's response to coronavirus while only 38% approve. >>and more than half strongly disapprove kellyanne conway address trump's sinking poll numbers and suggested he should resume his daily briefings, the president's numbers were much higher when he was out there freezing everybody on a day by day basis about the coronavirus to a stop. well, i think some people are encouraging him to stop th

kaitlan collins, thank you so much. good to see you. >>> well, florida, the new epicenter of the coronavirus explosion in the u.s., the plan, well, the governor doesn't even seem to know. we'll be back. >>> well, florida's governor managing a surging outbreak in his state continues to say the rising infections are mostly from increased testing and asymptomatic cases of young people. governor ron desantis still will not clearly answer questions about how many people are in the hospital in florida or explain a statewide plan for contact tracing. cnn's randi kaye is in florida for us. so what was governor desantis' explanation for all of this, randy? >> reporter: he certainly danced around it, pam. reporters were grilling him about why the state isn't releasing the number of hospitalizations of covid patients. this is information that we need to inform the public to let them know what's going on in this state. the governor had a lot of excuses and he pointed us to graphs and charts and reports on the state health departmen

more now on all this from kaitlan collins at the white house. with the national security advisor testing positive for the virus, what is the white house saying president o'bryan last saw each other? >> they aren't answering our questions about that. all we know is that the president said today he has not seen robert o'bryan lately, he said that raises questions because it wasn't that long ago that the press secretary told us they see each other sometimes twice a day and o'bryan is on half a dozen calls with the president. so it's unclear what we do know, though, anderson is that o'bryan was last here last thursday. he was seen on the white house grounds then. we're told that he abruptly left after receiving a phone call. it's not clear if that phone call was about his diagnosis but larry cud low, another top aid today said he believed it was because o'bryan's daughter had tested positive for coronavirus so they were trying to do a contact tracing that way but another shocking thing, anderson, we learned today reporting this out, o'bryan never to

set for florida and blaming it on the virus and the need to keep people safe, though as cnn's kaitlan collinsorts, it appears at least some of the concern is over how many people will actually show up. >> reporter: president trump made a series of head-snapping reversals on coronavirus this week as the virus is surging and his poll numbers are sinking. >> so i told my team it's time to cancel the jacksonville, florida, component of the gop convention. >> reporter: canceling his convention in jacksonville, florida, was the latest u-turn that came eight weeks after the president moved it from north carolina because he thought the health precautions required there were too strict. >> the timing for this event is not right. it's just not right with what's happened recently, the flare-up in florida. >> reporter: without mentioning the thousands of supporters he recently addressed in oklahoma and arizona without masks, trump now says he feels obligated not to host big crowds. >> i thought i had an obligation not to have large numbers, massive numbers of people crowded into a room. >> reporter: sour

kaitlan collins reporting from the white house. the former acting cdc director dr. besser is joining us. as you know, there are now more than 3 million cases of coronavirus here in the united states. when you see numbers that high, what do you fear the next few weeks and months here in the u.s. are going to look like? >> well, what worries me, wolf, is that even though states that have been able to turn the curve around and see major declines in the number of cases are going to be really stressed to try and keep that progress going forward. as we think about trying to get the schools open, you have to get community transmission under control. and in so many states we're seeing just the opposite. we're seeing areas that were having low rates of transmission now seeing much higher rates of transmission. and that's a very dangerous situation when you think about school re-opening. >> some of the white house task force experts are actually saying they're seeing encouraging signs from the country's current hot spots right now. do you see any evidence of that? >> well, i

now as cnn's kaitlan collins reports the president is hoping that firing his campaign manager and hiring new one will be the solution to his sinking poll numbers. >> reporter: with the u.s. reporting its second highest day of new cases, the white house is insisting president trump is focused on the pandemic, despite having no public event focused on it. >> the president's routinely focused on the coronavirus. >> reporter: though public health experts and data are in high demand, the trump administration has taken several steps to undermine both. after the administration told hospitals to bypass the cdc and send their covid-19 data directly to washington, some of that data disappeared from the cdc's website. facing criticism for shielding data from public view, the department of health and human services reversed course and told the cdc to put the numbers back online. after days of sustained attacks of dr. anthony fauci by the president's own staff, cnn has learned trump finally spoke to fauci for the first time in weeks. fauci told "instyle magazine" i don't like conflict. it's pretty to

white house correspondent kaitlan collins joining us. we do expect to hear fairly soon from the president. >> yes, we do, wolf. something he's been saying for weeks, sustained attacks on the election in november, an election he is at risk of losing. one way he's been trying to undermine what could happen is talking about mail-in voting and trying to sow doubt about that. officials say that could be a real option voters turn to if the pandemic is raging across the nation like it is now. just a few moments ago the president tweeted we must know the election results on the night of the election, not days, months or even years later as he is continuing to sow doubt about something, what he said about potential fraud for mail-in voting has not been proven out on any reports we've seen. critics say this is a distress signal because the president knows he's losing ground with voters. today one of those critics was president barack obama. president trump was on the stinging end of a rebuke from his predecessor who compared him to the racist lead

