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CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon September 1, 2020

People choke. That is bidens campaign is in high gear pushing back after being repeatedly not condemning violence. Former Vice President saying donald trump has failed to protect america now he is trying to scare us. And the coronavirus has killed more than 183,000 americans on this president s watch and the president pushes a blatantly false claim that only 6 of those people died of the virus. President s heading to kenosha, wisconsin, tomorrow but saying he wont meet with the family of jacob blake claiming thats because the family wanted to involve lawyers. Benjamin krucrump, is the lead attorney. Tonight his long fight for Racial Justice. We put together a story on this. You want to see it. So lets bring in now cnns White House Correspondent john harwood and bacarri sellers. He is the author of my vanishing country. Good evening, gentlemen. So, listen, you know, its tough to do these stories, you know, as an old guy when youre talking about 17yearolds with guns. I know my familys watching tonight. Caroline, james, tommy, those guys. But President Trump is defending a teen supporter of he was accused of killing two people in wisconsin, john, at the same time he is warning the country that they would see lawlessness under a biden administration. Biden is pushing back. Lets watch and then well talk about it. They have no agenda or vision for a second term. Trump and pence are running on this, i find it fascinating, quote, you wont be safe in Joe Bidens America. And whats their proof . The violence were seeing in Donald Trumps america. These are not images of some imagined Joe Bidens America. These are images of Donald Trumps america today. You just dont want these things to become normalized, right . That someone defends that and young people think that thats normal. This president wants voters to believe, john, that things will be worse under biden. Biden is saying, not so fast. Take a look around. What did we hear today . What we heard today, don, was two candidates laying out pretty clearly what the difference is between them. Joe biden went to pittsburgh and said violence is wrong. He could be demd indemned it un. Donald trump did the opposite. He made it clear that he favors more division. He defended kyle whiten house, the preposterous idea of a 17yearold walking into a situation in a town where he doesnt live carrying a long gun and expecting something good to happen and the president said that, you know, he would have been killed. Now obviously kyle whiten house is going to have a defense but it was clearly an idiot particular thing for that young man to go into that situation with a gun. Similarly, in portland the president praised the impulse of the members of the caravan who drove in from out of town, into portland, to provoke a conflict with protesters by shooting paint balls and pepper spray with them and then said they were acting in selfdefense. Thats obviously a ridiculous statement. They went in looking for trouble just like kyle. This is affirming what jim mattis, the president s former defense secretary said, this president believes that division helps him and he made that claim today. And now its going to be a question this fall for American Voters to say, do they want the guy whos going to turn the temperature down or do they want the guy whos going to turn the temperature up . His calculation if he turns the heat up high, hes going to spook enough people into being on his side. Well see if thats true. It hasnt been true so far. Hes behind nationally in the battleground states. Bacarri, i want to bring you in. This is a president speaking to lara ingram tonight. She asked him about his deficit with women voters. Take a look. Lets say for the sake of argument you have a deficit among female voters who may be in some cases youre too aggressive, your tone or your tweets. What do you say to them directly about what youll do in a second term . Okay. I have to be aggressive because im like standing here in a sea of incompetent people, stupid people and violent people. Thats the kind of language. Stupid. A lot of women dont like it. Where are we . Were in the white house i see, okay . So im standing here in a sea of people and we need law and order in this country and women see that with me. Youre never going to have law and order with biden. Look at ferguson. People forget. Look at all of those horrible race riots you had during obama. Well, theres a lot to dissect there. He needs to be aggressive. He points to unrest. Calling it race riots. Saying women want security. Give me your reaction. I think john actually pointed out something thats true of the president of the United States, and that is that he doesnt ascribe to the old political notions. Politics is about addition and multiplication. This president is about division and subtraction. He does not attempt to grow his base. In fact, one of the things that we realize is that if we thought this president was going to do anything other than double down on his attempt to, you know, pit one race against another, pit one group against another, we had another thing coming for us. This is amazing to watch because democrats always find themself in a position where they must condemn or apologize or ask for forgiveness for something that is not of our own doing and they go out and do it. You know, everyone was asking when are black folks, when are democrats, when is joe biden going to condemn the riots. Everyone knows thats something weve been doing. You Ask Donald Trump to condemn kyle whitenhouse, you ask him to condemn the shooting of young unarmed black men. He gets as quiet as a young church mouse peeing on cotton. For most of us, i think laura ingrah ingrahams question right here about women and their vote, people see that this isnt really an issue of urban versus suburban, this isnt an issue of all of these other things that the Trump Campaign is trying to make it an issue of, this is an issue of what type of america do we want to have . Do we want to have an america thats torn apart at the seams by someone whos ip capable of leading . Thats really our choice. If donald trump gets four more years its clear people dont value leadership, its clear they dont value the characteristics of quality leadership and they want us going at each others throat. When is the last time you heard the term race riot . Its been a while. And here we are this is where we are. Thank you, gentlemen. Thats all we have time for. I have to get to the fact check. Appreciate it. See you soon. Lets bring in our res accideidt checker, daniel dale. President trump sat down with Laura Ingraham and he made this claim about Vice President biden. Watch this. Biden wasnt going to come out of his election until the basement. Now he had to because the polls are so good for me. Hes in pittsburgh. He wasnt going to leave his basement. So he wasnt going to leave his basement . Thats not true, don. Its fitting the president said this on fox because this is a fox kind of meme that biden never leaves. Theres no doubt biden has run a lower key, less traveled campaign than previous president ial candidates in part because theres a pandemic and in part because hes winning so he hasnt had to. He repeatedly left his basement. He traveled to pennsylvania to meet with people. He met with the family of george floyd in houston. Hes been around delaware. It has been a lower key campaign no doubt but he hasnt been literally stuck in his home like the president keeps saying. Youve also counted four lies on social media over the last two days spreading disinformation on a number of levels. What did you find . Its been a wild