President trump steps up his attacks on mailin voting. Ill talk about all of this and a lot more with the president s Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner. And were just hours away from what will be a truly historic virtual democratic president ial convention that will officially make joe biden its president ial candidate. Lets get some more on the breaking pandemic news first. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles for us. Some pretty surprising, very blunt remarks from dr. Deborah birx. Reporter wolf, it was basically an admission that we did not do lockdown well enough. She says she wishes that we had looked like italy where people werent allowed out of their houses. But she says americans dont react well to that type of prohibition. Comparison of how the two countries are doing. On friday italy reported three deaths from covid19. On friday the u. S. Reported 1,342. A College Party in georgia, cant see any masks. Not a lot of distance. Crowds also snapped outside student bars in alabama. And four covid clusters uncovered this weekend at unc chapel hill where classes resumed one week ago. Unc will now, from wednesday, shift to onlineonly for all undergraduates. Youre going to get cases at colleges. Theres no question about it. The question is whether you can stop it at five cases or have 500 cases. Reporter the death toll in the u. S. Just passed a staggering 170,000. Covid is now the number three cause of death in the u. S. Reporter but k12, florida is mandating schools offer inperson teaching. One principal who already lost three current and former staff to covid is asking parents to keep kids home. The last thing that i want is to have another employee, or even worse, a child to become either seriously ill or possibly experience a fatal case of covid19. Reporter young people are not immune. Infection rates among under 18s Rose Steadily from march through july, says the cdc. Meanwhile, more evidence that minority communities are hardest hit, a study just found that, for example, in ohio, 13 of people are black, but 31. 8 of hospitalized Covid Patients were black. In virginia, less than 10 of people are latin x. But more than 36 of hospitalized Covid Patients were latin x. But in those crucial vaccine trials, only 10 of volunteers are black or latin x. Those people do need to be included in the trials. Historically, though, people of color, black americans have not been included in trials because of these legacies of unethical experimentation and people having very legitimate reasons, distrusting the medical establishment. Reporter and the latest on testing, experts have long said we should be doing 5 million a day. Heres President Trump late april. Were going to be there very soon. Reporter but we have never achieved even onefifth of that 5 million goal. Were probably missing eight out of ten people who are contagious. Reporter and since july, the average number of tests every day is actually falling. Supplies arent being shipped to places that could test. I think its part of a strategy not to count how many people are infected. Reporter but a newly authorized quick and cheap saliva test could be a game changer. We think this can give sameday results in most situations. Reporter now, that test could be crucial for schools and colleges trying to reopen. And that news from unc chapel hill is pretty devastating. Their experiment with at least some inperson teaching lasted just one week. Now, wolf, for undergraduates, they are going online only, remote only from wednesday. Like so many College Campuses across the country. Nick watt reporting for us. Thank you very much. Lets go to the white house right now. Our White House CorrespondentKaitlan Collins is joining us. Ill be talking with the president s Senior AdviserJared Kushner in a few moments. But you can update us on the very latest first. Reporter well, right now, wolf, we are looking at whats going to happen next monday when the postmaster general louis dejoy is going to go for the House Oversight committee for a hearing where democrats say they want to know whats behind these big changes that hes making at the post office, changes that they are questioning the timing of, given the fact that its a pandemic and we are just months out from the election. And the president himself is complaining about the timing of that hearing asking why its going to happen during the Republican Convention instead of during the Democratic Convention this week. A showdown is brewing in washington tonight as House Speaker nancy pelosi is calling back members from recess to block Major Post Office changes that President Trump is defending. And i also want to have a post office that runs without losing billio losing millions and millions of dollars a year. Reporter the changes were put in place by a gop megadonor with no experience at the post office. He wants to, quote, make the post office great again. I have encouraged everybody speed up the mail, not slow the mail. Reporter but democrats want to hear from dejoy himself. Hes agreed to testify next monday shortly after lawmakers return to washington to vote on legislation that would block his new policies for the time being. Its now being 100 undermined by the postmaster general, a political hack appointee of donald trump. Reporter democrats are proposing a bill that would include 25 billion in funding for the Postal Service and require it to keep current delivery standards in place through the end of the year. