On for a while but was now still has a lot of popularity. I think its 60something percent, 67 of Americans Still treating him like something of a trust what he has to say about political opponent. A document was sent around to reporters from anonymous white this virus, and that is what has house officials laying out bothered the president and his comments that fauci made in the early days of the outbreak when top aides and advisers for little was known even by the months now, is the idea that experts, which those officials have tried to paint as inaccurate. Dr. Fauci is giving his opinion, not the white house line, which the a. P. Reports tonight, quote, faucis public contradictions of is unlike other spokespeople trump have been viewed by the they have out there like the head of health and human president as a personal affront services or the surgeon general, and have caused some in the west who for the most part are in lockstep messagingwise with the white house. Wing to sour on the doctor. Dr. Fauci has been out there on the effort is part of a white his own messagingwise. House effort to counterpunch on behalf of trump. And the president and his aides say, listen, the white house is fauci has not commented on these the one who is going to make the call here. Reports, but he did continue to warn about this virus in an the president is the one making interview today with Stanford University. The decisions, and they dont like the idea that fauci seems and here it is. To have more influence than the president of the United States. Its happened, you know. Well, theres a lot of reasons why were in that position. Your Worst Nightmare, the perfect storm. This is a really serious but this has certainly been problem. It is truly historic. Something going on for months. It goes to the very top level of the administration. We havent even begun to see the end of it yet. Until you get it completely the president s closest advisers under control, its still going to be a threat. Have been criticizing fauci. So when you ask where these talking points come from, i of course wording like Worst Nightmare and perfect storm cant reveal our reporting to happens to contradict trumps that extent, but i can say at messaging today and nearly every the very closest level, inner circle of the president is this day that, quote, we are doing a great job. Criticism and concern about fauci also talked about these latest outbreaks. Faucis ability to carry a we did not shut down message to the public that is not the message the white house entirely, and thats the reason wants out there. Why when we went up, we started. Hey, kim, education secretary devos made the mistake of running headlong into dana bash then as we started to reopen, were seeing the surges that this weekend on cnn, where she were seeing today. May have made history becoming the First Education secretary not to have students or their this morning the president of the United States retweeted a teachers and their safety as a Conspiracy Theory written by the top of mind, number one concern. Noted Infectious Disease after that somewhat disastrous specialist chuck woolery. Actually hes the former host of outing, where does the campaign the dating game and Love Connection and is a celebrity stand to reopen this nations spokesman for blue emu arthritis schools, especially after those cream. Two big markets in california today . Woolery wrote and the president later distributed to the free well, i think those two big world, quote, the most districts in california are a outrageous lies are the ones about covid19. Big indication of how local and everyone is lying. State leaders have lost faith that they will get any sort of the cdc, media, democrats, our guidance, any sort of instruction from the federal doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. Government besides open up or else. Its all about the election and keeping the economy from coming secretary devos has threatened back, which is about the election. Stripping funding from schools that do not have that do not this afternoon, both trump and the white house seemed to signal their support for dr. Fauci. Reopen when School Leaders are saying what they want is to reopen, but to do that, they need more funds. I have a very good they need more guidance. They need more support so that relationship with dr. Fauci. They can put in place safety ive had for a long time, right from the beginning. I find him to be a very nice measures, finding the right person. I dont always agree with him. Enough room to space children i closed the border, as you know, to china. Apart, ramping up testing for i closed i did the ban on china, heavily infected, and we saved tens of thousands of students and teachers and lives, and dr. Fauci will admit administrators, figuring exactly that it was a good decision. It was very early. That was in january, long before what to do if numbers spike or it was thought of as the right continue to grow once schools thing to do. I get along with him very well. Are reopening because closing i like him personally. Them down again would be theres no Opposition Research being dumped to reporters. We were asked a very specific from the federal government, you question by the washington are seeing districts like in los angeles and san diego saying, we post, and that question was cannot do this. President trump noted that dr. Fauci had made some mistakes, and we provided a you are seeing parents who want direct answer to what was a direct question. Dr. Fauci and the president have nothing more than to be able to always had a very good working send their kids to school so relationship. That they can learn and so that the parents can find a way to go the New York Times reports and nbc news has confirmed that back to work, saying that they fauci was back at the white dont want to send their children back to school even in some districts in the d. C. Area house today meeting with trumps and other places that are chief of staff mark meadows. Planning on moving ahead with at prescheduled meeting were