Failures rebuking his top Infectious Disease and calling for opening of cools. Later more states join the list for vote by mail. For some its a sigh of relief. For the president its a reason to wage war on the election process. Good to have you with us. Surging spikes, record daily cases and now a leading projection has the u. S. Death toll from coronavirus topping 200,000 by november. Around the world 11. 8 million cases are confirmed, with more than half a Million People dead from covid19. As bleak as those numbers are, researchers say as many as 45,000 american lives could be saved by the winter. One expert tells Cnns Anderson Cooper all it takes is one simple thing. If people would wear masks, 95 of people Wearing Masks through mandates, that could reduce the death toll by november by 45,000 deaths. So if states start doing that then our forecast will definitely come down. Americas top Infectious Disease expert is also a big advocate of Wearing Masks. Dr. Anthony fauci says they ar
Made before that court are absolute lly preposterous. I want to read you the opinion. 200 years ago, a great jurist of our court established that no citizen, not even the president , is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding. We reaffirm that principal today and hold that the president is not immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers, nor entitled to a heightened standard of need. It was a victory. Not a close one. It was a 72 ruling that included also the two trump appointees who voted with the majority. It was not a good day for the president. Even as the president s own press secretary tried to spin it in the wind, donald trump himself was whining and throwing himself a pity party. Then complaining to reporters that the Supreme Court ruling was a witch hunt and a hoax just like everything is a hoax like the virus was a hoax. Todays ruling has now cleared a path for the new york states attorney to get ei
Wash your hands. They dont do it. They think it is a hoax. Anybody thinks this is a hoax should come spend the day with me here. Once again, we begin the show with sound from medical workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Welcome to wednesday. It is mtp daily. The u. S. Is battling a record surge of covid cases. We crossed 3 million cases. Hospitals are being pushed to the brink of capacity, and yet the president is publicly dismissing the warnings and recommendations of his top Infectious Disease experts while also threatening to cut funding to schools if they cannot reopen. It has been a head spinning 24 hours. The u. S. Set another record of confirmed cases at more than 60,000. Hospitalizations hit record levels in arizona, alabama, california, georgia, mississippi, north carolina, nevada, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, and texas. The situation in the south continues to deteriorate. Cases are still exploding. Hospitalizations are still climbing, and deaths have begun tick
Capacity. Hospitalizations in california have reached an all time high and the positive test rate, how many people are actually getting the virus jumped by more than two Percentage Points in los angeles. Georgia passed 100,000 total covid cases becoming the ninth state to cross that mark. At the same time President Trump is pushing hard for states to reopen schools across the country. The schools will be opened in the fall. We hope that most schools are going to be opened. We dont want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons. I think it will be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed. No way. Were very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools. Cnns erica hill begins our coverage with more on that surge in florida. Reporter 43 hospitals in florida report their icu beds are now at capacity. Nearly three dozen more are close. But the governor is pushing forward with plans to open schools next month. Touting
Another dynamic at play in the charged battle of her returning to school. Its a covid19 laced electionyear showdown between School Choice and Teachers Unions. We are fighting for schools choice which really is the civil rights of all time in this country, frankly, School Choice is the civil rights statement of the year. Martha a big topic for the president lately so right now, just as an example, a new study from the new York City Charter School center shows that nearly 50,000 children right here in new york city, there are lots of kids on waiting list to get into these Charter Schools, its what they want and what parents want but as you know, the Teachers Union and politicians they support are against the new charters. Joe biden has changed his view over the years on Charter Schools. Here he is a few months back. If im president , betsy devos whole notion from Charter Schools to this, are gone. Martha in 1997 he said this. It is legitimate to ask what would happen to the Public School