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Blow back if he went ahead and offered this clemency to his friend a few months before the election. Nonetheless, the white house last night in the statement calling roger stone the victim of the russia hoax. It called an attempt to undermine the trump presidency. The white house going on to announce in the statement that roger stone has already suffered greatly. He was treated very unfairly as were many others in the case. The white house saying roger stone is now a free man. That free man, roger stone, emerged from his home in florida last night to address reporters where he thanked the president for granting clemency. Listen to what roger stone had to say. I was elated, obviously. I was somewhat relieved. I was not surprised. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you for giving me the thank you for saving my life because i dont think at my age and in my medical condition i would have survived in the covid19 infested prison. Reporter it is true that prison is not a place you want to be in the middle of the pandemic, alex. There are 2 Million People in america incarcerated. Most will remain in prison, coronavirus or not, while the president s buddy roger stone, remains free. It is hard to get past the message on his face and tshirt. Extraordinary stuff. What about breaking overnight, josh, the president with nbc making that major announcement on daca. That was surprising. What is he saying . Reporter the president saying he is planning to sign a major executive order on immigration. He says it will take care of the Daca Recipients move to a path of citizenship and merit based immigration system. It is not clear how he is planning to do this as far as the separation of a bill that congress would have to pass and the president would sign into law and executive order. Take a listen to what he told telemundo. Daca is going to be just fine. We are putting it in. It will be just fine. Im going to be over the next few weeks signing an immigration bill that a lot of people dont know about it. You have breaking news. Im signing a big immigration bill. A big executive order. I have the power to do it as president. Im going make daca a part of it. We put it in and were probably going to take it out. Were working out the legal complexities right now. Reporter if you heard the jose confusion there of executive order or a bill. That is because the president cannot create a path to citizenship through executive order for Daca Recipients or anyone else. That would require an act of congress when it is unlikely to happen in the partisan climate were facing heading into the election. Most the president would likely be able to do through executive order would be create some type of temporary program like daca. The very program he has railed against for years. Alex sglchl alex. Absolutely. With regard to the house, yes, it could get passed. Josh, thank you. For all of you, we are following the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as the u. S. Saw another record high in the coronavirus cases. The number of new infections topping 70,000 for the first time on friday. At least six states. Georgia, utah, montana, north carolina, iowa and ohio. And hospitals are feeling the strain in florida. New reporting from the affiliate in miami show seven hospitals have no icu beds available. This comes as disney world is set to reopen for the first time in nearly four months with restrictions in place to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Well have a live report in orlando in a few minutes on that. First, overnight. Bars in vegas shutting the doors again. As of midnight, bars are closed for two weeks. Nevada is rolling back plans amid the surge of new cases. Joining me now to discuss it is dr. Holly phillips. Were glad to have you back here. When you hear the numbers, really concerning that the u. S. Has set another single day record. What is your reaction . How do we compare what is happening now and today to when new york city was the epicenter and then it was adding more than 12,000 cases at its peak. It was. These are all sobering numbers. I think that here we are in july and no National Testing strategy. No implementation assistance or ppe for health care facilities. What we are seeing is the Record Number of cases every day will translate into Record Numbers of hospitalizations and possibly deaths. We saw lowest death rate on july 5th, actually, after the country had shutdown, the death toll had started to flatten. Since, the death toll started to rise again. It rose to 800 deaths each of the past four days. If you listen to dr. Fauci, we have heard him say this week the spike in cases should certi seriously look at shutting down. Do you agree with that . Is there a way to safely keep the economy open and keep the virus from spreading . I think ignoring the virus is not a strategy. Saying okay, we have to open schools. We have to open businesses. We have to open the economy. It is walking into cognitive distance. We cannot open businesses if people are going to become ill and not work and ill from being