this cnn tonight, i'm don lemon. breaking news tonight, the secret service telling reporters to leave the white house grounds they pushed the protesters out of the lafayette park who tried to topple the statue of andrew jackson. 23 states are see ago rise in coronavirus cases as opposed to last week. the hot spots are states across the south and west. there are more than 2.3 million confirmed cases in the u.s. more than 120,000 americans have died from the disease. president trump claiming tonight that too much coronavirus testing is putting the united states at a disadvantage. and the white house officials now claiming that the president was joking when he said at his rally on saturday that he asked his staff to slow down the rate of testing. also, the press secretary trying to defend trump's use of a racist slur at his rally when describing coronavirus saying that the president was pointing out that china is responsible for the virus spread. kaitlyn collins is on the scene there tonight where all of it is happening and they are trying to topple the statue. kaitlyn, reporters were told to leave the white house grounds that was earlier tonight, dramatic scenes were playing out in lafayette park, explain what happened, please. >> reporter: yeah we have not gotten an explanation on why reporters were asked to leave the white house grounds. it is incredibly usual. it's hard to remember it in recent years potentially after 9/11. that came as the protesters were in lafayette square, putting the ropes around the andrew jackson statue and trying to pull it down. i want to update you, the protesters have been pushed back and we have been standing here for a little over two hours, and watching as the clashes have been going on for the last several hours after they pushed them out of the park. and the interior secretary david bernhardt said he left lafayette square and condemned the protesters trying to bring down the statue of andrew jackson and the president himself tweeted about it moments ago. i will read it to you, don. numerous people have been arrested for the disgraceful vandalism of the magnificent statue of andrew jackson in addition to the exterior defacing of st. john's church across the street. he said that it comes with ten years in prison, under the veteran memorial's preservation act. and beware, they have spray painted b-h-a-z, on the church, that church outside the white house. the autonomous zone is what we have been seeing happening in seattle. but the president there defending the statue of andrew jackson saying he does not believe it should be brought down, not a surprising position for the president of course, don, as he has said many times in recent days, he does not think that military basis should be renamed or confederate statues to be pulled down. and now it's happening in front of the white house where the president is in there tonight and he is coming out saying that they should not be trying to tear the statue of andrew jackson down. >> thank you very much. let's discuss more now. white house correspondent, john ha harwood and andrew yang, joining me. gentlemen, good evening. you see what is happening there, and the president is really on a tear about the lack of expectation or for crowds this weekend. he is making excuses about the empty seats at his rally, here is what he said about this tonight. watch this. >> well, there were many things. first of all, there was a curfew enforced the first night, where many people had to leave and it was enforced by the mayor. many people, the first night, meaning a couple of nights out, they had to leave. they have been waiting there and then all of a sudden, they are forced out. but there were many things that happened, including protesters including black lives matter, including probably antifa, we will find out because they are looking at it now. they had protesters. and also, for two weeks we have been hammered that if you walk in to that arena, you are going to be in big trouble. big, big, big trouble. >> hm-mm. >> and you know, we had a good crowd -- >> okay. so, john, there's no sign that what he is saying is true at all. but there are always protesters at trump rallies. there's protesters at biden events. that's part of the thing. but there's no truth to, no evidence of there's any truth to what he is saying, john. >> look, don, the president was humiliated by that rally on saturday night. you could see it on his face when he got off marine 1 at the white house. it was humiliating in a couple of different ways. first of all, he was, he is down in the polls significantly to joe biden and that was reflected in the fact that that arena was 1/3 filled and the second was eluded to by the president himself, when he talked about people being hammered about information about the coronavirus, and how dangerous it would be to walk in to that arena. well, guess what, what that indicates is that people did not believe president trump, who says, essentially it's over and we should move past it. they believe the news media over him. if that the one of the reasons why people didn't show up. so, it was a very bad night for the president. he is lashing out, making excuses. and by the way, in terms of the press warnings we now know that eight trump advance staffers who worked