Talking about social distancing. They actually had a meeting to talk about putting them in place. That meeting got canceled, as the president was flying back on air force one was when the cdc doctor said people need to get ready to an abrupt change to the way we were living. That sent a jolt tow the stockmarket. The president was upset about that they cancelled that meeting, where the officials were going to talk about social distancing when the president and that was when, of course, he put the Vice President in charge. It was several weeks before they moved forward with those social distancing measures. Yeah. And, obviously, the colombia document, the study is not a political document at 5u8. In fact, if its a political hit job, its a political hit job against mayor deblasio and Governor Cuomo as well because it specifically goes into how many lives in new york city could have been saved if social distancing measures and other measures could have been tan one week earlier. It. Has nothing to do with politics. Its a look at the effect of social distancing and other measures, how it saved lives, which is a point President Trump just made about the fact that they did take these steps saved lives, which i dont think anybody can dispute. So i dont understand saying with Scientific Data if you had taken those steps one week earlier, you also could have saved lives. Lets also talk about, caitlin, the fact that President Trump was j you going after the attempt by officials in michigan to allow people to vote by an septembereeism by mail and to expand absentee without a need to do so there are lots of states that do this. Oregon has been doing it for years. Republicans states, utah has been doing it for a long time, in fact, there was a significant vote by mail effort in that california Congressional District that a republican just one. Again, this doesnt seem to be based on facts and they seem to be in states democrats are polling well in when it comes to his reelection effort. Reporter he is not citing evidence when he talks about this massive fraud he believes happens when there is mailin voting. Historically, republicans have been against Something Like this. This is changing underneath this because of the pandemic and people are concerned about going to vote. You saw what happened in wisconsin when people went to vote and there was an outbreak, of course, of coronavirus in some of those places. So that itself the concern. Its not just democrats moving in this direction. You are seeing several republicans of state do this as well we heard from rodney mcdaniel, the rnc chair woman, she said she doesnt have a problem sending those applications for the mailin votes for the fact when you apply for one, that ensures are you who you say you are. The president is continuing to go against this despite it causing a pretty big headache for his political aids. Of course, michigan is a battleground state and he ties this to what he believes will happen in november, jake. One wonders, if he is saying this right now so as to cast doubt about the november election if it doesnt go the way he wants. Otherwise, it doesnt make any sense why he is only attacking the vote by mail or absentee ballot efforts in michigan and nevada as opposed to everywhere including states he will definitely win and including the Congressional District that just flipped from democrat to republican. Congresswoman katie hills old district thanks so much. Joining me now cnn medical chief correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. One of the questions we are wondering about is ford has made it very clear that everybody at the plant needs to wear a mask. They made this known publicly. President trump for whatever reason has thus far refused to wear a mask publicly. As we know its an effective tool in preventing people from getting any germs that you might have. Its really about protecting people from you if are you asymptomatic. There are a lot of people who think its important. A lot of people in the health world, who thinks it is important President Trump sets an example and if he is at a place where masks are required, he should wear a mask. Yeah. There is no question. Its worth pointing out as well if there is good data now, jake, on the effectiveness of these masks. If you look at the models, the numbers have moved all over the place. In areas they prompted a little more downward, its because despite mobility of people as they move around, masks seem to be making a difference. Also, jake, its worth pointing out. It seems like the president , the white House Doctors are concerned about the exposure President Trump had to start him on this drug that has not been proven, hydroxychloroquine. So there is a concern there, you have a concern now that you may be harboring the virus even more reason to wear a mask. I realize he is getting tested on a regular basis. The test can have a false negative. It may test negative one day and positive the next day. The best way to give confidence to the people around you, you will not inadvertently infect them is to wear a mask. We are learning as we go along. Thats clear and its one of the ways we can start to slow down the spread of this and everyone need to do it. And one of the things you and i have been talking about places where some Health Advocates worry there would be a spike in new cases, whether florida or georgia or colorado and the data is in different places for different states. Its fair to say there hasnt been an eruption some people worry about. One of the reasons i heard individuals in those states give people even as they try to go back to semi normal, people are adhering to some of these distancing guidelines, staying 6 feet away from each other, Wearing Masks in public, not packing restaurants or bars. So as you note, we are learning more about this virus as we go, that does seem to at least anecdotally be effective. Yeah. I think that we tend to think of