Everywhere else. Everywhere else. Ill give her that. I love the lesson she got from her father, dont say slave, say enslaved person. Thats not some bs political correctness, its context. Its how we have to see each other as human beings. This is something you grew up wanting people to understand and teaching them to. I dont have the excuse of a lot of other white people. Where i grew up in a diverse place, you know . I have flavor all over my life and its the family ive chosen and i love it so deeply. I love these people and yet im looking at the Teddy Roosevelt st statue differently than i ever before. We need to understand things. The president saying things like black lives matter is a symbol of hate. You know, i dont understand that, chris yeah, you do. No, i understand perhaps why hes saying it, but in the grand scheme of things, just think about it, three words, black lives matter. How many other times, how many other instances have we had three words be used and valued and revered, we, the people, justice for all. I mean, these ideas that suddenly these three words, black lives matter, is so toxic that we cant say them and put them together in a sentence. I mean, its just so absurd to me. And you think about the power of language. You think about why these three words have become such a battle and it just goes along with what were talking about here. The idea that you are talking about maybe the epiphanies you have had and youre somebody who has lived a long time. No not that long. I mean, youre still very young, chris. Yeah, i got it. A long enough time to have seen the world and be exposed to it, and yet your epiphanies seem genuine, as opposed to the disingenuous epiphany we see often times from people where you go, really, you had no idea these three words should have meant something . No idea that certain things actually mattered . So im always looking and judging how i look how i see people and what they are thinking and what their real, you know, role and motivation is. And im continuing to question the president when he talks about these three words. Unlike any other string of words. That this is the problem . I just i cant buy it. Well, i buy it, and ill tell you why. Hes got tremendous power and he is a demagogue, and i know he hates that i say it, and i know hes trying to come after me. And you know what . He is effective. He changes my life and he changes it for my wife and my kids, and i know he knows that, too, but the good fight must be fought and the truth must be told. The man plays to division and we know why he says he what he says about black lives matter. We know why he retweets the video with the guy saying white power and then he deletes it. We know what its about. We know why he put the mccloskeys out there as the face of white resistance against black lives matter. We know what its about. And the truth must be spoken. Look, president johnny appleseed, you plant enough seeds, you let them grow three hours at a time. Well see. Look, thank you, chris. This is cnn tonight. Im laura coates in for don lemon, and what were learning tonight about the coronavirus in this country, frankly, is stunning. Our breaking news, the United States seeing its highest single day of newly reported cases. Not even a week after the last high, 48,477 cases just today. A total of more than, what, 2. 6 million. 2. 6 million since the crisis began. I mean, cases skyrocketing in texas and arizona, california and georgia. All across the u. S. In at least 23 states, thats almost half, now pausing or rolling back their reopenings that they wanted. Yet the california governor, who is now ordering nearly 75 of the state back to a near lockdown. There is really no way to look at all of that and not see that things are getting much, much worse. Yet, the president of the United States, well, he says that the virus that has killed more than 128,000 americans is just gonna poof, disappear. I think were going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point thats going to sort of just disappear. I hope. Disappear . Its called the coronavirus not the houdini virus. The president hopes the virus thats killing more and more of us every single day is just just gonna disappear . Well, look, its not his job to just hope. Its his job to do everything he possibly can to work tirelessly to save american lives. And you know what . You dont do that by just hoping this virus will disappear. But it seems like the president , hes learned close to nothing since he said this in the very early weeks of the crisis. Its going to disappear. One day, its like a miracle, it will disappear. Look, when he said that at the end of february, there were 15, 15, 15 reported cases of the coronavirus just in this country. Tonight hes still using the same language and there are more than 2. 