Staggering numbers, President Trump has said that he has told aides to slow down testing. In case you missed it, here is the president first on saturday night. Here is the bad part. When you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people, youre going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. And while the president and advisers were quick to say that he was only kidding when he asked officials to slow down testing, this is now how the president has just answered a very direct question on this just today. Did you ask to slow it down . If it did slow down, frankly i think were way ahead of ourselves if you want to know the truth. Weve done too good of job. So no joking there. Definitely not in denial or not a denial of what he said about slowing down testing. So lets go to kaitlan collins. And what are you hearing about this behind the scenes from your sources . Reporter well, brooke, this is something you see where the president makes a remark, often aides say hes only kidding about it and the president undercuts them by not following up and saying i was just kidding. Just a few hours ago at the white house he paused and said even if they did slow down testing, it wouldnt be a big deal because of how ramped up it is in the United States. Listen to how two of the top aides yesterday when asked about whether the president was being serious when he made that remark. For a second wave in the fall you prepare for what can possibly happen. Im not saying it is going to happen. But of course you prepare. We know how to deal with this stuff now. It is come a long way since last winter. And there is no second wave coming. So theyre saying they dont believe a second wave is coming, talking about the preparations. Peter navarro said the president was being tongue and cheek when he made that remark. That is not even something the president himself said today. And brooke, the question, as you know, because testing is such a Critical Response and Health Experts only say it is more of that Going Forward. And it was one of the biggest issues that the administration had to deal with as this was happening. They had the serious delayed rollout of testing because tests were contaminated because of sloppy Lab Practices at the cdc. So it is a very important topic. The administration has touted time and time again and even the Vice President was pressed on this by governors during a call today on what the president meant when he said that. Ive got a doctor waiting in the wings. Well talk about the science on all of this. Kaitlan, thank you. Lets go to one of the states seeing record levels of new infections. Florida. Florida is one of the ten states seeing the highest sevenday average of new cases since the start of the pandemic and today the state crosses the grim milestone of 100,000 total infections. Rosa flores is live in miami. And what is going on in florida . Reporter you know, in the last half hour, brooke, the mayor of the city of miami announcing that there will be a mandate Effective Immediately for everyone in the city of miami who is out in public to wear a mask or a face covering. The mayor Francis Suarez very concern concerned saying it is due to the increase in the number of hospitals and on ventilators and at icu and he mentioned there are certain zip codes that are of most concern including Little Havana in the zip codes he said the city of miami will hand out masks to anyone out in public that doesnt have one. Again, this is a big step for a local mayor to say that face masks will be required in the city of miami. Of course, we know that mayor excuse me Governor Ron Desantis has not issued an order statewide despite the uptick in cases. Earlier today our very own poppy harlow interviewed mayor suarez and asked how he felt about moving forward given the uptick in cases and asked if he would support President Trump if he wanted to have a big rally for example here in the city of miami and here is what he said. Take a listen. Were not opening large venues. Where you could have any sort of large congregation of people. Whether it is a sporting event or a rally. So no, those things are not open in the city and wont be open after today, which is worse than last monday was. Reporter now according to the Governor Desantis, the up tick in cases is due to Community Spread in the younger generations, young people not social distancing, not Wearing Masks, according to the governor, he plans to publish psas and to send inspectors from the state to businesses to make sure theyre following the rules. But here is what he is not doing. He is not shutting down the economy. He is not requiring masks to be worn statewide. And as we mentioned earlier, local leaders like the mayor in miami taking action on their own requiring masks here in miami. Brooke. Let me get the doctor on this. Rosa in miami, thank you. And joining me now dr. Ali khan from the university of Nebraska Medical Center and also former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the cdc. So nice to talk to you, dr. Khan. And first lets go back to the president s comments and his suggestion from over the weekend that it would be okay to cut back on testing. Your thoughts on that. So thank you, brooke. So, one, of course not. How do you manage an outbreak without testing people and still have this tragic case of 120,000 people who have died from this outbreak. So not testing isnt the solution. But the other part of the comment that you just discussed is decreasing testing and that is actually supported by data. So weve gone from less than 100 cases march 1st to 100 tests per day to half a million tests per day, right now. So we made a large increase in tests and that will continue to increase. But testing and number of testing is so january 2020. Who cares when we have enough tests. The real issue is are we testing and tracing and doing something with the tests to get cases down in our community. Well, what about on top of that . There is discussion about is there a second wave will there be all wave lets or another metaphor over the weekend in the times was this prominent doctor saying it is like a massive forest fire. Any time there is wood, it will continue to burn. And you heard larry kudlow say there is not going to be a second wave. What are facts . So, the facts are we have never figured out the first wave. So i like the forest fire analogy. I use the house on fire analogy. Before worrying about who house will burn down, can we take care of the house burning down right now. So true. So our response has been stalled for four to six weeks. Weve had a stalled response and because we failed to test and trace, because we failed to make sure that everybody wore masks and wash their hands and social distance, for the last couple of days have seen an increase in cases back up from 22,000 per day, which is enormous, up to 30,000 per day. You mentioned so lets talk about florida. And were seeing more and more people in their 20s and 30s testing positive, right. So when this whole story broke and we covered it, no one thought that the younger folks could get as sick as they are and down in florida the Governor Desantis has