Is professionally cleaned, and requiring everyone to wear a face covering. Come visit a store today. Stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. Were here to make life simple, easy, awesome. Ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. All right. Im chris cuomo welcome back to a bonus hour of prime time. I have good news and bad news. On covid19. The bad news unless you live in new jersey or rhode island. New cases are steady are on the rise where ever you are. Almost 40,000 new cases just yesterday. Dr. Fauci now fears the number of new cases could soar to 100,000. Now, heres that good news i promised. We can do something about it. That six figure number isnt a guarantee. Wear the mask. Socially distance. It will help. Fauci says the key together as ever as one. One of the things that i would like to see is an appreciation on the part of our entire nation of the importance of responding as a nation as a whole. And not have a situation when you have a challenge such as we have now, we have very desperate responses. We have to do it in a coordinated way because we are all in this together. Now, the context of that statement in light of the Trump Administration response to this crisis is so disappointing. Heres the Vice President today kicking the idea of mandatory mask wearing down the chain. We believe that americans should wear a mask when ever authorities indicate its appropriate. Have you seen the map . Were all in the affected areas or damn close to it. Look, we can beat this thing and we will beat it if we are smart about it. If we Work Together and we take care of each other. Lets talk to doctor about possible answers. Welcome back to prime time. You have been saying much the same thing for many months now. And it has been months. The idea of pool testing. What does it mean . Why does it matter . What it does for us is conserve testing resources. Our testing resources are still limited. The notion is heres an example. Take specimens from ten persons and pool them together and do a test on the pool. If theyre all negative, then you can tell that all ten persons are negative. But youve done that with one test. Of course if the pool is positive you have to go back to the ten individuals. To find the one or more who are positive. Many times you can test many people, get a negative pool. With only one test. And go on for others. You preserve testing resources and also save a little money. The idea of having no coordinated National Response as said by dr. Fauci and others. Significance . Well, dr. Fauci was almost crying for a National Response but he couldnt ask for it. Thats what we need. We have 50 governors each inventing the wheel. And we have different programs across the 50 states and i dont know how many territories. No wonder theres confusion and incoordination. We need a National Order for everyone to wear a mask. We need six foot distancing. Nationally. Avoiding crowds. Nationally. And we all have to do that together. The orchestra cant make beautiful music unless they have a conductor keeping everyone together. What do you say to Governor Desantis who say people going to businesses isnt the problem. People everywhere who are close together. Whether they are going to businesses, bars, beach. Or religious services. Or any group event. Have to be masked. Because we all know that there can be people without symptoms who can spread this virus. And so in order to prevent that, i wear the mask. To protect you, you wear it to protect me. And now we have even more data that will make a lot of people happy. If you wear the mask you are also protected yourself. The mask does work both ways. We all need to do that together. If a substantial proportion of people dont do that, the virus will find them and spread. No big brother. No. Too much government in my life. Telling me how to live. Let me make my own choice, ill arrive at the right conclusion. Were all in this together. We go on the green and stop on the red. If somebody goes on red they endanger themselves they endanger everybody else around them. A contagious disease is just like that. If you are not wearing a mask youre going on the red. And endangering people around you. We have to do this together. We have to join together and on the occasion we have to oblige ourselves to do that. Youre a doctor and a scientist. You understand the policy and the intersection of science and politics. Why do you believe theres no National Coordinated response . Youre asking me to make a political statement. Our National Leadership has chosen not to do that. Its either in their inherent political philosophy or they simply dont have the manager inclination to do that. Im afraid the question ought to be directed to them. We do it all the time. All the time. Doctor, thank you so much for keeping us straight on the science and how we have to Work Together. Obviously thats the best medicine. Ill talk to you soon. Good to be with you. I cannot tell a lie White House Press secretary insists the president does in fact Read Everything he needs to read. We need to look at the real threat to u. S. Troops in the risk that russia was putting a bounty on their heads. No matter memo may have been ignored. What is the truth of the matter. Congresswoman is here. Whats her take. Now the story has changed. Now the story has changed. No question about it. Heres the latest. The white house says President Trump has been fully briefed on the intel about the possible russian plot to offer money to the taliban to kill troops. Remember, the president denied to your face knowing anything about this just two days ago. The administration argues the evidence of what russia maybe doing is not conclusive. That is