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But empty seats in tulsa this weekend infuriated the president , and theres a lot of debate about the rally plan going forward. We know the president likes to change the subject when he doesnt like the headlines. Todays effort simply a lie. Quote, millions of mailin ballots will be printed by Foreign Countries, the president tweets. There is no evidence to support that claim, none, and no evidence to support the president s claim that mailin voting means massive fraud. Again, none. When we count the votes in November John bolton says his will be a writein for a republican not named trump. The onetime white house insider savages the president in a new book and hopes the Voters Decide four years is more than enough. I hope it will remember him as a oneterm president who didnt plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we cant recover from. We can get over one term. A big coronavirus milestone in florida today. Remember that state opened early and now has a rising are case count, and it just crossed 100,000 total cases. Lets get straight to cnns rosa flores in miami for me. Rosa . Hey, john, and here in the state of florida, like you mentioned, crossing 100,000 cases. We were expecting that because of the recent increase, and Governor Ron Desantis finally acknowledging that the increase in cases here in the state is not just due to the increase in testing but also to an increase in community spread. According to the governor its young people who are not social distancing and who are not wearing masks. Here in miamidade where i am, three businesses were shut down over the weekend for violations of covid19 regulations. Not one of those rules is, of course, no one of the rules is no large gatherings and apparently that rule applies even to the president of the United States. Our very own poppy harlow asked the city of miami mayor Francis Suarez if he would support a maga rally here in mime, and heres what he said. Were not opening large venues where you can have any sort of large congregation of people whether its a sporting event, whether its a real, so none of those kinds of things are open in the city and wont be open after todays data which is worse than last mondays was. Reporter now, john, i would love to ask that question to governor ran desantis to see what he thinks about hosting a maga rally here in mime he. What we do know from the governor hes upping enforcements and sending inspectors out to businesses like in miamidade. Doing it at the county level and at the state level hell be sending out inspectors to make sure that the rules are being followed. John. Day after day and day in recent days, rosa, those tough numbers out of florida. Well stay on top of it. The coronavirus reality here in the United States, the nation has the most cases globally and the number of new infections is, again, climbing. Those are two facts the president simply does not like which explains why hes repeatedly trying to tell you the numbers look worse than they actually rcmp the president insisting on twitter last night our coronavirus testing is so much greater, 25 million tests, he says, and so much more advanced that it makes us look like we have more cases, especially proportionally than other countries. Lets go to the white house and cnns john harwood. It looks like we have more cases here in the United States because we have more cases here in the United States. Reporter exactly right. You used the right word at the beginning of that setup. The coronavirus reality. The coronavirus reality is that the United States has 4 of the worlds population and 25 of the worlds cases and more significantly 25 of the world eats deaths. Thats a number you cant spin and say, well, its asymptomatic and mild cases. Upfourth of the worlds deaths. Now because the president of the United States doesnt want to acknowledge that reality it puts his aides in a very difficult position to try to talk about what everyone can plainly see is happening which leads to the mixed messages that weve got to two Administration Economic advisers. Larry kudlow and peter navarro. Take a listen. Are you preparing for a second wave in the fall . You prepare for what can possibly happen. Im not saying its going to happen, but about, of course, you prepare. We know how to deal with this stuff now. Its come a long way since last winter, and there is no second wave coming. Reporter larry kudlow had a point saying we know how to deal with that better. Our death rate is coming down even though 120,000 people have died. The rate of death is going down. However, when youve got rising case counts, you now have half the states with a virus reproduction or innext rate exceeding one meaning the epidemic is expanding, and you have highly variable results by individual. Nobody knows how bad its going to be for any particular case. Thats a frightening reality for americans and President Trump simply does not want to accept it, but you can see from that onethird filled arena in tulsa over the weekend, that there are a lot more people now being skeptical of the administrations claims than they were before this epidemic hit. Theres a lot of room to debate in the middle, but the simple numbers just dont lie. The numbers dont lie. John harwood from the white house. With us to discuss is our panel. Vivian, i want to start with you because when we saw the president s coronavirus numbers tank its because americans had the impression he was not on top of it. Said it wasnt going to be a pandemic and it was and everybody could get a test when nobody could get a test. Seemed out of touch from the beginning. If he seems out of touch now, its fading and dying. Look at florida, maybe the case count is going up and the danger is real and present. Why does the white house keep saying its good . Reporter its an Election Year and one of the things been weighing very heavily on the mind of President Trump and