kate gallego, can we talk about the relationship with the governor ducey? i believe you have said that you criticize him saying he closed the state too late and we opened the state too soon. in hindsight being 2020, what do you believe he knew that he didn't know in making this difficult decisions? >> i have tried to really talk regularly with public health officials. i want to be with dave and understand what scientists and public health officials are saying is important. i think it's also a different values. i am very concerned about the lives of my residence. my parents lives are not optional. i grandfathers life is not optional. i put a very high value on saving lives and understand our elected officials that make it different calculus and put economic vitality at the top of the list. i would argue that they are not separable. that communities that took up e very seriously have recovered more economically than those that did not and so we can care about peoples livelihoods and their lives. but it's just been heartbreaking to see those people in my commu

ofathan: mayor kate gallego phoenix, arizona, thank you very much for being here. r gallego: thank you very much for having me. stay safe out there. jonathan: please stay tuned to "washington post live. at 4:00 p.m. eastern today, my colleague robin will discuss race in america with fashion designer aurora james. tomorrow my colleague robert costa will talk with new jersey governor phil murphy to see how his state has battled to handle the coronavirus pandemic. you can always head to washingtonpostlive.com to register and find more information about upcoming programs. i am jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the "washington post." thanks for tuning in. >> dr. anthony fauci discusses covid-19 during an event hosted by georgetown university. watch that live today starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span live --- on c-span2, on online, or listen free on the c-span radio app. >> watch live daily coverage of congress, the white house, on issues that matter to you. >> part of ongoing efforts to focus on a mission to save lives, meet the needs of our states, our health ca

phoenix mayor kate gallego is making headlines for her criticism of how the federal -- of how arizona'sernor and the federal government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. her city and county have seen a surge in new cases, but not testing. last sunday on this week with george stephanopoulos, she said, it feels like they are declaring victory while we are in crisis mode. we are going to talk about all of that with mayor gallego. welcome. mayor gallego: thank you so much for having me. jonathan: there is a lot to talk about. you have made multiple requests to fema, the federal emergency management agency, for help in covid-19 testing sites, all of which have been turned down. it was reported that fema said it was "getting out of the testing business." a funny thing happened after your appearance on this week with george stephanopoulos this sunday. you actually heard from the white house? mayor gallego: yes. sunday morning, the white house reached out. they said they wanted to work with us and help. the next day i had a meeting with the admiral in charge of testing for the united s

phoenix mayor kate gallego. >> we are setting records of the type you don't want for the use of ventilators by covid patient, acute care beds. >> reporter: still arizona does not have a mask requirement. louisiana did have a mask mandate and the governor is reversing reopening with this warning. >> i want people to understand we have no reason to believe that the numbers that we have been reporting over the last few days are going to get any better. >> reporter: and that goes for much of the country. here in california more than 7,000 people have died. the positivity rate is almost 8%, that is the highest that it's been since april. and here in los angeles it's even worse. 10% of all tests are coming back positive. jamie? >> yuccas: troubling numbers, lilia, thank you. for the second time in a week texas hospitalized more than 10,000 virus patients. what has officials worried is the lack of icu beds across the state. our mireya villarreal went inside one rio grande valley hospital where they had to rent beds to accommodate for the influx of patients. >> reporter: the synchronized sound of v

kate gallego, madam mayor, thanks so much and good luck. we will stay close to your city and keep all of our viewers posted on how things are going. thank you, good luck. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, it's a decision plaguing parents. should they send their kids to school next month? >>> and with stress already weighing on them, are they equipped to even make that decision? >>> plus president trump wants a republican national convention, but more and more republicans are saying no, i'm not going. >>> but first, we are expected to get a major decision from the supreme court in the next hour, and we just found out this morning that chief justice john roberts was briefly hospitalized last month. a spokesperson for the court says justice roberts fell while walking near his home on june 21st. doctors believe it was likely due to light-headedness caused by dehydration. can bring y on to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams. spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair today. ♪ ♪ ♪ the open

lk exclusively wih surgeon general jerome adams plus we will hear from phoenix arizona mayor kate gallego, and we will ask terry shaw about the situation in the sunshine state. >> former fda commissioner scott gone athlete, gottlieb will also be with us, along with the president of kindercare, one of the largest providers, and how covid-19 is impacting the presidential campaign in florida, texas and arizona. in our new battleground tracker poll. it is all just ahead on "face the nation". >> brennan: welcome to "face the nation". the news we woke up to this morning makes us feel like we have been here before, and we have. coronavirus cases in parts of the country are spiking and there are reports of shortages of medical personnel. icu beds and personal protective equipment. testing demands in hotspots outweighs supply, the lines are long, and the labs are backed up. what is different? the regions we are seeing these spikes in are primarily not all so-called red states where president trump won in 2016 and governors are primarily republican. what lessons were learned from the outbreak this

phoenix mayor kate gallego. >> we are setting records of the type you don't want for the use of ventilatorsy covid patient, acute care beds. >> reporter: still arizona does not have a mask requirement. louisiana did have a mask mandate and the governor is reversing reopening with this warning. >> i want people to understand we have no reason to believe that the numbers that we have been reporting over the last few days are going to get any better. >> reporter: and that goes for much of the country. here in california more than 7,000 people have died. the positivity rate is almost 8%, th ihighesthat it's been siapril. and here in los angeles it's even worse. 10% of all tests are coming back positive. jamie? >> yuccas: troubling numbers, >> yuccas: troubling numbers, lilia, thank you. lilia, thank you. for the second time in a week texas hospitalized more than 10,000 virus patients. what has officials worried is the lack of icu beds across the state. our mireya villarreal went inside one rio grande valley hospital where they had to rent beds to accommodate for the influx of patients. >> repor

