Make change. I dont think so. The president s attack on his 2020 opponent for ripping off the American People come as a top trump adviser who was key to President Trumps 2016 election is expected to appear virtually in court any moment for ripping off the American People. Former Trump Campaign ceo and former white house chief strategist accused of defrauding the president s own supporters arrested off a yacht. He was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. He took hundreds of thousands of dollars for his own personal gain under the guise of raising money for we build the wall. A group trying to fulfill Trumps Campaign promise. Acting homeland secretary visited the site where the group was building a wall device and donald trump junior gave a speech at one of the events calling what they were doing, what capitalism is all about. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization telling the New York Times that trump junior was deceived by the group and had no involvement beyond that speech. Bannon joining a long line of Trump Associates and former associate who is have been charged with or convicted of various felonies. The president distanced himself or attempted to do so calling the arrest sad. Caitlin collins is in pennsylvania where President Trump is speaking. Rallying against bidens record trying to tie him to the left wing. Reporter hes been using these style terms since he came out here and started speaking behind me. Going off against joe biden saying he is going to be this tool of the radical left and listen to what he said, what he envisions a joe biden presidency will look like. If you want a vision of your life under biden presidency, think of the smoldering wounds in minneapolis, the bloodstain sidewalks of chicago and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in america. Reporter now, jake, all of those things have happened while donald trump is in office. Its not clear how he thinks thats going to be a successful line of attacking against joe biden. Regarding those attacks that youre talk about where the president was telling the crowd were in a backyard of joe binds hometown. He said he thought joe biden abandoned scranton. He left when he was ten years old because his dad would not find work. He have ten at the time when that happened. Thats been a line of attack the president has tried to use on joe biden before. Its not clear at all that its a successful line of attack for the president. President obama made the case last night during the convention that trump and, in his view, is not a serious enough person to be president. Trump responded by proving the point. These all caps tweets containing lies and conspiracy theories, completely undisciplined. Is he team expecting that trump will live tweet bidens speech again tonight. Reporter it could very well happen. Hes been watching the Democratic Convention so closely. Mainly not only because he wants to see what they are saying about him since hes been an incredibly significant topic but he wants to watch and learn what to do for the republican ron ven convention. He been calling his staff while watching whats going on saying i do want Something Like this. Doints want it to look like that. Like watching and learning from how they are doing things. As far as the criticism of president obama speech last night, that within about two minutes of the president getting on stage here in pennsylvania, he brought that speech up. Criticisming obama and critic e criticizing mail in voting. I want to read this quote where he said the only way they going to win is by a rigged election. I really believe that. Thats what the president just told the crowd here. This crowd of that the president is trying to woo the voters. His own aides have refused to say whether he will accept the results of the november election regardless of the out come. Mail in voting prevalent throughout the country. Thank you for that report. Joe biden expected to level significant criticism after President Trump this evening when he accepts the democratic nomination for president. Biden does not want trump to be the central focus of his speech. He hopes to project an optimistic view of the future. Reporter its joe bidens night as he accepts the democratic nomination. At the apex of half century in politics, he becomes the Party Standard bearer for the first time. Now owns the burdens of trying to defeat a sitting president. Democrats, republicans and independents. A different path. Reporter for the last year, a promise to restore the soul of the nation has been the anthem of his can didacy. We choose hope over fear. Truth over lies and yes, unity over division. Reporter it will be a theme of his address tonight aides tell cnn but with maeszage focused on the future with the spirit of resilience to lift up the country in crisis. Cory booker, pete. I know a predator when i see one. Reporter presenting herself to the country as a history making agent of change. Donald trumps failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods and lets be clear, there is no vaccine for racism. We have got to do the work. Our democracy. Reporter the words of former president barack obama carrying the most weight. Delivering a remarkable rebuke of his successor. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job because he cant. Reporter a call to action that the nations democracy is on the line. This president and those in power, those who benefit from keep things the way they are, they are counting your cynicism. Thats how they win. Reporter biden effectively becomes the leader of the democratic party. Its a role he says is tempor y temporary. I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. Theres an entire generation of leaders you saw behind me. They are the future of this country. Reporter his place in American History is still unfolding. He is that bridge from the obama Biden Coalition to the bide Biden Harris Coalition which he hopes will make him the 46th president of the United States. Joe biden has delivered many speeches in his long political career. Many key ones here in his hometown. It was 48 years ago this summer he was running for senate from the first time. He announced one of his president ial campaigns here as well. Jake, theres no question, tonights speech in the chase center behind me here is the most important impactful speech he will give. It will set the tone for the rest of this campaign. Its goink g to be different. Hes in there all alone. Different than a big speech hes given. Im told hes not going to let the president , President Trumps words hijack his speech. He will give an optimistic, forward looking address. Hooe going to make the argument for why change, he believes, is needed. Jake. Thanks so much. Lets bring in sally yates who served under president obama and trump. She was fired for refusing to deliver his travel ban. We heard the criticism of President Trump for three days. How important do you joe biden should come out and give an affirmative reason of how he will improve their lives instead of not being donald trump. Right. Thanks for having me here today. I think the American People will have chance to see joe biden up close tonight. When i think about this election and the kind of questions that need to be answered, i think, first, about will this president , will whoever is elected be making decisions that are in the best interest of the country rather than himself. Will he tell us the truth and will he live up to the values of our country or the values to which we always aspired. I think thats joe biden to his core. I think he answered yes to all three of those. I would expect the folks listening to that speech would be able to say yes as well. President trump has long argued that the Law Enforcement quote unquote, deep state had it in for him. You were part of that. Did you have any moment of pause about endorsing joe biden just because of any concerns that it might feed into his narrative . No. The work we did with respect to the russia investigation was in connection with the russians, a foreign adversary interference in our election. I would hope we would agree we shouldnt allow Vladmir Putin to pick our president. I think thats something whether youre a democrat or republican or independent that you should be in favor of. Ive never spoken at a convention before. Ive never been involved in anything political before. I dont think this is the ordinary election. This isnt just about who will be president for the next four years. Any my view, its about the trajectory of our country and what path are we going to take. I think its way too important a decision for any of us to sit on the sidelines. The Senate Intelligence committee put out its fifth and final report this week. They out lined a lot of ways there were dealings of people on the Trump Campaign and russians. They also did not find any evidence of conspiracy or collusion. What did you make of that . There was more information in this. I havent made it through all 1,000 pages but there was more information in the Senate Report than the Mueller Report. I dont think either of them said there was no evidence of conspiracy or collusion. The Mueller Report said what they found was is there was not sufficient evidence to establish. I think thats what you see. There was a whole lot of contact with the russians. A campaign almost brimming with russians. No prosecutable evidence. Another member of the campaign orbit was arrested and charged, steve bannon. You were part of the team what warned the Trump Administration about michael flynn. Whats your reaction to the news of Steve Bannons arrest . Well, i dont know a lot about the facts of that case. Just what ive read in the media today. You know, for a president who said he was going to surround himself with only the best people, a whole lot of them are sure ending up charged and convicted felons. Lastly, what do you make of President Trump giving an encouraging word to members of the qanon group that believers this bizarre Conspiracy Theory of satan worshipping, canalistic pedophiles running the government. The fbi suggested the group is a terrorist threat. People who believe this craze vi Conspiracy Theory have committed kidnappings, murder and other acts of violence and yet President Trump seems to give them a thumbs up. Which is a frightening and irresponsible thing to do. The fbi has made clear that qanon is a dangerous group. The idea that the president of the United States because theyve said nice things about him would embrace