. >> i want to get to the issues of vulnerable communities, senator lamar alexander said many schools don't have the money, the resources they need to do this we need to provide support and help them do this and move that forward. the president of the american federation said who want to reopen, too, but lead to care about children's health as much of the care about people's health on mars. do you think we need to put more money into schools, whether they are public or even private schools to help them have the resources to safely reopen? >> i think we have to see the plans through different schools and jurisdictions that they come up with. obviously if there are barriers to being able to open the , we have to address that. and i mean we as a nation. but i know a number of schools are working for their reopening plans. i don't think there's anything intrinsic to the guidance of the cdc that they suggested people consider that is prohibitive. again, i think that will ultimately be decided as each of these different schools and districts decide what the exact plan is. i don't think we s

senator lamar alexander, congressman fred upton said many schools do not have the money or resources they need to do this. we need to provide them, just as we have other parts of the economy and other organizations, support and help them do this and move that forward. one group says we need to care about children's health is much as we care about people's health and bars. do you think we need to put more resources and money into schools, whether they are public , or secretary devos said private schools, to have the resources to safely reopen? dir. redfield: i think we have to see the plans that the different schools and jurisdictions come up with. obviously there are barriers to opening the schools that are really important to overcome. then we have to address that. when i say we, i mean we as a nation. i know a number of schools are working to develop their reopening plans. i don't think there is anything intrinsic to the guidance. the cdc suggested people consider what is prohibited. i think ultimately that is going to be decided as each of these different schools and districts dec

. >> on another subject [inaudible] lamar alexander has said the president is aware -- speed to >> the president says he has no problem with that and encourages people to make whatever decision is best for their safety to follow the local jurisdictions say. the guidelines are still recommended but not required. the president is the most tested man in america. it's his decision whether to wear a mask. >> saying the president hasn't been briefed, in february they concluded this intelligence information so i want to ask whether or not he may have read the briefing [inaudible] >> it is a top-secret document that is widely disseminated among the government. i will never sit here and confirm or deny whether a top-secret documents -- i will leave at night. one thing i will say is routine is when there is intelligence, and we spoke with folks over at the nsc and at the white house, when we get intelligence, verified or unverified, deemed credible or not credible, consensus or no consensus, that information if it in any way compromises the safety of the troops, that information goes to the troo

and his counterpart lamar alexander saying this just wasn't the time. republicans and those in the administration has been critical of the w.h.o. throughout the coronavirus pandemic citing its ties to china. and its missteps, what they believe are missteps, during the coronavirus pandemic. like you said, alex, the big issue here is timing. we are seeing spikes to the united states in coronavirus in certain parts of where i am here in florida. and it's also dangerous. these there are also global pandemics. and pulling out could hamper the u.s. response and one of the nations that are experiencing one of the higher increases in covid right now. >> yeah, but for someone alarmed at this, julia, i think it has to be eiterated that this does not take effect until 2021. if he gets elected, things will seamless, correct? >> things will seem seamless. and rebuilding relations with organizations as well. president trump campaigned in 2016 on this skepticism that international organizations like nato may be parts of the united nations. i think you're going to see

we did get one response from the youngster of the group, lamar alexander, who turned 80 years young on friday. senator lamar alexandealexandere saying he is an honorary chair of the campaign, but he will not be attending because he believes the delegate spots should be reserved for those who have not had that privilege before. he's just giving someone else a shot. but lamar alexander is a second republican serving u.s. senator who will not be attending president trump's in person nominating convention this person. that's going to do it. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> of course we don't know if anyone will be attending the republican convention or there will actually be a republican convention until the day it happens. the situation in jacksonville, florida, at this point doesn't look like they can really pull this off. but we'll know when it happens. >> and, you know, we don't know if the trump administration or the trump campaign and the president will go away with jacksonvil jacksonville's mask ordinance, for example, which is already in effect in terms

