Remains the worst affected country in the world its all more than 1100 new deaths on thursday alone and florida is one of the worst hit states reporting a record increase in the number of daily deaths on thursday and the gallagher is in miami with more on the strain the States Health system is facing. The intensive care units across the state are getting very very full indeed in fact i had a long conversation with a doctor the other day who just done a stint in i. C. U. And he said that it was it was terrible it was really bad theyre running short on medicine theyre running short on beds the mental strain on the. Line staff is really incredible and yet we have a governor here Rhonda Santas whos at the white house meeting with President Trump saying that he will not talk about rolling back closures airlines have been told they should urgently inspect the type of boeing jets its over fears planes park during the pandemic could suffer engine failure the u. S. Civil aviation watchdog says 2000 boeing 737 could have suffered corrosion while parked for weeks as Global Demand for flight plummeted for single engine shutdowns have been reported with inspectors concerned that both of engines could fall could fail rather midflight china and the u. S. Are getting deeper into tit for tat actions after the american consulate in the city of chengdu is shut down this follows the u. S. Ordering the closure of the chinese consulate in Houston Texas relations between the 2 have deteriorated sharply this year with flashpoints over coronavirus responses katrina you says china is blaming the u. S. For the rao. Were here in downtown tendu and this is the new as consulate and there are a lot of policemen here the product doesnt Police Officers also are monitoring the crowds this entire street has been blocked off to cars since the Chinese Foreign ministry made the announcement that the u. S. Consulate here would have to close but the best rules are allowed to walk by and there are quite a few of them passing by taking photos taking selfies its become quite a Tourist Destination now china hasnt said exactly why its targeting this consulate all it said though is that there are some u. S. Officials who work here who they say have been engaged in activities that are not consistent with their capacity we also know that its quite significant operation to the southwest of china deals with us this is nearby acts as an active listening course for events taking place in session john and its a bet now the Chinese Foreign ministry has said that they do not want to do this it did not want to have to close the consulate here but they were false by the u. S. One year chinas top diplomat has laid the blame for the worsening ties between timing us completely at the foot of washington and he says that its up to washington now to mend and rebuild those ties and china says if the u. S. Does not pull back from this isnt to close the embassy in texas that china will have no choice but to hit back measure for measure. Its a world famous architectural treasure revered by both christians and muslims now turkeys either sophia has gone from museum to mosque. And. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in istanbul for the 1st friday prayers held inside the building in nearly 86 you. Can make a great people get to pray here thousands participated in the praise we came together to pray the government and the authorities concerned to do the necessary renovations the new hug us if you most will be something great that makes us very proud and will always be open for all citizens visit has and the tours. Well those are the top stories head to head is a asking whos to blame for mishandling the cover pandemic. Im mad the house and im here in washington d. C. For a special series of shows where were doing things a little differently due to the pandemic ill be going head to head today remotely with not one but 2 guests each with opposing views no panel no audience just 2 guests and me in this 1st episode ill be examining how the United States has handled the biggest story in the world right now the Coronavirus Crisis in part one ill challenge former republican congressman Jack Kingston a trump ally who thinks the president is doing a great job and in part to form a Democratic Party official just so comal wholl be defending the democrats record during this pandemic. With almost 150000 dead and tens of millions unemployed the worlds richest country seems to suffer the worst from the Global Pandemic so how did it all come to this. Back in january President Donald Trump told us it was all handled we think we have it at the well under control he reassured the American People and it will go away and were going to have a great victory. Even as his predictions turned out to be utterly wrong he still refused to test americans in greater numbers i think its ridiculous i dont want to test 350000000 people and peddle dangerous kills in the disinfectant if not. In a minute on the. Way we can do something. Injection all the while trumpeting that he was doing a great job. But ready to take. My 1st guess today would agree with the president Jack Kingston is a Republican Party politician and former congressman for the state of georgia as well as a close ally of donald trump he was an advisor and Spokes Person during the trump 2016 Election Campaign and hes now working as a surrogate for the Trump Campaign ahead of november ill go head to head with Jack Kingston and ask him whether President Trump has botched this Public Health crisis has he protected americans from the coronavirus were ultimately has he got blood on his hands. Jack kingston thank you for joining me on head to head glad to be here thanks for having me donald trump said back in february that within a few days theyd be 0 cases of the coronavirus and 0 deaths but by