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Reporter dejoy became postmaster in june and cut costs that said will make the post office more financially stable. But eliminating overtime and banning workers to making extra trips has caused delays and backlogs. The Postal Service has also been criticized for plans to remove more than 600 shorting machines in dozens of cities. Im saying that sorting machines between now and the election will not be taken off line. Reporter meanwhile, the president has continued to sow misinformation, tweeting today that dropboxes for mail ballots could cause a, quote, rigged election even though theyve been used for years without widespread problems. President trump gave a shoutout to mike lindell, a booster of his and the ceo of my pillow. When i sleep well, im using his pillow. Reporter lindell recently pitched the president on a botanical extract he claims can treat covid19. There are no Peer Reviewed studies showing so, but lindell told cnn the president was, quote, enthusiastic about the idea, even though the product comes from a toxic plant and hasnt been approved by the fda. Is it something that people are talking about very strongly . Well look at it. Reporter today a new cnn poll of polls shows that 51 of registered voters nationwide back joe biden, while 42 are behind trump. But for a former Trump Administration official, its not even close. The former chief of staff to the department of Homeland Security secretary myles taylor endorsed biden today. For me after two and a half years of that administration was terrifying. We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing National Security issue, cyber attack, terrorism threat. He wasnt interested in those things. The president wanted to disploit the department of Homeland Security for his own political purposes. Reporter in that video miles taylor also cited an instance where they will on a video with fema during those california wildfires. He said the president told him to cut off assistance because he didnt think the state made up his political base. He said the president wanted to do things that were not only impossible regarding the border. And the president didnt want to be told they were illegal. Miles said he is not a democrat but hes supporting joe biden because he says he believes that he would not make the same mistakes that President Trump has. Kaitlan collins reporting from the white house, thank you very much. So lets get some more on all of this. The assistant Senior Adviser to the president Jared Kushner is joining us. Jared, thank you so much for joining us. I first want to offer our deepest condolences to you and your family for the loss of the president s brother robert. May he rest in peace. Thank you very much, wolf. Its an honor to be with you. Well, thank you for joining us. We have a lot to discuss. Youre involved in all sorts of areas including coronavirus, the president ial election, the middle east, of course. Let me start with what we just heard from dr. Deborah birx, a woman you know well, the White House Coronavirus response coordinator. She now says she wished our lockdown here in the United States had looked like italys lockdown where people essentially werent allowed out of their houses. Do you agree with her . So i dont know the content in which dr. Birx said that. The president put forward 15 days to stop the spread. This was done at the time to make sure we had enough Hospital Capacity and supplies to make sure we didnt end up like italy where there were people dying in gurneys and waiting rooms. President trump made sure that we had enough ventilators, used the defense production act. We now are on track to have over 200,000 ventilators produced this year. And no american who needed a ventilator didnt get a ventilator. I think weve done much better than italy in regards to how we handled this. And right now i think were making great progress on a vaccine. We had the fastest vaccine to go to a phase three trial. We have six candidates that were producing. So hopefully well get to the phase very soon where we have the view oaccine out there and able to clean up the aftermath of what this Global Pandemic has caused not only to america but to the rest of the world. I will just point out, jared, that the United States has been averaging about a thousand deaths a day over these past several weeks. Italy has been averaging about three deaths a day over these past few weeks. Theyre clearly on a much better track than we are. I want to play a clip. This is a prediction you made back in april about the u. S. Recovery. I want you to listen, i want to get your response. Listen to this. I think youll see by june a lot of the country should be back to normal. And the hope is that by july the countrys really rocking again. And federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a Great Success story. So were passed july obviously. More than 170,000 americans are now dead from this pandemic over the past five or six months. Are 170,000 dead americans, would you still report, suggest that this has been a Success Story . Yes. Look, there was a lot of challenges. This has been a Global Pandemic, a lot of unprecedented challenges. The first phase of it people didnt know what to expect. A lot of it was happening in different states. The president was able to rush the supplies that we needed. Now were in the middle phase where were using all the knowledge we have right now to deal with strategically how do we learn from what we had and protect the vulnerable. Right now were rushing resources to the Nursing Homes. There were a lot of Nursing Homes that