Updating senators on the race for a Coronavirus Vaccine and the steps the government is taking to make sure one wont be rushed to meet the president s before election day wish. Weve eliminated down time by moving into new phases before data from the previous phase is completely analyzed. We have, as the chairman said, started to manufacture doses of all these vaccines before we know if they work, understanding that we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine doses that we may have to throw away if they dont work, but please hear me now. The rigor of the scientific evaluation of safety and efficacy will not be compromised. Overnight we learned one vaccine study now on hold. That pause put in place so the drugmaker can investigate an unexplained illness in a testing group. We are in a hold your breath moment in the overall coronavirus trajectory, the new infects and new deaths are Holding Steady and even improving and there are significant hot spots and College Campuses and the big question of whether the just passed Labor Day Weekend might bring a spike just like memorial day and the fourth of july. Lets walk through the numbers where we are right now. If you look at the 50state map, nine states, meaning nine of the 50. Nine states reporting more coronavirus and new infections now than a week ago. 21 states Holding Steady and thats the beige. 20 states trending down including this in florida, texas and california. Three of the big drivers of the summer surge now in the right direction in terms of the new coronavirus infections. If you look at the death trend map, its a smaller number. Eight states reporting more deaths this week compared to last week. Only eight states reporting that and 14 Holding Steady and 28 states, look across the south across california. 28 deaths, lets hope that trend continues, remember, you go back all of the way to june here prememorial day up the summer surge and we are coming down and we are coming down, not as fast as you would like, and its a slow drop, but you see it here. 26,000 cases yesterday, below 30,000 cases a couple of days in a row and the question is does that stick. Sometimes coming out of the weekend they jump back up, but the tuesday number suggests that perhaps were pushing the baseline and it had been a steady new infections, perhaps pushing it down below 30,000. Lets track that as we get through the rest of the week. One of the questions here is testing. Some people are alarmed and theyre looking at the new case count and theyre worried maybe its because there are fewer tests. You do see of a drop in testing. 700,000 tests on average right now in the United States down from a high here about 800,000 and a lot of experts say even that 800,000 was not enough. If you look at right now whats happening in the states, ten states reporting more tests this week than last week. 22 states Holding Steady and 18 states reporting fewer tests this week compared to last week and most Public Health experts say yes, there will be a glitch from week to week and you want more testing as people are back on campus and children are back to school and people are going back to work. One study out today suggests we need 200 million tests per month and you can just see the United States, 22 million tests in the month of august nowhere near that. So the debate about testing continues and so does the debate about vaccines and one of the trial makers putting it on pause. Is that because of the vaccine, is it just a random illness . One of the president s top advisers says thats a good thing. This is an indication that the trials are being done safely, things happen during trials. Thats part of the reason why we cant totally predict exactly when things will be available. I mean, you know, this is not anything really unexpected. As they said, its routine and these are investigated, but you know, thats exactly why were doing the trials and people should be assured by this. Lets discuss this now with dr. Harvard ko. He was also the assistant secretary of health in the obama administration. Dr. Ko, thank you for being with us. He said you have a big trial, someone gets sick, you hit the pause button and you try to figure out and thats good, smart science and people should be assured this is being done right. You share that view . John, we are in a very important phase of this Pandemic Response as we enter the fall through vaccination and possible Covid Vaccination coming after that. These trials are really important and earlier astrazeneca reported that in phase 1 and phase 2 studies, a fair number of people got mild side effect, fever and pain in the injection site. This report is obviously much more serious, but we dont have much detail. We need to know much more about what the adverse event is. We need to know if the person who is ill right now it was in the vaccine arm or the placebo control arm. So pausing the vaccine right now is absolutely appropriate and it is important to bring in the outside experts from the data and safety monitoring boards to analyze where we are and where we need to go. The overall theme here is we have to keep a science and the standards and where theyre absolutely high to ensure the public that any vaccine in the future will be safe and effective. And part of that challenge and kudos to astrazeneca for doing the right thing and taking a pause and theyll scrub this and see whether theyll need to stop altogether and whether they can go forward again. As you know, were in this strange environment where on a daily basis, the president says were very close, very close, could even be before election day that we could hava a vaccine. Most experts say thats not a fair way to look at where the trial stands. You have dr. Fauci trying to nudge the president a little bit rhetorically saying its unfortunate that as we try to get to a vaccine and try to convince people when we get one that its safe, all of the politics. Listen. Its no secret to anyone that were dealing in a very intense political atmosphere, but i think the issue that came out the other day, i believe, it was yesterday or the day before when the Companies Made the agreement that they would not proceed to try and get, for example, an emergency use authorization unless they were convinced that the