pausing or pulling back their reopening plans, a reminder, it did not have to be this way. the united states has about 4% of the world's population. yet a quarter of all coronavirus cases and deaths, at least official numbers say. and as we see cases spike at the highest level so far here in the u.s., the european union not to mention many other countries throughout the world has been able to drastically flatten the curve there. the united states is the only western and wealthy nation that has had such a disastrous and failed response. now, as the official death toll in the u.s. surpasses 127,000, a new study finds that the u.s. likely has undercounted the total number of deaths linked to the pandemic. cnn's senior medical constituent elizabeth cohen joins us now. and this new study from the journal of the american medical association specifically looks at deaths between march and may. why were so many deaths unaccounted for and by how much? >> let's take a look at what the study authors did and retrace steps here, jake. what they did is they looked at deaths between march and may this year and compared it to previous years. they found there were 122,300 more beths in that time period than there previous years. the study authors believe the majority of the deaths are attributable directly or indirectly to covid. but when you look at the death count it is only 95,235 deaths so the study authors believe that is an underestimate. they say look we have this many excess deaths from this year kbhared to last year and we believe it is attributable to covid so they believe the 95,000 number is really low. jake. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. in california, a record breaking new kroerp cases, 9,740, the high number since the pandemic started. the previous record was 7149 a week ago today. dan is live from pacific palisades. govin newsom have holding a press conference this hour. what is he expected to say? >> reporter: hi, jake. the cover is going to issue some new restrictions or however you want to look at it. go back to some of the old restrictions. but the bottom line is he has to do something significant. the numbers are increasingly grim. we know that l.a. countries, the beaches are going to be closed over the fourth of july weekend. no fireworks either. what might the governor do. he has a toggle switch that he could sort of make the dimmer go up or down. might he shut down the restaurants once again? there is increasing speculation that he might do that in a place like l.a. county seeing a surging amount of cases. as for how he got here, jake, one leadk doctor in the state, dr. robert walker, chairperson of the ucf medical school, around memorial day there was a spirit of complacency that took place and people stopped wearing masks and got lazy and that is how we got in this situation, particularly among young people where we see the cases really surge, jake. >> and dan, a lot of west coast states are seeing a surge of new coronavirus cases including oregon, washington, even alaska not really a west coast state but a pacific state. >> reporter: yeah, you look at a place like alaska, jake, that in the month of may basically had no cases. yesterday they had 48 cases. not a ton relative to some of the other states but what does that tell you? it tells you that no state is immune. jake. >> dab dan simon in pacific palisades california. joining us now, kathleen sebelius and the former governor of the great state of kansas. secretary, thank you for joining us. i want to get your reaction to the new study that said the death counts in the united states might actually be 28% higher than the nation's official number. what do you make of that? >> well, i think that is probably pretty accurate. we see death counts often be adjusted at the end of every flu season. people go back and look at why somebody may have died during this period of time and then it is a tributable after the fact to flu. covid was new. people weren't carefully identifying or testing at the very beginning and even in the months of may. we only tested people who really thought they had covid and were on the way to the hospital. so it doesn't surprise me that whether it is nursing homes or some other incident that happened that a death was not directly attributable to covid and after the fact will be reanalyzed and doctors and scientists will again identify the fact that that probably was one of the underlying causes of that person and they would be alive if it weren't for getting the virus on top of other things. >> doctor william hazel tine told cnn that the absence of national leadership on this issue, it is going to be up to mayors and governors to curb the pandemic. take a listen. >> i think they're going to see the mayors and the governors singing a very different tune from now on. they know it is in their backyard. and it is their job to take care of if no one else does. >> you're a former governor. what do you make of that? >> well, jake, i think we continue to feel the absolute void in a national plan. the reason other countries did so well as they tried to flatten the curve, the reason that they're able to emerge from some of the economic shutdown, send kids back to school is that there was a very specific national plan and emphasized from the leadership at the top, cand -- and carried out all the way. we never had that. this is a administration from day one wants to declare victory. first of all to deny there was a virus and then put it as fast as possible on the backs of states and local governments. governors