he's also the chair of the national governors association. governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. we had 150,000 deaths and cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with their own strategies? >> well it was probably a time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that early in the, i talk about this in my book, early in the pandemic, i thought it was important for the federal government to come up with more of a national strategy on testing, on contact tracing, on a more coordinated, from the federal level, attack from this virus. that's behind us now and the virus has spread across the country. governors have been on the front lines out of necessity and taking actions that we think are necessary. obviously, we are continuing to do so and doing everything we can to stop the virus. we need to have and we do have the support and assistance of the federal government. this is going to take us all

he's also the chair of the national governors association. governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. one 50,000 debts, cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with her own strategies? 12 it was probably time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that, and i talk about this in my book, early in the pandemic i thought it was important for the federal government to come up with more of a national strategy on testing, on contact tracing, on a more coordinated attack on stopping this virus. that's all behind us now. governors have been on the front lines taking the actions that i think are necessary. obviously we are continuing to do so and doing everything we can to stop the virus. we do have the support and the assistance of the federal government that this is going to take all of us at the federal, state, and local level and in the private sector and all of the cooperation of our citizens that

right now i'm the chair of the national governors association. ing actively involved in the politics, in the campaign. i represent both democratic and republican governors. we're a long way from that. i didn't vote for the president in the last race and i'll have to decide what i'm going to do in the race in november. like a lot of people in america, we'll have to wait and see. >> would you consider running for president yourself next time around? >> i think it's far too early to talk about that, i mean, let's get -- let's get beyond the race in november. i have an important day job until january of 2023 and we're in the middle of a couple of important crises so i don't want to talk about 2024. after november, regardless of what happens, we'll be reexamining our divisive politics today and both parties are going to figure out where they're going to head over the next four years. >> governor, thank you very much, congratulations on the book, we look forward to reading the whole book, i think it's coming out on july 28. thank you very much, sir. >>

we had a great, i believe the national governor's association in february, we had a really great presentation from some of the federal government's top experts who kind of gave us an awareness of what might be happening, advised the governors and then we were watching it and on top of it, our whole team, our emergency management professionals, our whole cabinet and our health department was ready and trying to be prepared in advance. and when our first case broke out in march, i immediately, within hours, declared a state of emergency and it set off a succession of i think maybe 40 executive orders rolling back and tightening down things to try to-- every time we got advice about what could help us save lives and keep people safe we took those actions quickly. i think i was the first or maybe governor dewine in ohio and i simultaneously closed down our schools, the first to do so, we took action the first shutdown casinos and large events and then restaurants and bars, and then you know, stay-at-home order, and masking and those kind of things. and then we had a safe-- which you helped us com

he's also the chair of the national governors association. vernor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. one 50,000 debts, cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with her own strategies? 12 it was probably time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that, and i talk about this in my book, early in the pandemic i thought it was important for the federal government to come up with more of a national strategy on testing, on contact tracing, on a more coordinated attack on stopping this virus. that's all behind us now. governors have been on the front lines taking the actions that i think are necessary. obviously we are continuing to do so and doing everything we can to stop the virus. we do have the support and the assistance of the federal government that this is going to take all of us at the federal, state, and local level and in the private sector and all of the cooperation of our citizens that w

>> it's a long way off, and as the chair of the national governor associations, we represent republicanmocratic governors, so we're a long way from november. >> good luck with the book. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. >>> the unemployment crisis remains quite bad. we have new job numbers next. the first and only full prescription strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel available over-the-counter. new voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. voltaren. the joy of movement. moms love that land o' frost premium sliced meats have no by-products. [conference phone] baloney! [conference phone] has joined the call. hey baloney here. i thought this was a no by-products call? land o' frost premium. a slice above. >>> all right. breaking news, the labor department has released new jobless numbers. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans here with the breaking numbers. >> this is the grim mile marker, every thursday when the government puts together the weakless jobless claims that people filing for unemployment benefits another 1.3 million. this has been going on

it is notable though given his position as the chairman of the national governors association. we have cnn's tom foreman joining us now to talk about this. this is a very interesting right by the governor about what he kind of went through, almost an island unto himself with his wife to get testing supplies for maryland. what else is he saying? >> reporter: this is a remarkable thing that's happening here because he's not hesitated to say when he thought that president trump was wrong about things i think he really has gone out of his way for quite sometime not just directly confront the president or go after the president with a broad brush. that seems to be done. he says he and the other governors waiting for the white house to come out with a comprehensive testing plan, a comprehensive strategic plan for dealing with the virus and it just didn't come and he writes in this editorial eventually it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation's response was hopeless. if we delayed longer we would condemn more citizens to suffering and death. he goes on to sa

