Since february. But in less than a week all that good work has essentially been thrown out the window. Okinawa now has nearly 100 new cases thanks to outbreaks on the various u. S. Military bases on the island. Local reports say fourth of july parties held on and off the bases are the cause of the huge spike. According to those same reports hundreds if not thousands of personnel and employees were said to have attended those events, not surprisingly, the governor of okinawa is angry. This weekend he openly questioned whether the United States was doing enough to stop the spread of covid19 saying that he had, quote, serious doubts about the measures being taken by u. S. Military officials. He requested the military stop transferring new troops from the United States given the unabated surge that we are seeing in this country. Think about this. America has now reached a point where we are posing a threat to some of our strongest allies. And thats just scratching the surface really when you look at all the damage thats being done back here at home. Case numbers are growing in 39 states which is incredible when you consider we only have 50 of them. As the Washington Post reports, quote, deaths are trending up sharply in almost every part of the country. Five states arizona, california, florida, mississippi, and texas broke records for average daily fatalities this weekend. Florida, meanwhile, has emerged as a particularly bleak example of how the United States has failed to get a handle on this pandemic. On sunday the state reported more than 15,000 new cases. That shattered the previous oneday records that were set by california and new york. New york, which was the epicenter of this infection. Today the state reported the second highest number, this is florida, reported the second highest number of new cases that this country has ever seen with more than 12,000 new infections reported in just the last 24 hours. In florida. Florida is grappling with an outbreak thats so large its bigger than what the vast majority of nations are dealing with. Here is the way reuters summed it up. If florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases a day behind the United States, brazil and india. More than 40 hospitals across florida have maxed out their icu bed capacity or are close to running out of icu beds. In Miamidade County things are especially dire in just that area. Six hospitals have already reached capacity. Doctors in the area are no longer mincing words when it comes to describing the situation on the ground. In a Conference Call with the mayor of miamidade this morning one local Infectious Disease expert actually pleaded with the public saying, quote, we really need your help. Miami is now the he center epic the pandemic. What we were seeing in wuhan five or six months ago, now we are there. And yet in the midst of all of this, the state is still struggling when it comes to basic things like testing. In miami today residents began lining up overnight, some at 1 30 in the morning, to make sure they got tests before the site ran out of supplies for the day. That is the position that florida is in right now. Problems with testing. Despite that it remains open for business. This weekend disneyworld reopened for the first time. The Republican National convention is six weeks away and white house Officials Say they plan to move forward with holding the event in jacksonville. Because, why not . We are now five months into this pandemic, and yet the federal response remains as incoherent as it was on day one. And because of that state and local governments are having to go it alone. Today the governor of california, gavin newsom, announced a sweeping rollback of the states reopening plans saying that he would impose new statewide restrictions, putting an end to Indoor Dining and closing movie theaters, zoos, and museums. Bars were also ordered to cease all operations. In californias hardest hit counties, home to roughly 80 of that states population, closures are even more extensive including places of worship, certain offices, and hair salons. The decision in california today comes as more and more state and local leaders are starting to take actions that they deem necessary to protect their residents even if it means going out ahead of the federal government. In houston weve seen countless headlines of hospitals at or near capacity, local leaders are demanding a shutdown including the citys mayor who tweeted, quote, i do believe we need a twoweek shutdown at the minimum of two weeks, and i have proposed this to the governor so we can help blunt covid19 progression. The head of the countys governing body, echoed those calls during a press conference this afternoon. Since we last spoke, what we feared would happen is coming to pass. There were 15 of patients in the icu. Today we are at 48 . And the number keeps rising. We are crossing or approaching hospital Surge Capacity day after day as a matter of course. What this means is reports of people having to wait for an icu bed when they need it. Icu beds becoming more and more scarce, having to import doctors and nurses to keep up with the demand. Hospitalizations continue to rise. If it wasnt clear before, its obvious now that having so much still open from restaurants to all sized indoor events to water parks is not going to turn this thing around. Which is why i continue to call for an enforceable stay home