this is also true for international air passengers. but despite these changes, that trump-era border policy that allows the administration to swiftly expel migrants and which is also based on public health will remain in effect. so migrants will continue to be removed, despite these changes on the border the administration is announcing today. >> priscilla alvarez, thank you. we'll also cover this story at both land borders with paula newton in toronto, canada and raphael in mexico city. one new york congressman says this news brings a sigh of relief from northern border communities in the u.s. how is the canadian government reacting? >> you know, about the same. and i have to tell you in speaking to a lot of canadian businesses and families that were so relieved when the u.s. opened up that land border -- pardon me, canada opened up the land border to americans in august, it just didn't quite get things moving, jake, the way they should have been. this is a huge dose of relief for family members. imagine you had a grandkid born an hour away from you by car but instead you had to go into an airport and travel who knows where just to be able to go inside the country. that won't happen anymore beginning in november. the relief extends from washington state to maine. the u.s. businesses that were missing out, even though canada had opened their border. i have to underscore that canada's approach has been different. they're saying to everyone, look, be cautious about this. yes, the land border will be open but casual trips should still be avoided. a couple of wrinkles as well to work out. a lot of canadians, more than 1 in 10 have what they call a mixed dosing vaccine. so astrazeneca and maybe a pfizer or moderna. still waiting to see from the cdc as to whether or not they'll approve that. and many wrinkles at the border, both sides, north and south. raphael romo has more on that now. >> reporter: paula, you just made the point that it applies to mexico as well. families with relatives on both sides of the border could not be happier about this. closing the border more than 18 months ago meant people belonging even to the same family were separated by the pandemic. president lopez obrador welcomed the news saying mexico will soon have normality at its northern border. according to officials, the reopening is thanks to a joint effort by mexico and the united states to improve vaccination levels. and mexico's health department announced tuesday that 75% of the country's adult population has received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. now vaccination levels are as high as 95% in places like here where i am in the capital. the mexican government announced last month that more than 3.8 million people who live in 45 cities on six different states along the u.s. border have been vaccinated. jake, back to you. >> raphael and paula, thanks. let's talk more about this from a medical perspective. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us now live. how important is this change in terms of signaling a new phase of the pandemic? >> i think that's what it does in some ways, jake. it does sort of signal this new phase we've been dealing with off and on travel restrictions for close to two years. more than anything else it shows the faith that they have in the vaccines, as you mentioned. and raphael and paula mentioned. travelers have to be vaccinated coming into the united states. if you take a look at the numbers overall in terms of vaccination rates, in canada, they have the highest of the three countries, 74.2%. mexico, closer to 40%. we're in the middle there. as raffially was talking about, mexico city in some places, as high as 95% vaccination rates over there. this is really about the faith in the vaccines. >> the white house says these vaccination requirements will help prevent the spread of covid from other places. but isn't much of the spread in the u.s. community based spread, not from abroad? >> yeah, that's been an irony, right, when you are creating travel restrictions from countries that have higher, sometimes higher vaccinations or lower spread rates than the country that's -- has the restriction in place. it doesn't always make sense. we can take a look. specifically we pulled this for you to take a look at what's happening in the united states, mexico and canada. seven-day average per 100,000 people. just to your point. it's among the highest. so the real issue in terms of overall spread is from within. much more so than from places -- people coming from outside the country. >> sanjay, there's this new asal sis fromicizer that shows more than 90,000 preventable covid deaths in the last few months. this means, clarify this for us, if you could, vaccines could have prevented every single one of those people from dying? >> this is what they sort of project. as you know, it's a little hard to say for certain that, you know, with that degree of certainty, but, yes, the majority of people who contracted covid that were not vaccinated and died, you have to sort of think about a significant percentage of those could have been prevented. take a look. these numbers are hard to digest, jake, because we have a vaccine. and it is very protective. but this is what they put together here. look what happened in september. that's when you have significant amount of these vaccine preventable deaths, according to these modeling studies. the vaccine is so -- is very effective, but now the situation is because there are so many people who have been dying over the past few months, you get an idea in the