Trump trailing joe biden by 13 points. This is in florida. Other polls show biden leading in other Battle Ground states as well. Overnight, the cdc released a new guideline supporting opening schools but only if its safe. If its not safe enough to hold the Gop Convention in florida how is it safe enough to open schools . Joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and john harwood. Sanjay, in terms of the type of event that is clearly not safe, an Indoor Convention is very high at that list on that list. So as a doctor, your reaction to the decision from the president . Yeah, i mean, it was an inevitable decision, frankly. I mean, i say that, of course we saw what happened in tulsa and arizona. But i think at this point, given how much viral spread there is i think the Public Health communities have been pretty unified in their voice on how risky this is. You can look at one of the riskiest type of events and one of the lowest risk types of events and frankly, anyone paying attention over the last months, this is not a surprise. Lowest risk is Virtual Events and the highest risk event, large indoor events, people coming from outside the local areas because that means they may disperse then to other areas, difficult to practice social distancing. Ill add into that theres no there was no clear mask mandates inside these types of events in the past. And people sit next to each other for a while so its not just the distance, but the duration. You know, people always want to sort of thread the needles on all of these issues, you know, when it comes to events. When it comes to schools, things like that. You know, let me find a loophole where i can get this done. I mean, thats a constant discussion i have been having with my sources about schools lately. Two issues with that. One is that its not just your risk. Right . Youre not just the one taking the risk. Youre taking the risk on behalf of others as well who may not want you to take that risk. And second of all, pandemics not very forgiving. If you error and you get clusters of outbreaks that can spiral out of control very, very quickly. John, at the end of the week, can we take a 30,000 foot view of what a remarkable week this has been in terms of the president s positions, the president s aboutface on these positions that he has adamantly stuck to for months. Then lo and behold, this week he changes his tune on masks though hes not living it. Hes saying that people should be wearing masks. Changing the rnc, not going to florida after he had fought so publicly against the governor in North Carolina to let him have a big indoor rally. Hes changing his tune on hes now admitting its going to get worse before it gets better after for so long hes said that its going to miraculously disappear. He has changed his tune and retreated on schools. Now not exactly saying that they all 100 must be open in 50 states. How do we explain what happened this week . Alisyn, i thought last night was a very significant moment for this reason. What we saw there was a president who has been battered by reality, battered by the virus, battered by the demands of a job that hes failing at. And so he understands and his advisers understand, hes looking at the polls and a massive repudiation by voters right now. Dont know if thats going to be the case in november but when you see a poll that shows the president down 13 Percentage Points in the state of florida, i dont believe hes going to lose florida by 13 Percentage Points but thats a gigantic gap. Even within the president s punitive base of voters they are living through the reality thats frightening them, dislocated the economy. Such that the bluster that the president has been offering in recent weeks, people are not believing the bluster. The stuff about the resurgence of the economy, about having the virus under control. Even the stuff he was trying to say at that briefing yesterday, yeah, the country is doing great except for the south and the west. Well, those are huge states in the south and the west. He didnt even seem to have the spirit in offering that bluster yesterday. To use an allusion that we have discussed before on this show, the curtain is all the way back on the wizard of oz and they see a guy struggling badly. I think one of the questions now is to the extent that the president s dysfunction has been restraining the governments response, is that restraint less significant now . Is everybody going to say, okay, lets stop the baloney and get more aggressive about what were doing and does it undercut the people who on capitol hill have been enabling the republican response. Among other things the leverage of republicans in resisting democrats on Coronavirus Relief has been seriously undercut. Look, the numbers i think that jumped out to the people are the poll numbers and theyre telling. The numbers that really matter more than 1,000 daily deaths for the third day in a row. Cases over 4 million, deaths over 144,000 and sanjay, the fact that coronavirus is going to be one of the leading causes of death in the united states, now, at first, that may not strike you as extraordinary. But this didnt exist a year ago. Yeah. Yeah. That was it is extraordinary, john. I mean, if you can start to look at it, almost already its the third leading cause of death. It will be the leading cause of death by the end of the year, just behind Heart Disease and cancer. I mean, more deaths than stroke, than diabetes, than alzheimers disease. For something that didnt exist as you point out, at the end of last year. I will say that it didnt have to be this way. You know, we say it all the time, you know, i feel bad reminding people of this, but i think its important because hopefully it inspires us to do better. There are countries around the world that count their deaths in the teens. Maybe the hundreds, but certainly not the thousands or hundreds of thousands like we do. So we have got to do better, for