grassley, and senator lamar alexander. why are those guys so worried about going? we take a look at them, jim? oh, my god, they're all beyond high risk. they are blips waiting to happen. they got one blip in the grave. it's not just seniors, as one g.o.p. representative put it, "everybody just assumes no one is going." even the r.s.v.p.s say "check one:" "not attending," "what? no!" or "i'm ready, jesus." but no one wants to get on trump's bad side, so they're all ready with airtight excuses for why they're staying home. take 84 year-old senator pat roberts who explained, he would likely not be attending because he had "some things to do in kansas" and, in any case, he "didn't know what was canceled and what was not and whatever." "oh, i'd love to go but i've already scheduled... things. kansas stuff. polish the tornadoes. meet the wheat. gotta do the whatchamacallit with the whose his face. not to mention put the doohickey on my thingamabob with... ( mumbles ) sorry. i can't hear you, my mask is going through a tunnel!" i don't blame any of these people for not go

we did get one response from the youngster of the group, lamar alexander, who turned 80 years young ony. senator lamar alexandealexandere saying he is an honorary chair of the campaign, but he will not be attending because he believes the delegate spots should be reserved for those who have not had that privilege before. he's just giving someone else a shot. but lamar alexander is a second republicaner

>>senate health committee chairman lamar alexander said it's an important step there is some health risk. >>but in my view the greater risk is not going back to school the nation's top infectious disease expert doctor anthony fauci told the committee it ultimately depends on the outbreak in each area. >>but he in redfield are both working on studies to see how likely kids are to infect their teachers and families the rate of infection is down. >>and they don't readily transmit to their parents and family members that's going to be very important senator bill cassidy wants universal guidelines from the cdc on how schools should conduct testing if you have this kind of community this is what you do we are now looking at the granular level the experts told senators treatments and vaccines will also give americans more confidence to return to the classroom, they still predict multiple treatments by the fall with a vaccine in the spring. >>senator doug jones as the country's testings are admiral brett joie how he plans to distribute vaccines to the most vulnerable communities that seems to be

>>senate health committee chairman lamar alexander said it's an important step there is some health risk. >>but in my view the greater risk is not going back to school the nation's top infectious disease expert doctor anthony fauci told the committee it ultimately depends on the outbreak in each area. >>but he in redfield are both working on studies to see how likely kids are to infect their teachers and families the rate of infection is down. >>and they don't readily transmit to their parents and family members that's going to be very important senator bill cassidy wants universal guidelines from the cdc on how schools should conduct testing if you have this kind of community this is what you do we are now looking at the granular level the experts told senators treatments and vaccines will also give americans more confidence to return to the classroom, they still predict multiple treatments by the fall with a vaccine in the spring. >>senator doug jones as the country's testings are admiral brett joie how he plans to distribute vaccines to the most vulnerable communities that seems to be

right now senator lamar alexander who is the senate education committee, he's talking about possibly providing 60-$70 60-$70 billion for schools and that money would really be wgeared toward reopening costs such as ppe, transportation, et cetera, school district did you pay their staff. so the reopening costs might help but billy what districts need is enough money to basically survive the school year. what i should would emphasize that federal dollars are only 10% of school funding. the vast majority of schools will local and state aid and state aid has plummeted. >> host: we show this article in the last segment when we talk about school reopens. in early june report from association of school administrators reopening means an additional $1.8 million in cost of the average size school district.ch there other numbers are out there. can you type into those numbers a bit? >> guguest: short. reopening, talk to several administrators abouter some of e logistical challenges and financial challenges in reopening. the aasa or the superintendent association estimate was for district theze s

republican senator lamar alexander said he personally urged the president to wear a mask. a new study from the investment bank goldman sachs says a nationwide mask mandate could save the economy $1 trillion by reducing the spread of the virus. the president is moving forward with plans to attend a fourth of july celebration at mount rushmore. south dakota's governor says masks will be provided but social distancing will not be enforced. >>> breaking overnight, a major shake-up in the trump campaign. the chief operating officer who was heavily involved in the planning -- in planning the president's rallies has been replaced. sources say michael glassner was reassigned in part over the failure of the rally in tulsa where the crowd size fell short of expectations. the campaign insists the staffing change was for other reasons. >>> new details overnight about the alleged plot by russia to offer bounty payments to the taliban to kill u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are demanding action. abc's ines de la cuetara reports. >> reporter: overnigh

