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CNNW CNN Newsroom October 1, 2020

Not from the right wing. And when asked, a second time, to denounce White Supremacy yesterday at the white house he said this. White supremacists, they love you and support you. Do you welcome that . I want law and order to be a very important part, it is a very important part of my campaign and when i say that what im talking about is Law Enforcement have to police have to take care and stop defunding the police like in new york. I just told you. You denounce them . Do you denounce . I have always denounced any form, any form, any form of any of that. And while the proud boys have taken the president s remarks as a call to action and republicans urge the president to be more forceful and direct in renouncing racism, White House Press secretary mcenany said the president s beliefs are clear. Heres what she said moments ago. The proud boys are people who consider them to be members of this group, give voice to these misogynistic, antisemiittic, antiimmigrant groups, a despicable group by pretty much anyones standards and you say the president denounced them on the debate stage the other night, if thats the case then why are they celebrating what the president said on the debate stage in front of millions of people . I dont speak for that group so im not sure why youre asking if you denounce it you wouldnt put it on badges and tshirts, right . The president said do you he said stand back and then yesterday he said specifically stand down. A synonym and the president said, sure, when asked whether they should stand down so again its really interesting, too, to see the media is only one putting the names of the groups into headlines, media reporting. First time i heard of them was in the debate and the media continues to putt the names in circulation to give them public attention. Given 12 hours more than that since the debate from when he was asked to clarify yesterday and he didnt clarify yesterday and instead he did what you did when you were asked to denounce the group and pointed to past things. I dont know why you said you knew you would get the questions and why you wont say denounce the groups. You know what . Do you know what people have lost trust in the media . Theres a reporter from your network yesterday, your network, in a tweet im asking you a question. That has nothing to do with you lobbed your partisan attack question. The president and someone from your network said yesterday in a tweet the president dodged a question about White Supremacy from a cnn reporter. The president specifically verbatim asked yesterday White Supremacy, do you denounce them to which he responded i have always denounced any form of that. Those are the facts. And cnn, i know that truth is of no moment to your moment, but those are the facts. Why are republicans calling on the president to be more forceful. His own party. I want to bring in nia malika henderson. As much as she says that is a clear denunes yags, she couldnt flat out do it herself, nia. Why is this so important . It is so important because the biggest domestic terrorism threat comes from white supremacist groups like the proud boys which the president claims now that hes never heard of, doesnt know what they are, but they are using his words in that debate as a rallying cry. We saw part of this i think in 2016 with the david duke thing. The sort of ambiguity is part of the strategy here from this president. He is not going to out and out consistently denounce a groum that backs him and some way holds some of the ideology that he seems to hold, too. If you think about the antiimmigrant rhetoric, this is what proud boys believe. Yeah. Am ambiguity, perfect way to put it and despicable. At a rally last night in minnesota, the president again deployed fear and sowed division, renewed attacks on a freshman democratic congresswoman. What what is going on with omar . I have been reading the reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. [ chanting ] lets get with it. Lets get with it. How the hell tells us how to run our country. Can you believe it . How the hell did minnesota elect her . What the hell is wrong with you people . Another massive issue for minnesota is the election of joe bidens plan to inundate your state with a historic state of refugees. Biden will turn minnesota into a refugee camp and he said that. Congresswoman omar is a furch from somalia that fled the country when she was 8 and been an american citizen for two decades, a frequent target of trump since she was first elected to congress two years ago. The Trump Administration announced yesterday it will slash the number of refugees admitted to the u. S. To a new low next year. Ir want to discuss this and bring in maria santana. Nia, look, we have seen this. This is a page of the president s playbook since the moment he came down that escalator and declared the candidacy in 2015. That is exactly right. Demonizing black and brown people, demonizing immigrants, as well, and this idea of who the country belongs to. Who are the real americans. If you think about his 2016 campaign, the idea was to turn the country back to a time when it was much whiter than it is now and certainly white people had much more power than now because america is a much more democratic country, a much more diverse country, as well, since the 1950s but he is playing on these white anxieties about a diversifying country. It is despicable and dangerous. I think people look at this election as a referendum on trump but a thing thats fightening is hes stirred up the fear among the base that win or lose this is likely to be around for quite sometime with the followers of donald