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want to go to cnn s polo sandoval following the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. first of all, polo, good morning to you. what are you hearing from where you are? reporter: well, christi, let s start in the state of new jersey across the where authorities are watching increase in covid cases. according to health authorities in new jersey they confirmed at least 2,000 cases in the four days. those are the kinds of levels they haven t seen in a month. you re about to hear from the governor exactly why he thinks this is happening. but he is warning if this continues to be a trend, that he could reverse some reopenings. the coronavirus may kill another 20,000 americans by late august, according to a sobering fresh forecast from the centers for disease control and prevention. the cdc projections warn of an increase in reported deaths in puerto rico, washington state, kentucky, alabama, tennessee and new jersey. the governor there says house parties are contributing to c ....
dr. anthony fauci is calling that rose garden ceremony at the white house where supreme court nominee amy coney barrett a, quote, super spreader event where multiple people were likely infected due to the lack of mavericks and social distancing. president is reversing himself once again on a stimulus package after calling off all talks with house democrats earlier this week. he is now saying he wants a bigger stimulus deal than either republicans or democrats are calling for. as of this hour, the u.s. coronavirus death toll is now more than 213,000 people with more than 7.6 billion confirmed cases and 28 states. right now, we are seeing dramatic seeing cases on the rise dramatically. let s get straight to the white house. first our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. i understand you re getting new details of this event the president is planning to hold at the white house tomorrow afternoon. that s right. first we should point out the president ....
unsupported by any evidence whatsoever. this is also happening as people close to the president are acknowledging privately that the lawsuits that are being filed by the trump campaign are weak and likely will not overturn the results of the election. never the less, as you noted, they are indicating that part of the planning involves a campaign style rally to try to drum up support for the idea that the election was illegitimate and was stolen. their belief is they could potentially persuade enough secretaries of state in certain battleground states to open up investigations in to the elections in their states and potentially delay the process of transition. that is one of the goals. we should point out sources have indicated that people close to the president including first lady melania trump and his son-in-law jared kushner have approached the subject with the president of accepting reality and acknowledging that he lost and conceding to the former vice president, n ....
momentum will pick up in the next few weeks. this is cnn breaking news. so, we have this shocking white house phone call that is rocking u.s. politics and wudenning the split in the republican party. in this hour-long call, president donald trump pushes georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger to, quote, find quotes that would overturn joe biden s election victory. i want you to listen to this exchange with raffensperger s general counsel ryan germany. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. and flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, there s just it s a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it if it was a mistake. i don t know. a lot of people think it wasn t a mistake. it was much more criminal than that. but it s a big problem in georgia, and it s not a problem that s going away. i mean, you know, it s not a ....
and senator cory booker on the biden agenda and the president s executive orders to address systemic racism, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. tonight republicans in the united states senate took a vote to show that they have no intention to hold the former president accountable for his role in the january 6 assault in the capitol that led to the death of a capitol police officer. that vote comes as we learn new disturbing details of a threat that day against the family of a leading member of congress. today we learn of this, an indictment in the southern district of new york charging that on january 6, the day of the riot, the day of the assault, the day that people died in that building, a 35-year-old california man sent threatening text messages to a family member of a new york city-based u.s. congressman, including a text to his brother reading the following. your brother is putting your entire family at risk with his lie ....