those men are 86 years old, lamar alexander is 80 years old and there could be covid concerns. some are not going to attend the convention. >> i don't know yet. in my life that's kind of long-range planning and i'm thinking about the work that we have to do as soon as we get back. but i haven't made a decision yet. if i do go out, i'll wear a mask and i'll wear two of them on the airplane. we have to respect this virus, the best way to where it is to wear a mask, stay socially distanced and practice good hygiene. >> trace: senator kennedy, good of you to join us. this is a dj lane, just turned 16 years old when he was shot and killed by a drive-by shooting in chicago. his mother says she couldn't even hold a proper funeral for him because of the coronavirus and has cried every night since losing him. now, and her story is next. cookie cutter portfolios? nope. we tailor portfolios to our client's needs. but you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right? we don't have those. so, what's in it for you? our fees are structured so we do better when our clients do bett

tennessee senator lamar alexander is the second republican to announce he will skip the 2020 republicanonvention. grassley said monday that he would skip the gathering out of concerns over the coronavirus. largelyention is gathering in jacksonville, florida. last week, jacksonville had the fastest growing rate of the coronavirus of any metro area in the u.s. in florida, the percentage of covid tests coming back positive is climbing, undermining governor ron desantis' claim that the crisis is not getting worse. there percent went to 16.5% from 15% on monday. more than 61,000 new cases over the past seven days, the highest ever. beijing reported zero new coronavirus cases for the first time in 26 days, a sign that a resurgence that raised fears of a second wave in china is now under control. across-the-board lockdown, beijing included targeting measures, including testing more than 11 million people. biggestg is seeing its number of coronavirus cases in three months, stumping local health officials. there are only nine new cases but it is a set caught -- setback or hong kong, a city the l

lisa murkowski, susan collins, mitt romney and lamar alexander say they disagree with the white house's stopping money for testing and tracing. mark meadows will meet with gop senators today. >>> hopeful news on the vaccine front. three different trials all showing promising results. perhaps the most promising comes from oxford university and astrazeneca. their vaccine candidate appears to be safe and produces an immune response. these are preliminary results and a lot more research is needed. we have more. >> reporter: christine and laura, there are 23 different candidates around the world and this oxford vaccine is one of them. it involved 1077 healthy adults ages 18 to 55. they had no history of covid and they were randomly assigned to receive either a meningodock call vaccine as a control or another. it worked in the way researchers wanted. there were some mild to moderate side effects, fatigue, headache, pain at the injection site and muscle pain. the study says over the counter pain medication helped with those. the researchers say the next step is to study this vaccine in older a

tennessee senator lamar alexander is the second republican to announce he will skip the 2020 republicanhuck grassley said monday that he would skip the gathering out of concerns of the coronavirus. the convention is gathering in jacksonville, florida. last week, jacksonville had the fastest rate of growing coronaviruses of any metropolitan area in the u.s. roger stone is appealing to president trump to grant him a pardon or commute his sentence before he begins his 40-month prison term next week. he was convicted of lying to congress and says his age and underlying health conditions made him particularly vulnerable to covid-19. the court of appeals in washington has ordered the government to respond by thursday. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david: thank you so much. we will continue balance of power on radio for the second hour. we have a special guest talking about the renaming of the redskins, something the president doesn't like mu

lamar alexander, roy blount, susan collins, lisa murkowski, pat roberts, chuck grassley. that's a lot of congress members. they plan to skip their party's convention. joining me now, political reporter for the "washington pos post", eugene scott. eugene, good morning to you. thanks for getting up this morning. lots to cover. get let's get to the gop senators who say they're skipping the national convention, an unprecedent break from the trump administration as we have seen them resistant do this before, but saying they assume a lot of folks aren't even going to be going. what reaction are you hearing? >> well, it's unsurprising to many people who followed some of these senators, particularly people like susan collins and mitt romney who very often attempt to distance themselves from the president and the republican party as a whole, but i think the fact that you have so many lawmakers perhaps not really willing and/or wanting to be seen interacting with the president and the leadership of their own party, it's alarming. it suggests that perhaps on issues related to policy

