Monday. This was the scene near the university of north georgia where large Outdoor Party was held in an off Campus Housing area. Officials said they were aware and expressed disappointment in the size of the gathering and the fact that face coverings were not worn and there is no mask mandate in the state of georgia. Well have more on the spread in the u. S. In a moment but first close ally to President Trump tells cnn that the president is enthusiastic about yet another unproven per thutdic for the coronavirus. This time from a plant thats highly toxic and can be fatal if consumed. Heres what the president said about this plant earlier today. Ive heard of it, yes. The fda no, i havent. Is it something to support . Something that people are talking about very strongly . Well look at it. Well look at a lot of different things. The fdas been great. They are very close, were very close to a vaccine and a therapeutic. I have heard that name mentioned. Well find out. Cnn White House CorrespondentKaitlan Collins with know now. This is pushed by the creator of mypillow. How did it make its way to the white house . Reporter he is close to the president and speak relatively aurp and used to come to the old Coronavirus Task force meetings in the briefings in the rose garden and so he had this july meeting with the president where he shared the find wings the officials and dr. Ben carson saying that he looked at this data himself, they brought it to the president and thats when he confirmed today that the president enthusiastic about it and we should note while we discuss this the president hasnt publicly brought this up and reporting on these internal discussions going on over this and mike lindel said he saw the president again since that july meeting and this is a botanical extract from a highly toxic plant but coming to coronavirus and pushing it as a possible treatment for coronavirus theres no evidence or studies published showing that it works to treat covid19. Its just him pitching it to the president hoping that the fda will approve it as a dietary supplement and that hasnt happened yet. Coming to mike lindell he was put on the board of the Company Making this botanical extract and got a financial stake placed 0 the board of the company and important to keep in mind when you hear that hes pushing it and he is expected to go to the president s event in minnesota today and see if they bring it up there and it shows you that if the president isnt publicly pushing it in the way we saw him do with hydroxychloroquine, it shows that there are people who can get into the oval office, have a meeting with the president and pitch Something Like this thats got through the task force because its not been brought up as a task force meeting. This is oliandrian. Thank you very much. We have certainly been here before. In unscientific approach to coronavirus. Joined by cnn medical analyst and professor of medicine, dr. Jonath jonathan reiner. What is this . Oleandrin is a product of a toxic plant. It can produce something called a cardiac glycocide and you can find online a preprint non Peer Reviewed paper that seems to suggest that invito in test tubes may be antiviral activity for this compound but there are millions of compounds that when tested in vi to in a test tube appear to have antiviral capacity and worthless in humans. A recent example of a compound like that is hydroxychloroquine. Which in vito appeared to have antiviral capabilities but tested in human beings is worthless. Whens bothersome to me about this is less about this worthless botanical but more about the sidelining of scientists and the elevation of these sketchy characters who have access to the president and can tell the president that something is magic, i couyou sh approve it. When you hear proponents of this, people say i have seen it with my own eyes have incredible power, which, you know, is all well and good. It sounds great and maybe that person actually believes it but that is not actually how science works. Things are actually Peer Reviewed, studies done with thousands of people, control groups, placebos. Doesnt sound like that is done with this product as far as we know. Not even the most basic study. Not even the worst performed, you know, lousy clinical trial, nothing has been done with this other than invitro analysis of this compound. The highway is littered with drugs like this which are failures. Do not help patients. And are distractions. Thats what this really is. We need to focus on what we know works, focus on doing rigorously performed randomized Clinical Trials and show the way forward, prove in a scientific way what works and doesnt work. This is nonsense and a distraction. When it came to hydroxychloroquine, the president leaned on the fda to have an emergency authorization and then later revoked it after the large study warned heart problems. I mean, can do you think the fda could be pressured again . This is this is a supplement, not an actual like prescription medicine. Right . No. This is just an nutroceutical. What is that . An agent derived from a plant. Okay. So yeah. I am concerned about that. Not only did the fda issue an emergency use authorization for unproven hydroxychloroquine, the Strategic Reserves in this country acquired 60 million doses of it so without any data for efficacy or safety so when you hear that this has tickled the ear of the president who famously is searching for a magic bullet, you know, to cure covid19, ordinarily i would dismiss it but not with this president. His ears are very open to magic remedies. It also appears dr. Ben carson is helping push this. Yeah. Well, thats hard to understand. There is really no data to support this as any kind of serious therapeutic for covid19. We should focus on doing Clinical Trials for things like convalescent plasma. We dont have the data that proves its beneficial. We need to move better testing forward. You know . We have heard a lot of talk about the saliva direct which is an advance but we need better tests, athome tests. Have the fda focus on these things forward. This is a terrible distraction. Dr. Reiner, thanks for being with us. My pleasure. Large crowds gathering without masks at bars as College Students return to campus and a Covid Vaccine may be delayed because trials dont include enough black and latino participants and an investigation of the president s actions at the Postal Service. The Union President said the u. S. Postal service is being held hostage. Tada did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . I should get a quote. Do it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. You cant always stop for a fingerstick. Betes with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you dont have to. 