this as open or closed in terms of these states and, you know, its the nuance in between. Its that grey area in between where everything lies right now, jake. Even if the states opened, people are still going out trying to do a better job at maintaining physical distance, Wearing Masks. Obviously, we see images of people not adhering to that at all. But i think the larger story may be that people as a general rule you know are thinking about it much more than they used to. Frankly, they didnt think about it at all before. Just basic sort of virus protections in terms of decreasing it wasnt something we considered or thought about much in the United States five, six months ago. The fact that we are thinking about it makes a difference. The models reflect that. You look at the projections based on reopenings, they are going to go up. I dont think thats a surprise at all and the data that were getting, its not clear how good some of this data is. I dont want to harp on that too much, i dont know how good it is or bad it is, frankly, it should be funneled through the cdc and one National Database looking at that data and reporting it out. We dont have that. It makes it challengesting as journalists. I think we can show these projected spikes, in palm beach, the current is 102 people becoming infected every day. In four weeks it will be 383 people per day. Thats in palm beach. You are seeing some of the numbers based on when we may have actually implemented the stayathome orders. My point, jake, is the numbers are going to go up. Its a question of how much. So, sanjay, some pictures are coming in right now from ypsilanti, michigan. Off see President Trump standing probably about 6 feet away from a couple individuals giving a tour of him at the ford plant there. But the president is clearly not wearing a mask. It doesnt appear the other two are either. So for what its worth, the president seems to be practicing distancing but not wearing a mask. I think people attach to hard and fast rules. If you stand 6 feet away. One person wearing a mask, looks like, maybe both the gentleman are Wearing Masks, you cant even tell. Regardless, the president is not. Actually it looks likes, sanjay to interrupting im sorry, there are four people in the shot other than President Trump, all four of them are Wearing Masks. And President Trump is not. Go ahead, im sorry. I think this is a mistake, jake. I dont want to i just dont know what to make of this. I guess i know what to make of it, its dangerous. Its not about protecting the president at this point. Its about in some ways protecting the people around him. The gentleman that are Wearing Masks around him are doing so to help protect those around them. You wear it so you dont put the virus into the environment. The president should be thinking protecting the people aroundle. I realize he gets tested, which is important, an important factor here. But the test dos have false negatives. I think we have got son stuck, if you stay 6 feet away you definitely will be fine. The point is, there is a contagious virus out there. You want to do everything you can to mitigate the spread. Even with the mask you should stay 6 feet away is my point. We are trying to spread the ways of this virus. This is the ways you do it. Its a bad example and i can see here people inching in closer and closer. It worries me. I think it worries most people who are Public Health people. Because they imagine the virus circulating in certain circumstances like this. You know, its unusual. Let me write Kaitlan Collins back, President Trump is very eager as are we all to reopen the country. Testing is not where it needs to be in order for all of us to have a clear idea of how many people around us might be carriers, whether or not there are, if there is anyone we should stay away from. Its great at the white house, by the way, if you work at the white house, testing is fantastic. Other than that, its not up to speed for the rest of us, for people at meat pack plants, for people on the front lines who work in grocery stores, emts, police, healthcare workers, testing is not where it needs to be. But President Trump, do you have any idea why hes so reluctant to wear a mask . I remember reading in the post or the times within the white house there was an individual on the National Security council who wore a mask around he was derided for doing so almost as if it was a sign of weakness. Its not a sign of weakness, obviously, you dont wear a mask to protect yourself. You wear a mask to protect other people. Its also just so easy to wear a mask is the other thing that people have noted. So this has ban pretty big fight inside the white house because of the optics here. Everyone saw what happened when the Vice President went to the mayo clinic, despite it being their policy. There was this weird back and forth, the president saying he didnt picture himself wearing one. You see him thereic spooing with reporters. Who are you with . Im carol king with cbs. Good, good, very good. My question to you is this. Because of all the ventilators being made here and your own efforts to manufacture hydroxychloroquine, we now know we have enough manufacturing going on for the time being as far as ventilators goes. You said we think we have enough to share with other countries. Yes. My question to you, sir, looking six months from now, a year from now, how many more, how much do we need to. [ inaudible ] we were just talking about it. We have a very big stockpile right now. Were building it bigger and were helping a lot of other countries. Nigeria, we just sent a thousand. We have various countries, france, spain, we have a lot going to italy. We have a lot going to a different probably 15, 18 countries, theyre calling us. We had the capacity to do this, nobody else did. So every state now has more than they need and our stockpile is totally full. We have a tremendous amount. So now were really helping other