his advisers is the fact that the economy has been tanking through this whole entire process, and so in their minds and especially some of his economic advisers who are around him, the best way to tackle that was a quick reopening regardless of the risks, and a lot of the advisers that ive spoken with tell the president , you know, we took a quick hit but lets move on with it, and even if we have to continue to battle with rising cases or just the continuation, the drag out of this virus, at least were better equipped right now. They say that testing has improved and hospitals are better equipped, the ventilators are in player, but, of course, we still see the numbers going up, and obviously when you have rising death tolls and rising rates of infection that also is a huge problem, and its something that the president has opted probably for political reasons to completely shelve so he can focus on the reelection and economy and getting people back to their jobs and kind of get the country in motion again, and its come at a great cost. It has come at a great cost. Well put. Its trademark for the president. He doesnt like the headlines or whats being talked about on Cable Television so he tweets something outrageous. Hes simply lying when he says mailin voting is subject to giant fraud. If we have more mailin voting more Foreign Countries will be printing the ballots. Hes doing it because hes upset. The press secretary said the president is not at all angry and you can translate that the president is indeed. The president was quite angry over the weekend. So many empty seats in that arena in tulsa. Thereto was no overflow crowd even though they planned a big outdoor event for him to speak to. They had to cancel it and break down the security measures there. It has to rattle the president a little bit at least that 19 weeks from the election in addition to all these other challenges, now he has some questions about his campaign team. Well, and lets not forgot. The coronavirus is not something thats selfinflicted, a crisis that the president has not been able to control. The rally and the optics of that real which the president cares about very much. We know how much he watches tv were atrocious and totally selfinflicted, and and they have tried to weve seen the blame from his Campaign Manager brad parscale, try to blame the media and protesters who reporters on the ground they werent a problem with attendees getting in. He blamed any number of things. At the end of the day they didnt have to have this rally. They wanted it to be a show of force, that they were moving past the coronavirus. Youve seen mike pence trying to say that as well in his oped in the wall street journal, that there wasnt going to be a second wave. They can spin all they want. The virus doesnt care. Yeah, go ahead. I was just going to say that in the middle of all of this the president doesnt think two crises is enough. Were in the middle of a pandemic and a racial reckoning going on since the death of george floyd and the president decide, 19 weeks before the election with the help of his attorney general which is remarkable to fire the man who leads the office you once worked income the Southern District new york president jeff berman. That office we know is involved in a number of investigations. Number one, its the office that put Michael Cohen behind bars, congressman chris clinds and Giuliani Associates charged by Jeffrey Berman, a turkish bank close to the president s friend, the president of turkey charged. Jeffrey epstein, Michael Avenatti and looking at the inaugural committee and looking at possible miss conduct by Rudy Giuliani and pretty brazen to not only touch and grab with two hands this third rail. Why . John, to me this is a flagrant attempt to inject politics into prosecution. You said it well. Third rail. The Justice Department is supposed to be the most independent of all the departments in the federal government, and within that had the Southern District is famously independent. Look, you just gave a great list of all the highprofile investigations of people close to donald trump that the sdny managed to get under way even in this highly politicized era, and if you look at the way donald trump and william barr did this announcing it on a friday night misleading the public saying Jeffrey Berman would step down trying to appoint jay clayton with zero prosecute yorl experience, putting someone never spending a day as a prosecutor in charge of the Southern District, its a joke. It would be like trying to appoint me surgeon general. I dont think theres any reason for it other than they are trying to politicize the Southern District of new york. This president is disruptive from day one, but idea that he would do this is a little bit of pushback from republicans on capitol hill, but it was a very little. Well, i mean, were i think that goes back to being in an Election Year. They dont want to cross especially you have some republicans facing tough races in november. They dont want to cross him in the middle of an Election Year and being the sort of hate tweets. Theres talk in the Judiciary Committee about the politicization of the Justice Department, so well see if they are able, this obviously will come up and well see who they can get in there to talk about it eli, on that point. Jeff berman agreed to step down on saturday after he essentially because of his stubbornness, his deputy will run the office. The administration wanted to bring in an ally from new jersey. How much of a difference does that make and one would assume if the prosecutors are loyal to their former boss to mr. Berman will double dot their is and cross their ts given the microscope they are under. I served in the sdny, almost four years under bush, four years under obama. We went through four u. S. Attorney changes. They were all smooth, even when we went from one party to another. Did not interrupt the work that the office did day by