Has a 15yearold thats a threat under a new National Security law. Good to have you with us. More than 50,000 americans were diagnosed with covid19 on wednesday, the highest oneday total by far. The World Health Organization says the virus is spreading so rapidly that 60 of the total cases across the globe were diagnosed just in the past month. Arizona, california, texas, tennessee, and North Carolina all reported a surge of new cases in the last 24 hours. Nearly two dozen states have been forced to pause or roll back reopening plans. Theres no sense of a crisis at the white house. The president plans to attend an event on friday at mt. Rushmore. I think were going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. There is zero evidence the virus is on the decline, and u. S. Health experts fear the upcoming july 4th holiday is going to make it worse. We must be disciplined about our own personal behavior, especially around the july 4th holiday and especially among the young adults, and i mean 35 and under, who are driving the current outbreaks in many states. Please, please, please, avoid mass gatherings. Wear face coverings. Use hygiene. California, texas, florida, and arizona are being hit especially hard. Cnns Jason Carroll has more. Bottom line is the spread of this virus continues at a rate that is particularly concerning. Californias governor gavin newsom announcing new restrictions this afternoon halting all indoor activities in businesses including restaurants, museums, zoos, movie theaters in 19 counties which represents 72 of the states population. We are now requiring they close their indoor operations due to the spread of the virus. 37 states seeing a surge and now results of the new study say the actual u. S. Death count might be higher than the official numbers show. Research published in jama internal medicine says the number of u. S. Deaths from march to may was 28 higher than what was attributed to covid19. There are storm clouds on the horizon. Reporter the Alarming Number of cases nationwide prompting new York Governor Andrew Cuomo to stop restaurants from opening indoor dining, if people dont comply, states could end up back where it was two months ago. Were back to the mountain. That is what is going to happen. Reporter troubling numbers continue coming in from texas, arizona, florida where that States Department of health reported more than 6,500 additional covid cases today. The governor continues to push back on critics who say he reopened too soon and should by now have had a state mandate to wear a mask. In tennessee, 26 new cases reported today, a record high and topping yesterdays total by more than 1,000 cases. The face of those numbers, the states Lieutenant Governor says he will stop listening to recommendations from the nations top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci who cautioned states over skipping over cdc guidelines when reopening. He doesnt know what hes talking about. We havent skipped over anything. The only thing im skipping over is listening to him. Peyton chester, a 23yearold texan, blames all of the mixed messages as part of the reason why she got the virus. If some of my states have conflicting information, i was receiving conflicting information. Reporter wednesday arizonas governor has asked for five additional medical personnel to help with the spread of the virus there. Arizona, hospital beds at 85 capacity. Icu beds at 88 capacity. Jason carroll, cnn, new york. And since the pandemic began, President Trump has resisted wearing a facemask and at times hes mocked and belittled people who do. As mass shall wearing has become more common place, the president has been increasingly isolated on this issue. On wednesday he appeared to bend. Im all for masks. I think masks are good. If i were in a group of people and i was close. You would wear one . I would i have. I mean, people have seen me wearing one. I sort of liked the way i looked. Well, large parties have been identified as breeding grounds for the virus among young people in the united states, but as one man in arizona found out after visiting a bar, getting infected was incredibly easy but terrifying to live through. On the sixth or seventh day when i was sick i started getting a cough issue and it was very light to where if i took a deep breath, i would go ahead and have a cough. Within 24 hours it turned into a cough attack where i couldnt take a small breath without fearing for my life. On that monday where i decided to go to the hospital, i was literally laying on my bed in a position to just breathe like a person that smoked for 50 years. It was very scary. I feared for my life, and when i decided to go to the hospital, i also decided to make the message public because i knew i made a mistake. I knew i didnt take this seriously and i wanted other people to experience my experience because thats how i knew other people would get this message, is through a personal experience with someone they probably knew and they could relate to. And flores also told us the bar was packed with up to 500 people that day. Just chilling. Dozens of potential vaccines are being studied all over the world. Drug maker pfizer and biotech say preliminary trials, one of them, have shown some promise. The most recent study only included about 45 patients and the results have not yet been published for peer review. So lets bring in dr. Kent sepkowicz at Weill Cornell medical college. Thank you so much for joining us. Glad to be here. So the u. S. Death toll is above 128,000. Cases are surging in 37 states. 