vaccine was safe and effective. I think thats a good thing. Youve been inside the government during sensitive Vaccine Development like this. Have you ever seen anything like this, number one, all of the politics and number two, nine company, Biopharmaceutical Companies that are rivals coming together to say, look, well take it careful here. We will not ask for permission to distribute a vaccine until we are absolutely certain it is safe and effective. John, this is a sensitive time because Everyone Wants a vaccine as soon as possible. So everyone is tracking this day by day. We need to listen to the experts like dr. Fauci. We have the pleasure of working closely with him when i was assistant secretary of health and hes been through this process many, many times and his projection is that we wont see it, in the beginning of this year or early next year at the earliest. There are outside analysis by experts and the data with the safety monitoring boards and we have to assure the American People that whatever vaccine comes down the pike and is approved by the fda is safe and effective and will be widely received if well ever get past the pandemic. The vaccine would be a great gateway to do that. In the meantime dr. Fauci coming into the Labor Day Weekend about how important it was to shove the baseline down. We were averaging 40,000 new infects a day. It does appear that it stays that way, down below 30,000 new infections a day. How critical is it to get from 40,000 to 30,000 and to push it back just before memorial day when we were under 20,000 new infections a day. Why is it so important to shove that baseline down . John, you review the trends very nicely and its true that the overall cases in the country are going down. We are heartened by the fact that hospitalizations are going down and deaths have gone down, as well, but the case numbers, for example, are still twice what were seeing right after memorial day. As a country, were still trying to run down a rising escalator of disease. The fact that weve made progress so far is a credit to the millions of americans that have sacrificed and it shows that prevention and Public Health works and we have to get the numbers as close zero as possible because we have flu season coming up which could complicate things and we need to have the nation prepared for the Covid Vaccine that could come after the flu Vaccination Efforts and have those efforts coordinate as much as possible to show the people that there is a system in place working to protect them against all threats. Its a giant challenge. 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Alabamas process probably wont get the president s attention because the state has a republican governor and a republican secretary of state. The president routinely rails against expanded mailin voting and he upped the ante last night in North Carolina suggesting states run by democrats are looking to cheat him. Watch those ballots. I dont like it. You know, you have a democrat governor and you have all these democrats watching that stuff. I dont like it. I look at these crowds and if theyre going to cheat crowds are meaningless. Really, if theyre going to cheat these big, beautiful crowds you could have 15,000, you could have 50,000, these crowds are meaningless. Watch it upon be poll watchers when you go there, look at all of the stealing, thieving and robbing they do because this is important. Joining me to continue this conversation. Alabama secretary of state john merrill. Secretary merrill, thanks for being with us. Were both smiling when you hear the president say things like that to a degree and then you stop and think, wait a minute, this is our most sacred institution. This is democracy, this is voting. The secretaries of state, you all compare notes in the best way especially in this pandemic to pull off this expanded voting by absentee or mailin, whatever you want to do they cheat . I cant speak for what theyre doing in their states and i can only speak for alabama and we are committed to have a safe and secure election. We want everyone to vote, but just one time. We will continue to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in alabama. You say vote one time, easy to vote and hard to cheat. Do you find yourself saying it more this year, i know you dont want to get into a fight with the president and do you have to say it more because our systems are under constant attack including from the president of the United States . Well, there are mixed messages coming out of washington and other places. I think one of the things thats happened when the president has talked about voting by mail. Theres been some concern about the difference between universal vote by mail and absentee voting by mail. In alabama, weve had absentee voting by mail for years and years and years. Universal vote by mail has only been adopted by five states in the union where its done successfully for several years. Its disappointing that some states have initiated the process to start a universal vote by mail effort. When exporerts tell you you onl have 60 of your ballots returned by mail before you initiate that process and you need five years of full implementation before you start it. Not five months, but five years. Not five months, but five years. Tell me about your absentee process in alabama because every state is degree this differently and when you hear people whether theyre democrats or republicans, people at home, make a plan. If you want to vote early, make a plan. Sometimes within states there could be wrinkles. My happeneding understanding is check a box that says youre too ill. If i just fear. Im worried about getting in a long line during election, and im worried to get covid. You have to assign a reason that you want to vote absentee, and what weve done since were in a state of declared emergency as assigned by our governor kay ivy, we felt it was incumbent on us to invek a rule that we have available to us, title 17113 gives me as secretary of state the authority to be able to assign a reason for people to vote absentee and we are in a declared state of emergency. That reason is number two on our list of ten that says im ill and informed and i am unable to appear on my polling site on election day and that is a universal excuse that all people can use if they choose to vote absentee this time. Now we have 55 days before our election. 