there. We cannot open schools if teachers are ill and not teaching students. We really need to have a strong strategy in place to be able to do things safely. The advice hasnt changed. The protocols of avoiding crowded spaces and masks. It seems we will tread water until theres a larger disruption. Here is something that has changed. Maybe not presumptive approach, but proof with the World Health Organization with guidance of airborne transmission. It is possible to spread through droplets in the air. We have been talking about this transmission for weeks. Why is this coming out just now . Right. A group of scientists had pushed the World Health Organization to look more closely at air transmission. These are tiny droplets. They are significant because they can linger in the air for a longer period of time and they can travel further. We usually talk about the virus being transmitted through close contact. Those are respiratory droplet. One thing that hasnt changed is the virus is still and World Health Organization emphasized this, primarily transmitted by close contact by large respiratory droplets. Air transmission is possible. In a crowded room, the air droplets to potential. You anticipated the question. I would love you to distinguish if it is beyond a broader fo footprint of space. What is the difference between respiratory droplet and air droplet . It can be released under less pressure. Respiratory droplets spreading from a cough or sneeze. Also spreading more closely. If you are sitting next to someone for a period of time. Just through talking. Exactly. Aerosol can be emitted and travel far distance. If you are in a room with someone 20 feet away, aerosol droplets could reach you. However, this is not the primary mode of transmission of coronavirus. It is something that was appropriate for the worldi healh organization to update. Okay. Lets get to the situation once we have the vaccine. There is concern once a vaccine is available for coronavirus, there will be arguments over who gets the vaccine and the battle with antivaxxers. Is there a plan or protocol for people opposed to vaccinations, but live among everybody else in socie society . Right. I think transparency, Public Health initiatives and making sure people understand both the safety of the vaccine and necessity of the vaccine and ultimately what we need to do to get our economy and everything back to normal. It is going to be something that will happen. I think there might be some push back, but we have to hope that people will take the guidance of the Scientific Community and do what we have to do. What about gilead that announced remdesivir is working. It is reducing the risk of the severe cases and helping to lower the number of deaths. What are your thoughts on remdesivir and the efficacy . Right. It is important to remember that there are no approved coronavirus treatments at this time. Remdesivir is the drug furthest along in Clinical Trials. The fda hasnt approved it, but has some emergency use for it. It does seem to stand up. There have been observational studies and Clinical Trials on it. It is standing up and doing well consistently. Other medicines, less so. If any good news we can get with treatments matters because if we can hone in on effective treatment, it makes the illness less severe and helps us get out. Absolutely. Any good news we can hang on to we will take. Thank you, dr. Holly phillips. As the u. S. Leads the world in the number of cases, engel w did right. Reporter u. S. Is hitting record covid19 cases. Europe is getting back to business. Despite aew targeted hot spots, europe appears to be over the first wave. The United States is clearly not. The graph shows europe and the u. S. Both faced initial surge in coronavirus cases. Then europe crushed the curve. To where it is well below the u. S. And stable. While the u. S. Vacillated, lost time and eventually flattened the curve to see cases sky rocket in june. Why . While each country in europe had slightly different experiences, generally, europe stuck to a script. Covid19 policies were national. Not up to local discretion. Science never politicize. Mask wearing not accepted. Closures were enacted quickly. Europe is looking at a number of countries. Brazil and United States and russia in particular as reservoirs of infection that will continue to pose a threat to the rest of the world. Reporter dr. Fauci admitted the u. S. Is not following a winning formula. When you compare us to other countries, i dont think you can say were doing great. Were just not. Reporter covid19 has been a test. The u. S. So far is failing it. Without mentioning any country in particular, jergermanys ang merkel said the pandemic cannot be fought with lies or hatred or aggitation. Most countries waited until they flattened the curve before bringing students back. Richard, thank you. Dont stand so close to me. A new report that shows the president s support among republicans may be crumbling and fast. Thats later this hour. Thats later this hour when i was diagnosed with dupuytrens contracture, i waited to get treated. Thought surgery was my only option. But then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. It was a total game changer. Learn more about the condition at factsonhand. Com it was a total game changer. Just between us, cleaning with a mop and bucket is such a hassle. Well i switched to swiffer wet jet and its awesome. Its an allinone that absorbs dirt and grime deep inside. And it helps prevent streaks and haze. Stop cleaning. 