order. Joining us now is judge lina hidalgo, head of the governing body. Judge hidalgo, thank you for being with us. It is fascinate to go watch this unfold and sad. You have boundaries, the largest hospital complex in america, one of the largest and best in the entire world. Your icus are diverting people to other hospitals. We have the largest Medical Center here in houston and what we are learning the hard way is that this strategy of seeing how far we can stretch our hospital beds and trying to fill them up while also not making aggressive Public Policy is not a good strategy. It is wrong morally. It is not adequate Public Health policy. It is not adequate economic policy. And its simply not working. Those beds are continuing to fill, and the halfway measures weve had so far are simply not cutting it. Today thats the saddest part, you could go to a water park, to a restaurant. Yes, some things are happening. But until we take strong action, were not going to see the curve turn around. Were not going to see the curve flatten or come down. Judge, tell me how you solve this problem. You and mayor Sylvester Turner and others, just like were seeing in arizona, there are municipal leaders who are asking their governors to do something. Your governor has said, according to a local news report today, he said there are rumors out there there will be an imminent shut down. That is not the case. Hes not really hearing you on this. Look, we have to look at the data here. We have to be honest with ourselves, and we have to hear the cries of the community, the folks who are hurting economically, who have loved ones in the hospital and recognize its no time for politics. It is time for evidence based action. Those who didnt just flatten the curve but crushed it, brought it all the way down and began reopening in a slow, measured fashion, are the ones doing well. If we want to look at the economic angle, we need to set up the economy for longterm success and the only way we do that is by controlling those cases, testing, of course from a health care standpoint, thats the right thing to do. Ive tried everything we can here. A few weeks ago we put our community on red alert. That means stay home. Everybody got a notification to their cell phones today. We had broadcasts and Radio Broadcasts as well with notifications. Im constantly trying to share this. Look, i continue to plead for that tool. Thats why ive continued to ask the governor for him to give me that authority or for him to do it himself. I used to have that authority. Thats how we brought down the curve in march. And now we have to do it again and we have to do it better. Back then we opened before the curve came down. We flattened it and then we gave up too early and we cant afford to do that again. So, judge, explain what this means, you had the authority and you dont have it now. Right now the issue is that you are asking for an enforceable stayathome order, not a recommended stayathome order. Whats changed in your ability to enforce an order . So legally as the county executive i had the authority to issue this order, orders to wear face coverings and so on and so forth. Now when the governor began reopening the state, his reopening orders included a provision that basically undid my ability, removed that authority to issue those kinds of orders. Now all i can do is recommend and can i do whatever authority he positively grants me. And so right now were at the point where weve seen that a strategy of incrementalist restrictions doesnt work. The virus is very difficult. There are many things we dont understand. What we do know is that to control the spread we have to have a stay home order. We cant give ourselves arbitrary deadlines. And that will set us up to succeed for the long haul. Thats where we are legally. We are seeing something crushing in our minority communities even that just shows you this strategy ends up hurting real people. Hispanics are 65 , sometimes 50 , of the hospitalizations. Only 44 of the population. We have zip codes. Theyre seeing incredibly high positivity rates, up to 50 . This is terrible not just for that community. Eventually this catches up to all of us, and so you cant be so callous as to have a strategy how much we can extend the hospital beds and cross our fingers and hope it works. So we continue to plead with the community to stay home but, of course, its so much stronger if we have an order and we know that it works because when we did it in march people buckled down. They got together. They flattened the curve. Then, you know, the state decided to reopen before we had a chance to really bring things under control. Were going to keep fighting, fighting with our Public Health tools, fighting with the communication tools we have. Frankly, this is really sad to watch this is whats happening in our hospitals and at the same time i can go have any size indoor event as long as its indoors and go to a restaurant and sit on a crowded patio right now in my community while people are dying and filling up our hospitals. Judge hidalgo, thank you for joining us tonight, judge lina hidalgo is head of the governing body. We appreciate your time. With cases surging all over the country, the white house is focusing efforts on discrediting the top Infectious Disease expert because of his blunt warnings about the coronavirus. An Administration Official on sunday sent nbc news and other main media