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Hurricane Isaias Taking Aim At The Carolinas; President Trump Saying United States Is Doing Very Well As Coronavirus Death Surpass 155,000; President Trump Rails Against Mail-In Voting As Nevada Approves Plan To Mail Ballots To All Registered Voters; A New Report Examines How The Pandemic Defeated America; President Trump Tweets Open the Schools; 260 Employees In Georgia's School District Exposed To Or Test Positive For COVID-19; Newly Leaked Body Cam Video Of George Floyd's Arrest; Seven St. Louis Cardinals Players, Six Team Staffers Test Positive For Coronavirus. Aired 11p-12a ET

Aired August 03, 2020 - 23:00   ET

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST: CNN Tonight with the upgrade Laura Coates, right now.

LAURA COATES, CNN HOST: Chris, I was so glad that I was here to hear that interview and your life lessons. That was really touching. And it reminds us all, I mean, my dad always says to me, Laura, there are two kinds of people in this world, those that are humble and those that are about to be. And sometimes life forces you into one of those categories, right.

CUOMO: Absolutely. Listen. I know he is about my age so --

COATES: Well, I am not a day over 25, that's true.

CUOMO: That is higher than what I thought. I know you finished college at about what -- seven.

COATES: Five.

CUOMO: Listen, you know, look, living is learning and life is pain management. And everybody's pain is personal. Everybody is going to have stuff, you know, all of the trite is true. All the stereotypes are real. All the cliches are real. It is all about our perspective on these things. You are brilliant at it when you do your analysis. You are brilliant at it in terms of how you balance life and work. This is perspective. Your life is very hard. You are balancing a lot of different things. There are a lot of additional pressures.

What you make of them is up to you. All of those challenges are very real. You may have more or you may less but we each have our own. And how we deal with them is a lens through -- to our reality. And look at us right now, Laura. What is the lens? We have a president who tells us, we are doing OK. I don't know what color the sky is in his world. You talk about

perspective training, there is no metric that is good for us. But this is what he is doing to define his own reality. This is his perspective on because it is what benefits him. But we have a choice as well about what our perspective will be. And we all know we are not doing well. We know that people like you and I, we are in a hard way with our kids coming right now and we didn't have to be there.

COATES: Are you kidding? I mean, I got my kids looking at me asking when they can go back to school. When they can see their grandparents and why can't we hug people. I didn't land yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. We have been here for the last couple of months, right. And we've seen what's happen. We know that we are not -- we still maybe on planet earth, but it doesn't feel real. But you know what, you are right about perspective, because we have to make sure we have the perspective, that we hold people accountable.

And we can't just smell the gas and allow ourselves to be gas lit. We have to actually do something. We have to make sure that we are holding the feet to the fire because a lot is riding on it. I mean, I hate this phrase the new normal. Because nothing about it is new. Nothing about it is normal. All of it feels very old in a sense that people who are in positions of power are not doing enough for the powerless. And so we have to be those voices.

CUOMO: It all starts at the top, Laura, and I'll be watching.

COATES: Thank you. This is CNN Tonight, I'm Laura Coates in for Don Lemon. And our breaking news, hurricane Isaias taking aim at the Carolinas tonight. We have got the brand-new forecast and will go there live in just a moment. That as the president of the United States continues to down play the coronavirus as it storms across this country killing more and more Americans every single day. Here is what he says tonight.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think we are doing very well. And I think that we have done as well as any nation. If you really look, if you take a look at what is going on especially now with all of these flare ups.

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COATES: If you really look at what is going on? Well, then you would see that the truth is, we are not doing very well. We are not doing well at all. The United States has far more cases per 100,000 residents than Italy, than France, than India, than China, than Germany. I mean, the death toll in this country is well over 155,000 tonight as total cases surge past 4.7 million. That is not doing well by any stretch of the imagination, not by any measure.

But take a look at the president's decidedly mixed message on masks tonight. In a campaign e-mail the president asked his supporters to try to wear a mask. Just try. And goes on to say, and I am actually quoting this here, I don't love wearing them either. I mean, masks may be good, they maybe just OK or they may be great. How about necessary?

I mean, if you really want people to wear masks and every one of us should, that is really -- it's not a convincing argument. Not with the art of persuasion here but the president wants to distract you with baseless claims that using mail-in voting because of course, remember, we are in the middle of a deadly pandemic will be a disaster.