6 million cases. So much for this virus just disappearing. Yet the press secretary, kayleigh mcenany, says the president is confident. The president s confident that it will disappear. Hes confident that hes put together a revolutionary firstclass team that is going to break through bureaucracy and get us a vaccine. Confidence. Well, look, more than 128,000 americans have died. Thats a fact. And all the president s confidence, did she say, in his revolutionary firstclass team. Well, you know what that means . Well, it means nothing, frankly, in comparison to the numbers and the facts you know of. But the president wants you to believe that in spite of all that, hes doing a great job. We put bans on china. Did a lot of things right. I think we did it all right. We did a great job. Were credited with doing a great job. We did it all right . I just told you the numbers in this country, right . Of deaths, let alone cases. That this is this is gaslighting. Its pure and simple. Instead of leading americans through this crisis that is killing, ill repeat, more of us every single day, hes trying to convince you that he did everything right. That theyre being credited with doing everything right and trying to convince you that he wears a mask like his own task force recommends. You just havent seen him do it. Im all for masks. I think masks are good. I would wear if i were in a group of people and i was close you would wear one . Oh, i would i would i have. People have seen me wearing one. All for masks . The president who has never stopped ridiculing anybody who wears a mask, who on the very day he announced his own government recommendation to wear masks said he wouldnt wear one. Who said he didnt want to give reporters the pleasure of seeing him wear a mask. Now he expects you to believe hes all for masks. And he expects you to believe that hes worn one himself, even though have you seen it . None of us have seen him do it. Actually, i had a mask on. I sort of liked the way i looked, okay . I thought it was okay. It was a dark black mask and i thought it looked okay. Looked like the lone ranger. The lone ranger. Now, i i admit i was born a little bit after the lone ranger. However, a quick Google Search or your own recollection can tell you that the lone rangers mask, it only covered the eyes. Like, of my generation, princess bride, wesley, carry el withs character, covered the eyes only. And now the president is trying to pull the wool over our eyes as if somehow that mask is about conjunctivitis as opposed to covid19. Lets just put aside the question of whether he has been wear a mask in private. Okay, fine. The point is for him to be seen wearing one. Why . So he can set an example for the entire country. An example that could actually save lives. But dont expect him to do it at that massive Fireworks Show at Mount Rushmore this coming friday. South dakotas governor has said that masks and, frankly, social distancing, eh, not required. And thats another example of how this president is trying to pull the wool over your lone ranger maskcovered eyes. Acting like everythings fine. All the while, more than 128,000 americans have died. Acting like hes done with the virus while the virus, it isnt done with us. I want to bring in cnn White House Correspondent john harwood and dr. Jonathan reiner, director of the cardiac Catheterization Program at George Washington university hospital. Gentlemen, im glad that youre both here. If i can, john, i want to begin with you because the president continues to say, john, that the coronavirus is gonna pull a houdini, a disappearing act, and early on he thought that the warm weather might help us out. Its now july and its sweltering in washington, d. C. And cases are skyrocketing across this country. So how does he think its going to disappear . Laura, i dont think a whole lot of thinking goes into what he is saying. This is an old guy with a set of fixed ideas who has trouble to adapting to changes in the world around him. The reality is he screwed this up from the beginning. He downplayed the virus, that it was going to go away, because he was interested in sustaining the idea that the economy was strong and not rocking that particular boat. Then when it finally got rocked and he had no choice but to respond, he ran a haphazard response for a while, and then decided to pull the plug on the response, in effect, or his role in the response, in order to try to accelerate the economic reopening. For the same reason that he downplayed it for the first time. Now were in a situation where the pandemic is coming back. The recovery is threatened and endangered and he doesnt really know what to do. And so the president s left with the hope, as he has articulated in that interview and others, that science is going to save him with therapeutics or a vaccine thats gonna come, but other than that, he doesnt really have an answer at this point. But, you know, john, its pretty unbelievable that theres even a divide, right, inside the white house as to whether President Trump should turn his attention back to this pandemic. I mean, do you have any idea how there could even be or why there is even a debate as to whether to talk about this and acknowledge whats happening . I do, laura. Its because it is not a competent white house filled with serious people skilled at solving Public Policy problems. And thats because its a collection of people who are there to cater to the whims of a president who does not know what hes doing. And not only does he not know what hes doing, he doesnt care that he doesnt know what hes doing. What President Trump is focused on is himself. You saw that in his remarks about maskwearing, saying, oh, i thought i looked pretty good in the mask. Everything with donald trump revolves around its affect on him and his own interests, and that is not a recipe for good outcomes in a national crisis. Well, look, dr. Reiner, i hope you youre somebody and you know what what youre doing, of course. You do have the recipes for some good outcomes and you saw that the u. S. Saw its highest single day of new cases today. I mean, arizona