why trump wasnt told about it. What changed . Meanwhile democrats and some republicans are demanding more answers as at gang of eight gets set to be briefed tomorrow. Democratic congresswoman is a former cia operative. She was in a classified briefing of her own on this today. Good to see you. I hope you and the family are healthy. We are. I hope youre doing well. Tell me what to think about all of this. I personally have a lot more questions than answers. Its important that we have a full briefing in congress and that we welcome intelligence officials. I would love to see director come in from cia and speak to what threats do or dont exist against Service Members and u. S. Personnel over seas. Could it be that i should be shaking a finger at both sides on this. The ap is reporting that bolton briefed the president about it in march last year. Okay, so, maybe he forgot or the white house forgot and theres a new group and cant get it straight. But i also am hearing theres a chance that democrats who have been made aware of this over time as well. If the first part is true they are lying to us at the white house again and the president fell down on his own duty. The other part is true the democrats are bringing this up only know why . Is that political opportunity . I think theres a couple things to consider. Within context. The context is over the past couple of months the president of the United States has had reportedly five phone calls with Vladimir Putin. He has lobbied for Vladimir Putin to attend the g 7 summit. Potentially rejoin as a member of the organization bumping it back up to g 8. All the while potentially knowing or not knowing there is the possibility that the russian government and Intel Services are willing to pay bounties for dead americans. So i think recognizing the greater context of what is happening and the actions the president was taking. That is one of the reasons why i am so incredibly concerned about this. What do you make of the idea that this may not be new . They have been pursuing this for some time and the intelligence is significant but not compelling. You have experience. What does that smell like . Im a former cia officer. And just to speak about how intelligence comes to be and how intelligence reports like the ones discussed in public reporting would come to be is theres a collection of information. That information is collected from human sources and signals intelligence and all of the different means. It is overlaid to form a picture. And to corroborate what we know from one source to validate what we hear from another source. As the picture becomes clear the intelligence becomes potentially something that needs to be briefed in one place or another. I think the fact there may have been elements of the story kind of putting together pieces of a puzzle is aligned with larger intelligence and products are produced. Which is you get source documents and finished intelligence reports and put them together in order to create finished intelligence that goes out ot Intelligence Community or president. The hang wringing from the democrats suggests this is something we know and has been slept opt by the white house. Maybe out of political convenience. Do you share that opinion . This is so well know that it should have been discussed and acted upon . Or wouldnt the Intelligence Community have been taking this in a different direction if it knew for sure about it. I think the question has to be what actions do we want to see from the administration . From the president of the United States. When theres allegations a foreign adversary nation and one hes been friendly too is putting bounties on the heads of u. S. Service members over seas. I want to see a full denunciation of the potential that this maybe true. I want to hear we are going to get to the bottom of this. We are going to turn over every stone to determine even greater validity. Whether or not its true or not. We will take actions to defend our u. S. Service members who are risking everything. Understood. The you wouldnt want the president going after russia for something if you didnt think you could prove it. Then what youd be handing him is a stick to beat our president and our country over the head with. Where if you went off we think this is true and he says it, putin will say its a lie. What he always says. And then now its on us. To prove its true. So if you from the intelligence side arent there, would you really want president to deal with the allegation . I think in sort of digging deep into the question of that youre putting out. One, putin will always deny whatever adverse activity they are maligning to under mine the democracy. Ours or others. Theyre always going to deny. You need the proof. The other challenge is the whole concept of intelligence is we come by it there may never be a time as it relates to highly classified informs that we can fully disclose how it is that we and the larger sense of United States can disclose how it is that we know something to a high degree of confidence. Because some of the sources and methods cannot be revealed. And im speaking in general to this question. About what is the step forward and how do you get become or go public with information thats not always possible when youre dealing with highly classified information. How is it that i feel you are always asking more questions an answering this show. Are you working a mind trick on me. I ask a question and answer the question when its not what i asked. Heres the last thing. I appreciate your participation. Where should we be as americans hearing this information . Where should our heads be in terms of how serious this is how concerned we should be that