Honest about allegations, the post office is simaticly crippled with the president s approval by a Major Campaign don donor. Youve probably seen video being taken offline or being taken apart. Just last week the Postal Service warned 46 states it cant guarantee that all mail in ballots will arrive in time to be counted. And its hard not to connect that potential effect, disinfran changing tens of millions of people with the video above and those are just some of the things postmaster general dejoy has been overseeing in his first months on the job. The changes slowed the delivery of prescription drugs and live chicks s ts to farmers. Governmental affairs committee, the postmaster general pledged the same would not happen to mail in ballots. As we head into the election season, i want to assure this committee and the American Public that the Postal Service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nations election mail securely and on time. This duty is my priority between now and election day. Thats from his opening statement. The words sound reassuring but for anyone worried about his commitment to sacred duty, he offered little assurance. Will you bring back any mail sorting machines that have been removed since youve becompost master general . There is no intention to do that. Not needed. You will not bring back any process processers . They are not needed, sir. We spoke with the Union President in north carolina. So are those needed . I assume removing them was the argument given was that it was obsolete. They werent necessary. Oh, no, absolutely not. That was me. She said switch machines in her area were removed each capable of handing 4. 5 million pieces of mail a week. As we reported, the postmaster was overseeing plans dating back to may for removing machines across the country. Today he committed to making no additional changes until after the election but as we reported, the sorting machine removals were scheduled to be completed by late last month. The damage may be done. For policy changes, kr,cnn obtad documents showing plans were in the works for treating election mail differently and since reversed what dejoy did mention in his testimony while ignoring the fact that they were operational and wouldnt agree to disclose the basis for some key decisions hes made. We need transparency and the changes youve been making and in everything that youve discussed here today will you commit to providing this committee with any and all transcripts or minutes of all closed, nonpublic word of governor meetings from this year by this sunday. Can you commit to that, sir . No. Maam, with policy changes that i yes or no, sir . The policy changes that i brought upon were not the ones that you identified in your so you didnt do any analysis how seniors would be impacted. Okay, lets move on. Our deployed Service Members routinely cast ballots by mail. Senator, the announcement this week should show we would improve service to every constituent. I would like to see the analysis to our offices by this sunday. Can you commit to that, sir . No, maam. Can you commit to transparency, sir . Thats all im asking. Were very transparent. Well thanks is senator jackie rosen of nevada that joins us in our next hour. Here is her republican colleague from utah. Assuming as i do youve been truthful in your testimony today, i can imagine how frustrating it is to be accused of political motives in your management responsibility. At the same time, you can certainly understand there have been pretty good reasons for people to think that you or your colleagues are purposely acting to suppress voting or youre going to purposely prevent ballots from being counted. There is pretty good reasons including policy changes, some reversed and some partially carried out but perhaps the key reason why lewis dejoy is under suspici suspicion, keeping them honest suspicion flows from the fact dejoy is a mega donor to a president that doesnt like people voting by mail and doesnt want to give the post office money to make it possible. It not us saying it but the president himself. They want 3. 5 million for something that will turn out to be fraudulent thats election money basically. Now, they need that money to have the post office work to take all of these millions and millions of ballots. In the meantime, they arent getting there. By the way, those are two items. If they dont get those two items, you cant have universal mail in voting because they arent equipped to have it. More on this from cnn chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. What is it about democrats taking on the postmaster general . The white house issued a veto threat to House Democrats are going to try to pass and they are likely to pass and veto that legislation in a statement put out to reporters, the white house accused democrats of over reacting to what they described as sensationalized 34media reports. The other thing is that just this evening we were provided with talking points that are being put out by their committee and Trump Campaign to sure jets to a conspiracy theory. He used a speech but anderson, to hear the president s team talk about democrats latching on conspiracy theorys is rich when the president is spreading there will be wide spread voter fraud on election day because of mail in balloting when he just hasnt offered proof that would happen. What about the vow by the president to send Law Enforcement to polling places . Yeah, weve been trying to Ask White House officials about this all day long. The only person that would offer up any kind of a comment was the