22 days till the election and President Trump back on the campaign trail just a week after being hospitalized for the coronavirus. His doctors saying tonight that trump tested negative for the virus on consecutive days. The president holding a rally tonight in florida, states seeing a spike in cases. There was no social distancing. Few people were wearing masks. Contrary to what trump says the pandemic is far from over. 31 states seeing a rise in cases. Now lets bring in cnns White House Correspondent john harwood and my guests. Good to see all of you. Thank you so much for joining. John, your first, what we saw what happened out there tonight . This week trump is holding rallies in several states. Pence is going to be in ohio. Wisconsin and michigan. What does this tell you about how the campaign feels about the state of the race right now . The state of the race is terrible from their point of view. I think what President Trump is doing is he is somebody who has always been driven by
Help all americans who have been impacted by this. And this will pass. This will pass through and were going to bine stronger for it. Among other things, Officials Say they have a partnership with google to launch a website that will help americans decide whether they need testing. And much like we are now seeing in a community in new york state, they also announced that drivethru testing will become available in some places for those in need. U. S. Testing capacity has so far lagged behind other countries, the white house is taking a series of steps intended to boost their availability. However trump pointedly refused to take responsibility for failures in testing to date. Dr. Fauci said earlier this week that the lag in testing was, in fact, a failing. Do you take responsibility for that. No, i dont take responsibility at all because we were given a a set of circumstances and we were begin rules, regulations and specifications from a different time. It wasnt meant for this kind of an
Were in a National Emergency because of the devastating Global Pandemic of coronavirus. It has killed nearly 6,000 people around the world and 65 dead and more than 3,300 known cases here in the United States. As a result, the debate will focus heavily on the crisis. The setting of the debate is also different. To reduce unnecessary risk of transmission of the virus, cnn, the Democratic National committee and the campaigns moved this debate from phoenix, arizona, to here at cnn studios in washington without any audience. All of this comes as four more states, florida, arizona, ohio and illinois prepare to vote on tuesday with Vice President biden currently leading senator sanders in the race for delegates. Heres what were going to do tonight. Each of you will have 90 seconds to answer questions and 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals. As much as we can, we hope this will be a conversation between the two of you. So lets begin with the most important issue right now, the coronavirus
Dont have. If we stopped testing right now, wed have very few cases, if any. Im sorry. If you dont test, you dont have any cases. We tried to explain this before. What does he mean cases like officially, because people still have it. And theyre dieiying of it. Thats the remarkable thing. Thats incredible. The United States has 115,000 people who have died 117. 117,000 people who have died of coronavirus. And donald trump keeps saying that if we dont test for the coronavirus lets just stop testing. Then it will magically go away. We wont have any more cases. Actually, testing for the coronavirus does not kill people. Thats just like saying, you know, pregnancies are pregnancies would be driven down to zero if we stopped having pregnancy tests. So we have brought along willie geist to explain what the president of the United States was trying to mean yesterday. Willie, please explain it for us. Well, i think he meant exactly what he said, and how do we know this . He said it before. He j
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