united states what the top causes of death are over this time period. so heart disease still the number one killer in the united states, daily death average around 2,78. that's the top line. but covid is next at about close to 1900 deaths per day, in that particular time frame. it's tough to say out loud given the fact the vaccine is available and could be so protective against severe illness and death. >> doctors nationwide are flagging a potential crisis. the number of cancer screenings has plummeted since the beginning of the pandemic along with so many other visits to hospitals, visits to doctors. how concerned are you and your colleagues about patients coming in with late-stage cancer and illness because they just stopped doing screenings as a result of the pandemic? >> it's a significant problem because, you know, when they aren't getting screenings, they aren't getting these cancers detected at earlier stages. they're much harder to treat. take a look specifically that what you've seen with the different types of screenings. there's been a significant decline overall. april 2020 compared to the previous five years. close to 90% decline. cervical cancer screenings, 84% decline. some of that was in the earliest days of the pandemic. and the message went out subsequent that there are ways to get people into the hospital safely where they can still get these necessary types of diagnostic or preventative cancer screenings. and i think the message got through or at least the numbers would improve from 2020 to 2021, but it's a significant concern. a lot of technology and various ways of interacting with patients has come out of this pandemic, including telehealth which may help going forward. but getting screenings, getting tests, getting the scans necessary to figure fought someone is at risk or developing an early stage cancer is critically important. hopefully those numbers will improve. >> dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate it. a new poll that should worry president biden and the white house. we'll tell you what it is, next. plus, actor michael keaton will come to talk about his new project featuring a crisis that's destroyed so many lives and continues to. stay with us. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? 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so many crises i can't even list them all. the crisis of the day for biden today is the lagging supply chain but you two have noted that this is just one poll. a lot of polls are bad for biden. worse than this one. do you think it's a single issue or theme going on here? >> there's a lot going on. the passenger right now is about 44, 45% approving of biden. that's the average when you take all the polls together. but what my reporting shows recently, whether it's traveling to georgia or talking to strategists who have done focus groups, it all points back to the pandemic. even the supply chain points back to the pandemic which is that people, this is still dominating their lives. people i talked to say they'd still like more help because they are service workers putting themselves at risk, not knowing if someone is vaccinated when they come into their stores. so this is the issue people still feel like the country isn't fully out of the pandemic because it's not and that's impacting biden's numbers, and the white house is apair of that. jen psaki acknowledged it saying they know we're not fully out of this pandemic. they thought we would be. >> because they told us we would be. joe biden threw away his mask and said, independence from masks in july. >> and they are betting that by 2022, when that election comes around, that it will be a very different picture across the cou country. of course, first comes virginia. >> we do this roll polling on covid-19 and american sentiment and found this week like a cause and effect link that said the longer this goes on and the longer people have to readjust their expectations, we'll be normal again in six months, in a year. every time people have to restris backwards it pushes biden down. it's not just that, yes, people know it will take longer and yes, they're losing trust in biden but -- it's not like his fault. it's sort of science and what happens with large populations and a lot of numbers. people don't want to get vaccinated. be that as it may. he's the guy at theeel elected . you won't have to worry what's going on in the white house anymore. that's not how things have played out. >> basic competence is what he told and and say that's not what he's delivered. the social safety net program that biden wants which addresses everything from climate change to child care, most democrats in the poll would rather go big rather than scaled back. look at the divide within the party. 84% of liberal democrats want to see all these programs, safety net programs, climate change programs enacted compared to 67% of moderate conservatives or democrats. a handful said don't pass the bill altogether. first of all, let me start with you, kristen. you're a pollster. these numbers underscore the struggle in the party to reach a deal. >> additionally in this poll, when democrats are asked, should -- is biden -- should he do more to support the progressives than moderates, they're split on that question. and as a result of this infighting which i have to say most voters could not tell you what is in these bills. and it's not because they're dumb. it's not because they're lazy. democrats have done a horrendous job messaging about them. 25% of voters think these would make their lives better. no wonder democrats are infighting. it's not as though there's some strong political wind forcing them to get things done. that's allowing these divisions to fester on capitol hill. >> i've heard democrats blame the news media for not tell us what's in the bill. we repeatedly tell people what's in the bill. the numbers are striking. only 25% of americans say their families would be better off with both the infrastructure and the economic package bills. 