he's also the chair of the national governors association. governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. we had 150,000 deaths and cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with their own strategies? >> well it was probably a time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that early in the, i talk about this in my book, early in the pandemic, i thought it was important for the federal government to come up with more of a national strategy on testing, on

he's also the chair of the national governors association. governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. one 50,000 debts, cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with her own strategies? 12 it was probably time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that, and i talk about this in

also the chair of the national governors association, and he is the author of the book "still standinghat will be out later this month. we will have you first talk about the violence that we are seeing in many cities across the country and the president saying that the states in the cities, that they want federal help. he is willing to help, but if they will not, maybe he will impose it. what do you see there is the federal role, and explain the reluctance from some of these states and cities that don't want federal help. >> well, yeah, i don't know what that president has proposed about the federal help, but i can tell you that i talk about this in my book. we were one of the first is to experience this kind of violence and destruction in our cities in 2015 right after i became governor. we had outbreaks of that was violence in 37 years in the city of baltimore. i headed up pulling out or thousand members of the national guard. i believe we need to send in an overwhelming amount of force in order to keep the peace and law and order. keep the citizens safe after some initial destructio

republican larry hogan ofrm maryland is ch of the national governor's association. recently, he has spot about failures on the federal level to respond. iss book, "still standing" out next week and he joins us now fromnnapolis. governor hogan, thank you so much for joining us today. i do want to start with the inndemic. we have some nermation about what's going on in maryland. your state, of course, has ved ahead with reopening much of your economy, but the on sunday, it was reported 900 ne cases in a day. the evious week, over 500 new cases. over 700 new cas and five days out of a weeink. thisspite of the reopening, is it time to put that reopening pause? >> well, judy, we're looking at a whole lot of numbers, had you to put it a little bit in perspective because we did, over the past few days, two or three times more than normal -- than normal tting, so we did almost 30,000 tests, yesterday, as d opposed ng normally about 10 or 15. our positivity rate is actually down, and we have been trending tn the same direction. we hi our peak about 90 days ago when we're stad

right now, i am sharing the republican governors association. -- the national governors association.e trying to get things done in washington. so i believe that to later to figure out. romaine: let's talk about what is going on in washington, or rather what is not going on. jobless claims numbers show the jobless claims ticking up for the first time in weeks after seeing a downtrend. expiration of those supplemental on employment benefits expiring for a lot of people starting tomorrow as well as concerns about moratoriums on evictions and other measures designed to keep people at least partially whole here. what do you want to see come out of the legislation that mcconnell and other folks are working on that will help you help your residence? gov. hogan: it is very important that we get something done and we get this fourth stimulus package. it is very frustrating i am frustrated with the divisiveness and dysfunction. it seems that we are back to these same kind of things again. we have a call with a lot of the governors yesterday, talking about things being stalled out. i can't pred

today, larry hogan, the republican governor of maryland and the head of the national governors' association offered a blistering critique, writing in "the washington post," quote, instead of listening to his own public health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his re-election plans. >> this is revisionist history by governor hogan. >> reporter: the president has also faced blow-back for his administration's attacks on dr. anthony fauci. >> i have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions. all of the answers are there. the scientists have the answers. >> reporter: the president's attacks, not just against fauci. but on sunday he retweeted former game show host chuck woolery who said doctors and the cdc were, quote, lying. woolery today revealed his own son has been diagnosed with covid-19 and he deleted his twitter account. and now at the white house, damage control. officials are insisting fauci remains an important advisor. vice president pence posting a picture of him at a task force meetin