on that rally have tested tos for coronavirus, plus, two secret service agents. >> yeah. >> it was dangerous to go there. and the president got burned by it. >> yeah, i kept watching, you know, tuning in and out, and i was thinking maybe i had the wrong time zone. because i was looking at the pictures and didn't see the, the, you know, the tons of people that he had said hundreds of thousands of people that were supposed to come. and andrew yang, i want to move on and talk about the coronavirus, if you will allow me. the president referred to the coronavirus as the kung-flu, and they have defended the racial slur. >> last night, president trump declared himself the least racist person there is anywhere in the world. why does he use the racist phrases like the kung-floo? >> he doesn't, he pointed to the fact that the origin of the virus is china. it's a fair thing to point out. as china tries to ridiculously re-write history, and ridiculously try to blame the coronavirus on the american soldiers and president trump is saying, no, china, i will label this virus for the place of origin. >> so, andrew, americans are taking to the streets to demand racial justice. and this white house is defending making excuses for racial slurs? >> well, this is right out of trump's playbook, when ever he is down, tries to distract with inflam tore or racist rhetoric. kelly ann conway said using the term kung-flu is wrong and offensive not that long ago and it clearly is a racist term that is trying to distract from his administration's complete mishandling and botching of the pandemic that has now claimed over 120,000 american lives. we are number one in the world in cases and deaths. and no amount of racist distraction is going to take our attention away from that toll, unfortunately. it's why he is suffering so badly and i congratulate the judgment of the people of oklahoma who decided to stay home. because that was the right move. his administration, his campaign really messed up by trying to over hype the attendance, if they had not crowed about how many people were showing up, the damage might not have been as bad. >> interesting, you know, there's people saying, staunch republicans are saying, it will stick with the president and the message is not good for him. you are launching a new project to compensate americans when companies use their data. what is it all about? tell me about it. >> well, facebook, google, these giant tech company can ies are generating 10s of billions of dollars off of our data and we are not seeing a dime of it. i started a project where americans can sign up and we will fight for your data rights. if anybody makes money off of our data, shouldn't it be us? and i'm happy to say california and nevada have laws on the books to activate our data rights and we are looking to have states around the country follow california's lead. we can make it so we get paid for the use of our data. which is the way it should be have been >> i want think a lot of people would be down with that. they certainly use it. thank you so much, gentlemen, i appreciate it. the killing of george floyd last month, unleashed protests against systemic racism and police brutality against african-americans and it sped up the drive to remove monuments to confederate leaders and generals. that started a national conversation about which figures in american history deserve to be immortalized in monuments and who doesn't deserve the honor. as we saw protesters in lafayette park near the white house tried to topple a statue of andrew jackson tonight. >> president thee door roosevelt, outdoorsman, is outside of the museum of national history for 80 years, now he is being unhorsed because of two flanking figures, one black the other native american. >> the statue clearly, you know, presents a white man as superior to people of color. and that's just not acceptable in this day and age and it never should have been acceptable. >> president trump's response, ridiculous. don't do it. >> take it down! >> statues honoring southern leaders of the civil war -- >> brings tears to my eyes. i'm excited for not looking at it anymore. >> the monument wars are rapidly expanding in one community after another, statues of christopher columbus have come under fire. he is a hero to. >> so he is an italian immigrant. but this, this here -- >> let him speak. >> it represents something, my italian history. >> to others. >> oversaw the genocide of 3 million people, nobody talks about, we don't discuss, not told in history. >> in new mexico violence broke out over the removal of monuments to a spanish conquistador who brutalized people. >> it's a monument to hatred. >> and another statue toppled for ulysses grant. >> do we think slave owners should have statue sns. >> much did thomas jefferson and george washington who's statues have been attacked. it has raised a fierce debate over who deserves public honors and words of caution from historians. >> we don't want to be like the old soviet union, ripping down every monument to put new ones up for a new rregime, we need the monuments to reflect true american history not just white male superiority history. >> this could be a solution, put up more statues to people of other races and cultures and genders who played a big role