Saying what she saw inside the house, inside the family. We have more on all of it in just a moment. Now to the largest Public Health crisis in the modern era of the United States. Tonight our country continues to lead the world in coronavirus. We represent 4 of the global population. We have 25 of the coronavirus on the planet. In the last 24 hours, this country saw another 73,169 confirmed cases. Thats another singleday record if youre counting. Along with the escalating rate of infection, in about 40 of our 50 states, the number of people hospitalized now rising. Covid tracking project says its now over 56,000, 56,000 people in hospitals just about six months after our first ever hospitalization. That said, the greatest Public Health crisis as we say in the modern era was again today not the lead topic at the white house. The president did stand between two trucks today for an event about deregulating american industry. And again today he tried to convince the country how great things were and will again be. Will. My administration has also eliminated massive regulatory barriers in our battle against the china virus. Were now making ventilators for countries all over the world. No administration in history has removed more red tape more quickly to rescue the economy and to protect the health of our people. So we have many exciting things that well be announcing over the next eight weeks, i would say. Things that nobody has even contemplated, thought about, thought possible. A few hours earlier, his press secretary made this remarkable comment about her boss determination to open schools in this country despite virus cases soaring, despite the risk to students and teachers. When he says open, he means open in full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this. The science is on our side here. We encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools. Tonight npr is reporting the centers for Disease Control will not release new School Reopening guidelines this week. That was promised to us by Vice President pence. Now theyre promising it before august. As of today, data once available to the public has disappeared from the cdc website after the Trump Administration shifted control of the information to health and human services. There is one indication the Administration May know just how serious this situation is. It is tonight in the form of a new report from the center for public integrity. Theyre saying its obtained a secret white house document that has 18 states in what internally theyre calling the red zone for covid19 cases. The document warns there may be a need to readopt more stringent measures. Meanwhile the debate over maskwearing rages on. 30 states have now issued statewide orders. Colorado and arkansas are the latest to do so. And for the arkansas governor, thats a major walkback. Then theres georgia. That states governor, brian kemp, is not only refusing to mandate the public wearing of masks. Tonight he is suing to try to stop Atlanta MayorKeisha Lance Bottoms from doing so. Georgia is one of the many states reporting a surge in virus cases, and the Atlanta Mayor has the virus, which has also left her husband very ill. Not long ago she issued this response, saying, quote, as of today, 3,104 georgians have died and i and my family are amongst the 106,000 who have tested positive for covid19. A better use of taxpayer money would be to expand testing and contract tracing. If being sued by the state is what it takes to save lives in atlanta, then we will see them in court. Corporations continue to try to protect their customers and their workers. Today three more retailers, cvs, target, and publix telling their customers you cant shop there without a face covering. Dr. Anthony fauci, who actually spoke with trump yesterday for the first time in two months, was out again today with Even Stronger warnings about reopening our country too soon. Because hes been sidelined by the white house publicly, faucis warning came during a conversation on facebook. As you will quickly figure out, he appeared alongside mark zuckerberg. We do have a situation now. Its a mixed bag. Youve got to do it correctly. You cant jump over steps, which is very perilous when you think about rebound. And the proof of the pudding is look whats happened. There really is no reason why were having 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 other than the fact that were not doing something correctly. Coronavirus Vaccine Research may be the latest front in russias cyber war on the west. The u. S. , british, and canadian governments say Russian Hackers are trying to steal Vaccine Research, and perhaps youre old enough to remember a time when there used to be consequences. There are a few other developments were reporting on tonight. The Supreme Court allowed florida to bar people with felony convictions from voting unless theyve paid court fines and fees. Now, civil Rights Groups and voters affected by this law sued, saying it was effectively a poll tax in the year 2020 and that the state had been unable to calculate just how much potential voters owed. We also learned today that another 1. 3 million americans have filed for unemployment, making this the 17th straight week of more than a million jobless claims. Yet another somber reminder of the toll of this pandemic. Finally from the white house, there is this. Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst captured the crosstabs on the giant binder that press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany brings to the podium every day anticipating possible questions. They include but are not limited to, absurd, obama, flynn, daca, blm, lgbt, ppe, golf, goia, lies, reopen, mary trump. In one row, economy, hate, masks, russia, and wins. Theres fauci. Theres a misspelled mueller. Theres a hogan. Either the hulk or more likely the governor of maryland. And others too numerous to mention. What a place to start our leadoff discussion on a thursday night. Jonathan lemire, White House Reporter for the Associated Press. Susan page, usa today Washington Bureau chief. And dr. Vin gupta. Hes an e. R. Doc specializing in these kinds of illnesses, also an affiliate assistant professor with the university of Washington Department of Health Metrics sciences. Good evening and welcome to you all. Susan, id like to begin with you. Your publication was in the news this week. As one does, Peter Navarro wrote a hit job on Anthony Fauci. It appears in your pages. Theres since been an editors note at usa today saying it should have been more rigorously factchecked. But still were reminded its the thought that counts. Its really a white housesponsored, one way of looking at it, war on information, science, and medicine. Yes. And what usa today has said, the editorial page editor, is there should have been a factchecking article with it, which has now been posted to point out some of the things that mr. Navarro said that are not factually true. Whats valuable about this oped is it puts a senior aide to the president , someone close to the president , on the record saying some of the same things white house officials have been saying about tony fauci behind the scenes in an effort to undercut his credibility. We see both the president and the Vice President trying to embrace Anthony Fauci must closer in the past 24 hours because of course dr. Fauci has much stronger credibility when it comes to covid19 than the president does. Doctor, it strikes me here you are in this fight, in the battle against coronavirus. If you wanted to see hospitalization stats from the cdc today, you would have found t their website empty of them. Talk about the public and what were supposed to get during a Public Health crisis. Good evening, brian. You know, the public needs access to transparent information. Id love access to that information, but you know who needs it more than anything else . Our decision makers, our elected leaders. What are they looking at . What type of information do the elected officials have if they dont have access to publicly available cdc information . I dont know because right now what we do know is in places like florida, the florida secretary of health is actively engaging in data manipulation. Theyre not talking about icu beds available. Theyre talking about acuity of the patient presentation, severe or acute. Who know whats that means when it comes to whether icu beds are available . Brian, let me take a step back and also talk about just the ethics of whats happening. You mentioned Governor Kemp in georgia. Right now we talked about whats been politicized, whats not. Whats amoral, whats not . This is ethical, brian. Were talking about withholding access to interventions and solutions that could save lives. He is he has crossed a line here about what is and is not ethical in the space of saving lives. Banning the mandating of masks in a dense urban population like atlanta is crossing a line of ethics. We need to reevaluate his fitness for office. This is unacceptable. Governor dewine in ohio, what hes doing, unacceptable. I can go on. Jonathan lemire, i think its fair to cast this president and he has colleagues all around the world in similar positions as an early on, full on coronavirus denier. The folks over at the recount have put together an amalgam of his quotes during the rise first of all the plateauing but then the rise of the virus. I want to share that clip with you. Well talk about it on the other side. And what is what are your top priority items for a second term . You know, the word experience is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I never did this before. I never slept over in washington. You know the story, im riding down pennsylvania avenue with our first lady, and i say, this is great. But i didnt know very many people in washington. It wasnt my thing. I was from manhattan. Okay, jonathan. Wrong clip. That was the president asked about his second term goals. The right question should be, will the messaging change . His secondterm goals cant be about a walk down pennsylvania avenue. No, brian. Thats right. I actually wrote on this very topic for the Associated Press this week, about the president hes inability to articulate what these secondterm goals would be and frankly why he deserves another four years in office. We know that he had planned as recently as january, early february, to run for reelection on the back of a Strong Economy. That all went away when the pandemic reached american shores. And now he, as just played there, gave a sort of nonsensical answer to sean hannity when asked about it. Earlier this week when in the rose