are doing their best. but we're a big, mobile country. people travel in and out of states, states make different plans. and this president, for the first time in anybody's memories has politicized a public health crisis and made it about him, has made it about his party affiliation and nothing could be more dangerous. my 4-year-old grandson doesn't like to wear his mask. he is scared of it. he doesn't want to put it on. his parents know it will protect him from others and it will protect others from him. so he wears his mask. we have a president of the united states who refuses to follow even the most simple steps and refuses still with this amazing surge in cases and terrifying overuse now of icu units and both in arizona and in texas, it is nearing the breaking point. we still don't have a national plan. governors can't do this on their own. they're trying to. our governor just reimposed some guidelines. slow down the reopening. made a mandatory mask policy because we saw cases beginning to go up. but we have people coming back and forth from missouri and oklahoma and arkansas and colorado. governors can't do this by themselves. and we absolutely have to have a national message that is consistent, clear, direct about mask wearing, about social distancing or we are going to continue as dr. fauci said, we'll be looking at 100,000 cases in the near future. >> let's talk about kansas. 19 states have rolled back the reopening plans or paused them in the state. you once were the governor of kansas. the democratic governor lauer a kelly just recked that communities stay in phase three for at least two more weeks. enough of a recommendation. should she mandate steps for local communities to take? >> well, unfortunately, she did mandate mask wearing. that happened yesterday. we have a divided legislature. we have a legislature controlled at this point by republicans in both the house and the senate. and we have had legislative leaders who have fought every step along the way about the public health guidance, have demanded that she stop trying to issue edicts to individuals in the state. i think the good news is in the major areas of where there are denser populations, local leaders have pretty much followed the public health guidance and adopted the regulations. but we definitely have people who see themselves as followers of donald trump, who want to model the president and who are fighting it every step along the way, what the public health guidance should be. so, she did mandate masks. she is strongly recommending that people pause on phase three. she continues to do regular briefings with a very competent health secretary giving clear data, giving clear information on an everyday basis and i think most kansasans not ome appreciate but follow that guidance. >> i get that a lot of republican officials have been disruptive at the very least and also just anti-science in their reaction. but if you look at the facts of the matter, fauci said there is not one state, not one, democrat controlled or republican, that followed the coronavirus task force own guidelines in terms of reopening. and then you look at california where people are not wearing masks, going out to eat in restaurants, et cetera. this isn't just a republican problem, i guess is what i want to say. i understand the frustration with republican officer holders and i'm not discounting that but there are a bunch of democrats who are discounting this as well. >> well, i would just remind you that cdc put out guidance. and talked about having a 14-day track -- trajectory downward before any reopening started. following day, the day after his own centers for disease control put out the guidance, the president of the united states began to tweet about democratic governors that they should liberate michigan, that they should liberate virginia. that was the act that i think made this debate a very partisan debate. you then had armed protesters show up in the michigan capitol and protests encouraged across the country. i agree that people tried to take this a step at a time and when populations prove themselves to be unsuccessful at monitoring themselves, you need to crack down. we need to enforce mask wearing, i think, across this country. and make sure that that step is taken taken, it is simple but it will save lives. in the meantime, the work goes on on the vaccine and some drug remedies. but we have to do the best we can. and i think what you see in many states is they attempted reopening when it looked like they had flattened the curve. and now as populations refuse to follow the guidance, they're going to tighten up again. but we still, since those days in april, we still don't have a national message. we still don't have a president that said follow the cdc guidance. this is what i'm calling on you to do. it is your patriotic duty to save other americans. it is all of us in together and wear a damn mask. to watch the vice president go to a church and have a mask-less choir sing to him in an interior space, all of the things that cdc said are at the top of the list of do not do, is just shocking. and somehow that is acceptable behavior. >> yeah. so, just a yes or no question and then i have to go because we're over time here. but are you saying that president trump's leadership or lack there of have cost american lives. >> absolutely. >> thank you for your time today. we appreciate it. the surge in coronavirus cases coming just as school districts try to decide whether to reopen in the fall. the new study further complicating those decisions ahead. plus president trump just spoke about masks minutes ago. what he said will surprise you or maybe not. that's next. wayfair has way more ways to renovate your home, from inspiration to installation. like way more vanities perfect for you. nice. way more unique fixtures and tiles. pairing. ♪ nice. way more top brands in sinks and faucets. way more ways to rule your renovation. nice! on any budget, with free shipping. wayfair. way more than furniture. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent... that's why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum... ...with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in. for sparkling-clean dishes, the first time. cascade platinum. in our politics lead today, coronavirus cases in the united states have increased 75%. compared to just two weeks ago. but you'll find little mention of this deadly pandemic on president trump's twitter feed where instead he's stoking the flames of racial division calling the phrase black lives matter a symbol of hate where he's defending confederate monuments and statues and suggesting the 2020 election is a quote battle to save the heritage, the history and greatness of our country, unquote. kaitlan collins is live at the white house. and kaitlan, what do we know about why the president is so focused on these divisive issues instead of paying attention to the pandemic that is killing tens of thousands of americans. >> reporter: i think most simply put, jake, he feels like it is more comfortable territory for him and that is why that is something he's been digging in on on twitter while ignoring the grim assessments that we heard from his own health officials like dr. anthony fauci who said the u.s. is headed in the wrong direction on the coronavirus and instead of talking about that and matching the public messaging, the president has instead focused on pursuing cultural battles ahead of his election. he's talking about black lives matter and the decision by new york, the lawmakers there to slash the city's police department by their funding by a billion dollars. and he's saying they should not be painting black lives matter on fifth avenue. it is painted right out in front of the white house as well. and then not only that, jake, he's also targeting a fair housing act regulation saying he might do away with it because he believes it targeted suburban people. he also is going after this defense spending bill saying he may not sign it because it includes that provision that would allow for the renaming of the military bases that are named after confederate leaders. so he is threatening to veto a defense spending bill that senate mitch mcconnell said he's fine with over the one provision that we should note passed a republican-led committee. >> the politics of division. and another issue the president likes to divide the country on, he's been reluctant to wear a mask during the pandemic. he was just asked minutes ago about wearing a mask. he said he had no problem with them. >> reporter: yeah. even though he has refused to wear one publicly, the president said he has no issue with masks. listen to what he just told fox business a few minutes ago. >> i'm all for masks. i think masks are good. if i were in a group of people and i was close -- >> you would wear one. >> oh, i have. people have seen me wearing one. i sort of like the way i looked. >> reporter: because he has no problem wearing one though he has refused and saids it unpressu unpresidential and there is only one case where we later saw a photo of him wearing it. and jake, he's been in situations where a mask has been required or they would be recommended by health experts and he's refused to do so though he seems to be changing his tune on that as you see more and more republicans telling him to just wear a mask. but i want to point to something else he said, back in february the president claimed one day coronavirus is just going to disappear. here we are in july with cases reaching record numbers and he repeated that in this inview with fox business and when he was pressed do you think it is going to disappear. and he said yes, one day he believes it will. >> well existentially, at some point all of us are going to disappear. maybe that is what he meant. thank you for that report. today president trump claimed that intelligence reports that russian officials offered bounties to kill u.s. and british soldiers are all just a hoax made up by the lame-stream media. obviously that is a lie. the facts are this. there is disagreement within the intelligence community about the information but the intelligence was serious enough that sources confirm u.s. intel leaders briefed counter parts in the united kingdom about the threat and president trump's national security council held a meeting in the spring about possible response options to the intelligence. cnn kylie atwood is at the state department for us. and you asked mike pompeo about this intelligence today. what did he have to say. >> reporter: well, throughout his remarks at the state department, secretary pompeo repeatedly defended how the white house, this administration has responded and handled this intelligence. saying that they took it seriously and they responded in precisely the correct way. but whether i asked the secretary if he thought in his opinion as the former cia director as a former soldier, if the president should have been made aware of this intelligence even if it wasn't fully verifiable, he didn't answer the question. he took issue with the premise of the