outlitzets a list of. Faucis past comments saying several white house officials are concerned about the number of times dr. Fauci has been wrong on things. In many ways the document resembled Campaign Opposition research as opposed to an official white house document. It comes as fauci has been essentially sidelined by the administration. According to the Washington Post fauci no longer briefs donald trump and is never in the oval office anymore. He reportedly last spoke to the president during the first week in june. Certainly not the best time to be discrediting and pushing away one of the most respected scientific voices in the country. Joining me now dr. Ezequiel emanuel, former adviser to president obama and now a medical contributor and author of which country has the worlds best health care . Is it good to see you again. Thank you for being with us. Im really puzzled by the fauci thing. If you dont like somebody who is doing a job for the administration, donald trump has had no hesitation generally speaking in getting rid of them. To the degree to which they are undermining fauci. Peter navarro was on with me over a week ago and started by undermining and discrediting fauci. What do you think is going on here . They want to character assassination attempt here. Its reckless, its cruel, and its wrong. Nobody has gotten everything right because its brandnew, lots of uncertainty and trying to make predictions and projections in the midst of that kind of uncertainty and you makes in human behavior. Will people follow stayathome orders or not. But dr. Fauci has gotten it right a long and, most importantly, i was going to say, when hes wrong, hes very up front about it. One of the things dr. Fauci does is he always qualifies what hes going to say as to what he really knows and what he is guessing at and what hes making an estimation at. And correcting errors is part of science. We all make projections and try to estimate things. Hes thoughtful and deliberate in the way hes done things. And this is calling for you to speculate. Faucis useful to the country right now. Is it less useful that hes not got access to the president , that theyre not letting him speak freely . Could he be doing Something Else . In the country . He could be doing a lot of things. I do think its an important thing to contrast how often hes been wrong with the president who said the virus would disappear in the warm weather. That hydroxychloroquine would work, that maybe we should put light or bleach in our bodies. This is not the way to run a Public Health emergency, to take your best scientist, one who has proven over almost four decades now that he has real knowledge of Infectious Disease, real knowledge how to combat it, real knowledge how to actually save lives and to sideline him. It is unconscionable. The president needs good advisers who really know the science, and what hes doing is running with people who like what he has to say and wont push back when he is wrong. And thats just the whole country is suffering because of it. One of the things dr. Fauci did say is we might get to a point where we have 100,000 cases a day. If you recall, zeke, we were on tv one night talking about when the president said we werent going to get to 100,000 cases at all, certainly not 100,000 deaths. Were way past that. But lets take a look at the record on friday. We have topped 70,000 new cases on friday. Talk to me about what we need to do now, zeke, because youve never been you, like a lot of americans, think people want to get out. People want to get back to work. People have to earn income. You just heard my conversation with the chief executive from Harris County in texas. This is what happens when we dont follow rules. Look, if you look at all of the countries, and i think i said this with you, ali, four months ago in march, all the other countries it goes up for four weeks and then it comes down four weeks. Its a pretty symmetric curve or goes up four weeks and come down for five, six weeks. Thats the time period we have. We have to be disciplined for that time period. Were talking about eight to ten weeks where we have to be disciplined. And then you can bring the kufb down. You can bring the transmission rate below one. You can see this work. You know how we know . Look at new york. Today no cases of transmission. Washington, d. C. , four straight days, no cases. You can do this zero. With discipline. You just need leadership and consistent messaging and consistent embodiment of that messaging by your leader instead of trying to sow this disharmony, suspicion of the virus and what it can actually do and the damage it can cause. But the sowing of suspicion go ahead. We had the governor of florida who dismissed all of this early march, april, may. Not going to happen here. And, sure enough, it was as clear as day, anyone who has studied epidemiology knows you have those parties on the beaches, you open indoor restaurants, you open bars, you open all these amusement facilities, youre going to have the spread. It is inevitable. And its come home to roost in a state that has a Huge Population of elderly people all at very high risk. Im trying to get my head around from a Public Health perspective where the president is getting his advice from. There was a story in the daily beast today describing the fact donald trump retweeted the former Game Show HostChuck Woolery but the tweet he retweeted said