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TRUMP: There's never been a push like this for mail-in ballots. And if you look at the New York Congressional race which is a disaster. Caroline? It has been a total disaster. And they have -- they are six weeks into it, now they have no clue on what's going on. And I mean, I think I can say right here and now. I think you have to rerun that race, because it is a mess. How are you going to do that for an entire nation? They are using COVID to try and get the mail-in ballots.

Now, absentee ballots are great. Absentee ballots, they have to request and they go through a process. They get them. But the universal mail-in ballots have turned out to be a disaster. What Nevada has been doing if you look over the last few days, you have to look at what they have done.

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COATES: If you couldn't make sense of that train of thought, Nevada's Governor is signing into law a plan to send absentee ballots to all active voters this November. Becoming the eighth state along with D.C. to adopt universal vote via mail. And experts tell CNN, look, there's really no difference between absentee ballots and voting by mail. So, what is the president's excuse for continuing to call mail-in voting in to question and potentially forcing Americans to choose between their health and their vote.

Well, he tweeted about it way back in April saying, it doesn't work out well for Republicans. Well, seems like he has got one particular Republican in mind. I want to bring in CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta and Dr. Jonathan Reiner, he is the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Program at George Washington University Hospital. Gentlemen, welcome to you both. An interesting night to converse with you.

Let me start with you Jim, because -- Jim, today the president went after his own official, Dr. Birx and his own administration's postal service. I mean, he really is the heckler in his own administration as The New York Times put it recently, isn't he?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: I think he is also becoming increasingly a loner in his administration when it comes to the coronavirus. I mean, keep in mind he is going after Dr. Deborah Birx after she publicly contradicted him over the weekend. And she now is the third member of that coronavirus task force to do that.

Dr. Brett Giroir, who is also on the task force. He is the testing coordinator for the administration. He was saying over the weekend that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus and as we all know the president has been going after Dr. Anthony Fauci for weeks, because Dr. Fauci has been telling it like it is giving the straight scoop to the American people on COVID-19.

And it is remarkable to see three members of that task force now publicly contradicting the president. You mentioned the distractions. He is obviously throwing out distractions because he doesn't want to talk about the pandemic. But you know, (inaudible) -- you know, why is it that the United States is so far ahead of so many other countries around the world when it comes to deaths from COVID-19 and the president after you know, throwing some insults at us went on to say that the U.S. is doing an amazing job in all of this.

And it just reminds me of something that I've heard time and again from my sources, Laura, and that is, you know, sources inside the administration saying the president is just in denial about the problem when he talks about things like mail-in voting. He is just not dealing with the facts, he's not even keeping up with current events. The U.S. Postal Service put out a statement earlier this evening saying they have the capacity to deal with the influx of mail-in balloting that is going to be occurring around election time. And the president just doesn't want to have to deal with that, doesn't want to deal with it.

COATES: Well, Jim, I mean, that would be dealing with reality. And of course Dr. Reiner, I want you to bring you in here, because I want you to take something that we heard from the president. I want you to take a listen to what he actually says for a moment. Check this out.

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TRUMP: Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. They just don't. It comes back many times. Comes back. The purpose of a lockdown is to buy time to build capacity especially as with respect to hospitals, learn more about the disease and develop effective treatments as we did in the United States.

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COATES: Dr. Reiner, what do you think about what he is saying there?

JONATHAN REINER, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST: Well, he is wrong. The purpose of a lockdown -- and you know, he went on to say, you know, permanent lockdowns don't work. Well, no one is talking about a permanent lockdown. A shutdown helps to prevent the further spread of the virus in the community. And when businesses are closed and non-essential people are staying home the virus can't spread from person-to-person in large venues or restaurants or in bars. The virus dies.

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And that is the purpose of a shutdown. That is what smart societies do when they see a surge. That is what countries around the world are reinstituting when they see a surge and that is what this country should do in places like Texas and Florida, and parts of California when the virus is out of control. It's as easy as that.

COATES: Gentlemen, thank you. It's easy as that if you are listening to the science. If you are listening to common sense, it is easy as that. Thank you both. I appreciate your time and I like listen to your perspective, of course, as always. You know, Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning about a new phase of coronavirus in the U.S. CNN's Athena Jones has the story.

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ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALERGY AND INFECTOUS DISEASE: When you have community spread it is much more difficult to get your arms around that and contain it.

ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In case you had not realized it yet coronavirus is everywhere.

FAUCI: There are people who are spreading it who have no symptoms at all and we know that definitely occurs. It is difficult to identify it. And it is difficult to do identification, isolation and contact tracing.

JONES: While new COVID-19 cases nationwide may be leveling off holding steady in hard-hit Texas and falling in Arizona and Florida, Mississippi has the highest percentage of positive COVID cases in the country at 21.1 percent. California just became the first state to report a half million infections and daily death tolls there and across the country continue to climb. The CDC now projecting the death toll will surpass 173,000 people in the next three weeks.

CAITLIN RIVERS, SENIOR ASSOCIATE, JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR HEALTH SECURITY: And we need to look ahead and decide where we want to be in one, two, four, six months and figure out what we need to put in place in order to get to that point.

JONES: Parties presenting another challenge for communities trying to slow the spread. An indoor celebration at a bar to honor first responders causing alarm in Los Angeles and the New York sheriff's office intercepting a party boat off Manhattan and making arrest after alleged illegal party.

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY): Really reckless, rude, irresponsible and illegal.

JONES: And in New Jersey, where the infection rate while still low has tick up in recent days, Governor Phil Murphy imposing new restrictions limiting most indoor gatherings to 25 people, down from 100.

GOV. PHIL MURPHY (D-NJ): The actions of a few knuckleheads leave us no other course.

JONES: Community spread of the virus already causing problems in Georgia's largest school system. When that county public schools reporting some 260 employees have tested positive for the virus or come into contact with someone who has. But when that county had been planning to reopen next week with online only classes. Schools in Mississippi and Indiana that just reopened for in-person learning reporting students or staff testing positive for COVID-19 leaving officials scrambling to warn their contacts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not exactly the start we were looking for in that specific school.

JONES: Athena Jones, CNN, New York.

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COATES: Athena, thank you. Now, I want to get to our breaking news on hurricane Isaias that is now taking aim at the Carolinas tonight. CNN weather anchor Derek Van Dam is live for us in Charleston. Derek, I'm glad to see you there. What is the latest on hurricane Isaias and where is it now and where is it headed and are you safe out there?

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. We are definitely safe here in our particular location. But Isaias is doing exactly what we feared, actually strengthening into a hurricane directly before landfall. It's within the hour we expect the center of the storm to move on shore across southeastern North Carolina. Wilmington, Carolina Beach, those areas are getting pounded right now with extremely strong winds. Frying Pan shoal, just off of the coast of North Carolina had a wind gust reported over 90 miles per hour. That is category one strength.

Remember, six hours ago, this was a mere tropical storm. We have had record -- third record high tides in Myrtle Beach. There was some local beach -- coastal flooding within that region. There has been flooding across portions of the South Carolina coast line. Where we are now, it is been incredible, because we were spared the worst from this storm but if you look at the radar you can see the eye wall just starting to nudges it's way on shore and it is going to take a lot of energy from an approaching cold front and it is picking up speed as it moves across Eastern North Carolina today and then in the overnight period.

And then it's going to race towards the mid-Atlantic by Tuesday and be across the northern New England region by Wednesday. I mean, this is a fast moving storm when it was only creeping along at seven, eight miles per hour, about 24 hours ago. So, this thing is going to pick up speed and actually maintain most of its intensity.

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We have the potential for tropical storm force winds across the Mid- Atlantic regions into New York City through the course of the afternoon and evening tomorrow. I mean, this is just incredible to be talking about tropical storm warnings extending all the way up through Maine, all the way to the border of Canada. We are talking about over 100 million Americans under some sort of tropical advisory or a warning as we speak right now. So, Laura, tons to talk about with what is now hurricane Isaias making landfall within the hour on the Southeastern North Carolina Coast. Thank you.

COATES: Derek, thank you, be safe. Thank you so much. Just the last thing people need right now. The last thing. Next, how the pandemic defeated America. A damning report from the Atlantic details how the coronavirus exposed these country's vulnerabilities and how our leaders failed us. I will talk to a reporter who wrote this stunning story.

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COATES: A new report from the Atlantic going into damning detail about why the U.S. has fared so much worse from the coronavirus than other countries. It is called, how the pandemic defeated America. And it points to everything from underfunded hospitals to historically racist policies that have made people of color more vulnerable than others. And this article particularly criticizes America's leadership, saying America has failed to protect its people, leaving with them -- them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude.