white House Counsel or Kellyanne Conway who denied that this is at all a voter intimidation but when you hear the president talking about you know sending out Police Officers and sheriffs deputies and so on to polling places, that obviously is going to be intimidating to some voters that will show up at polling places in masks and so on worried about covid19. The other thing that needs to be pointed out, anderson, the president when he initially made the comments was talking to fox in the middle of the Democratic National convention. Hes been triggered all week long by what is going on at the dnc. I talked to a republican operative close to the Trump Campaign today that said that joe bidens speech last night blew out of the water the Trump Campaign line that joe biden is quote unquote sleepy joe and so its no surprise that the president would be throwing out that kind of red meat talking about sending Police Officers and deputies to polling places. The white house is not denying the president may do that. They are saying its not voter intimidation, even though it sounds like it. Jim, thanks very much. Colorado secretary of state is weighing in on the talk about Law Enforcement quoting from her statement, sending Law Enforcement to polling locations is designed for voter intimidation rather than e l election security. When the president says hes going to a Law Enforcement polling location, why do you say thats voter intaintimidation . Thats what happened during the jim crow south. Local law enforce 789mecement w to scare black voters and we saw that in the 80s. Thats what the rnc was used for using Law Enforcement off duty to try to intimidate black and latino voters and ill tell you, anderson, this is a scary segment for the National History to be back here and also tell you that i will not allow the president to use Law Enforcement to intimidate voters here in colorado. Legal experts said the president has no authority to deploy local Law Enforcement officials to monitor elections but the campaign could hire off duty police to work the polls. Does that sound right to you . Thats right. The president does not have authority over sheriffs and just to be perfectly clear, any type of voter intimidation is ig llll whether doj observers to federal officials. If they are trying to intimidate voters, we will stop them. But i think this is part of a bigger pattern, anderson. Not only does the president not like vote by mail, the president does not want americans to vote. Hes forcing americans to risk their very lives to be pushed into crowded Polling Centers and then hes saying if you do go vote in person and wait in those long lines we see in many states, not only will you be potentially intimidated, youll also be in crowded places during a pandemic. So overall, its just a shame that the president is taking our nation in the wrong direction and luckily, we have great states like colorado that can show the nation how we can vote during a pandemic in respect of peoples civil rights. I mean, i dont quite understand that the president is saying he will send sheriffs and Law Enforcement to polling places on election day, i assume is this to allegedly prevent the phantom voter fraud which he has continually been saying exists and is wide spread in this country even though by every study thats been done, there is just no evidence of wide spread voter fraud. Well, hes saying its for election security. So whatever that means. You know, there is a law that troops can be deployed if there are armed emmiey enemies at polling sundcenters. You know, colorado we vote by mail and send a ballot to every voter and also have in person early voting, sameday voter registration, polling locations across the state, hundreds of drop boxes and things go really well. We have clean elections. We have accessible elections. And were the Gold Standard of the nation. I would tell President Trump if he tries anything in colorado, im not going to let him. Well have a great election in november. The postmaster general said the Postal Service is quote fully capable and committed to delivering the election mail securely and on time. Given every colorado voter receives a mail in ballot, are you satisfied . Do you believe that . Letters had gone out across the country to states saying that there might be delays. I grew up in a small town and america and the post office and use it for everything whether packages to medicine. The post office needs to work. I thought it was good but the postmaster general said he would stop trying to attack the post office but i tend to agree with senator romney that we need assurances in writing to make sure that we can have confidence in november and the post office. You know, in colorado, our colorado election model has features that will enable us to with stan withstand a slowdown. We actually ask coloradoens to stop returning them eight days bh before election day and there is hundreds of drop boxes across the state. Apriest dwrat your time. Thank you very much. We have the covid modelling of 300,000 dead by december and how kids going back to class factor in and the striking grim projections could be reversed. Later anthony joins us bannon is facing federal felony charges. Plus an immediate cooling sensation for your throat. Feel the clarity, and live claritin clear. We see you. Looking out. For all of us. 