lamont: we need some work. politicians make big promises and do not put money into the pension for 40 years. that said we are pushing through reforms. we have a number of people retiring in a year or so and we are managing. the thing i'm trying to do is .old down the increase in cost david: is a great pleasure to talk with you. thank you for your time. ned lamont, governor of connecticut. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. time for first word news. go to mark crumpton. mark: a grim milestone in the united states. according to data compiled by johns hopkins university, and the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the united states has top 3 million. more than 131,000 americans have died. the u.s. accounts for more than a quarter of all covid-19 cases globally. president trump is speaking out against the cdc. saystweet, the president he disagrees with the centers for disease control and prevention "very tough and expensive guidelines for opening schools."

marc lamont t hill is professorf media studies and urban education at temple university. he is the author of several books including author of "nobody: casualties of america's war on the vulnerable, from ferguson to flint and beyond." stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: amy:: this s is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine reporort. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. are protesters gathered tuesday for a peaceful sit in outside the home of the kentucky attorney general, urging him to charge the officers involved in the killing of breonna taylor. she is the 26-year-old black woman, emt, who is treating covid patients, aspiring nurse, who was shot to death by police inside her own apartment in march. several celebrities, including nfl there kenny stills of the houston texans, activivist tamia mallory and linda sarsour, were arrested along with more than 80 other protesters. they all face several charges, including a felony for intimidating a participant in the legal process. hayes gagardner, a reporter for the courier-joururnal in louisville, tweeted sarsour say

. >> reporter: it's not "gold in them thar hills," but lamont atherman is convinced it's as good as ite're in the piedmont ref north carolina between charlotte and the appalachian mountains. it was february 2020 bore the shutdown and the covid precautions. leatherman was laying the under- groundwork for a lithium mine. >> this is the spodumene, this greenish gray mineral here. >> reporter: spodumene; the mineral is an important source of lithium, the lightest metal on earth. it's all over thplace here, and leatherman's company, piedmont lithium, has the cores to prove it. >> yeah the's a real nice crystal, you can see it's quite coar. >> reporter: the crystals in these cores are powering a revolution in electrificationeg that b in 1991 when sony rolled out the first consumer product powered by lithium ion a batterieamcorder. it's easy to forget what life was like before these light,gy enense batteries existed. >> scenes like this are becoming commonplace in cities where cellular is available today. >> reporter: dtad for the has grown as fast as the devices have shrunk, a six-fold incre

know me you couldn't come here know that i wanted lamont says have. the israeli government. why. don't to improve relations and avoid provocations and conflict look as you will and to prevent any danger to me. if you should. shame it's a lot. of why are you interested in this hans and. there's a great view across the square in front of the mosques and the caves of the patriarchs. and up front is a building which is precious and belongs to people who live in jordan and want to sell it. so you can easily. there are buildings owned by arabs and being sold to jews. all those if they agree then we'll accept that with all due. to reseize accept only that go. in as a teles endeavor to acquire buildings and land in hebron extends not only to the entire west bank but also to majority palestinian east jerusalem. as the next issue the aim is to buy buildings to restore them to jews and their money. where does the money come probably. cornerstone the more you have yet do we provide the money because i'm in money for me and my partners who also want to invest for ideological reasons benefit o

the university under pressure discipline mark lamont helfer statements i strongly disagreed with but i nevertheless -- a conservative leading a protest in defense of the free-speech rights of the very progressive mark lamont hill because he has as much free-speech right as i have or anybody else, same with my colleague peter singer whose views on life issues are abominable, he supports the killing of unborn children and the permissibility of the killing of newborn, in certified -- infanticide is a horror in my view. i fight with all the energy in my body and yet i recognize as reprehensibleas as i think that view is he has a right to free speech, the first amendment is for all of us, not the property of the left, not the property of the right, not the conservatives, liberals, it is everybody's right to free speech, we need to protect thnd free-speech rights and stand up for free-speech rights of those we oppose. shannon: i want your take on this, the federalist has a headline, why elected joe biden would make the culture war worse, the culture war will likely escalate under a biden p