the most outrageous lies are the ones about covid19. Everybody is lying. The cdc, media, democrats, our doctors not all, but most that we are told to trust. I think its all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back which is about the election. Im sick of it. Chuck woolery tweets it out. The president retweets this. This attack on science, this attack on truth, and now this attack on doctors and an attack on Public Health efforts, i just didnt know this could happen, but the president is fully at the front of this train. One of the things political scientist who is study this phenomenon, study populism, one of the victims of this is expertise. The fact that people actually know something and what they know is valuable to actually addressing a problem. And we have had an attack on expertise more than 20 years in this country as the populism of the Republican Party has gone up. And that is what youre seeing. You dont like the facts, attack the messenger. That is not a good way to actually survive, and we know that biology, you cant bamboozle it. You cant just through rhetoric and were great and our response is fantastic, youre not going to beat this virus. The virus can withstand all of that because it doesnt really care about the rhetoric. It cares about science and behaves by biological laws. We know how to beat that. Weve seen around the world countries that have beaten it. Look at italy. Italy has had its challenges. Over ten weeks brought the virus down and now you can open up safely once its down a few cases pop up, you can actually suppress them. But if you have 10,000, 12,000 cases a day, you cannot suppress it. And you will not beat that virus. Zeke, always good to see you, my friend. Thank you. Hes a former Health Care Adviser to president obama. Thank you for your time, sir. Coming up next, the president kept his longtime adviser roger stone out of prison by commuting his sentence on friday. A Stunning Development as of friday night news dump goes. It turns out that theres actually more here to see. 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In other words, keep silent or go back behind bars. How unusual is an ultimatum like that . Cnn spoke to several defensive attorneys and legal experts, none of whom had ever seen anything like cohens media and Book Publishing ban. Ryan goodman reached out to several leading First Amendment scholars. They looked at the prohibition and described it with phrases like, quote, patently unconstitutional, a profound affront to the First Amendment, indefensible. And so, again, whether you view Michael Cohen as a sympathetic character or not, what it looks like is happening here is pretty chilling. The Trump Administration gave Michael Cohen a choice, sign this paper saying you wont write a book, or go back to prison. Silence or prison. Your choice. Then theres the book by Donald Trumps niece slated for publication tomorrow. Donald trump and his family have been in court up through today trying to block the book from being published and block mary trump from saying anything about the book. Which feels ridiculous because you probably feel youve already read it since just about every media outlet on the planet has gotten a copy and dissected it already. Well, this evening donald trump and his family lost that court fight. A New York State Supreme Court judge rejected the attempt to block the book ruling that, quote, the potential enormous cost and nightmare of stopping the publication, recalling and removing hundreds of thousands of books from all types of booksellers, brick and mortar and virtual, libraries and private citizens, is an insurmountable task at this time. The judge then quotes a different judge in another case donald trump lost when he tried to block the publication of john boltons book. Quote, by the looks of it, the horse is not just out of the barn, it is out of the country. Mary trumps book can go forward and she is free to speak publicly about it, which should be interesting. Michael cohens book, mary trumps book, the president , his family, his white house doing everything they can to prevent them from coming out up to and including sending Michael Cohen back to prison. But today we learned about a third book. Today the Justice Department released the actual executive order commuting the prison sentence of roger stone. You see the president s sharpie signature there. The president commuted his old friends sentence friday night. Its not clear how broad the commutation was. The judge in stones case demanded to see the actual order to determine whether it covered just stones prison time or his probation as well. Well, now we now that the president took care of everything, prison time, supervised release, 20,000 fine, all of it, poof, gone. Roger stone announced hes celebrating by writing a book. So if you testify unflatteringly about the president and try to write a book, you go back it to prison. If you withhold information from congress and prosecutors to protect the president , you get your prison sentence erased and you can accomplish to your hearts content. Joining us now barbara mcquaide, former u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan. Good to see you. Thank you for joining us tonight. Talk to me about this. Weve heard about convicted felons not able to profit from their crimes, but how unusual is this development to you . Ive never heard of anything like it and have