22 of those states have paused or rolled back reopening and most of california is now shut down again. Why are we seeing this sudden surge in cases and what drastic measures need to be taken to stop the surge . Were seeing the surge because we didnt Pay Attention to the rules of the shutdown the first time through. People got itchy. They felt like it was party time again and they had been indoors for too long. Its very hard to maintain. The package of social distancing, staying at home is a very boring slog, but it works. Masks work. Washing your hands work. The whole package is monotonous and people got tired of it. Once it was like school was out and jumping for joy and that was a mistake. There was never the thought that we could go from total lockdown, total quarantine to, hey, everybody back in the pool. But everybody heard it and resumed improvident behavior. President trump appears to be changing his opinion on face coverings now saying masks are good, but he wont mandate them and he hasnt told his supporters to wear them. If he did that, and also took the lead and actually wore a mask himself in public, could that be enough to stop this alarming surge in cases . It would be a factor that would have some effect. I think getting people to stay home, not going to bars and drink, getting people to stay away from each other in a social sense, those are much harder, but i think for him to take this seriously, for him to take Human Behavior seriously and containing themselves seriously, that would be big. If you wear a mask all the time, nonsarcastically, derice civilly, that would matter. I dont think he will, but i would love to see it. President trump also said wednesday that the coronavirus will sort of just disappear, his words exactly. What medical advice would you give him on that statement . Wake up, dude. Theres no indication scientifically or what weve seen or just ask your grandma if its just going to magically disappear. Theres no one other than the president , i dont know that he totally thinks it. Its magical thinking. He thought those pills, the malaria pills were going to make it go away. Its not accepted that there is a real crisis on his hands that requires decision making. Hes just refusing to go and, doctor, a new study is now suggesting that covid19 deaths could actually be about 28 high jer. How likely is it weve underestimated the death toll in the u. S. . Surely we have. People die without the diagnosis. People die suddenly in their home, et cetera. Public health has known about that phenomenon all the time for every disease, influenza, et cetera. They have ways to estimate a number more accurately. Inevitably at the end of a season, the true number, which is the incremental number of deaths above the baseline that is seen every year, more or less the same per month, its adjust adjusted. So this is an old, nonpolitically charged statistic call adjustment that has been made for decades. 20, 25 under count, that feels about right for diseases. Dr. Sepkowicz, thank you for talking with us, we appreciate it. Thank you very much. This is cnn newsroom. Stunning revelations about what President Trump hears about russia during his Intelligence Briefings from former Administration Officials who were there. We will have the disturbing details. Thats coming up. Meantime, russia is releasing early results from its controversial vote. What it means for president putin and how the u. S. President could be boosting his popularity. Were back in a moment. Audible is my roadtrip companion. Its kind of my quiet, alone time. Audible is a routine for me. Its like a fun night school for adults. 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The New York Times says an afghan contractor handed out russian cash to kill americans according to officials. The paper describes, and im quoting here, a key middleman who for years handed out money from a Russian MilitaryIntelligence Unit to reward talibanlinked fighters for targeting american troops in afghanistan according to american and afghan officials. Multiple knowledgeable sources tell cnn that President Trump has been resistant to warnings about russia so former Administration Officials who gave trump Intelligence Briefings and others who were there say his National Security team has been verbally briefing him less often on russiarelated threats to the u. S. The president denies he was briefed on the intelligence surrounding alleged russian bound yis and is calling the accusations a hoax. Heres the president speaking to fox news earlier. We never heard about it because intelligence never found it to be of the of that level where it would rise to that just didnt rise to the occasion and from what i hear, and i hear it pretty good, the intelligence people didnt even many of them didnt believe it happened at all. I think its a hoax. I think its a hoax by the newspapers and the democrats. But as cnns kiley at wood tells us, the intel on the accusations dates back to last year. Reporter the origins of this intelligence date back to 2019. We have reported that in 2019 the white house was provided with intelligence that russian actors had offered taliban bounties to kill u. S. Soldiers