That is an assumption that the hundreds of millions of vaccines that the administration has paid for from any number of pharmaceutical companies, moderna, pfizer, johnson johnson, which have been paid for, thats an assumption that they will work and that they will be safe. But let us be clear, as of right now, there is no vaccine that we know works. There is no vaccine that we know is safe. And there is no new information to suggest that a vaccine will indeed be available by election day. This is a promise from the president based not on scientific fact, not on any new scientific developments. This is misinformation based, it seems, obvious on his desire to be reelected. As soon as a vaccine is approved, the administration will deliver it to the American People immediately. Distribution will begin within 24 hours after notice. Well have manufactured at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year and likely much more than that. Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month. And we expect to have enough vaccines for every american by april. I mean, that sounds great, except for the fact that there is no vaccine that has been proven to be effective. There is no vaccine that has been proven to be safe. Now maybe there will be, and we sure hope its soon. And the administration is paying pharmaceutical companies for vaccines just in case one of them works. But right now at this moment what hes saying its not true. Sadly what is true is that the United States is on track to mark a devastating milestone potentially as soon as this weekend. Nearly 200,000 people in the United States dead from coronavirus. The largest number of dead of any country according to official records despite the fact that the United States has less than 5 of the worlds population. And yet tonight, President Trump will be defying the recommendations from Top Health Experts and from his very own White House Coronavirus task force holding yet another political rally in front of a packed largely maskless crowd exercising no social distancing. At his rally last night the president mocked the socially distanced cnn town hall with joe biden. Youre seeing images of it right there. He suggested that staying inside to stop the spread is akin to being in prison. The audience isnt quite like this. Theyve got cars. Its the weirdest thing ive ever seen. Youre not allowed to go to church. Youre not allowed to meet. You have to stay in a prison. [ crowd reacting ] your home has become your prison. We should note that there is a personal reason that the president is able to be so glib about this, because he is not concerned about the risk of getting infected himself at one of his rallies as he told a reporter from the Las Vegas Review journal earlier this week. Arent you concerned about getting covid though in an enclosed no. Im more concerned about you because im on a stage thats very far away. And so im not at all concerned. As he said, and its accurate the president is on a stage and hes very far away so hes not concerned. Never mind the crowd in front of him and whether he should be concerned about them. We also know that President Trump gets tested for coronavirus often. And those who come in close contact with him are tested as well before they can even enter the room with him. Thats testing by the way that is denied the rest of us. Our kids would be able to go back to school if there was universal frequent testing of children and teachers and faculty and support staff. But there is not. So the president fails to provide that security that he has for the rest of us. And then he mocks those who take precautions, the precautions that his Health Experts, birx, fauci, hahn, say are vital to stopping this virus from spreading, a virus that has now killed almost 200,000 people in this country. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is in minnesota for us right now where the president will hold his rally this evening. President trump making a big promise to the American People just now. But, like i said, there is no news in the Vaccine Development that would suggest that any vaccine is effective and safe. So why did he do this . Reporter obviously the president is looking through a lot of this in the political lens. He has been very clear and blunt about that. But, jake, saying that every american could have a vaccine by april is not only incredibly ambitious, it does not echo what weve heard from a lot of the Health Experts who have not only talked about actually getting a vaccine, which, as you correctly note, we do not have one yet. But its also about being able to distribute and administer a vaccine to millions of americans, something that they say even though they are preparing now is still going to take several months. But this is a week where the president has undercut his own cdc director when it comes to a vaccine time line. You heard the president and dr. Scott atlas there in the briefing room. Thats the one member of the Coronavirus Task force who has often echoed the president s views on this. But as he said and told a reporter in the room, sometimes he thinks he knows better than his own experts. As he touts an ambitious time line for vaccines, President Trump is arguing that politics isnt taking priority over science when it comes to the federal governments coronavirus response. We expect to have enough vaccines for every american by april. Reporter cnn has now learned that commercial cdc guidance claiming people without covid19 symptoms didnt need to get tested wasnt written by the agencys scientists and was posted online without their approval, despite what officials claimed last month. All the docs signed off on this before it even got to the task force level. Reporter a source telling cnns sanjay gupta that testing document was sent to the cdc by the department of health and Human Services and bypassed the cdcs strict scientific review process. It was even posted online with basic errors using incorrect terms that sources say scientists wouldnt have let slip. The administrations Testing Coordinator admiral giroir told the New York Times the document was reviewed by the cdc director and other members of the White House Task force in advance while acknowledging the editing was done. Cdc director dr. Robert redfield told cnn the guidelines coordinated in conjunction with the White House Coronavirus task force received appropriate attention, consultation, and input from Task Force Experts after saying earlier this week that the guidance will be updated. Again, weve never recommended against asymptomatic testing. You will see in the clarification reporter that story coming on top of another stunning head line. Newly obtained documents show the u. S. Postal service was prepared to distribute 650 Million Masks to american households in april. But the white house nixed the plan because they didnt want people to panic. Instead, the masks were distributed to companies, health care facilities, and Community Organizations with some set aside for schools as trump has argued that nothing more couldve been done to stop the spread. I really dont think so. I think we did a very good job. Reporter now, jake, another headline today. Remember after Hurricane Maria devastated puerto rico back in 2017, the president was so reluctant to grant more aid to puerto rico, calling them corrupt, speaking about them as if they were part of some other territory and not part of the u. S. Well, now conveniently timed