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Sam, what can you expect when the park gates reopen . Good morning. Reporter alex, good morning. Plenty of precautions. When disney world shutdown, there were 155 cases across the state. As it reopens here four months later, 250,000 cases. This as the state of florida is trying to balance, alex, livelihood and recordbreaking numbers. In the midst of the staggering numbers in florida, 75,000 in over a week, san francismayor h masks. The number of cases decreased. Reporter if there is progress, it is not reflected in the Hospital System which shows icu bed capacity at 97 . I had at least 12 families come in saying i went to the testing site and line was too long. Reporter in texas, it is not clear the governor knows where to go after the Lone Star State topped 10,000 cases again. The threat of the lockdown back on the table if residents cant follow a mask mandate. I made the tough decision for one reason. Our last best effort to slow the spread of covid19. If we do not slow the spread of covid19, the next step would have to be a lockdown. Reporter urgency across the country with a daily record of 70,000 cases hardly the only red flag. Arizona, South Carolina and texas have seen the death tolls jump by more than 100 in four weeks. In california, half of the counties are on the watch list. The United States in a service problem. Reporter the first peak shutdown disney world. Now the magical main stay is trying to make a comeback with temperature checks and enhanced cleaning. We have new health and Safety Measures in place in coordination with authorities and a cast to help guests navigate as they experience disney springs. Lots of ppe. Reporter for cheryl and her family, they are bringing their own thermometers and pro cautecs from california. We decided to continue living our lives and we can do this safely. Reporter now it is going to be an active day here at disney world. Phased reopening. The Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom opening at can t9 00 to. There are a half dozen teams in the nba which is restarting later this month. Lebron james and the lakers will be here today and they will go through daily testing. Alex. Thank you, sam brock. Everyone from florida to texas, the situation in houston is dire as the number of covid19 cases explodes there. Next, ill speak with the emergency room doctor about what the situation is like at his hospital. Is like at his hospital car. You think it smells fine, but your passengers smell this. Eliminate odors youve gone noseblind to for up to 30 days with the febreze car vent clip. Wow, it smells good in here. So you and your passengers can breathe happy. We are back with the breaking news. President commuting the prison sentence of long time friend and ally roger stone who was conv t convicted in february of lying in the russia mueller investigation. He was set to report to prison to serve a three and a half year term. Joining me now is adam schiff. Chair of the intelligence committee. Thank you for joining me. Im curious what went through your mind when you heard about this sentence commutation. What do you think . You know what occurred to me is what occurred to most americans. If you lie for the president and cover up for the president and if you withhold information that could incriminate the president , he will protect you. You wont have to go to jail. There are two standards of justice in the country. One for the pals of the president and one for everybody else. As someone who came out of the Justice Department. I served six years. It is heartbreaking on the one hand. It is more than that also so destructive of the independence of the Justice Department and the rule of law in the country. Do you think there was any chance that this thought went through the president s mind that were he not to have commuted roger stones sentence that roger stone could, you know, sing like a canary and reveal things about the president he did not want revealed . I think that is absolutely the case. If there were doubt about it,s roger stone made it abundantly clear in his appear for commutation or pardon. He said i kept my mouth shut. I could have spilled the beans. Trump knows what roger stone knows about him. In part of the statements may have been false in answer to questions from the special counsel on the subject of roger stone. Yes, i think it is motivation. I think, alex, part of the motivation as bizarre as it may seem, the president wants to distract at all costs from the growing death toll of the coronavirus. The deadly incompetence of the administration and he would rather talk about the scandal of commuting the sentence of someone convicted by all accounts, a jury