and then this information came back to the fore earlier this year. It was provided in the president s daily brief. Thats the intelligence document that he is receiving every single day, and then there was an interagency meeting earlier this year to discuss potential responses by the u. S. Government if this information, if this intelligence did, indeed, turn out to be true. Now National Security advisor Robert Obrien confirmed that today and he defended the fact that President Trump was not actually orally briefed on this intelligence. Despite the fact that it was in his pdb, his president ial daily brief, the president does not normally read that document. So the onus is on those who work around him to provide that information to him orally. Now National Security advisor Robert Obrien said that the information was not fully verified and thats why they didnt give it to the president. And secretary of state mike pompeo also defended the white houses response to this intelligence when he spoke at the state department yesterday. Now later this morning we are going to see a briefing for the gang of eight from the Intelligence Community leaders on this russian bounty intelligence. The folks who are going to be briefing include the cia director, dena haskell, John Radcliffe and this is expected to 3r0e vied provide more answers to those members of congress who have not felt they had sufficient answers to their questions provided by the White House Briefing earlier this week. One congressman not mincing his words is seth moulton, a democrat from massachusetts and an iraq war veteran. Take a listen to what he said about the president s handling of intelligence. I was a platoon commander in iraq. If i led my marines into an ambush because i didnt bother to read the Intelligence Report i was given, that said we would get ambushed there, i wouldnt be tweeting that it wasnt my fault because i didnt read the record. I would be in prison. If this is not treasonous behavior, i dont know what is. Stop ignoring it or defending it and find it out of political courage, an ounce of patriotism, an ounce of responsibility for that oath we took to once stand up not for your Republican Party leader but for our troops and for our country. And a former National Security advisor to president barack obama is speaking out against President Trump as well. Susan rice who many believe is in the running to be joe bidens running mate told our jim sciutto there must be some reason the president ignored the information in his briefings but no one knows what it is. It is mind boggling and one cannot help but question what are his motivations . Why . Is it money . Is it something that they have on him . Is it some fascination with putin and his power . There is something that 34us explain this, and i dont have the answer any more than his advisers do, but its deeply, deeply troubling when any president would put loyalty to somebody in a Foreign Government or to a Foreign Government above the health and safety of american forces. Nine, in russia president Vladimir Putin could hang on to power for another 16 years. Early results from russias Central Elections Commission show more than 3 4 of voters have approved constitutional changes. They could allow mr. Putin to seek two more sixyear terms as president. His critics are slamming the vote. One of them calling it a huge lie. Independent organizations say the numbers arent accurate and vote monitoring groups say there wasnt adequate regulation. Despite this, it doesnt look like president putin is leaving any time soon. And he might owe some of that staying power to President Trump. Cnns matthew chance. Reporter elected for another ten years. Voting for constitutional changes that could keep putin in power until 2036. When trump won in 2016 they celebrated in russia. Finally the u. S. Leader, critical of nato and the e. U. , who they believe saw the world their way, putins way. Still, few expected him to back the russian president over his own intelligence agencies, over allegations of u. S. Election meddling. Even putin felt uncomfortable in the 2018 summit. President trump had disagreed with him on something. Translator President Trumps stance on crimea is public and we have a different view. Reporter this didnt end. In 2019 President Trump announced the southern pullout of u. S. Forces from syria abandoning kurdish allies allowing Russian Forces to take over deserted u. S. Bases filling the vacuum and a longstanding kremlin goal. U. S. Officials later clarified some forces would stay to secure the border. But in other conflicts, like ukraine, trump also played well to the russian audience. Threats to suspend vital military aid fueled bitter impeachment hearings in washington, it was music to the kremlins ears as their forces backed rebels in the country. Now as russians look set to endorse putin for potentially another 16 years, trumps apparent soft spot for the kremlins strong man amid allegations of russian bounties to kill u. S. Troops is being tested again. Matthew chance, cnn. Hundreds hit hong kong streets to protest chinas National Security law and face off against the police. Ahead, we will hear from the one hong kong official involved in drafting that legislation. Can st investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. We were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Ships