them is another example of him putting his own interest ahead of whats best for the country. Sally yates, thanks for your time. You can watch the final night of the Democratic National convention and watch joe biden accept the nomination for the president of the United States this evening on cnn. You heard from sally yates. Aisle talk to one of the president s fiercest allies and what he makes of Steve Bannons arrest. Crackdowns in california. Power cut at packed house party hosted by a social media star. Stay with us. What if you could have the perspective to see more . At morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view. We see companies protecting the bottom line by putting people first. We see a bright future, still hungry for the ingenuity of those ready for the next challenge. 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Reporter massachusetts now mandating flu vaccines for most students from kindergarten through college. We really cant afford to have both illnesses circulating at a significant level. Reporter covid19 vaccine news. The warp speed chief estimates one will be widely available spring early summer. He told Business Insider we might be back to normal end of 2021. After claiming first viable vaccine in the world, russia is just now planning phase three Clinical Trials but details of their vaccine still a mystery. They dont hold themselves to any standard. I dwor o worry about that. Reporter the rate of new cases is falling. There are spikes in maine and wyoming. In these 18 states the eaaverag death toll are climbing. Deaths are the lagging i understand cater and they are flat. They are not decreasing. Reporter were told they will but only if were smart. The population have divided itself into two groups. Theres the safe group and the other group that are more carefree rather than careful. Reporter allegedly many that latter category, a tiktok star who owns this Hollywood Hills party pad. The city of los angeles cut the y utilities after complaints from neighbors. Dozens of kids piled against my door. I koints get in or out. Im a rat. What can i say. Reporter senator bill cassidy of louisiana has tested positive. He realize he had been in contact with somebody. He got a test. Thats the responsible thing to do. He said hes in kwaquarantine following the guidelines an urging everybody to do the same. Louisiana, right now leading the nation in the number of covid19 cases per capita. Back to you. All right. Thank you so much. O our thoughts are with the senator. We have dr. Sanjay gupta. Do you think its realistic that most of our country vulnerable population will have severed vaccine or will have received one by next summer . I think its possible. This is time line that we have been hearing. We have been talking to the manufacturers. Two of them that we talked about a lot, moderna and pfizer that are in phrase three. Moderna says october. As you know, they have been treating this differently in the sense they are making Big Investments trying to manufacturing some of these vaccines before the data comes back. The thing we dont know which is the critical point is the vaccine going to work in these larger segments of the population. Just dont have that data yet. The operation warp speed adviser said was that probably four of the six candidates should be viable vaccine candidates. In that happens, we could maintain that time line and more of the country than by the end of the year. What do you make of this new information coming out of russia about their attempts at a vaccine. I understand it involves two doses. What more are you learning . I spoke to the spokesperson about this. Its two dose vaccine. It takes an existing virus, puts in the coronavirus genetic material and using that sort of as the vaccine. Two doses. We dont know a lot about this. We know the mechanism. We havent seen any data. Ive been asking for this data over and over again. Weaver to were told major publication is supposed to come out in august. What were learning, they said maybe it would be 1600 to 2,000 people which isnt typically enough people fp n. Now they are saying it will be some 40,000 people. We need to see the data and see if the trial is going on. They are now suggesting which is different than what they first suggested. Back here in the u. S. , notre dame has more than 300 positive cases on coronavirus. On tuesday the president of notre dame announced the classes would be remote for two weeks. I was surprised. Only two weeks. Ive been speaking to father jenkins since may. We spoke to him when he first came up with the plan and announced at that point he was planning on bringing students back. Keep in mind how much has changed since may. We learned a lot more. They wanted to do testing and maintain the Public Health practices. I think every one would do well to Pay Attention to whats happening in places like notre dame despite a lot of planning, the virus is behiaving the way you would think it would. College students are behaving the way you would think they would behave. Most of the spread is occurring off campus parties. I think theres a sense talking to university administrators, we can control things on campus. I think even that is challenging but its these off campus gatherings that are impossible