is now asking for additional medical personnel. So if the president is watching, could you try to explain to him why the virus wont go away by itself, and, really, frankly, tell us all what is really needed to try to mitigate all of this. Yeah, hi, laura. Right. The virus is resurgent because multiple states opened way too soon. Without adequate testing and in an environment where a large proportion doubts the necessity or efficacy of wearing masks. If you look at arizona, for instance, they are 40th in the country in testing. And only 40 of their population say they wear a mask all the time when they go out. Now, where did they get that message from . So this is what we do. We can fix this. We need to fix this and we can fix this. If i were the president , i would issue an executive order tomorrow mandating that all americans wear masks in public. Hes already issued an executive order protecting the statues of long dead confederate traitors, so how about issuing an executive order protecting americans. Every american wears a mask when we go out. Dr. Reiner, if i can interrupt you for a second. Just how important your discussion is right now. We just have breaking news that we have now passed the 50,000 threshold today. Just while weve been talking. Right. Thats how serious, how real this really is. We have now in a single day seen the highest number of cases, more than 50,000, today while weve been talking. Right. What is your reaction to that . We need we need forwardthinking leadership. We need leadership, period. The supine presidency that weve had here trying to handle this crisis. We need to shut down the the states or the communities where the virus is raging. We need to shut that down. Thats how you put the virus down. We need to expand testing and we need to get everyone to wear a mask. We can do this. Its not complicated. This this is how the European Union put down the virus. And if three months ago this president and this vice had come before the country and said exactly what i just said, we would be where spain and italy are now. As opposed to being the epicenter of the virus on the planet. John harwood, dr. Jonathan reiner, thank you. Now, i want to bring in the mayor of Miamidade County, carlos jimenez, who is expanding now his mandatory mask order. Welcome to the show, mayor jimenez. Im glad youre here. Hi, how are you doing . Im, you know, considering that we just have passed the 50,000 threshold of singleday cases, i think were all scratching our heads trying to figure out how were doing, but youre now requiring face masks countywide in all public spaces inside and also outdoors. And yet the governor, the governor of florida, ron desantis, is refusing to do a mandate of this just over the entire state. And you florida mayors are now really out there on your own, arent you . No, not really. The governor of the state of florida has allowed us to have local rules here. In Miamidade County along with southeast florida, he knows its a little bit different down here so hes allowed us to do things a little differently, and we have had a mask order here for over two months. Unfortunately, what happens is that a lot of our citizens are not taking that seriously. So, today i had to issue a not only the wearing a mask indoors, which weve always had, and not only wearing a mask outdoors when you cant social distance, but now we got to say, okay, any time you go outside your house, you have to wear a mask. Now, the problem with that is also the enforcement of that. And were going to be passing ordnances hopefully soon that will make it a civil citation, basically like a almost like a if you dont wear your seat belt, give you a ticket when youre not wearing your mask. We need to we need to be responsible for our actions. And its our our lack of following the rules that have caused us to have an increase in covid here in south dade im sorry, in dade county in south florida. So we need to press that home, and thats the message that were going to be giving. So, mayor, what maybe you say that its been different in florida . What makes florida so different from the rest of the nation who is seeing these surges and needing to have these mandates in order to encourage, shall we say, compliance . What makes floridians so different . Well, look, the state of florida is not uniform, so the vast majority, a lot a big majority of the cases are down here in southeast florida. There were some counties in the state of florida that had no cases. Now theyre seeing theyre starting to see a bump up, and i think youre going to see the governor also start to take more action in other parts of the state. But, again, hes allowed us to be much more aggressive down here in south florida. In southeast florida. And so the four counties, miamidade, broward, palm beach and monroe have been kind of uniform in the message and also the measures that weve taken. Unfortunately, we saw that once we started to open up, even though we had these mask orders in place, a lot of people werent following those rules. There were some businesses also that werent following the rules, and so a couple of weeks ago we started much deeper into enforcement. And it was no longer education. It was enforcement. We have seen this rise. We want to make sure we tamp this down. And so now thats why i had to issue this mask order at all times so that there is absolutely no yeah. No confusion at all of when you have to wear a mask. Well, there shouldnt be