told. Least a partial reopening. So its a big mess. One topic that may have been under discussion, however, the secretary is certainly out californias major rollback of of step with the people who are its reopening efforts just on the ground, and the democrats today, including ordering all are using that as a campaign bars in the state closed. Message for one more reason why californias been averaging over they say donald trump must be 8,000 new cases a day as of voted out of office. Sunday. Florida reported over 12,000 new dr. Minor, i saw an interview cases today. On television tonight with an internist from the washington, yesterday, as you may know, d. C. Metro area, reports hes florida set a National Pandemic got a patient who has had this twice. Record with more than 15,000 seeing more mentions of this in cases, the highest oneday total of any state. Literature and contemporaneous news reporting. That goes to florida. What can you add to this . Today the Florida Governor was greeted with open anger as he started his daily briefing. Were still learning about immunity following infection with covid19 and also were we came to jackson in, i learning about how to lessen the think, early march when this pandemic was really starting to effects, lower the severity of pick up steam. An infection with covid19. At that point i dont even know if miamidade had a case, a whether or not there is or how positive test. Many cases of patients who maybe a couple, but it was recover from covid19 who can obviously much different than then become reinfected, thats what were finding here. A matter of intense investigation. So i think the we do know that many people we have recordbreaking cases following an infection do mount every day, and you are doing nothing. An immune response, and that you are falsifying information, immune response does seem to be and you are misleading the protective for at least a period public. Of time in many people. Over 4,000 people have died, and but the true instance of the you are blaming the protesters. Protection, the length, those you guys have no plans, and youre doing nothing. Shame on you are all things that are being investigated today, and its important because as we bring ron desantis, an ardent trump new therapies online, therapies supporter, went on to say things that should be beneficial before had stabilized in florida, a vaccine is available, its stressed the need for faster important that those new covid test results. Therapies either reduce the the Washington Post is viral load because they prevent reporting on nationwide delays the virus from replicating or with some test sites struggling to provide results in five to actually block, as monoclonal seven days as they promised. Antibodies do, the attachment of the virus to its receptor. So those are things that are in an oped for cnbc, former being actively investigated today. Trump chief of staff mick its certainly going to be big news to survivors walking mulvaney complained, quote, i around with what they believe to be antibodies. Know it isnt popular to talk about in some republican shannon pettypiece, the circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country. President ial campaign is now, of my son was tested recently. Course, so thoroughly we had to wait five to seven intertwined with this. Days for results. My daughter wanted to get tested the politics of the pandemic, the mechanics of health and the before visiting her grandparents pandemic, is it being adlibbed, but was told she didnt qualify. This is simply inexcusable at do you think, on a daily basis . This point in the pandemic. Well, ive been told that the at this point it is fair to president is intentionally quickly note mulvaney once called the coronavirus a hoax. Staying away from talking about now its suddenly very real for him and his family. Coronavirus, that that strategy yet both the president and his having him be the daily voice of the response, going out there doing the press conferences press secretary are still insisting the nation is far obviously did him no favors. Ahead on testing. So as we see this second wave or continuation of the first wave, trump also repeated the false however you want to characterize theory that testing is driving it, we are not hearing from the up the number of cases while president talk about this. Seeming to try to blame his predecessor. It is the Vice President who is out there doing the traveling, youve said many times that and that by his advisers is intentional and they feel like the number of coronavirus cases its best for him politically to stay away from this. Is going up because testing is increasing. From a campaign perspective, the thats right. Do you acknowledge that its number one issue in the country, the thing that is on every going up for other reasons too . Americans mind, the president for example, that its actually spreading . Is not touching. You know, biden and obama stopped their testing. So he is running a risk here of they just stopped it. They stopped testing right in looking alienated from where the the middle. Rest of the country is or out of touch. They just went, no more testing. And on the campaign front, when we test more than anybody by it comes to these rallies, weve far, and when you test, you create cases. Now seen two events, an alabama so weve created cases. Rally and this New Hampshire as weve always said that there would be embers. Rally canceled really as a there would be fires. Result of concerns about the coronavirus. So when youre testing more than any country in the world, youre going to identify more cases. The campaign was so built around a tiny fact check here. These rallies, you know, they werent just part of the the coronavirus did not exist strategy. They were the strategy. During the obama administration. There was no test for it. That was the campaign, the rallies. So now you have those. Meanwhile today came a so you dont have the rallies, significant setback to trumps and you have the president who push to reopen our schools. Is not addressing