april he was predicting between 5060000 deaths today more than 130000 people have died from covert 19 in the u. S. And Public Health experts say many of them would not have died if this president had acted sooner whats your response to those people who say donald trump has blood on his hands i think that the president has done a very very good solid job even a great job in many respects because you have to remember this is a new virus and youre dealing with it in real time you know we have all as a world come out of our stepped in this thing maybe step by step if you will and learn had to do a lot of on the job learning but keep in mind this originated in a country that like secrets in a country that withheld life saving Critical Data right in the beginning and had china been more forthcoming with what was going on in the womb on laboratories and the derby h. O. Had shared. These data on human to human transmission this would have been entirely different but we did not have that critical baracks the problem with blaming china and saying well the rest of the world was struggling is that south korea got its 1st case the same day as the us they tested thousands of people that death toll is below 300 vietnam which has an 800 mile land border with china do you know how many deaths they have from covert 190 because they took it seriously here in the Us Columbia University researchers say if donald trump shut down just a week earlier we could have saved 36000 lives 2 weeks earlier 54000 lives and yet he wasnt bothered he was holding rallies he was playing golf he wasnt taking it seriously jack and you know what he did is he banned. Travel from china at a time that joe biden said oh hes in a photo but he moved in front of the dead b. H. O. The deputy chair was supposed to be the world leader in this and they did not even declared a pandemic till a month later they were denying that there was human to human transmission they had withheld the Taiwanese Research and i didnt. Mean its armies or the taiwanese or the japanese from testing and getting their death tolls down the u. S. Death toll went up donald trump you say he restricted travel from china he did fairpoint and what do you do after that he did nothing in february in february he said you know we said in february it will go away once it gets hot it will disappear like a miracle we have it very much under control its a democratic hoax to suggest otherwise in march he said its not that severe im not concerned at all weve done a great job its like the flu i could go on jackie just didnt take it seriously and tens of thousands of people died here they didnt die in south korea you could go on with that and a lot of people nancy pelosi was given to us and chinatown saying no problem there go out to eat shes got the president the president was playing golf holding rallies visiting india and saying its like the flu it will disappear and. Thousands of people died jug know that point that and they can is that there was a lot of misunderstanding of the nature of this disease and how do you contain it when how do you explain south korea and vietnam john just tell me how do you explain south korea testing 10000 people a day while the u. S. Attested 1500 people total how do you explain the joke is that nancy pelosi felt well and smaller countries where you can make a decision faster and more unilateral of fashion i think that you can have a little better control of it but the truth is as in a democracy like america where everybody is an armchair quarterback saying no you need to do this you need to do that the reason why nancy pelosi and the health are at a new york city is comments are important and the health or earth the state of pennsylvania among others is that because it shows how difficult it was for trump to get a consensus to get everybody on the same page nancy pelosi wasnt saying its like the flu not a supposed he never said its going to disappear when it gets hot she didnt say its a hoax by the republican body. And even now he actually said jack that even now there is no even now if you dont want to hear about what happened in february when trump was golfing even now hes still not taking it seriously in may he said we have prevailed in june he said its a minuscule problem. He said it would disappear in july and let all of us i mean if it is going to get Louisiana Holding that these even i let me finish my question coming in hes still not taking it seriously hes Holding Indoor rallies in oklahoma where secret Service Agents tested positive his own aides tested positive hes not taking it seriously even today nobody else is taking it as un seriously as donald trump is right now nobody else ok thats totally not right 39000000 americans have been tested close in and on 40000000 americans the president set up the task force by the way in february with the embezzler burks and mr of dr felt she and the Vice President he was holding. Weekly press conferences and the left got mad that he was holden has come says im sensing all names at the press conference as you know he said things like its a minuscule regular well jack do you believe the coronavirus is a miniscule problem i dont think he was saying anything like that what he does i think he said it wasnt going to air bridge for example you dont think he did i dont know that he said that minuscule problem john do you think it was a minuscule problem i dont think the president believes and i dont think hes acted in that way and i certainly if you look at the numbers are very minuscule you there its dying out those are trumps words last month jack last month after 100000. 