Yeah, right now its good. You can go to school. You can reopen. You can do all that stuff. I think youre right, chris. Do it now. I dont know, can we do some voting online. Maybe people wouldnt have to if we can do it now. Were all reopening. Everybody should reopen, he says. Great, lets hold the election now. Next tuesday. And he could do what the former president who spoke today said. Make it a national holiday. Right. That way everybody gets off work. They get to go and you know what well call it . Trump day. Oh, wow. Lets call it trump day and well have the election in a week. Maybe two. Well give it two weeks. Still be so safe. But, you know, because 100 days from now, it could be really unsafe. You never know. There is a pandemic out there. Yeah, a virus. Could get worse. What about a trump virus . No, trump day. Trump day. Two tuesdays from today. And well have the election. And then, there, its good. I mean, youve got to be kidding me. Not only sorry, im setting up my computer over here. Then this guy pompeo, yeah, the doj could do it. Oh, shut up. Trump day two tuesdays from now . Yeah, trump day. Or tuesday after next . Lets vote. Lets get it out of the way, you know, before 100 days from now the pandemic could be real. You know hes watching. Great idea. Move it up. Mr. President , congress, senate. Lets do it. He said he could do it. Pompeo said the doj could do it. You know . And if you want to go the congress route, might as well. One of his friends just told him hes working so hard with congress, hes got a lot of deals going. Youre really really smart. I dont know. Someone said to me the other day and maybe its right that you and i should run. Run . Run from what . Run, forrest, run. Were going to be running from the maskless masses. Do you know how many of these things i have . I have so many of these masks. I just yank one when i when i come out the door and i keep, like, three or four in the car now. Everybodys got a whole lot of masks. But its good. I actually have this kid in my life who is a tennis teacher, and now he took some money and he sells advertising for masks for kids and hes made all of this money. He puts it on the mask . All this money online. No, he just advertises online to buy masks and people buy them through the company and he gets some out of it. I use the fishing sleeve that i pull up and fold over. Yeah. I do that, too. I like that better than the mask personally because when i put it down its like a scarf, which is part of my signature look. No, i do that because in the heat its more comfortable. Especially if youre out doing something, the fishing thing is a lot more comfortable than the mask because it gets a little bit cumbersome and it slides down. The fishing thing doesnt slide down. This is the worst quarter of economic activity. Ever. In our history. And its because of how we have mishandled this pandemic. Germany handled it better. China actually grew. I thought we were going to get on top of china because of the negotiations. I thought the president had it all figured out. This is why hes down in the polls. And the question is, will he be able to do something about it. Well see. Its got to be somebody who likes the numbers. Man, he did make history with his numbers. Thats true. All right. Sir, see you soon. Always a pleasure, d. Lemon. Oh, man, i was going to say it first. Yeah, you dont mean that. All right. See you. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Well, today, if it wasnt already obvious to you what President Trump has done to the highest office in the land, it should be. All day, from first thing this morning until night, three decades did you notice this . Three decades of president ial leadership on display. Living proof. You have President Trump and you had the three president s who proceeded him. You had bill clinton, you had george w. Bush and you had barack obama. Today we saw what it means to be president. We saw the dignity the office can bestow and the dignity that can be stripped away. So why dont we begin with the current president , who with the death toll from the coronavirus in this country passing 152,000, and while mourning herman cain who died of the virus. Just cant resist lobbing a slur at china. Let me begin by expressing our sadness at the passing of a wonderful man and a dear friend of mine, herman cain. He was a very special person. I got to know him very well. And unfortunately he passed away from a thing called the china virus. Hmm. A lot to be said about that. But someone has died, so lets be respectful. The president who as cases approach 4. 5 million nationwide says this. The numbers are coming down and coming down very substantially. Theyre starting to come down in florida. Florida reported a Record Number of coronavirus deaths today. And those cases are only leveling off because leaders are finally, finally doing what needs to be done instead of listening to the president. What theyre doing is not listening to him. Theyre doing the right things. So guess what t . The numbers are coming down. We have a president who started the day tweeting a threat, as chris and i just talked about, to delay the november election, which he has absolutely no Legal Authority to do. And which members of his very own party promptly just shot it right down. And he followed that threat by throwing around baseless charges that the election will be rigged. Is the net effect of what you tweeted this morning and what youre talking about now to cast doubt on the results of the november 3rd election . Well, its had an interesting impact. I didnt know it was going to be 9 impact it had. What people are now looking at is, am i right, but not me, are all these stories right about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent. Theyll be fixed. Theyll be rigged. The president of the United States, who