the number one issue in the country. The l. A. Unified and san diego so that puts him in a very Public School districts difficult spot, and it is announced the school year will certainly a transition point in the campaign. It has been a reboot after start remote only in august. The president , of course, is blaming politics. Reboot after reboot for the past few weeks. And, you know, there is going to we have to open the schools. Have to be some strategy going we have to get them open, and i forward. Think theres a lot of politics but right now, my reporting going along. I think they think theyll do indicates they have not found what that strategy is going to be at this moment. Better if they can keep the schools closed in the election. Hey, kim, two things are i dont think its going to help true. Them frankly, but i think they number one, the toughest ads of feel that by keeping schools closed, thats a bad thing for the country, and therefore republicans, some of them thats a good thing for them. Disaffected republicans. Number two, joe biden is saving this afternoon, i asked the secretary of education under a fortune in Television Ads and things like jet fuel by president obama about the wisdom campaigning from delaware. What do you hear from the biden of reopening schools in a pandemic. Campaign these days . There is no body count high yeah, they are feeling enough for the president to actually Pay Attention to science. Confident that right now its we could lose another 10,000. Not a bad strategy to let President Trump beat himself, we could lose another 50,000. We could lose another 100,000. Which if you believe recent polling, he is doing. Nothing would compel him to although shannons absolutely listen to dr. Fauci and others. Right, hes trying to stay away were actually fighting to save from the coronavirus, based on lives, and schools are not going recent polls, voters are holding to put teachers, principals, him responsible for the fact their children, or their childrens families in a that the coronavirus is not under control. Position of risk thats far too high. And the former Vice President is do not Pay Attention to trump. Benefiting from that, and so dont be scared of his bluffs. He does not care whether you that campaign is really live or die. Hunkering down, focusing on the Pay Attention to local people swing states, and letting the who live in your community. Lincoln project ads and other ads do the work elsewhere, please listen to them. Including here in d. C. Where here for our leadoff discussion on a monday night, those ads play a lot because the shannon pettypiece, veteran intended target is the president. Journalist, senior White House Reporter for us at nbc news but at the same time, theyre digital. Facing some concerns from kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for democrats outside of their wbur, bostons npr news station. Circle who want to see joe biden she has been named to the Editorial Board of the boston go big, to campaign and try to globe. Get voters in places like texas and dr. Lloyd minor, dean of and arizona, thinking that a Stanford University school of medicine. Resounding victory would not dr. Minor has expertise in only prevent President Trump predictive medicine, diagnostic research. From claiming fraud or some he is also by training a head and neck surgeon, a member of other kind of shenanigans with the National Academy of the Election Results but also help downballot candidates medicine, and he interviewed across the country if biden dr. Anthony fauci today about this coronavirus pandemic. Campaigns in a broader way. Doctor, that interview earned you our starting part tonight. They believe that the winds are at his back. Im going to play for you so hes facing that, but right this is tony fauci from february. Now theyre playing it cool with this is important because its some time left before the election. One of the quotes the white doc minor, shannon pettypiece, thanks as well. House, in attacking him, circulated this weekend, but kim atkins, we hope youll still they just used the first talk to us little folk when you portion. Get to the Editorial Board of the boston globe. Congratulations. As youll see, dr. Fauci goes on. Thats great news. Well talk about it on the other side. Coming up for us, a few weeks ago one Great American at this moment, there is no need to change anything that youre doing on a daybyday basis. City could count coronavirus cases on one hand. Not anymore. Right now the risk is still low, but this could change. Well talk about what happened. Well talk about whether or not ive said that many times even on this program. Its a warning light to the rest of the country. The mayor will join us next. Youve got to watch out because although the risk is low now, you dont need to change also he wrote the book on anything youre doing. Trump, at least one of them. When you start to see community when he says the president is in spread, this could change and force you to become much more survivor mode, were going to get him to tell us what that means for all the rest of us. Attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread. The 11th hour just getting so you see, doctor, all the under way as we start a new week here on a monday night. Warnings and caveats came after that first sentence saying theres no need for people to change their behavior. February 29th was decades ago in terms of this pandemic. At a basic level, doctor, can you believe there is a hit job out from inside the white house on the premier Infectious Disease specialist our country has in the middle of a pandemic with 136,000 americans dead . Well, thank you, brian. First we know that this is a very serious virus. Its a very serious infection, and as you have pointed out, its caused a lot of illness and death in our country and around the world. We also know that we still dont know enough about the virus, about its transmission. Were learning by the day. And dr. Fauci, every medical expert continues to refine their opinions, their recommendations based upon