The breadth and magnitude of it error are difficult in the moment to truly fathom. Ed Yong, is the staff writer at the Atlantic, who wrote the cover story. He interviewed more than 100 experts to help unravel those errors and he joins me now.

Ed, I'm glad you're here. This was really a thought provoking and phenomenally comprehensive piece. But it did not make me feel good but needed to be read. And it is fascinating for so many reasons. You describe a perfect storm of factors that have contributed to how badly the pandemic has played out in this country. How in the world did we get this so wrong?

ED YONG, STAFF WRITER, THE ATLANTIC: I think there's two ways of looking at it. The short term, the abdication of responsibility from our federal government was clearly a massive problem. Donald Trump and this administration have sidelined expertise, had demitted the White House of people who knew what to do in a situation like this and didn't listen to warnings from the experts that actually existed.

So instead of creating coordinated plans to fight this pandemic, the administration distracted people. It relied on measures like travel bans, rather than ones that would work like actually rolling out a solid testing (inaudible). But you also have to look at the long history or vulnerabilities that America has accumulated over time. Its long history of racism that have left black and brown people more vulnerable to this virus.

Things like, it's underfunding of public health which have left it unable to do the kinds of preventive measures that actually keep people out of hospitals. And then thing like its re-alliance on a system of insurance that ties health care to employment bizarrely which is catastrophic at a time like this when so many people have lost their jobs.

COATES: Not to mention that social distancing can be a luxury. We are talking about employment circumstances, housing insecurity and the like. You know, Ed, you write this about the president. You write, Trump is a co-morbidity of the COVID-19 pandemic. He isn't solely responsible for America's fiasco but he is central to it. And tonight he says the U.S. is doing very well and point to other countries with flare-ups to try to dodge responsibility? Now, how is that part of what is undermining our ability to fight this entire pandemic here in the U.S.?

YONG: (Inaudible), all of this was predictable. I wrote a piece in 2016 after the election and before he was inaugurated, asking what he would do in a pandemic. I wrote that he would sew disinformation that he would tweet rashly, that he would fail to listen to experts, and all of these have come to pass.

Donald Trump has always shown us who he was and he's behaved in this crisis exactly as one would predict. He is one befitting of someone who is xenophobic, who is (inaudible), who is narcissistic, all of these flaw have come to bear right now. But I do want to remind everyone that while Trump does bear responsibility for what has happened, he is not the only problem here. America did build up a large number of weaknesses that this virus found, exploited and tore apart.

And certainly, the election coming up is one way of addressing some of these problems. But we cannot just go back to normal as many people long to do. Normal led to this. Normal was part of the problem that made a society more prone to pandemics but nevertheless ready for one. So, if we want to steel ourselves against the plagues, the pandemic that's we know are going to hit us in the future, we need to take this opportunity to radically remake and reimagine what our world needs to be.

COATES: Things that are predictable should be preventable. Thank you for your time. And this article really thought provoking and points out how all the ways that COVID-19 has really magnified existing inequities and you're right. He didn't start the fire, it has been burning, but there's a way to put it out. Thank you.

You know, there are 260 employees of Georgia's largest school district that are testing positive, or that have been exposed to coronavirus. What this means for schools across the country as they attempt to reopen. That's next.

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COATES: Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning about the risks of sending kids back to school.

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FAUCI: Children can get seriously ill. It is a rare event but it is not zero. I think we have to be very careful. The best thing to do is to try and avoid infection as opposed to wanting to get infection so that you can get herd immunity.

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school decision. Parents, teachers, school employees and frankly we're already seeing some of the consequences. I mean, in Georgia's largest school district, Gwinnett County which my in-laws are in, I have a niece there, around 260 employees have either tested positive for COVID-19 or they've already been exposed to COVID-19.

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Joining me now, Lisa Morgan, she is the president of the Georgia Association of Educators, as one of many of those employees and also, we have Joe Allen, he is the assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard School of Public Health and also the author of the book. Healthy buildings. I'm glad you're both here. Because I need to talk about this on behalf of all parents out there and educators. Lisa, their plans to return have obviously become a mess. So, what are you hearing from these Gwinnett County School district employees?

