Enforcement, and an interesting reaction already from the American Federation of teachers. They say that this new designation could be used to, quote, threaten, bully, and coerce teachers back into the classroom to serve the political agenda of the president and some governors. They say that if he really viewed if trump really viewed them as essential, then hed act like it and give the resources to make sure that they are safe in classrooms. All of this, wolf, as so many schools and colleges are wrestling with trying to reopen safe safe safely. 15 student athletes now covid positive at ole miss and North Carolina state sorority houses, five new collegiate outbreaks in kansas. Greek life in the spotlight. There really needs to be a significant curtailment of their social activities because theyre just not getting it quite honestly. Uconn just kicked some students out of housing after a nonapproved gathering. Colleges and universities in at least 17 states. The university has to do testing but what we talked to every university about is being able to do surge testing. Reporter theyre in quarantine across the country. Massachusetts 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 at warp speed chief estimates one will be widely available spring or early summer. He told Business Insider we might be back to normal in 2021 if people take it. Amc theater is taking a big step today reopening in some cities with 15 cent tickets to classic movies as the lure. Nationwide, the rate of new cases is falling for now, but there are spikes in maine, wyoming and in these 18 states the average daily death toll is still climbing. Nationally deaths are the lagging indicator and deaths are now flat. They are not yet decreasing. Reporter were told they will, but only if were smart. And the population seems to have divided itself into two groups. Theres the safe group and then theres the other group that are more care free rather than careful. Reporter allegedly in that latter category, tiktok star who unfortunately owns this. The city of los angeles just cut the utilities after complaints of crowds from neighbors. Dozens of kids without masks piled up against my door. I cant get in or out. So that was it. Im a rat. What can i say . Reporter wolf, im ending, im afraid, on a terrible note. Florida just passed 10,000 covid19 deaths joining a club that no state obviously wants to be a member of. Right now its florida, new york, texas, new jersey and here in california. Wolf . Nationally more than 1,000 americans are still dying every single day. Very disturbing, indeed. This is by no means over. Doesnt look like theres any immediate end in sight. Nick, thank you very much. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. President trump is campaigning next door to joe bidens hometown scranton, pennsylvania. Only hours before he accepts the democratic nomination. Reporter thats right. President trump wrapped up his speech in the critical town of pennsylvania. The former Vice President prepares to give his speech on the last night of the democratic convention. Mr. Trump said he hopes the u. S. Is nearing the end of the pandemic. That is not the case. The president is still sewing doubts about the upcoming election. The only way he can lose is if the vote is rigged. Thats false. The president is back in a familiar position distancing himself from another form jeer e who is now under indictment, former chief strategist, steve bannon. Stunned by days of attacks at the democratic convention, President Trump is on a rhetorical rampage slamming joe biden. Joe biden is a puppet of the radical Left Movement that seeks to destroy the american way of life. Reporter the president is diving into some of the planning hoping to showcase what he sees as the Everyday Americans whose lives have been improved not to mention responding to the warning of former president barack obama that mr. Trump represents a threat to american democracy. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job because he cant. Reporter he seemed triggered by that address as he ranted in all caps. Mr. Trumps reelection chances took another gut punch after his former chief strategist steve bannon was indicted. Bannon was arrested on a yacht. While i feel very badly, i havent been dealing with him for a long period of time, as most of the people in this room know. I think its a very sad thing for mr. Bannon. Reporter when asked about bannons arrest, mr. Trump claimed he didnt know anything about the project about we build a wall. I dont know anything about the project. When i read about it i didnt like it. Its really the heart of the trump movement. Reporter not only was bannon a big part of it, his son spoke out for it. Kris kobach gave it his blessing. He was speaking with the president. The topic came up. I mentioned i was working with we build the wall, and he said, you tell the people you are working with that this project has my blessing. Reporter just last month the president told fox he appreciated bannons support. He said the greatest president ever. Hes saying things i said, lets keep steve out there. Hes doing a good job. Reporter bannon is the latest in a long line of former trump aides to be indicted or found guilty in court. What does it say about your judgment. I have no idea. Reporter as for the president downplaying his connection with bannon, he has used that line before on Paul Manafort once his legal troubles began. I know mr. Manafort. I havent spoken to him in a long time but i know him. Reporter hes dancing around guess quanon. Reporter theyre struggling to explain his embrace. He believes his supporters are good, hard working people that love this country. Reporter the president sounded off on a judges ruling that he may have to hand over his tax returns in new york. Nobody has anything. We didnt do anything wrong. Reporter more headwinds for aides who refuse to say whether hell accept the results. I dont think the campaign has any doubt they will reelect President Trump and mike pence for four more years. Reporter the coronavirus pandemic