ned lamont is joining me now. governor, good to have you.ll get to what you're doing on reopening in a moment but it's notable that the state of connecticut in the last 24 hours has seen no covid deaths for first time in the period of time for months. why is that, what has made that possible? >> that's extraordinary news for us. as you know, we were hit hard going back a few months ago. this is the first time in well over three months we had zero fatalities. i think that reflects the fact that our infection rate is down below 1%, below 1% now over a week. so, you know, we're part of a region that's containing the virus for now. but we have to be very cautious. especially when you look at what's going on around the rest of the country. >> for sure. this is a health crisis, no doubt. it's an economic crisis and there are so many people out there in your state that are feeling an economic pain that i don't know, i'm not living. that you don't know, that you're not living. but their question to you why are you slowing down the reopening of your

. >> reporter: pennsylvania state police crime unit supervisor lamont king rolled out. jerry clark of the fbi was on his way so was the erie pd bomb squad. tv news live vans weren't far behind. the pizza guy turned bank robber drove out of the mcdonald's parking lot, next to the bank but didn't get far. wells was intercepted just up the hill by troopers only a few hundred yards from the bank itself. >> they had him get out the vehicle at which time they -- they noticed a collar around his neck. >> reporter: the robber told them he was wearing a bomb. they weren't about to doubt him. >> the troopers took precaution, handcuffed the individual, kneeled him down. and, then, they proceeded to take cover. >> reporter: fbi man jerry clark arrived moments later. >> i came screaming up peach, and i pulled exactly to the end of the lot and thought, "oh, man, that's too close." so i immediately reversed, came around, and got into this parking lot. >> and he's talkin' to the officers. >> he is. >> reporter: wells identified himself -- said he was a pizza delivery man. >> did you ca

but lamont leatherman's boss keith phillips is among those who say we haven't seen anythi yet. >> demandrowing 20% a year for the next two decades for lithium. that's the consensus equitation. so, a world would need a lot of lithium from a lot of different places. i'm just wildly bullish. >> reporter: the driver of this steep demand curve? >> we're building the cars as fast as we can. >> reporter: electric vehicles. so far, they have not surpaed internal combustion cars and trucks on cost and performance but that inflection point appears to be around theorner. >> by the me we're in 2025, 70% of the demand of lithium will come from electric vehicle demand.ep >>ter: glen merfeld is chief technology officer at the albemarle corporation, one of the largest thium producers in the world. electrified transportation energizes demand for lithium batteries by many orders of magnitude. >> you need thousands of these you know. i think tens of thousands of cellphone sized battery toe fequivalent to the amount energy storage that you would find in an electric vehicle. >> reporter: albemarlear headrs s

neil: governor ned lamont, thank you very much.s enjoy your opportunities to talk, get an update from you, your beautiful state. the connecticut governor, ned lamont. we'll have more after this. the dow up about 20 points. stay with us. ♪ what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity. it triggers a tax liability for you. and the higher the turnover the more you have to pay in taxes every year. that's why you want to own low turnover funds. the less you pay in fund fees, the less you pay... neil: hey, welcome back. i'm neil cavuto. there are other things going on in the world today that are moving stocks than just the back-and-forth between the president of the united states and some states that might hold off reopening their schools. we will be getting into that again, but suffice to say we continue to get good economic news throughout all of this. the latest indication on the mortgage front, where home buyer mortgage demand was

