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CNNW The Lead With Jake Tapper June 30, 2020

In addition the cdc director is urging americans to take personal responsibility and wear masks in public. Specifically im addressing the younger members of our society, millennials and gen z. I ask those that are listening to spread the word. 36 states, 36 are trending upward when it comes to new cases. Only two states are seeing a decline. Yesterday 15 states saw the highest sevenday average for new daily cases, yet only 3 have statewide face mask requirements. And the e. U. Has announced countries allowed to travel there, including our neighbors to the north, canada, australia, new zealand, even china, once they reip row kate with the e. U and among those countries banned, brazil, russia and the United States. States within the u. S. Are also now currently imposing regulations on americans from other states where the virus is still spreading like wildfire. New york, new jersey and connecticut are all expanding travel advisory adding eight more states that will have to quarentine for 14 days in travelers from there enter that tristate area region. Alexandria field joins us live from new york. And alexandria, which states are being singled out and why. It feels less and less by being singled out because the list is growing, including the hardest hit states and there is a lot of them. Including california, georgia, iowa, idaho, mississippi, nevada and tennessee. So you have 16 states across the country where people, if they choose to travel to new york, new jersey or kreconnecticut, w have to quarantine for 14 days. The governor of new york has reminded people there will be penalties for breaking that quarantine. You could be fined and if your found out you could be forced into a mandatory quarantine. So the governors in this area really trying to hold on to the gains that they fought so hard to make, jake. And, alexandria, massachusetts Just Announced that anyone comes to their commonwealth with the exception of new england, will have to quarantine for 14 days. And other states are following suit. This week with you had rhode island have stricter terms, only allowing to people travel with people with less than a 5 Positivity Rate compared that to the 10 set by new jersey, North Carolina and connecticut. The only way to get in is presenting a negative test for covid. If you come from a state with a high rate, you have to show the quarantine or the test. You have a country where you have cases surging in the northeast and two states that are seeing declines and theyre trying to keep the progress here. Thank you very much. In several bar owners are suing the governor over the shut of bars back down due to the recent surge in cases in the lone star state. They claim it is unkooupgs constitutional. They reported 67,500 new cases yesterday. Lucy kafanov joins us now. Clearly bar owners are reluctant to follow these measures. What about texans, what do they say . Are they also objecting . Reporter well, jake, some bar owners are relukt ant. They hosted a small rally of a protest in austin. When you talk to ordinary people, the economic concern is front and center on everyones mind but people understand the numbers here in texas are trending in the wrong directions and they hear the urgent calls to take more care by local officials. They see that Testing Capacity is at a limit. I was Walking Around downtown in houston and it was a ghost town. Almost not a single sole on the street. People were Wearing Masks and businesses are empty because were in the midst of a national crisis, hitting texas hard. And you could see behind me the line of cars of people trying to get tested, people taking this seriously. That line of cars, by the way, snaking around for miles, hours before the facility even opened. Now the houston mayor expanding testing fos facility here in the city and even though the mortality rate is stable, thankfully, the number of people affected is growing exponentially. And i could tell you one more thing the governor extended the executive order to expand space at hospitals, that limits nonessential surgery but there is no state wide mandate for masks and that is tieing the hands of local officials and putting businesses in the awkward position of enforcing the rules, jake. Lucy kafanov in texas, thank you. Joining us our cnn medical analyst from mass general, doctor, thanks so much. Lets start with dr. Fauci. Take a listen to what he said today. We cant just focus on those areas that are having the surge. It puts the entire country at risk. We are now having 40plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. What do you think . Is that actually possible . 100,000 new cases aday . Good afternoon, jake. I think it is not only possible, it is very likely. We know that where we were last week in some of the very hardhit states like florida, arizona, texas, we know a week ago they had half of the number of cases. We know that the cases that were seeing today have infected the people of tomorrow that were going to detect probably in the next week to 14 days. So the best hope that we have is taking those people, who we havent even found yet, and trying to prevent the transmission from them. So i really think we need some measures to strong measures in place now. We know from march that it took a month of being shut down, of being in stayathome orders to curb this. Our peaks were on april 24th and the shout shutdown was on march 22nd. We need drastic measures today to see benefits a month from now and if we continue to double every week, we could easily be at 100,000 in the next week or two. Cdc director redfield specifically addressed millennials and gen z in his comments today telling them to embrace masks in public. Is this consistent with what youre seeing at your hospital, that there is an increase in younger