00 people have died he said its a minuscule problem thats as shameful ok pedal to the metal on what he has done lets talk about the air bridge they have brought in 143000000 and. Brought in about 600000000 normal surgical type mess they brought in 20000000 ice shields for doctors and they brought in millions of gallons and everything that you need and yet despite all that he said earlier this month 99 percent of coronavirus case in the u. S. Are totally harmless thats a lie thats just not true thats an insult to the dead and the people who else well thats really the i think the number right now the spike is with younger people where its less harmful but. I think what you may be doing is pick and choose and some of the states are a jack you didnt say thats awful he said 99 percent of which are totally harmless that is false is it not would you not agree that they are a bridge was significant and a Major Medical operation that the worlds ever seen before in the d testing 40000000 people more than any other nation with really money that way theres a reason i ask you a question not the other way around im asking you are 99 percent of the cases totally harmless given 4 and a half percent of cases have ended in death and 15 to 20 percent of ended up in hospital how is 99 percent of cases totally harmless if were fly speck in their. The thing he said lets all agree ok the president has said some things that arent accurate but lets also agree there is no killer savageness who has a tie to the air bridge which we would agree that is very significant operation warp speed thats going to put a vaccine out there hopefully by the 1st of the year but maybe even sooner than that lets talk about Food Production america has not had Food Shortages back in february when we all close down ok a lot of people are saying were not going to get me were not going to get the poultry that we need we have not had any Food Shortages and our fair point let me ask you this we agree that totally homeless is false its a false but by the president but its not just trump of course who seems to have not taken this seriously you now have massive increases in coronavirus cases hospitalizations and deaths mostly in republican led states with the exception of california which is also seeing the same which seem to have reopened their economies too soon texas florida arizona between those 3 states theyve had more coronavirus cases them all of the European Union member countries put together shocking numbers you yourself are a big supporter of your own home state of georgia also a republican controlled reopening back in april you said i say keep on rolling governor those are your words about georgia georgia is now seeing a big spike in cases in hospitalisations its pausing its own reopening you got it wrong the republicans in georgia arizona texas got it wrong no not really because if you look at georgia and i look at the georgia numbers every day the big growth really has happened because of 3 things and this is a medical fact but because of protests because of memorial day weekend and because the bars were reopened and now in georgia were all wearing face masks we have to be the dog a governor has refused to mandate mosque even now actually on july night bryant has a tweet and said we all have to wear masks jackie hasnt mandated it putting out a tweet is not an executive order its not governing tweet you cant tweet your way out of 3000 deaths and. Some of you commentators like government mandates and believe that people will only do the right thing at their told by the nanny state but it is possible that people like me in the state of georgia hard call hard core conservatives who like personal freedom are going to do the right thing and not only have mess i have rubber gloves and i keep my social distances and i watch the heck out of my hands or the yard but the state itself is in crisis right now i want to make another point though along with the keeping the food supply open the president has done Something Like 160. Emergency use waivers on medical therapeutic so that he can get it out there the f. D. A. Has expedited getting these things to the population they set up famer so that they can work with all the health and Human Services a stunt but even donald trump whats so hilarious is evil donald trump said Governor Kemp of georgia got it wrong he said at the time i disagree with him on what hes doing on opening up i think its too soon trump weirdly was right for once you and the governor of georgia were wrong 3000 georgian a debt and i want to go into the record 20 of the georgia numbers right now the georgia numbers are 15 percent of cases of where your talent tell me the number is but but but lets lets split out the people the tween a 18 and 40 because i know thats where the the bulk of it is and those are why because those are the people who have gone to bars and celebrated memorial days and went out the straight and protested and did not wear masks why did you reopen the bars and the gyms and the end of april that was a huge mistake or part of people because of its own aura you can do like joe biden and hide literally in the basement and not engage and be afraid of your shadow are you can say you know what we have 50 states we have thousands of local health the rectors and we can make some decisions about reopening the decision was wrong giordano i dont think its wrong even the governor is now poised to reopening thats a confession the Texas Governor greg. Abbott republican says we got it wrong we were too quick on the bars the Texas Governor saying they got it wrong i dont know why you are defending people who are not defending themselves you have to reopen know there are a lot of people in laptop world who have the luxury of working at home and then passing judgment on all those down that dont but youve got to get the economy really reopened jack the republican governors of texas are saying and arizona is saying we got it wrong were slowing down our reopening people are dying what are you saying about the l