Several fronts including his handling of the coronavirus pandemic you have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flame like, but its going to be under control. Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Take a look at europe. Take a look at the numbers in europe the cases are 6,000 in the whole European Union they dont test they dont test like we do is it possible they dont have the virus as possible its possible they dont test i want people to have a certain freedom and i dont believe in that i dont agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask that everything would disappear. Ill be right eventually i will be right. Its going to disappear. Its going to disappear. Ill be right. The president threatened to with hold federal funding on key issues including reopening School Campuses this fall and removing the name of con ffedere generals from military bases the confederate battle flag was among the topics they are not talk about racism they love their flag it represents the south. They like the south. People like the south. We cant forget the north and the south fought we have to remember that otherwise well end up fighting it again i dont kwhcare what the militay say. Ft. Bragg is a big deal. We won two world wars. Nobody knows general brag. Now they want to change 1492 columbus discovered america. We all did that. Now they want to make it the 1619 project where did that come from what does it represent slavery they dont even know. For the record, ft. Bragg whereas not completed until the year after world war i ended braxton brag was known for losing battles and shooting his own officers 1619 was the year that african slaves were brought to this continent and no columbus did not discover america thats the second time he said that one lately. Mr. Trump also maintained his stance on sending federal officers to portland, oregon against the wishes of its governor and mayor we are live in portland, just ahead. The president weighed in on the 2020 election. Remember in 2016 when he said that he would keep us in suspense on conceding the election if voters chose hillary clinton. I understand. We still have more than 100 days to this election at this point, youre losing first of all, im not losing because those are fake polls lets go down. Joe and i will take a test let him take the same test that i took i took the test too when i heard that you passed it its not the hardest test. Its an elephant you see, thats all misrepresentation. Thats what was on the web. Can you give a direct answer you will accept the election i have to see i have to see. Im not going to say yes im not going to say that. I didnt last time either. Well begin this hour with the president s wide ranging interview with fox chris wallace. It was at times a dizzying array of falsehood, misdirections and reversals. At other times mr. Trump got testy when pressed to verify his statements it gives us quite a bit to unpack and debunk lets start with what the president said about coronavirus. Joing us are Josh Letterman at the white house and msnbc medical contributor dr. Patel. Josh, President Trump was asked about the recent smears of dr. Anthony fauci including a political cartoon that depicted him as dr. Faucet. Here is what the president said. Why on earth would your administration be involved in campaign, at this point, to discredit dr. Fauci, who is the nations top Infectious Disease spirit because were not if one man from my administration doesnt like him because he made a few mistakes he said dont wear a mask. He told me not to ban china. It would be a big mistake. I did it over and bovr his recommendation he said you saved tens of thousands live, more than that he said you saved tense of thousands of lives dr. Fauci made some mistakes i spoke to him yesterday at length i have a very Good Relationship with dr. Fauci what were the big take a way regarding the administration covid19 plan . Reporter the president on defensive forced to reckon a lot of his statements about the coronavirus that didnt turn out to be correct. He was pressed hard on this repeated claim that we heard from the president that the increased rates of coronavirus that were seeing across the country can really be chocked up to the fact were doing a good job of doing more testing. Fox news pushing the president on the fact that yes were doing more testing but were seeing more positive tests among the tests that we are doing. The president pivoting in that instance, trying to talk about well a will the of those positive cases are kid and suggesting they are not serious and should not be counted as positive cases even though we know kids and are affected by the coronavirus in harmful ways. When it comes to drc. Pauscfauce president seems to be further muddying the waters about whether his team is on the same page you heard him in that clip saying both things at the same time saying we have great team. Were all on the same page he gets along well with fauci but going ahead and ticking off a list of past statements by fauci that the white house has previously circulated by two reporters and an attempt to undermine fauci and make the point hes given Incorrect Information before the cdc who the president raised on this interview whether they are on the same page as we head into this next phase of responding to the pandemic any response to the claims the president made reporter saying that President Trump doesnt know what hes talking about as well as the statement from his Campaign Spokeswoman responding to this interview specifically and saying theres one candidate in this race who has failed to keep the American People safe this year, donald trump. Going on in that statement to say the American People know it and in november they are going to vote to put a president in the white house who will take responsibility, bring us together and lead us out of this crisis theres one clip we wanted you to fact check. Theres three claims made in this clip fa could use your expertise. Watch. We have more tests by far than any country in the world. Sir, testing is up 37 . Thats good i understand. Cases are up 194 . It isnt just the testing has gone up, its that the virus has spread the Positivity Rate has increased. Its worse than it was many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them, dont forget, i guess its like 99. 