garden, when he rambled on for 62 minutes, though he did deliver some attack lines against joe biden that we probably will see again that maybe will prove effective at times, he also didnt offer any sort of coherent vision for what a second trump term would be. And his advisers have been working behind the scenes to try to get him to do a better job of that. The vague sort of notion is, hey, i was i oversaw a Strong Economy once. I can do it again. But theres been very little in the way of proposals to make that happen. But we are seeing sort of connecting this to the pandemic, brian, sort of an effort to turn the page, that there is very little focus as the virus is surging, raging across a number of the states in the nation right now. The white house is acting almost as if it has blinders on. Its just trying to push forward. Economys open. Schools open. No matter what the cost may be and not dealing with the very real crisis in so many states across the country. Yes, theres been a little bit of a truce, it seems. Theyve called off the dogs against dr. Fauci, but he has certainly been sidelined. He doesnt carry the influence he once did. And i think this is an administration that just simply doesnt want to deal with the facts and numbers about this pandemic. Theyre trying to just focus on getting that economy open again. Susan, we have indeed located the clip in question from the recount. Well play it. Well talk about it on the other side. You know it is going away. Weve done, i think, on average really phenomenally. And you had doctors saying that weve done an incredible job. I think what happens is its going to go away. This is going to go away. We were able to cut it off, stop it just like this. And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good. And now its time to open up, get back to work. The coronavirus, thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. Susan, three things. Number one, cost to the Biden Campaign of that very effective and damaging ad, zero. There are enough groups in the news media and most of them former republican political types in this fight that are making ads better than the Biden Campaign can dream about to fill that role. Number two, theres a lot of that. There are a lot of those quotes, and they keep coming. Number three and the question to you, any sense of any courage breaking out among republicans not on what dr. Gupta was talking about, the ethical side of this, just sheer selfpreservation of being downballot, up for reelection in november . Well, the problem that i think republicans have is they are alarmed by being tied with the president , but there is not very much they can do about it. The Republican Party is the trump party. There is a penalty to be paid for crossing President Trump that you can ask judge sessions about that. So you see republicans down the ballot including in these 11 senate races, 11 Competitive Senate races, nine of them republicanheld seats, that they dont talk much about President Trump. They dont put President Trump in their ads. Theyre not asking President Trump to come and campaign with them. But i do not hear very much except from a few of the usual suspects like mitt romney of republicans, especially those who are going to be on the ballot, actually speaking out against President Trump. Dr. Gupta, i have a quote from you on the subject of testing, and we can put it on the screen. I am you know, its amazing this doesnt happen more often considering this is a broadcast being produced from everyones kitchen tables at home. The white house again says its up to the states to work out testing issues, but today a group of researchers wrote an oped in the New York Times saying, testing in this country is near paralysis. Rockefeller foundation says u. S. Should invest 75 billion to fix the covid testing system. What needs to happen. And, doc, ill remind everybody, if youre in california, youre asymptomatic but fear you may have been exposed to the virus, you cant get a test. Theres no use because youre going to have to wait four to eight days for the results, and think of all the life that can transpire in that time. So, doctor, over to you. Brian, its an important question. This is what School Districts across the country, the 13,000 School Districts, are wrestling with. How do i open up in a way in which we dont put teachers, parents lives at risk, and jeopardize our children . And it comes down to testing. Theres a reason you dont see testing in the cdc guidelines or the Trump Administration referencing it, because it costs money to that New York Times oped. This is what we need to do. By the end of the year, theres going to be point of Care Technology from multiple companies in the pipeline where you get a swab in your nose, you put it into a detector and get a result back in 30 minutes. Theres technology, theres a light on the horizon, nasal swab, saliva, it costs money, though, brian for us to actually get it at scale. Thats where the federal government needs to say well subsidize you. If youre a school district, well subsidize the purchase of that so we can get testing where it needs to be, Rapid Testing so we can give people the answers they need quickly. All we have to do is make it a priority, a manhattan project, a marshall plan. 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