Good evening, the country has just crossed yet another terrible threshold.

According to the data team at Johns Hopkins University, today is now the worst single

day for COVID cases in the country, the worst single day of the entire pandemic.

83,757 new cases so far, and that number will not be final for hours yet.

940 lives lost so far, and it's just eight o'clock.

With that, as the horrible scene setter, we begin tonight with one state to canonate

in two very different ways of campaigning in a pandemic.

One, about as safe as you can make it, given the circumstances.

The other about as reckless as you can be, packing maskless people close together in a state

with soaring numbers of people who are already infected.

And at one of those stops in Tampa, the President of the United States said something that we

want to let you hear for yourselves because it is so shameless and cynical and is such a lie

that even for this president, it's remarkable.

This is the President in a rally with large crowds, most of whom are as always not wearing

masks.

The people behind him, as you'll see, have been given masks because the campaign knows

they're going to be on TV and they want you to think the President is being responsible,

but he's not.

Most in the actual crowd are not wearing masks and are crammed together as close as possible.

Here's the President's new claim.

We know the disease, we social distance, we do all of the things that you have to do.

If you get close, wear a mask, always controversial, it's not controversial to me.

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