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Oh yeahhhhh. Oh yeahhhhh. Visit the mercedesbenz summer event or shop online at participating dealers. Get 0 apr financing up to 36 months on select new and certified preowned models. Two pieces of breaking news and couldnt be less sad. We passed 175,000 deaths a modelling for evaluation now forecasting 310,000 fa stalitie by december, up 15,000. Not surprising Public Health officials in nebraska, minnesota and south dakota reporting cases connected to last weeks massive Sturgis Rally. Dr. Murray, sanjay, i want to ask about sturgis in a minute but first, dr. Murray, a staggering number. The projection that youre now having it a rise by 15,000 deaths, thats just in the last two weeks. What accounts for that . Well, i think what is accounting for that, anderson, is that in some states, california is a good example, cases peaked, coming down but deaths havent. Were not completely sure. They are staying pretty steady. Were seeing upswings in transmission in places like kentucky and minnesota, indiana. So its sort of general pattern. There is more happening around covid than we expected for this time of the year and thats playing out into these forecast as we go into the full when we expect transmission to go up for a variety of reasons. Dr. Murray, there is 133 days left in the year so youre saying 1,000 meal dying a day on average for the rest of the year. So plateauing sort of where we are now sounds like but also when i read the report, it also makes the assumption in states that have death rates that rise above eight per million people, those states will impose mitigation mandates. Thats where florida is right now. Were looking at this data earlier. Do you think thats going to happen . Are states like florida going to impose mandates again do you think and if they dont, does that mean the models will go higher . Well, thats part of the reason that the numbers are up from our last release because we had thought that some of these states like florida would have put machine dandates back in pl earlier in the month and they have not. The reason we still base our best forecast on that idea is when you look across the u. S. , across the world, thats about the threshold people put mandates back in place. Now, you know, it really depends what our leaders do and clearly things can be worse. We have a worse scenario in what we release and thats many, many more deaths and in fact, by the time december rolls around if we dont do anything at all, the daily death toll in the u. S. Will be much higher than 2,000 deaths a day we would expect by december could be 6,000. Depends what we do as individuals and what government does. Youre saying if we dont do anything in addition to whats already being done there could be 6,000 deaths a day or is that can you explain that . Sure, thats assuming that not only we do nothing but that governments decide to sort of go for relaxing the mandates progressively between now and december. Sort of a worstcase scenarisce okay. It not what we think will happen. Just gives you an idea how bad things can get as we roll into the fall and unfortunately in some parts of the world, not yet in the u. S. , we are seeing real resistance to sort of reacting when things start to get bad. Well, you say mask use is at 55 now. That getting it up to 95 would say 6 9,000 lives by december 1st. Getting the population in the quite to 95 , rationally you think of course, 95 of the people if they could save 69,000 lives, of course, people would just put on a mask and it not that big a deal but clearly for a lot of people, it is. It is. It not really understandable but how do we get there is the more important point. There is two parts, anderson. One is we need state governors to take action like arkansas has just done where youre putting in place mask mandates. We need those mandates to have some teeth so there is a fine if youre caught without a mask. We know that will help a lot. But we also need our political leader, business leaders, Community Leaders to really take up the charge. I think the combination of those two could make us look like most of latin america where mask use is high and most of Southeast Asia where mask use is high. It possible but will take a concerted effort but the em eim is extraordinary what itcould achieve. Yeah, 69,000 lives. Sanjay, just people traveling, the more what more are you learning about infections connected to the Sturgis Rally in south dakota . Keep in mind this rally ended five days ago. It was a tenday rally in south dakota and they tracked the number of vehicles that came in. It was over 400,000 vehicles that came in. A lot of people were there. What were hearing is there has been at least 26 people who have been confirmed to have been infected in three different states including south dakota, including nebraska and minnesota and again, just five days since the rally ended. You know that you can take a long time to get tested, to get test results back so we expect numbers to go up. A lot of people out there clustered together and results on lots of indoor events as well. They start to do testing and find people infected and likely spread this. This is the concern, anderson. You can have significant what are called super spreading events at things like this, people come from all over the country. They go back to their communities and that causes a problem. It tough to Contact Trace when you have this much viral spread in the country. 400,000 people in one place. It is tough to Contract Trace when you talk to folks who are intentionally not Wearing Masks and are also brushing by each other in outdoor spaces and are interacting with a lot of people milling around. So thats got to be tough. Sanjay, thank you. Dr. Murray, thank you. As always, appreciate it. The return to c