talked to colleagues and i havent found anybody who has. After the son of sam killings, many states passed these laws called son of sam laws that prevented people from profiting from their crimes. The idea was if an offender wrote a book about his crime it could be the case that those profits could be returned to victims of crimes and thats true in the federal rules as well but theres no law that says a person cant even write a book. I think if Michael Cohen were to challenge this condition he would win. It is interesting, though, that the president did something completely contrary to that with the eraseure of roger stones conviction, or vacating the things he had to do with that conviction. It dos seem a little bit stark. If i were cynical, i would suggest that perhaps President Trump is trying to control who writes stories about him, who tells their story, people who have unflattering things to say are hit with lawsuits and efforts are made to stop them and suppress them and keep those stories from being told. People who have flattering things to say are released from prison so they get a chance to tell those stories. I dont know that President Trump will be able to stop the unflattering stories forever. It seems that he is at least trying to keep the dam from bursting. If he can keep the bad things out, he can control that narrative before his ability to affect the outcome of the election. I dont think he will be successful. Any ruling, any law that prohibits someone from sharing information are highly disfavored. You can work out money damages later in these lawsuits but the idea of sprising someones information is highly disfavored. So the normalization of these characters in the Trump Administration is worth study. The list of commutations and pardons is interesting. Some are people President Trump wants to pardon and some hes softening us up for. Between those and the tweets about who has been unfairly treated the president has normalized the idea. It wasnt a surprise he commuted the sentence of roger stone. Robert mueller in his oped for the Washington Post writes a jury determined that stone repeatedly lied to members of congress. He lied about the identity to wikileaks. He lied about the existence of written communications. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump Campaign about the timing of wikileaks releases and updated Senior Campaign officials repeatedly about wikileaks, and he tampered with a witness imploring him to stonewall congress. Mueller is trying to make the point as normal as trump wants to make this feel, roger stones a convicted felon. Yeah, i was so gratified to see Robert Mueller come out with this oped. He is a stoke marine who does not complain, does not speak up. And for him to write this even in its fairly subdued tones is like screaming for anybody else. I think he is trying to say this is not normal. President trump has granted pardons and clemency for people like Rod Blagojevich and others who have committed crimes of corruption, perhaps trying to say corruption is no big deal. This one is not just corruption, it relates specifically to trump himself, an effort to cover up his crimes. As judge jackson said herself at stones sentencing roger stone was not standing up for President Trump, roger stone was covering up for President Trump and so this clemency really seems like an abuse of the pardon power. Barbara, good to see you. Barbara mcquaide is a former u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan. If you ignore, fumble and botch the response to a crisis as serious as a global pandemic, you can expect political consequences for that. The latest snapshot on red state races now in play. Now in play. Dont just think about where youre headed this summer. Think about how youll get there. And now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person. Discovering that feeling has never been more effortless. Accept our summer invitation to get 0 apr on all 2020 lincoln vehicles. Only at your lincoln dealer. To bit never bothered me. Dust . Until i found out what it actually was. Dust mite droppings . Ewww. Dead skin cells . 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Diversion means an ambulance wants to come to your place and we say we cant accept it, were saturated. Unfortunately, if the next closest hospital is also on diversion you kind of share it and youre forced to go back on and accept patients after a few hours. Weve been playing that game all night where weve been on diversion, the next hospital a few miles away is on diversion and were still receiving patients. The majority are still covid. That e. R. Doctor in phoenix, arizona, saying his hospital is full up. Got no room for patients. They keep their doors open because the next closest hospital is full up, too. There are 39 states seeing an increase in new Coronavirus Infections plus d. C. , puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin isla s islands. The covid outbreak is growing. One state sticks out, you can see it, it clearly stands out in the stack of charts from the times. Take a look at arizona. New Coronavirus Infections have been on a meteoric rise for weeks now since the states republican governor began one of the earliest reopenings in the country to appease trump. The number of icu beds and ventilators used by coronavirus patients hit an alltime high in arizona. Thats the hard data behind the experience of