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doctors there saying they're losing hope and mayor kate gallego is fearing a level of crisis. and i am just so sorry about this and what everyone is going through in your city right now. what is the update in terms of, you say, dire situation. what is the update? last i saw 200 icu beds across the state and that's it? >> yes, and we are a large state. phoenix is the fifth largest city in the entire country. our medical professionals are already feeling exhausted, asking for reinforcements and they tell me the worst is yet to come. we have a huge testing shortage. people have been in line for eight hours in a hot car while they ache waiting for a test. we are looking to highs this weekend of 117 degrees. we are five months in in the united states of america. people who want to test should not have to wait that long. >> yeah. you also asked the federal government and you asked fema for a mass testing site in phoenix, and as i understand that request is declined and the government said you're better off having smaller community testing. do you still need that? mass testing locati

the mayor of phoenix kate gallego would like to see new closures including banning diners inside restaurants which is allowed but she doesn't have the power to do it. she said in an interview she can't do that on her own, needs the governor's office to let her do that. the pandemic is putting a big strain on things here in the phoenix area. for the past few days, statewide, icu beds have hovered at about 90% capacity and that's remaining the case. we're here inify nix at ifify pe the fire department union posted an impassioned plea to facebook telling people not to call 911 with minor covid symptoms because of a "alarming rate of infection among firefighters here." the department told cnn that 61 sworn members, 61 sworn members of the fire department here in phoenix are now, have come down with covid with the covid virus, erica. >> wow. amazing that they had to put that notice out as well. thank you. >>> we have just learned regeneron's covid-19 antibody drug is now moving into phase three trials. elizabeth cohen is here to explain what this means. elizabeth, good morning. what does this tel

joining us now is mayor kate gallego of phoenix, the largest city, of course, in maricopa county, notmention the state. mayor, i know how busy you are. thank you for coming to prime time. >> thanks for having me. >> so what do you now know was wrong, and what do you need to make it right? >> arizona was one of the last states to go to stay at home and our governor was one of the first to lift the order. when he lifted the order we went straight to crowded nightclubs. we had advertisements with beautiful people saying reclaim your freedom. our young people want out and they are responsible for our largest growth in our cases. it's my own demographic, 20 to 44. right now we are asking for help from our federal government. there's a huge shortage of testing in phoenix. people have had to wait up to 13 hours in a car while it is hot. we are predicting highs that could be 117 degrees this weekend. imagine sitting in a car while you're aching and sick already waiting for a test. i've been asking fema to come in and do a testing surge. the health and human services department is doing one in

. >> reporter: phoenix mayor kate gallego on "face the nation" sunday is calling on the governor to issuewide mask mandate and the closure of personal care services like nail salons. >> we think that's just not necessary right now while you're seeing high levels of the virus. >> reporter: also the opening of schools set for next month. >> they just don't feel like it's a safe environment for teachers to go in, and they are concerned about our students as well as spread of the virus. >> reporter: education secretary betsy devos who has threatened to pull federal funding for schools that don't reopen downplayed the risk and addressed concerns of children spreading the virus. >> there is no -- nothing in the data that would suggest that kids being back in school is dangerous to them. >> reporter: for marisa lopez and luke bird, they know all too well the potential price of opening schools too soon. >> basically blatantly putting them at risk for something that's basically -- it's -- we can revive our children's education. we can't revive a life. >> reporter: the other two teachers who worked

in phoenix where the covid positivity rate for swabs is nearing a shocking 30%, mayor kate gallego saysour waits. >> reporter: labs backlogged and some are short on supplies. >> i called and louisiana, texas and florida. cdc data showing latinos and african-americans are three times more likely to contract the virus than their white neighbors and twice as likely to die from it. this morning, the daily death rate from covid-19 increasing in a dozen states. still president trump saying tuesday that schools across the country feed to re-open in the fall despite the surge in cases. >> we're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools to get them open. >> reporter: george speaking with dr. ashish jha on the trajectory for fall. >> how should we be thinking about re-opening schools right now? >> absolutely the president is right. everybody, every mom, dad wants the schools open. i have three kids. i desperately want schools open. the question isn't do we want schools open. the question is what do we need to do to keep schools open? and the single bigges

. >> phoenix mayor kate gallego discussed her cities response to the coronavirus pandemic in the interview with "washington post" opinion writer jonathan kay parker chautauqua relationship with arizona governor doug ducey and criticized the federal