Cheek with the face mask on and i said i hope he doesnt think im treating him differently. I just had a hand full of bags or whatever. Remember, i texted you a couple days ago and you said it happens. About stigma. People whove had covid. And i was wondering if people are treating you any differently, or if people talk to you, since you have had it, about the a stigma that they are seeing or feeling from people because theyve had the coronavirus. Well, certainly, the politicizing of the situation has certainly gone where people are treating me in very special ways. But theres no question, d, that people get freaked out. They dont want too get sic get. And we dont know. The unknown and scarier than the known often. Could i really not get you sick . Could i still be carrying the virus . We dont know and thats frightening, and i think that we have to accept that, and not judge that people dont know owe to feel about what they dont know. So, absolutely. I didnt touch my own kids in a real way, you know, the way i wanted to for many days after that. I was hesitant because you just dont know. And thats the scariest part of this. So the answer is, yes, and its okay. Well, i mean, when i saw you but, still, even when we see each other now, its six feet apart. Right . I saw you. It was good to see you. I still had the mask on. You had yours. And i said i hope he doesnt think im treating him any differently because of that. But, still, when i see you at work, six feet apart. You know, we do the whole social distancing thing that were supposed to do but it it just made me think about that. I have been talking about it with tim and ive talked about it with a friend now who is actually going through covid19. And that is a real concern. Especially, about, you know, having if you want to have someone come over and do work at your home. You know, you have you need something done with an electrician. Or with a carpenter. Or, you know, maybe you need some sort of landescaping or something done. Im wondering if people are if they say, nope, cant do it. Sorry, cant come to your house. Yeah, we had that happen, too. Where, to open the pool this season, the company was worried. They were like we know that your son, you know, was sick. Is it okay . Its totally understandable. I mean, people should be worried. You should err on the side of caution. Funny story. I had this woman bust down the street and i wasnt really paying attention to what was going on. I was on the phone. And i look and she hits me right in the chest. And shes like, im and shes like im the only one in my family, the first person ive been able to hug. I was like, all right, okay. Like looking around for people with cameras. But ill tell you, of all the things youve done to me that make me wonder why youre doing it, that was the least. That was the least. The one good thing about these masks is that people say i didnt recognize you. Like, oh,thats good. You see the swab thing i did with andrew . Yeah. That was mean. That was mean. No, it wasnt. You laughed and you loved it. No, that was mean. I dont like when people are intentionally mean. Im on andrews side. No, youre not. He doesnt like you, by the way. By the way, i dont want that tie back because its all messed up. See ya later. Got to run. Got a big show ahead. Thank you, you as well. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. We have got breaking news tonight about the coronavirus and the death toll in this country because it passes 93,000 tonight. The World Health Organization reporting the largest singleday increases in cases since the outbreak began. And warning that we still have a long way to go in this pandemic. And, in the middle of all of this, the president of the United States isnt acting president ial at all. Listen to what he says tonight. What would you have done differently facing this crisis . Well, nothing. If you take new york and new jersey, which were very hard hit, we were very, very low. Nothing. He doesnt think he shouldve done anything differently with more than 93,000 americans dead. Think about that. He hasnt changed. He hasnt learned anything. When you think that hed be laser focused on the deadly pandemic that is killing americans every day, his behavior is and im being frank here, erratic, lobbing distractions and deflections. Just look at how the president spent his day with the virus spreading. Oak. With more americans dying. First off, he is doubling down on his false accusations that voting by mail leads to voter fraud. Okay . Why is he talking about this right now . Because he is worried that states will expand vote by mail in an effort to keep their citizens safe during this pandemic. And, to this president , that is a bad thing for reasons we will explain to you. What youre about to hear is a false claim. So i hate to even play it. But i need you to hear how freaked out he is by the idea that a lot more people could be voting by mail. Well, i think if were talking about the mailin ballots, if people mail in ballots, theres a lot of illegality. They send in ballots that they harvest ballots. You know all about harvesting. And they do lots of bad things. Ideally, people go out and they vote. Now, if you need a mailin ballot, if you need a specific, like as an example, im in the white house. And i have to send the ballot to florida. That makes sense. So if you need it for some reason, or if somebodys not well, thats one thing. But when you send out 7. 