right now, senator lamar alexander who runs the senate education committee, he's talking about possibly providing six to $70 billion for and that money would really be geared towards reopening costs such as transportation etc. school districts need to pay their staff so the reopening costs might help but really what districts need is enough money to survive the school year . and what i should emphasize is that federal dollars are only 10 percent of school funding. the vast majority of school districts rely on local and state aid and state aid has plummeted a. >> we show this article in the last segment of the washington journal when we were talking about school reopening . in early june report from the association school administrators reopening even an additional $1.8 million in costs for the average sized school district, i know there's other numbers out there. can you dive into those numbers of it ? >> sure. so reopening we talked to several administrators about some of the logistical challenges andfinancial challenges in reopening . the asa or the superintendent association estimate

people want to understand what is in this bill including chair of the senate health committee, lamar alexander of tennessee. >> that's up to senator mcconnell. might be -- that depends on the rest of the bill. i think we'll introduce all the provisions at once. i would not support something that would pay on unemployment more than you would earn if you were working. >> there's an agreement on the spending portion of the measure. $16 billion for testing and $105 billion to reopen schools. what is not in the package is the president's priority of a payroll tax cut. that's according to the secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin. >> the president's priority for the moment is to get money into americans quickly and one of the problems with the payroll tax cut is, it takes time. so we're much more focused right now on the direct payments. >> house speaker nancy pelosi wants to know about her priorities. >> when you see what they have on paper, you see what they don't have on paper. when they say a trillion dollars and nothing for state and local, nothing for food stamps, fooding the hungry, nothin

here is lamar alexander chairman of the committee that heard dr. fauci's testimony i'm plmplorin people to take politics out of the equation. >> it's so important we get over this protrump, anti trump mask debate. i mean, where people say well, if i'm for the president, i'll not wear a mask. if i'm against the president, i will. which is why i've suggested that occasionally the president might want to wear a mask, just to signal to people that he thinks it's important. >> wow. that's a bold statement. the president, he might want to -- you know, he might want to occasionally, if that's not too hard to signal to people, you know. leave aside for a moment this is a ridiculously low bar suggesting the president might want to occasionally signal mask wearing is important and in the middle of a pandemic that's killed 146,000 americans, this is the best a retiring senatole take a look, the president spent part of the weekend sending out tweet after tweet of photos defacing statutes. one after the other like a guy bum rushing the post office papering the

lamar alexander breaking from the fed urging people to wear masks.in mccarthy, mitch mcconnell, he's been fairly outspoken about wearing a mask since the beginning of this pandemic. but others not necessarily as outspoken as they have become now. does this mean anything for the 2020 election in that we can see more folks breaking from the president as we get closer to november? >> i think it does. the insistence from republicans that people need to go out and wear a mask is correlated directly with republicans sinking poll numbers. not only at the presidential level, but at the senate level as well. every single republican you that talk to these days say that the majority -- the republican majority in the senate is at stake. and that it is tied in a lot of ways by the president's handling of covid. it also has to do with the issues how he handled the george floyd protests and issues of race, too. but republicans on capitol hill, they have become aware that pleading a culture war out of the coronavirus is not winning them any votes especially those cr

reporting that senators grassley, lamar alexander and susan collins are expected to skip the gatheringn august 24th. also not going aids, mitt romney, big shot, murkowski's was not sure she could support the reelection. molly, isn't this the fault of the establishment? always their fault to run against populism and go back to the comfort zone of bush style republicans. >> people might have a variety of reasons for not wanting to go to an election but in general the republicans in the senate need to understand their fate rests largely with the fate of president trump. you can see a lot of them have thought that they could maybe openly try to have split tickets where people oppose trump and support them. i don't think they understand if there are split tickets they will go precisely the opposite wade. they need to show a bold defense. this is really an election referendum that should be fairly easy. do you support the country? do you support founding principles? do you defend american heroes and founding fathers? that shouldn't be difficult at all but yet for some reason is profoundly di