. >> and i'm working with governor lamont in my home state. we lost you by the way. he'll be back and we thought through how to reopen schools. i think talking to a lot of governors, states haven't necessarily thought through how they're going to be in a school. and what are the criteria thinking about that. >> we've been thinking about that. i don't want to think about it, but again, you have to plan for the worse case scenario and i'd love to get your input and maybe talk about this on-line on get your thoughts now. when we reach certain points, if you have an outbreak or an infection in a school, if it reaches a certain level. if we get positivity rates in that area that are over a certain level you've got to have breaks to say, we've got to catch this before it spreads. so, if you're going to open schools, you're going to have 0 breaking mechanism to stop the spread and keep kids safe. i'm sure you're going to come up with good suggestions for us. >> yeah, i think it's going to be a challenging situation headed into the fall because we are likely to see outbreaks

statement they're probably going to point out that so lamont he was a known terrorist. you know it's all americans mind them all up and they have every right under our pursuit of. self defense and but again it happened in the sovereign countries and the iraqi government was not secretive about this all along his movements and so the money was going in there to talk about a peace plan at the time so. i think that nothing will come of any u.s. protests like. the u.s. will reject us and mike you've actually come on this show back when we could have a physically present at the death with me you talked about iraq being this proxy land where we would see any connect. oh absolutely and that's why the u.s. remains there still is make it still is going in the bases in the anbar province and a region which simply control and trying to has not. withdrawn his argument that he wants u.s. troops saner up for the purpose of a watch iraq as he put it but i hopefully and iraq who wants us that troops to stay in there of course ability purposes and i think that's the dilemma for the iraq

david: governor ned lamont of connecticut. >> i think you are going to see a dynamic change. face it, for the last 20 years, young people want to be in a metro center. now it will be balanced out. david: former senior economic advisor to president george w. bush, glenn hubbard. >> the

coming up, today on balance of power, governor lamont at 12:00 p.m. in new york.loomberg. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." let's get the bloomberg business flash. shares of hsbc are falling. president trump learned advisors are punishing banks in hong kong by destabilizing the currency to the dollar. the bank was mentioned as a potential target after it endorsed the new security law beijing imposed on the city. barclays is inform -- is looking for a replacement for their ceo. the bank has reached out to potential candidates in recent months. a bank spokesman says there is no search underway. president trump is considering a ban on the short video app tictoc in the u.s.. that would be one possible way to retaliate against china in its handling of the coronavirus. tictoc's parent is based in china. francine? francine: thank you so much. the british president has tested positive for covid-19 following months of downplaying the severity of the virus. latin america and the caribbean have become a global hotspot the coronavirus, accounting for 50% of the covid-19

even mark lamont -- women in candace owens interview said that is not true.ou have a hard left guy conceding the whole reason people out in the streets, the notion police are killing black people is just because they were black as foals. jason, three days before george floyd died, a black cop was choking a young black suspect, didn't kill him but my goodness a white cop choking a black suspect and we know the cop's name and the suspects name which shows you the media selectivehe about the cases they care about the bottom line is, the real problem facing young black men and other young black men, half of the homicides in this country are black victims and killed by another young black men. the cups are not doing this. the whole premise is false. your tray -- the evaluating property values and causing diminution all based on false notions that even mark said was false. >> jason: leo come i want to transition just slightly. i worry about the puppeteers that are controlling and feeding the information to joe biden. his quote was, the feds are using the agree just

and mayor ned lamont said he's keeping an eye on what's happening and paused reopening phase 3 indefinitely. atlanta's mayor keisha lance bottoms says she has contracted covid-19. the democratic mayor is often mentioned as joe biden's possible potential running mate. here's what she had to say about coming into contact with the virus. >> i'm processing all of this. i just received my results. my husband literally has been sleeping since thursday, which is just not like him, so i decided that we should all get tested again. we were tested two weeks ago, and we were all negative. our results came back positive today, and it's a shock because what i've seen with him is not out of the ordinary for seasonal allergies, which are just about year-round allergies in atlanta. it leaves me for a loss of words because i think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is, and we've taken all of the precautions that you can possibly take. we wear a mask, we're very thoughtful about washing our hands. i have no idea when and where we were exposed. >> meanwhile, mississippi governor tate reeves said ye