sure. John harwood, dr. Birx was allowed to be seen, but not heard yesterday at the White House Coronavirus socalled coronavirus briefing. Will that change next week . Will we again hear from dr. Fauci, dr. Birx, the experts, the doctors on this . Look, i was surprised, alisyn, this week. I thought the president couldnt resist having those Public Health experts now because the resumption of the briefings itself was a concession that he is way behind the curve on this and everyone knows it. Nevertheless, he went out and briefed by himself, he tried on the first day and said, well, wear masks, its going to get worse before it gets better and then the second day he returned to his practice of saying things that were not correct. The school kids cant trans cant take the virus home with them, that sort of stuff. I think the concession on this convention is a sign that he cant maintain the pretense anymore and i would expect, yes, that dr. Birx, dr. Fauci will be heard from more. Well see if the president decides if he wants to resist that step. I dont know. Dr. Birx is doing interviews this morning saying we dont know what children younger than 10 or how much they transmit the coronavirus. Which is very different than what the president says, so im not sure hell like that message. Sanjay, the idea that were under control, which is something that the president is trying to say, a lot depends on testing and supplies and you have seen firsthand the situation in hospitals. Yeah. You know, if i can paint you a picture for a second, we still dont have enough testing. People fundamentally get that i think by this point. But the trickle effect is quite extraordinary. If you dont have enough testing even within hospitals that means that you may have to as i did this week, may have to operate on patients who have not been tested. You havent been able to get a test result back on them. You have to take them to the operating room. That means everybody. We always wear masks and gowns in the operating room but we have to wear n95 masks on top of that, which are hard to get. I mean, people say in places around the country we have plenty of ppe. I dont know if thats the case or if we have just moved the goalpost. What were told in our hospital is that you can only have one n95 mask, you have to use it until its essentially ruined. Let me show you a quick little video. I have to tell you one of the hardest things is wearing one of the n95 masks because you see it really digs into your face quite a bit. And theyre really hard to get. I mean, were basically told to reuse the same mask as long as we can until it becomes too soiled. So you have to take really good of it, and what i do in addition to wearing the mask, i put on another mask on top of it. Ill just basically have this tie this above and thats basically what ill do to operate. That is the covid world. So the mask, i mean, just not that this matters as much, but you know, youre wearing this mask, doing five or a six hour operation, if youre wearing it properly with the fit test it digs into your face and it hurts after a while. But you can do everything to protect it, its like gold. Ill wear another mask on top of it, to prevent that n95 mask from being contaminated. Do we have enough masks if we treat them like this, we do. We used to be able to have plenty of masks to be able to have, you know, fresh masks when doing operations, interacting with people with respiratory diseases. We dont have that anymore. Those masks are under lock and key now. Sanjay, i just like the reminder that youre a brain surgeon in your free time. I mean, i think that sometimes we need to remind viewers thats what youre doing when they dont see you for the 12 hours youre on the air. Sanjay, thank you. I know that john harwood, john berman and i think were Brain Surgeons but you really are. Yeah, i go home and take a nap after the show and sanjay goes and operates on peoples brains. Stimulus talks in the senate have stalled and they stalled inside the republican conference. What does that mean for the millions unemployed and in need of help . Theres an art to listening. Its the ability to hear more than whats being said. To understand the meaning in every pause. And to be able to offer the answers that make someone feel truly heard. I understand, lets get started. Thats what you get when you talk to a Dell Technologies advisor. The question that millions of americans are facing will the money run out in just days. The boost in 600 Unemployment Benefits is set to expire and talks among republicans in the senate and the white house on the next stimulus package have stalled. Cnns Phil Mattingly live on capitol hill with the very latest. Phil . Yeah, john, i think one of the things we have been talking about, you, me, alisyn over the last several weeks is the extent of the federal assistance kicked out in march, the effect its had and also what happens when it starts to go away. Its not just one or two things its a domino effect and that includes for many employees unemployed a loss of their Health Insurance. I was been optimistic and smiling. Despite a furlough, ashley remained positive. Unemployment and everything, thats what made it a little bit easier to be like, okay, i can stay at home and be okay. Reporter but the pittsburgh Restaurant Group where she worked just days ago decided it had to make cuts. Theres just so much uncertainty and i think nobody really know what iss going on and its kind of like like a downward spiral. Reporter now ashley has joined nearly 18 million americans as unemployed and its laid bare a significant hole for those individuals. Particularly at a time like this when people are losing their jobs at unprecedented levels, theyre losing their Health Insurance coverage another a time when were facing a Health Crisis in the country. And many people have a need more than ever for Health Insurance coverage. Reporter nearly 160 million americans or about