Doing right now . Like, just, if youre looking across the world, what are your feelings about how we are doing right now . As a country, when you compare us to other countries, i dont think you can say we are doing great. I mean, were just not. The president fired back with a direct shot at fauci when asked about the state of the country. What do you make of these hot spots as we call them in florida and texas and other states, and dr. Faucis comments . Well first of all, dr. Fauci is a nice man but he has made a lot of mistakes. There are certainly signs that the u. S. Is not in a great place. Six states have set a record high for new confirmed cases or deaths yesterday alone. And the trends are heading up, not down. This as the nationwide fatality rate has now risen for the Third Straight day. The last time it went up for four days straight was in april, which means we could be headed for a situation exactly like what we saw during the first peak of this crisis. Joining me now, is katy tur. Is it july 10 or april 10th . Im confused. When it comes to this virus, it feels we are about where we are on april 10th. It is deja vu. As we said over and over again, watch what is happening in new york and on the east coast, because that is your future and lo and behold that is what has come to pass. President trump is in florida, as you mentioned, what is the epi center of this virus. For a briefing on drug trafficking, even as the state posts record high hospitalizations, the president is taking shots at his own Public Health experts for acknowledging the crisis. The Washington Post is out with a lengthy new report on how the president and his administration see the centers for disease control, the cdc. Quote, there is a view that the cdc is staffed with deep state democrats that are trying to tweak the administration, said one adviser. White house officials also say they have been deeply frustrated by what they view as career staffers at the agency determined to keep things closed. And the post reports during a may lunch with senate republicans, trump told the group the cdc blew it on the coronavirus test and that he installed a team of jean United States led by his soninlaw, genius, his word, Jared Kushner to handle much of the response. Joining us is carol lee at the white house. Carol, im struck by this idea that the cdc is filled with deep state democrats who are trying to close the country, presumably to politically affect the president. That is the sort of thing i was hearing from protesters who were Holding Signs at a new jersey protest a couple of months when i was down there. Its also apparently being talked about in discussions at the white house . Yeah. Reporter i think its emb m emblematic that the president thinks the way things are or not in reality that he sees that as politically motivated against him and the, quote unquote, deep state. White house has been privately griping about the cdc for months now. Blaming them for early issues and in terms of testing, and then later saying that they will were as the post is reporting, trying to stop the president from opening or wanting to keep things closed. As you know, and everyone else knows, the members of the cdc, the Health Experts, they are coming at it from a very specific scientific perspective and they are giving their advice based on that. Its not about whether or not they support the president politically, but is not how president sees it. The tensions have been there from the start of the pandemic and what we used to hear privately, particularly with dr. Fauci is, starting to fill out with the the president criticizing dr. Fauci and dr. Fauci finding various ways to speak publicly. He was just speaking at a coronavirus conference that was live streamed where, you know, he said that the United States is having a real problem right now which is, obviously, a stark contrast to the president saying we are in a good place but that is just one example of how you see the president s Health Experts and policy advisers having to walk this line of where the president gets out there and says something that scientifically or realistically is not quite accurate. They have to have that balance and inevitably onebyone, the president has soured on them. Public opinion polls show broadly speaking the American Public trust our Health Experts like dr. Fauci and the cdc much more than they trust the president right now. Carol lee at the white house, thank you very much. We were talking about this, chuck. The president was supposed to have a rally in New Hampshire on saturday and they are delaying it because of weather. I was talking earlier with our executive producer whether weather has interrupted any of his events in the past, and during 2016, there were a number of events they held out in the rain because he was campaigning. Yeah. Look. A Tropical Storm, which is unusual for the northeastern area, is headed up by you guys up there. I get it. But given all of the concerns, even the governor of New Hampshire seemed to be hinting at that rally, me thinks the weather served as a perfectly timed excuse on that one as you and i were talking. Lets move forward about what the president is up to today. Its not about the virus. As we are seeing there, President Trump is getting briefed at u. S. Southern command. Next on