Man or woman goes, that the legacy lives on. Of course. If people fight in that name, theres a big difference between good trouble and bad trouble. People are doing what they did in his earlier days. Confusing the two. And doing it for their own agenda and its dangerous. I didnt hear the entire show. Did your dad know him . My dad did know him. His legacy is far bigger than any familiarity. I will tell you, my father was greatly inspired as an Italian American by the black american experience. I know people have stereo types and stigmas. There was a lot of bigotry and violence. My pop came out of a slice of the immigrant reality that was poor. He grew up around a lot of black americans. He was in their weddings and friends and ballplayers. He was inspired that you fight the good fight. Take on power and lose a lot. It doesnt feel the same. It hurt my heart. I couldnt watch a lot of it. I was talking to brenda his person in d. C. Over the weekend texting. It hurts. Were losing a lot of i spoke with andrew the young. The night he died. Ambassador young. Its tough. We want him to live a longer life. Were losing icons and people who fought the good fight for americans. Imitation is the best form of flattery. People fighting for rights over the years including Womens Movement and lgbtq Gay Rights Movement have mimicked the black movement the civil rights. Its a great thing. People like john lewis taught us how to fight. Well miss him. Sacrifice is great. Obviously it was significant on a lot of levels that a few people in the right confused pictures of john with elijah cummings. There are similarities there. It was also interesting. Elijah had picked up the mantle and ran. And i knew him well. I spent a lot of time. I walked the streets with him in baltimore. He saved my ass more than once down there. And see how people came around him and respected him and responded to what he was saying ability the enemy awas and wasnt. The kids out there will pick up the mantle. We have to in our way. Heres the baton. We can do thank you for passing the baton. Run like you were running to the buffet. I didnt see you all weekend. Everywhere you went. Chris is here. You have your fancy friends now. Youre a big deal. Youll come back to many ne in winter. Ill be there. So, this is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Just as they say sit right back and hear a tale. Ill tell you the truth. Maybe a better way of putting it is, class, well review something we have studied before. We have discussed. So take out your notebooks and flip back. Well talk about alternative reality and facts. Remember that chapter . President is living in one. Alternative reality. Remember alternative facts the things that actually werent facts at all. Tonight in the president s alternative reality, things are going just great. America is turning a corner. And things will be rosy in matter of months. Its like a new episode of fresh new episode of leave it to beaver. Except, there are 148,000 americans who have died from this virus. Tell that reality to the 4. 3 million americans who have been infected. They arent part of the president narrative. He didnt mention them at his Coronavirus Briefing today. And instead he is purk governors to reopen states. Even with a virus raging. If therapy you cannily euticp with answers. Youll have a tremendous recovery. And a vaccine is ahead of schedule. Ahead of anything that has taken place in terms of vaccines. If those happen and one of those happen, youll go right back into that. And youre in the v anyway. I believe a will the of the governors should be opening up states that theyre not opening. And well see what happens with them. Not opening up quickly enough. Its like ward cleaver. Telling a fancy story of how great everything is. Opening too quickly is how we ended up with surges in texas and arizona and florida. Cases are up 1,500 . I said it right. 1,500 . Since florida reopened in may. 1,500 . Even california where Governor Newsom seemed to be doing everything right. It is surging there. But the president cant stand the thought of states in lock down. Not when it threatens him politically. Thats why he is insisting governors should reopen. Compare that to this this is from the truth teller. This is dr. Fauci. Unless we get our arms around this and suppress it we will have further suffering and further death. Thats the reason why as i often said many times there are things that we can do right now in the absence of a vaccine that can turn us around. The fundamental things of avoiding crowds, physical separation, universal wearing of masks. Closing the bars. Hand hygiene. Those matter. They can make a difference. He is right. I misspoke. Gavin newsom. Dr. Fauci is right. Those things matter. We can all do them. Remember when he threw out the first pitch between the yankees and nationals. Did that last week. Remember we were just joking about it and he was kind of outside. The ball was socially distancing. Remember when the president said that he had been invited to throw out a first pitch too, watch this. A great friend from the yankees asked me to throw out the first pitch and i think ill do that august 15. At yankee stadium. That maybe an alternative fact too. The New York Times is reporting it came as surprise to the yankees and a white house staff. The president was so annoyed by the first pitch he had the aid to call the yankees to take them up on a long standing offer to throw a pitch. And never set a date. Then he cancelled conveniently claiming hes too busy handling the coronavirus. Cant throw out the first pitch. He only really seems to care about the virus when it threatens him politically. Thats exactly what we see in our new poll. Take a look. Joe biden leading the president in a critical battleground state in arizona, florida and michigan. States that he carried in 