Matter where you live in america, you need to wear a mask and socially distance. Quote, no matter where you live in america. What if you live in the white house . The president of the United States acts as though this doesnt apply to him. We see him holding maskless rallies. We see him playing maskless rounds of golf, and as far as the pandemic is concerned, thats not the only way he dangerously contradicts experts within his own administration. This morning the White House CoronavirusTask Force Member in charge of testing said the report straight on hydroxychloroquine. From a Public Health standpoint, at first it looked promising. There were not the definitive studies. At this point in time theres been five randomized play seebocontrolled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine. Theres no evidence to show that it is a treatment. Heres trump earlier this week, clinging to the idea that the treatment works, citing a doctor who has claimed alien dna was used in medical treatments. She washington making a statement about hydroxychloroquine with other doctors that swear by it. They think its great. I happen to be a believer. I used it, i had no problem. Many, many people agree with me. The optics and misinformation, frankly come at a cost. Congressman Louis Gohmert, a, it texas republican who frequently refused to wear a mask tested positive for coronavirus this week. He told fox news, he would start taking hydroxychloroquine in the coming dame. And trumps ally herman cain is gone, taken by coronavirus. We dont know where he contracted the virus, but he was in the tulsa rally where several tested positive. Yes the nothing to see here attitude from the president persists as july saw ten days with more than 10,000 deaths. As we reach a new phase in dr. Birxs words. Jeremy, the House Speaker today said in no uncertainly terms she does not have confidence in dr. Deborah birx. Reporter just a few days ago Speaker Pelosi reportedly told white house officials that she believed dr. Birx was spreading disinformation and made clear she did not have confidence in her. Today Speaker Pelosi was asked to respond to that report and dr. Birx also responding. Listen. I think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus, and she is his appointee. So i dont have confidence there, no. I have tremendous respect for the speaker. I have respect for her long dedication to the American People. I have never been called policy anaish or nonscientific or nondata driven. I will stake my 40year career on the fundamental principles of utilizing data to implement better programs to save more lives. Reporter now, we should know there is no evidence to back up Speaker Pelosis claims that dr. Birx has spread disinformation. In fact shes been one of the officials who has come out trying to provide the facts, even though we have seen the president offer disinformation and really falsehoods. Today dr. Birx was talking about the fact were entering a new phase of the virus. But dr. Birx, part of this criticism may have stemmed from this New York Times article, which describes the fact that dr. Birx seemed overly optimistic about her projections, not taking enough into account the extent to which the white house rhetoric on reopening might have a negative impact on the viruss spread across the country. The New York Times did not use the word polic polly annaish. Thank you for the update. Joining us now is jonathan reiner. A professor of medicine and university at George Washington university. Also a white house medical adviser in the bush administration. Doctor, you just heard Speaker Pelosi express no confidence in dr. Birx. Do you share that sentiment . Well, i actually dont share that sentiment. Dr. Birx has had a very distinguished career, but i think one has to remember that she has an impossible boss. She has to walk a very tight line. I know she has a great deal of dedication to her job, and she must feel that, in order to satisfy her boss and remain most effective, she has to be very careful with her words. You know, having said that, i dont share the speakers feeling about her. The white house testing czar was pressed this morning. Watch this. At this point theres been five randomized placebocontrolled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine, so at this point in time we dont recommend it. And the evidence just doesnt show that the hocks ydroxychlore right now. Republican congressman gohmert says hes taking it right now after he tested positive. Why cant the president and his own task force get on the same page with this issue . The president refuses to admit when hes wrong. The president embraced this months ago, because it was a quick fix, almost magical thinking, a way for the president to think we can get out quickly with the least am of pain. We know from four welldone randomized trial none of those Clinical Trials show the drug works in hospitalized patients sick with the virus. So the drug doesnt work. Weve had all the Task Force Members head of the cdc, dr. Fauci, dr. Birx and the fda commissioner stephen hahn all say the drug doesnt work. You know, if you get your treatment recommendations, you know from Louis Gohmert or peter navarro, good luck to you. Ill go with the recommendations from the task force leaders. The drug doesnt work, it shouldnt be used. We heard from the governor of arkansas making his could is for bars and restaurants to stay open. They are at limited capacity. Restaurants are at two thirds, bars are similar, were doing a lot of enforcement. If we need to put in more restrictions, we will. So far we have not seen any correlation between an increase in cases and lifting of restrictions. Weve heard dr. Fauci say is that close bars is needed to get this under control. What is your take about the governors statement . Hes wrong. In places where the ascenda ascendant. Wearing face masks and social distancing is important, but its impossible to social distance in a bar or a restaurant. Our quickest way to economic recovery in places like arkansas and around the country, is to put the virus down now, to take austere measures, to do it now. This is the quickest way to get back to a full economic recovery, but its going to hurt. We have to be willing to do it knew. The governor is wrong. We keep hearing from this administration that its about personal responsibilities, so dr. Birx had this message for americans who are on vacation in hot spots right now. I can tell you right now people are on the move. I think its our job as Public Health officials to be able to get a message to each american that says, if you have chosen to go on vacation into a hot spot, you really need to come back and protect those with comore bh comorbidities and assume youre infected. A warning like that enough, or does action need to be taken . Action needs to be taken at the federal level. In the district of columbia, the mayor of d. C. Has announced if you visit one of about two dozen hot spots in the United States, states without controlled covid rates, that you must quarantine for 14 days upon return to the district, but thats one mayor doing a responsible thing in one place to the contrary, the president hayes encouraged places to open up, with the wrongfilled sense that