Of reckless right now. Yesterday, the nation saw its highest single day number of positive cases since midaugust. Over 57,000 confirmed cases. While it would seem to be a time for caution, take a look at this. This was the scene at the white house earlier today where President Trump hosted hundreds of supporters for what the white house denied was a Campaign Event even as the president opened his remarks by saying his supporters needed to vote. His opponents quote into oblivion. The event packed in hundreds of people. Most more face masks. But there was absolutely no social distancing. They heard from a president who, himself, is fighting the virus. One after the virus claimed another 990 american lives in only one day. Cnns jeremy dimon is joining us. It was supposed to be it wasnt supposed to be a Campaign Event. It clearly sounded like a Campaign Event, even though the president spoke relatively briefly. No question, wolf, listen, the white house insisted this was an official white house event. They org niced it by bringing in people from the Blexit Movement that track democrats going over to the republican party. It was clear from the hundreds of people wearing make America Great again hats, this was a Campaign Event pure and simple. The president making overtly political remarks and especially focusing on his message of law and order, which we know is a central theme of his reelection campaign. Listen to some of that from earlier today. Every day more black and latino americans are leaving behind left wing politicians and their failed ideologies. Thats what they are. They failed for many years and many, many decades. Democrats have run nearly every inner city in america and i mean for 100 years and their policies have delivered nothing but calamity, poverty, and trouble. From and, washington, the president went on to claim, once again, falsely, he has done more for black americans than any president since aba hamlin con, you look at the Voting Rights of 64, that is false. What was so striking is the fact you see hundreds of people there two weeks after that super spreader event in the rose garden at the white house. This time most people were, indeed, wearing masks. The cdc says mask wearing is no substitute for social distancing. Instead, the White House Holding this large gathering, with people tightly packed together, the cdc calls a high risk environment for spreading coronavirus. Youd think the white house, jeremy, would want to set a of country and not show these events happening on the south lawn, especially as you point out the super spreader event at the rose garden. The president as we know is also scheduled to head to florida on monday for another campaign rally. He has more events planned for later in the week. What are you hearing about this move to get back on the campaign trail even though we dont know for sure hes no longer contagious . Reporter thats right, wolf. We know the president is down in every poll that matters, whether it is National Polls or those polls in the critical swing states. The president is losing this election right now. He is itching to get back on the cane trail seeing it really as his on chance to sal advantage his reelection prospects. He is headed to a trio this week, the white house so far refused to say whether the president tested negative for the coronavirus. The director saying earlier in the day that they would release that once they have it. But, washington, its 6 00 p. M. On saturday. So far, we have heard nothing from the white house or the president s medical team to see if he will be cleared, which the campaign has already announced on its website. Wolf. Its been since last monday or so since the last time we heard from the president s doctor directly answering reporters questions, right . Reporter thats all, all we have seen so far has been these memos dr. Conley released to the press secretary, who in turn shared them with us. We know there has been few details, when they share them, thats because they are favorable to the president s condition. But a number of questions still out there about exactly the details of the president s medical condition. I go es the president Still Believes in what he said when he emerged from walter reed, dont be afraid of covid, dont let it dominate your life. Thank you very much. Its been two weeks since this white house gathering mashing the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court. This week, dr. Fauci called the event a super spreader event. Lets discuss this with cnn medical analyst and former Health Commissioner of baltimore. All the joining us a professor and dean of medicine at baylor college. Doctor, when we will be looking back ten days from now, taking a look at the hundreds of people gathered on the south lawn, yes, almost all were wearing masks. They were very close, tight together for quite a while. Is there a potential, this event could turn out to be yet another super spreader event . Absolutely, wolf, it is certainly something possible. Although i hope it will not be that event. This case flies in the face of every aspect of public guidance. First of all, the white house should not be holding any events, there are dozens of people within the white house who are infected. If this were a business or a school, it would be shut down. Second of all, we shouldnt will holding rallies or gatherings of this size anywhere. We have cases across the u. S. That are surging. We should not be having crowds of people getting together with no physical distancing. And insincerely hope those all attending events like this will quarantine themself when they go home so they wont affect people around them and get tested. So they wont affect their family or their friends or others. You are absolutely right. Doctor, i want you to look at the videoed too, both President Trump and Vice President pence at very crowded Campaign Events, appearing to put their reelection before the health of their own supporters. So many of their supporters were there. Whats your reaction to that . Well, you know the physician have decided after nine days or ten days to go ahead and be out in public. Remember where that tenday period comes from. The original recommendation from the World Health Organization was you want to have two negative tests 24 hours apart. They changed that towards the end of may in order to accommodate the reality that testing was not widely available. But if you read their statement closely, it says, for individuals who are in high risk environments, which would include individuals who are interacting with lots of people, they would still recommend trying to do the test figure at all possible. So i hope that his physician and the president have decided that theyre doing those tests 24 hours apart and theyre both negative before hes out and about and interacting with people as extensively as he is and certainly on the campaign trail. Because he still could be shedding virus. His entourage has an enormous amount of interaction and a lot of people infected. So its not just the president out on the campaign trail, there the a lot of people who could be carrying the virus as well so this is not a time to be reckless. Reckless is the key word. The when you look at the crowd so many young africanamericans, so many young latinos were there. Im really worried about them especially since we take a look at the overall numbers, africanamericans, latinos, theyre more susceptible for whatever reason to the deadly coronavirus. Thats right. We know that this coronavirus pandemic affected people unevenly and its exacerbated them and tragically, these same patterns of increased hospitalizations on africanamericans, native americans, its married and children. Nearly threequarters of the deaths that have occurred among kids are among black and brown kids. So this needs to be urgent, an urgent call to action for everyone. I wish the president