shortly before the election, the president is now announcing that fema is going to grant about 13 billion in aid to puerto rico. While the president today maintained his stance that they have corrupt politicians in puerto rico, he was asked about the political implications and the political time line here. He said that the reason it took so long was it just took a long time to get the aid package together, jake. That is an interesting excuse. Kaitlan collins, stay with us. I want to bring in cnns dr. Sanjay gupta and abby phillip into this conversation. Sanjay, i want to start with you. The president says that every american will get a vaccine by april 2021. Obviously the administration is paying for a bunch of vaccines from a bunch of pharmaceuticals hoping one of them will work. But as of now, tell me if im wrong, there is no information and no new development suggesting that any of these vaccines will work definitely and are safe definitely. Is it realistic to make this promise . No. I mean, we are dealing with really limited information here and pretty audacious projections, jake, to your point. I mean, when you go back and look at the data, the phase two data, its really a small number of people who you actually see the data on. Youre now going to expect to see data on tens of thousands of people. But even initially this is all blinded data, no one has seen it yet, its going to go to an independent entity first, basically meaning we really have no idea to your point earlier, whether or not this is going to work. Its so hard to project anything based on this in terms of an actual time line without seeing any of that data. It seems, you know, a bit fruitless in terms of actually trying to make those calendars. You know whats interesting today, jake. If you looked at that briefing behind the president was Moncef Slaoui. I dont know if you watched that. He is the chief adviser to operation warp speed. I talked to him last week. He said that, look, its unlikely were going to have enough doses by the end of the year. He was giving a very realistic time line based on everything he knew now. When the vaccine about the vaccine time line was asked today, the president went to scott atlas, despite the person whos in charge of that entire time line was standing right behind him. Yeah, because hes actually an expert, whereas dr. Scott atlas, who is not an expert on Infectious Diseases, i believe hes a neuroradiologist . Yep. Abby, i mean, this is what he does. He calls these i dont know what else to call them, sycophants, toadies, people who will do and say whatever the president wants them to do, that are politically helpful for him like dr. Atlas, instead of Moncef Slaoui whos actually the expert here on the vaccine, not dr. Fauci, not dr. Birx. I mean, weve seen this before but never when so many lives were actually at stake. Yeah. This is exactly what the president does. He pushes aside the people who have actual knowledge and who are speaking based on the science and the information that they have. And he brings in people who have nothing to do with the subject. Sometimes even his economic advisers talking confidently about hydroxychloroquine for months and months, even though they have absolutely no reason to be talking about anything related to science or medicine or anything like that. This is the pattern with this white house. But it is astounding that for two days in a row now, the president has gone to the podium to talk, you know, futuristically about a vaccine that, as you have pointed out, does not exist yet. And its because this, you know, election day is coming up. It logically doesnt make a lot of sense, because already the polls show the American People are distrustful of anything that seems as if the vaccine is going to be brought into this political sphere. And yet the president does it day after day after day. It is one of those completely counterintuitive things. Hes undermining, you know, hopefully there will be a vaccine, lets just say there is some miracle and theres a vaccine available tomorrow and theres like 330 million doses of it ready the day after that. None of thats going to happen. But, kaitlan, do you think he has any idea that he is undermining his own ability to get people to take that vaccine by being so nakedly political about this . In fact, he brought up joe bidens name trying to paint biden against the vaccine. He just says he trusts the scientists like fauci, not people like trump. Reporter right. That is what the president has cited to say that joe biden is promoting these antivaccine theories, because the idea among the president s allies is donald trump is not the one coming up with this vaccine. So for joe biden to make a Statement Like that, thats why theyve been critical of it saying its obviously the scientists who are coming up with it. And i think the thing that would reassure not only the president s supporters but also even his critics is if you did let the experts speak to the time line here and not people like dr. Scott atlas who is obviously does have medical credentials. Thats why he was brought into the white house. But its not just moncef who is in charge of operation warp speed who could have spoken about it. His expertise in the army and knowing logistics and having this kind of background would really help them with distributing the vaccine when that time came. So he is actually the expert who could have spoken to this. Yet, he did not get the chance to answer that question. It was dr. Scott atlas who instead spoke to it, which is really notable. Because the administration can make this argument. They can be optimistic about a vaccine. They can talk about what exactly they are doing laying it out. But i think if the medical experts were speaking to it, it would have a much different impact than just the president. People just want people to be honest with him about whats going on, not give them an overly ambitious time line thats not realistic. Just to underline this point, dr. Scott might be one of the greatest neuroradiologists in the world. Its completely irrelevant to the idea of Infectious Diseases and vaccines which is what were talking about. 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We have institutional racism that were dealing with, a whole range of things. And the people of minnesota know that they have two of the best senators in the country on their side. And, matt, thank you so much for that introduction and for showing me around today. This incredible Apprentice Program here at the Carpenters Training center. What a lot of people dont know if theyre not involved with labor is Apprenticeship Program not only trains the best workers in the world. Im not being facetious, thats a fact. But they get paid while theyre doing it. Not full wage, but theyre getting paid while theyre doing it. And thats why these union Apprenticeship Programs are so, so critically important they stay this way. It matters. People can still make it while theyre learning a trade, atrade thats going to put them in good stead the rest of their lives. It was great to see some of the practical handson experience that apresents and journeymen and women here receive. And while, as i said, earning a wage as a benefit. Its a big quieter here than usual because of covid19 restrictions. But the pride of these workers who are learning the skills that will carry them throughout their careers is still unmistakable. My father, and i apologize for the p