question saying it was based on some assumptions. but as you said, jake, just earlier today the national security adviser acknowledged that this intelligence has been received by the national security council and they were working on interagency responses if the intelligence proved to be true. and what pompeo did in responding to the question is talk about broadly when he decides to bring threats and make them aware to the president, let's listen. >> when the threat is sufficiently serious, the scale of the threat is of such importance that there is an action that i think that the president needs to be aware of and the information that i seen is sufficiently credible, then we make sure that the president is aware of that. the president has been consistently aware of the challenges that russia presents to us and aware of the risk in afghanistan. >> reporter: now, he said that president trump is made aware of the risk posed by russia in afghanistan. still begging the question, why wasn't the president made aware of the risk posed by u.s. troops in afghanistan by russia. jake. >> yeah. and kylie, a pentagon report found that russia has been working with the taliban in an attempt to speed up the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. tell us more about that. >> reporter: the u.s. has known that russia had been supporting the taliban over the last few years. this report puts a bit of a finer point on it saying that russia was doing that in order to speed up the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. now this is significant given the context of the conversation we're having today. this criticism about how the administration handled this intelligence regarding russian threats on u.s. troops in afghanistan. and of course, it is important given the context of the continues u.s. intelligent negotiations. jake. >> kylie atwood at state department, thank you for that report. with a lack of statewide measures the city of sarasota in florida is implementing a mask mandate. i'll talk with the mayor who is preparing for a visit from the vice president. that's next. as a caricature artist, i appreciate what makes each 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governor, ron desantis, has not mandated masks statewide and won't reclose businesses that have reopened. do you agree with his position on this? >> well, i like to look at it in the way that the governor has not preempted us from acting locally because that could happen too. so in this case the governor has encouraged the local municipalities and counties to act accordingly and with that we did, we took the ball and we ran with it. and, you know, we're just trying to do everything we can protect the health and safety and welfare of our citizens. that is our oath and with this it protects all of them. >> i heard one health official refer to that kind of plan, where you allow different parts of the state to do whatever they want to do in those different parts, as like having a peeing area in a swimming pool, where it is okay to pee in the corner of the pool but not the rest of it. are you worried that people in starts of the state where there are limited or no regulations are going to come to sarasota? >> well, that is a funny analogy. i don't know how much that applies here. but am i worried? no. what i'm hopeful is that once the governor sees that counties and cities are signing on to do this that it will tip the scales and he'll make it statewide. it is something that i'm hoping for. i'm on the governor's call list pretty much every day. i try to get in a call and ask for this. but since the only thing we do at this point was to mandate the wearing of masks in the city of sarasota, that is what we're doing. and we have other municipalities and counties around us that have signed on. the town of long bow key will discuss this tomorrow. a city just north of us decided this last week and so i think that as more and more cities and counties sign on that might been an indication to the governor that this is something should be done statewide and would be more effective if done statewide. >> madam mayor, how worried are you? florida is going through a crisis right now. what more do you need from the federal government, what more do you need from the state government and from your citizens to keep people safe? >> yes. no, we are very concerned. and when i say "we", i get my information from the citizens and the medical community. i have a good communication and line with our sarasota memorial hospital which is a world renowned hospital and the experts there, i'm in touch with them on a daily basis. and if i could quote dr. manny goddia who wrote me a email and said i'm worried at the rise of cases. and he's concerned with the capability of exponential growth and that the growth rate, if it continues unmitigated, could overwhelm even the best health care systems. so when your head epidemiologist at your local hospital sends you an email like that, you should take heed which is what we did. i'm worried and concerned. i'm hoping our communities will wear mask and face coverings and continue to distance at least six feet and continue with good hand 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districts have to make within the next few weeks. >> reporter: a message to parents and school administrators from the country's most prominent doctor. >> it is very important to get the children back to school for the unintended negative consequenc consequences that occur when we keep them out of school. >> reporter: but with more