romney, a republican from utah who voted to impeach the president this winter as well as senator lamar alexanderm tennessee who is retiring. >> thanks to all of you. now to this. she is a united states senator, an iraq war veteran who lost both of her legs fighting for this country. he is a tv host who has never served a day in his life. so why is he claiming that senator tammy duckworth hates america? that's next. i got an oriole here. eh. common bird. ooh look! over here! something much better. there it is. peacock, included with xfinity x1. remarkable. fascinating. -very. it streams tons of your favorite shows and movies, plus the latest in sports news and... huh - run! the newest streaming app has landed on xfinity x1. now that's... simple. easy. awesome. xfinity x1 just got even better with peacock premium included at no additional cost. no strings attached. just say "peacock" into your voice remote to start watching today. >>> united airlines is warning nearly half of its frontline wo workforce that they could be furloughed. pete, what is united telling its employees? >> reporter: well, br

. >> dana: senator lamar alexander has suggested that the federal government should provide schools withhey can reopen and do so safely, obviously there might be some schools in that situation but at this point, your school district at least has basically thrown in the towel. >> yeah, i don't see how more funding will help, i'm sure schools would be happy to receive more funding but it's an issue of space so unless we are going to plan socially distance kids which i don't think his reality in a lot of places like the u.k. announced that they will reopen schools in september without social distancing and that's just not something so extra funding unless we are planning to build a bunch of new school buildings in the next two months, i don't see how that really makes any difference. >> dana: how are you handling the summer months? i know kids are restless. >> yeah, not very well. >> dana: carol markowitz. go ahead. stick a sorry, i have a lucky situation where i work from home anyway before the parents who don't work from home it's a really tough summer and governor cuomo in new york made

>>senator lamar alexander, the chairman of the senate health committee wants congress to learn from this pandemic to prepare for the next. his prescription includes boosting domestic manufacturing for tests treatments and vaccines and rebuilding state and federal stockpiles of other critical supplies now controversial could that be mister president we really want to run out of mask alexander's legislation would also allow the federal government to work with companies to maintain the supplies. >>and appropriate 15 billion dollars now to use over 10 years so there's no lapse in prepared us alexander expects near universal agreement on these ideas between both parties new york democrat joe morelli says this time around inadequate stockpiles put the lives of coronavirus patients in jeopardy building stockpiles for the federal government for various states so states are bidding against one another for ventilators or ppe tennessee republican mark green particularly supports returning the manufacturing of protective equipment and medicine from china, it is a national security. concern and i thi

republicans in congress, just for example, as we have been talking, the team sent a note that lamar alexanderir of the powerful health committee dealing with money and policy on health and education, said that very adamantly disagrees with the president, he said testing is incredibly important. when it comes to a whole bunch of things within society, especially opening schools. he said imagine if we had more testing to test classrooms, contact trace and so on and so forth. so you have them not just pushing back on the president on the notion but also on the policy. they're also going to fund more of the testing that the president and the white house had said that they wanted to cut. much to the chagrin and bewilderment of not just democrats but republicans. >> and to that point, i don't want to overplay this because most republicans are still loyal to the president but we are seeing more and more republicans trying to stake out new positions or willing to say, no. in every round of the coronavirus stimulus so far, the president has lost his own party saying, no, mr. president, we will not giv

republican committee chair lamar alexander of tennessee had a message for president trump, who has beenlarly resistant to wearing them. >> i've suggested that the prnaident occasy wear a mask, even though in most cases s not necessary for him do so. the stakes are too high for this politicalat dabout pro trump, anti-trump mask to continue. >> today's hearing comes as the to paint a rosier picture oicf e pandem than public health officials. the coronavirus task force, spoke this afternoon >> we are in a much better place today thanks tohe whole of government approach that president trump initiated at the very outset of the coronavirus paemic. >> earlier, former vice president and presumptive democratic nominee joe biden excoriated t administration r its handling of the pandemic. >> it didn't have to be this way. month after month, as other leaders in other countriesook the necessary steps to get the virus der control, donald trump failed us. >> as the virus spreads in a number of states, svee officials ad to dial back their reopening's. on monday, texas and california both reported recor