for lying for him. Lets face it. If that is part of the motivation. He will buy himself 48 hours or maybe 72. Thats it. Coronavirus is showing no signs of letting up. Lets listen to what roger stone had to say about the decision last night. Had i had a choice of a pardon or commutation . Im happy to have the commutation because i want to clear my name. Im happy to fight it out and i am happy to and win a new trial and vindication. I wont ask you to comment on the shirt and mask. I would ask you to give a response over what he said. If stone gets a new trial and were to be found guilty angaaga. Could he be behind bars again . Thats a good question. I dont think thats the case. I havent studied it to be candid. What roger stone is saying is just spin and message and nonsense. He is thrilled not to be going to jail. Anyone else in his circumstances would be going to jail. Thats what is really so tragic here which is people all over the country who know someone in the criminal Justice System and hard to find families who havent been touched by the criminal Justice System in the country. They look at this and think our Family Member could have never gotten that treatment because theyre not a friend and crony of the president. They didnt commit a crime to cover up for the president. I would not put too much stock in roger stones spin on this. The jury had no problem finding him guilty. Im curious the frustration you may feel on the fact that roger stone was found guilty of perjury while testifying to your committee. It has to send a message the commutation of all future testimony to congress. Is it something you are worried about for the duration of the first term of the presidency and potential second term or will it stop as of january, 2021 if joe biden is elected . I think it will stop if joe biden is elected. We need to protect the country from any future donald trump. We can do that by discouraging the pardon of the power. I have a bill to provide that in any case where a president is a witness subject to target if the president pardon or commutes someone, the entire investigative files need to be provided to the congress so congress can determine if it is another act of obstruction of justice. We have to take steps we never thought were necessary because we never thought anyone could hi violate the norms of office. He will create the same corrupt conduct and signal to other people that violate the law on the president s behalf that they get a pass. Lets move to immigration. The president is signaling a new approach. Heres some of that. Were working out the legal complexities right now. Im signing a major immigration bill. One of the aspects of the bill is daca. A road to citizenship. I know you have been a strong supporter of protecting the dreamers there with daca. Do you think the president is interested in this or as you believe the roger stone commutation that this is another distraction . Well, i think it is both the distraction and i dont think the president means at all what he is saying. Even the white house doesnt know what he is talking about. He says there is a big immigration bill to help Daca Recipients. No one knows about it. If it is such a big bill, you think Congress Knows about it. If it is executive order, the white house doesnt know about it. The president is shooting off his mouth again in the hope of, you know, in florida, appealing to the constituency in florida. It is cruel. The young people living, you know, wondering about their future in the country and job prospects and education. They hear the president once again dangle help for them. I dont think the president is at all serious and i think it is another torment for these young people who have never known any country but this one. We passed a bill in the house. Dream act. If the president were serious, he could say mitch mcconnell, senate, stop obstructing. Send it and ill sign it. Adam schiff, i sent an open invitation. Thank you, my friend. Lets go to the coronavirus pandemic. Cases in the u. S. Hit an alltime high on friday. Adding 70,000 cases for the first time. That brings the total to 3. 2 million cases. Almost half of the cases reported across four states. California, georgia, texas, florida with at least five more states logging record single day highs. Only states reporting decline, connecticut, New Hampshire and rhode island. Texas hospitals are feeling the pressure as Coronavirus Infections as that state climbed to Record Numbers. Some of the busiest hospitals are running out of beds. Diverting ambulances because they cannot accept new patience. Joining me now is the emergency room doctor at methodist hospital. Hospitals forced to treat patients in Emergency Rooms for days. Gurneys lining the hallways. Shortages of medications. Doctor, what do your day look like . Thank you, alex. First off, the big thank you to the physicians and nurses and Staff Members working on the frontline at all of the houston facilities. It is a trying time for the past several weeks or so. What we have seen over the past week has been similar in what you have been reporting. Increased cases and increased