trumps, this seasonse of anger, lashingt like the proud boys and the sense that somehow this country is being taken away from them by people who dont look like them. This is a despicable i think chapter in this country and i think it is just the beginning of trumps involvement in it and what he stirred up. Maria, you have learned that the president is planning to put the law and order message on display in a very public way targeting immigration violators and playing on racism. Thats right. We spoke with two sources who are familiar with the proposal by the Trump Administration to put up billboards highlighting immigrants that committed crimes and released to local authorities, seen as a move at targeting these socalled sanctuary jurisdictions, these sanctuary cities, places that limit cooperation between federal immigration authorities and the local police. It is unclear right now where or when these billboards would go up. Sources say theyre having them ready before the elections and unclear what they will look like, will they include names, faces, photos of the immigrants and what crimes they have committed . What we are learning from some former and counturrent official that unprecedented. They have never heard of Something Like this ever being didnt before and some people are really questioning the motives behind this like how does this bolster immigration message . What is it doing . It really is coming off right now as being strictly political, something to bolster the president s cam pan, the law and order image but most importantly to stoke fear in these communities because what these billboards would be telling people is heres a person, they dont belong here, dangerous and living in your community and theres a lot of concern about what that could lead to. If Something Like this does happen. But it is also yet another federal agency using their position to help bolster the president s president ial campaign. Maria, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us. Niamalika henderson, thank you. I want to talk about the National Security implications with this with peter strzok. He worked in the espionage section before he was fired. Hes now suing the Justice Department saying that his firing was politically motivated. He is the author of the book compromised Counter Intelligence and the threat of donald trump. You write in the book, quote, i dont feel that i have the option of keeping kawquiet abou the danger to our national strategy. False claims about voter fraud. Failing to denounce the threat of White Supremacy in a very clear way. Do you think the president is a National Security threat . Brianna, thank you for having me. Yes, i do. I started in the fbi mid90s and i worked the beginning of my career against the domestic Terrorism Group with violent White Supremacists and time after time again, research and the investigations we saw proved time and again that this sort of acknowledgement certainly from anybody in a position of power is both a powerful recruiting tool and we see that going on right now and more insidiously it sort of builds an acceptance within the general mental state of america that this is okay and for the president to be saying that is really damaging and more than a societal damage. That is a damage to the nation as a whole. And then of course thats just one facet of every we see in sort of a revelations of his tax records showing this financial exposure to foreign nations but it presents a picture of a man who is in fact a danger in my opinion to the u. S. National security. I want to talk to you about the financials in a moment but just back to your point about dpesing extremists, and this is obviously something as you said you have experience with, when the department of Homeland Security has a draft assessment saying White Supremacists are most lethal threat to the u. S. , what are the concerns that the fbi would have about how that could play out . I think the fbi has the knowledge through investigations of looking at all the issnciden of violence in america and the preponderance of the attacks are a link to ideology that involves some sort of racial supremacy, thats concerning because that is whats a lot of these cases driving people towards violence and it is something we absolutely have to be taking a stand against. The fbi can investigate and the department of justice can prosecute it but it takes more than that. We have to have the sort of leadership coming from the top of our nation all the way down in our government, in our society saying this is not acceptable. Racial violence is not who we are and any instance of it should be snuffed out and stifled and denounced, not accepted, not the things we hear from the president. So explain why it is so clear or why its so important for the president to be clear. We hear the white house say over and over, he has denounced it but when i think of the occasional denounce yags it is like pulling teeth. Under considerable pressure a couple days after heather hire was killed in charlottesville. Sure is not a denunes yags, right . That is not a clear word. Explain why even as the white house insists people want to duck tate the language of the president why clear language is so important. He shouldnt be issuing apologies. The first thing he said should be denouncing it. He should not give the muffled excuses. When he talked about charlottesville he said theres good people on both sides of the issue and thats reprehencible. Referencing the proud boys to stand by is reprehencible. Its not enough to have an explanation afterwards. Thats not okay. In the firsten stance he should be seeking to tamp down unrest, seeking inclusion, denouncing. Hows it objectionable, how can it be