to control. You see the Positivity Rate has gone way up on the campus there. I believe it was president george w. Bush who said when i was young and irresponsible, i was young and irresponsible. Across the u. S. Covid cases are declining but in texas and mississippi and georgia, those are three states that are struggling. Georgia governor slams the white houses own assessment of the state insufficient response as pandemic politics. What do you make of all that . And as a georgian what do you make of how the governor has handled this crisis . Its incredibly frustrating. We talked about this since the start. He said more information should be out there. More information is we closed too late and opened way too erm. We were the first to open. President trump even was surprised that we were opening nail salons and bars and bowling alleys. Really making it difficult now that were starting to try goat back in school. Look at the Positivity Rate. Were still hovering around 15 . We have one of the highest per capita rates of covid in the country. This is a governor who seemed surprised to learn weeks, even months after every one else seemed to know this virus could be spread asymptomasymptomicly. This is a governor who sued the mayor because they tried to have a mask ordinance. Its a disaster. Theres no guidance. I get so many calls from parents and other people, what do we do . How do we navigate our way through life . Theres been no guidance, no transparency. What do i make of it . Its been a real problem. Real disaster here. We saw it happening in realtime and criticizing it in realtime and he did it any way and the results were what we expected. Lastly, i know you have texted with dr. Fauci today. Tell us more about how his surgery went. I think he had a polyp removed from his vocal cord. Thats right. Its an out patient operation. Those require general anesthesia. This is a polyp on the vocal cord from irritation. People who are using their vocal cords a lot, which he has been. He had a bad flu in december, precovid. This probably started that process and hes been talking nonstop for the last several months. He could finally get this removed. He text eed me right after he g out of the operating room. Hes almost 80 years. Hes home now. His add vice from his doctor is dont talk so much. Probably something that President Trump would say to him too, sadly enough. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. 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Right now in detroit, teachers are planning to strike over plan to reopen schools there. Plan that does not go far enough to protect their health. In florida, today, the government in court defending its emergency order to reopen all Public Schools by the end of august. This after a Teachers Group sued the state of florida saying it should be up to local communities. This also as Martin CountySchool District in florida announced more than 300 students have to quarantine due to possible cases of the virus in classrooms just over one week into the new year. With all the risks, what led you to make the decision to start inperson learning in. As you know, in florida we start schools at this time any way. This is our board approved calendar for the 20202021 school year. The commissioner of education came out july 6th and issued an emergency order requiring all florida School Districts to reopen brick and mortar schools five days a week for all students in august. We are following our board approved calendar at this time. We did open brick and mortar last week for our students. We also have a Remote Learning option for parents. For parents who choose not to send their students to school inperson. They have the option to keep their Children Home and have a laptop thats been issued. We have deployed 12,000 laptop devices at this point in time to students. We also have a laptop for learning program that all of our High School Students do receive a happlaptop when they enter 9t grade. That learning will continue at home for the students. You opened up because the education commissioner said that you had to . Am i hearing you correctly . Is that the reason ultimately in. Yes, yes. Looking at that, there was the many School Districts did push back their start date of schools. It had come as a recommendation but we followed through and we just maintained our leg baylor hospitaled school calendar. Did you disagree with the decision. Would you have not done so if you had not been told to do so . Its a possibility. I think that we have to look at that. We closed schools pretty quickly in march. We transitioned to Remote Learning. We know theres a higher expectation for learning to take place now for the students that are learning at home. Also, we have been in the preparation and planning to mitigate risk, adapting cleanings, spraying disinfectant and providing an option for all students. Our students being out of school for five months, were afraid of a covid gap achievement for sturnt student. Its important to have them back in school learning. We know that Virtual Education is not a substitute for the teacher in the classroom. Its important to be back in school. We know that students its the safest place sometimes for some our our students to be. Its not just about education