day. Now under the Trump Administrations weve seen not one but two by including our colleague Preet Bharara that were sudden and unexpected that affects the morale. The Southern District will survive this and will outlive the Trump Administration and many beyond it. I do have faith that the men and women who work there every day will continue to do their job. Thats certainly the way i was trained there, john. Vivian, another thing we know under the president s skin is that his former National Security adviser, former insider in the west wing john bolton, not only does he have a book out that savages the president , questioning his intellect and questioning whether he has any principle, questioning whether he shares American Value is now giving a bunch of interviews and democrats like most of what they hear but they wont like this. John bolton explaining to abc why he would not cooperate and testify back during the impeachment. I didnt think the democrats had the wit or the political understanding or the reach to change for them what was an exercise in rousing their own base to say that they impeached donald trump. Its been interesting, a mild word, to watch mr. Bolton beat up the democrats but also say, you know, that he cant hes not comfortable voting for joe biden and and write in another republican and hope that democrats end this at one term. If he were subpoenaed now he would agree to testify, so theres been sort of an evolution of john bolton from the days of the house impeachment inquiry when initially we werent sure if we were going to see him and, you know, the subpoena was eventually they did not pursue a subpoena pause his deputies case went nowhere and john bolton came out and said he would testify in front. House and continues to say that. But democrats are saying its too little too late. Ultimately they nighted this information last fall when they were building their case, and now john bolton coming out with several explosive allegations in his book which is going to be released to the public officially this week. Among them he said that obstruction of justice was a way of life in the white house and particularly with this president , and he made some very, very staunch allegations in the president s relationship with china, with chinas president xi jinping with his relationship from the ukraine president so obviously were seeing a trend by democrats kind of throwing their hands up at this point saying where have you been . Thats a very good way to put it in these very dizzying times. Appreciate the help of all through of you. Well continue the conversation. These stories are not going away. This important footnote, the white house changing the coronavirus measures, the one mandatory daily temperature checks are now gone. 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Thats the beige color. 17 states heading down, the green states and with 23 states on the way up, 11 dangerously on the way up or with big numbers anyway. Highest, ten states reporting their highest sevenday average, so were months into this. Ten states, ten states hit their highest sevenday average of new cases on sunday, yesterday. Obviously a point of concern there. If you want to look at some of the states, you can see california in green. Texas behind t. Florida and arizona. If you go back in time we talked about this since the beginning, this is flattening the curve. This is not. You can see these lines going up in these four states. Others as well. Let me bring in hour chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, the governors of these states say weve got this. Well deal with this. When you see going from april into may and then, boom, especially texas, arizona, california, what goes through your mind . I i worry that were going into a period of exponential growth. I mean, people have become familiar with these terms, john. I think that that there was always an expectation as things start to reopen that the numbers would go up. It became a question would it go up like a plateau here and then go up to a higher number and plateau, or would it start to actually start to burn like a forest fire as dr. Michael osteholm has described it where all of a sudden it starts to exponentially growth up. Its a earn k. Beginning of last week there were 18 states that showed over 50 growth and now over 23 states. We follow this day to day, but if you start to look back even month to month as weve been doing this, you see this really concerning trend. I mean, it bounces around day to day, but its a concerning trend overall. John, the other thing is did we find the basement . Yeah, look at this. Look at what the eu was able to do. That is what a wave looks like, right, and i find this graph both inspiring and very troubling at the same time. Inspiring because you see what is possible and what the European Union was doing taking their case counts very, very low. The United States seems like we found the basement at 20,000 new infections per day. Thats not a good basement, john, and now were going up. Thats the rough spot were in. Youre 20,000 to 30,000 new cases all of last week. Lets take a look at some of the other numbers. This is hospitalization. Again, its california, texas and arizona here. California has said pretty much a flat line with a high number of hospitalizations, but, still, thats a stress on the system and then you see texas, pretty much a flat line and all of a sudden you start to go up. Arizona has been flat going up at a slower pace than text yeah, but if you look at hospitalizations, sanjay, the governors are saying we knew it would be inevitable and were going to have more cases. This is what were watching. Is it a strain on Health Care System . Thats right. Thats the term flattening the curve. Thats what that was all about. Lets flatten the curve because we want to slow down the pace in which we see new people becoming infected. I kind of regret in some ways, john, that that became the metric for success, by the way. If we dont red line the hospital system, well have succeeded. That wasnt really supposed to be the only metric of success. That supposed to stop the bleeding, if you will, so, you know, in some places we were able to do that, but now theres a concern, especially in states, john, where the populations are more likely to be vulnerable, so think about, you know, retirement states, florida, arizona. Youre going to have people who are older there. You will have people who have more preexisting conditions so in addition to a number of infections going up in those places and arizona is going up, you know, im concerned about arizona and florida in particular in addition to the numbers going up. People who get infected are also more likely to become sick and need hospitalizations. 