>>that was kaitlan collins reporting many states like here in california require masks however for some it's still voluntary. >>well today as you're getting expect warm temperatures inland cooled by the bay and >>california's wine industry is taking a $10 billion hit because of coronavirus a sonoma state university wine business sense to add that app to mystic the uaw lonnie wong has the sorry details. >>the report states that my years in california's wine industry will lose billion have been shut down for the past, you know 3 and a half months no one knows that more than lodi area wine makers and grape growers tasting rooms and retail shops have been slow to reopen due to the strict rules they must follow then there. david lucas kept his operation closed for another reason. >>as i remind our team and the people to come for ones you know. the people are more important than the profits. >>lucas is fortunate that only 20% of his revenue comes from on site sales. his business models online and direct sales with customers picking up orders by appointment only but he doesn't discount the pai

as cnn's kaitlan collins reports for us now. >> reporter: president trump is ending the week without holding a single event dedicated to coronavirus as cases are soaring around the u.s. instead, he held a roundtable on law enforcement monday, gave a disjointed speech tuesday, visited atlanta on wednesday but not the cdc, and then talked deregulation yesterday where he briefly mentioned the pandemic. >> my administration is also eliminated massive regulatory barriers in our battle against the china virus. >> reporter: americans are taking notice that the president doesn't seem to be paying attention. a new wf abc poll shows 60% of americans disapprove of trump's response to coronavirus while only 38% approve. and more than half strongly disapprove. kellyanne conway addressed trump's sinking poll numbers and suggested he should resume his daily briefings. >> the president's numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on a day by day basis about the coronavirus. >> why did he stop? >> i think some people are encouraging him to stop. >> then i think the disinfectant

cnn's kaitlan collins pressing president trump on why he shared the clip. >> she's also shared video saying that doctors make medicine using dna from aliens and they're trying to make a vaccine to make you immune from becoming religious. >> she was on-air with many other doctors. they were big fans of hydroxychloroquine. and i thought she was very impressive, in the sense, but i know nothing about her. >> go ahead. >> last week -- well, last week -- thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> reporter: to be clear, medical experts and the fda say hydroxychloroquine is not a cure for the virus. >> the overwhelming, prevailing clinical trials that have looked at the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine have indicated that it is not effective in coronavirus disease. >> the president is hitting the road again today. he heads out to west texas, where he's expected to attend a fund-raiser, as well as visit an oil rig. he's expected to highlight a couple of his favorite themes. that's energy independence, as well as regulation reform. john, back to you. >> joe johns at the white house for us. j

kaitlan collins did some of the questioning today. she joins us now. kaitlan, what was it like being there? i'm just stunned at the scientists, you know, just saying nonsensical things, and doing backflips to keep employed, i guess. because they think that they're so essential to back up what the administration's doing. >> and i understand they feel like they have to walk this fine line of not contradicting or conflicting something that the president has said. but they are being asked legitimate questions that are informative and helpful for decisions that people are making about reopening schools. and then, we don't get straight answers on things as simple as, are you going to change the guidance because the president tweeted that he did not like the guidance? and so, you saw in his answer that he does say it's going to continue to evolve. but schools start to open in a matter of weeks. some of the teach fers are goin back in less than a month from now. so, if this guidance is still evolving because the president isn't happy with thwhat they pu out, th

let's go to kaitlan collins. she's our white house correspondent. aitlan, what did you think? >> reporter: he did not say yes or no whether they discussed that intelligence that we had talked about for so many days about the russian bounties to the taliban on u.s. troops. they did not say whether there was an agreement although we've heard from other former national security people who said it does not have to be unanimous to bring it to the president. he said he had not briefed in person by his own staff. that is the first time that the president has been asked about these bounties that i can recall in the last several weeks since that news first broke. and he would not say yes or no, whether or not he brought it up with vladimir putin. he said only that they do not talk about what was discussed. he said they had a very productive conversation and they discussed a lot of things. but he would not say yes or no, which is really notable because the white house is also refused -- has also declined to answer that question saying whether or not they talke