anymore in schools today. Its safety, security for students. Here in florida we experienced the parkland situation that weve had. Many our our students sever tre twothirds of their food at school. We do a lot of things in sdoo schools. I get it. Im a dad. I have a 10yearold and a 12yearold. I understand that Remote Learning is challenging. What precautions are taking. Does everybody in the school have to wear a mask . Do you have separation . Are kids allowed to sit amongst each other in the hundred mp room or do they have to maintain distancing. What precautions are being taken . This is a deadly disease and as dont need to tell you, im sure you know, kids in florida have died of covid. Im glad you asked this question. I could not be more proud of our entire team in the Martin CountySchool District for taking this on as far as being able to mitigate the risks. We have a k12 Pandemic Response team in our district that we work with our local department of health in Martin County. It includes local medical professionals including a pediatric and family physician. The team has met every day. Is everybody wearing mask . Yes. We are wearing masks. Its required to require mask. If youre going to use our transportation, you must wear a mask. They are wearing them in school. We went out this summer and measured our classrooms. The furniture is socially distanced. We ordered extra cafeteria tables so the kids can be socially distanced in the cafeteria. We ordered extra tables in middle school and High School Kids can be out doors eating so theres ample space in between the tables and clas room and desk and all those things. We measured space six feet for our teachers to try to keep them safe so they are six feet from our students in the classroom. I know its complicated. I wish for the best for you and the students. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. 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He was charged with defrauding donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Fund Raising Campaign supporting a private construction of the border wall. Joining me to discuss this and his new book, trey gowdy. His new book is titled doesnt hurt to ask. Congressman, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. Congrats on the book. Thank you. I want to ask, bannon and three others are facing one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of money laundering. They are facing 20 years in prison. As a former prosecutor, what do you make of this case against them . Ill have to confess im biassed. If you read his deposition when i was on the house intelligence committee, i dont like him. Ive never liked him. I think he takes credit for things he never had nothing to do with and hes the only person on the planet that can elect a democrat in alabama. Let me confess my bias. Having said that, youre presumed innocent. Theres serious charges. Id love to tell you i was prized when i heard about it today, i was not. You are presumed innocent and i want to honor that presumption and unless until you plead guilty or a jury of 12 says otherwise. What do you make of the fact as a supporter of President Trump, that so many of his associates ranging from his former Attorney Michael Cohen to a whole range of others, im not going to list them all but youre familiar with their names have been indiected or sentence or charged with crimes. It must bother you do a degree. It did. I think he could confess that maybe some of these folks were not vetted the way they should have been vetted. Manafort came after Cory Lewandowski and cohen. Dont hire a lawyer if youre going to write a book about you. Improper vetting or inadequate vetting. I would say money is the second oldest motive that exists. When i read the senate intel report, i think mfranaforts contacts were designed to help manafort. I dont think they were designed to help donald trump. Vet them first. Hire people that are loyal to your policies and your positions and not loyal to what it can do for them. You mentioned the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Report and manafort is named in that report add being suspected of posing a grave Counter Intelligence risk. The report described in detail contacts between trumps former campaign chief and a russian intelligence agent. The report described him as grave Counter Intelligence threat. It doesnt sound like a hoax. Clearly the russians were attempting something, dont you agree . Yeah. I havent used the word hoax. I was on the intelligence committee. We spent a year and a half trying to ask those questions. Did anyone with a campaign collude, conspire, have contact with russians . When i read that part about manafort, the first thing i thought is he wants money. Hes financially strapped. That goes to the vetting. Ive seen no evidence that, still no evidence, that the president colluded, conspired, coordinated with russia to impact the 2016 election. Let me say this about manafort and his contacts. I do think that would have been a great time for the fbi to come in and do a defensive briefing. One thing we have not yet learned, jake, that we should be interested in was the depth and breadth of this defensive briefing. If the fbi knew his Campaign Manager was having these contacts and if they