barrage of disinformation. Today we have the Trump Campaign so called war room account which is reliably dishonest tweeting a clip of biden saying you wont be saif in Joe Bidens America as if he was confused about himself or trump. Trump said you wont be safe in Joe Bidens America. We had white house aide dan scavino tweet a piece that biden tried to awake him. That was from 2011 with Harry Belafonte who couldnt hear, med tatding, wasnt biden at all. We had Steve Scalise tweet a clip of sorry, tweet a clip of an interview a conversation biden did with a progressive activist and added two words to a sentence that this progressive activist uttered even though he uses a computerized artificial voice because he suffers from a disease mls. In addition to that, we also had the president again tweet a video of a blackman assaulting a white woman on a new york subway and this video was captioned with the words black lives matter anti tantifa. This was a random skreet crime. This was yet another attempt to smear the black lives matter. Daniel dale, you have your work cut out for you in the next 63 days. Thank you. President pushing a blatantly false coronavirus claim tonight. Top medical expert explained whats behind some of the people who believe this misinformation. When we started our business 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. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. 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Its like saying a fat person died in a car crash because he was fat. Thats not exactly what happened. So its really a completely bogus claim. We know theres over 185,000 americans now died of this disease and about 850,000 worldwide. Theres no secret theres underlying conditions that exacerbate this. Biggest underlying condition happens to be anybody over 75. But theres others and they would not have died if they didnt tell the audience at home waiting for vaccine to end all of this what this means. All of us who look at vaccines and develop them know its a tricky business. Question isnt if but when well have a safe vaccine. Takes a lot of trials to know. Weve seen unsafe vaccines, ones that are approved are safe but taking years to show that. Second we dont know if its going to be effective. How long it will protect you. This is good news, that its entering phase three trials. Not quite big enough. Would prefer 100,000 people because of the safety profile but its not bad news but good that another company is moving forward for phase three trials with a vaccine candidate that could be safe and effective but we dont know yet. Washington post is reporting that one of the top president adviser is pushing him towards a herd immunity policy. The guy is pushing back now on the reporting because how dangerous is this . How dangerous would this be . Extremely dangerous. Weve seen two countries, one embraced herd immunity, sweden, ten times higher death rate than any other scandinavian country, and Great Britain embraced and just off the bat, is about 1. 5 to 2. 5 Million People dead. Thats what it would mean because you take 50 to 70 of the population and allow them to get infected. We know that would result given even the conditions now of treating patients would result in a very large number of dead people. Even worse than that, we have every reason to suspect there is no such thing as herd immunity for covid can i ask about that this virus can reinfect people who have already been infected so there isnt herd immunity. Just like no herd immunity for the cold. Let me ask you this. You brought up sweden and others. Many people and didnt save their economy, it suffered just like all the other scandinavian economies. Gone through the same dip but paid a much higher price in human life. Theyre now backing off from herd immunity. Thing i want people to remember about this disease, there is no such thing as herd immunity for covid. These viruses come back and reinfect people after theyve already been infected. It happens every year with the coronaviruses that cause colds and we have very good evidence that happens in human beings too. Thank you so much for saying that. You wouldnt believe how many people talk to me and believe the nonsense about herd immunity. So glad you said this. Thank you so much. Youre welcome, thank you. But i saw it on facebook. Coronavirus misinformation floating around online that could put your life at risk. Doctors on the front lines tell us what theyre hearing and whats so dangerous about it, next. As we move forward, lets continue to practice these healthy habits, brought to you by lysol. Wash your hands often with soap and water and monitor your health. Always use the inside of your elbow to cough or sneeze. Be sure to cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover around others. And keep about 6ft distance from them. And remember to clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. The best way forward is together. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Its kind of my quiet, alone time. Audible is a routine for me. Its like a fun night school for adults. I could easily be seduced into locking myself into a place where i do nothing but listen to books. 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And theres just another level of scariness to it when its a health care professional, you think come on, you should know better. But hits home this point that everyone at some level is susceptible to Health Misinformation and disinformation, theres so much nonsense out there, people pushing it are preying on the fact were vulnerable, anxious, scared, overwhelmed with information, dont know what to believe, president saying one thing, scientists another. Then platforms like facebook and other social media spreading this stuff and using algorithms that reward engagement with the bad information. The stuff thats crappy, the nonsense, is usually a lot more fantastical, a lot more memorable, you want to share it compared to the boring, dry facts that the medical institutions are putting out there. Report from the organization looks at how much missinformation and disinformation is spreading on facebook. In the last year, got 3. 8 billion views. And not just me and craig that cant keep up, cdc and w. H. O. Cant either. Putting stuff out on facebook too, good information, its getting nowhere near as many hits and views. Its a really tough situation. And people are really susceptible to it, especially young people, collegeaged kids on social media a lot, and also may listen to their parents and believe all this stuff absolutely not true, dr. Spencer. How often do you hear false claims from your patients . All the time, unfortunately. And not just patients or people on the left or people on the right, its all people. Think about fact that don, your show is great and love coming on here and lot watch this show but more watched the viral conspiracy video plandemic than will watch yours. And debunked docs talking about hydroxychloroquine, more watched that than your show in span of two weeks. Thats what politicizes this. Thats what makes people think, well, if you believe that coronavirus is real, then youre against the president. If you believe its fake, youre for the president. And it shouldnt be the case because its absolutely real. Doesnt mean youre against the president , but youre for facts and people actually living. Go on. Absolutely. This has been part of the problem, this undermining of Public Health and science since the beginning of the outbreak and pandemic in the u. S. Has resulted in people dont know where to go. Fact we dont have cdc out in front of the public every single day, telling us updates and giving us credible

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