half the u. S. Population received Health Insurance from their employer in 2018. Now as many as 26 Million People can become unemployed and while the Group Estimates that more than 20 million would qualify for obamacare subsidies or medicaid, that leaves 20 million paying their own way. All as a crucial 600 benefit is about to expire on july 31st. That was actually my saving grace, it really was. Reporter as she confronts the need of paying the insurance on her own it was between food, mortgage, car insurance, yeah, i feel like sadly, yeah, Health Insurance would be on the last priority. Reporter as lawmakers urgently debate an extension of that federal Unemployment Program its a decision millions may be forced to make with jarring repercussions. I just dont know if i could afford that now. Thats really saying something too because i felt like i was blessed nob a position where i felt a little bit comfortable. Reporter pamplan had a job, Health Insurance. She closed on a new home just days after her restaurant shut down. She still never stopped smiling but the uncertainty has taken the toll. I dont want to lose everything i have worked really hard to get and realize how hard it would be to get it back again. Its stories like that that lawmakers up here are hearing. Both parties, both chambers, they acknowledge this is a serious issue that extra 600 in the federal unemployment benefit that needs to be addressed and addressed quickly. But the problem is is theres no agreement between republicans and democrats to address it. The democrats want to extend it through the end of the year and republicans say its disincentivize others from looking for work and they want to reduce it. But the Biggest Issue of the moment earlier, when john said Senate Republicans in the white house dont have even their own plan, but a plan they can reconcile with democrats and obviously the clock, alisyn, is ticking. They say theyll take it up again on monday. Phil, thank you very much. Joining us now is the senior whip of the democratic caucus. Congresswoman, great to have you here. So about that, what are you hearing in the congressional hallways . Whats going to happen to these tens of millions of people who are count on that 600 a week, are they still going to get it . We have to make sure that it gets done and, you know, i think republicans have been intransige intransie intransient, they have been hitting on their hands for weeks and we knew this moment was coming and it was coming a at time when on wednesday, 46,000 americans were hospitalized. I mean, this pandemic is spiking. The virus is spiking again. And the republicans are debating whether or not they want to include enough money for Contact Tracing and testing. They are, you know, delaying at a time when americans and the person that was on your show or in that piece was exactly right. People are making decisions between food and rent and health care. So when republicans passed a 2 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest people in this country, we had plenty of money and lets be clear, that any moment that gone into the Unemployment Benefits is going to be spent right away. It is desperate for so many people across this country to be able to get those Unemployment Benefits, to be able to have some certainty that they can keep money in their pockets and to know that we are actually taking on the virus through the testing and Contact Tracing, money for state and local governments. These are things that its very clear this is what we have to do and the question is when are the republicans going to get off their hands and stop talking about how we cant give money to people in their most dire of circumstances. Lets talk about another remarkable moment, that was your colleague, congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez and she said in explicit terms she felt accustomed by ted yoho who came up and used some profanity with her and she quoted it. She basically said on the house floor that he called her an fing b, im not quoting it right now, but you get the gist. Here is more of what she said. I do not need representative yoho to apologize to me. Clearly, he does not want to. Clearly, when given the opportunity he will not. And i will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over using abusive language toward women. In using that language in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community. And i am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable. What did you think of that moment . It was an incredible speech. I hope everyone watches it. Im really proud of my colleague. She understands something that i said right after she spoke which is that this violent sexist language is about power. You know, i talked ago during my floor speech, she ceded some time to me, that that word is a fiveletter word that starts with a b and rhymes with witch, it was not that popular until 1915 to 1930. And during that time, alisyn, the use of that word in newspaper reports, articles, you know, in usage in general doubled. And the reason for that was because we were giving women the right to vote on the house floor in 1920. And so when you look at this, you have to understand that the use of this kind of violent, sexist, misogynistic language is actually about power. It is about the fact that too many men in this country not all, but too many dont want to see women in power, they dont want to see women of color in power. Im one of only 79 alex, two of only 29 of the 11,000plus people that have ever served in congress who are women of color. So this is about a way to diminish us, to diminish the voices of women and i think its its disgraceful and its something i have experienced through my four years here in Congress Numerous times including on the floor of the house. Wait a minute. You have had men call you something that profane . Not that profane, but you might remember that a republican colleague, don youn