midterms and now watching what happened during the impeachment trial in the senate, you have lamar alexande alexander, senator from tennessee said i believe that democrats prove their case i thank you should remove someone for that. so we do have to have that sweeps out of power all of the enablers but then not to pump - - punish those republicans but to say this did not work for you and to do to them what they have done to us. so there is an opportunity to rebuild the country because the era of reformation patching up those vulnerabilities that has to be a first priority. >> so to shift the conversation to do something later. can you tell people who are watching what it's like to be a congressman with the family who has to live on to coast? i don't know if your family goes back-and-forth with you or one location or another but chris hayes you are on tv all the time. you are a very visible member of congress. how do you organize that and how do you write a book in the middle of that? >> fake it until you make it. we our every day trying to meet the challenges of the day and hopefully our ki

tweet saying he would join it if he gets elected on the first day but your fellow republican lamar alexander put out this statement moments ago saying "i disagree with the president's decision. there needs to be a good hard look at the mistakes the world health organization may have made with the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it, withdrawing u.s. membership could interfere with clinical trials essential to the development of vaccines, as well which citizens of the united states as well as others in the world need. >> it's apsley the right time to notify congress, with all due respect, the world health organization ln by not informing the wider worlf this pandemic as it began in china, giving ill-feted advice in january and february, it -- there have to be consequences for this. but i'll be honest with you, i'm not surprised joe biden wants to keep us roped into another international organization, joe biden actually condemned president trump's actions when he suspended all travel from china at the end of january. you know, the fact that the pres

but senator lamar alexander is the second serving u.s. senator that will not attend president trump's in person nominated convention. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> of course we don't know if anyone will be attending the republican convention or there will actually be a republican convention until the day it happens. the situation in jacksonville, florida, at this point doesn't look like they can really pull this off. but we'll know when it happens. >> and, you know, we don't know if the trump administration or the trump campaign and the president will go away with jacksonville's mask ordinance, for example, which is already in effect in terms of indoor gatherings. that's why he moved the thing out of north carolina in the first place. that will be true in jacksonville, even if everything else comes together. >> maybe it can be a big rv convention where they just get thousands of giant recreational vehicles and everybody just drives to whatever spot somewhere out there in the great plains where they can, i d

lamar alexander who is 80 years old also says that he will not be attending. the convention will be held in jacksonville, florida, august 24. florida as you know it has seen a surge in the number of coronavirus cases. >>> the trump administration formally notified the united nations and congress that the united states is withdrawing from the world health organization. it will take effect next july. that means that it could be rescinded if there is a new administration. president trump has criticized the who for their response on the pandemic and accused of bowing to the influence of china. democrats call this irresponsible and ill considered during a pandemic, when there is a need for international cooperation. spe this summer in coronavirus cases, healthcare professionals worry that there will be a shortage of personal protective gear. according to doctors and nurses, hospitals take note of shortage of gowns, masks and shoe covers. there may have to be equipment that is reused. the american medical association wrote to leaders in washington a call for coordin

by that night, monday night, we reported that 80-year-old senator lamar alexander had announced thate, too, would sit out the convention. all week we have been calling out all the other senators that are 80 years old or older. we are calling to see who else among them intended to squeeze themselves into a closed convention hall in a state that is blinking red with covid. tonight pat roberts gave us a nonanswer. senator's office told us, quote, we are not releasing any plans regarding the rnc. is that a yes you're going? since we started asking, more senators who are under the age of 80 say for sure they are not going. mitt romney says he's not going. no reason giving. lisa murkowski says she likes to spend august back home in alabama and susan collins says she never goes when she's up for re-election. i wonder why. whether they factored into the coronavirus or the need to get distance from the president or just a dislike of jacksonville, we don't know. but the jacksonville convention is turning out to be in advance one of the weirder ones ever held as we get closer and closer to it b

people like lamar alexander, where is he on the commutation of roger stone?tiring for gosh sakes. why isn't he speaking out? it's a terrible indictment of the republican party right now. >> senator claire mccaskill, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thank you. >>> and when we come back, data scientist rebekah jones was fired by the state of florida after refusing to manipulate coronavirus data. now florida is the new epicenter of the coronavirus in the united states, and rebekah jones joins us next. hey, can i... hold on one second... sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here. - hi! - hi. hey! - that's totally him. - it's him! that's totally the guy. safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today. safe drivers do save 40%. 49i found you! good job. now i'm gonna stay