2016. But the president says he has his own polls that tell him exactly what he wants to hear. We have polls that show many leading in almost every swing state. And substantially in other states by even more than i won in 2016. Florida for example you have thousands of votes out of the ocean on the intercoast. You look at states like wise you have thousands of votes and all waving the trump sign. Trump pence sign. And so proud. Thousands and thousands you have seen it. Where you have bikers for trump with lines miles long on highways going along on weekends. I think theres more spirit now than theres ever been for my campaign. We better start counting bikers and boaters. Counting votes and bikers is not a reliable polling method. His internal polling is bad. Revealing a growing majority of americans disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus. They convinced the president to resume the briefings like the one you saw today. Thats how they convinced him to Pay Lip Service to masks and seen wearing one. Like he did today. Look at that oh my gosh. All hell will break loose. He said he wasnt going to do it. Sitting behind the desk with dictators. And a mask. Okay, so, just imagine how Different Things might be in this country if the president had worn a mask from day one. Instead of saying this on the very day he announced the cdc recommendation everyone wear a mask. Somehow sitting in the oval Office Behind the beautiful remdesiv resolute desk. Wearing a face mask greeting president s sp prime ministers. Dictators. Kings, queens. I dont know. How i dont see it for myself. Vanity. In the middle of a pandemic. I just dont see it. 140 something thousand people though. That as were learning the coronavirus struck again in the president s inner circle. National security adviser a top aid testing positive and reportedly experiencing mild symptoms. Lets hope he is okay. Source telling us he was last in the office last thursday and left the white house. And two weeks ago he traveled to europe where he and his top deputy met with officials from the uk. From france and germany and italy. No mask. No social distancing. Again we hope hes okay. The white house says theres no risk to the president. You have to wonder whether he is rethinking his defense that he is tested all the time. He doesnt need to wear a mask in the white house. All of that as the nation mourns congressman john lewis. Civil rights icon lying this state today with socially distanced and mask lawmakers paying their respects in the capitol. Also paying respects. Form r Vice President joe biden and his wife jill. Members of the public. Filing past the casket for hours. That viewing outside because of the virus. The president of the United States wont be paying his respects. I wont be going, no. It would be easy to say that the president should go pay tribute to the remarkable life of john lewis. A legend. Except my sense is john lewis didnt really care all that much what the president thought of him. John lewis didnt believe in paying lip service to things you dont believe in. To people whose values you dont share or respect. In fact, he refused to attend the president s inauguration. Agree or disawe gree with that, he took a stand. He did it on principle. He had done his entire life. Congressman lewis explained his actions in 2018. On the view. I felt strongly during the inauguration of the so called inauguration. That i couldnt be at home with myself. If i had to participate or be part of it. The movement taught us to withdraw from evil. And i never felt his election was legitimate. Yes, im with you. On this. Dr. Kings daughter thinks her father would have met with trump if he were alive. Do you agree with that . I knew her father very well. I met him when i was 18. I heard of him when i was 15. Meeting him, working with him and knowing him. I think he would have took the same position that i took. Who are you, america . Who are we. The difference here lt difference between the two men is how have you spent your life . Have you stood for principle . Put your life on the line for inservice of what is right. What is just. Like dr. King and john lewis. Have you spoken out in times when it was uncomfortable . Or have you act td in your own narrow selfinterest fuelled by grievance and hurt feelings. Are you a President Trump or are you a congressman lewis . Its simple. You see something thats not right, not fair, not just. You have a moral obligation to do something. Say something. Speak up. The great john lewis. We also have breaking news on the coronavirus tonight. Nfl announcing preseason games are cancelled. Going ahead with the regular season. Will things be any safer then . Last nights sleep, interrupted by pain . 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And doctor the director of the program at George Washington university hospital. Good evening. Last week it seemed the president was going tor more realist k about this pandemic. Why he is pushing governors to open up because Kellyanne Conway said some people the governors opened up too fast and against our rules and blah blah. All the numbers show that is how we got into this mess in the first place. What is going on . Youre right. Kellyanne conway said the reason the president is starting the briefings and they felt like some states opened up too soon. And we saw the president today revert to what he had been saying. He believed governors were not doing enough to open up and werent going far enough. Even though that comes as dr. Birx and Vice President right hand woman during this has been going around and saying that there are certain areas that need to scale back openings. They have gone too far and too quickly. What you saw today is the president saying what he really thinks. What our sources say he thinks on this. He was making it clear those we have seen him