Tonight. The state where coronavirus cases are surging, hospitalizations are on the rise. And not a single voter in florida or anywhere can be confused as to the two world views they are choosing between. Trumps massive rally on the left, very few masks, no social distancing. Even those behind him who at some rallies are told by the campaign to wear masks for the kamras, mostly shunning them. And then on the other side, bidens gathering, lets call it that, socially distanced, drivein rally on the right. Trump and biden, only 250 miles apart and the two images you see on your screen in florida. But when it comes to their messages, they are a universe apart. We locked down, we understood the disease and now were open for business. Were expected to lose another 200,000 people between now and the end of this year if we do nothing. This is not a political statement, its a patriotic s iy for gods sake. But President Trump refuses to listen to the science. Here are the facts tonight. One american died every 90 seconds yesterday, just yesterday, from coronavirus. And this is happening every single day. And the cdc says the death rate is going up. More people are dying every single day, z the cases surge and hospitalizations surge. And where is the president s Coronavirus Task force . You may ask the woman who is a fixture on our tv screens, you remember her, the leading medical voice on the task force, dr. Deborah birx, all but abandoning the white house. Dr. Birx now traveling the country alone, pounding the pavement, going all in on her own to take her message directly to the American People, because she believes lives are at stake. And what may have been the final straw for her is dr. Scott atlas, the Task Force Member who has questioned masks and pushed the concept of herd immunity. She vowed never to sit in a meeting with atlas again, after listening to the radiologist who does not have an expertise in epidemiology, push misleading claims about the pandemic. Like when he told me on this show, that he supported Wearing Masks when you cant socially distanced. He said that is consistent with trumps nonmasked rallies and said it again and again and again with a straight face. Birx is not alone. She and her colleagues pushing back against the president when it comes to masks, social distancing, testing and claims that the United States is rounding the coronavirus corner. I am always for masks. You know i have talked about maskinglunrelentingly. I feel confident if we had done the things i was talking about just a moment ago, that a considerable number of lives could have been saved. We do believe that the cases are going up. Its not just a function of testing. This week we will have our highest number of cases that weve ever had on a daily basis in the United States. Just to state the obvious, each of those people who have dedicated their lives over the past month to this pandemic, saying the opposite of what the president of the United States continues to tell all of us. Kaitlan collins is at ft. Bragg in North Carolina. Jessica dean is in North Carolina. Kaitlan, trump mocking biden today for following, well, trumps own cdc guidelines. Reporter thats right. And erin, weve known these two candidates had very different messages on the coronavirus, but nowhere was it more obvious than at these events in florida today. Seeing the president mock joe biden saying that its not that hes Holding Small events because of the pandemic, but that people dont want to come to his events according to the president. Of course, hes got thousands of people in front of him in florida, a lot of them not wearing a mask. Today, before they left to go to that rally, the president s chief of staff was asked, when you go to these events, when the Vice President goes to these events after coming into someone later that tests positive, youre not following your own administrations guidelines. Here is how he answered that question, erin . I can tell you that im following the guidelines and a number of us are following the guidelines. For all of you watching this morning, if you can carry a little container of purell, ive probably used more purell than any american in the United States over the last seven or eight months. Reporter so you see he talked about purell more than he did wearing a mask or social distancing. The thing that even trumps advisers cant answer is whether or not these rallies, these large events, are going to turn off the voters he needs to win on election day, those voters two arent showing up to the rallies, who respect concerned about the pandemic. And theyre not sure, its a bet theyre taking. What is clear is that the pandemic is defining the last days of this race. That is not something that the president wanted to see. Kaitlan, thank you very much. And i want to go to jessica dean, who is covering joe biden for us tonight. President trump was mocking biden today on the virus, but biden not shy about handing it back to him. Reporter absolutely not, erin. He criticized President Trump for holding what he called super spreader events, these rallies here in the state of florida, as kaitlan mentioned, just a few miles away. As much as President Trump did not want these final days to be about the coronavirus pandemic, joe biden and his campaign do. They believe they have the winning message on this. Listen to the scientists. Let doctors and experts lead the way. That is what he talked about in his Closing Argument to floridians today, talking about what he would do if elected, saying he has a plan and if elected, they are going to follow this plan. He acknowledged yesterday during his briefing that its not going to be as easy as flipping a switch and promises to do everything in his power to shut this virus down. He said, im not going to shut down the country, thats an attack he heard from President Trump, but i am going to shut down the virus. We did hear him talking about that today. He also talked about how health care is on the ballot, tying it back to the Affordable Care act, back to the supreme court, warning people that the coverage for preexisting conditions could go away. So kind of tying this all together in his Closing Arguments. Also leaving in an economic ms. Age tied to the coronavirus pandemic, erin. But, again, this is what theyre going to keep driving home. We are in a case seeing rising cases. You laid out the numbers nationally. This is what joe biden is going to be pounding and talking about every day, until we get to election day. Jessica dean, thank you. I want to go to olivia troye, who served as Vice President pence, who has since endorsed joe biden. So john, lets start with florida, key state, very different message. It could not be more stark and they both know it and own it when you see those images on the screen. Yet millions have voted already in florida. Millions. More than 4 Million People have already voted in florida. And is the die cast . The die is not cast, because we dont know how its going to end up, and florida is always tight. But the contrast couldnt be clearer, and all the major themes of this election, the pandemic, the hyper partisan politics, the contrast in styles, division versus yunity, are coming together in florida today. It is a stunning moment when you reflect at these intersections, and in a state whose governor embraced the kind of herd immunity being pushed by many, especially scott atlas, in the white house. And you are starting to see the toll of that strategy take place in very real ways, especially with so many Senior Citizens there. Dr. Reiner, biden slamming trump today for holding super spreader events. But there was a change, a small change, but Something Different the president said at one of his rallies today. And here it is. If you get close, wear a mask. Always controversial. Its not controversial to me. You get close, you wear a mask. Social distance. Okay, so in case as you watched that, youre watching the president as we all often do when you hear someone speaking on screen, i want to play it again. You can see the crowd behind him. Sometimes they hand masks out, i see one mask. I see two. So hes saying this, and behind him, theyre not socially distanced and not Wearing Masks. Obviously, he doesnt ever practice that, if that is what he is going to preach. He has not preached that until today, doctor. Its too little too late. And hes really giving lip service. But whats becoming he simply cant ignore that the virus is out of control. We had record numbers today. 