32% said they'd be worse off. 43% said their families would been the same. that's just inaccurate. if you look at who gets these tax credits, although we still don't know what's going to be in the bill. >> those numbers are not great but i don't think it's like a total doomsday scenario because the majority of people are saying we think our lives will be the same. so at least they're not saying their lives will be worse. when you pull apart components of the bill and this is the challenge democrats face is talking about all the great things that are in here. all these things are popular and supportive. and i just don't buy that democrats are super divided on this issue. the majority of elected officials in congress support the majority of joe biden's agenda. we have a few holdouts that are causing this logjam that we're having right now but i don't think we're at a case where democrats are completely in disarray over this bill. they have to get something done. >> terry mcauliffe, the gubernatorial candidate, the democrat in virginia, he is very frustrated because he would like to be out there campaigning on, look what democrats are doing for you. look at this infrastructure bill. look at these other programs coming your way. and he's not able to do that. and he, you know, biden might be at 40-something percent, 45 -- >> 44, 45. >> that's nationwide? and some of these battleground states it's lower than that. and he thinks he's being dragged down, mcauliffe. >> 2020 election, joe biden won with like a 20 percentage point lead over the former president. >> in virginia. >> in virginia. not since world war ii, you know, had a democrat had that kibd of kind of a win. and now as mcauliffe has said, biden is under water and pushing mcauliffe down. if there's new polling out it looks like mcauliffe has a slight lead but it's not even within the margin of error and depends on turnout. you see barack obama now heading to virginia. going to head to virginia to try to turn out voters, younger voters, voters of color. without turnout, if mcauliffe can't get democrats excited to vote and if youngkin can get independents and republicans to turn out for him, mcauliffe is in a lot of trouble. >> you think that mcauliffe, just because he's a democrat it's his to lose? >> the advantage goes to mcauliffe. we were talking about this before. how seismic it would be if he were to lose this. that's why -- >> he was governor once before, we should point out, in the same state. >> that's why mccauliffe is trying to make this about trump and a referendum on him, even though he's not in the ballot because that's done well for democrats when they've been running against trump and the conspiracy theories. covid is very much a part of what's happening in virginia as well. add on biden's poor approval ratings, the fcts that people are still bothered by being in the middle of the pandemic and mcauliffe is facing this uphill battle. whether or not democrats show movement by auoctober 31st coul boost him. >> glen youngkin, the republican, has definitely not tried to portray himself as a trumpy republican. although he is certainly trying to unify the party behind him. he says the number one issue in virginia is education. he's been pushing issues about having to do with parental rights, having to do with mask mandates or how schools should be teaching issues like racism. take a listen to glen youngkin just today. >> they tell us what material is being used in the classroom or in the library. just tell us so that we can choose whether we want it in our kid's life or not. because parents have a fundamental right to be engaged in their kids' education. >> is that an issue that plays and can get voters to the polls? >> it's an issue that can get the types of voters republicans desperately need to win back to at least listen. if they are really concerned about something going on in their child's school, whether it's about the curriculum or mask mandates or concerns about schools having been closed for so long. it's an issue that in his view, he thinks will win over the types of voters republicans have struggled with. for these gubernatorial elections, the issue set is different than if running for senate. you mentioned he -- terry mcauliffe can't point to what's happening on capitol hill and say democrats would give you an infrastructure bill. governors races are a different animal. you have republican governors in massachusetts, vermont, a whole bunch of states that would never vote for a republican at the presidential level. the issue set is different. if glen youngkin is able to pull this off it may not provide a ton of lessons for folks running for federal office but may give a lot of other blue state republicans an interesting model to look at for how to put together a coalition. >> remember ed gillespie when he ran against mcauliffe, he was running ads with ms-13. this isn't that. >> it isn't, but it's a new version of the culture wars. and glen youngkin is making a calculated guess this will be enough to push him over. but the electorate has changed. i would argue the issues that most virginians