in america's history and have not been properly recognized over the years. i suspect though, don, with tempers running hot right now, there may be a lot more clashes before any new construction goes up. don? >> tom foreman, appreciate it so. what should america do about all the statues. much to talk about. mitch landrieu, the 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are taking down. >> is there anything you can do? >> yeah, we are going to do something very soon, we are going to have an executive order that makes the cities guard their art work. it's not federal, if it was up to them, they are already talking about thomas jefferson. >> an executive officer, can he really tell cities to guard the monume monuments? >> no, he has no authority to tell cities what to do or not to do with property that they own. number two, it's not a disgrace to take down robert e. lee, who fought to split the country in half, in order to protect slavery. and so, there are now 1700 confederate monuments that dirty the soil of the united states of america and my opinion is that those particular monuments that were put up to revere, not to remember, but to revere should be taken down. >> can either of you, before we move on and mayor i want to talk to you about what you did in new orleans when it comes to confederate symbols and the monuments and statues. can either of you explain to me why a white man from queens new york continues to refer to confederate generals as our heritage as the president has, mitch landrieu, can you? >> well, you know, i can't explain what is in the president's mind. it's hard to ascertain it on a regular day. it's a dog whistle, it's not our mer heritage. many times when you take it down, the first offense is where does it end? and i answer, i don't know where it will end and i know where it should begin, and it should begin with the confederate generals, clearly. >> professor, let me bring you in now. you saw the protesters in lafayette square attempting to bring down the statue of andrew jackson. from a historical perspective, what do you think about that? >> well, i think it's long overdue. i believe that the truth will set us all free, and really haven't told the truth. when you talk about the president and many americans they have sort of a movie version of american history like a birth of the nation or gone with the wind version. and it's false, it's one-sided. and it's superficial, when you ask what is in donald trump's mind, when he said our heritage when he is from new york city. what is in his mind is this one-sided view of our history. and it, it's a wrong history. we need to be more sophisticated about our analysis of, you know, our founders and of our history. for example, trump said we are erasing history and we can't, you know, take down the jefferson memorial, the washington monument. the memorial to the james madison. and he lumps all the founders together. and founders were very different. for example, you know, washington freed his slaves at the time of his death. jefferson freed five of his 200, and madison freed none of his slaves. so, we need to make sure that we are clear about the positions of our founders. we also need to have much more balance. we need to add some people who's morality has stood the test of time. people like george wythe, who signed the declaration of independence and freed all of his slaves at the time he inherited them and he made a decision that said all people under the virginia bill of rights no matter the color they are, are entitled to the presumption of freedom. those are the people we should honor today. >> i want to ask you about grant. because how you feel about the protesters toppling grant's statue. he literally fought the confederacy, and some people are taking he owned a slave for a short time. and people are forgetting that grant's complicated history. especially when it comes to native americans as well. it's not just about black people or african-americans. what do you think of that? >> well, i think that you have to look at the entirety of the individual and yes, grant owned one slave, freed that slave and his wife inherited some slaves as well. but, if you look at what grant did as president, eight years in office, supported the radical republican reconstruction plan which involved the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution. also involved the 1870 and 1871, 1875 civil rights acts. these were anti-discrimination provisions in the constitution that are significant. and grant also created the justice department and prosecuted, investigated, prosecuted and pretty much destroyed the original klu-klux, klan, he deserves a great deal of credit, his monument does not need to come down, it needs to stand up and stand strong. >> and no one is perfect. i want to give you a chance to respond. you had these monuments and statues removed in new orleans, that was not a easy task. you got a lot of push-back for that. >> it was not. it was dangerous. there were a lot of threats. but we had a lot of support from the people of new orleans, they did not feel it reflected how we fit in the landscape. you have to take the persons person by person, but you can lump all the folks that fought on behalf of the confederacy. they fought to destroy the