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Hello again, everyone. Thank you for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with the monumental losses of two civil rights icons. Both gone within just 24 hours. Longtime congressman and Freedom Fighter john lewis passed away overnight just six months into his battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. News of his passing came within hours after learning that reverend c. T. Vivian also died. His daughter tells cnn he passed away of old age and natural causes. Both men are credited for their no...

And dr. Anthony fauci is warning that we have not even begun to see the end of this pandemic. While, of course, the white house is conducting a Bizarre Campaign to undermine fauci. The nations top Infectious Disease expert. White house deputy chief of staff posting this deranged cartoon attacking fauci, putting this on facebook. And as the president is set to speak next hour, let us take stock of another time that President Trump addressed the nation from the rose garden to talk about the corona...

Cases are spiking this morning in 25 states, so the question becomes how is it all intertwined in the president tweeting a picture, look at that. Thats really significant of him finally tweeting a picture wearing a mask after months and months of downplaying it and months of refusing to wear one in public. Were live across the country this hour. Lets begin in the state of florida. Rosa flores joins us from there. Good morning, rosa. Hospitals there sundaying the alarm that they need more nurses ...

New infections here. Heres the United States new sevenday average against the European Union and brazil with cases rising but not as near as fast as here in the United States. U. S. Hospitalizations now within whisper of that pandemic peak back in april. The experts know this. And for now those experts do not have invitations to join the president at todays daily briefing. Those Daily White House Coronavirus Briefings canceled because the president kept contradicting dr. Fauci and other experts....

I want to read this for everyone last week that if every american because he had tweeted this out a few years back. Do not get lost in a sea of wore a mask, the virus could be under control. Yesterday President Trump said despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. This about why hes still refusing to order masks our struggle is not the struggle nationwide. No, i want people to have a of a day, a week, a month, or a certain freedom. Year. And i dont believe in that, no. It is the struggle of a and i don...

4 of the worlds population and a quarter of all known covid19 cases. Things are out of control. But the president made Crystal Clear in a new interview with Jonathan Swann of axios that he says he has it all handled, brushing off the rising death toll, dismissing the reality of the continuous problem with testing in this country, and pushing off blame for why things are so bad, even though he refuses to acknowledge its so bad. So remarkable in what he said, you should hear it for yourself in ful...

Burnett. We have breaking news. The president admitting the coronavirus pandemic is about to get a lot worse in the United States. It will probably, unfortunately get worse before it gets better, something i dont like saying about things. Which is all the more surprising because as we all well know, when the president doesnt like something, he just ignores it, as hes been doing with the pandemic. And now the president no longer able to ignore the reality on the ground. More than 3. 8 million cas...

What we do know that President Trumps approval numbers are going down as cases spike in 25 states. Deaths surging in 19 states. That may partially explain the apparent uturn by the president tweeting a picture of himself wearing a mask thats after a month of downplaying the use saying it looks unpresident ial. Mocking joe biden for wearing a mask. Lets begin with cnns john harwood at the white house for more on the briefing. If you dont have the experts will this be part political, part Health R...

Set a record high and for the second day in a row one of the nations biggest labs is offering a Bleak Outlook on a bleak testing situation. This executive with Quest Diagnostics is warning that u. S. Commercial labs will not be able to handle a covid testing surge during the upcoming flu season and they warn wait times for results could get even longer. Just yesterday quest said some of the delays are as long as two weeks. Let me offer you some promising news here in the search for a vaccine. Th...

Will continue to smolder and smolder and smolder. And that will be the reason why, in a nonunified way, weve plateaued at an unacceptable level. Now, im sorry for the longwinded answer, but i think thats the problem. Fauci wasnt speaking explicitly about the president or his supporters in that clip, but he could have been, because as we surpass 158,000 deaths, President Trump has basically at every turn downplayed the severity of this virus, while misleadingly telling the country and his followe...