problematic to say im against racial violence . To have any other position at all is simply unacceptable with what we stand for as a nation and every person needs to think through what it is coming out of the mouth of the president of the United States. I want to listen to another moment that happened during the debate. But if i see tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated, i cant go along with that. Ill tell you what does that mean you ill tell you. It means you have a fraudulent election. Peter, is that voter intimidation . What role does the fbi have in this right now . I think its certainly casting doubt on the efficacy of our voting system. Academic research around the u. S. Very recently has shown that mailin voting is amongst the most secure way we have as a nation to cast the vote so when he the president gets up there saying he sees the instances of fraud which dont exist in reality, there is no data, no evidence to support the assertions he is, one, undermining the faith of americans in the electoral process. Two, laying the groundwork for contesting the election. Third, most disturbingly, this is the sort of disinformation that russia among other people push into the social media right now so when you see the things lining up, when something isnt supported by the facts, isnt possible based on research being done and then at a third time a hostile foreign nation working to reelect President Trump is saying exactly the same thing, that is an extraordinary concerning combination of factors. The president has as im sure youre well aware criticizing the fbi director chris wray speaking honestly about russian interference, no widespread voting fraud. Do you worry that the president could fire wray . Well, i worry about what the president is doing across the board to the United States government, to the leadership of that. Certainly director wray confirmed to congress that russia was working right now to denigrate Vice President biden and there by assisting in helping President Trump. I look at some of the reporting coming out of a cia survey that concluded that Vladimir Putin himself was likely personally directing the interference to aid President Trumps reelection, drawing on more than three dozen pieces of information and i cant imagine the pressure on the leadership of the cia right now but when you go time and again across the government institutions trying to stand up against manipulation and as a result threatened by innuendo, of course im worried and all of america should be worried any time we see the president placing undue pressure for anything other than the truth. Peter, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank you so much. The president set to hold rallies this weekend in wisconsin despite an alarming rate of covid outbreaks there. A vaccine maker gives a blunt estimation. New studies contradict the idea that children and adolescents are not spreaders of the virus. Us this weekend mrs. 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There are states across the u. S. Seeing a spike in cases. Several zip codes in new york report rates five times higher than the generate of the state. Cnn National Correspondent bryn gingras has more on the hotspots. Reporter new york state Governor Cuomo saying this is a stark reminder we are not out of woods yet. He identified 20 zip codes across the state where combined the daily Positivity Rate is five times greater than the total statewide. So now resources are just being flooded to tehe areas. Looking at the state, the Positivity Rate is hovering just above 1 which is still much lower than many areas across the country. Brianna . Bryn, thank you. I want to discuss the trends with dr. Peter hotez, a professor and dean of tropical med soon at Baylor College of med seas medicine. I want to begin with wisconsin with the third highest rate of new cases in the country and seeing the president having rallies there over the weekend which obviously flies in the face of advice by his own task force. Could this be a super spreader event . Absolutely. This is actually quite unbelievable, isnt it . Wisconsin is now leading the nation or near the very top in terms of states of new covid19 cases and transmission, the green bay area especially where i think one of the rallies is proposed to be held. It makes no sense to do it there. We have now possibly the beginning of that fall surge, that fall third peak, that everyones been talking about. Looks like it may be happening in wisconsin, maybe the dakotas, as well. 16,000 new cases over the last week, i believe. Green bay seems to be the epicenter and the president is proposing to hold a rally there. I dont understand what the logic is and why hes so defiant of the science. Its really extraordinary. You are involved in a race for the vaccine there at baylor and so i want to ask you about this announcement from moderna where they say they wont have a vaccine before the election. Does that surprise you at all . No. This is what we have been saying all along. I have been saying that it will be the second or Third Quarter of 2021 before a significant amount of vaccine is released to the public. The public has access to it in the United States. Dr. Redfield said that a couple weeks ago and dr. Fauci more or less consistent about that and fitting in the time frame that we wont even know if any of the three vaccines that are now in phase three trials in the u. S. Actually work until closer to the end of the year, november, december. That is an important point. We still dont have evidence that any of these vaccines actually work. Theyre looking promising in terms of inducing virus antibodies

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