host: senator lamar alexander yesterday morning.mong those who testified that yesterday's hearing, dr. anthony fauci, the director at the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. this is part of what he had to say to senators about his advice on how schools should be inking about reopening. [video clip] what would your advice be to a school superintendent about what he or she should be thinking about as children go back to school in a few weeks to keep them safe? mr.fauci: thank you, chairman. it is an important question i think we need to point out that it really will depend on the dynamics of the outbreak and the particular location where the school is, and one of the things we want to emphasize and have been emphasizing is to take a look at where you are in the particular area of the so-called opening america again. are you at the gateway phase one, phase two, phase three? the cdc has guidelines about the opening of schools in various stages of those checkpoints. the basic fundamental goal would can to getossibly th

the list includes senators chuck grassley, lamar alexander, mitt romney, lisa murkowski, and susan collins. grassley, who is 86, said, "i'm not going to go because of the virus situation." in serbia, demonstrators stormed the parliament building in belgrade on tuesday to protest the government's plan to re-impose a lockdown as covid-19 cases spike. inin medical news, a report in e lancet raises new doubts about whetether areas can develop "hed immunityty" to covovid-19. a large ststudy in spainin found just 5% of the population had developed anti-bodies to the virus, even as more than a quarter million people teststed positive with the disease over 28,000 deaths. mexican president anandres manul lopez obrador is meeting president trump at the white house today to mark the beginning of the u.s.-mexico-canada agreement, or usmca, which went into effect last week. canadian prime minister justin trudeau says he's skipping the meeting with trump and lopez obrador, citing scheduling conflicts and health concerns. upon his arrival to washington yesterday, president lopez obrador was reportedly we

chuck grassley, susan collins, lisa murkowski, mitt romney, and lamar alexander.enator grassley is sitting out because of the coronavirus. senator collins has a different reason, aides say her long running tradition to skip the convention when she's running nor re-election. senators mcconnell, graham, brawn say they will be at the convention next month. >>> ahead, harvard and mit are suing the trump administration, nighting white house plans to force some international students to leave the united states. we'll be right back. ates we'll be right back. hey there people eligible for medicare. gimme two minutes. and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza... [mmm pizza...] is your part b medical expenses. this much - about 80 percent... medicare will pay for. what's left... this slice here... well... that's on you. and that's where an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company comes in. this type of plan helps pay some of what medicare doesn't. and the

also, tennessee's lamar alexander, who is 80, has also decided to sit this one out. the office says the sender said he was to allow others would not come to the convention this chance to attend. >>> today, the trumpet administration formally notify the united nations of its withdrawal from the world health organization. the pullout will take effect next july. that means the move could be rescinded under a new administration. trump promise in late may 2 terminate u.s. participation in the w.h.o. he has criticized the organization for its response to the pandemic, and accuse it of bowing to chinese influence. democrats called the decision irresponsible and ill considered amid the pandemic and the need for international cooperation. >>> the federal government is investing $1.6 billion in a company to develop a vaccine for the pandemic as early as this year. the deal was announced today. the federal money will be used to fund nova vax late stage clinical trials of their coronavirus vaccine. a trial is inspected to start in the fall and include up to 300,000 participants.

know, the very influential senators on capitol hill yesterday who are talking about roy blount, lamar alexandertwo who oversee education policy and education funding and also health policy and health funding. and they say this is not a good idea. you need more money for testing to resume normalcy. you need money for testing for schools to reopen. they had a meeting last night with white house chief of staff mark meadows, and they are still -- as they left the meeting, they told reporters they are still working on this, but there is also a lot of disagreement between the white house and senate republicans on the merits of the payroll tax cut. this is something that the president has pushed for , for months. but something that very few republicans on capitol hill actively want and think it's a good policy. i think i have counted maybe on two fingers the number of republican senators who have come out and said they support it. and we expect that to be a very contentious topic of discussion when treasury secretary steve mnuchin and mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, come meet with senate