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they had the opportunity to do that, and i think now the best hope is for the national governor's association to get together and to put in best practices. we're not going to see it from the government. florida, texas, arizona are starting to see the number of new cases and hospitalizations start to look like they've peaked and are on the way down. if it takes as long for the numbers to come down as they did to go up, that's another two months. it took two months to get where we are now. two months at the same rate to come down to the bottom and that's what takes us down to november. that's at a death rate of 1,000 cases a day, that's how you get another 80,000 or so deaths. it didn't have to be this way. it doesn't have to be this way going forward if everyone masks up, if we get governors to do the smart thing, shut down selected places at selected times. if we continue to ramp up testing. there are over 800,000 tests today. we can fight into this. we're not going to get the leadership from washington and we're wasting our breath talking about it. it is what it is. he's incapable of doing i

the retail industry leaders association which represents walmart, target, macy's and others is urging governors to make it a requirement that everyone wear a mask, the national governors association says its members are discussing the requests. part of the confusion is whether masks actually work, assessed -- ron adams cautioned against the writing in february, quote, seriously, stop buying masks, they are not effective in preventing the general public from catching coronavirus but in mid-june doctor adams wrote this quoting some feel face coverings infringe on their freedom of choice but if more where the we will have more freedom to go out. maybe that is because in a letter to the international science community 239 us health experts warned that micro-droplets of coronavirus could be airborne for hours and social distancing may not be enough to stop infection, some doctors say they don't doubt airborne transmission. others say it is possible but not likely and the cdc and world health organization say they need more evidence. as to the number of infections continuing to climb in some states, doctor scott atlases it doesn't matter. >> it only matters if we

health care association is now asking governors to think twice about how they plan to reopen nursing homes. of course, a well-known hot spot for covid-19 cases. in a letter to the nationaltion the group is calling for additional resources saying, quote, nursing homes and assisted living communities cannot stop the virus by ourselves, not without testing, personal protective equipment, staff-supported funding and not without support from the public health sector. joining me is the co-author of that letter, the ceo and president of the american health care association, mark harkinson, head of the national, center for assisted living. mark, it's good toy sue again. as you're asking the governors for help, i want to put the map up on the screen. 28 states and the district of columbia are now at least on a imlooed basis a lot visitors back to nursing homes and long-term facilities. we've been talking for the past several months about the coronavirus crisis in those facilities. is it safe? you obviously want to see your loved ones and family members, but is it safe? >> it's safe if it's done right, so, first of all, you have to have a community that's not hag a massive increa

>> i'm the chair of the national governors association. i'm not going to get too involved in politics right now. i'm going to have to make that decision between now and november. >> governor hogan, have a good day. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> his perspective is so important, because he really has a pulse in what governors around the country are saying, and he said he is hearing from them. they are not happy and they need the help. >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> all right, thank you, cecilia. >>> we're going to turn now to the latest on the race for a covid vaccine and those accusations of spying. the u.s., uk and canada accusing russian hackers of trying to steal data from vaccine trials. kaylee hartung has the latest. >> reporter: as the world races to find a coronavirus vaccine, american, canadian and british governments are accusing russia of spying on vaccine researchers. >> i think that's pretty poor. i think it needs calling out and the world should know. >> reporter: the nsa identifying the espionage group suspected of having tie

i'm the chairman of the national's governor association. epresenting democratic and republican governors is to stand up and push back when we feel like we need more help, or when we think the president is off-track. i thanked him and praised him when they are doing something that i think is helpful. and i let him know when i think they are not doing something that we need. we were having weekly calls with the president, all the governors and the cabinet where i spoke up every time on behalf of everybody. now, the vice president leads all of those calls. we talked to the vice president and members of the cabinet. we continue to try to make progress. i would say our relationship is a little frosty these days on a personal level. he doesn't like anybody to provide any kind of constructive criticism. >> neil: but he doesn't go at you aggressively. some saw it in 2018, he would. it was by and large a handoff policy. i'm wondering. you have been critical of the direction he is sending the republican party and the message he is sending there. there

you're the head of the national governor's association. is that what you're hearing from these governors? do they need more support? or are they happy and satisfied? >> well, look. i didn't hear what the vice president said. i can tell you that the federal government is doing a much better job than we were at the beginning of this crisis as far as working together with the states in ramping up some of these things like personal protective equipment. but i don't know. we don't know how bad the surge is going to get and whether or not we are going to have enough of ppe, whether we're going to have enough ventilators, whether we're going to be able to have the icu beds. look, i think to underestimate this virus is a big mistake. but i think we've made great strides to improve. we're in a lot better shape on those things than we were back in march or april. but with a big comeback, we can still be in trouble again. >> when it comes to getting kids back in school and all of us want to see the kids back in school, we want to see them studying and

the governor is the current chair of the national governors association and has been reported to be weighing a presidential run in 2024. also in the news, according to the book scan, print sales rose 18% over the weekend and june 27. adult nonfiction sales saw a 28% uptick led by former trump administration national security advisor memoir of his time in the trump white house. the book has sold nearly 800,000 copies. and as the coronavirus continues to affect the nation, several of the larger festivals decided to go virtual including the atlantic journal-constitution's festival, the library of congress national book festival and the texas book festival. the pt will continue to bring programs and publishing news and you can also watch all of our programs anytime at booktv.org. ..

