August 9, 2020: Biden-bashing fuels radio shows and Trump webcasts; right-wing radio is full of Covid-19 conspiracy talk; Jeffrey Toobin: 'Repetition is not truth'

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🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... local reporters work overtime to honor the dead during the pandemic; "We Have Her Back" group will call out sexist VP coverage; were Trump's executive orders merely a media stunt? David Zurawik, Nicole Hemmer, Errin Haines, Hilary Rosen, Claire McNeill and Jeffrey Toobin join Brian Stelter.

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0:00.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:02.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:06.0	Hey I'm Brian Seltter, live in New York, and we begin this hour with Breaking News.
0:11.0	The 5 million mark. There have now been at least 5 million cases
0:16.7	of coronavirus confirmed in the United States. That total is the highest in the world.
0:23.0	This is data compiled by Johns Hopkins University,
0:26.0	data that CNN and other news outlets use
0:28.0	to come up with these figures you always see on the screen,
0:31.0	and just in the past half hour the 5 million mark has
0:35.4	been passed and let's remember when we say 5 million cases every single case
0:40.6	every single number is a person with a family, with a friend set, with a group of people
0:46.3	that are affected by this virus.
0:48.2	The exact number, according to Johns Hopkins, right now, 5,603 confirmed cases.
0:54.3	We all know the true number is even higher
0:56.3	because of embarrassing testing failures
0:58.6	in the United States.
0:59.9	Meanwhile, President Trump keeps saying that COVID-19 is quote unquote disappearing.
1:05.6	He said it at his golf club just the other day.
1:07.5	He said the virus is disappearing.
1:10.1	He should tell that to the tens of thousands of Americans who just got sick yesterday.
1:15.2	Now that's our entry point for this week's reliable sources. We're always here examining the
1:18.4	media world. In this hour we're going inside a Florida newsroom that's on a mission to honor every life
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