his schedule is a Campaign Round table with venezuelan voters. Battling the pandemic is notably absent from the agenda in florida. A state setting new record for coronavirus nearly every day. More importantly, the president is in a county in the state of florida, Miamidade County that is essentially the epi center of the epi center. Joining us now from doral is dasha burns, nbc News Reporter and she has been following these developments in miamidade as our countybycounty process. Its one of the reasons about miamidade, it is about the venezuelan voters and cuban American Voters and are they going to be comfortable with democratic Foreign Policy versus, you know, single issue voting and what about Everything Else . Yet, he is going down here not talking about the pandemic at all. How is that playing . Reporter chuck, that is exactly right. This is a critical county in a critical state. You know better than anyone that the margins in florida when it comes to elections can be razor thin. So there is a world in which a group like the Venezuelan Community here could have an outsized impact on the president ial race. This is an increasing Influential Group here in florida and doral is home to the largest Venezuelan American Community in the United States. So its no coincidence that the president is coming here today to have this conversation. Now unlike the National Latino vote which tends to lean left, here in miami, this is a very different story. There is a lot of political diversity here, particularly within the Venezuelan Community where there are a lot of folks that leave conservative and independent and have actually moved more conservative recently of the Democratic Party has begun to use the term socialism which has a very particular connotation to the community here. Earlier today, i spoke to ernesto acumen. I asked him how he feels when the Democratic Party uses this term. Take a listen to what he told me. Thats one of the issues that we are very concerned because we came from a socialist country, we know exactly how them come and how they start and how they completely destroy venezuela. It was the richest country in Latino America and right now, its the poorest so we dont want that to happen here and that is why we want to be a very cloud voice against socialism. Reporter chuck, ernesto is in this church behind me here where the president is meeting with a group of venezuelan americans today. I asked him what he wants to hear from the president. He wants him to take a hard line stance against maduuro agreemen many of them supported him in the first place. They want him to take a tough stance. He is there trying to do a little cleanup after he talked about seemed to hint he would be willing to meet with maduro which is public enemy number one to so many venezuelan americans down there and he is having to fix that as one of the fallouts from the bolton book for sure. Stay safe out there and thank you. Lets move to the other major sun belt state. Coronavirus infections in arizona are rising at a staggering rate and over 112,000 confirmed cases so far. According to the Johns Hopkins hospital, the positive iterate in arizona is 27. 4 . That means more than 1 in 4 tests are coming back positive. It also means we know we have a testing problem in arizona. Maricopa county has the highest confirmed number of cases in the United States with over 73,000 Coronavirus Infections to date. Joining us is the mayor of fee administrati phoenix. We have spoken before. Mayor, time is weird during this pandemic but i want to say it was about four weeks ago when you were begging the governor to give you more authority and now here we are. I assume you dont want to make this i told you so, but what do you need to do now . It has been such a tough situation out here. I have constituents who waited eight hours, 13 hours to get a test and you know many people wont wait that long unless they desperately need one. It is quite hot. We are predicting temperatures could hit 117 degrees this weekend. Maricopa county, which is our Public County Health agency, Just Announced that they are going to be getting refrigerated trucks because the Health Care System has run out of morgue beds. It is very scary out here. I wish we had given mayors the authority to act earlier. Sorry to cut you off. You are out of morgue space . The abraz oh, Health Care System has run out of morgue beds and the county is getting refrigerated trucks. Not throughout the county but one very important system. Okay. Madam mayor, that is exactly what was happening here in new york. Not to get on the i told you so band wagon, but now that youre in the middle of it and now that you are, as you said, experiencing these incredibly hot temperatures, more people will be going inside where the ac will protect them. Where do you stand on convincing the governor to mandate masks across the state . I joined with mayors from across arizona in sending him a letter that encouraged much stronger measures, a statewide mask Program Makes sense to us. The mayors would like to see protections in every corner. My city council and i implemented one for the city of phoenix but we know that people in phoenix go to the cooler parts of our state for vacation right now. Right now, many of those areas dont have a mask requirement. They are going