positive test results. More and more people coming into the hospital. What is troubling is the velocity of cases. We have multiple patients sick and simultaneously, we are tending to the noncoronavirus needs of the community as well. It has been extremely busy and hect hectic. Dr. Ghandi, compare that to a couple of weeks ago. Whats the difference . Sure. We think as we have reopened society and some folks lax. Lack of social distancing and not Wearing Masks is putting pressure on the system. More and more people have gone out and gotten infected. Risky behavior here in texas early on in may where we had bars open and nightclubs open. Different venues. Individuals were out and about and moving around without masks. Many obtained the coronavirus. They, in turn, came back and spread it within the local communities or households. As we look to what were seeing now, were seeing younger patients affected. Some individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds infected as well. Alex, what is concerning is this is a preventable virus. If we social distancing and mask and follow certain guidelines, we can contain this. We have seen other countries do that. As a physician, that is frustratin frustrating. Even in my community, im targeted as the crazy mask lady. I see these young people coming at me on the sidewalk not wearing a mask and as they pass me, i go masks it is ridiculous. It has to be frustrating for you. People coming in the hospital and if they have worn masks and followed guidelines you just outlined, they might not be there. I want to leave you with this. Sixth leading cause of death in america right now is coronavirus. You are absolutely right. If we follow the simple guidelines and listen and take better care of each other, we can get ahead of this. I think all of our goals as society is the same. We all want to open society and get back to normal as soon as possible. If we dont get ahead of the virus, we will have real trouble. Dr. Gandhi, thank you. We look forward to seeing you again. Best of luck. Okay. The Supreme Court ruling this week might mean we will never see President Trumps tax returns. One former lawmaker thinks the end result could leave mr. Trump facing charges. And joining us today is stacey abrams. At 5 00, House Speaker nancy pelosi will likely have a lot to say about President Trump commuting roger stones prison sentence. 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Shielding his returns into the future. Joining me now is david. Nice to see you. Can you explain your argument here . You know a lot of analysts argue this is bad for the president. You are spinning it for a win. Well, legally, it is very bad for the president. It is completely unsurprising with the Supreme Court was in unanimous agreement after the two dissents. He must comply. Bill clinton had to comply with civil process. My expectation is the Trump Legal Team will do all they can to tie this up. The federal judge overseeing this matter moved swiftly. A hearing set for this thursday. Unless he is rather summary in approach to this, you will see trumps lawyers come up with excuse after excuse and argument after arguments. They are requesting too many documents. Excessive burden. This is a garden variety tax fraud case. Nothing unusual. The prosecutors in new york already have Donald Trumps federal Tax Information because the irs and states all Exchange Information back and forth. What they dont have is the Business Records of the trump organization, the financial records of deutsch bank. And accounting records. If those documents do not support the tax returns and the tax returns significantly deviate from the Business Records and accounting and banking records show, you have tax fraud. That is what trump is trying to hide. Donald has had two income tax fraud trials in the 1984 rauetu. He lost both. He just fabricated a claim with no receipts or documentation of any kind for the massive deductions he took. Lets remind viewers on top of that that there were three attempts in lower courts to obtain these documentdocuments. All of which donald trump lost. Thats why it was punted to the Supreme Court. This is going back to the federal judge. What are the expectations . Will he lose again . He will eventually lose. The question is how long . Once the prosecutors get the information, we will not see it. It will go to the staff of the prosecutors who will use it before the grand jury. At the point at which donald trump is indicted, which the state is free to do unlike the Justice Department at the federal level, they will make specific charges and begin to see things come into the public record. How quickly that will go is largely going to be in the control of judge morraro in federal Court New York and how he handles this matter. They will appeal every one of the rulings they dont like. Absolutely. No expectation other than that. What about takesiing a listen w me toccaskill had to say. He knows we will get the records. If the polls continue to spiral down and he loses the presidency, he is looking at vance in a courtroom come 2021. Im curious what you make of