the quickest way to recovery to recover his political standing would be economic recovery, not realizing that the inability to put the virus down would just prolong the economic agony in this country. We really need a coordinated federal response, giving governors and mayors not just the guidance, but the political cover to do these hard things. The mayor of d. C. Has it right. The governors of other states have put in restrictions, but its a patchwork, crazy quilt pas patch work patchwork without any consistency. Now to the southeastern u. U. S. Ed Tropical Storm is turning to some of the regions hit hard by the virus. Heavy rainfall, high winds, its a double threat proving especially challenging for emergency officials planning emergency responses while trying to mitigate the spread of a virus. First, to you, tom, what areas are in this storms path . We had some good news, ana. Most of florida today will miss out on the browns of the severe weather. The storm surge dropped as the system look lie it will not make landfall what we have here new in pink is a hurricane watch thats been issued in the latest advisories from south santee river, South Carolina up to surf city, inn inorth carolina. Could it being a hurricane . Absolutely. We have Tropical Storm watches all way up to coastal rhode island. This is a multiday event. When you look at the infrared satellite surgery weve had a sheer pushing all this severe weather, keeping it away from areas of coastal, florida. This is remain the story. If we get this convection wrapping around this circle, were looking at a hurricane making landfall at high tide between 9 00, 10 00, right to the east the charleston such as larned, so es stand by, tom. Natasha, youre on the ground in day to thea beach, florida. Reporter theyre get a break even though more of the severity is likely to hit the area tonight. They do know, right this moment there is, they actually closed the shelters. Because no one really came to use them. We can show you how people are thinking about the storm. As you said, there are two threats going on here. We met someone who was filling up sandbags yesterday while wearing his mask. Heres what he said. A lot of precautions have been taken up to this point. As you can see, i have my mask on. Thats not just for me, but those around me, trying to set the right example for people. I just want to make sure that we can stay as safe as possible. Certainly its a double threat. As i mentioned, there were some shelters that had closed after being opened this morning, but they had made extra planning, because of the pandemic, there were about 30, 32 schools on tap in case they needed extra shelters, knowing that each one would have a reduced capacity. You get 60 square feet, so that Emergency Management looks pretty empty in a war room that would typically be filled with people. Theyre all handling it virtually. Natasha, tom, thank you both. 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The astronauts completed a successful splash landing in the spacex crew dragon, so now they are back. This trip was huge. It marked the First Crewed Mission from u. S. Soil in almost ten years. I want to bring in rachel crain joining us from los angeles. Rachel, this is just the beginning, right . That is right, as hard as it is to believe, this was just a test mission, you know, this was impended to certify crew dragon for later operations, the earliest of which will happen for september, where four senate will be on board headed to the International Space station. Doug and bob here were really the guinea pigs for six missions that have been contracted to run. The fact they made this historic journey that was really extra here. The primary mission was to get this space schiavo certificahip. The culmination was the splashdown, an essential piece of that certification. It really went off beautifully, only with one minor hiccup at the end when some fuel vapors were detected, and the astronauts had to stay on board longer than expected. Theyre making their way right now to Johnson Space center to reunited with their families, but this handling of these ferrying to the commercial sector is really the beginning of a new dawn going back to the moon, mars and beyond, you know, they have mastered low earth orbit. So they passed the torch to spacic and others. Ana . This was the first time in history where a commercial company took humans into space. It certainly gives us a taste of what the future may hold and certainly whets the appetite. That was just so exciting. All right. Still ahead for us, a report that Jared Kushner once had a team working on a National Testing plan, but it just went, quote, poof into thin air. Why . Did it all come down to politics . The reporter who broke this story is my guest. Next. Dont go anywhere. And then what happened . 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He even warranted a National Surveillance system to understand the risks and hot spots. One these came up with the plan, it was mysteriously shelves. The article quoting an individual saying, poof, out of thin hair. And then anouned to the what happened . So what happened, they should expecting the plan to be announce announced then the plan essential left each state on i own the plan is that in early april, it also was affecting primarily blue states. We could blame democratic governors so were 23409 going to stand up a National Plan f m form. The White House Press secretary said of your articles, the premise is entirely false, it consistently misstates and now, you say the people on kushners team, they werent Public Health experts. How many people were you able to take to about this . We interviewed a number of people. The article was obviously multisourced, but what is very clear is that Jared Kushners team began with a sort of his inner circle of people he hand picked. They started consulting billionaires, but what was consequential is they then reached out to experts within the diagnostic testing industry. As a group they cobbled together a plan which would have created National Unity around the testing effort, which is what every other country that has managed to flatten its curve has do done. Youre right, the u. S. Find itself today in a national crisis, and this summer has illustrated the human and Economic Cost of not launching a National System which almost every other industrialized nation has done. You say south korea serves as the Gold Standard. What does that Gold Standard look like . That gold stole looks like everybody who needs a test can get a test. They can get results back within 24 hours. If those results are positive, then there is a system where by theyre quarantined and their needs are met. Thats significantly different from the situation we are facing here. The reason its so important is because you cant fight what you cant seed. So as one expert put it to me, it would be imagine were at war, forces of the enemy are invading and we have no idea where they are. That is the situation we find ourselves in. I encourage everybody to read her piece. Its in vanity fair, entitled how Jared Kushners secret testing plan went poof, into thin air. Therapy y thank you for joining us. Thank you. Such a pleasure to speak with you aga