confusion. Speaking of enforcement and consequences, you just tweeted, mayor jimenez, about a Police Incident at the airport that you said was an excessive use of force. We dont have the video, but the Miamidade Police director Eddie Ramirez said he ordered the officers to be involved to be relieved of duty. What can you tell us what happened here . A woman was punched in the face . Yeah, there was an incident at the airport and it entailed a lady that lives that missed her flight and she started to to really be upset at i guess the ticket agents and they called the police, and then she got really close into his face and he he punched her. And thats way too excessive use of force. Our directors already released relieved the officer of duty and i believe theres more more action to come in the morning. Our director, i think, will do the right thing and that officer definitely used excessive force. Well, the theme of consequences rings true. Mayor jimenez, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, maam. Breaking news tonight. A judge just clearing the way for the publication of a tellall book by the president s own niece. What we know. Thats coming up next. [ ] if you experience bladder leaks, you shouldnt have to sacrifice discretion for protection. Try always discreet. 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What do you know . Thats right. Robert trump, who is the president s younger brother, had been suing mary trump in court trying to block this book. He won a very early ruling last week. Tonight an appellate judge overturned that ruling and said that this does not seem like a situation where there should be prior restraint. Prior restraint is an unamerican concept where you stop something from being published before its even released. So now simon and schuster, the books publisher, is free to publish this book on july 28th as it plans. Thats about four weeks from today. This book is already the number one bestseller in the country. Wow. Because there is so much interest in what mary trump might say about her uncle, the president. This book this lawsuit, though, laura, might go forward. In other ways. There is still some question about mary trump and whether she signed a confidentiality agreement. Whether shes breaking that confidentiality agreement. But the news tonight is that the publisher can move forward with this book. This feel like deja vu all over again. Confidentiality clauses. The idea of a censorship act. You know, prepublication preview. Could we learn anything from mary trumps book . What do we think we might learn from it . Right. I know we left normalville a long time ago, weve been in crazitown for a while now, but it is crazy that the niece of the president is writing a tellall book calling him the worlds most dangerous man. And she is a licensed psychologist, so she is someone who has studied individuals up close her entire career, and she has some blunt warnings about the president. Look, we will not know for sure whats in this book for a few more weeks, but its notable that robert trump went to court, seemingly on the president s behalf, trying to stop it. And its notable so far they are not winning in court. So far the publisher is winning in court and i would be surprised if this book is actually blocked at some point along the way. There will probably be legal drama along the way, but just as john boltons book was challenged a few weeks ago and then it came out and it was a nationwide bestseller, it appears this book by mary trump is also going to be a big bombshell book for the month of july. Look what happens when you say nothing to see here, folks, right . Brian stelter, thank you. Thats right. You got it. With the virus raging, tonight the president is still trying to divide and distract us on race. Now calling black lives matter a symbol of hate. Right now at tmobile, switch your family of three or more from at t or verizon to tmobile essentials and save up to 50 off your Current Service and smartphones. Keep your phones. And well pay them off. Up to 450 each. Only at tmobile. A lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesnt get everything clean. 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And he also came out against a federal housing law that was aimed at combatting segregation. He hurled the racist slur po pocahontas at senator Elizabeth Warren and threatened to veto a bipartisan, a bipartisan defense spending bill because it removes the names of confederate generals from ten military bases. Thats thats just in the past day. Joining me now, White House Reporter for the Washington Post talu and cnn president ial historian timothy naftali. Im so glad both of you are here. Talu, let me begin with you. I mean, more than 128,000 americans just think on that number more than 128,000 americans have now died from coronavirus. And our president is focussing on confederate monuments and now calling black lives matter a symbol of hate. Is theres no question what hes doing here, is there . This comes off of the heels of the president retweeting that video with one of his supporters shouting out white power and not condemning that phrase, not condemning that supporter, but condemning the phrase black lives matter. Its pretty clear what the president is doing. He is giving a very evident wink and nod to the racists in his base, people who are proud of what hes done in terms of stoking racial divisions within the country and he is doing nothing to sort