took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution is now trying to delegitimize our most democratic act . But i also dont want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesnt mean anything. Thats whats going to happen, steve. Thats common sense. And everyone knows it. Smart people know it. Stupid people may not know it. And some people dont want to talk about it. But they know it. And, no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and whats your name . My name is so and so. You sign the book like ive been doing for jeers. Stupid people may not know it. You heard what he said, okay . But theyre doing what he has been doing for years. Right . Listen to me, everybody, okay . Pay attention. The fact is this president voted absentee in new york in 2018 pup and, in floridas march primary. He also listed the wrong birthplace on a 2017 absentee ballot for new york mayor that according to an analyst analysis, i should say, by the washington post, okay . And as for the president s claim that he has been signing the book and voting inperson for years, i said watch, okay . I want you to watch this. It is from a 2004 access hollywood video. Donald trump turned away from one new york polling place after another. Finally filling out, guess what, an absentee ballot. Here it is. Oh, right. Do i have to go to a different place, actually . Theres a little drama at the polling place. Do me a favor, double check. We have the paperwork. Im calling my lawyer right now. Go ahead. Work on it. Wherever you want us to go. Where do we go . 520. 520 park avenue. Okay. I like that location better. Hi, folks. How are you doing . Make sure theres no cheating here, right. Can you believe this. They dont have it in this book either. Hes not in my book neither. All right. So its not here, right . Hi, fellas. How are you . Do you have my name here . His name is not on these rolls. There will be a huge communication in here. Well, im going to fill out the absentee ballot. And ive just voted. At least you can say the trumps ter doesnt give up. Thats right. Right . Dont fall for the okeydoke, people. Calling our election into question is one of the most unamerican things that a president can do. And he has done it before. He still claims that the previous election, that he won, by the way, he said it was rigged. So why . Because he is trying to distract from an economy that has fallen off of a cliff, contracting at a 32. 9 annual rate from april through june, the worst drop on record. But whats he really afraid of . The reason that he wants you to think that the election is fixed is because hes on course to lose. I mentioned the other three president s earlier and how they showed us today how much we have lost in this trump era. Not one of them was perfect. No one is. Every one of them made mistakes in office. And they owned up to them. But today at the funeral for john lewis, they reminded us. Oh, yeah, thats what being a president looks like. Its been so long since weve seen it. Thats what being a president looks like. And look at them. And they look like president s. And then they open their mouths and they sound like president s. And then they move through the world and they thats what a president should look like. There was former president bill clinton saying that the late congressman left us our marching orders. He never lost heart. He fought the good fight, he kept the faith, but we got our last letter today on the pages of the New York Times. Keep moving. It is so fitting on the day of his service he leaves us our marching orders. Keep moving. What is that ease, looks and sounds like a president. Former president george w. Bush paying his respects with love and with dignity. Even though john lewis boycotted his inauguration in 2001. John and i had our disagreements, of course, but in the America John Lewis fought for and the america i believe in, differences of opinion are inevitable elements and evidence of democracy in action. We, the people, including congressmen and president s, can have differing views on how to perfect our union while sharing the conviction that our nation, however flawed, is at heart a good and noble one. George bush. Humility. Selfdeprecation. A sense of humor. Empathy. President ial traits. And then it came time for former president barack obama you could tell this was going to be fire. And when it came, he brought the heat. Bull connor may be gone, but today we witness with our own eyes Police Officers kneeling on the necks of black americans. George wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators. We may no longer have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar in order to cast a ballot, but even as we sit here there are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive i. D. Laws and attacking our Voting Rights with surgical recession, even undermine the Postal Service in the runup to an election thats going to be dependent on mailin ballots so people dont get sick. Hmm. I tell you something, my mom tells me stories all the time about how she and her sisters would have to go to the polling place with my grandmother. Because they would make her count the jelly beans or guess the number of jelly beans in a jar before she could vote. And guess what . It was not that long ago. Do not take the right to vote for granted. Anyone, especially black people in this country. That is what john lewis fought for pso that you can ride aroun in your car like you do, go to the club, work, talk back, be on tv as a news anchor. Dont get it twisted. The right to vote is yours. Your people earned it. So do it. And after barack obama finished, the church said amen. They were yelling preach. Lewis himself spoke out today, today in his death about just how precious the vote it from beyond the grave. In a New York Times oped he wrote shortly before his death to be published on the day of his funeral, the congressman writes this. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it. You can lose it all right. Especially when the president himself will not defend it. John lewis is what makes america great. Rest in peace, john lewis. Our White House Correspondent is Kaitlan Collins and she joins us now live from the white house. Kaitlan, good evening to you. The president came out and made more false claims about the virus today. I think it was because he wanted to distract from the attention the former president s were getting. He knew that he cant change the date of the election. Why does he talk about this instead of talking about the virus . Reporter thats a good question. And i think what hes realized is his aides have been like you need to focus on the virus so your standings with voters can be boosted again and get back to the levels at least that you had been several months ago. And instead of, you know, doing that precisely at these briefings, the president reads these scripted remarks and then he often goes off script either in the answers to reporters or when hes on twitter that morning, and thats why hes faced with questions about delaying the election. It doesnt seem like the president even seriously thinks he can move the election. I think he heard what these republicans were saying today in this pretty rare rebuke of him, but what he does by saying that, don, is he puts that idea out there. The president knows that his standing is not good in the polls right now. Hes trailing joe biden. And so now it puts this idea out there for his supporters, for him to make later on to potentially undermine the election. Instead of focusing on the coronavirus, which is the purpose of bringing back these briefings, is so the president can look like hes at the helm of the governments response to this. Kaitlan collins at the white house. Kaitlan, thank you very much. I appreciate it. When we come back, why President Trump is being called a heckler in his own government. Plus, where are the new coronavirus hot spots . Is the virus moving to the midwest . The countdown has begun. til everyone can enjoy a professional clean feel. At home. How to get their dishes as clean as possible. 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And cnns senior political analyst david gergen is here as well. Hes a former adviser to president nixon, ford, reagan and clinton. Gentlemen, thank you for joining me this evening. David, you first. Seeing the former president s all together while President Trump was left out and spent the day questioning the legitimacy of our elections, another big day in what has been a very, very bad season for President Trump. David . Yes. Oh, im sorry. I thought you were playing something. Don, it has. A very bad season. Hes had week after week after week, its been relentless, hes been tumbling downhill. My own sense is that something about his judgement is off. He hasnt, you know, he one thing he could count on before in the past was he could connect with the spirit of the country. I didnt like a lot of the things he was doing. I didnt like what he saw in there, what he was appealing to, but the fact was he had a bond. And we all know that. But it recently he seems to be miscalling things. Hes misjudging event after event and i think its getting him in deeper trouble. It is likely that these polls will close in the election season. I can tell you, this is one of the first times weve watched an election season unfold, and im beginning to think this president could wind up worse off than he is now before this is over. Josh joshua, ive been wanting to speak to you about this because the former president said something that ive been saying. And i think many people. If not now, when . Right . His eulogy was a stinging rebuke of President Trump. He compared him to george wallace. He said he knew that there would be people who would say this isnt the time, right . But if not now, when . Thats exactly right. Because, don, the stakes are high. Today the president of the United States intimated that we might cancel or postpone an election. And, listen, there was a dramatic tension on display, a contrast between the former president s that we saw today and the current president sitting in the white house tonight, probably thinking about what hes going to tweet next. And what that contrast is, you know, and i disagreed with president obama on some things. My former boss and monitor and friend. Certainly had disagreements with president bush, president clinton, but i knew that when they . Sitting at that desk in the oval office, at that resolute desk, they were fight for a vision bigger than themselves. I may not agree with all parts of that vision, but it was about something bigger than themselves. Donald trump is all about himself. And he will tear anything down, including our democracy, in the process of his own selfpreservation. And thats what we saw today. We saw people with a vision that was bigger than them contrasted with a man who is who is flailing to try to preserve his own self. Joshua, listen, we lost your picture there, but i mean, john lewis did not attend george bushs inauguration in 2001, right . And he didnt attend President Trumps inauguration. President trump didnt really say anything about john lewis, right . He hasnt really but guess what . President bush ended up going to the mans funeral and speaking. Yep. Right. David, i see you nodding. That says a lot about knowing about the office being bigger than you and you being a bigger person and understanding what this experiment, america, is all about. I agree. And donald trump looks smaller and smaller compared to the countrys problems. Hes not only diminished the office, hes diminished himself. He does not seem big enough to settle