than 50 million k through 12 students across the country returning to class in just weeks, the big question is how to do it safely? >> it will depend on the dynamics of the outbreak and the particular location where the school is. >> reporter: that is exactly what local school leaders are debating in many states. especially those currently seeing spikes in infections like alabama. >> one jurisdiction is under 5% and another jurisdiction is 80% or more of parents who say they intend to keep children home. so could see how it is so difficult to do a statewide plan when even from community to community people have such varying ideas about how they want school to look. >> reporter: in other southern hot spots, officials in georgia and nashville, tennessee, have given families two options for whether classes resume the first week in august. in person or distance learning. texas and florida are still planning for a return to the classroom in august. >> there is not going to be a substitute for that in-person instruction. >> reporter: california also curbly experiencing a spike in cases. said it's 10,000 schools will have a plan in place in time for late august and september reopenings. >> we'll be ready for any scenario. >> reporter: and if cases continue to rise, dr. fauci has some advice. >> there are things that could creatively be done about modifying things like the school schedule, alternate days, morning versus evening, allowing under certain circumstances online virtual lessons. those are the kind of things that we need to consider. >> we cannot afford as a country to keep our schools locked down for another year. >> reporter: joseph allen is the lead author of a report on risk reduction strategies for reopening schools. among them distance hygiene, mask-wearing and proper ventilation. >> we know the risk reduction strategies work even with a full load of kids in class. kids are at lower risk of getting this virus. >> >> reporter: that may not convince parents and teachers that returning to the classroom is safe. >> i'm glad i'm not in that seat right now. there is the pressure from the community and the staff for plans to be released, again, releasing plans at there point with so many unknowns is what plaques it such a difficult process. >> reporter: and, jake, joseph allen, the expert, said it didn't have to come to this, have to be so confusing and parents didn't have to deal with competing guidelines weeks before schools started. he said the priority should be reopening schools and making sure that schools would be ready for reopening in august and september. the focus should have been on schools and not bars. >> all right. thank you so much for that report. appreciate it. as coronavirus surges in the united states, the trump administration is now forming a new task force. it is focus is protecting monuments and statues. stay with us. the moment has come to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation, made to so many. ♪ because if it weren't clear before, it's clear now. this country wasn't built by wall street bankers and ceos, it was built by the great american middle class, health care workers, docs, nurses, delivery truck drivers, grocery store workers. you know we've come up with a new phrase for them: essential workers. we need to do more than praise them, we need to pay them. as president, it's my commitment to all of you, to lead on these issues and to listen. for that's what the presidency is - the duty to care, to care for all of us, not just those who vote for us, but all of us. this job is not about me. it's about you. it's about us. i'm joe biden and i approve this 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honoring confederate generals. i want to bring in elsy granderson from the los angeles times. today the president attacked new york city's plans to name a street in each borough black lives matter. he tweeted maybe our great police, quote, won't let this symbol of hate be affixed on new york's greatest street. he's seeming to be calling the black lives matter movement a symbol of hate, there. >> he does. which is weird because i thought there was good people on both sides but i guess not in this case. this is an old playbook that republicans have used which is to try the southern method using race to drum up the base. the only difference whereas ronald reagan tried to rally troops to get elected, president trump is using this method to hide from his incompetency which is glaring during this covid-19 pandemic. >> moments ago the richmond, virginia mayor announcing an emergency action to remove confederate statues in that city that was once of course the capitol of the confederacy. the white house still defending the president's desire to keep confederate statues up saying he's combatting violence. do you see this the same way in terms of the president dividing? the president dividing? >> a lot of people would like to rewrite the history of the confederacy and what that flag represents. a lot of people say it is part of their heritage. the truth is right now in this country we've been able to have same sex marriage longer than the existence of the confederacy of the united states. that is how brief the period of time is here. the notion you're defending this long standing history in the country is really defending this long standing racism in this country. once again president trump is dipping his toe into that water because he knows that can drum up his base. what is different this time, jake, is a lot of people aren't going for that. when you see the