people getting infected and not taking the virus seriously when they go out in public . Yeah, i want to say this is critically important. So the one thing, we know numerous things, the young people tend to do well and not as severe a disease and a lower mortality rate but they tend to have less commonly have symptoms. And because of that, they could unknowingly being transmitting because they are feeling well. And i would say even more importantly, for this population, because they are more frequently asymptomatic, theyre the ones that actually need to be wearing the mask. 36 states are trending in the wrong direction. Only two states seeing a decline. Even though more than a dozen states, 17 to be precise, are pausing or reversing reoechipen plans. Is that enough to change the trajectory, pausing or even going back . So, i want to just emphasize how heterogenius the United States is right now. We have some states in the northeast that are doing quite well and those are states that have had a really tough time in april and march. Really had, you know, hospital shortages, massive loads of patients and have been incredibly conservative as theyve thought through and had policies towards opening up. Other states have been more complacent and have opened up quicker and not mandated face masks and opened bars and restaurants. I think we need to take a lesson from the states able to do this well and slowly. And, yes, i think it is critically important that we do so. Here is dr. Richard besser, the former acting director of the cdc. Take a listen. When you look at where we were memorial day, so many states moving in the right direction with numbers of cases going down, parts of the country really trying to use Public Health guidance. And then in other parts of the country the message being get back to work, go out and enjoy your social life. When you see that clash of messages between some political leaders and then every Public Health leader taking this so incredibly seriously, when you see that clash of messages, this is the outcome. Can that even be changed . I still hear governors and we know about the record of the president when it comes to belittling this threat, is it too late to change this so there is one consistent voice on this . I wouldnt say it is too late. We certainly have a lot of people who are susceptible to this disease out there. And anything we can do at the local level, at the state and federal level, we need to do. Because infections are soaring. And i think we can the map clearly demonstrates and the policies demonstrate that states have taken this seriously and decides for the time being that the virus is in charge and listen to what the virus says so we could create the policies to decrease transmission, those are the states doing well. So i think at a state level, if not at a federal level, were going to need to make policies and then sort of sleep in the bed that we make so to speak. I also want to just emphasize that there has been some comment that states that have seen a rise in cases have not seen a rise in deaths. And certainly i would hope that we dont see a rise in deaths. But i dont want to be falsely reassured that well not see a rise in deaths. Certainly young people who are infected now are lower death rates than older people. But the death rates followed by four to six weeks after the case race and so i think it is really clear that we have to watch that. Right. The hospitalizations come next and then the deaths. Dr. Rashiel lowenski, thank you. The white house just briefed democrats on the Intelligence Report that claims russia paid the taliban or offered them bounties to attack american and british troops in afghanistan. Now there are more questions about the intelligence. That is next. And then it is not the coronavirus, but scientists are now looking at a new virus in china, they say has pandemic potential. Stay with us. Wayfair has everything outdoor from grills to play sets and more one of a kind finds. It all ships free. And with new deals every day you can explore endless options at every price point. Get your Outdoor Oasis delivered fast so you can get the good times going. Wayfair. Youve got just what i need. In our world lead, despite President Trumps claim he was never briefed on the matter. Details of u. S. Intelligence claims that russia has offered a bounty on u. S. Troops heads in afghanistan were in President Trumps president ial Daily Briefing or pdb earlier this year, a source tells cnn. The New York Times is reporting that day may have been february 27th. That is same day that President Trump met with diamond and silk at the white house and also claimed that the coronavirus would soon disappear. Today House Democrats went to the white house to get their own briefing on this intelligence. Then they came out and slammed the briefing itself saying that the whole meeting was essentially the white house giving their perspective of the information. But added the intelligence itself was very troubling. House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff, one of the democrats briefed, said it is still not clear if the president was ever properly briefed himself. It is not a justification to say that the president should have read whatever materials he has. If he doesnt read, he doesnt read. They should know that by now. Cnns Jeremy Diamond joins us now. And it is been reported that then chief of staff kelly reduced the numbers of actual briefings because of the president s short attention span. It is been reported that president s not a big reader. It is been reported that briefers are reluctant to bring up russian hostility and is any of that relevant here. The president is known for not regularly reading his daily intelligence briefing and that may be the reason why he said he was not aware of these reports even though it was in this daily highly classified