weighs down his chances. Louisiana senator bill casady is the latest to test positive for covid19. Its going away. It will go away. Reporter like today, a Republican Group of former National Security officials released a statement endorsing biden in the 2020 race. They served in the ragan, bush, trump administrations all described the president as unfit to lead the u. S. Saying he failed on the coronavirus, solicited foreign influence and aligned himself with dictators around the world. Wolf . Reporter jim, thank you very much. Jim acosta reporting. Lets get some analysis. Were joined by dr. Richard besser. Thanks so much for joining us. As you just heard, the white house now officially declaring that teachers around the country are essential workers. Part of their campaign to pressure School Districts to bring the students back into the classroom this fall. What do you make of this . Well, i think teachers are essential workers. I think staff who work in schools are essential workers, but that doesnt mean that theyve been given what they need to do their jobs safely. You know, as a pediatrician and a parent, i know that children need to be in school and they need to be there learning. There are so many reasons that they need to be there, not just education but socialization, nutrition, health. Theres all kinds of reasons. But we havent seen the dollars come from the federal government to ensure that schools across the nation have what they need to make sure that students are safe, that staff are safe and that teachers are safe. And while most children thankfully will do well with this, we know that there are a lot of teachers, theres a lot of staff who have medical conditions or theyre of ages that put them at greater risk. Lets not forget, as i always want to remind everyone, that even if these kids, whether in karch or fifth grade or eighth grade or high school or whatever, even if they come down with coronavirus and are completely asymptomatic, dr. Besser, they can still transmit this virus to their friends and family and others as well, including the teachers. Thats right. You know, its so important that schools have systems in place that theyre working with public health. Any community where theres still ongoing transmission at a significant level will not be able to open safely. Schools in lower income neighborhoods, schools that serve black and brown children have been under invested in for decades, for generations. They dont have the resources in place. These dollars should still come. A threat that schools wont get dollars if children arent there in person is a total mistake. The dollars need to come to ensure that everyone whos learning from home has computers, has broadband, has access to try to reduce some of the disparities were going to see on the education side. Even if the Young Students are completely asymptomatic. Correct me if im wrong. We dont know what the long term impact of coronavirus could potentially be on these kids. Thats right. You have to balance the risk from the disease from the benefit of being in school. There are communities in this country where the level of disease transmission is low enough that i think the benefit is in favor of children being in school but only if the schools have been able to do those things in terms of decreasing the number of children in classrooms, hire staff so you can do screening, hire staff so you can disinfect your classrooms, put up barriers so that staff and teachers can be as safe as possible. Those are the things that need to be in place, but then only in places where transmission is very low. We learned today that a Yale University professor issued a rather stark warning in an email to returning students saying in her words, let me quote, we all should be emotionally prepared for widespread infections and possibly deaths in our community. She goes on to say students decisions will have life or death consequences. These are obviously very powerful words. One every Student Needs to hear right now. I think you agree. Well, as you were saying, across america 1,000 people are dying every day and as schools reopen, as children go back into the classroom, as young adults go to university campuses, there will be people who get infected and unfortunately there will be people who die. You know, its not that people wouldnt die if they werent going back to school because this pandemic is still widespread, but we have to recognize we have to be ready to deal with the fact that there will be people who dion camp die on campuses as people come back. Whats your thought, people the kids are supposed to be coming back. Its not a one size fits all. There are College Campuses that are in states where theres not a lot of transmission, that are in isolated, semiisolated areas where you may be able to pull this off, but we also have to enlist young people. If you look at young people across the country leading movements for social justice, for Racial Justice, to combat Climate Change and then you see a lot of young people on campuses going to crowded parties, we need to find a way to enlist the power of young people and what they can do if they get on board with trying to put their efforts towards preventing spread on campuses which then would prevent spread within the communities they live in. Always important to hear what you have to say, dr. Besser. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Just ahead, ill speak with the chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot about all the late breaking decisions about the attacks in her city. Well discuss when we come back. More on the final night of the Democratic National convention. Were getting new information, new details. Stick around. Good morning, mr. Sun. Good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. Im gonna grow big and strong. Yes, you are. Im gonna get this place all clean. 