care about are, how are you going to protect me from covid and get the state economy moving, not what they are teaching on critical race theory, which they're not teaching in schools. they're not teaching that in schools. let's be very clear. >> if they turn out to vote. virginia has been trending democratic for years. it's a swing state leaning blue forever but only blue if you turn out to vote. that's the problem mcauliffe has put his finger on the pulse of. >> it's still got a purplish hue to it. >> you can turn people out by having a message that says the other side is very scary. another problem mcauliffe has had, he can't decide if youngkin or trump or romney. notice his messaging his been youngkin and taylor swift masters and his role in terms of running a very powerful investment firm. so i don't think they've got a good way of trying to define their opponent. >> thanks to everyone. you may not know her name but she's been instrumental in trump's push to overturn the election. we'll show you this attorney behind the scenes. they with us. wealth plannsive across 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in president trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. >> you are a hell of a lawyer and tough. that's what we need. >> reporter: named fult pell times in a newly released senate judiciary report for her role in the pressure campaign on the department of justice to investigate unfounded claims of election fraud. on december 30th, the report says she emailed then-white house chief of staff mark meadows. this is the petition child in georgia state court and the press release issued about it. i presume the doj would want all the exhibits. meadows forwarded her email to jeffrey rosen asking, can you have your team look into these allegations of wrongdoing, only the alleged fraudulent activity. mitchell first made national headlines earlier this year. >> and our estimate is that there are roughly 18,000 ballots. we don't know that. if you know that -- t. was 18,000 ballots but they used each one three times. >> reporter: when her voice was heard assisting trump on the now-infamous leaked january 2nd phone call with georgia's secretary of state brad raffensberger. >> i just want to find 11,7 80 votes. >> reporter: her investment with trump came as a surprise to many, including her law firm and led to her swift departure. mitchell was first pulled in 24 hours after election day as she recounts in a little noticed podcast viewed by cnn. >> i got a call from mark meadows. i flew to atlanta, and i -- and thus began my involvement with the post election. >> reporter: three days later on the day that joe biden's victory was projected, she was on national tv arguing otherwise. >> just because cnn says or even fox news says somebody is president doesn't make them president. >> reporter: she became involved with helping fund the partisan arizona audit of the 2020 election. >> he was certified as the winner in florida by the proper procedures established. >> reporter: for years, mitchell has been well known in conservative circles. operating behind the scenes as one of the right wing's most prominent lawyers focusing on voter fraud. >> welcome to the vast right wing conspiracy annual gathering. >> reporter: with links to the most conservative forces and causes within the republican party. steve bannon, the national rifle association, senator demint and a decade ago, donald trump, representing him in 2011 against accusations that his exploratory committee violated federal election laws. >> beyond an attorney. a great attorney. >> reporter: mitchell first started in politics as a democrat in the oklahoma state legislature in the 1970s and 80s. in the '90s she became an independent, then republican. she is still in regular contact with trump. vowing the fight that started in 2020 will continue. >> we're going to take those election offices back. and we need you to help us. >> reporter: right now mitchell is behind new efforts pushing for tighter state voting laws. she's also been advising some republican state lawmakers. jake, she would not speak with cnn 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sick" that premieres today gets into what and who are driving this epidemic. take a look. >> just to be clear, you're blaming numerous deaths in your town on just one medication? >> yes, sir. i am. >> and are you the individual that prescribed this medication? >> yes, sir. i did. >> and the two executive producers of "dope sick" join me now. danny strong along with michael keaton who also stars as dr. sam finnicks in the series. it's really one of the most powerful pieces of television i've seen in i don't know how long. it's an important and compelling. you played the doctor. he's a composite. not an actual individual. and he's not a bad guy. >> no, he's not. he's a great guy actually. >> but he's part of what happened. >> he's a composite of doctors that are in "dope sick" and a person created to -- and by the way, a lot of people carry this story as you'll see. you needed this doctor to kind of take you on through much of the journey. so, yeah, he's really a composite. his intention is so simple. you know, by just becoming a doctor. how duped he was. and that's part of the whole thing, too. how just the name change and pain medication. how you market a pain medication. this is a guy who is in the business. and at first can't believe that there's no qualities to oxy -- or to this particular medication and turns out he's as naive about this as anyone. >> but the people know the basics of the news