Asked about all of this. We have seen the written statements and the message is blunt. This pandemic is not going to end anytime soon. Our team is frspread out coveri it all. We start with Geoff Bennett at the white house and Jacob Soboroff at the border in yuma, arizona. His book separated inside an american tragedy looks at separations of migrant families by the Trump Administration, this is a subject he knows extraordinarily wellbeing at the border. Geoff, what can we expect from the president s visit in arizona today . Look, President Trump returns to arizona, where hes going to return to a familiar issue that he thinks helped fuel his rise and win in 20 16. That is border security. Hes going to go to yuma, arizona, where jacob is, to tout the progress made in his long promised southern border wall an then heads to phoenix where hell talk to a crowd of thousands of young supporters, many of them students who will be packed into a phoenix megachurch there one reason hes going to ari
This time at a mega church in phoenix, which enticed people to come by promising a new air purifier they installed would kill the virus and keep people safe. That actually happened. Its called the dream city church. Here in the real world, doctors and scientists called b. S. On the miracle purifier. And thats where we begin, keeping them honest. The virus killed 120,000 americans and its not even july. The alternative reality the president wishes he was inhabiting. In the real world arizona is experiencing the steep growth in cases you once saw in new york at the beginning of the outbreak. Look at that chart. Here is the growth in the number of people sick enough to be hospitalized. Again, not a good sign. Arizona is hardly alone. Look at texas. New cases rising there just as sharply and again not just from more testing. So many people are getting sick that in houston, texas Childrens Hospital tells cnn its providing additional icu and acute care beds now for adults. The governor greg
This map tells the story. 32 states are battling an increase in cases. 11 states are flat. Only 7 shat state states are s decline with dr. Anthony fauci warning the United States is at a cross roads and americans can choose to be part of the problem or part of the solution. Unfortunately, President Trump and Vice President pence seem to be opting to be part of the problem. Trump is refusing to set an example and wear mask in public. He continues to hold rallies with no social distancing. Rallies that are petri dishes. Today at the first Coronavirus Task force briefing in two months the Vice President made statements to the American People that simply do not square with the facts. Pence insisted that states are opening safely and responsibly when the fact is very few states adhered to the white houses own guidelines for reopening. Medical data clearly proves that was a mistake. Then mr. Pence said this. The reality is were in a much better place with the efforts President Trump mobilize
Camp david was called off, in part because of concerns about the outbreak, leaving trump to meet with the joint chiefs of staff at the white house instead. Although his press secretary was one of the two white house officials who tested positive last week, Vice President pence says he wont quarantine and was seen arriving at work today. However, several officials who did have contact with his press secretary are now quarantining. After testing negative, the fha director and cdc director say theyll selfquarantine. Dr. Fauci began what he described as a modified quarantine. Iowa governor kim reynolds announced shes coming into modified quarantine after coming into indirect contact with miller. Last wednesday, i was at the white house, as you know. Reporter shes tested negative but says shes concerned about possible exposure. Out of an abundance of caution i will follow a modified quarantine plan. Reporter Vice President pence visited her state on friday where he attended a food supply ro
Capitol hill. While you were sleeping, there were some violent clashes between police and protesters near the white house. Protesters attempting to topple a statue of former president andrew jackson, a slave owner. And they spraypainted the columns of the historic st. Johns church. President trump went on twitter to attack protesters, and he also retweeted an unrelated viral video of a black man punching a white man. The president did not explain why he wants more people to see violence. All right, were going to begin with the coronavirus pandemic. Joining us now, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Also with us, dr. Jean morso, the director of the division of Infectious Diseases at university of alabama at birmingham. And i just want to put up these graphs again so people can see the increases in at least one state. This is florida. The number of new cases. You can see the rise in number of new cases there. Its not just because theres more testing. Ignore the nonsense co