country for the purpose of preserving the institute of slavery. that is not a debatable group. when you start talking about jackson, and washington and jefferson. you take them all individually. it's a complicated history and then on top of that, by taking a monument down, you are not changing history. you are just changing how you choose to remember it and or revere it and you are giving people another opportunity to add context and texture and complexity to how we adorn our cities and our public spaces and how we choose to remember our history in its totality. because these monuments did not have a lot of permission to put them up. and they reflect a small and narrow and often wrong version of our history. and i think it's, it warrants a brand new look. and one that invites the complexity and invites the debate. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. we will continue this conversation, obviously. >> great. >> great to be with you. >> for a time to come, in the near future and probable even beyond. thank you very much. two dozen public health 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saturday, a new record. more than 4,000. >> right now, we know exactly what is happening. young people are going out, because they do think they are invincible. they are getting the virus and they are spreading it in to the community. >> reporter: meanwhile in new york, which waited until today to reopen restaurants and retail, in the city. -- >> we went from the highest transmission rate in the united states to the lowest. the other places have done reopening as a political exercise. it was political by the white house. >> reporter: national we had largely flattened the curve of new cases but they are now rising again. fueled by those early openers in the south, and the west. record high hospitalizations, right now, in arizona, the carolinas, and texas. >> covid-19 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in texas. and it must be coralled. >> reporter: oklahoma where the president just set a new record, nearly 500 new cases. >> i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> reporter: in arizona, where the president will be tomorrow, the average new case count has quadrupled in just three weeks. >> the greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself. it's the lack of global solidarity, and global leadership. >> reporter: the u.s. is the global super power and the largest economy on earth and natural leader, yet, this country can't even manage its own crisis. makes up around 4% of the world's population. but 25% of global covid-19 cases and deaths. the white house now prepping for a second wave. >> we are filling the stockpile in anticipation of a possible problem in the fall. >> reporter: and the cdc expected to publish new guidance on masks any moment. >> cdc has been late and have not been giving us a great playbook if one at all, frankly. >> reporter: new jersey chose a cautious path, only start some indoors barbers, tanning salons and such today. and the governor is still preaching caution. >> we are now going inside, folks are going to have to be careful. obey the rules and it's a big step for us today. >> reporter: nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> the president contradicting his own team who say that he is just, was just joking when he said that he told his staff to slow down testing. >> just to clear up, there was not a direct order, if you will, for the staff to stop the testing. >> no, but i think we put ourselves in a disadvantage. instead of doing 25 million tests. let's say we did ten million tests we would look like we are doing much better. because we would have far fewer cases. you understand that. i would not do that, but i will say this, we do so much more than other countries, it makes us in a way look bad. >> so, the fact is though this president has been clear on how he feels about testing. >> if we stop testing right now, we would have very few cases if any. >> when you do more testing you have more cases. >> if we did not do any testing, we would have very few cases. >> so let's discuss, dr. jonathan reiner, president of the cardiac catheterization program -- can i get a reaction to the president saying he told his people to slow down the testing? >> yeah, i was shocked when i heard that. look, the original sin of our response to this pandemic really has been our pathetic ramp up to testing. the first patient that tested positive in the united states tested positive on january 20th. and it took about seven weeks to test 20,000 people. that's about the number of people that we test in an hour now. it took almost seven weeks to test 20,000 people. and you know, many wonder whether that slow march to test effectively was all incompetence or if it was driven by a policy directive from the white house. and to hear the president articulate that was really chilling. we have heard the president many times say that he didn't want his numbers to go up. he didn't want his numbers to go up when the grand princess was docked off the coast. he said in the "wall street journal" a week ago, that testing was over rated and now to hear him say that, he is told his aids to go slow on testing, to slow it down makes a lot of sense. and if true, is an incredible