Trump pressures governors to reopen schools, as U.S. surpasses three million coronavirus cases; U.S. sets record of more than 60,000+ new cases Tuesday; Supreme Court allows employers to opt out of Obamacare's birth control mandate on religious, moral grounds
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
CA gov: hospitalization rate up 44% over last two weeks; U.S. sets record of more than 60,000+ new cases Tuesday; Pence: "absolutely essential" to get kids back to school; Birx: states with surges should go back to Phase 1 guidelines; Trump says U.S. will be in "very good shape" in 2 to 4 weeks; CDC director defends guidance on reopening of schools after Trump calls them "very tough & expensive"; CDC health experts "discouraged" & at odds with White House officials; This fall: NYC schools to mix in-person class with virtual classes; Education secy: not a matter of if schools reopen but how; Trump pressures governors to reopen schools as U.S. surpasses three million coronavirus cases; One Tennessee superintendent says pressure will not push him to open; Florida reports nearly 10,000 new coronavirus cases today; 24-year-old details her ongoing battle with COVID-19; What we know about chances of catching the virus twice; WH won't say whether Trump has confidence in Fauci; Tomorrow: Supreme Court rules on Trump taxes, financial docs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper and today the United States |
| 0:07.5 | passing a new alarming milestone. Take this end more than 3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus with a new record high. |
| 0:17.0 | 60,000 cases recorded in just one day. |
| 0:21.0 | 60,000. |
| 0:22.0 | This afternoon, Dr. Deborah Burke said state seeing a surge should avoid any kind |
| 0:26.8 | of indoor gathering, though the White House Task Force also pushed for schools to reopen |
| 0:31.7 | in the fall in just a few weeks. |
| 0:34.4 | Vice President Pence claiming that the Wine House will be quote very respectful of local |
| 0:38.8 | communities who decide not to reopen. |
| 0:41.7 | But then President Trump earlier today threatened to cut off |
| 0:44.6 | funding for schools that don't open. This all comes as at least 11 states see |
| 0:49.8 | record high hospitalizations. I want to get right to CNN's Erica |
| 0:53.5 | Hill with some breaking news. What are you learning Erica? |
| 0:58.0 | So we're just getting some new numbers Pamela on the hospitalizations in the |
| 1:00.8 | state of California, which are up 44% according to the governor over the past two |
| 1:06.2 | weeks and those in intensive care that number has climbed by 34% over the last two |
| 1:11.4 | weeks the number of cases he announced today 11,694 he did say about 2,000 of those are a backlog |
| 1:18.2 | out of LA County but still more than 9,600 cases even with that backlog and we're seeing more and more of |
| 1:25.0 | this across the country. As cases surge across the Sunbelt the White House |
| 1:31.2 | Task Force advising hotpots to buckle down. |
| 1:34.6 | I was really asking the American people in those counties and in those states to not |
| 1:39.7 | only use the face coverings, not going to bars, not going to indoor dining, but really not gathering |
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