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minnesota, mississippi, montana, oklahoma, tennessee, and texas have all loosened restrictions in recent days. good afternoon, i m katy tur. the guidance from the white house advise that s states can begin to reopen after 14 days of a downward trend in new cases of covid-19. but many states aren t exactly following those guidelines. tennessee saw a 5% increase in confirmed cases yesterday. but the governor is now allowing restaurants to reopen. and retail stores will follow suit this week. minnesota has yet to flatten the curve of new confirmed cases. let alone see a decrease. but up to 100,000 office workers are now able to return to work. colorado has not seen a sustained decline in the number of confirmed cases and governor jarrod polis admits he is concerned about a second spike in cases later this year. and now some business owners like mary ramirez said she feels like a test dummy. a report from harvard estimates we need to be covid-19 testing five million people ....
you think 15% of the people who are not citizens in this country voted in the last election. when we re complete and satisfied, we ll expose the list to the public. good morning, welcome to saturday. always good to have your company with us, i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. president donald trump has a very busy day ahead. he s got phone calls with five heads of state, japan, australia, russian and germany. vladimir putin is on the list, too. president trump said he is interested in warmer times with russia and it s too early to discuss lifting sanctions on russia. mitch mcconnell is going against it telling the national journal, quote, i d be opposed to that if there s any country in the world that doesn t deserve any kind of sanctions relief, it s the russians, unquote. all of this over concern of trump s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven countries. we have ivan watson in moscow, atika shubert. i want to start with ivan, u.s. ....
the executive order stops the admission of all refugees to the united states for four months. not included in the executive order, the establishment of any safe zones within syria for refugees trying to flee the civil war. joining me is our rachel crane, live at jfk. there s a big protest behind you, rachel. what are the details about this man who was detained and now just released? poppy, you re right. this protest has really grown in size over the afternoon. and those hundreds of people out here, peacefully protesting. calling for the release of those 11 detainees here at jfk. also calling on president donald trump to reverse the executive order. like i said, a very peaceful protest. we ve seen children here, we ve seen puppies, one little girl told me she loves refugees. that refugees are what makes america beautiful but in regards to the lawsuit that was filed today, about the two iraqi men who were detained, one of which was at least, one of which still remains d ....
store rain she joins us now from the white house, good morning. president trump defending his conduct this morning describing his conversation as fine and routine. in that july 25th phone call he pressed the ukrainian counter part to investigate a political rival and that call is now the subject of a controversial whistle-blower complaint. it is at the center of a standoff. house democrats are trying to get their hands on this complaint, but the administration is throwing up roadblocks. the white house council s office got involved in trying to keep the details of that secret from the lawmakers that want it. in addition to describing the whole situation as a ukraine witch hunt also lashed out accusing him or her of partisanship. i don t know the identity of the whistle-blower, i just here it is a partisan person meaning it comes out from another party, but i don t have any idea. but i can say that it was a totally appropriate conversation. it was actually a beautifu ....
stranded under feet of flood water. .thank you again for joining us. here is our top story. there are new and potentially explosive developments in the whistleblower complaint which the inspector general deemed urgent and credible. there is a lot we still don t know, but what we are learning paints a troubling and some say familiar picture. just acosta reports for us from the white house. sitting in the oval office with the australian prime minister, the president struggled to give answers about the whistleblower. first he described them as partisan. it s a partisan whistleblower. shouldn t even have information. then mr. trump said he didn t know the whistleblower. i don t know the identity of the whistleblower. i just know it s a partisan person. but i can say that it was a totally appropriate conversation. it was actually a beautiful conversation. democrats wants to know if the complaint is about mr. trump s conversations with the ukrainian president over t ....