of heal the divide in the wake of George Floyds death. The fact that as you mentioned 128,000 people have died from the coronavirus and that this pandemic has disproportionately affected africanamericans and other people of color. The fact that the president is focussing on defending confederate generals, on trying to discredit the black lives matter movement, its very clear that he is isolated on this issue. That even as the country is moving forward and trying to move to a place of some kind of racial healing, the president is looking backwards and looking towards the past and really trying to relive the glory days and appealing to a small and shrinking part of his base, including the man in the video who shouted white power down in the villages over the weekend. Hes about as subtle to an anvil to the head here. Tim, today the mayor of richmond, virginia used his Emergency Powers to remove confederate monuments in the city of richmond. And richmond was once the capital of the confederacy. This country is in the middle of a National Reckoning on race. And is trump, as toluse is talking about, being left behind . Yes, i think as toluse mentioned, i agree with toluse, and the most striking evidence is what happened in mississippi. In 2001 there was a referendum on what to do with the flag, and nearly 2 3 of those who voted in the referendum voted to keep the flag. The flag is gone. And i havent noticed any great upheaval in mississippi over that. Mississippi was in many ways the last holdout, the place where they were most committed to confederate symbols as a way of pretending that the war was actually about something other than slavery. So what were seeing today is a shift, a dramatic, transformational shift in American Public opinion, and this president , who doesnt read his intelligence reports on what goes on in the world, isnt reading his own country very well. You know, the president keeps calling, as you know, the confederate symbols our history, but were talking about four years of American History here. Isnt he celebrating, really, the racism that that moment represented, not just heritage . Its about time we called this out for what it is. My colleagues im not a specialist in in reconstruction history. I know more about the second reconstruction that happened in the 1960s, but its about time we called this out for what it is. Many of though statues, and the mississippi flag are products of an effort to to prevent freed men, as they were called at the time, freed slaves from having the rights that all americans enjoyed. It was a way of trying to bottle up the outcome of the civil war. In many ways, southern historians talked about the fact that the south won the second civil war, which was the struggle that led to the creation of jim crow laws and the outcome was an apartheid state in the section of the south. So its about time we talk about what those statues really meant. They were a symbol of oppression. They were a symbol of a denial of what the civil war was about. And they were a they were a denial of a major of the country in 1865. It was a dreadful thing. I know we all no way why that happened. But this is a time for us to be honest. Just as in 1989, the people of Eastern Europe were honest about their history. Its time for us to be honest about our period of oppression. Toluse, tim, thank you for your honesty and expertise in this area. I appreciate both of you. I want to make sure you know about dons new podcast, its called silence is not an option. Hes taking on the hard conversations about being black in america. And the latest episodes getting ready to drop in just a few hours where don is talking about his Early Education in baton rouge. And how integration is, frankly, still a problem in schools all across this country. And you can find that podcast silence is not an option on apple povdcasts or your favorit podcast app. Next, at least 23 states are pausing or rolling back their reopenings, including, by the way, california. Where almost 75 of the entire state is going back to a near shutdown. Stay with us. My gums are irritated. I dont have to worry about that, do i . Harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. Crest gum detoxify, voted product of the year. 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What we are doing in los angeles with the hospitals is really every day, 24 hours a day, we are really monitoring the situation and assessing whats happening in our county, whats happening with our hospitalization rates, whats happening with testing. Mmhmm. You know, in the early parts of the pandemic, the state of california and los angeles county, thanks to the measures by Governor Newsom and mayor garcetti, we actually fared really well for a city with 10 Million People in l. A. What weve seen, though, is really in the past two weeks after plateauing, we hit our peak at the end of april, and then we were really seeing some nice plateauing of the numbers. Unfortunately, in the past two weeks those numbers now are shooting up again. Which is making us all concerned. We have started to gradually open things back up and its summer, the beaches were open, and we began to see a lot more people congregating in groups, people not wearing masks, so it definitely is a time for concern. And something that we need to get in front of. And, of course, it feels like we are talking about people maybe let their guard down. Did they is that what happened here . I mean, you had