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Theres so much frustration and anger and i think the one thing joe biden brings to this campaign is the ability to be real, a real unifier and draw very, very sharp contrast between himself and president donald trump. I think hes also got to give people the ability to hope. Hope is in short supply these days and i think thats what people really desperately need. I think the moments of this convention that are resonating the most have been those voices from ordinary americans who are talking about what their aspirations are. I think hes going to meet that need, that desire for hope and im confident that he will. Then hes also got to reintroduce himself to folks not just as obamas Vice President but a man whos dedicated his life to Public Service. We see some of those testimonials over the course of this week, but i think hes got to really drive it home and explain to people the kind of person he is, the kind of man he is, the father, the empathy. All of that has to come through but i think hell do it. Reintroduce himself to a number of voters. We heard from former president barack obama like weve never heard him before, truly scathing critique of the trump presidency. Would you like to see a similar acute attack tonight on President Trump from the former Vice President . I think thats what you leave your surrogates to do. I think he has to be the one that is inspiring people along the ways i was just talking about. I dont think he needs to level a searing attack against President Trump. I think he has to draw the contrast and i think through the body of evidence of why trump should be one term and done, one and done, is out there and available. Theres plenty of surrogates that can do that work. Thats why you have a Vice President ial nominee and i think both Michelle Obama and her incredibly, incredibly powerful and impactful speech really laid the foundation for that, along with a number of others. Today yet another white house official, mayor, refused to say whether President Trump would accept the results of the president ial election if he loses. How concerning is that to you . Well, i mean, i think this is part of the game plan, to create chaos and worry. Hes going to accept the results. Hes going to lose on election day. Were going to turn a page from this dark chapper and hell accept the results. He has no choice. In his pitch to voters today the president , he was in pennsylvania, in scranton, he said, and i am quoting him now, if you want a vision of your life under a biden presidency think of, quote, blood stained sidewalks of chicago. So how do you respond to that . I dont respond to that. I mean, thats just ridiculous, hyperbolic rhetoric. He is in a race to the bottom. Were going to see that every day from now until november 3rd. Hes trying to scare white middle class voters in trying to borrow and really clumsily so from the 1968 Richard Nixon playbook. Its a different world, and what we have here is a fundamentally failed leadership on every major issue. Why are we meeting remotely . Why are schools not opening . Why are businesses suffering . Why are we seeing a catastrophic economic decline . That all leads back to Donald Trumps incompetence as a president of the United States. Lets not forget that just last week alone another 1. 1 million americans officially filed for unemployment. First time unemployment opportunities. Another 1 point more than 50 million have applied over the last few months. Many have not gone back to their jobs. A number of them have simply given up on trying to find jobs. Mayor lightfoot, good luck in chicago. Thank you very much for joining us. Thanks, wolf. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Just ahead, were going to bring you a preview of the fourth and final night of the Democratic National convention. Theres more breaking news were following. 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Reporter wolf, theres no doubt joe biden has delivered president ial announcement speeches and concession speeches but he has never delivered the type of speech he will deliver here tonight at the chase center in his hometown of wilmington. That is an acceptance speech for the Democratic Partys nomination. That puts an exclamation point on a Democratic Campaign and the coronavirus pandemic. President trump may be at the center of this campaign as hes been trying to show us every day, but i am told by mr. Bidens advisers he will not be at the center of the show tonight. Thats because the speech tonight and the entire programming is all about joe biden. Its joe bidens night as he formally accepts the democratic president ial nomination. At the apex of a half century in politics, he becomes the partys standard bearer for the first time and now owns the burden of trying to defeat a sitting president. Im running for our countries, democrats, independents and republicans. A different path. The promise for a soul of the nation has been the anthem. We choose truth over fears, truth over lies, unity over division. Reporter and it will be a theme of his address tonight aides tell cnn but with a message focused on the future with a spirit of resilience to lift up a country in crisis. Tonight former rivals cory booker, pete buttigieg, andrew yang all stepping up to help prosecute his case against President Trump. I know a predator when i see one. Reporter on wednesday night california senator Kamala Harris accepted the Vice President ial nomination presenting herself to the country as a history making agent of change. Donald trumps failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. Lets be clear, there is no vaccine for racism. We have got to do the work. Reporter Hillary Clinton offered a warning to democrats and other voters that only she can give. And dont forget, joe and kamala can win by 3 million votes and still lose. Take it from me. Reporter yet the words of former president barack obama perhaps carrying the most weight, delivering a remarkable rebuke of his successor. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job because he cant. Reporter and a call to action that the nations democracy is on the line. This president and those in power, those who benefit from keeping things the way they are, they are counting on your cynicism. That is how they win. Reporter tonight biden effectively becomes the leader of the Democratic Party. Its a role that even he says is temporary. I view myself as a bridge not as anything else. Theres an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country. Reporter his place in American History is still unfolding but he is that bridge. From the obama Biden Coalition to the biden harris coalition, which he hopes will lead him to the oval office to become the 46th president of the United States. Reporter joe biden has gone inside the chase center here today twice to do a walk through to see what its going to be like to give a very unconventional audience and speech. There may not be an audience inside. This parking lot you see behind me here, its essentially going to become a drive in movie theater. People are coming in now. Theyre encouraged to stay in their cars. Theyll be watching the events unfold from a movie screen. Wolf . Think about those driveins when i was a young kid growing up in buffalo. We used to go to the drivein. Making a comeback. Jeff zeleny. Political version of it, exactly. Certainly. Were just getting this into cnn. Were getting a preview of a biographical video that will play right before joe biden delivers his speech accepting the democratic nomination for president. I want to discuss with our chief political analyst Gloria Borger and abby phillip. Lets watch a little bit of this video that will introduce biden to the country tonight. For the first time, joe saw the heavy burden and it was a lesson he would never forget. A job is a lot more than a paycheck. Its about dignity. The country was losing tens of thousands of jobs a day, and they needed three votes to pass the economic rescue package. Joe biden has handled the task of going to get those three republican votes. Joe returned to the place where he had been so effective. Passionate argument, sympathetic listening, willingness to make adjustments and accommodations to bring people on board. When the law finally passed, the president tapped his partner to run the program. Joe tracked every dollar calling mayors and governors. Talking to them on the phone one on one. He gave all of them his cell phone. And i watched him bring his heart to that job. It matters that you have in your mind the family that youre trying to reach, the neighborhood that youre trying to reach, the people whose lives are affected by what you do. Gloria, you have a powerful cnn documentary coming up on joe biden, his personal life in so many ways as weve now all seen has been truly front and center all this week. Yeah. Theyre going to highlight recovery act, of course, because he was in charge of implementing it. I mean, around the white house they used to call him the sheriff because he was keeping track of the money and he was calling the mayors and he was calling the county council folks to say, how are you spending this money . Are we spending it appropriately . But the larger picture here is theyre going to tie his experiences in life and in government, like that one, to his values and then theyre going to try and let you know how that will transform into a working agenda as president of the United States. So i think what were going to hear tonight, were going to see a lot of these videos talking about his life and his values as a Public Servant and also as a parent when they do the video of beau, but then hes going to have to talk about what that means or how he will lead the nation going forward. You know what, abby, what do you make of that message linking bidens personal skills with the ability to get things done with congress . Well, it is a codea on this week that has been on the other end of things of President Trumps unwillingness to do the job, inability to do the job, lack of work ethic frankly is what a lot of the speakers have been talking about. Theyll be contrasting that with the message which is all about joe biden as the sort of doerr in the white house. It is a little bit of a tricky message because i think that the recovery act is something that the obama folks obama era is very proud of, but its going to be very easy for republicans to say, well, you know, that the argument for trump, frankly, is that he believes that that economic recovery was a recovery but it was too slow. So it is a little bit of a double edged sword. For biden the message is about why all of this talk about working with republicans and getting all of these republicans in matter and for those three votes that they talked about in that video in terms of getting things done in congress, the question, as gloria said, is how is he going to put that into motion for the future, for his own administration that he wants to have . Great question. You know, biden, flogloria, isn supposed to make President Trump the main portion of his acceptance speech. How important is it for him to lay out a specific vision of a biden presidency and avoid really attacking the current president of the United States . Well, you know, he may not say donald he may not do it the way barack obama did it. Others have done it for him so he doesnt have to come out and say donald trump is this, this, and this because that case the democrats have made and theyve made it over the past three days. I do think he will compare his skill and his experience in Public Service and his ability to try and work across party lines, and that may be overstated, by the way. We live in a very different world right now than the world that joe biden lived in when he was in the senate or even when he was Vice President , but i think hes going to you know, hes going to make that case. Its going to be an implicit comparison but he is also going to have to show how he would lied a lead and where he would lead the country. We heard the message on Climate Change the other night. We heard the message on immigration, but it has to come from him and he has to convince americans that, in fact, he would be the president of allamericans, not just the base of the Democratic Party. What sort of balance, abby, do you think he needs to strike . Whats been interesting in this convention is seeing how relentlessly in the middle the Biden Campaign wants to remain. They ran this entire democratic primary trying not to go too far left and getting really criticized by the Democratic Left over that. I think that the convention this week is also in that vein because they do believe that is where the country is. It is also where they believe the Democratic Party is. Youre going to see this centrist message coming from joe biden tonight. Youll be with us throughout the night as well so dont go too far away. 