the evidence coming in. And that evidence is coming in, but none of us has a crystal ball about the future. And we act, we make recommendations based upon the best evidence that we have at the time. And i think that is exactly what dr. Fauci has done throughout this pandemic. Have we learned a lot since february 29th . Yes, we have. Do we now see this to be a much more serious problem than we did in late february, early march . Yes, we do. And thats the nature of learning in the course of a pandemic. Is very important ut the wisdom that all scientists, physician leaders have the opportunity to speak what their expertise leads them to conclude to explain why theyre concluding what they are at the time and explain the evidence to the public. Thats extremely important for all of us who are leaders in biomedicine. And we do that as accurately and in as timely of a fashion as we can. I believe thats what dr. Fauci has done. I believe thats what all of us who are involved in leadership positions in biomedicine today are trying to do. Shannon, as you know, in trumpfriendly media and in trump nation, the discrediting of tony fauci has been going on for months. Most people take it as an article of faith that hes been disc it was just three weeks ago the great city of pittsburgh hit an important milestone, a day with zero new reported coronavirus cases. That has all changed. Because the state widely reopened is cases are climbing with western pa seeing some of the largest increases. New york times reporting today the city had been both diligent and lucky and now, quote, over two weeks in late june and early july, Allegheny County recorded more new cases than in the previous two months combined and on some recent days has accounted for nearly half of all new known cases in pennsylvania. Pittsburghs in Allegheny County. The spike in the pittsburgh area offers a cautionary tale. Even after months of vigilance, an outbreak can flare up all of a sudden. For more, we welcome to the broadcast bill peduto, the mayor of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Mr. Mayor, we want to note first off you are in suddenly a dangerous neighborhood. Youve got ruby red west virginia, not talking politically but in terms of the virus, to your south, and youve got ohio to your west dealing with its own spikes. How is your city doing tonight . What worries you . As you stated, this is something that is happening regionally across western pennsylvania, northern west virginia, and eastern ohio, three areas that were basically spared heavy impact during the early months, march and april and even may. What ended up happening is we let our guard down. We decided as a state to support the governor and to Work Together to allow businesses to reopen, and then people who were being safe and keeping social distance forgot all of that and stopped Wearing Masks and stopped doing the things that kept our numbers down to begin with. What worries me is that were still in the first phase, and this is just a flareup in the first phase. And the coronavirus is a virus thats been around for a while. You know, it has a season, and that season really comes into play on october, november, december. What were seeing with covid19 is a resistance to go away during the summer, and if we go into those seasons with high numbers, what were most likely to see is something that will make what we saw earlier this year look like just the common cold. Youre making an announcement tomorrow, i understand, about return to schools. Anything you care to preview tonight . There is no announcement that well be making. Pittsburgh Public Schools will be tomorrow, and then our universities we have seven universities within the city will have announcements, i believe, either this week or next week. Full disclosure, the first jersey i had as a kid was number 58 for jack lambert, and im still hoping he will sign my throwback helmet someday. So having established that, do you think we will see home games, steelers home games this season . I try to remain optimistic on what well be able to see when it comes to entertainment or just the way that we would socialize before march, but im also a realist and a pragmatist. We have to keep a north star as we do policy and decisionmaking, and that north star has to be based around Public Health. What comes first is making sure that we have a safe community. Anything other than that is an addon that we will try to work towards, but we will not jeopardize it. Mr. Mayor, were thinking of you and your great city. Mayor bill peduto of pittsburgh, pa, thank you very much for making time and coming on the broadcast tonight. Coming up for us, the president claims hes received rave reviews for commuting the sentence of his friend of several decades, roger stone. Well play you what stone had to say just tonight when we come back. This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. The most important thing here is the courageousness of the president s act. I know there were many, many, many people who told him in an election year, dont do this. Let roger stone wait maybe for a pardon after the election. Sean, i dont think i would have lived that long, not with my asthmatic condition, not with now 60 covid19 cases in that prison. And so with this, donald trump apparently saves a life. The president said today hes getting rave reviews for commuting his longtime friend roger stones 40month federal prison sentence. We learned today the president s clemency grant doesnt just keep his friend roger out of the slammer. It voids all parts of stones sentence, including a period of supervised release and a 20,000 fine. Stone was convicted of lying to congress and witness tampering. Meanwhile, former special Counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence this weekend about stones commutation. It was in the Washington Post where he wrote, quote, stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon and rightly so. We made every decision in stones case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false. Back with