somebody is slept on a real threat to kill our fighting men and women . I would dial it back. We dont have to be talking about somebody slept on the information or didnt. That is not even the major focus. The focus is right now out in the public there is the allegation and theres reporting across an array of media in great detail that speaks to the fact that russia has allegedly put bounties out on the heads of american Service Members. And civilian personnel over seas. Where we should be on this is we should all be wanting more answers. We should all be saying we want members of the Intel Community to come before congress. We want to ensure that there are briefings. We dont want to politicize or drag this into a partisan fight. This is the lives of Service Members that may be threatened. We should say if this is true it is outrageous and affront to everything that is the base of our democracy. It is an assault by a foreign government. If this is true we are united in our effort to reject it. And to hold russia accountable. We are going to be measured and focussed. But what i havent heard in the briefing today what i said to the white house chief of staff is i want to hear that coming from the white house. I want to hear that from the president. We are getting to the bottom of it. If this is true, it is unacceptable. That is where we should all be as americans. It isnt a political issue. This is potentially life or death for the children and the family members and the parents of people back home. I represent hundreds of thousands of virginians. Many of them are veterans. Many deployed over seas. This is about protecting our own National Security and protecting our friends and neighbors who are in a war zone in harms way. The notion that risk is heightened because there might be a bounty on their head. Should be objectionable and every american rallies behind to oppose. Hopefully we get to the bottom of it. Democrat of virginia. Thank you as always. Thank you very much. Joe biden, coming out swinging. Saying trump is no wartime president. As he labeled himself. We heard a lot more from the former Vice President today than we have in a while. Why and whats the impact. The polls factor in . Lets put it to the man who knows. The ax. Next. D like a, kind of negative self image. There was like this contrast between like the way that i was thinking about my personality and the way that i was thinking about my body. With noom, i was able to learn how to interrupt those habits and create new ones. So my goal was 35 pounds and ive lost about 30 pounds now. So. Ive never been this confident in my body. My name is sara and i changed my life with noom. Visit noom. Com and lose the weight for good. We were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. 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I think that the president is in a deep hole. A hole he dug himself. His handling of the covid19 crisis has been a disaster for the country. Disaster for him politically. And you can see it in the numbers. His rating on handling the crisis which is the story is in the low 30s. And people just disagree with him on fundamental questions of how quickly we should open up. About Wearing Masks and so on. He staked out the wrong ground. He didnt handle the aftermath of george floyd in a way that most americans like to see. And the divisiveness that people excuse before now has become costly in peoples mind. That has hurt him. And of course well see where the russia story develops. What it has amounted to is that something that i thought i would never see in the race. Which is either candidate with a double digit lead in going into heading into the convention. This is a closely divided country. Very hard for someone to mount a lead like this. And a lot of it is trumps own fault. Biden has been relatively quiet and trump had the stage. He has hurt himself and i think biden stepped out today because he saw an opportunity to play offense while the president was in a deep hole. Howd you like the offense . Very good. I thought the points he made were obviously very good. Strong strategically. The obvious deficiency in the handling of the crisis. And the questions that are now boiling up about his handling of this russia situation. But more than that, youll appreciate it this because of your history and family experience, there was a muscularity of the language. That i think was really important. What trump likes to sell is hes strong and tough. And in this case, biden turned the tables on him. And really called him weak. And his every one of his answers kind of turned the table on trump. And frankly if people make the judgment that boyden is the strong one, trump really has nothing left. Now listen, its 126 days from this election. That has to be noted. We had no idea four months ago what the four months would bring. We dont know what the next four will bring. As of right now, youd have to say that biden is in a very strong position. Hes stronger tonight than he was this morning for his performance today. The concern is that the downside on the president peaks too soon. If the theory of the case is the president beats himself. If cases do start to turn the other way, if the economy does start to come back. The picture can change. Im suggesting things we cant know yet. I need you on regular basis. God bless you and the family. Thank you for being a benefit as always. You heard congresswoman on the program a few minutes ago say she wants answers on the russia bounty intel. You heard ax factor it in to a significant aspect of the election. Dems and gop fight over what we really know, theres a voice we also need to hear from. Advocate for the people who supposedly are being