the zika crisis got worse in the obama administration, the white house worked with the national governor's association, worked with the cdc to bring governors together in a summit in order to address this zika crisis and to put together plans for how to get prepared, how to make sure that we had testing in place. how to make sure that people understand what the risks were. and what kinds of things they could do to protect themselves from that virus. so it wouldn't be hard at all for the white house to do this. and it would have been much easier for them to fill the gaps in national testing capacity to make sure we had enough reagents back in march when we knew from the american microbiology association that we were going to run out back then. so they absolutely have tools at their disposal. if we have excess capacity in one state, it can be shared with another. but at this point, in order to overcome those delays, we need to act even more quickly. we should have been asking four months ago. >> dr. reiner, i want to ask you about the strain this puts on hospitals and health care workers, specifically.

this morning, the republican head of the national governor's association said there should have been a national testing strategy and now this thing is out of control. >> does the administration have this under control? >> well, what i will tell you is that we are in a very different place than what we were in february. we are much better able to respond. we sent out ten teams to the most problematic areas and we have another nine going out this week to help with staffing to help with testing. we do have a national testing strategy and we are working with states to give them all of the supplies that they actually ask for. so -- >> brennan: but as you heard -- >> -- we are happy with where we are. please don't mistake me with saying we are happy with where we are, what i am saying we are working with states to make sure we can respond to this incredibly contagious disease and part of that again is making sure we are slowing the spread by helping people understand the importance of wearing face coverings and good hand hygiene and staying home when they can. >> brennan: understood but i t

do i'm chairing the national governor's association. i'm not able to get involved in politicsight now on a partan basis. regardless of what happens in november, i think we're going to take a hard look a what the future of the republican party is going to look like and what the future of our country's going to look like over the next four years. >> woodruff: and what advice do you give to rcaublicans, e it's clear that many of them are saying now they're not comfortable with president trump lectedree what advice do you have for them? >> i tnk the republican paty has aally got to tke a look at how they'rongoing t --d reagan always talked about a bigger tent, and he did a good job of reaching out and winning over independents and swing mocrats and i think that's one thing the repubcan party is not doing now. successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division. if we're going twin as a party, we have to appeal to more people and not shrink the base. that's what i've done in maryland and we've bone over sub

right now, luckily as chairman of the national governor's association, get to avoid politics for a little because i represent democratic and republican governors together, and i don't get too actively involved in the political games, but i'll make that decision between now and november. i'm in the same position, and a lot of people in america are, i think, and frustrated that this is the best we can come up with on both sides of the aisle. it's a difficult choice. i think most people would like to see something different and maybe we'll figure that out in 2024. >> larry hogan, the republican governor of maryland, and your new book is out. i appreciate you coming on and sharing your views this morning. stay safe. >> thank you, chuck. >> when we come back. robert mueller denounces the commuting of roger stone's sentence, and he's not alone. the panel is next. and he's not e the panel is next. businesses are starting to bounce back. but what if you could do better than that? like adapt. discover. deliver. in new ways. to new customers. what if you could come back stronger? faster. better. at

will release his memoir the month still standing part he is the current chair of the national governors association and is reportedly weighing a presidential run 2024 part also in the news according to mpd bookscan book sales rose 18% with the week ending june 27. there is a 28% uptick led by former john bolton's memoir of his time in the white house it has sold nearly 800,000 copies. as the coronavirus continues to affect the nations several of the fall book festivals are going virtual including the atlanta vertical, the library of congress had national book festival and the texas book festival. we could also watch all the archive programs any time @booktv.org. >> during this year's of bay area book festival congresswoman barbara lee discussed voter suppression with emory university professor carol anderson has a portion of that talk. >> the victory all that rain down on obama the obstruction the hatred was intense. you see this policy wise. i see with the legislators and governors is them going after those folks in this community. just like the mississippi plan at this one doesn't get in this one