7 , people are going to get better and in many cases they will get better very quickly okay. Lets whip through these one at a time first, the president seays the case numbers are up because were doing more testing the implication being the pandemic looks worse than it really is and were conflating more surveillance of the outbreak with the outbreak getting worse. Is that argument valid or invalid . Its not true we know this because quite the opposite we need to be doing more testing. You cant look at the sheer numbers. You have to look at the numbers relative to the size of the actual epidemic. The United States is going through an incredible nationwide hot spot with positive rates in some areas as high as 1 in four. 25 and this is an accepted standard in Public Health that you are not doing enough testing until you have detected anywhere from one to four percent of a Positivity Rate. Its sheerly invalid by numbers. Second, the president argues that many of the young people testing positive will heal in day or so and their contribution to the statistical case load is over blown because their symptoms are mild and they recover quickly. Valid or invalid in. Invalid not true yet again again, depending on where you live, you can see anywhere from half of the cases, new cases being attributed to people 50 years or younger however, even in those young age groups, even in the healthy quote unquote age groups were seeing record numbers of hospitalizations and even more troubling, record death rates. Just the keep in mind being in a Younger Age Group does not make you invincible and if i can stress one fact more than anything, its the fact that we are now seeing chronic effects of people who had no symptoms but were positive when we checked for the virus. We still do not understand the implications and its not reduced to the sifls or to a one day course of illness. Simply not true. I know we could play this game all day but theres one more claim we wanted to fact check. The president claimed that all of the cases end with people recovering quickly and that less than half a percent of all cases transpire otherwise. Briefly before we let you go, true or false . False not only do we know that the statistics so far that depending on your age, for example, one in three people over the age of 70 have chronic consequence after weeks of hospitalizations. We are still really in the throws of ththro throes of this i cant stress how important this virus is. Thank you both for starting us off local governments continue to adjust their responses to coronavirus. The responses can be vastly different. On friday, californias governor ordered the majority of schools to close their campuses. Most campuses will have online only classes california has more than 382,000 confirmed cases. In florida, some state leaders are renewing pressure to issue a statewide order to require face masks. The governor has not done so floridas confirmed case load is above 350,000. Scott, lets start with you. Whats the latest in california . Well, we are still seeing a situation that is getting worse and officials trying to get it under control. This is one aspect of it its a testing site in watsonville which is about 90 miles south of San Francisco its one of the testing sites thats here to try to target the Latino Community we know statistically the Latino Community is vulnerable, more vulnerable to the virus than the population as a whole. This site has been fairly quiet as of yet. Watsonville is about 84 hispanic and yet is about a third of the population of Santa Cruz County but accounts for more than half of the positive cases. They are trying to improve the testing rates and statewide, california has done fairly well on that by the numbers First Priority goes to those hospital sized or possibly exposed to the coronavirus then people who have symptoms or are at risk of getting symptoms. Then essential workers and finally, everybody else with the idea that they do that and one they get the turn around rate on the tests down to 48 hours were not anywhere close to that yet. That means of hospitals here they have been dealing with this for more than six months we have been in this heightened state since january it takes a toll on our nurses. Theres estimation that 40 of the people are asymptommatic and have coronavirus everybody that comes in is a coronavirus carrier or spreader, for lack of a better word. Reporter in california, hospitalization rates have gone up more than 20 in the last two weeks. Joshua lets head over to you in orlando. What about florida how is it doing right now . Reporter this weekend the state of florida has crossed 5,000 confirmed deaths from covid19 as well as 350,000 confirmed cases. Take a look at the numbers the state released yesterday more than 12,470 positive tests. Another 300 or so hospitalizations week to week the numbers continue to go up. This week compared to the prior 7day period, there was significantly more deaths, hospitalizations and positive tests. The state is testing more. Today its a little quiet behind me here in orlando the state positivity test rate is still about 12 its been hanging at that figure for a few weeks now. Local leaders, some of them, are pressuring the governor, ron desantis to try to get limb himo impose more mandates maybe roll back some of the openings he is resisting that he says he prefers a bottom up approach the mayor of miami beach, florida instituted a curfew this weekend. 