governor ned lamont says it will be widely distributed. listen. >> we continue to hit the metrics we need. we continue to get the fda approvals. we continue to do this safely. we have a real opportunity by end of this year to be able to go to cvs or the local pharmacy to get a covid vaccine just like you get a flu vaccine. reporter: a clue how governors think the vaccine could be widely distributed, with existing private infrastructure. to make sure the u.s. is first, the government making deals with vaccine manufacturers, this time pfizer, inking a deal for production and distribution of 100 million doses by december for $1.95 billion. for treatments the u.s. making an agreement with gilead, guarantying basically they would get the doses of remdesivir for 2340, 2,340 per course. the same price foreign countries will pay. in a letter elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, tammy baldwin, sherrod brown, chris van hollen, tina smith, all senators said the cost is too much. the head of the health and human services says the deal puts america first.

and so whether or not you talk about michael brown, tamir rice, alton sterling, keith lamont scott, the list goes on and on, and eight others were killed in the charleston masker is a question about seeing other people cemented. i wrote this book because i wanted to spark conversations and hopefully understanding, you know, i was with td jakes regarding this week and he would say you can teach people arithmetic and you can teach people science and you can teach people about ancient egypt and rome, but you can't teach people blackness. so this is an amazing opportunity to learn and understand. that way we are prepared to have the difficult conversation with the necessary -- >> what a great answer. all i can add to that is the only way to have these conversations is out loud and it will be uncomfortable because the search for understanding, especially when it involves a lot of stumble and trying to understand how to see through someone else's eyes that can only be no through experience. i think that's why stories are so powerful. that's why your story is so powerful. literature and film a

s mark lamont hill about how he handles the constant barrage of criticism often straight from president twitter account. >> you know, when i'm with him, i have a very good relationship with him, and then i see something like that and i scratch my head. >> reporter: and of the president's appearance on fox news to highlight what he claims are mistakes made by dr. fauci. >> dr. fauci's a nice man but he's made a lot of mistakes. >> i haven't been wrong, period. i haven't. and i go -- i'd be happy to go through each and every one those. >> reporter: but despite what he calls noise, he says he and the president have a solid working relationship. >> the president right now and i are -- we're fine. we're fine. >> reporter: there is some hope this morning. northwestern medicine announcing the first covid-19 patients to receive double lung transplants. 28-year-old mara ramirez says she doesn't remember the six weeks she spent on a ventilator. when she woke up, she had new lungs that saved her life. >> lung transplantation for the terminally ill covid patients is an option. i just happened to be

to seek out and try to correct that and i want to mention a couple of people i've been reading and lamonti always liked her stop for a long time, i just got done reading in perfect bird which i found great, jeanette who is my niece, we have a familiar non-gender book club obviously we give books back and forth to each other, what an incredible, i read both of them, glass capsule and half rack horses, impressive stories, and in the midst of the "me too" movement in in the face of what's being faced, it is even more important for voices of reason and different points of view. the characters that are created. >> ron, we are going to leave it there, thank you for calling in today, jodi pico any reaction. >> he pick some great female writers, all excellent books, jeanette is a phenomenal writer, first of all, i've also pleased he mentioned politics because i have been on a book tour for six straight weeks, i was in the uk and every single stop i was asked to run for office, i feel like i'm on streak now, if that happened on c-span2, honestly i think that he pointed out something important, he

implementing extra precautions to limit the rate of infection of coronavirus, in connecticut governor ned lamontis state will pause phase three of reopening indefinitely. he emphasized he's keeping an eye on what's happening in other states and connecticut will allow 25 gathering person indoors. jim justice of west virginia made face coverings mandatory for most residents inside buildings when social distancing is not possible. in miami-dade county, the mayor said he will keep gyms and restaurants closed. and the mayor of miami frances suarez joins us now. thanks for being on with us. >> good to be with you. >> the restrictions you put in place and had in place in the city of miami for a long while, you were criticized by some for staying closed too long. looks like it might have been a good idea. what will the city of miami look like starting this week, this weekend and going forward as you take steps back to close up again? >> as you mentioned, gyms are going to be closed, indoor dining is going to be closed, people are required to wear masks in public, that's a requirement we put in place a f