that phoenix e. R. Doctor was just describing. The governor of arizona has not enacted any significant new restrictions to slow the spread, has not closed businesses, no statewide mask requirement, and so with more people in arizona getting sick than the hospitals can keep up with officials are pushing on the governor to change his mind. The mayors from five cities sent a letter enacting to enact a statewide mask requirement, to increase testing and Contact Tracing, to ask arizonians to stay home. But also to step up and enact statewide strategy because the mayors are tired of trying to solve a Public Health crisis all on their own, quote, as arizona mayors we are deeply concerned about the current response to the covid19 pandemic in our state. Any further actions to curb the spread must include statewide direction. We need statewide action to combat this Public Health crisis. That letter, which is basically a public sos letter is signed by the mayors of tucson, phoenix, flagstaff and tempe. Joining me now the former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services and now the executive director of the arizona Public Health association. Good to see you. You and i talked two weeks ago, and you described something to me about care standards. You said your hospitals were starting to use care standards which i think in common parlance is some version of triage determining who gets what treatment. That was two weeks ago. Now what you have this e. R. Doctor describes as diversion, actually turning patients away. Describing. He was describing crisis standards of care in operation. Thats what it means. He talked about prepurposing Emergency Department rooms because they were unable to go to the icu. They dont have the staff within their hospital and then they check the surge line and were unable to find a similar hospital to treat those patients, so theyre doing the best they can. So the terrible thing here is there is no end in sight. The policy adjustments have not been adjusted to make the situation any better. And there are administrative things that could be done like improving the turnaround time with testing, using care act money, by the way. It is not state funds that are needed. They could do it now. So there are several of these things that could make a real difference. But as you mentioned, it takes some leadership to really turn the tide. Yeah. The thing, though, will, about the human mind is our ability to learn from things and try not to repeat mistakes or not habitually repeat mistakes. But we have seen exactly whats happening in arizona happen elsewhere and we thought we wouldnt have to go through this again. People like me who come from new york were hoping that arizona and texas and florida would not have to go through this. And, in fact, they did not have to go through this. Well, thats right. We didnt have to go through it either, by the way. The play book was written in the northeast part of the country where they had a responsible play book, really, for how to emerge from the stayathome order and preserve the sacrifices made by the folks at your state. We didnt follow that play book. We adopted the swedish model, really, to implement that. I was on chris hayes show a few days ago. I said, look, i hope the other states out there recognize whatnot to do. Dont follow the arizona example because this is a bad experiment. It is not working out well. If you come out of a stayathome order, come out of it in a responsible way with Performance Measures that you can document and get compliance with some of these cdc mitigation efforts and make sure you have the Testing Capacity that will help you with your Contact Tracing. On all of these marks that were on. In fact, when you look at the three things they ask for in the mayors letter to the governor, it is those three things. When you look at japan or south korea or taiwan or new zealand, the cdc mitigation matters, theyre simple. Were not asking for a treatment or cure or vaccine. Were just asking for basic stuff that has been shown to mitigate the spread of infection. All these things are layers. The Testing Capacity leads into Contact Tracing, which that Contact Tracing is a layer. Complying with the cc mitigation measures in retail stores, bars, restaurants, et cetera, thats a mitigation measure. We need to have all the layers in place, which, by the way, are manageable things. Were talking about in policy decisions and administrative action that if taken can stem the tide, move the needle and get us to the vaccine so that we dont have to do another stayathome order which has tremendous Collateral Damage in Public Health and otherwise. Will, good to see you again. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate the time that you take to keep us up to speed. Will humble is the former director of the Arizona Department of human services. All right. Coming up, state officials managed to push back by taking the president to court. Today the states are trying again in a fight for big implications for all of us. Well talk about that next. That shes confident, protected, her strength respected. Depend. The only thing stronger than us, is you. I but what i do count on. 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But as rachel says, watch this space. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. I was settling into the chair here. I got the ear piece in just in time to hear you