governor of mississippi taking down the flag, when you see what is going on with nascar, you see students all around the country standing up to the universities and saying we won't play if that flag continues to fly and these campuses are complying with the students' demands you are seeing a complete change in what used to be decades ago. for a law and order president as he claims to be, why is he so passionate about defending treason because that is exactly what the confederacy and the confederate flag represents -- treason. >> one question president trump has posed and i think it is a good question is where does it end? in addition to the confederate generals there have been moves to strip woodrow wilson's name from a college at princeton because of his racism and obviously vandalism against statutes of ulysses s. grant, george washington, and more. joe biden was asked yesterday about the calls to take down some of these statutes. listen to how he threads the needle. i want your reaction on the other end. >> the idea of comparing whether george washington owned slaves or thomas jefferson owned slaves and somebody who was in rebellion committing treason, running, trying to take down a union to keep slavery, i think there is a distinction. >> so, vice president biden there seems to be saying, fighting for the right to have slaves, keep slaves, rape slaves is different from owning slaves. that is where he is drawing the line. what do you think of that? >> well, i do believe vice president biden is trying to thread a needle but i don't believe it is a topic in which a needle can be thread. the question of where does it end, i would answer that question with a question. why did it begin? why did those statutes get erected in the first place? why were these bases all around the country named after confederate figures to begin with? when you ask that question, you can answer it truthfully not with white washing history but truthfully, then you no longer are compassionate about finding the answer where does it end because you realize it never should have been there in the first place. i understand a lot of beloved figures. i am very excited by the way to see hamilton and i recognize hamilton's role in terms of the founding fathers and the writing of the constitution that did not declare me to be 100% human but i will say this. there is a difference between in 2020 fighting to continue to honor these despicable figures versus recognizing perhaps we shouldn't have honored them in the way we are in the first place. don't erase history but why is it celebrated with monuments and statutes and buildings being named after them. >> l.z. granderson, thank you so much. we'll have you back again soon. >> thanks, jake. the new warning from an infectious disease doctor who predicts this holiday weekend could spark a major coronavirus spike, plus the decision not to brief president trump about russian bounties on american soldiers made by one person whom you've never heard of. that is ahead. rom coast to coast. featuring: patti labelle, john fogerty, the temptations, andy grammer yolanda adams, renée fleming, trace adkins brian stokes mitchell, chrissy metz, mandy gonzalez, and a tribute to our frontline workers. it's the fortieth anniversary of a capitol fourth. saturday july fourth, eight- seven central. only on pbs. iredefined the wordng th'school' this year. it's why, at xfinity, we're committed to helping kids keep learning through the summer. and help college students studying at home stay connected through our university program. we're providing affordable internet access to low income families through our internet essentials program. and this summer, xfinity is creating a virtual summer camp for kids at home- all on xfinity x1. we're committed to helping all families stay connected. learn more at xfinity.com/education. welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper and we continue this hour with our health lead and the acceleration of coronavirus globally. with more than 60% of all coronavirus cases in the world reported just in the last month. according to the world health organization. look at this map showing the surge of cases in the united states over the past two weeks. the number of new cases soaring in 37 states. in the wake of this escalation at least 19 states have paused or pulled back their reopening plans. in the last hour california governor gavin newsom ordered restaurants, movie theaters, museums, and more to stop indoor operations in 19 counties in california. more than 127,000 people have died from coronavirus in the united states as of now. health experts have long warned the actual death toll is likely much higher. the new study out today finding there may be as many as 30,000 more coronavirus deaths in this country than had originally been reported. california is seeing such explosive growth in new cases and hospitalizations. the state's democratic governor now reimplementing restrictions. cnn's nick watt is in los angeles for us. indoor activities will be closed for 19 counties in the state? >> that's right, jake. these are not 19 small counties. these are some of the big ones including los angeles, home to 10 million people, neighboring orange county, ventura, santa barbara, sacramento. this is big news. he is hitting polls and rolling back a little. he is also sending strike teams into those 19 counties where he sees a particular issue. jake, california has got a problem. >> nearly 10,000 new cases reported across california today, smashing the record. so every state beach