he is the chair of the national governors association and author of the new book "still standing: surviving cancer, riots, a global pandemic, and the toxic politics that divide america." governor hogan, thank you very much for being here. >> good morning. >> where's maryland at this moment? are you paused? can you reopen? are you going to take the president's advice to speed up reopening? >> well, we're not going to take the president's advice. we're going to take the advice of our public health doctors and our epidemiologists that we've been following the advice of from the very beginning of this crisis. we're in pretty good shape, as compared to other states, because we took early and aggressive action. we've been ramping up our testing capabilities, so our number of cases is slightly rising because we've done about 3 1/2 or 4 times more testing than we did last month. however, you know, our positivity rate continues to decline, which is something we're not seeing in other states, but we're going about it very cautiously. we've paused with further reopenings because we've seen a slight up

joining me now, maryland governor larry hogan who chairs the national governors association and was on that call, presumably, yesterday, that videoconference with the white house task force. his new memoir is titled "still standing." and a great read it is. governor, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> the response from the white house now, again the president today defending that retweeted video of false information about masks, false information about a cure. it's gone viral everywhere, before it was taken down. doesn't that undercut the messaging from the white house task force and from you as a governor? >> of course it does. and look, it's one of the things i've been most frustrated with. i think the coronavirus task force at the white house is really making some progress. we had a terrific and productive meeting yesterday that the vice president led with all the governors and with many members of the cabinet. the president seems to be messaging the opposite of what everybody else is talking about. he seemed to be getting back on track with a bett

joining me is larry hogan, the chair of the national governor's association and the author of the new book "still standing." thank you so much for being with here, governor. what's your reaction to what you heard from the administration this morning either from admiral giroir or larry kudlow when it came to their handling of the pandemic? >> well, i didn't get a chance to hear all of it, jake, but, you know, i think admiral giroir was saying, i think one thing that the president said is every governor has everything they need and there weren't any outstanding requests and i can tell you that that's not the case here with my state of maryland and not what i hear from the other governors. i know that they have been doing a good job to get us more of the thing that is we need but things like ppe, i think they have a list of 276 nursing homes in the state to be delivering ppe to. i think 20 of them have arrived so maybe 10% of what we have been focused on but the real need right now is onramping up a robust testing program because we're starting to with the spikes around the country, you

larry hogan, the republican governor of maryland and the head of the national governors association,ering critique, writing in "the washington post," "instead of listening to his own public health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his re-election plans." >> this is revisionist history by governor hogan. >> reporter: the president has also faced blowback for his administration's attacks on dr. anthony fauci. >> i have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions. all of the answers are there. the scientists have the answers. >> reporter: the president's attacks not just against fauci, but on sunday he retweeted former game show host chuck woolery who said, doctors and the cdc were "lying." woolery today revealed his own son has been diagnosed with covid-19, and he deleted his twitter account. now at the white house, damage control. officials are insisting dr. fauci remains an important adviser. vice president pence posting a picture of him at a task force meeting. the president talked ove

nation's governors joined the chorus of objections over the abruptness of the change to the reporting protocols for hospitals, asking the administration to delay the shift for 30 days. in a statement, the national governors associationid hospitals need the time to learn a new system as they continue to deal with the pandemic. the apparent attempts at a cover-up comes as the u.s. record of new cases yesterday marked the ninth time we've set a record this month. the effort to withhold cdc guidelines and tax force recommendations comes as we triple our cases from just one month ago. the abrupt shift to cut the cdc out of the patient reporting system comes as the u.s. has surpassed all the countries in the eu combined. as texas and florida report record deaths. the state of emergency in the u.s. as the white house moves to kour cover up health data is where we start today. "new york times" white house correspondent peter baker is here along with practicing physician and former obama health policy director who worked on the h1n1 response, dr. kadita patel and deputy national security adviser to president obama, ben rhodes is back. all, lucky for us, msnbc contributors. let me start with you, ben. we haven't spoken to you

hogan: as the chairman of the national governors association, we have been fighting and pushing since to try and get assistance from the federal government. we fought to try and get help from the state and local governments in the third stimulus package. next week, when congress comes back from their fourth of july recess, we are hoping -- we have been pushing very hard to make sure the state and local governments are included in that stimulus package because it is critically important. we already lost 1.5 million state and local government workers in the past 60 days. it is anticipated be could lose as many as 4 million more so we are talking about frontline health care workers and teachers and police and firefighters, people that we are out there providing more services under very difficult circumstances, and we are as impacted as the state and local government level as our business. our revenues are down dramatically. across the country, we are expecting a decrease in revenues of state governments up to 30%. >> 1.5 million jobs already lost and then you just said 4 million jobs pot