to come home and stress a Health Care System that is already hurting. Well, i understand the governor has now talked about, i think, trying to make restaurants cut back to 50 . Does that do it . To me, it feels like a half measure. We had a group of mayors again, myself included, who said we need to go to takeout. We know that in situations where people are not wearing a mask and had extended contact that they are more likely to spread the virus. We have to take this seriously. I am as concerned about fibula abo anyone as our economy but if we did not take Public Health, our economy cannot recover. You said you need more tests. How much worse does it need to get before the state starts considering shutting down again . We have such a lack of testing. We really feel like we dont have the right data. Yesterday, our governor had a press conference and there were many people speculating that he might take significant measures, but he chose not to. If he is unwilling, i would welcome if he could remove some of the preemptions on local government and then we could move forward. For months, i have been asking for a federal surge in testing and getting no as an answer, but i am very excited that they have finally changed their mind and the hardest hit area of phoenix is likely to get a federal surge in testing next week, finally. Phoenix mayor, we have to leave it there. Good luck. Stay safe and lets hope we can see some trend lines go the other way before the experts tell us that any way. Good luck out there. Coming up, a judge in connecticut is trying to block the governors executive order making mask wearing mandatory, just hours before that mandate was set to take effect. Governor andy bashir joins us next. Andy bashir joins us next not actors, whove got their eczema under control. With less eczema, you can show more skin. So roll up those sleeves. And help heal your skin from within with dupixent. Dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderatetosevere eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. 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You are creating the future on the fly. And we are helping you do it. Vmware. Realize whats possible. Kentuckys governor andy beshear signed an executive order ordering all kentuckian to wear a Face Covering. There is a legal challenge to that decision sparking confusion over the new mandate. A Scott County Circuit Court judge issued a restraining order that limit the governors ability to issue future executive orders concerning the pandemic. This comes as the state has seen a rented increase in the number of daily coronavirus cases. Joining me now is the governor of kentucky andy beshear. Governor, welcome and thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. I want to know why you issued this order and how exactly you define it. What we are seeing across this country is an explosion in cases. We see records set every sim day for the United States and then we see states like florida that has had more cases over the last, what, three days, 72 hours than kentucky has had during this entire pandemic. You see states like arizona, 1. 5 times bigger than kentucky but is currently running out of bed space and icus. You see how fast that can happen. In kentucky, i think we have done a better job than just about anywhere in containing this virus in flattening our curve, but we have recently seen a real increase that suggests that we are also going to have escalating cases. So i want to do the same thing we did that made us successful before, take aggressive action early so that we are not trying to stop this thing when we have thousands of cases just when we have hundreds of cases. The mask rule is based on three things. Number one, health and safety of our people. Every Public Health expert says that wearing one protects other people and now it even protects yourself. Number two, protecting our economy. Goldman sacks estimates Wearing Masks can save 5 of our g. Dp. That is 20 billion in kentucky. Number three, i want to put our state in a best position to have a meaningful year coming up. Masks can help us do all of that and its time to every kentuckian to step up, to do their part, its as easy as no shoes, no mask, no service. We got used to this in the past and we have to get used to a new normal. What about the Circuit Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order . Your own attorney general siding with this judge saying youre going too far . What does it mean . Is there a mask order that takes effect tonight at 5 00 p. M. Or is it not taking effect . No there is a mask order that takes place at 5 00 p. M. Tonight. That is both because we have done an emergency order i mean, an executive order and an emergency regulation. Emergency regulations are still allowed. This will carry the full force of law. But we also are moving to get that restraining order from the judge thrown out. Its bizarre. Number one, it constrains doing things in the future and tries to set a new process that would ultimately handcuff even Texas Governor in responding the way he is trying to. In the other, it removed every single restriction put into place on 500 something businesses from Farmers Market to part of a university to an expo center that can seat 7,000 people. The judge is claiming they dont have