Everywhere else. Everywhere else. Ill give her that. I love the lesson she got from her father, dont say slave, say enslaved person. Thats not some bs political correctness, its context. Its how we have to see each other as human beings. This is something you grew up wanting people to understand and teaching them to. I dont have the excuse of a lot of other white people. Where i grew up in a diverse place, you know . I have flavor all over my life and its the family ive chosen and i love it so deeply. I love these people and yet im looking at the Teddy Roosevelt st statue differently than i ever before. We need to understand things. The president saying things like black lives matter is a symbol of hate. You know, i dont understand that, chris yeah, you do. No, i understand perhaps why hes saying it, but in the grand scheme of things, just think about it, three words, black lives matter. How many other times, how many other instances have we had three words be used and valued and revered, we, the people, justice for all. I mean, these ideas that suddenly these three words, black lives matter, is so toxic that we cant say them and put them together in a sentence. I mean, its just so absurd to me. And you think about the power of language. You think about why these three words have become such a battle and it just goes along with what were talking about here. The idea that you are talking about maybe the epiphanies you have had and youre somebody who has lived a long time. No not that long. I mean, youre still very young, chris. Yeah, i got it. A long enough time to have seen the world and be exposed to it, and yet your epiphanies seem genuine, as opposed to the disingenuous epiphany we see often times from people where you go, really, you had no idea these three words should have meant something . No idea that certain things actually mattered . So im always looking and judging how i look how i see people and what they are thinking and what their real, you know, role and motivation is. And im continuing to question the president when he talks about these three words. Unlike any other string of words. That this is the problem . I just i cant buy it. Well, i buy it, and ill tell you why. Hes got tremendous power and he is a demagogue, and i know he hates that i say it, and i know hes trying to come after me. And you know what . He is effective. He changes my life and he changes it for my wife and my kids, and i know he knows that, too, but the good fight must be fought and the truth must be told. The man plays to division and we know why he says he what he says about black lives matter. We know why he retweets the video with the guy saying white power and then he deletes it. We know what its about. We know why he put the mccloskeys out there as the face of white resistance against black lives matter. We know what its about. And the truth must be spoken. Look, president johnny appleseed, you plant enough seeds, you let them grow three hours at a time. Well see. Look, thank you, chris. This is cnn tonight. Im laura coates in for don lemon, and what were learning tonight about the coronavirus in this country, frankly, is stunning. Our breaking news, the United States seeing its highest single day of newly reported cases. Not even a week after the last high, 48,477 cases just today. A total of more than, what, 2. 6 million. 2. 6 million since the crisis began. I mean, cases skyrocketing in texas and arizona, california and georgia. All across the u. S. In at least 23 states, thats almost half, now pausing or rolling back their reopenings that they wanted. Yet the california governor, who is now ordering nearly 75 of the state back to a near lockdown. There is really no way to look at all of that and not see that things are getting much, much worse. Yet, the president of the United States, well, he says that the virus that has killed more than 128,000 americans is just gonna poof, disappear. 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. Disappear . Its called the coronavirus not the houdini virus. The president hopes the virus thats killing more and more of us every single day is just just gonna disappear . Well, look, its not his job to just hope. Its his job to do everything he possibly can to work tirelessly to save american lives. And you know what . You dont do that by just hoping this virus will disappear. But it seems like the president , hes learned close to nothing since he said this in the very early weeks of the crisis. Its going to disappear. One day, its like a miracle, it will disappear. Look, when he said that at the end of february, there were 15, 15, 15 reported cases of the coronavirus just in this country. Tonight hes still using the same language and there are more than 2. 6 million cases. So much for this virus just disappearing. Yet the press secretary, kayleigh mcenany, says the president is confident. The president s confident that it will disappear. Hes confident that hes put together a revolutionary firstclass team that is going to break through bureaucracy and get us a vaccine. Confidence. Well, look, more than 128,000 americans have died. Thats a fact. And all the president s confidence, did she say, in his revolutionary firstclass team. Well, you know what that means . Well, it means nothing, frankly, in comparison to the numbers and the facts you know of. But the president wants you to believe that in spite of all that, hes doing a great job. We put bans on china. Did a lot of things right. I think we did it all right. We did a great job. Were credited with doing a great job. We did it all right . I just told you the numbers in this country, right . Of deaths, let alone cases. That this is this is gaslighting. Its pure and simple. Instead of leading americans through this crisis that is killing, ill repeat, more of us every single day, hes trying to convince you that he did everything right. That