breech of trust. really, shocking. >> it's an interesting way that, thing that i does to t-- thing does to shape his own reality. if he does not like the numbers, they are fake. if he does not like what the testing is showing the testing is faulty. it's never him. it's something else that is faulty or badd or fake or what have you, and never him. two more trump staffers tested positive for coronavirus after this weekend's rally. before the rally, we heard about six staffers who tested positive. two of the secret service people, that's ten in total. you concerned that there could be a whole rash of positives even though the attendance numbers were only 6,000 or so? >> well, i'm sure there are. let's talk about the white house staffers first. the advanced people. when they do an event like the event in oklahoma this weekend. you know, sometimes a couple dozen people will go to the venue at least a week before. so, it's probable that they acquired the virus in oklahoma. but, it's not definite. they may have acquired it back at headquarters. represent the photo from a couple of weeks ago when the vice president visited trump/pence head quarters and they had several dozen people packed in a tight space, none of whom were wearing masks. so, it's possible that they got it back in arlington here at trump/pence headquarters which would mean that we will hear about a lot of people in the campaign coming down with the virus. >> doctor, thank you. see you soon, i appreciate it. >> my pleasure, sure. >> we will be right back. world gets complicated, a lot goes through your mind. with fidelity wealth management, your dedicated adviser can give you straightforward advice and tailored recommendations. that's the clarity you get with fidelity wealth management. you know what's good about this? your sign's pointing at my sign, so 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orlando pride of the national women's soccer league testing positive. forcing the team to withdraw from the tournament that is supposed to mark a return to play. so here to discuss, nfl player for the new orleans saints, malcolm jenkins, gentlemen, thank you so much. malco malcolm, you first, we have seen cases reported across nearly every major sport, the nfl is planning to start on time, and the nab ba is planning to resum their season. will players want to play if this keeps up and keeps getting worse? >> i think they are each concerned. as we see college players are coming back to campus for voluntary workouts, they are not practicing and playing games and you are seeing outbreaks there and across other sports. the nfl is really watching how the other sports handle it and see what they are doing. the nba has the opportunity to isolate full any one place where we don't have that option. >> let's talk about that, you mentioned college, right. so, doctor, six colleges have reported coronavirus on their sports team since friday. will louisiana state, lsu, quarantined dozens of football players as a precaution. does it add another layer of complication since this, you know, it's also students? they are also students? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, i think universities have a responsibility to the health of their students. not only as players but as, you know, members of their university community. so, you know, and i think parents are trusting that these universities have their children's interests in the best interests. adding the complexity of a college campus is another major issue that needs to be thought carefully about. >> malcolm, you were saying? >> yeah, i'm saying, you know, when we have students coming back on, you know, what happens then? because, right now, this is the off-season for football. and then, we are having problems already. so, what happens when you add a population and you add practice and contact? how does that work? and we still have yet to see what the plans are. >> doctor, if it keeps up, do you think leagues-s will have to reconsider whether it's safe to play. that goes for college football. >> yeah, absolutely. i think if cases continue to increase, you really have to consider the safety of everyone involved. we have talked about before, it's not the players or the staff, it's the running of the leagues and the games and the facilities, and you really need to consider the safety of all of those involved and be cautious about pushing ahead with the locations in the games. >> so i'm wondering if it will set the season back or if they are actually going to be able to play it. i don't know if they are going to see like the nba and nfl and hockey league and so on and so forth end their seasons because of coronavirus. we will continue to check in. thank you so much, as well, i appreciate it. who will -- who will cesenator mitch mcconnell face in november? the primary is heating up fast. >> tech: every customer has their own 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going on. jeff. >> don, there is no question. democrats have had their eye on this seat for so long. as mitch mcconnell tries to seek a senventh term, they thought they had the race all planned out. things have changed dramatically. >> this is happening in kentucky right now. we are in a moment, y'all. we are in a moment. >> a sleepy senate primary