50 days to apply for the absentee ballot. The ballots have to be returned no later than the 2nd of november. John, the time to be concerned whether or not you have enough time to have your ballot return side not october the 25th, the 28th or november 2nd. Its september the 9th, september 10th or september 11th when you have time to do something about it, so we want people to go to the Absentee Election Office now or contact the Absentee Election Office or download a pdf at alabamavotes. Gop so you can get their application and have their voice heard and their vote counted. One of the refreshing things, sir. Youre a republican secretary of state. Youre making that case and the Democratic Party state chairman making the same case, start today. Make a plan. You have a hotly contested senate race and i dont think the race will be all that close in alabama. Secretary merrill, i very much appreciate your time today and best of luck in the days ahead. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Coming up for us, President Trump pushes ahead with his view the coronavirus pandemic is essentially behind us, but you know this from the case count and the death count. The reality is somewhat different. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. In most campaigns, we compare what the candidates say and what they promise. In this campaign we are compelled to compare where and how they say it. The democratic nominee joe biden is staging smaller events, socially distanced and masks required. President trump craves the old normal, bigger crowds packed together and a who cares approach to masks, even when as in North Carolina yesterday, state regulations require them. Were not shutting it down again. We dont have to. We are rounding the turn. I will tell you, we are rounding the turn. How were doing with china. We just have the plague. Weve had other plagues sent by them. I wonder if they did it on purpose. What do you think, huh . The bidenharris effort to spread antivaccine conspiracy theories only because they know we are close to putting it out, getting it out and were going to get it out fast. The vaccine will be safe. This was an unforeseen event, a terrible, vent and a horrible event and so many people died. The countrys leading Infectious Disease expert that would be dr. Anthony fauci. He is not a fan of the maskless rally. When you see that, what do you think . Is it frustrating to you as an expert on this . Well, yes, it is, and ive said that often. Yeah. That situation is we want to set an example so i certainly would like to see a universal wearing of masks. With me to discuss sung kim White House Reporter for the washington post, and the National Reporter for politico. Dr. Fauci saying we would like to set the example and this has become a test of the campaign. The president wants the old normal as much as he can get it, no masks even though North Carolina regulations require them and the president s who cares approach to that. One of the issues he talks about taxes and spending and what will they do in the military and what will they do about jobs and now its a coronavirus responsibility test. Exactly. What the president and his team would like to do more than anything is to turn the table and turn away from the pandemic while we know that the pandemic is still very much ravaging the United States because this is the thing that is singularly hurting him, if you look at polling and if you look at state by state polling and National Polling you know that the president is not looked upon favorably for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and that is what the biden team has hammered him on over and over. Thats why you see the president trying to change the subject and trying to talk more about the economy and reviving these airport hangar rallies because thats where he gets his energy and thats where his voters get excited and then you see joe biden who is not doing those things and wants to set an example by practicing social distancing and having small events and by its a tale of two very different approaches and well see whats effective later this year. Well see if anything changes, laura lopez as we go forward. Hillary clinton in wisconsin, she needs to go to michigan more and needs to be seen. Joe biden at the moment, and i would reiterate, that joe biden 53 and donald trump 44 in the comm commonwealth of pennsylvania. Being the cracks in the blue wall. Biden plus ten in the economy. Biden plus 15 in the coronavirus. Biden plus 21 on Race Relations and the two candidates splitting even on crime. At the moment, joe biden is not paying a price from his approach and he appears to be benefiting from it. Thats exactly right, john. Even though biden has started to travel a little bit more, hes certainly by no means is holding the rallystyle events that hes trying to hold the fact that coronavirus has not [ no audio ] covid is still top of mind for voters and thats why you see that doubledigit, sometimes as much as 20point gap in terms of voters saying that they think biden would handle coronavirus better than President Trump. Youre also seeing it on Race Relations and whats driving that is that biden is doing very well with collegeeducated voters. Its a trend that weve seen across the polls. He is doing well in the pennsylvania suburbs according to the latest poll out today and collegeeducated voters are a big driver of that. Thats a shift from 2016 when trump won pennsylvania suburbs by eight points. So, yes, his approach so far appears to be benefiting him despite the fact that trump is trying to play a margin game particularly with voters of color in the swing states and so far were not seeing much of an impact on the polls. Before 2016, when the president gets animated before the crowd, hes always kauftic and his language is rough. He tends to get more personal in his criticism of rivals, listen. People dont like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. [ cheering ] that would be an insult to our country. Half competent and heading south rapidly. They want to destroy your suburbs. They want to indoctrinate your children and implement a shutdown of the