been noting that those under the age of 40 are much less likely to be hospitalized, less likely to die. What do you make of this trend of younger people testing positive for covid . So, this whole discussion is really a symptom of our greatest Public Health failure in history. Lets go to younger people. Hes spot on. Younger people are less likely to get sick and die and in my case every death counts. And they go visit their grandparents and with Underlying Health conditions so they could still spread disease to people who are at high risk. And the final point is we need to be very careful about blaming people for getting infected because of the government didnt protect them from getting infected. If you take this to the conclusion, we should blame the eldery and for hispanics getting infected in meat packing plants. So lets make sure that we realize this is a responsibility on the part of government to test and trace, get cases down in the community, and on our individual part, everybody should wear a mask when they are out in public, everybody should wash their hands and social distance. Dr. Khan, what about sports. You are advising Major League Baseball and they are reporting that all mlb Training Camp in florida, arizona, where theyve seen an uptick, they will close after positive tests. I know that players and owners are still negotiating how and when to play the season. But what should we expect . Do you think they should play period . Should it be start stop depending on who gets sick. From a medical perspective, what do you think. Before i go to the medical perspective, it is a example from the political and Economic Perspective may be longer so it is an economic imperative as far as im concerned. Not surprised. You have cases within the community, the increasing number of cases within the community more likely when people come together, theyre going to get infected. So, yes, i could talk about baseball ow by setting where you put more people together, whether it is a church, a rally, whether it is a music festival, people are going to get infected. So again, drop the cases. 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Right now the rain delayed nascar race at the Talladega Superspeedway is under way with the excitement of getting back to the track. Now overshadowed by the disgusting display of hatred overnight. A noose was found hanging in Bubba Wallaces garage. He is the only black driver in the nascar top circuit. He has responded on twitter writing this will not break me. I will not give in, nor will i back down. Nascar is investigating the incident and expressed outrage in a statement saying officials will do everything they can to identify the person or persons responsible and eliminate them from the sport. Nascars president reinforcing that saying that person will be banned for life. Bubba wallace was recently thrust into the spotlight as an active voice in the black lives Matter Movement and led the successful push to have Confederate Flags banned at all nascar races. And still as fans arrived at track on sunday, you see this. They saw this Confederate Flag with a defund nascar banner flying over the raceway. Along with confederate memorabilia sold just across the street. And just moments ago, before the start of the race, an incredible show of support from nascar drivers and pit crew members as they pushed wallaces car down the pitted by a large procession of people. So lets start there. Dianne gallagher is with me live from the speedway there in alabama. And tell me more about that show of solidarity that we just saw. Reporter really emotional prerace activities. If you could hear the cars starting up behind me at the race track right now. They walked out on the grid, the other drivers pushing the number 43 car of Bubba Wallace to the front of that grid. As what was the entire garage, all of the team members, walked behind them in solidarity, coming up to the top there to show the istandwith bubba. They painted here on the infield of the track. Bubba wallace got out of his car and became emotional, leaning over in the window. Richard petty that owns the iconic flub 43 came over and put his hands on Bubba Wallaces shoulders and proceeding to hug and elbow bump the other drivers. They are masked up for distancing and covid purposes. But you could see the tears and emotion in his case. They stood around as he stood next to Richard Petty before they began the race, he took a selfie with the other Drivers Behind him. Again it is a show of solidarity that nascar has been trying to put forward ever since they announced that noose was found in the garage stall of the number 43. Now nascar said that it wasnt bubba who found it. He did not see it. It was actually a team member of his reported it to nascar. And the president steve phelps told bubba when that noose and informed the fbi who is here onsite still investigating. Here is the thing, that garage stall, its a restricted area. The people who are there are not fans. There is only 5,000 of them. This is the first event to come back to. But were talking about other people who were there. The people who credential team members, they are other people who are already allowed to be back there. So they are investigating, looking through the tape, potentially they have cameras out here. But, brooke, i want to go back to the tweet that Bubba Wallace sent out showing the Drivers Behind him, the selfie showing that solidarity. He wrote together on this and that is what hes trying to push forward for the last few weeks as he found his voice with that black lives matter car that also had courage and unity on there. Getting the video with his fellow drivers to talk about what is going on right now, to say the names of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and george floyd. To get nascar that has had a difficult pacht and st and up t present and try to create change within this sport. He has to do with it fellow drivers and team members alongside him. He cant do it himself. That is what they trying to show today. It took this ugly thing to really bring this light. Dianne gallagher, thank you. I want to stay on this. Brad doughtery is me with from racing and a five time nba allstar and cohost of sirius xm nascar on mondays. And brad, well get to bubbas tweet and the show of solidarity. But when you heard there was a noose hanging in his garage, your first thought was what . It is a restricted area. So people are not wondering through there aimlessly. That said that is someone within the sport, on the inside of the sport reacting this way. And at first it did shock me and it bothered me and i looked at this and i said to myself, were going to get a chance to show people that there is this underbelly that is there in our society that a lot of my caucasian friends dont understand because theyve never dealt with this. As weve had all of the conversations over the past month and a half about racism and intolerance and being insensitive, people have asked me daily, my friends that i grew up, my friends, what does this mean . Because theyve never dealt with it. What do you tell them . Well they get to see this. Now they see this and