LISA MORGAN, PRESIDENT, GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATORS: I have heard the words, scared to death, more in the past month from educators than I have in my 20-year career. Our educators realize that the community spread is so high. Not only in Gwinnett County but throughout our state that it is just simply not safe to ask students or teachers to be returning to the buildings. We have educators who have actually resigned rather than make that choice. So we are losing educators not to the virus and sickness, but to the threat of losing their lives.

COATES: And is that also in part, because I'm hearing that in Gwinnett County the teachers there are being told that the district is not liable if they were to contract COVID-19 at work. Is that one motivation for why they are resigning?

MORGAN: That's one of the things that is leaving the educators to feel that they don't have a choice. They're being told, the district is not liable. That if they do become ill, they will have to use whatever sick leave they have. And that also, they are not allowed to have any option other than being in the building each day to teach their students, while the students are working remotely.

COATES: You know, Joe, the president has just tweeted out this, he said, open the schools. And of course, these teachers in Georgia open the schools, three exclamation points there. But teachers in Georgia, they were exposed before schools even open obviously and we're also hearing now about an Indiana school where a student tested positive for the virus on the very first day back to school. I mean, is this what we are going to expect to see all across the country if people do what the president says, and open up the schools?

JOSEPH ALLEN, PROFESSOR, EXPOSURE SCIENCE, HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: You know, thanks for having me on, first and foremost. The president continues to be unhelpful and he's been unhelpful honestly since January. So, let's put him aside for a second. There are two conditions precedent when you think about opening a school. That means, two things that have to happen. The when, knowing when to open, meaning, what is the level of

community spread, and knowing what to do if you open. Meaning, what robust risk reduction strategies have to be in place in the school. Now, if you look at what happened in Georgia on the when, there are metrics to look at and it shows they should not be open right now. I put out a report with colleagues at Harvard, that talks about the number of new cases per day, per hundred thousand people.

If we are over 25, we say it's a red that stay-at-home orders. When this County is at 37. So, they should not be at school on the what to do, I looked at the County's plan. It's inadequate. First they talk about cleaning and disinfection. That's good. They talk about mask wearing. That's really good. Although if you listen to teachers they said, they didn't really wear masks all that much.

But the plan fully ignores airborne transmission. It does not talk about health building control strategies like enhanced ventilation and enhanced filtration. So, this is not rocket science at this point. If we open schools when there is wide community spread, uncontrolled community spread, and when we don't put in these risk reduction measures, well then we should expect these kind of cases and then therefore we shouldn't be opening schools under those conditions.

COATES: So who pays for risk reduction measures? Obviously one of the factors and hurdles that people keep talking about is the idea of inadequate funding to implement those measures.

ALLEN: yes, it is a great question. To my Harvard healthy buildings program put out a 60-page report on risk reduction strategy. And we are really careful to put in strategies that did not have to cost a lot of money or break the bank recognizing that schools and districts are resource constraint. So things like, if you have a mechanical ventilation system bringing in more fresh outdoor air. Adding a portable air cleaner to rooms can give you several air changes per hour of clean air on top of the things that must be done like trying to maintain physical distancing.

Mask wearing is an absolute must indoors in schools. If do you these things, we can reduce the risk. Now where those resources comes from, quite honestly, we need a national mobilization. We're spending trillions of dollars in stimulus. We're reopening bars and casinos and not prioritizing schools. Where is the funding, where is the national outrage over keeping kids out of schools.

It is not like a surprise that we find ourselves in August thinking about kids coming back to school. We've had since March to make these plans and they haven't put them that place. It doesn't say a lot about us as a country that we prioritize this other aspects of our economy and we're at the point where kids are going to be at home again for whoever knows how many months?

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COATES: Joe Allen, Lisa Morgan, thank you both for your time. And Lisa, I know you're working very hard. I wish I could hear more from you as well about what the teachers are facing right now. We know that you are working diligently to help them. Joe, as well, thank you for your expertise. I appreciate you both.

ALLEN: Thank you.

MORGAN: Thank you.

COATES: Body cam video of George Floyd's fatal arrest leaked today. We'll take you through the footage and what it reveals and doesn't reveal, next.

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COATES: New police body cam footage obtained by the Daily Mail shows what happened in the last moments of George Floyd's life. And I warn you. It is extremely sad to watch. George Floyd was keenly aware that he could die during this police encounter. An encounter that began with officers approaching the car with guns drawn simply because of allegations about a counterfeit $20 bill. A nonviolent offense.