today, what he could have run instead of holding this rally, if he wanted to address this issue, he could have announced testing programs. He could institute worker protection, bridge the Digital Divide there are all kind of tangible actions the president can take in order to address this issue, specifically thats saving black and brown communities across the u. S. Doctor, the white house continues to sidestep questions about when the president last tested negative for coronavirus. Why is that so critical to have that specific information . Wiell, i think its importan. Right notice we need to know it. Even though hes reaching that then e tenday mark. He could be shedding the virus. Its a range. If you look at the actual numbers, its zero to 20 days especially for individuals who potentially have serious illness as the president might have before he received his treatment so he still could be potentially shedding virus and thats a concern. We dont know that super spreader how it began. They never allowed Contact Tracing in from the centers for Disease Control and remember, wolf, this is happening in a time when were starting again to see a rise in the number of cases. Weve hit that 50,000 new case mark. It looks as though, which is very concerning. Im worried about a terrible fall surge, especially we have already seen that in the northern states. We could be in for a horrible fall and winter and to not be emphasizeing that, taking that seriously gives me pause for concern. The model that just came out says there could be close to 400,000, 400,000 deaths here in the United States from coronavirus by february 1st unless tough decisions are made. Do you see those tough decisions being made 214,000 americans already have died over these past seven months . We are seeing some policymakers do the right thing, implement macmandates even dialing off these restrictions once they see the case numbers are headed in the wrong direction. I am really concerned about where we are as a country. We have increasing number of cases. Our hospitalization rates are rising. I have to say, when people make decisions for themselves about increasing their own risks, thats one thing. But these decision affect everyone else as well. If hospitals become too full, then individuals with heart attacks or in Car Accidents also may not be able to get healthcare and because this is a highly contagious disease, if you decide to do something thats risky, you are also committing others to a sacrifice they, themselves, did not make. We will see this as a time we have to be in this together. Do the right thing for ourselves and family members. Practice physical distances, wear masks, avoid crowds and in so doing, we are also helping everyone around us as well. You would have thought the president would have learned lessons given his own experience with covid19. That doesnt seem to be the case. Thanks, to you and to our viewers, make sure to tune in later tonight right after the situation room for a cnn global town hall, coronavirus facts and fears hosted by our dr. Sanjay gupta and anderson cooper. It starts at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Chairs of the cdc will be with sanjay and anderson. 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He said the coronavirus is quote disappearing. Yeah. What do you make of that . Yeah. It was kind of a covid palooza over there at the white house. Listen, washington, it is inconceivable to me why he thinks this is helping him. One of the reasons hes in the predicament he is in, he is ten points or better behind in the race right now is because of the way he has handled the coronavirus and the dismissal of it and the denial of it and the downplaying of it for so many months. Now hes downplaying it even in the midst of his own illness and in this burgeoning second wave that appears to be on us. And it is only making his situation worse. But i think the president is panicked by these poll numbers. He knows that time is running short. And he, you know, is hoping to impose his will on the situation. But hes digging himself into a deeper hole here. You know, the former pandemic preparedness chief dr. Rick bright, david, he resigned this week over the president s coronavirus response. I want to play something alarming. He told our own jake tapper on thursday. Listen to this. This winter were going to have an explosion of cases of coronavirus. This winter, were going to have an explosion of influenza infections and other respiratory infections. Its going to overwhelm our Healthcare System again. We still dont have enough personal equipment for our doctors and nurses. We still dont have enough tests. Were not doing enough testing. To the president says the coronavirus is disappearing. What is your reaction when you hear from dr. Bright who spent his professional life dealing with these issues . Yeah. I had a chance to sit down with the epidemiologists in chicago i worked with a couple days ago. She says the same thing. This is consensus among Public Health experts. And for the president of the United States to say that its disappearing is borderline criminal, wolf, and, you know, and it doesnt, it flies in the face of the experience that americans are having right now. So, you know, again, i think that he had said from the beginning, he is trying to spin a crisis rather than confront the crisis. He is just doubling down on it now at a critical time for the country and a critical time for himself. I keep coming back to the words he said when he walked out of the walter reed military medical center. He said, dont be afraid of covid. Dont let it dominate your life. Which was pretty shocking then. You look back on those words. You see the numbers as they are escalating now, horribly. You wonder what he was thinking then, despite the warnings weve heard from all of the experts like dr. Bright and dr. Fauci, dr. Birx. Everybody else. The president will hold several Campaign Rallies this coming week information to these events being a health risk, do you think theyll actually hurt the president s reelection bid politically speaking . How do you think this will play out with 24 days to go . I really do. It just underscores he is not taking the situation seriously and, you know, his, he is now as of today in polling today, he has reached a new low in the way the public rates his handling of the crisis, just as the crisis is welling up again. So, i do think it will hurt him. But you know, washington, that he, first of all, craves those events. We know that he loves the adoration of the crowds and he has a belief that this is how he got elected president by conducting these kind of rallies and the absence of them is hurting him in this race. Now, the irony is he could have spoken to an audience of 70, 75 Million People on thursday if he had agreed to a virtual format. But he didnt want to do that. Because that would have acknowledged that he had the virus and that the virus was a problem and he didnt want to underscore that point. So he is in this mad spiral and he doesnt seem to have any desire or only in about how to get out of it. 24 days to go until november 3rd. The election. But millions of americans are voting early. Early voting is going on in so many states right now. David axelrod, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it very much. Were going to bring you more on the Coronavirus Development on the latebreaking developments in just a few moments. But we are also learning new details about that filed terror plot against the governor of michigan Gretchen Whitmer and the men that allegedly were hein it. Stay with us here in the situation room. Who is usaa m . Its made for him a veteran who honorably served and its made for her shes serving now we also made usaa for military spouses and their kids become a member. Get an insurance quote today. 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