This weekend, which raises serious questions about what the nations top scientists are saying to the president , whether theyre willing to stand up to him. We will get into that in a moment. Joining us now is dr. Ashish jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Great to see both of you. Dr. Jha, what is your biggest concern as we start this week . Yes, good morning and thank you for having me on. My biggest concern is the remark that dr. Fauci made last week about how we may get to 100,000 cases a day. We were in the 40s then, and much of the weekend we saw 50,000plus cases, and then some of the behavior we saw over the weekend, i think were just on an accelerated phase, where well see more and more increases in the days and weeks ahead, without a real plan for how to stop it and bring the numbers down. I want to put a couple more figures up on the screen so people can see them in terms of hospitalizations in texas. We have a
Fascism that demands absolute allegiance. Will the message that worked in 2016 convince voters in 2020 . Iowa republican senator joni ernst up for reelection this fall will join me. Plus shes taking a tough line against the administration on the Armed Services committee. How dare he still call himself skmander in chief. And the buzz of vp choice. With months to go before he picks a candidate for Vice President , Tammy Duckworth joins me coming up. Hello, im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is honoring freedom in strange times. Happy 4th of july weekend. As americans celebrated the countrys birthday, President Trump did nothing to try to unify a nation still crippld by the coronavirus pandemic and deep cultural unrest. Instead he used the occasion to deliver two divisive speeches in front of Mount Rushmore friday night, he outlined an us versus them message framing most protests on radical assault on american life. We will never allow an angry mob
Masks, as the president continues to make claims that the only reason the u. S. Has a surge in cases is because of an increase this testing. That is total crap. The president is peddling in debunked illogical crap and tweeting instead of doing his job. The president is spending part of the morning retweeting a Game Show Host who says the cdc and doctors are lying about a pandemic that has killed at least 135,000 of his fellow americans and sickened 3 million. Now the president and the white house are trying to discredit anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci whose presence on the White House Coronavirus task force has had doctors and experts and science minded people grasping to the hope that the magical thinking is countered by a scientific voice. Fauci is the nations top Infectious Disease expert and served six president s, democrats and republicans. He is in the cross hairs for publicly contradicting the president and getting good press according to a person familiar with President Trumps thinkin
Ballots. In the meantime, they arent getting there. By the way, those are two items. If they dont get those two items, you cant have universal mail in voting because they arent equipped to have it. Later in a news conference, the president chose slightly different wards implying it was Democrats Holding up the deal but the point was the same. If the post office, if they dont approve a bill and the post office therefore wont have the money and if they dont approve a big bill, a bigger bill and theyre not going to have 3. 5 million, how can you have those votes . It would mean is the people have to go to the polls. The comments come after the president spent months and despite those in charge of national sec tourry but there is an evidence 06is there is a slowdown in mail in at least nine states in part because of concerns about the coronavirus. A memo sent to workers and obtained confirms as much about the slowdown, quote, unfortunately this initiative had unintended consequences that i
The White House Coronavirus task force puts iowa in the socalled red zone with the highest rate of new cases in the entire country. Now a key member of the task force, dr. Fauci, is now insisting he does have a good working relationship with President Trump. Just hours after the president said that he this is the president word inherited dr. Fauci and here is how he responded when he thinks the president trusts him. You know, i think he does. When you get statements like that, that doesnt really reflect what actually goes on. I was at white house yesterday at a Task Force Meeting with the Vice President and everything that we discussed including what you just spoke about regarding children, regarding what is going on, gets to the president and he understands that. So i dont i think that is kind of a distraction to pit me against the president. Were all on the same team. Meantime, fda commissioner stephen hahn said it is possible that he could resign if there is any political pressure t