Now knowing how this ends makes it all the more difficult to watch a man trying to comply with orders because he feared suffering from claustrophobia in a squad car, only to be suffocated by an officer's knee in the end. The ambulance as we all know arrived too late.

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GEORGE FLOYD, DIED OF POLICE VIOLENCE: Please, please, please.

THOMAS LANE, FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER WHO HELD GEORGE FLOYD'S LEGS: Should we lay him on his side?

DEREK CHAUVIN, FORMER POLICE OFFICER KNOWN FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD IN MINNEAPOLIS: No, he's staying put. (BEEP).

LANE: OK, I just worry about the excited delirium or whatever.

CHAUVIN: That's why we got the ambulance coming.

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COATES: Well, the ambulance came but it was too late for George Floyd who died after Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on his neck for 8:46. You heard Officer Thomas Lane's voice and he mentioning he was worried about this thing called excited delirium. Now, that is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in police encounters, particularly when black men are involved. But the fact is, the concept of excited delirium is not even recognized by the American Medical Association or the American Psychiatric Association.

The Washington Post calls it junk science and reports it stems from an 1849 description of patients with fever and delirium who likely were suffering from infections. The post goes on to report that excited delirium is disproportionately diagnosed among young black men. But I want you to see more of that video obtained by the Daily Mail from body cameras that were worn by two of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd. And I warn you again. The video is disturbing. That's an understatement. It is also extremely sad to watchful. CNN's Omar Jimenez has that story.

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LANE: Put your hand up there.

FLOYD: God.

LANE: Put you f-ing up there.

FLOYD: I got shot.

LANE: Put your hands on the wheel.

FLOYD: Yes, sir.

OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This partial body camera video obtain by the Daily Mail showing former Officer Thomas Lane pointing a gun at George Floyd within 25 seconds of he and former officer J. Alexander King knocking on the window of the car Floyd was in. They were responding to a call over a fraudulent $20 bill being used at the store across the street. Officers next seen here trying to get Floyd out of the vehicle.

FLOYD: I'm so sorry.

LANE: Step out and face away.

FLOYD: Please don't shoot me, Mr. Officer, please. Please don't shoot me, man.

LANE: Step out and face away. I'm not shooting you.

JIMENEZ: He's eventually pulled from the car and cuffed.

FLOYD: OK. Mr. Officer.

LANE: Stop resisting.

FLOYD: I'm not.

JIMENEZ: Based on CNN's viewing of the complete body camera footage, this is the first of two struggles. The second, much more forceful. As officers try to get Floyd into the police squad car. Floyd said he's claustrophobic. Soon he's being pushed in on one side by King and pulled in on the other by Lane, seen in video obtained by the Daily Mail.

FLOYD: I can't choke -- I can't breathe. Mr. Officer. Please, please. My wrist, man. I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground.

JIMENEZ: This is the first time George Floyd says I can't breathe, based on CNN's previous viewing of the video. They fall out on Lane's side and go to the ground to what's now become an infamously familiar position. Floyd's neck under the knee of Derek Chauvin.

FLOYD: I can't breathe, officer.

CHAUVIN: Then stop talking. Step yelling.

FLOYD: they'll kill me. They will kill me, man.

CHAUVIN: It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.

JIMENEZ: This is from the perspective of King's camera. Where not long after Lane asks if Floyd should be moved.

FLOYD: Please, please, please.

LANE: Should we roll him on his side?

CHAUVIN: No, he's staying put where we got him.

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LANE: I just worry about the excited delirium or whatever.

CHAUVIN: That's why we have the ambulance coming.

LANE: OK.

JIMENEZ: Floyd loses consciousness shortly after and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Chauvin now charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane, King and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting second degree murder and manslaughter. None of the former officers had entered a plea, though Thao and Lane have asked for their cases to be dismiss and King's attorney says, he plans to plead not guilty. Attorneys' for the four officers either declined comment or did not respond. Omar Jimenez, CNN.

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COATES: Omar, watching that makes my stomach turn, as I'm sure it does for all of you.

You know, there are also new cases of coronavirus on MLB and NFL teams. Can they contain the virus? And what does this say about the country's attempts to reopen?

