It's Wednesday, July 22nd. I'm Kila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ress. This is what a day where we are asking why

unmarked federal agents ever show up for things that are actually useful.

Yeah, I can't tell you how many barbecues where I had to leave

from my own party to go get ice, like literal ice cubes. So why can't they do that?

If you work for ice, you should be delivering ice.

Thank you. That's how it should be.

Today's show we check in on the protests in Portland and Trump's latest attempt to

weaponize the census and some headlines. But first, the latest.

I don't know. I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish

her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in

Palm Beach. And I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well.

Okay, that was Trump wishing well to accuse sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate

Kilaen Maxwell. These briefings are going great so far in their return. But in other news,

for the first time in weeks, the US reported over 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 in a single day.

And at this point, over 3.8 million people in the United States have been infected with coronavirus.

But according to new data from the CDC, the true number could be anywhere from twice that much

to 13 times that much. So, Kila, we've gotten into this a little bit before. But what exactly

is the CDC saying here? All right, so it's been pretty obvious all along that the number of confirmed

cases is an undercount. Like not everyone gets tested. There are testing shortages. And some people

just don't experience symptoms. So they're not getting tested either, you know? And so the true

number of infections basically has been an open question. The CDC has been trying to answer it

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