The top Infectious Disease expert, who has angered the president by getting too much good press, according to one source, by contradicting him publicly. And dr. Fauci is still speaking out. Moments ago he said, quote, we havent even begun to see the end of covid19. Called the most challenging Public Health crisis hes ever faced. He also weighed in on what the u. S. Has gotten wrong and what it will take to stop the spread. We did not shut down entirely and thats the reason we went up. We started to come down, then we plateaued add a level that was really quite high. You dont necessarily need to shut down again. But pull back a bit and proceed in a very prudent way, observing the guidelines and going from step to step. There are things you can do now, physical distance, wearing a mask, avoiding crowds, washing hands. Those things, as simple as they are, can turn it around. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles with more on the situation in several hot spots were keeping our eye on. Nick, wha
Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. And this morning, the situation is getting worse in 35 states. Florida just set the singleday record for new coronavirus cases. Florida had more than 15,000 new cases reported on sunday. No state, not even new york at the height of its outbreak has approached that level. That oneday florida number is higher than south korea saw in six months. As i said, 35 states are seeing increases in new cases. Many hospitals in texas say they are nearing capacity. Some counties are asking for refrigeration trucks, as morgues are reaching capacity. And in houston, local officials are urgently calling for a new lockdown. The governor is resisting that. So what do you do when the death toll hits 135,000 and a state sets a new record for the number of cases . You attack scientists and go golfing. Thats what the white house is doing, launching a c
Just when he thought he bowed out of public life, Robert Mueller comes back roaring back, after president commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and ally roger stone. Despite the fact that stone lied about his russian contacts and his communications with wikiileaks, the president has painted his longtime friend as something of a victim. But now the former special counsel is breaking his silence at least in print. Defending his doj colleague. Originally in an oped in the Washington Post, mueller wrote this, when a subject lies to investigators it strikes at the governments effort to hold wrong doers accountable. We made every decision in stones case as in all our cases based solely on the facts and the law and accordance with the rule of law. Claims to the contrary are false. Joining your conversation is our good friend frank figliuzzi. Lucky for us hes now an Msnbc National Security analyst. Some of the words that were like fingers in the socket for me. Donald trump suggested tha
Wildest dreams why they would want to do that. I cant explain Peter Navarro. Hes in a world by himself. Here are the facts at this hour. In georgia, republican Governor Brian Kemp is overruling mayors in georgia who have ordered mandatory masks in their cities, despite the Public Health guidelines. The nations largest retailer walmart will require shoppers to wear masks starting monday at all its stores and sams clubs. Moments ago target and cvs announcing they will also require masks in their stores. And alabama becomes the latest state to require mask wearing after governor kay ivey issued a sweeping order requiring masks to be worn in public. This as there is a major shakeup now in President Trumps campaign. Just four months before the election, Campaign Manager Brad Parscale is being bemode demote replaced by bill stepien. And joe biden is surging ahead of donald trump with a double digit lead over donald trump with registered voters, both nationally and in battleground states. Wel
State set a grim new daily record for deaths. Just in to cnn, the cdc says that a travel ban for a city the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak too little, too late. More on that in a moment and what that means Going Forward but theres one thing increasingly clear and that is cities and states taking action on their own in the absence of a plan of President Trump and the white house. Republican Governor Hogan of maryland writhing about the states struggle to obtain test kits in fighting alone writing in part quote it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nations response was hopeless. So every governor went their own way which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response. Hogan also questioned President Trumps dismissal of Public Health experts, the target of a coordinated attack by the white house and its allies. Cnn has learned that fauci and the president spoke yesterday for the first time in a month. And a growing number of retailers are also no