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amount of money in the heroes act that goes to the state as compared to what even the national governors association is asking for. so $3.5 trillion begins to add up when you do things like that. you give twice as much to the states as the states are even asking for. and of course one of my favorite and i know again the senator from new york feels strongly about this from a tax policy point of view, but it includes in the covid-19 bill a very expensive change in tax policy that actually is a huge tax break for wealthy individuals. that's repealing the salt changes that were made over 50% of the benefit of this goes to the top 1%. that's based on the tax policy center. based on our committee on taxation, a nonpartisan group here in congress, what they're trying to get through in their legislation, the heroes act, 40% of that benefit or more, according to the joint committee on taxation, goes to those with income over $1 million. what's that doing in the covid-19 bill? the democrat leader talked about the need for more money for testing. i couldn't agree with him more. and by the way, the proposal tha

governor cuomo, who is my vice chairman of the national governors association, and i put out a statementterday -- and this was nearly unanimous between all republican and democratic governors, we have been pushing for more relief. the governors are trying to provide more services to more people that are desperately in need. from the500 billion federal government in order to continue to help provide some of those services. just in state and local governments, we have laid off 1.6 million state and local government workers, front-line workers like health-care workers and teachers, and firefighters, and police officers, and people working to get the benefits, the unemployment benefits to those people, people helping our struggling small businesses. there is a potential to losing 3 billion to 4 billion of them and it is not helpful to the economic recovery. it is very frustrating to us. we had a commitment from the white house months ago. the president said he would support this. now, none of this appears to be anywhere in the discussion in washington. the governors continue to push in a uni

shoppers to wear masks the retail industry leaders association has sent a letter to the national governor's association asking governors to require the use of face coverings. >>> atlanta's mayor keisha lance boss toms says she tested positive for the coronavirus she is asymptomalic and does not know where she was exposed she has been discussed as a possible running mate for democratic presidential candidate joe biden. >>> melbourne's australia's second largest city now back in lockdown after a recent surge in new cases of covid-19. those restrictions are set to last six weeks officials reported a record 191 new cases over the past 24 hours. the premier of the state of victoria says the move is needed to stop the outbreak from spinning out of control. you are up to date i' s y alleeougain in an hour. "squawk on the street" is back in two minutes' time if you've had the coronavirus, you've got a lot of fight in you. and you're in a special position to help us fight back. the plasma in your blood can literally save lives. but we need to act fast. please donate plasma now. please donate. donate. donate. do

chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers all encouraged the president, vice president and the chair of the national governors of uniform policies on masks as we went into the fourth of july weekend. we felt like we hadn't seen the kind of action that we needed, the sort of leadership at the federal and state levels we were trying to create an environment in which we could take a leadership role, set an example, demonstrate both an acknowledgment and recognition of the companies that decided to do this and create an environment where other companies if they decided to do that, that they'll have our support as well. we know people are going to continue investing in protecting their employees and associates we've demonstrated through the lockdown our ability to keep stores open and open new stores. the commitment is there. people are taking stronger places masks create an environment that would rain in the outbreaks over four, five, six weeks if we adopted it, we felt compelled to act. many large retail companies have adopted these policies, including starbucks, costco, yesterday walmart, kroger announced yeste

joining us chairman of the national governors' association, republican governor larry hogan of maryland "still standing". governor hogan, congratulations on the book. great to have you with us, we'll dig into the book in a moment but i want to ask you for an update right now from your state in the middle of the pandemic yesterday you had the lowest number of current hospitalizations since back at the end of march. what have you done in your state to get your arms around coronavirus? >> well, look, so far we're doing pretty well. as we're very concerned about some of the spikes and increases all around the country and all around our state, actually, with our surrounding neighbors but so far we've been trending in the right direction we're down on our positivity rate. down on the rate of case increase, down on hospitalizations, icu beds and deaths. so we're happy with where we are. but we're still very, very concerned and we're staying vigilant because by no means is this crisis behind us and it can turn on a dime and spike up again as we've seen across the country. but we took early and

