At the salon nancy pelosi now says she was set up by the owner of the salon pelosi got her hair done here inside on monday which is not allowed yet under the citys covid restrictions. The owner soon after release video to fox news showing the House Speaker inside the salon without a mask over her face was hanging around her neck. The man who styled her hair says the owner has been providing services to customers during the whole pandemic basically an believes pelosi was set up to. Police pelosi says she deserves an apology were about to hear from her and mayor london breed who supports her. I take responsibility for trusting other word of the neighborhood salon that ive been to over the years, many times and that tone when they said what were able to accommodate people one person at a time. And that we can set up that time i trusted that as it turns out it was a setup. So i take responsibility, 4 falling for a set up. You know this conversation has kind of blown up in the way that it h
Did focus in part on Law Enforcement biden was talking to the community. He was meeting with members of jacob blakes family. Those are some of the relatives just after the meeting blakes relatives apparently did not want to meet with the president earlier this week. I asked our political analyst for their thoughts on todays visit. This was a tale of 2 can oshas into campaigns, donald trump was all about law and order and wreckage. And today, joe biden talked about healing and unity and rebuilding in meeting with jacob blakes family which trump refused to do. Thats the kind of contrasts that biden wants to have from between now and election day. So today, joe biden went to kenosha wisconsin weeks frankly i find can change. Ive never seen one president ial candidate. Follow another. Usually you try and lead on an issue not fall and now joe biden is going to be following. President trump to pennsylvania as well i think thats good form for joe biden makes it look like a follower not a lead
Facing a dangerous spike in cases. Today, joe and jill biden will visit kenosha, wisconsin. They will meet with jacob blakes family, President Trump went to kenosha, as you know, but did not meet with the family. In an exclusive interview with cnn, attorney general bill barr says he does not believe systemic racism exists in the United States justice system. But we just learned new details overnight of a different case of an unarmed black man dying in the custody of police in rochester, new york, and we have that shocking and very upsetting video. And this morning, a host of new polls on the state of the president ial race after both conventions, including a brandnew cnn poll, and they all tell a very interesting story about where the race is. But first, lets bring in dr. Sanjay gupta, hes cnns chief medical correspondent with our top story. Okay, sanjay, we have a lot to get through. Still, you know, more than a thousand people dying a day. And its just, you know, let me pull up the m
Day weekend, as well. He is pleading for people to wear masks and socially distant. We dont want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following other holiday weekends. We dont want to see a surge under any circumstances but particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter boo the fall. We want go into that with a running start in the right direction and not with another surge that we have to turn around again. Dr. Fauci also says that americans can feel quote confident in the vaccine process after cdc documents revealed it was directing states to prepare to distribute a Coronavirus Vaccine as soon as late october. He also though expressed doubt over that time line saying it was unlikely but not impossible. These are all guesstimates. If you look at the projection of the enrollment and the kinds of things you need to get a decision about whether the vaccine is safe and effective, most of us project that thats going to be by november, december, by the end of the
Lets, you know, i think the narrative that theres that the police are on some, you know, epidemic of shooting unarmed black men is simply a false narrative. And also the narrative that thats based on race. The attorney general taking a page out of the president s playbook, condemning voting by mail. This is playing with fire. Were a very closely divided country here, and if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government, and people trying to change the rules to this to this methodology that as the president today incredibly appeared to suggest that voters should cast their ballots twice. Youll hear that for yourself this hour. And democratic candidate joe biden, well, travels to kenosha, wisconsin tomorrow. He says that hell meet with the family of shooting victim jacob blake and call for healing in the city. Those stories and much, much more in the hour ahead. I want to bring in now cnn White House Correspondent john harwood and Seni