that. If the dock out uments see the of day, what could citizen donald trump be facing . Alex, the senator is exactly correct about this. The New York Times a year and a half ago did the ysuperb seris that showed donald trump and his siblings are all major league tax cheats. They flat out called them tax cheats. Once donald trump is out of office, assuming he does not win a second term through the lek electoral college, he will get vance and im confident there will be abundant evidence that donald trump has been cheating left and right. There is a chapter in my book just about his efforts to hide records of the business volume at the Grand Hyatt Hotel when he was the half owner of it. There will be lots of records that will not line up with the tax returns. David, we look forward to see you again. Thank you so much. Thank you. The latest polls paint a grim picture for the president. There are polling numbers that could seal the fate along with him and supporters in the senate. E along with him and supporters in the senate differently . I wanted to help protect myself. My doctor recommended eliquis. 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I think that they are right and i think that each of elected officials should be held accountable. And republican races in tight voices have avoided any mention of the president. And some officials have decided that even standing too closely in public to the president can be hazardous. What is this all about . Well, i think that you are seeing them try to strike a balance here. They are not trying to embrace trumpry in these ads, but also t directly criticizing him. That would something that would anger his base and the president. So were moving toward the general election, trumps favor ability is quite low over his annuali handling of coronavirus and other issues. So they are trying to create some distance there. Lets get toea the washingt post because according to the paine er paper there are four poll numbers that could spell doom for the gop. First are the president s Approval Ratings showing that 50 of voters are not at all likely to vote for trump. And trumps standing with suburban voters, he is losing by 25 pounds there. The third one, college he had indicated white women. The president lost them by about 7 points in 2016, but the recent poll puts the gap at 29 points. Fourth in a general ballot test, how bad does it spell for the gop . They are really bad for the xwop especial gop especially that generic ballot test in the house and senate. One other number id like to throw in there that is kind of why these numbers are becoming so baked this is 67 , that is the number of people that disapprove off how the preside is handling the coronavirus. And that was in a recent abc ipso poll. And that is important because that is what americans are living with every day. Those are the things that get baked in and are really, really difficult to let go especially since the president isnt doing anything to address the coronavirus. It is pretty extraordinary there. Lets talk about the convention, morgan, because according to six republican senators, they have already said they are unlikely to attend the convention in jacksonville, florida. Keeping h mcconnell is a very close eye on things in the state as coronavirus cases there are surging. Take a listen to him. I think that it is a challenging situation. And a number of my colleagues havenu announced that they are t going to attend and well have it wait and see how things look in late august to determine whether or not it is safe to convening that many people. Wait late august to determine whether or not it is safe to convening that many people. What is the message that it isnt a huge convention, might that combat the bounce that thea typically get after the convention . I think that it is looking increasingly unlikely that trump will get the big con be venks because of the coronavirus. My colleagues and i reported earlier this week that there is uncertainty around this convention. Obviously you are seeing people saying that they wont attend. And it is very unclear how this is even going to pan out. So i think that it definitely threatens the president s desire for this large grand party. Yeah, well wait, watch and see. Morgan, susan, lady, thank you so much. And thank you for watching. Ill be back at noon eastern. Next on velshi, madeline dean with new reaction on the breaking news, President Trump commuting roger stones prison sentence. Nt 40 months not serve bed, trump commutes the sentence roger stone who is set to begin a three year prison term this month. This is a man who obstructed justice, lied to congress, threatened a witness and the purpose of that was to protect President Trump. More than 70,000 coronavirus cases reported at the close of yesterday. That is the highest number of new cases in a single day. The United States is breaking records in all the wrong ways. When you compare us to other countries, i dont think that you can say were doing great. I mean, were just not. And a 72 vote, the Supreme Court rules on trunmps taxes ad he wasnt happy about the decision. Velshi