Camp tonsafun. Its like summer camp, but minus the poison ivy. Unless you own poison ivy. In which case, why . Just say summer camp into your xfinity voice remote to join. Cnn tonight with d. Lemon starts now. I was apologizing to don in the break. Ill do it again now. Oh, my gosh. I didnt even realize the time. I cooperate stop dr. Melendez talk talk about his neighbor. I apologize. My time is not more valuable than yours. This is the best part of the day. So im sorry. Lets talk about can we talk about masks . Please. How did masks become political . How did it happen . One word. Trump. Yes. Ill say, a Family Member goes to the doctor in a red state. The doctor says hes not wearing a mask. The Family Member walks out and says im not then, youre not going to treat me today. Nurse runs behind her and says, okay, hes going to wear a mask. When she gets into the room, the doctor says, i cant do it because ill lose half my patients. I believe it. I mean, come on. I believe it. Look whats h
Former lawyer turned critic Michael Cohen, saying his return to prison was retaliatory. Were going to have a full report on that. And were awaiting a judge to rule on oregons lawsuit to remove militarized federal agents from portland as they clashed with protesters and tear gassed the citys mayor. Former dhs secretary tom ridge now saying President Trump is treating the crisis in cities like an episode of the apprentice. Youll never be able to take a reality tv approach to solve such Serious Problems unless you coordinate. Its not a onehour reality tv show. We have all of these stories covered. I have a team of reporters here helping me break all this down. But first, we want to begin in washington, d. C. , where President Trump seems to be blaming the dramatic rise in coronavirus cases on nearly everything, but his own administration. At wednesdays briefing, the president pinned the spikes on nationwide protests. Summer travel. Even mexico. In fact, moments ago, Democratic House Speak
Florida. Thats it for us, the news continues, want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. Chris . Anderson, thank you very much. Im chris cuomo, welcome to prime time, we mark five weeks of covid now. We may well learn that this virus has been around even longer than that. Lets stick with the bigger point. Are you proud of what the greatest country in the world has managed during this time . For all the talk about testing, we still dont have enough. I dont care what the white house is telling you, the reality comes from the ground and the governors, and you know what theyre telling you. Theyre not ready. So how did we reopen if we dont have the right tools . And more directly , about those tools, how can america, the greatest country in the world, the richest, the most powerful, how can we be stymied by a q tip, how can we not have figured out how to make swabs and ppe . The president promised us that he would make America Great again. Well, this is the moment to make that mess
The richest, the most powerful, how can we be stymied by a q tip, how can we not have figured out how to make swabs and ppe . The president promised us that he would make America Great again. Well, this is the moment to make that message manifest. And remember, he said it was about bringing back manufacturing. Well, where is it right now . Swabs and gowns. The only thing that is checked this contagion is our collective response to stay home. Together as ever as one. We know that is our true power, but when will it really be put to this problem. What do you say, lets get at it . The latest sign of what appears to be a rush to reopen. We see it from the governor of georgia. He admits, look, there will be more cases when we reopen. He says well continue to go up. But they want to get business open. People want to get back to life. You know that, i know that. Who doesnt want to get back. Okay. But four days from now, bowling alleys, tattoo parlors, barbershops, thats an obvious one. Youll
Im so mad about a bunch of things. I have to keep my composure because i want to keep my job. Im really mad. Youre upset about what you said about the president , its because he doesnt want to admit his weakness, what he got wrong, he doesnt want to admit that he was late to the ball game. He doesnt want to admit that, listen, this was something that happened. If you just say we were not a little bit behind, we were behind, we did some things wrong, lets make it right, right now, lets catch up, lets see whats right for the American People right now, instead of making it all about him. Thats what he cant admit. And guess what . Until he admits that, its not going to be right. Its not going to be right for him now. Ill tell you what, d. Lemon. Its not going to be right for him in november, thats your question. Thats what your Closing Argument is really about. No question thats why the economy is so important to him. Reopening is important, but its important to a lot of people. I tell you