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Lawmakers may hold a saturday session in between the two preside president ial nominating conventions and they want the postmaster to testify next monday. President of the American Postal Workers Union joins me now representing more than 200,000 employees in the Postal Service. So, mark, we have been hearing about the major changes at the post office slashing overtime, cutting hours, removes post office boxes. What are you hearing about it . Well, what we are hearing from our Union Members are two things. One, theres a lot of dismay. Postal workers are extremely dedicated to serving the people of this country and the prompt, reliable and efficient manner that the law demands and underscored in this pandemic where as much as the difficulties and the dangers we have faced on the front lines proudly carrying out that mission and connecting the people of the country so anything that slows down that service, that disrupts that service, that degrades that service returuns counter to everything we stand for. So one is postal workers are troubled. Secondly what were hearing throughout the country is these changes in policy which we implemented soon after a new postmaster general came in from the outside of the post Office Without the knowledge of the inner workings and without consultation of the community that these policies are going to have a huge impact. Mail is being delayed. Mail is slowing down and of course to us that drives business away. It drives more revenue away and its troubling on every front so we have been very clear both in private discussions with this new pmg and publicly that these policies need to be reversed, people of the country support the post office and want good, solid, quick and prompt Postal Services and thats what they deserve and should get. Supporters of the president say these are just changes to try to make the post office more efficient, to try to save money, reduce overhead. Do you have evidence to the contrary . Do you think the moves are intended to keep people from voting . Well, look. The fact of the matter is that congress can really help in this situation. The post office is being hit hard by the Economic Impact of covid. The Postal Service does project a huge loss of revenue over the next ten years, just as with covid and it is a non taxpayer based independent quasi government agency. They need revenue to do the job. Thats falling off and there are concerns about running out of money but that doesnt mean to cut and slash services. It is the United StatesPostal Service. And so Congress Needs to provide in this one case taxpayer appropriated emergency relief. In march they took care of the private corporations to over 500 billion. They have another opportunity. Theres an ask by the postal board of governors for 25 billion. Thats whats in the house stimulus package now being moved over to the senate. Congress really needs to get right and right by the people of the country. Whats in terms of efficiency, it is an efficient whats happening with the mail sorting machines . The Trump Administration says it wont remove more before election day. How many is taken offline . Do you know . I dont know. They scheduled over 670 machines to be taken out and we try to find out how many have been taken out and how many plan to be taken ow but this isnt the time. We are in a covid world. Mail volume dropped off but facing an election, another holiday season. Lets see what happens over the next period of time. And in terms of the mail volume so its very ill timed at best and combined with the other policies it is troubling. The president says the post office should raise prices for amazon, a longrunning demand of his. Back in i think 2006 with the law passed by congress i think there was a cap on pricing, wasnt there . There was a cap on pricing but the packages are whats called the competitive side. And the Postal Service has more flexibility with pricing there. But its an interesting thing, anderson. Heres a president that doesnt demand of airlines what they charge for ticket prices or hotel rooms or restaurants what they charge for hamburgers or anything else to get a stimulus relief in the economic crisis. Coming the post office he is trying to dictate that postal, package rate should raise four times. That will hurt every Single Person in this country and that uses ecommerce, every person that engages in ecommerce from the business point of view and fundamentally undermine the Postal Service because 30 of volume is in im sorry. Of revenue is in packages, the volume is growing. And it would just drive the Postal Service out of the package business, hurt the customers and undermine the post office further. Mark, i appreciate your time. Thank you very much. They. Theres video shows packed party crowds in georgia. Well have more on that. Plus bars packed at university of alabama. The mayor says police are overwhelmed and the fda approves a saliva test for covid in what could be an important development. When we started carvana, they told us that selling cars 100 online wouldnt work. But we went to work. Building an experience that lets you shop over 17,000 cars from home. Creating a coast to Coast Network to deliver your car as soon as tomorrow. 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Org to reinstate the fall football season and called it a matter close to his heart. The petition with more than 200,000 signatures since yesterday morning and he wants the conference to allow individual teams and players to choose whether or not to participate in the upcoming season. The big ten has not commented on the petition. Reporter in georgia, pictures and videos from a large off campus Party Went Viral over the weekend. You can see there arent really any masks and very little if any social distancing happening. A spokesperson for the university of north georgia told cnn they were disappointed, many of the students chose to ignore the covid19 Public Health guidance. On campus at the university of north georgia masks are required in classrooms and some public area but not residence halls. In the state of georgia there is no statewide mask mandate. Thanks. Scenes of crowded bars near tuscaloosa campus have outcries. Pictures showed long lines of people not social distancing and many not Wearing Masks. Police arrested four others for vie latting covid regulations. The site ignored a crimson tide Football Player begging them to safe guidelines seriously. Heres how about social distance . The mayor says he is decembspery trying to protect the city. The mayor joins us. The order expires end of the month to require people to wear masks in public spaces and exceptions to it. How hard has it been for Law Enforcement for your officers to try to enforce these orders . I dont know if you can hear me. How hard has it been for Law Enforcement to enforce these orders . Its been extremely difficult because like most places across the country we experience loss of force with covid19, or exposure to covid19 and then put on the fact that being a large city we are already stretched thin. 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