us tonight, tim obrien, executive editor over at bloomberg opinion. Hes back from his role with the bloomberg president ial campaign, which seems like a couple decades ago by now, and he happens to be the author of trump nation the art of being the donald. So, tim, we are led to believe that a. G. Barr spoke up against story about a. G. Barr, as subservient an a. G. As we have had, certainly in the modern era. Do you think its possible that trump cast aside any integrity and rigor of the doj vetting process for commutations and chose to bail out a buddy of his . Brian thats so cynical of you to think that this president would cast aside the rule of law, process, and good advice to do what served his own selfinterest. Of course i think thats what happened. You know, this president never leaves much room for critics to end up being wrong. You know, a year ago in 2019, a day after Robert Mueller concluded his russia investigation, donald trump picked up the phone and tried to strongarm the leader of ukraine into digging up dirt on joe biden. Last week, last thursday, chief Justice Roberts issues, i think, a Landmark Supreme Court decision saying that the president of the United States does not exist beyond the reach of the law. And then a day later, on a friday evening, he proceeds to commute roger stones sentence because donald trump doesnt care about the rule of law. And i dont think that bill barr is merely subservient. I think bill barr enables this behavior, and he empowers it. Bill barr had meddled in the sentencing of michael flynn. He has long let it be known that he favors an imperial presidency with a president who operates at will and to a large extent beyond the rule of law. So i think theyre very much aligned here, and i think, you know, if were to take a cue from whats happened on recent friday evenings from the u. S. Attorney being pushed out in the Southern District of new york to roger stone seeing his sentence commuted, brian, i think youre going to have a lot of news dropping on friday evenings on your show between now and election day. It certainly unfortunately. It certainly has changed the complexion of summertime friday nights in our business. Tim, you are a human trigger for donald trump. We have long since established that. Youve spent enough time around him and written enough words about him, so i want you to get to your theory that hes in survival mode, which i also note will be triggered anew starting tomorrow when his nieces book tour starts for her book. Right on both counts, brian. You know, an experienced politician and i think an adept politician at this point would be trying to expand his or her reach to the electorate, but Donald Trumps doing none of that. Hes continuing to pander to his base. I think, you know, hes been overtly racist. Hes been overtly divisive. He has used the bible as a prop to appeal to his evangelical supporters. I think hes racebaiting and reveling in racism to appeal to another part of his electorate, all of which solidifies where he is with those who support him the most but is not going to extend his reach to the places he needs to if hes going to win in november. You know, our mutual friend James Carville predicts trump is going to face a landslide in november, and all indications suggest that. But what i think hes doing is tying up loose ends and trying to beat back any critics because first and foremost, hes channeling this through the lens of his own needs, and i think the mary trump book arrives right in the middle of a moment like this as this catalog of bad dreams and really horrible realities in the household in which donald trump grew up in. Mary trump refers to the trumps mansion in queens as the house, and its essentially a hothouse full of pathologies and emotional abandonment that shaped trump. Its a very seminal and important book, i think. Tim obrien, thanks for having us in to among the nicer houses we get invited into these days in the covid zoom skype era. Thank you, brian. Coming up for us, one of the darkest moments in recent years. Remember when we first heard the story that children were being separated from their parents at the border. Our own Jacob Soboroff has reported on this from the start. Hell tell us how an already precarious situation is now impacted by the coronavirus when we come right back. Two years after the public outcry f detainment in our country continues. Today a federal judge in d. C. Delayed a ruling until next week on whether migrant parents held in Family Detention Centers should be released along with their children. That means as many as 335 additional children and parents could be separated beginning this friday. Covering this story is our own Jacob Soboroff. He has written a book about the experience called separated inside an american tragedy. Jacob, its very good to have you on. If i asked you for a benchmark number of the children we have separated in the confines of our country from their parents, including the first wave at the start, could you give me such a number from our government . We know the number is over 5,400, brian, and those 5,400 children were systematically traumatized, abused, and tortured in the words of doctors and physicians for human rights. And that trauma, abuse, and torture, in the words of those experts, continues to this day, will last a lifetime for those children. And the separations, the act of separations, as you just mentioned, is still going on. Thats exactly why i wanted to write this book. This is not over. Has this been the deterrent that donald trump and his allies thought and hoped it would be, or could you argue these days that folks arent exactly rushing across the border to get coronavirus where we make it fresh daily . Well, theyre not allowed. The Trump Administration simply will not let migrants cross the border at this point. So, no, it wasnt the deterrent they wanted it to be. It was effective insofar as they knew and they were warned, and i document extensively in the book exactly how they were warned what this policy would do to these