going into moments where he did today, hes urging people to wear a mask. Hes wearing a mask. Social distance. Hes taking a different tone. And he denied its about polls showing people reject his response to coronavirus so far. That is a multiple sources told us is really the root that is driving this change in tone that the president clearly today veered off from. He was all for not wearing a mask and pumping people up to not wear them in public. So, i want to ask you about the breaking news. Nfl announcing it is cancelling the preseason games. If its not safe enough to have preseason games, why is it safe enough to regular season games . Please explain. I cant explain that. I think what were seeing from the story with the Miami Marlins is that its tough to have professional sports during a pandemic. Its just a harsh reality. And theres no sport where its less possible to socially distance than professional football. And i think we have to face hard reality now. And the hard realities are there are a will the of things we enjoy and love but cant have them now. The quickest way to get them back is do the hard things. Wear masks, socially distance, closing down states out of control. In terms of new cases of the virus. If we do that now, we can have all that back for next season. And thats what we should be doing. Focus our attention on that. And i think it will be less of a disappointment to cancel the season now than to get a game into the season and have to just disassemble everything. The same apply to College Sports . College football . Yeah. Theres a lot at stake. We can replace seasons and we can do all kind of inventive things. We can have a spring season. We cant replace human lives. Lets face that now. Were fwoing to put the pandemic down. Were smart people in the country. And we have the will to do it. We need the leadership. Well get that eventually. And when we do that well start to reassemble our lives. We cant replace the people we lose. We have to be smart. Lets cut our losses and i love baseball, i live for baseball. We may not be able to have it. Lets be smart and be adults about this. I want to talk about the National Security adviser. Testing positive for coronavirus. Is the white house saying anything about his contact with the president . They said they dont believe the president or the Vice President is at risk for exposure. Its interesting because what theyre not saying is the last time he met with the president. It wasnt that long ago press secretary says he meet him twice a day. He was talking about how much they do interact and today the president was asked about the diagnosis and the only thing he said is i havent seen him lately. Which raises questions why hasnt he seen him recent will . But also when the last time they met was. No one has gotten back to us. He was at the white house last thursday chlts he got a call and he left the white house campus. And didnt come back. We know hes isolating off campus. I want to point out as we were report today we found out he didnt tell his staff ever formally he tested positive for coronavirus. Some of the senior staffers on the National Security counsel found out from the press today their boss tested positive from covid19. Through that. They didnt find out through any other means. It was notable. They sent an email saying a cafeteria staffer tested positive and warning people. We want to give you a heads ip. Not similar for the National Security adviser to the president of the United States testing positive for coronavirus. Theres a story there. Thank you. I appreciate it. Labs are struggling to keep up. Why months into the coronavirus pandemic there are still huge delays in testing and how its impacting the spread of the disease. Well talk about that next. Dr. Fauci with a stark warning tonight that the u. S. Could still see tens of thousands more deaths from the coronavirus. Lets discuss now. A former fda commissioner and director of the duke center for health policy. Doctor, how are you . Good to be with you. Lets talk about what dr. Fauci did. Making it clear that this isnt over yet. Tens of thousands more deaths still possible. It is shocking and just doesnt need to be this way. I never thought i would be in the middle of a summer still discussing this. Still telling people to wear masks and saying theres an out break here. A surge there. I thought we flattened the curve and on the way to the fall. Lets see what happens with the second wave. We have this under control. Hee here we are. It didnt have to be this way. We dont have it under control. The growth in cases in states like texas and arizona sloed in many parts of the state. Thereto are people Wearing Masks and more people paying attention to the guidance. But were seeing more states having their own out breaks. Were not there yet. Six months into this crisis, testing still a mess. Capacity has increased dramatically and the u. S. Is conducting 770,000 tests a day. The problem is we need to be testing millions per day. This was back and forth between him and jake yesterday. Doctor . I heard the back and forth. I thought you were going to a package. Yes they were going back and forth. We are testing more than ever. We need more tests than ever. The virus is in virtually all of the communities. And were seeing not only more people with symptoms and contacts who need to be tested and need to be tested quickly to figure out if they need to isolate and contain more out breaks. Also were trying to open back up. And so for people who are getting procedures in the hospital. For the baseball players. For businesses that are trying to reopen. For nursing homes. Were doing more screening tests too. And the problem is we doept have enough capacity for the lab tests. We wrote about this recently. Actually today. And urged take more steps to bring on more point of care testing