United States economy again. It is not a surprise, if you have followed this president that he gets that way. I think one of the challenges this time is is it different . Hes the incumbent president of the United States and not the outsider from new york. Does it work as well this time . Thats the key question and also to the comments he was making about senator harris, obviously enough people liked her to vote for her as the senator from california, but what i thought last night, his attacks on the Vice President ial candidate shows its an example of the Trump Campaign have had the attack message on Kamala Harris that we saw since the Biden Campaign announced that he had chosen her to be his running mate. On the first couple of days you saw the Trump Campaign and republicans say she has not enough. And the suburban comments that you saw from the president last night and this is a line of attack that he has been on for several weeks that in a joe bidenKamala Harris america that the suburbs would be decimated and you would not be safe and first of all, he is Donald Trumps america. He is the incumbent president and he is the person running the country right now, but he has been running this message for a couple of weeks and if you look at polling particularly after the conventions where we saw this message a lot during the Republican Convention and it didnt seem to have moved the needle too much. So how much the president continues to dig into the message. We know he likes this message. How much he continues to use that and how effective it ultimately is to moving those on the fence voters on the suburbs yet remains to be seen. He thinks it ultimately did work in his favor four years ago. We will test this again as we go through these final weeks. Seung kim and laura lopez, the doj now asking that it be allowed to defend President Trump in a lawsuit. Meaning your money, taxpayer dollars will cover the cost of defending the president in court. Columnist jean carroll who accused President Trump of raping her in the 90s and defaming her in his response when she filed that claim. President trump calls these accusations totally false. He says he has never met her. Lets get to cara skinnel. The criticism of bill barr the attorney general that hes supposed to be americas lawyer and not the president s lawyer and this is the Justice Department saying we want to be the president s lawyer. Reporter exactly, john, this is an extraordinary move, you have the president with the Justice Department stepping in and its taxpayer funded. The department of justice say the president was acting within the scope of his official duties because he was asked about the allegations by e. Jean carroll when he was president and theyre arguing that is within the scope of this. Carrolls lawyer called this a shocking move by the Justice Department and the timing here is key. This lawsuit was filed in november of 2019 and the president was represented by his private lawyers throughout the litigation. Last month a new york state judge had ruled that this lawsuit could move forward. Carroll and her lawyers were gearing up to make a request to have the president provide his dna because jean carroll says that she has the dress that she wore at the time of this alleged assault in the 1990s and wanted to compare the dna. So this case was moving toward the discovery phase and it was getting possible that they might be able to be successful on this merit. We are two mocks before the election and yesterday was the deadline for the trumps lawyerslawyers to appeal and e. Jean carroll issued a Statement Last night saying todays actions show that trump will do Everything Possible including using the full powers of the federal government to block discovery of my case to try to prevent a jury from ever deciding which one of us is lying. Cnns legal analyst said that not only could this delay this case from moving forward, but it might also kill it because the Justice Department cannot be sued for defamation. John . Remarkable development, cara scannell, well keep track of the story. Thank you very much. Up next, joe biden is visiting a michigan county to talk jobs. Flipping mccomb county back to blue is critical to Democratic White House hopes. Hey, our workers comp insurance is expiring. Should i just renew it . Yeah, sure. Hey there, Small Business owner. Pie insurance here with some sweet advice to stop you from overpaying on workers comp. Try pie instead and save up to 30 . Thirty percent . Really . Sure get a quote in 3 minutes at easyaspie. Com. 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You were 6 years old the first time i went to mccomb county and that was in 1988 and in warren michigan where joe biden will be today and he took the infamous tank ride. You were a younger man then. Explain to people how important this is. Its a blue collar town. You have General Dynamics there and Car Manufacturers there and it is where they studied the socalled reagan democrats and bluecollar workers and now you might call them trump democrats and Hillary Clinton lost your sta state. How is it important that joe biden flip that county back . First, it is good to be with you. Its important to note that michigan was one of the final states that the Vice President was able to visit in the primary before thing his to get put on pause and its one of the first states hes going to, him showing up for michigan manufacturing and michigan workers in mccomb county is critically important and he building on what we built in 2018 by delivering to democrats across the state and weve been delivering to the people ever since. Joe biden for coming here to share his plan and vision not only for manufacturing and fixing the economy that donald trump destroyed with his failed coronavirus response, this is the right place to deliver that message, and i think it will resonate in mccomb county, across michigan. You can go back and look at whether its in the governors race and the president ial race the way democrats win statewide is to do a couple of things. Its not an either or. You need to win white union, blue collar votes in mccomb county and you have to turn your africanamerican Democratic Base in wayne. If you look at 2008, 12 in the exit polls. 