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COATES: The coronavirus is wreaking havoc in professional sports, as teams are trying to play during the pandemic. Major League Baseball has now postponed a four-game series between the Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals after announcing that seven Cardinals players and six team staffers, all, tested positive for the coronavirus, just in the past week. It's the latest curve ball, as teams struggle to contain outbreaks. So how can sports really move forward with the virus, if it's still out of control? Joining me now to discuss, CNN contributor, Bob Costas. The right man

for this conversation. You know, Bob, the Major League Baseball commissioner did threaten to shut down the season, if teams and players don't do a better job of managing it. And tonight, in response to questions about whether members of the Cardinals took a trip to a casino before the outbreak, the team president responded in this way. Listen to this.

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JOHN MOZELIAK, PRESIDENT OF BASEBALL OPERATIONS, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS: I have no factual reason to believe that is true. And I have not seen any proof of that. If someone was at a casino though, that would be disappointing.

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COATES: OK, well, Casino rumors aside, it's clear that, at this point, the MLB has a big problem, Bob.

BOB COSTAS, NBC SPORTS BROADCASTER: Yes, they do. Eight teams have had their schedules affected, in one way or another. You have got teams now with widely differing numbers of games played. And even if you are only playing a makeshift 60-game season, which they proposed to do. You have to have some sort of scheduling equity before you can seed the playoffs. The field of dreams game which they were going to play in the idyllic setting in (inaudible) Iowa, where they shot the Kevin Costner movie some plus three decades ago, that's been cancelled. That was supposed to have happened later on this month. That it would have involved the Cardinals.

So, just from a competitive standpoint, there's a lot of havoc, if that's the right word. And then from a medical standpoint, what seems to had been established and I underline seems, Laura, is that it's unlikely that the virus is going to be passed, outside, playing baseball. Teams that have opposed the Marlins and the Cardinals have not had positives among their players because of that exposure. It seems that it's in groups. Teams that travel together, they're on the road together. Or may, breaking protocols, go out socially together. That's where the greatest risk of transmission seems to be.

COATES: Do you mean, like, football? Because not just baseball here. I mean, the Eagles announced just yesterday that the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles tested positive. Doug Peterson for COVID-19. Apparently, he is asymptomatic and doing well but the NFL season is still set to begin in September. But I mean, if you think about all the sports that one could play during a pandemic and not spread the virus, I mean, is football one of them?

COSTAS: Well, think about it this way. Forget about sports. If you just said to somebody, make a list of the 10 activities that are least advisable under these circumstances, playing football might be one of them. Where there is constant, close contact on every play. And, by the way, where they huddle 11 players, 22 really, on each side of the ball, huddle on every play. And they can't go into a bubble like hockey and basketball. And they are playing fall and winter, if they play at all, during a time of the year where the best guess is that there might be a second wave of the virus.

Baseball had their fingers crossed that, if everybody followed the protocols, the nature of the sport didn't involve as much close contact, and they might be able to get through the shortened season. And basketball, which obviously has close contact, people breathing and sweating on each other. But they're in the bubble, and haven't had a single positive test. And the same thing is true at the NHL, playing in bubbles of their own.

COATES: All of those leagues, though, involve adults, right? Let's talk about college. I know we were talking about those -- there's a sense of agency and autonomy. But I mean, Northwestern University says it's pausing its football workouts after a student athlete, as you know, tested positive for coronavirus.

I want to read this tweet from Jemele Hill over the weekend, it says, quote, a reminder that unpaid college football players are essentially being forced to return to their sport because entire economies have been built around their labor. So, Bob, I mean, considering that, should there be a different calculation for college athletes and college football, in particular?

COSTAS: Absolutely, Laura, and Jemele is 100 percent right. It might be inadvisable to play NFL football. But it is outrageous to consider playing college football, under these circumstances.

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I'm not downplaying the importance of a scholarship. However, beyond that, these players are not compensated and they have no union to protect their interests. And only the tiniest fraction of them will ever make a career out of football, beyond college. Beyond that, it looks like most campuses will not have typical activities going on.

So, doesn't that expose what too often is the sham of big-time college sports? That you be asking these unpaid, young people to play, to attract television money. When there are no students on campus or they're learning virtually. They're not at the games. Isn't this supposed to be a student-athlete experience or it wouldn't be?

COATES: It certainly is. It wouldn't be and sham is the right word for it. We'll have you on, talk about this again. Bob Costas. Thank you, everyone, for watching. Our coverage continues.

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