i was chairman of the national governors association, the vice chairman was the arkansas governor bill clinton. we devotedthe governor's attention to one subject -- education. six points. one of those points with as to find ways to give parents more choices of schools for their children. then later on in 1992 when president george h.w. bush was in office and i was education secretary, i helped the president develop something we called the g.i. bill for kids which was federal funds for $1,000 scholarship to work with cities and states like milwaukee in wisconsin that were trying to give low-income families more choices of good schools for our children. then my last act as education secretary was to notice what they call start-from-scratch schools in minnesota created by the democratic farmer labor party. there were about a dozen of them, as i remember. i wrote every school district in the country and asked them to start one of these start-from-scratch schools, which were the forerunner of today's public charter schools. today we have 7,500 chart schools. en this i started something call

sort of representing the voices of the governors within the governors -- the national governors association that, you know, you're telling us, mr. president that we're on our own here. but that's not how this system is built. so the president effectively destructed the established order of things, if you will, and how governors would come to work with any administration at a time of national crisis. so the president, having thrown all that aside and governors like governors desantis and kemp following the president's lead now find themselves picking up pieces they can barely hold onto. it is harder now to piece together a solution without the full throated operationalizing of the defense authorization act, for example, which would have allowed these governors to have in place a lot of the things you're talking about. so the president has now made this bed. he has to lie in it politically. and now governors are finding themselves having to lie in it too. as we're seeing from georgia to florida, they're squirming because it is a very uncomfortable bed and the voters, whether they're on the ba

that number remarkably matches what we've heard from the national governors association about six weeks ago. dr. zandy promises so-called bang for the buck magic to save states and local localities but the federal government would have to pony up perhaps a half a trillion more just to start that magic. so i'm skeptical, to put it mildly. if you remember, it was that kind of reasoning that led to the obama stimulus promising big and relatively quick unemployment reductions following the financial crisis but failed to come even close to these promised results. finally, regarding funding requests, there is the heroes act over at the house. state and local aid in that act provides nearly $1 trillion to state and localities inside a liberal wish list in their bill. that along with what we've already done would put state and local relief at more than 75% of all combined state and local tax collections for a year depending on how you measure things. that's more of a federal bailout than the partnership that we're asked to finance. mr. president, i've heard a lot of calls for massive amounts of

joining us now, chairman of the national governor's association, republican governor larry hogan of marylandentitled "still standing: surviving cancer, riots, a global pandemic and the toxic politics that divide america." great to have you on the show. so, governor hogan, let's start with the last part of your title, the toxic politics that divide america. how would you describe what those are today. >> well, i've been very frustrated with the -- kind of the anger and divisiveness that we've seen, frankly, on both sides of the aisle. and i think a lot of people in america are just frustrated with the current debate and would like to see a more, you know, civil discussion. and i think they're really more interested in trying to find a better politics where we can reach bipartisan common sense solutions to some of the serious problems that are facing the country. >> who do you think bears the most responsibility for that toxic culture over the last three or four years? >> well, look, i've been talking about this for six years, so long before the current occupant of the white house. it was the

governors. c-spanstore.org. host: joining us from los angeles is arturo vargas, the ceo of the national association of latino elected and appointed officials educational fund. thank you for giving us your time this morning, sir. arturo: good morning. how are you? host: i am good. remind our viewers about your organization, its purpose and what it does. arturo: our organization was established in 1975. .dward r. roibal he was a pioneer in american politics and latino politics. the cdc campus is named after him because of his leadership in helping ensure this country had effective health policies. policies. our mission is to promote the full participation of latinos in american democracy. we are a membership organization, but also a nonprofit organization that works every day to strengthen american democracy, by making surely tino's fully participate. -- making sure latinos fully participate. host: i'm sure you are keeping an eye on the decision by the president when it comes to the senses. remind the decision and the response your organization has. guest: we are laser focused and making sure this country has a fair a

tomorrow, will be presenting with the american bar association coupled with the national bar association with lieutenant governor from michigan addressinaddressing palicial fo. the final step is going through the controller's office is supporting evidence before the draft report is sent out and, basically, that process is just providing the reasonable assurances that the audit was conforming to the governmental audit standards and so we should have that to the commission by september. that's what we're looking at. and so we've been a long time coming and just as a reminder, this is the audit that was mandated by voters and it was one of the initial priorities that we started on day one when i came to the dpa. and secondly, another thing we've been working on recently a analyzing our satisfaction survey responses. the agency has collected information like this for years and we wanted to analyze it and so, it's a small sample because a lot of people didn't really respond in that process in the past, but what we're doing is we feel like that's the information that can inform our racial equity work and outreach effo