75 of the icu beds in florida are already full, and they are going up. I mean, that could be a real problem, john. San. On your podcast you talked to dr. Zeke emanuel who was an obama adviser, and one of the interesting things and i want you to listen here when asked what would you say dr. Trump . I think in the third week of february i did advise the president and i did say to the president that youve got to do what Lyndon Johnson would have done or Franklin Roosevelt would have done is you create a tornado of activity so youve got a task force that deals with testing, a task force that deals with ppe and a task force that deals with ventilators and Contact Tracing and they created a Small Task Force that was supposed to do all of that. That was totally inadequate, and i think it would have made a huge difference. Pretty plain here. He thinks they came nowhere close to understanding the scope of the challenge. Yeah. Now im thinking there might have been a deliberate minimizing of this problem which i find, you know, really, really troubling because you look at other places around the world. South korea, by the way, south korea, they never went into a lockdown phase. People keep saying here and understandably we dont want to go into lockdown again, get it. South korea never had to go into a lockdown phase. Fewer than 300 people have died, why . Because they did exactly what zeke emanuel was talking about. Y in brought a Biotech Company together and said lets make the best test and figure out Contact Tracing and take this seriously. How people behave with inadequate information is sort of the key here, and in this country we kind of minimized this problem and have a lot of catchup to do. A lot of catchup to do. Appreciate your time and insights as well. Thank you very much. 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The question in the senate, first, will enough democrats vote with you on republicans to start the debate . But youve got to give to get. Are you confident that there will be actual negotiating and compromise, or are we going to have Senate Republicans have a plan, House Democrats have a plan and then a month from now were saying nothing gets done . Well, john, we have a real opportunity now to make significant progress. I think probably the best in 25 years in the areas of Police Reform. The bill that ive that was an original cosponsor with tim scott, the justice act, it is serious and sensible and significant and will make a difference in the lives of americans. We need to get a result. Some people try to make a point. I want to make sure we can actually pass a law. You know, the house bill and what tim scott has introduced, the justice act, theres about 70 overlap and agreement there. So that to me is good place to start. We have a history already of doing Bipartisan Legislation with the cares act for coronavirus with the Great American outdoors act just like week so we can do this. We need to make sure that the democrats dont filibuster and Chuck Schumer has been threatening that. We have an opportunities to help our communities and the Police Officers who need the resources to be able to do a better job than what weve seen in the past that they have been doing. The house is obviously going to pass something that will be unacceptable to you. The senators are saying we want to know that youre serious about having an open mind. Lets have some amendments. Are you open at all say on the issue of qualified immunity . Are you going to move the democrat way or is that a nonstarter for Senate Republicans . Thats a legal term and it has to do with how many Police Officers they can sue, and i want to find out how many people we can save in terms of saving their lives. If you have something where you have 70 overlap and agreement, we ought to make sure we do that with body cameras on officers, with doing the sorts of things to help eliminate bad Police Officers and help the good cops having the resources that they need, having the accountability, the training, all of those sorts of things so that you have better results on the street, and so what happened to george floyd will never again happen to any american. We can take and have measurable, meaningful progress, john, in that direction, but if the democrats filibuster us in the senate, then were never going to get there. Legislation is made by the Senate Passing a bill, the house passing a bill and then going to a Conference Committee and ironing out the differences so i think its important that the democrats in the senate dont filibuster and block the whole thing because they want the issue rather than a result to help the american people. Legislation is also made, senator, and youre a sensible guy. I know you know this by trust and youre right about the recent bipartisan agreements, especially after the wake of the coronavirus and we can go back and rewind the tape. Theres not a lot of trust between the parties. 