were left unprotected early on by different governors in different states. Right now were making sure that were doubling and tripling down on the Nursing Homes. If you look at the economy, which is what i was referring to, we were in a position where the entire economy was locked down and President Trump passed the first stimulus. He had a lot of interventions. Our economy contracted by much less than our european counterparts who may have done Different Things in different ways. And what weve been able to do is have a very strong rebound. So, i do think that, again, were getting the vaccine, were making great progress. This pandemic will pass. This is a pandemic that was not the fault of democrats or republicans. It came over from china. It hit us like it hit the rest of the world. Weve done our best. The case fatality rate has dropped tremendously. Weve developed a lot of therapeutics. If you get the virus today, the risk of dying is much less than it was five months ago. Weve continued to operate but were astilling americans to live their lives obviously with some restrictions. The president strongly encouraged people to wear masks, socially distance, wash their hands, practice good hygiene. But we have to keep americas economy going because you dont want to end up on the other side of this with a economy that cant be rebuilt. The president has invoked the defense production act many times. Weve started bringing jobs back from china and other places overseas. Were manufacturing hundreds of millions of masks and all kinds of ppe. Were bringing a lot of the essential drugs back on shore. This has been a big challenge for america. Its been a big challenge for everyone in the world. But President Trumps leadership has definitely brought us to a place where were able to get through it as strongly as possible, given the tremendous challenges we face. A thousand americans dying every day is not a success, right . Well, look, you want to keep that number to be as low as possible. One american dying every day is too much. But if you look at where we were back in april, we had 2,500 americans dying a day. And, again, it was because the virus was spreading out of control. We didnt have a lot of knowledge of who would face this. But if you look at the case fatality rate, obviously its gone down. So the people who are most vulnerable are people who are over 70, people who are in Nursing Homes, people who have comorbidities. Again, we could talk about the virus. I came on today to talk about the president s historic middle east peace deal, which was the first peace deal in the region in the last 26 years. I believe you were at the last one which was with jordan. But at some point im hoping well get a chance to talk about that today. I was there when jordan signed a Peace Agreement. I covered the israeli egyptian Peace Agreement back in 1979 when i was a young reporter. This is the third agreement. Were going to discuss that. But let me get some other news of the day because youre involved in all these issues. As far as mailin voting, the slowdowns at the u. S. Postal service, the House Speaker nancy pelosi describes all of this as a campaign by the president to, quote, im quoting her now, to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters. Youre involved in the president ial campaign on behalf of your fatherinlaw. How do you respond to that . I will say theres no such thing as a slow news day in the trump white house. Well get through all these issues. The president s just been very clear. He wants a Fair Election. I have a friend in new jersey that just got married. His wife has got two ballots, one in her new name, one in her old name. There are things like absentee ballot which have been done for many, many years. But five months before an election or now three months before an election, its really a tough time to change the processes for how we do these things. So the president just wants a Fair Election so that americans can confidence in the election. He feels like hes doing quite well. We are in much better shape than we were in 2016. I will say that after three years last campaign the president was saying im going to do this, im going to do that. He has three years of results, whereas in washington you have a lot of people who have done nothing but provide empty promises for a long time. President trump has solved a lot of the problems. Weve had more problems in this country thanks to this pandemic. But its furtherered our resolve, and were very confident that well be able to bring our economy and our country back to stronger than ever before. Before we get to the middle east, a quick question about politics. The Democratic National conventions starting tonight. A former top official within the Trump Administration miles taylor with the department of Homeland Security, as you heard, has just come out and endorsed joe biden. Hes taken direct aim at the president saying, and im quoting him now, the president was one of the most unfocused and undisciplined Senior Executives i have ever encountered. I came away completely equipped based on firsthand experience that the president was ill equipped and wouldnt become equipped to do his job effectively. And he added whats worse was actively he says the president was doing damage to our National Security. Thats obviously a very damning indictment. So i want to get your reaction. Look, miles was a nice kid. He worked here for a couple of years. But i will say that it makes a lot of sense to me that hes endorsing joe biden when he was working at the departm