7 million mailin ballots, theres forgeries. Theres, frankly, duplication, where they print ballots on the same kind of paper, with the same kind of machinery, and you cant tell the difference. And they send in thousands and thousands of fake ballots and i tell you what. This nation cant be going down that path because its a very dangerous path to go down. That is those thats a lot of baseless accusations of voter fraud that he is throwing around that because, the fact is, voter fraud is extremely rare whether by mail or in person. Extremely rare. Remember that Voter Fraud Panel the president set up in 2017 . Then, disbanded, less than eight months later. Because they found nothing. Remember that . When this president woke up this morning, he falsely accused michigan and nevada of voter fraud for taking steps to make it easier for people to vote by mail in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Which you think would be a good thing, protecting voters, protecting poll workers, and making sure people dont have to choose between their votes and their health. You would think that would be a good thing. Right . But the president does not. He threatened to hold up emergency funding for those states. Legal experts say he doesnt have the power to hold up appropriated funding. Thats up to congress. And the fact is, americans are in favor of voting by mail. 64 in the gallup poll just last month. But you know the president s do as i say, not as i do, by his own voting by mail in his own primary. Voting by mail in florida, he did. And its not the first time that he tried to defend that. You were highly critical of mailin voting. Mail mailin ballots for voting. I think mailin voting is horrible. But you voted by mail in floridas election last month, didnt you . Sure, i can vote by mail. How do you reconcile that . Because im allowed to. Well, thats called out of state. You know why i voted . Because i happen to be in the white house, and i wont be able to go to florida. Okay. One day later, giving away his game, putting in writing tweeting that voting by mail doesnt work out well for republicans. You got to wonder whether he had one particular republican in mind. Its almost as if this president , who never tires of telling us how popular he is, doesnt want to prove it with free and fair voting. The press secretary, kayleigh mcenany, saying this today. The president is, after all, the president , which means hes here, in washington. He is unable to cast his vote down in florida, his state of residence. So, for him, thats. Why he had to do mailin vote. But he supports mailin voting for a reason, when you have a reason. Right now, were very far from november 3rd. Cnns Kaitlan Collins making an excellent point. Theres a really good reason for voting by mail, and that reason is the pandemic that has killed more than 93,000 americans. As all 50 states are beginning to reopen. And the president s erratic behavior goes on. He is continuing to ignore his own fdas warnings and insisting on taking hydroxychloroquine. He confirmed tonight that he is, still, taking the drugs despite warnings of serious side effects, and will be for another two days. I think the regimen finishes in a day or two. About i think its a two days. But that is not the end of the president s distractions and deflection. His wild accusations in the middle of this pandemic. Today, he is, once again, attacking a juror in a court case. Specifically, accusing the foreperson in the trial of longtime trump crony and selfproclaimed dirty trickster roger stone, who was found guilty of lying to congress, and threatening to threatening a witness and is appealing his sentence, accusing that foreperson of bias. If there were any truth to that, wouldnt you think stones defense team would have tried to remove her . They did not. The president , in that same tweet, essentially, falsely accusing tv personality joe scarborough, with whom he has a running feud, of murder. Another utterly baseless accusation. Authorities in florida have ruled the death of an aide in scarboroughs Congressional Office back in 2001 as accidental. A Police Investigator told the Washington Post in 2017 that authorities had left no stone unturned. But that fact is not stopping the president from hurling baseless accusations. Today, he is accusing the Chinese Government of what he calls mass worldwide killing in this pandemic. Even though he spent months praising and making excuses for that same Chinese Government. The president , now, blaming what he calls the incompetence of china. Thats really something, coming from the president , who downplayed the virus for months. Saying it would go away in warm weather. Suggesting ingesting disinfectant might be a treatment. And promoting and taking a drug, with the potential for serious side effects. China is certainly not blameless. But you wouldnt know that, from the way this president talked about them for months. You trust that were going to know everything we need to know from china . I do. I do. I have a great relationship with president xi. Had a long talk with president xi, for the people in this room, two nights ago. And he feels very confident. He feels very confident. Well, i think chinas very professionally run, in the sense that they have everything under control. I really believe they are going to have it under control, fairly soon. Some people dont seem to trust the data coming out of china. Are you worried about that . Look. I know this president loves his country. Loves the people of china. And he is doing a good job with a very, very tough situation. I had a conversation with the president of china last night, pretty late in the night. It was fascinating to me. You know, they have a whole its a different kind of a world. Its a different form of government, to put it mildly. So, look, the relationship with chinas a good one. And my relationship with him is really good. And, then, theres wait for it this president s obama obsession. He continues to cook up conspiracy theories about his predecessor and his Current Campaign rievl. Rival. Throwing around baseless accusations that there was something criminal about their behavior at the start of the russia investigation. Some terrible things happened and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again. And youll see whats coming over the coming weeks and i wish youd write honestly about it but unfortunately, you choose not to do so. What is the crime exactly that you are accusing him of . The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspaper newspapers except yours. Cant define it because i doesnt know. Cant really. Cant define it, maybe because theres nothing there. Even though his own handpicked attorney general says this. Now, as to president obama and Vice President biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information i have today, i dont expect mr. Durhams work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. Why did he even have to mention why . Its like when did you stop beating your wife . What ever their level of we dont you guys cant see through that . Wow. These guys are bizarre accusations, erratic behavior, distractions, deflections. The president feels threatened by his own failures in handling this pandemic, among other things. Threatened by an economy in crisis, with 36 million americans unemployed. Threatened that all of that could throw his reelection into doubt. So he resorts to distractions and deflections. While americans are dying. Thats the truth. We are not on the other side of this virus. Yet, the president is ignoring his own experts. Hes ignoring science. He is lashing out. Cnns Kaitlan Collins, david gregory, both weigh in after the break. Introducing tide power pods with cat nat. That is such a large load, dont the stains sneak through . New tide power pods can clean that. Whole situation. 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Confident financial plans, calming financial plans, complete financial plans. Theyre all possible with a cfp® professional. Find yours at letsmakeaplan. Org. More than 93,000 americans have died from the coronavirus. And, as all 50 states are partially reopened as of today, at least 17 states are seeing an upward tick in cases. And, yet, through all of this, president trump, on a twitter tirade today, pushing falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Lets bring in cnns White House CorrespondentKaitlan Collins and david gregory. Good evening to both of you. Kaitlan, the president lashing out at everything. Mailin voting. China. On and on. Allegations and conspiracy theories. Were approaching 100,000 u. S. Coronavirus deaths. So what gives here . Its hard to say. You know, when the president chooses to focus in on a certain something when, often, you see from his twitter feed, really, a view into what he is paying attention to that day. And, often, its not always the coronavirus at the top of the list. As we saw with michigan today. Something that, you know, wasnt really something that had been on the president s radar, talking about these mailin voting applications that the president was talking about. And then, you know, becomes a whole thing the white house has to deal with. That was the focus of the briefing today and i think a lot of it has to do with the president being frustrated. He wants the economy to reopen. He is very frustrated, not only by poll numbers, which he referenced poll numbers he got in michigan today, saying he had them going up some. He told us that in the cabinet room when we were talking about these claims hes made with this mailin voting potentially. But also, looking ahead to the economy and dealing with those numbers and 36 million americans unemployed. And its just a larger sense of frustration with the president. But a lot of this has to do what you see on his twitter feed is what he is also watching on television. David, w. H. O. , the World Health Organization, is reporting the largest singleday increase in cases. But would you ever know the president is governing through a pandemic right now . Is is he acting out of fear . Well, i think he senses how out of control so much of his presidency is around him right now. And i think kaitlans right. The the twitter feed is really the win ddow to his thinking. It it reflects how Much Television he is watching. How much cable hes watching, how much hes buffeted by that. And how little discipline he enforces in his own life. And, clearly, those around him cant seem to enforce that to bring his temperament under control, which is a shame. The irony is that the president , publicly, wants us all to think that hes a wartime president. And, if that were true, if you think about wartime leaders in the past, he would focus, exclusively, on combatting the virus. On marshaling all government resources, and really keeping everyones attention on all issues related to the virus, fighting the virus, getting people back to work. He is doing a lot of those things. The government is doing those things. But he allows himself to drift, and lose that focus. And part of it is nursing grievance, which i think he believes is something thats been good for him because it helps him connect to people who support him. And i just think, largely, he he always has to be fighting someone or something. I think its lifeblood for him. Kaitlan, the white house is also pointing fingers at the cdc. You pressed the president on that today. Lets watch this. You didnt complain about the cdc . No, not at all. No. No. No. At the beginning . Well, you know, youre asking me a wiseguy question. At the beginning, and again, i didnt put cdc there. Cdcs been there long before the Trump Administration came in. But they had a test that was was something happened to it. It was soiled. It was it was soiled and or foiled. But it was a problem. A shortterm problem. It lasted for about a week. It was longer than a week, right . I mean, so so whats up with the cdc director . Yeah. It was much longer than a week. It was several weeks before they actually figured out what was going on. It was contamination from sloppy lab practices. Health officials later admitted. But it was so interesting to see the president deny that he had been complaining about the cdc at a senate lunch that he had yesterday. We heard from multiple people that he was and, don, we even heard one source saying the cdc is here before me. It wasnt my administration that did this and that was almost verbatim what he was saying there i