public safety. my kindergartners does not remember a time from preschool on up until now he is not worn a mask at school. think about that. this is happening by the way this is the data and the science as it covered cases are plummeting across the country in loudoun county, virginia along the epicenter of this mask fight there s a population of more than 40000 people are averaging about 200 cases per day. i asked alexa to figure it out for me. 0.06 of the population, public health protecting teachers and kids? right. alecia i will get you the last word on this. with all of these kids pushing back now they are seeing it on tiktok. they are seeing it on social media. this is giving permission to the kids to take a stand against what they think is unfair. also keep in mind three weeks ago their kids who are protesting in cities thing they did not feel protected and from covid. you have kids also protesting the masked rates of the message i am hearing the kids don t trust the adults to
relieved, and it s our first step to building trust. okay. they begin to trust us. i said we ll find your mom. we know where she is. now trust us for the next step. this is difficult work to do when kids don t trust you. it s impossible to do. for kohoban, this is also personal. he s a first generation american from sri lanka. his goal now is to reunite these children with their family. do you think it could be weeks, months? it depends on it s hard to answer that question, but the word i could use to best describe it is expediency is what it s all about. we don t want to keep kids away from families one minute longer than they already have been. and he later went on to tell me that he is working with contacts that he has within the federal government to help assist him in reuniting these children with their families, but again, poppy, as you saw, i
melania trump makes quite a statement with a surprise trip to the border. this as the president tweets this morning that republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration. he says at least until after the midterms. of course he hopes more republicans will be elected then. the president punts on immigration reform. now what happens? joining me is cnn s mark preston, errol lewis and molly ball, our political analyst as well. nice to have you here, mark preston in the flesh here in new york. good to have you. if you re paul ryan this morning and you see the president this morning saying don t waste your time, don t do this. this thing you promised a vote on this week, now it s next week, what are you thinking? i think if you re paul ryan you re saying to yourself i m really glad i decided to retire and am leaving at the end of the year. politically the house can t give up in ieffort at this point. we re heading into a midterm election where the wind is very much in their face. d
there is also a recreation center where play is encouraged. children will cry. but if you bring fun to them, a fun spirit, sports, stuff that it just takes their mind off of what is really going on in their lives, that s what we do best. most importantly, this facility has helped some of the children contact their parents. they are elated, they are relieved. and it is the first step to building trust. okay. they begin to trust us. i said we ll find your mom. we know where she is. now trust us for the next step. this is difficult work to do when kids don t trust you. it is impossible. this is also personal. he s a first-generation american from sri lanka. his goal is to reunite the children with their families quickly. it could be weeks, months, any sort of time? it is hard to answer that question. but i believe the word i could
and his approval rating has been very stable for quite a while. maybe it s ticked down a little bit but people s opinions of him are pretty much baked in. yeah, comey is underwater. clearly the trump and republican campaign to discredit him just like they have done with the russia investigation has been quite successful. and the i.g. report, right? absolutely. but a lot of these other figures, people are somewhat ambivalent about and don t necessarily have an opinion positive or negative. errol, there s another interesting number out of our economy poll. it shows that six in ten americans at this point would rather the united states maintain a good relationship with our allies, 63%, than the 25% that care about us imposing these tariffs that the u.s. has slapped on not only china but our allies, mexico and canada. that s right. the world is a little bit smaller. the days where america could just say, well, who cares. we re past that. more people than ever travel. people i think