8 00 p. M. To try to stop people from congregating and hes expressing frustration today that the state, itself, is not doing more to slow the spread of the virus. We are a Destination Center that tends not to do social distancing we have a crowd based economy in some respects but right now we all have to govern ourselves differently. Cautiously, carefully and mindful theres virus in our community. I wish the government and the president would join us in telling people perhaps what they dont want the hear but what they need to hear. Its time to wear a mask you must wear mask its time to not have these social interactions which are spreading the virus. Despite the governor not putting in place any of those mandates, many county, many private businesses are putting in mandates for mandatory masks. The governor did roll back the bar openings right now bars are not open but indoor restaurants, gyms, theaters, things of that nature they are wide open across the state an democratic lawmakers have been asking the governor to put in a mask mandate which he is resisting as a graduate of the university of miami, i cannot imagine south beach shutting down at 8 00 p. M thanks very much in portland, oregon tensions continue to escalate between protesters and federal officers as well as between the Trump Administration and state and local leaders. This morning the president tweeted that the federal presence is meant to help portland he wrote that the citys leadership lost control of the protesters who he referred to as anarchists he reiterated the comments during his interview if you look at whats gone on in portland, those are anarch t anarchis anarchists we have taken a tough stand. If we didnt take that stand, right now you would have a problem like they were going to lose portland this morning portlands mayor told cnn the presence of federal troops in the city is making things worse take these people out of our city they are not helping us. They are hurting us. They are escalating an already dangerous situation. Calls have been growing to remove federal agents who have taken to st streets using tear gas or some similar chemical on protesters and pulling some of them into unmarked vans. Whats the latest . Have things calmed down. Reporter its been flash point in this ongoing confrontation between federal officers, unmarked and protesters they are setting up the security barrier. Prote protesters tore the barrier down now they are setting it back up again bracing for the possibility of more violence the mayor speaking out today on cnf state of the union saying the presence of unmarked federal agents set by the department of homeland skuecurity is making it worse. Take a listen. Take these people out of our city they are not helping us. They are escalating an already dangerous situation and what i want to do is raise awareness nationally this could happen in your city and what were seeing is a blatant abuse of Police Tactics by the federal government, by Trump Administration thats falling in the polls this is a direct threat to our democracy. Reporter President Trump saying that he is saving port la portland and anarchists would have taken over the city shes asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent the unlawful detention of protesters joshua thank you much more to come here on msnbc. The tributes continue to the late congressman and civil rights icon, john lewis. A beautiful memorial is growing in the Congressional District he served for three decades were live in atlanta, next. If youre 55 and up, t mobile has a plan built just for you. We want you to get the value and service you need to stay connected. 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A High Pressure system over the u. S. , sometimes called a heat dome is behind all of this the trend could last for the next several days. The nation continues to pay tribute to the late congressman john lewis murals and tributes have gone up across the country in his honor. He died on friday at the age of 80 after fighting pancreatic cancer its unclear whats next for safely honoring him. Typically he would lie in state at the capital is it safe to do that now . Priscilla thompson is in atlanta. Have we learned anything more . Could he still lie in state given the pandemic reporter folks are hoping that he can. The New York Times reporting this morning that congressional leaders are look at the possibility of that. The question is going to be how to do that safely. Obviously, we are in the middle of a Global Pandemic and the capital is closed to the public. While people do feel like he is deserving of that high honor, it remains to be seen whether that will happen or whether it will look differently like an out door ceremony or Something Like that given whats going on with covid19 i do want to add one more thing. I was speaking with representatives here in atlanta about what services could look like here. Im told they are gipi inbeginno think about that but the real consideration is that c. T. Vivian also passed away last week they wa