19 weeks to an election. Are there quiet conversations under way that convince you can make that progress, or do you start this as you try to advance the bill this week in the old way, polarized . Well, i will tell you we have a Senate Prayer breakfast. We get together every week and there is trust and understanding and agreement that we need to get a solution on this. Its only a group of about 20, but it is bipartisan, and we want to make sure that we solve these issues that have been plaguing america for far too long. We need results, and we need to get a result, and weve introduced i believe a piece of legislation that will make a major difference for our country and help our communities and help move us forward. Let me ask you quickly a couple other issues. John bolton alleges in his book that the president of the United States essentially gave president xi a pass, said go ahead and build the concentration camps for the rieger muslims and the president told axios that wasnt true but he conceded he delayed sanctions because he was in the middle of the trade negotiations with common and didnt want to upset the apple cart, delayed standing up for the human rights of a population thats being persecuted in china. The House Speaker nancy pelosi called that appalling. Is that a piece that you would consider transactional, the dignity of another human being . I dont know the specifics of that. I do know that the president has been very forceful on human rights in hong kong and i support what the president has done specifically with regard to human rights. It the comes up every time we have hearings for a secretary of state in the Foreign Relations committee on which i serve. I tend to ask questions about making sure that human rights are protected and thats a big part and an issue for me. Senator this morning the president again on twitter raising the idea that mailin voting is somehow an invitation of fraud, and he upped the ante by saying mailin ballots 2020 will be the most rigged election in our nations history unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during world war i and world war ii with no problems and now they are using covid in order to cheat by using mailins. Does it not worry you, sir, and i know youre a loyal republican, have the president undermining the greatest institution saying if you go to states with mailin voting for a long time, including republican states, that its just not true. Voting is a right and a responsibility and its an opportunity. We have as serious that i take very seriously and its a states obligation to enforce those issues. What were doing in wyoming as a republican leader, would you ask the president to just not do this, that its not helpful . Well, i tend to not want to comment on the president s tweets because otherwise id be commenting all of the time. We know that in the past there has been fraud with mailin ballots in some locations. I think states that have been doing this for a long time and are working on it and know how to do it best are able to do those sorts of things. Other states that are just going to try to recreate it at this time i think its a problem. What i see nancy pelosi doing, however, with many so of the legislation in the house, and she had it as part of her 3 trillion visit to fantasy island as a cares act, what she wanted was a federalization of all the elections and i think the states ought to be able to make those decisions. Until wyoming we send out to every voter an application to apply for an absentee ballot, but that doesnt mean that everyone is going to do that, but we certainly shouldnt be sending is out ballots without at least making sure that the person there has requested it. I think what wyoming doing is what should be done. Thats a great point there, senator. I agree with you. Most of the time i agree with you on the tweets. I dont bring them up this one. This one on such a fundamental issue but we can agree to disagree on that. Im grateful for your time, sir. Thanks, john. Just ahead, nascar investigating a shocking incident. A noose found in the garage of driver bubba wallace. 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He led the campaign to get the Confederate Flag banned from the races and nascar says were angry and outraged and cannot stress how seriously we take this heinous act. Fans and media are not allowed near garages because of the coronavirus and the garages are restricted to personnel including nascar officials, drivers and health and safety personnel making it easier to find out who did this. Wallace responded what happened on twitter saying in part todays despicable act of racism serves as a painful reminder for how much further we have to go as a society and how per sieve ent we must be in the fight against racism. This will not break me. I will not give in nor back downch ill continue to proudly stand for what i believe in. Nascar fans were allowed back at the track for the first time that the Confederate Flag was banned and even though banned on track grounds it was everywhere. A plane was flying overhead with the words overhead defund nascar. In the streets there were multiple gift shops selling Confederate Flag items. I walked over there and spoke with the gift shop owners and fans to ask what they thought about the Confederate Flag being band at nascar. Its a heritage thing with the southern people. Yeah. I think until you bring it up, its not a racist thing for them, most of those people, and it is taking Something Else away from them. I didnt let it affect me. You know, i came here for the race and this and that, but im happy that they did do that. Its just progress and moving on. I really didnt have a problem with the flag. Its just i feel like they are taking peoples rights away. Reporter an, john, the shop owners i spoke with said they have actually seen an increase in sales of Confederate Flag items since nascar put that ban into place and openers say they will continue to travel to the nascar event and sell Confederate Flag items moving forward. That was the right decision by nascar. Well watch it going forward. 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