countries, were losing a lot of people because they dont have ventilators. Ventilators are hard to do. I want to say that ford and General Electric have done an incredible job working together and also the companies that worked with you. They really did, they did a great job. They do a great car and they do they really did a great job on the ventilator. I hear the quality of the ventilator has been really top of the line. Thank you. So we really appreciate it, fellows. Thank you. Mr. President there was a lot of interest whether you would end up wearing a mask today. Could you just take us through your thought process why you decided . Well, i did wear. I had one on before in this back area. But i didnt want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. No, i had it in the back area i did put a mask on. Did you have the goggles on, too, sir . Yes, i did. Heres another one. Here. Because in this area. Not necessary here. Everybody has been tested and i have been tested. In fact, i was tested this morning. So its not necessary. [ inaudible question ]. Well, thats your choice. I was given a choice. And i had one on in an area where they preferred it. So i put it on and it was very nice. It looks very nice. But they said not necessary here. Yeah, please. Reporter what about the example that 2w0u8d send to other americans. All right. We will cut out there. President trump ripping on the floor of the ford plant in ypsilanti, michigan. I want to go back to sanjay gupta if hes there and just one more time, the president was asked why he wasnt wearing a mask. He said he was tested, he does not need to wear a mask. First of all we know people have caught and contracted coronavirus, the novel kroefl at the white house, so as you note, there are also false negatives. As you note, who knows what he encountered on his way from the airport to that plant and as you note, were trying to reopen. The country is trying to reopen and get back to some semblance of normal. Health officials feel masks need to be a part of that. Sanjay. We have increasing everyday, some of it good. I think there are these things that are more hope. In that masks do seem to make a difference and people even as they open are i think you know you look at some of the data around the country, it obviously differs in different places. More people are Wearing Masks than not, which is a good thing. Again we have that evidence. I think the other concern, obviously, if the president that he was worried about this exposure it sounds like he had, which prompted the taking of this medication, which does not have any evidence that it works. So, if you are worried enough about that, wear a mask. Because if are you worried you may have the virus, then wear a mask so that you dont spread it to others. Thats the point. And i think people fundamentally get that at this point. People think well im willing to take the risk. Are you familiar not the one taking the risk. You are giving risks to other people as a result of fought wearing the masks. So when we do this we do this for other people not for ourselves, largely speaking. Unless its one of the fitted n95type masks, which will do a better job fill straighting out the viral particles. You are wearing it to protect others, jake. Kaitlan collins, your thoughts on President Trump not wearing a mask, i guess it was anticipated he was not going to. But still Health Officials, including many in his administration were hoping that he would set the example. Your thoughts. And you see there, he is showing a mask to the reporters after claiming he wore one backstage. You know when the cameras werent around, the president says, because he said he didnt want to give the press the pleasure of seeing him wear a mask. It really goes to show its not about a health thing. He said he wore one backstage with goggles. He basically does not want to be seen on camera wearing a mask. Thats what he told reporters there. That has been a fight inside the administration. Some aids argue its easier if he wears one. The talk to michigan is this reemergence of the manufacturing plant and not whether or not the president wore a mask. Now he says he wore one backstage where there are no cameras. He did not wear one in front of reporters, he didnt want reporters to see him wearing a mask. That will be an emerging headline that comes out of this aids did not expect him to wear one in front of the cameras because of that and, of course, he did not. It seems an odd thing to worry about given the fact that reporters have been relaying that Health Officials think it would be a great idea for all leaders to wear them in public. I do not know why he would not want that image out there. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Coming up, or actually right now in our national lead, a cry for help from the mayor of montgomery, alabama. The mayor says the citys Healthcare System has been quote maxed out. Mayor steven reed is warning people who need an icu intensive care unit bed they may not be able to get one because patients from rural areas have overwhelmed city hospitals. Heres the mayor on cnn earlier today. Its really alarming. We started getting calls probably a week and a half ago from hospital administrators explaining to us the number of Covid Patients they were seeing was not only increasing but people were coming in, in worse shape. So we thought we needed to remind our community this pandemic is not over. Thats cnn erica hill reports for us now. This is one reason why there are serious concerns how to deal with the virus as states begin to reopen and summer rolls around. As a parent, until i know how widespread this is, i would not send my children to day camp. Reporter as summer looms, day camp is on hold in new york state where 150 possible cases in children, the rare illness that may be linked to covid19 are being investigated. There is also new research about why children may be less prone to the virus,