children and how it would affect them for the rest of their lives. But today why activists and lawyers and people who deal with these children all the time say this is arguably worse is that people who want to get into this country today cannot. And under the guise of coronavirus, many migrants including Migrant Children are being immediately turned around and sent back to their home countries by the Trump Administration. Theyre not even able to make it into the country, and the small amount who are and who are detained with their families in i. C. E. Detention are now subject to potential separation. A deadline is looming this friday for that. You and Julia Ainsley reported that nearly half of the employees at just one Detention Center in arizona tested positive for coronavirus. What has this done to something you have already called an american tragedy . They call it a war zone. We talked to one employee who is currently an active employee in the eloy Detention Center, one of the Detention Centers in arizona with the worst rate of coronavirus. Staff is sick. Detainees are sick. Thats whats also happening in these Family Detention Centers, and they knew that this would happen. This is not a surprise to them. And this type of situation, this type of crisis that were seeing inside the Border Patrol detention facilities, the i. C. E. Detention facilities, was easily predictable. But frankly and again, why i wanted to write the book is i didnt see it coming. You see me right there in that Border PatrolDetention Center. Ill never forget that day seeing those children under the mylar blankets on the concrete floors, supervised by security contractors in a watchtower. And people said to me then this is going to get worse. I didnt believe it. I couldnt believe what i saw with my own eyes then, yet here we are today. Jacob soboroff, who was witness to it then and is here for us tonight, as author of his new book separated inside an american tragedy. Best of luck with it, and thank you very much for coming on our broadcast, jacob. Thanks, brian. Coming up, after waiting in covid test lines for hours, Many Americans are told not to expect results for days. Five to seven days, maybe longer. A closer look at a problem that remains critical after five months of this now. Can my side be firm . And mine super soft . With the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. So, can it help us fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet. 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The Atlanta Mayor said tonight her wait for her familys results is eight days. She and her husband already have it, which brings us to this guy, trumps former chief of staff mick mulvaney. As we said at the top of the broadcast, he went from calling this virus a hoax to declaring we have a testing problem because his family members were forced to wait. And that testing problem is affecting our ability to contain the virus, and so were losing. Our report tonight from nbcs Gabe Gutierrez. Reporter from florida to california, texas to arizona, testing troubles are increasingly bogging down the nations coronavirus response. Delays in testing and inadequate testing are making people sicker, are making the outbreaks bigger, and are leading to more deaths. Reporter the Trump Administration has blamed some testing problems on mismanagement at the state level and says the u. S. Did more than 800,000 tests on friday. We test more than anybody by far, and when you test, you create cases. Reporter but today the president s former chief of staff wrote an oped for cnbc. I know it isnt popular to talk about in in republican circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country. My son was tested recently. We will to wait five to seven days for results. That is simply inexcusable at this point in the pandemic. In north carolina, hugh huffstetler was tested, then isolated in his bedroom in limbo. Its insane to me that it still takes up to two weeks, seven days, who knows, in order for these results to come back. Reporter Public HealthOfficials Say skyrocketing demand is creating a shortage of testing supplies such as swabs and reagents, the chemicals needed to conduct the tests. The delays, critics say, are making an army of contact tracers paid for by taxpayers essentially useless. Frankly when you have a state like florida thats on fire like this, Contact Tracing almost becomes irrelevant. It cant be done. Its kind of like trying to plant your petunias in the middle of a hurricane. Reporter and in florida, theres mounting frustration that while ordinary patients wait in long lines, athletes are getting tested frequently. One nba player posting on social media that hes been tested 20 times since arriving in orlando for the season. Now the race is on to develop quicker methods, and Arizona StateUniversity Researchers are aiming to conduct 16,000 tests a day up from 2,000 by alyzing here in new york city, some patients are waiting more than a week for their test results. The mayor here is urging the federal government to invoke the defense production act to expand lab capacity. Our thanks to Gabe Gutierrez for that report. Coming up for us, a leading voice of authority endorsed by the governor of new york on the efficacy of wearing a mask. They line up by the thousands. Each one suffering with a story that breaks your heart. 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On behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. Tonight on all in there is nobody count high enough for the president to actually Pay Attention to science. Donald trump and betsy devos trying to force kids back into classrooms during a raging pandemic as atlanta and los angeles announced all Virtual Learning to start school and houstons mayor calls for a two week shut down. Why the president is attacking dr. Anthony fauci instead of the real problem. Why were way behind on testing. And a juror who convicted roger stone joins me tonight. A new racism controversy for Tucker Carlson as a man who writes his scripts resigns in disgrace