moments ago president trump talked about this as cnn's kaitlan collins reports. >> reporter: after multiple attempts to undercut him, the white house insisted today that president trump isn't trying to discredit dr. anthony fauci. >> i find him to be a very nice person. i don't always agree with him. >> reporter: press secretary kayleigh mcenany denied having anonymous officials distribute opposition-style research to reporters after they did just that over the weekend. >> there is no opposition research being dumped to reporters. simply provided a direct answer to what was a direct question. >> reporter: though trump has criticized anonymous sources in the past, an anonymous administration official claimed aides were concerned about the number of times fauci was wrong. >> there is no reason to be walking around with a mask. >> reporter: the list did not include statements from other officials who have also been wrong like the surgeon general. and it didn't include any of the president's false claims either. >> anybody that needs a test gets a test. >> reporter: instead when it comes to med

kaitlan collins has more. >>difficult circumstance after multiple attempts to undercut him. the white house insisted today that president trump isn't trying to discredit doctor. anthony fauci and i find that to be a very nice person. i don't always agree with the press secretary kayleigh mcenany denied having anonymous officials distribute opposition style research to reporters after they did just that over the weekend there's no opposition research being dumped to reporters and we provided a direct answer to what was a direct question though trump has criticized anonymous sources in the past an anonymous administration official claimed aides were concerned about the times felt she had been wrong and circulated a list of bullet points with statements like this from early march is no reason to be walking around with a mask and the list did not include statements from other officials who have also been wrong like the surgeon general, and it didn't include any of the president's false claims either anybody the major test gets a test instead when it comes to medical advice. the

and as cnn's kaitlan collins reports, dr. fauci says his input to the president now goes through the vice president. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: president trump is now trying to distance himself from an extraordinary attack by his top trade adviser on dr. anthony fauci. >> well, that's peter navarro, but i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. >> reporter: even though the president and the nation's top infectious disease expert haven't spoken in weeks, trump insisted they have a good relationship and said peter navarro shouldn't have published this "usa today" op-ed attacking fauci. >> i get along very well with dr. fauci. i have a very good relationship. >> reporter: dr. fauci said he found the recent attacks by the white house including an anonymous memo criticizing him bizarre. >> if you talk to reasonable people in the white house, they realize that was a major mistake on their part because it doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them. >> reporter: as for the president's trade adviser, fauci said the

let's go to white house correspondent kaitlan collins. we heard from the president in north carolina a little while ago. tell us what he said. >> reporter: wolf, he had been taking this tone the last week, seeming to take the pandemic more seriously than he had been in recent weeks and months, but then made a comment saying he believes there are some governors that are not doing enough to reopen their state, even though the conversation as you just saw from people like dr. birx has been about certain areas doing too much too quickly and need to scale back their reopenings. yet the president is pushing ahead with a positive message, even as the coronavirus hits, incredibly close to home here at the white house. covid-19 breaching president trump's inner circle after his national security adviser, robert o'brien, tested positive for coronavirus. >> i haven't seen him lately. i heard he tested. i have not seen him. i am calling him later. >> reporter: trump didn't say when he last met with the national security adviser whose office is in the

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>>that was kaitlan collins reporting house democrats quickly dismissed the president's threat today,sident they say cannot unilaterally cut federal education support. >>and even if he could the federal government provides less than 10% of the funding for public elementary and secondary schools presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden campaigned in his childhood home of scranton pennsylvania today when asked about the president's proposal to reopen schools biden says. >>trump is ignoring health experts. >>the president does not believe in science he's gone back to the stuffy this is the center for disease control talking about school openings. he said you're being too strict don't have those standards. we want other standards you don't listen to the science. this is you know wearing this mask, social distancing. >>while in scranton biden also unveiled his build back better agenda which would spur manufacturing in sectors such as clean energy infrastructure and health care. >>well when you head into starbucks for your triple tall skinny vanilla flat white or whatever your

kaitlan collins is live this sunday. the president's philosophy seems to be if i pretend the coronavirus is not happening, it will go away. >> reporter: and the question is, that's obviously not working based on the charts you showed us. those are the same numbers that the coronavirus task force is looking at when they meet several times a week. so the question is, why is this no longer a priority for the president, why are they no longer doing events as you saw in march, in april, and instead this week the president's schedule could have been his schedule if there was not a pandemic going on. he did not hold a single event dedicated to covid-19, john, and instead helped several other events on deregulation, on ms 13 briefing, several other things that the president did, he even went to atlanta to give a speech on infrastructure and didn't visit the cdc while he was there. something that even several aides who work in the white house said could have been such an easy stop for the president to make since he had already fl