didnt suspect the president knew about it, why not tell the president . Why not say you got a bad apple in your upper echelon. I think theres more to come on the defensive briefing. The president did come out during campaign and say russia in youre listening, get these Hillary Clinton emails. People have said later he was joking. I dont think he was joking. I think he was i think he was remember there were the allegation is they were so missing emails from her server. Ive always taken that contact to be that. I have encouraged the president before. Sometimes humor doesnt come through. Let me ask you because you mentioned the fbi. Yesterday the president of the United States was asked about this conspiracy cult, qanon. Which claims that there are powerful democrats and hollywood elite who run a satanic cannibalistic trafficking ring. The fbi has labelled qanon a terror threat. President trump didnt denounce them. Basically embraced them by giving them a thumbs up as a Law Enforcement official, as somebody who has worked with fbi agents, does that concern you . Jake, ill have to confess to you. I think im well read. Someone described what it is for the first time this weekend. I heard it. I asked someone, what is this theory. It took me about 30 seconds to deconstruct the qanon conspiracy. 30 seconds. I used to have folks come to me when i was in congress and lay out these conspiracy theories. If any of the conversation i would say, you know what, you should not vote for me. If that what you believe, you should not vote for me because i dont believe it. The hardest day i had in congress is when boehner made me sit down with the families who lost children in sandy hook. Anyone who wants to monotize or profit off of other peoples grief, no matter what that Conspiracy Theory is, you can count me out. I would rather not have their support. I would be curious how much the president , how familiar he is with this. When he finds out that deny 9 11 was an inside job and they deny the mass killings, my guess is he will renounce them. Well, hes endorsed a couple congressional candidates who have put forward those views. Let me move onto your book because thats why youre here. You served a number of terms in congress and you wrote in your book, quote, i Left Congress because the questions never matter in politics. Almost every one in washington, d. C. Already has his or her mind made up. There was little opportunity to persuade anyone other than myself. I found that a remarkable statement and rather bleak. Tell me more what you mean by that. I wish it werent true. Because the redistricting and other factors, even if you are open to something, if you dont vote with your party, there are consequences for that. I think in some respects in politics now, 99 is a failing grade. You can be right on lots of things but if youre not on one, youll get a primary opponent. Also five minutes is not enough. Its fine for youtube but not congress. I hope you saw in the book, i had really good relationships with people that you would not think i would have really good relationships with. In terms of movement, persuading, changing people oos minds, i just dont think theres an appetite for it in our modern political culture now. All right. Thank you so much. Good to see you again. Best of luck on the book. You too. Well be back in a moment. 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Hes now in intensive care said they cant yet confirm what would be an extremely disturbing thing. The patient is in serious condition. He is stable. Currently, there are multiple diagnosis which we are trying to eliminate or confirm. Naturally, poisoning is one of the possible reasons for the deterioration of his condition. Reporter here is another possible reason. More than any other opposition figure in russia, he gets ordinary people out to propetes. The kremlin wishes him a speedy recovery. His unrelenting campaign to highlight corruption in vad mirror putins russia is broadcast on social media improved popular here at a times a real problem to to kremlin. It wouldnt be the first time hes been attacked. In march in april 2017, he was pelleted with green dye by unknown assailants resulting in a serious chemical burn and damaged vision in one eye. It didnt stop him. He told me the threat of violence was the price you have to pay. Have you accepted that you could be killed for this . Any one who is engaged in opposition activities in russia can be arrested or killed. This thought gives me no pleasure or joy. Its a simple joychoice. You can be silent or speak. Taking into account the risks, i continue my work. In ru reporter in russia, speaking is not the easy path. Jake, tonight, supporters want him medevaced out of the country so he can get Better Health care treatment in germany and avoid becoming another kremlin critic to be violenced. Back to you. Thank you so much. Thats it for the lead. Be sure to join me tonight for the Democratic National convention. See you then. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. The number of americans dead have topped 173,000. The country confronts more than 5. 5 million confirmed cases. The outbreak spreading to College Campuses right now in 17 states resulting in more than 1,000 students already quarantined. Also