this is tennessee republican senator lamar alexander speaking on tuesday. >> unforortunately, , this simie lifefe-saving practicece has bee part of ththe polititical debate that says this, if you are for trump, you don't wear a mask. if you're against trump, you u . that i is why am suggesteded ife president t occasionally wear ra mask. amamy: a new york judge has ordered a preliminary injunction against the publication of a a tell-all book by donald trump's niece. in a statement, a lawyer for mary trump called the injunction a first amendment violation and prior restraint on core political speech. the book titled "too much and never enough: how my family created the world's most dangerous man," reportedly describes "a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse" in the trump famimily. in wilmington, delaware, democratic presidential candidate joe biden tuesday slammed president trump's disastrous response to the pandemic, calling him a "wartime president" who's s surrendered o the coronavirus. >> the crisis is real and it is surging

people like lamar alexander, where is he on the commutation of roger stone?s retiring for gosh sakes. why isn't he speaking out? it's a terrible indictment of the republican party right now. >> senator claire mccaskill, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thank you. >>> and when we come back, data scientist rebekah jones was fired by the state of florida after refusing to manipulate coronavirus data. now florida is the new epicenter of the coronavirus in the united states, and rebekah jones joins us next. don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... discovering that feeling has never been more effortless. accept our summer invitation to get 0% apr on all 2020 lincoln vehicles. only at your lincoln dealer. if you experience bladder leaks, you shouldn't have to sacrifice discretion for protection. try always discreet. the unique design features protective leakguards, which help prevent lea

reporting that senators susan collins, lisa murkowski and mitt romney have joined chuck grassley and lamar alexanderskip the mass gathering. all of them in the high-risk age category for the coronavirus. as politico put it this morning, despite the push to rally the party in florida, as cases surge there, the president isn't going to get the convention he wants. >> when we signed a few weeks ago, it looked good and now all of a sudden it's spiking up a little bit and that's going to go down so it really depends on the timing. look, we're very flexible, we can do a lot of things, but we're very flexible. >> national political reporter for "the waterishington post" rt costa joins me now. what do you make of those comments from the president? is he giving himself some wiggle room there? >> he might have to give himself some room because it's not necessarily entirely in his hands. governor ron desantis of florida, a republican, he is an ally of president trump, but he's also looking at the surge in florida and he's going to ultimately have to make a decision about mass gatherings in his state for this r

but senator lamar alexander is the second serving u.s. senator that will not

also got some distance growing between himself and lisa murkowski, mitt romney, susan collins, lamar alexanderking that a gop convention is a good idea. does this white house plan to respect people's decisions not to show up or will they attack them? >> well, nicole, so far the white house seems to have respected those decisions, because we haven't seen an attack yet. but as you know, the president doesn't let these things go unnoticed. and it might just be that there's a delay, a lag time here in president trump noticing that five republican senators are going to skip the republican national convention. and perhaps more. so we'll see if he reacts to that. but the planning for this convention is very much underway. rnc officials have been down in jacksonville finalizing the arrangements, even as that city emerges more and more every day as a coronavirus hot spot with the spread down there and new regulations by that city's mayor, who only a few weeks ago, a republican, had been courting this convention, now masks are required indoors for gatherings and we'll see what kind of accommodations the

we saw yesterday a lot of top republicans, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, lamar alexander coming out and saying come on everybody, just wear a mask. will it make a difference? could it really stem the tide? >> you know, i think what confuses people the most about the mask has been the conflicting guidance. i myself even gave some of that guidance in the beginning because i was following what we knew from sars. and that's what the original guidance was based on. overwhelmingly since this outbreak has started, we have seen that masks both aid in the prevention of the disease and to a much more limited extent catching the disease yourself. so masks seem to be the key public health intervention that we can use in addition to social distancing, of course. but masks seem to be the key intervention that we can use to prevent the spread of the virus further. >> all right. dr. fair, good to get your perspective as always. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> also this morning, the trump administration is once again defending its handling of reports that russia offered bounties for killing u.s