story because we've been covering it, but the sacklers, obviously, run pharmaceutical, they own perdue pharmaceutical and they're out there pushing it. they're out there telling their pharmaceutical reps to tell doctors it's only 1% get addicted which is obviously a -- less than 1% get addicted, but what's also interesting decision and choice by you and the creators of this series is that you get into the mind of richard sackler. he's not, even though he's empirically a bad guy in this drama and in real life, he is three-dimensional. how did you get into his head? >> it was really challenging because so many of the people i interview that worked at perdue pharma, they had such disdain for him. so even the people that knew him spoke about him in such a negative terms, so much has been written about him, so negative. i was trying to crack this code of, i want to know what makes him tick. what's motivating him. it's got to be more than greed. he was wealthy before they came up with oxycontin. i went to this drastic idea which was that i did a therapy session in which i role played that i was richard sackler in the therapy session. and i used all of the information that i was able to gather about richard sackler and the therapist is a wife of a famous screenwriter so she's used to doing this sort of thing with her husband. within about 20 minutes of me answering her questions i just really started to at least get a sense of the mindset of someone who does so much work, whose family, whose cousins share the money with him, but they don't do any of the work, who has this iconic uncle that perhaps he has a complex about that he wants to in some ways maybe even more successful than. and yet the goal ultimately was that we wanted all of the characters in the show to in some way reflect pain. what is pain? it's not just -- the show isn't just about this criminal country, purdue pharma, although a lot of it is about purdue pharma. we wanted to show their crimes in many ways. i wanted the show to be the trial that purdue pharma has not gotten. so we prosecute them but the course of the series by showing their unbelievably egregious crimes but at the same time, i wanted to humanize richard sackler to show, okay, so what ultimately>> michael, you are so thinks a lot about what's going on in the country. the cdc reports that drug overdose led mostly by opioid deaths were higher than ever last year. even during the pandemic. that almost more than peak car crashes and gun violence deaths combined, according to "the new york times." beyond the malfeasance and the people who actually were in physical pain, what do you think is going on? >> the pandemic accelerated a lot of stuff. and if you really think logically, you start to piece it together, and you think about, you go, it only makes sense that certain, that certain behavior, behavioral things are going to come out. there are so many times where i would read something in the script, i would go to barry or danny and say, you know, the scene plays but this is like, is this too, you know, evil and good? is it on the head? they would say, think so? listen to this. then they would give me statistics or they actually said that. and then you kind of can't believe the obviousness of it. so in a way, that's not at all shocking to me at this point. the statistics are insane. >> shocking. danny, under bankruptcy settlement last months, this is what you were alluding to about them not getting the trial, sacklers, they're going to pay out $4 billion to opioid victims. prosecutors could still pursue criminal charges, but under the bankruptcy deal, the sackler family gets immunity from future civil lawsuits. that's maddening to people and another example of how the wealthy do whatever they want. >> that's being challenged, though. >> there's, you know, some people are trying to appeal it. there's a sense that it's probably going to go through. and at the end of the day, one thing that i have discovered in studying the story for as long as i been working on it is that the sacklers always win. they always get away with it. and someone asked me, how does that happen? it's a one-word answer, money. they're able to use their money to buy influence, to peddle influence at the highest levels of the u.s. government, and in many ways, the story, it's a story of the revolving door as much as it is a story of this dishonest criminal, pharma company. it's a story of the swamp and of the flaws in our systems that allow the ultra, ultra wealthy to get away with a crime so egregious as misbranding a deadly dangerous narcotic as nonaddictive, as practically nonaddictive. this is, i think, one of the ultimate examples of a swamp story. >> and michael, lastly, this isn't the first project you have done on this theme. i remember "clean and sober" and also dealing with dependency issues. you have a foundation in your nephew's name. >> my sister pam formed a foundation, and i want to make sure i get it right so i read it to you. it's called the michael douglas chiclone foundation, and it goes toward addiction issues, and it goes toward this other wonderful -- i'm from just outside of pittsburgh, and so i can read it right if you don't mind me doing this. this is matilda tice early childhood behavioral health facility in the hill district of pittsburgh, and this year, some of the proceeds go toward that. she's done great stuff. there's so many people out there, you know, helping out because it's so unbelievably prevalent. >> and that's rough that you lost your 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