2012, 16 black voter turnout, 2016 it dropped down a bit to 15 . Are you let me ask it this way instead of asking are you worried, is the Biden Campaign doing what it takes to number one, turn out the base in the urban areas and do it in a way that brings over the blue collar swing voters in other areas . First of all, i cant stress enough that the fact that the Vice President is showing up here in michigan sends this huge message to voters including black voters here in the city of detroit where im talking with you from today. The Biden Campaign has a full team, more than 19 organizers on the ground working with local partners building on the momentum that our state parties build and theyre showing up for black folks and showing up for michigan and in a huge way it feels different and were building what we feel is a Winning Coalition here because no strategy that leaves voters out of the conversation is a good electoral strategy and thats not what hes running in michigan and i dont think hes running it in other states either. Thats why we are poised to deliver and i am so glad that hes making michigan, ground zero. I know people urging him to come more often is debbie, who gave it to Hillary Clinton to no avail. What are you going to tell him about what hes doing right and is there anything hes doing wrong or needs to do differently . Well, im going to ask him to keep his foot on the gas and ask that he and senator harris continue to have their presence felt in michigan. Senator harris first statefocused events were also in michigan and theyll continue to make this a priority and ill make sure hes reaching out to those voters that its not just white voters in mccomb county who switched parties and increase black male turnout and focusing on things like returning citizens and make sure they have the right to vote in the state of michigan, unlike other states and the campaign focusing on that will lead to the turnout. We only have a fourvote difference and i think the campaign is making the right choices now and its time to execute through the fall, through november on the victory. We will keep in touch as that plays out and im sure the president has a different plan and thats why campaigns are fun, garlin gilchrist, thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Theyre putting pressure on the big ten conference to reinstate football this fall. Ensure® high protein. And now enjoy boost® high protein in new cafe mocha flavor. 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Particularly the group of ten lawmakers who sent the letter to big ten commissioner kevin warren tuesday and urged him to reconsiders the seasons postponement. Speaker of the michigan house, not the big house, talking the other house. The letter applauded testing being done by the conference but did stress a financial disadvantage for schools in the conference when it comes to scholarships noting that students and parents and coaches who voiced concerns to state officials on the topic are weighing in as well. The other side of the aisle, joe biden running ads in big ten markets featuring empty stadiums with messaging saying things like the president has put americans on the sidelines and time to get back in the game. President trumps reportedly been actively involved with decisionmakers, personally urged commissioner warren to return the season in phone calls. Nearly all playing football this fall are in states supporting President Trump back in 2016. Both Political Parties trying to leverage the sports popularity for political gain and i would point out, john, while parents and students and faculty and athletic directors are urging the commissioner here to make a decision, they cant do anything about that and neither can the commissioner. Its a decision falling squarely on the lead counsel of president s from universities and chancellors and need to be reassured concerns from the virus particularly longterm effects for student athletes are mitigated before a decision is reached. More evidence something i try to say every day. The coronavirus disruption is everywhere. Everywhere. Nothing is not disrupted in some way. Grateful for roar yort iyour re and a giant statement during the u. S. Open wearing a different mask to every match. You see some masks out there. That message hailed by some of the families who are up and caught in this Movement Including the family of Trayvon Martin and ahmaud arbery. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, continue to do well. Continue to kick butt at the u. S. Open. I just want to tell you, thank you for the support of my family, and god bless you for what youre doing. Just trying really hard not to cry, but for me its a bit surreal, and its extremely touching that, you know, they would feel touched by what im doing. For me, i feel what im doing is nothing, a speck of what i could be doing. Osaka advanced to semifinals at the open playing Jennifer Brady from the United States tomorrow. A big controversy now on wall street about whether coronavirus misinformation is making its way into some of the reporting there. Bring in cnn christine alesci with exclusive information on misinformation ended up into wall Street Research. Christina. Reporter right, john. We dont know how widespread the practice is. The mere presence of misinformation in wall Street Research indicates that this campaign to downplay the coronavirus led by President Trump and his supporters are gaining traction. Let me give you specifics behind my reporting. In early august, a widely read and respected research analyst, thomas jayly who cofounded a fund called sorry, a firm called fund strat included in his note to clients a very rosy picture of the potential for herd immunity in the u. S. And he cited for support an ophthalmologist with history of spreading coronavirus information. James tadaro. He has no expertise in immunology or epidemiology and actually left medicine to start a cryptocurrency fund. Another wall street insider picked up on this in august, and he wrote in a note to his clients that it was the most disturbing thing he had seen in his 33 years on wall street. Thats michael accesembales fr p jpmorg jpmorgan. I reached out for comment and have not heard back. Important reporting. 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