theyre being credited with doing everything right and trying to convince you that he wears a mask like his own task force recommends. You just havent seen him do it. Im all for masks. I think masks are good. I would wear if i were in a group of people and i was close you would wear one . Oh, i would i would i have. People have seen me wearing one. All for masks . The president who has never stopped ridiculing anybody who wears a mask, who on the very day he announced his own government recommendation to wear masks said he wouldnt wear one. Who said he didnt want to give reporters the pleasure of seeing him wear a mask. Now he expects you to believe hes all for masks. And he expects you to believe that hes worn one himself, even though have you seen it . None of us have seen him do it. Actually, i had a mask on. I sort of liked the way i looked, okay . I thought it was okay. It was a dark black mask and i thought it looked okay. Looked like the lone ranger. The lone ranger. Now, i i admit i was born a little bit after the lone ranger. However, a quick Google Search or your own recollection can tell you that the lone rangers mask, it only covered the eyes. Like, of my generation, princess bride, wesley, carry el withs character, covered the eyes only. And now the president is trying to pull the wool over our eyes as if somehow that mask is about conjunctivitis as opposed to covid19. Lets just put aside the question of whether he has been wear a mask in private. Okay, fine. The point is for him to be seen wearing one. Why . So he can set an example for the entire country. An example that could actually save lives. But dont expect him to do it at that massive Fireworks Show at Mount Rushmore this coming friday. South dakotas governor has said that masks and, frankly, social distancing, eh, not required. And thats another example of how this president is trying to pull the wool over your lone ranger maskcovered eyes. Acting like everythings fine. All the while, more than 128,000 americans have died. Acting like hes done with the virus while the virus, it isnt done with us. I want to bring in cnn White House Correspondent john harwood and dr. Jonathan reiner, director of the cardiac Catheterization Program at George Washington university hospital. Gentlemen, im glad that youre both here. If i can, john, i want to begin with you because the president continues to say, john, that the coronavirus is gonna pull a houdini, a disappearing act, and early on he thought that the warm weather might help us out. Its now july and its sweltering in washington, d. C. And cases are skyrocketing across this country. So how does he think its going to disappear . Laura, i dont think a whole lot of thinking goes into what he is saying. This is an old guy with a set of fixed ideas who has trouble to adapting to changes in the world around him. The reality is he screwed this up from the beginning. He downplayed the virus, that it was going to go away, because he was interested in sustaining the idea that the economy was strong and not rocking that particular boat. Then when it finally got rocked and he had no choice but to respond, he ran a haphazard response for a while, and then decided to pull the plug on the response, in effect, or his role in the response, in order to try to accelerate the economic reopening. For the same reason that he downplayed it for the first time. Now were in a situation where the pandemic is coming back. The recovery is threatened and endangered and he doesnt really know what to do. And so the president s left with the hope, as he has articulated in that interview and others, that science is going to save him with therapeutics or a vaccine thats gonna come, but other than that, he doesnt really have an answer at this point. But, you know, john, its pretty unbelievable that theres even a divide, right, inside the white house as to whether President Trump should turn his attention back to this pandemic. I mean, do you have any idea how there could even be or why there is even a debate as to whether to talk about this and acknowledge whats happening . I do, laura. Its because it is not a competent white house filled with serious people skilled at solving Public Policy problems. And thats because its a collection of people who are there to cater to the whims of a president who does not know what hes doing. And not only does he not know what hes doing, he doesnt care that he doesnt know what hes doing. What President Trump is focused on is himself. You saw that in his remarks about maskwearing, saying, oh, i thought i looked pretty good in the mask. Everything with donald trump revolves around its affect on him and his own interests, and that is not a recipe for good outcomes in a national crisis. Well, look, dr. Reiner, i hope you youre somebody and you know what what youre doing, of course. You do have the recipes for some good outcomes and you saw that the u. S. Saw its highest single day of new cases today. I mean, arizona is now asking for additional medical personnel. So if the president is watching, could you try to explain to him why the virus wont go away by itself, and, really, frankly, tell us all what is really needed to try to mitigate all of this. Yeah, hi, laura. Right. The virus is resurgent because multiple states opened way too soon. Without adequate testing and in an environment where a large proportion doubts the necessity or efficacy of wearing masks. If you look at arizona, for instance, they are 40th in the country in testing. And only 40 of their population say they wear a mask all the time when they go out. Now, where did they get that message from . So this is what we do. We can fix this. We need to fix this and we can fix this. If i were the president , i would issue an executive order tomorrow mandating that all americans wear masks in public. Hes already issued an executive order protecting the statues