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I mean, any time the federal government through the Justice Department brings a felony charge against you, its a big deal. Its a serious matter and not to be taken lightly. In addition, when you read the charges in this case, you see how strong the evidence is. You see how much its based on documents, how much its based on Text Messages and then you see what the potential exposure is. One count on conspiracy to commit Money Laundering, one conspiracy for wire fraud. They total 40 years. Its serious. I didnt look at all of the documents and papers and see the arguments. Someone like this you tend to think is not a flight risk. He has a connection to the United States. He has reason to want to clear his name and help himself in some way or another whether by cooperating or otherwise. Its a substantial bail package. In a case like this typically you would not seek detention. The Southern District of new york, which you know well, you used to lead it, part of the president s own department of justice, that made this arrest not by the Manhattan District Attorney but by the federal government. The u. S. Attorney for the Southern District reports to the Justice Department here in washington. This is clearly a big deal. Would the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District have to get approval to do this from the attorney general, bill barr . Thats an interesting question. One is a question would they need to seek it . Second, did they give a heads up . Bill barr himself, credit him, said he was briefed on the case in the last few months so he was aware of it. I will tell you frankly that if this case arose just now given the degree to which bill barr seems to have been meddling, other than the fact that steve bannon was formerly associated with the United States, he is a garden Variety Charity fraud related to Money Laundering and wire fraud. Cases like that, theres no regulation or rule that im aware of that requires notification or approval from the attorney general. Cases like this are brought all the time. It sounds like there was some time ago. It means the attorney general from other cases understands how to interfere, how to medal and it has the premature blessing of bill barr even though you have someone like bill bannon in the caption. Thank you so much. We always rely on your expertise in these kinds of matters. Well continue this conversation down the road. Thanks so much for joining us. All right. Just ahead, ill speak live with senator chris coombs of delaware who will actually introduce joe biden in a couple of hours. There you see chris coombs. Hell discuss with me when we come back. We are National University and for 50 years weve been home. 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Thanks for a chance to be on with you. I am excited. This has been a great convention, a great week. I am blessed to have an opportunity tonight to introduce americans to this side of joe biden, to someone ive known and watched and followed for 30 years. Ive seen how in moments of joy and triumph hes turned to prayer, and ive seen how in moments of great loss and deep suffering, hes turned to god for strength, for solace, and for the ability to get up and go on with his life after a loss that defined his early time in the senate and after the loss recently of his beloved son five years ago. I think thats important, wolf, because tens of millions of americans right now are going through very hard times. More than a Million People filed for unemployment last week. Weve had 170,000 americans die in this pandemic, often alone. And so many of us are anxious or concerned about our children going back to school or college, about our parents, our friends or family possibly be sickened whether in Senior Centers or in their homes. So, joes compassion, joes positive and optimistic view and his empathy is important for us getting through this. And i want us to have the chance tonight to help people see how thats rooted in his faith. Not long ago, as you know, senator, President Trump claimed Vice President biden wants to hurt god, his quote, hurt god. Do you expect faith to play a prominent role in the campaign over the next two months . Wolf, one of the things i will say tonight is that for too long democrats have been retiring, shy, quiet about our faith and about the ways in which our faith inspires us to act. Thats certainly true with joe biden. I think its important that we see the original founding sin of our nation, slavery and Racial Justice as equally faith issues in this election as the social issues that, since the 80s, have been defined as the religious issues in an election. Whether or not we have a just and human immigration policy, whether or not we are good stewards of immigration and create Climate Change, whether or not we treat each other as children of god, these, to me, are important issues in the election and they should be understood as issues for americans motivated by faith should implicate their decisions at the voting booth in november. Thanks so much for joining us. Well look forward to your remarks later tonight. Appreciate it very much. Thank you wolf. This programming note, join me once again 8 00 p. M. Eastern, an hour from now, for cnns special coverage of the Democratic National convention. And well have much more of our special coverage. Thats coming up next. 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