california being very successful in fighting the virus early on. Now youve got cases surging. Roughly 75 of the state is going back into shutdown. I mean, how worried are you about the fourth of july coming up . Talking about people who congregate. Yes, we were very concerned. We saw around the memorial day weekend holiday. Thats when we saw people beginning to gone gate. The beaches were all open. So, fortunately, for the july fourth weekend, the beaches are closed. Thats very hard. The weather is beautiful. We know people want to get out and about, but we really need to be able to do that safely, and we know that when you shelter in place, when you use social distancing, when you wear a mask when youre outdoors and wash your hands, we know that works. That worked really well for us in l. A. , and we were even able to open up gradually. We want to continue to open back up, but we have to get the virus under control. And the rates of transmission that were seeing right now are cause for concern. Thank you so much. Thank you. The president says he wasnt briefed on potential russian bounties to kill u. S. Troops. Well, guess what . Tonight, cnns learning just how little he does listen to these briefings. Especially if theyre about russian intel. You get used to pet odors in your car. You think it smells fine, but your passengers smell this. Eliminate odors youve gone noseblind to for up to 30 days with the febreze car vent clip. Wow, it smells good in here. So you and your passengers can breathe happy. Every time you touch a surface, bacteria is left behind. Now, consider how many times your family touches the surfaces in your home in 24 hours. Try new microban 24. Spray on hard surfaces to kill 99. 9 of viruses and bacteria initially. 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And from what i hear, and i hear it pretty good, the intelligence people didnt even, many of them, didnt even believe it happened at all. I think its a hoax. I think its a hoax by the newspapers and the democrats. Well, joining me now to discuss. Cnn National Security analyst steve hall. Retired chief of cia russian operations. Steve, youre the man to talk about this issue, thats for sure. Breaking news right now from the new york times. There are details now out on how these bounties allegedly worked. You had american and afghan officials saying that an afghan businessman was a key middleman in the scheme. And also, offered up to 100,000 for every american and every Coalition Member killed. This is shocking, right, steve . Yeah, its absolutely shocking. I suppose, not entirely unsurprising from the russians. You know, i just got to say. Jim sciuttos reporting earlier was excellent. And the idea, as trump likes to say that, somehow, this information, this intelligence, didnt get up to him is ludicrous. Every junior, you know, american Intelligence Officer trainee learns, from the very beginning, that when you get threat information, and thats what this is, threat information. It doesnt have to be pure. It doesnt have to be absolutely verified. It goes to the top, immediately, because the results of missing Something Like that are so horrific. So theres no good story here. Theres no good version of how this could have happened. Donald trump didnt want to be briefed on it. Thats horrific, in and of itself. The National Security team didnt brief him or didnt get the information to him. Thats bad. If donald trump is lying about that, thats bad. Theres really no good here. Just a horrible situation. Least of all for those troops who were targeted. Today, National Security advisor obrien says it was the president s career cia briefer who decided not to brief him because it was unverified. And youre talking about how that just cant make sense, on any level. No, and laura, you mention the troops in the field. Thats thats the really bad part of this. I mean, imagine that youre an american soldier serving in afghanistan. I mean, they get the news. Or imagine that youre a Family Member of that soldier. They get the news. What they want to hear is not this is a hoax. This is some sort of political thing. What you want to hear from the commander in chief is we got your back. Whether or not we can absolutely verify this or not is absolutely irrelevant. You malke, as a president , you hope your commander in chief makes a public statement. You know, Something Like this is horrific if true and we support our troops. And ill have a very strong conversation with putin. Or send somebody. Look. Ive been in the room when senior officials have been sent to moscow to send the russians a very strong message. And i got to be frank. It was something a lot less serious than the deaths of american soldiers. Thats whats got to be done here. The russians listen to that and until they get that message from donald trump, theyre just going to keep going until somebody stops them and says this is a problem. They have not gotten that, yet, from the trump administration. Steve hall, thank you. And thank you for watching. Our coverage continues. Alright lets roll. Cmon pizzas here. Whoa is that shaq . This is my new pizza the shaqaroni and its bigger than pizza because for every shaqaroni sold, 1 is donated to the Papa Johns Foundation for building community. 1 is donated to the Papa Johns Foundation did yocould be signs that syour digestive systemwn isnt working at its best . Taking metamucil every day can help. 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