intelligence packet packet that the president and his top advisers receive every morning. They are trying to insolate the president for fr any action on this front but did tr does fall on the president to read these materials. And now that the president does know about this, what is he goi going to do about it and what has he said about it so far and the answer, jake, is that we havent seen much from the president. He criticized the New York Times and going after them for reporting this in the first place but we havent heard concern that this intelligent may indeed be real and we havent heard the president give a message of what kind of consequences russia would face if, indeed, this intelligence is fully corroborated. And ultimately, jake, what were not hearing from the president is any of that. And now were finding the white house in a position of trying to dismiss this notion of this intelligence being real rather than saying what theyre going to do about it. Jeremy, House Democrats say that the top Intelligence Agency officials, when they went to the briefing, were not even in the room. Reporter yeah, so a democratic aide has told cnn that the director of National Intelligence was in the room, but again all of the officials who were in the room were all political appointees of the president and most of them former republicans. The officials who you did not have there who the democrats say they would like to get briefed by now on the intelligence is the career intelligence officials, the analysts who would be able to produce an unvarnished, unbiased view of this and they said they got in this briefing today was the white houses perspective on this intelligence, they would like to see the actual views of this purported intelligence. Jake. Good clarification, i appreciate that. Jeremy diamond, thank you so much. First on cnn, alarming new reportings about how trump handles classified information and how he deals with World Leaders when hes on the phone with them. Carl bernstein said President Trump has been consistently unprepared for serious talks and was often outplayed by other World Leaders while being abusive to the leaders of American Allied countries. That it, quote, helped convince some senior u. S. Officials, including President Trumps former secretaries of state and defense, two National Security advisers and his longest serving cleave of staff that the president himself posed a danger to the National Security of the United States. Youtubi joining me now, carl bernstein. If your sources, how is americas National Security at risk . It is at risk because these foreign leaders, particularly strong men like putin and erdogan took great advantage of an unbriefed ignorant to use their words, president of the United States. The best example is the withdrawal of american troops from syria at erdogans and putins urging, doing their business and putting our allies, the kurds, at risk of slaughter. Erdogan wanted this for a long time and putin wanted this for a long time and the president doesnt read the briefings and slavish it the strong men while berating and denigrating and even being sadistic in terms of women heads of state of our allies. And what these calls show, according to the people that you just enumerated, former chiefs of staff, secretaries of state and defense, is that he is unfit in their view to be the president of the United States because he is endangered the National Security and continues to. You had this anecdote where President Trump had a conversation with putin and he received praise for that call from one aide. But tellingly tell us who the aide was. Well there were two aides. Ivanka and Jared Kushner were in the room to listen to one of the earliest calls with putin. But also in the room were the great experts in intelligence officials and National Security officials, including fiona hill would was director of the soviet and russian and european part of the nc operation, the secretary of defense, others who were in the room, and trump just cut them off because they were skeptical about the call and thought that putin, indeed, was outplaying him. But he didnt want to hear from them. And he went right to listening to jared and ivanka. This is not a president interested in anything having to do with real information but rather seeking praise. Building himself up. And that is what is in the calls. And so disturbing to those who heard them, and know their contents. And tell me about the conversations President Trump has had with some of our older allies, the u. K. , and france, what are your sources told you about that. Well, that he is berated our allies in the most demeaning terms. Lets look at germany, france and the u. K. , in the case of germany angela merkel, the chancellor, he called her stupid, attacked her for playing ball with the russians of all things and, quote, being in their pocket. Went on to talk about how she didnt know what she was doing in the case of theresa may, the Prime Minister of england, said that she had no spine, no backbone, didnt know what she was doing in terms of brexit, that she aallowed the u. K. From getting away from not paying dues but rather than dealing with issues of mutual concern for the allies for 75 years, rather than dealing on a substantive basis with real strengths and problems, he always in these conversations went to the default point of these countries ripping us off and talking about himself as being ripped off rather than having an integrated discussion about european and nato policy. But in the case of these two women, it was misogyny. It was treating them in a severe sadistic way as the sources said to me. And there has now been confirmation to the cnn report by german officials of these calls and the abuse of merkel, one of our cnn colleagues got a response from a german offici

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