88,500 more cases today. Weve never seen more cases than we did today. 46,000 people in the hospital. All the places hes been to in the last week have skyrocketing positivity rates. You know, pennsylvania is over 12 . Wisconsin is 27 . Iowa is 28 . So its becoming impossible for him to just get the country to believe that were turning the corner, because every day is record cases. 88,000 cases per day, well tick off another million cases of coronavirus in 11 days. It took 3 1 2 months to get to our first million cases, well do it now in 11 days. The virus is out of control. So when you hear the president giving lip service to mask, somebody must be saying mr. President , you need to say more. So the Coronavirus Task force is at the center of it. Olivia, i know you worked with dr. Birx on the task force. I want to bring in Kate Bennetts now. So kate, you broke this story about dr. Birx, her decision to abandon the white house and the relationship with scott atlas. Tell us more of your reporting. Reporter well, erin, essentially dr. Birx, who was this forward facing, you know, person right next to the president as the country started to go down this road of the pandemic, was ostensibly replaced because the president decided to doctor shop, for lack of a better word, until he found someone in scott atlas, who believed what he wanted to believe, which was questioning the efficacy of masks, not necessarily believing that children were carriers, really only old people got this disease. What happened with dr. Birx, she felt she was no longer really wanted to listen to someone who was not a career immunologist, as she is, and a Global Health government employee. She basically packed up and go out into the country and spread the word about coronavirus. Shes now gone to 40 states, 20,000 miles shes done. Scott atlas is in the oval office and shes in bismarck. This is how shes choosing to fight the virus. So its a battle to stop the virus and a battle forrer to, you know, stop whats going on in the white house, which has been a medical expert who isnt involved in what birx and dr. Fauci are saying and advising. All right. Kate, thank you so much. Let me give olivia a chance to react. Kates reporting, 40 states, bismarck, going to i hope everyone reads her full story, carr carryon bags, going into Grocery Stores to see whos Wearing Masks. You worked with her every day. You shared an office with her, and you were there when dr. Atlas showed up on the scene. Tell us about this, tell us about their relationship. It was tense. It was very tense. You have dr. Birx, who has been every day working tirelessly for countless hours with dr. Fauci and other people on the task force. She has been i saw her wake up at 4 00 in the morning to prepare the slides for the day. Those were informing fema and others on where ppe was really needed and what the hot spots were going to be. This is how you make policy. You get the experts at the table and you hash it out. So when dr. Atlas walked in, i call him scott atlas because i dont think he deserves the title doctor. He just perpetuates dangerous lies. I dont blame her for getting fed up. Shes had to deal with horrible dynamics within the white house. Ive seen it firsthand. Ive seen the Vice President s team completely disparage her at times. They rolled their eyes at her, as well. That is how shes been treated for months. This is someone who i have seen take up fights when it mattered. John, youve been doing a lot of reporting on atlas, and the fact that birx is, you know, look, shes out fighting because she thinks this is the way to be most effective. She thinks that is more effectiv effective than talking with the president of the United States. Shes made this choice because hes not listening to her anymore. And now, atlas really has, it seems, control of the president s ear. Yeah, and thats been true since he joined in early august, which is when birx and dr. Fauci were effecttively sidelined. She was brought in as the expert to help give balance to mike pences attempts when he was put in control of this disease. She put her credibility on the line, not criticizing President Trump when he said things. Its always this line people walk in the white house. You hear it said all the time. If i wasnt hear it would be so much worse, so they put up with a little bit. In some cases their credibility is compromised. But once you have an idealogue, then you go to the ground and say you know what . I have a moral obligation to do what i can, but the president is not listening anymore, and im going to try to reseem somethdeg as best i can for the country. Dr. Ripeeiner, you take what. Birx and others are saying, which is the opposite of what this president is saying, saying yeah, theres more cases, and its not because of more testing. The opposite of the president. They are all now starting to take him on. Well, they have to take him on because they see that the virus is getting out of control, and that things can get much, much worse. And i think well see this more going forward. And it will be interesting to see in the aftermath of the election next week, what the task force does and whether they go rogue and start speaking out and disregarding the process in the white house. Because they have nothing to lose, but the American People have a lot to lose. So let me ask you one more question, the moment a lot of people remember from dr. Birx, the president talked about injecting himself with a bleach and she said there and blanched, but she didnt seem to she certainly didnt publicly contradict him. Let me just play that moment again. And then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do Something Like that . By injection inside or almost a cleaning. You can see the distress on her face, i think thats the fair word. But did she stand up to the president more than we know . Yes. I was there for that. I was standing behind the press briefing room, and we walked out of there and she was incredibly upset, as well as others. She had some pretty strong words for those who were the Vice President s and president s advisers on what had just been said, and she knew how dangerous it was. She was embarrassed at what had just happened. It was completely ridiculous. But when dr. Birx, shes a fighter. I will give her this. 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