race, suddenly, electrified in kentucky. >> this time has to be different. for my cousins, for my little ones, for y'all, this has to be different. for breonna, for mr. mcatee. >> resonating loudly here, where louisville police killed 26-year-old brianna keila2 26-year-o 26-year-old. in to take on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in november. >> she is kentucky's best chance to move on from mitch mcconnell. >> amy mcgrath, a former marine pilot, is the handpicked choice of party leaders in washington. her primary victory was seen as a foregone conclusion, but state representative charles booker is now riding a wave of momentum. >> you have said that you are campaigning from the hood, to the holler. explain that. >> well, i'm trying to build a movement, here. by speaking to our common bonds. and there's a reality that there are so many similarities in the hood, that you would see in the -- in places in the hollers of eastern kentucky, and in the mountains. that, if we realize our common bonds, we can change the world. >> with a political awakening underway, mcgrath has struggled to find her footing. >> have you been on the ground in louisville, with the protestors, the last three days or in lexington or elsewhere? ms. mcgrath? >> i have not. >> and why? >> well, i've been with my family, and i've had some family things going on this past weekend. but i've been following the news. and, you know, and watching. >> booker turned that moment into a tv ad. while she's dramatically outspending him, $14 million to his 1 million on advertising, alone, the closing momentum is on his side. the race is playing out, here, in trump country. where the president won the state four years ago, by nearly 30 points. >> president trump and mitch mcconnell, delivering for kentucky. >> from the streets of louisville to small towns like campbellsville, his policies closely align with bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, both of whom have endorsed him. >> we got to bend that arc. >> do you wonder if he is too progressive for kentucky? >> sometimes i think about that. but it's time for a change. everything is evolving, man. >> a more urgent test is the mechanics of voting. while tens of thousands have voted early, only one polling place will be open tomorrow in louisville. with precincts consolidated because of coronavirus. >> it's been hard to vote in kentucky for a lot of us, for a long time. and what we're seeing now is really a continuation of that. it's just naturally going to disenfranchise people. and that is a concern. >> but that is the central question. how difficult will voting be tomorrow? when polls open at 6:00 a.m., normally, there would be 3,700 polling places across the state. now, in the wake of this pandemic, only 170. and one in the city, here, of louisville. but it will be a giant polling place. we will see if kentucky repeats the errors of georgia and wisconsin. officials, here, say they believe they will not because many people have already voted absentee. don. >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much, i appreciate it. and thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. did you know diarrhea is often caused by bad bacteria in food? try pepto diarrhea. pepto® diarrhea is proven effective to treat symptoms, and it also targets the cause of diarrhea. the 3 times concentrated liquid formula coats and kills bacteria to relieve diarrhea. while the leading competitor does nothing to kill the bacteria, pepto® diarrhea gets to the source, killing the bad bacteria. so, try pepto® diarrhea, and remember to have it on hand every time you travel. also try pepto®-bismol liquicaps for 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of a racist name for the disease and his name that he ordered a slowdown on testing, which the people who get taxpayer salaries and speak for him, are now saying was made in jest. none of which is doing anything to contain this disease. in tulsa, oklahoma, where he made that so-called joke, new cases of the virus are rising sharply, as you see there. as they are in phoenix, where the president speaks tomorrow at a mega church. if it's a joke, as his defenders call it, he made it on a trip in which eight of his own campaign staffers, eight of them, have now tested positive for the disease. we learn of the latest two just today. so that makes them the butt of the president's so-called joke as well and if it was a joke, it came at the expense of tens of thousands of people, who need not have died and might not have died, had more testing been available to contain outbreaks. instead of letting them grow. or if a national plan for it were in place, which it were not and which it still is not. the plan put out with it by the white house is one that the white house and the president is now actively working to subvert. if it's a joke, it landed on the first of many father's day weekends in which some children will not have their fathers around anymore. here's what the president said. >> so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. they test and they test. people don't know what's going on. we got tests. we got another one over here! >> the white house may have claimed it was a joke. but the lack of testing that's existed is no joke. calling it