of long dead confederate traitors, so how about issuing an executive order protecting americans. Every american wears a mask when we go out. Dr. Reiner, if i can interrupt you for a second. Just how important your discussion is right now. We just have breaking news that we have now passed the 50,000 threshold today. Just while weve been talking. Right. Thats how serious, how real this really is. We have now in a single day seen the highest number of cases, more than 50,000, today while weve been talking. Right. What is your reaction to that . We need we need forwardthinking leadership. We need leadership, period. The supine presidency that weve had here trying to handle this crisis. We need to shut down the the states or the communities where the virus is raging. We need to shut that down. Thats how you put the virus down. We need to expand testing and we need to get everyone to wear a mask. We can do this. Its not complicated. This this is how the European Union put down the virus. And if three months ago this president and this vice had come before the country and said exactly what i just said, we would be where spain and italy are now. As opposed to being the epicenter of the virus on the planet. John harwood, dr. Jonathan reiner, thank you. Now, i want to bring in the mayor of Miamidade County, carlos jimenez, who is expanding now his mandatory mask order. Welcome to the show, mayor jimenez. Im glad youre here. Hi, how are you doing . Im, you know, considering that we just have passed the 50,000 threshold of singleday cases, i think were all scratching our heads trying to figure out how were doing, but youre now requiring face masks countywide in all public spaces inside and also outdoors. And yet the governor, the governor of florida, ron desantis, is refusing to do a mandate of this just over the entire state. And you florida mayors are now really out there on your own, arent you . No, not really. The governor of the state of florida has allowed us to have local rules here. In Miamidade County along with southeast florida, he knows its a little bit different down here so hes allowed us to do things a little differently, and we have had a mask order here for over two months. Unfortunately, what happens is that a lot of our citizens are not taking that seriously. So, today i had to issue a not only the wearing a mask indoors, which weve always had, and not only wearing a mask outdoors when you cant social distance, but now we got to say, okay, any time you go outside your house, you have to wear a mask. Now, the problem with that is also the enforcement of that. And were going to be passing ordnances hopefully soon that will make it a civil citation, basically like a almost like a if you dont wear your seat belt, give you a ticket when youre not wearing your mask. We need to we need to be responsible for our actions. And its our our lack of following the rules that have caused us to have an increase in covid here in south dade im sorry, in dade county in south florida. So we need to press that home, and thats the message that were going to be giving. So, mayor, what maybe you say that its been different in florida . What makes florida so different from the rest of the nation who is seeing these surges and needing to have these mandates in order to encourage, shall we say, compliance . What makes floridians so different . Well, look, the state of florida is not uniform, so the vast majority, a lot a big majority of the cases are down here in southeast florida. There were some counties in the state of florida that had no cases. Now theyre seeing theyre starting to see a bump up, and i think youre going to see the governor also start to take more action in other parts of the state. But, again, hes allowed us to be much more aggressive down here in south florida. In southeast florida. And so the four counties, miamidade, broward, palm beach and monroe have been kind of uniform in the message and also the measures that weve taken. Unfortunately, we saw that once we started to open up, even though we had these mask orders in place, a lot of people werent following those rules. There were some businesses also that werent following the rules, and so a couple of weeks ago we started much deeper into enforcement. And it was no longer education. It was enforcement. We have seen this rise. We want to make sure we tamp this down. And so now thats why i had to issue this mask order at all times so that there is absolutely no yeah. No confusion at all of when you have to wear a mask. Well, there shouldnt be confusion. Speaking of enforcement and consequences, you just tweeted, mayor jimenez, about a Police Incident at the airport that you said was an excessive use of force. We dont have the video, but the Miamidade Police director Eddie Ramirez said he ordered the officers to be involved to be relieved of duty. What can you tell us what happened here . A woman was punched in the face . Yeah, there was an incident at the airport and it entailed a lady that lives that missed her flight and she started to to really be upset at i guess the ticket agents and they called the police, and then she got really close into his face and he he punched her. And thats way too excessive use of force. Our directors already released relieved the officer of duty and i believe theres more more action to come in the morning. Our director, i think, will do the right thing and that officer definitely used excessive force. Well, the theme of consequences rings true. Mayor jimenez, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, maam. Breaking news tonight. A judge just clearing the way for the publication of a tellall book by the president s own niece. What we know. Thats coming up next. [ ] if you experience bladder leaks, you shouldnt have to sacrifice discretion for protection. Try always discreet. 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