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HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST: I'm Hala Gorani. Coming up this hour China is trying to contain a new Coronavirus outbreak, but is it too soon
to call it a second wave?
Plus the great American mask debate, not everyone is listening to medical advice despite spikes in several states. And people in India are angry
about rising tensions with China. What the leaders of both countries are saying about the threat of more cross-border violence?
Well, as more parts of the world open up, several countries are reporting fresh spikes in coronavirus cases. Beijing, for instance, has raised its
COVID alert level again after more than 130 new cases were reported in just five days. And state media report that the Chinese Capital has canceled
nearly 70 percent of its commercial flights amid this new outbreak.
Meanwhile, Germany says 30 people have died from COVID in the past 24 hours, and all production has been stopped at a meat processing plant in
the northwest after a report of 400 new infections there.
In the United States, more than 20 states are seeing an increase in cases, but the Vice President Mike Pence, who is the Head of the Coronavirus Task
Force, you might remember, is trying to put a more positive spin on the pandemic ahead of President Donald Trump's upcoming political rally in
Oklahoma.
Let's go to Beijing first where the city is reintroducing measures to try to contain this new COVID-19 outbreak. Steven Jiang is there in the Chinese
Capital, and it really seems as though authorities are quite alarmed because they are taking rather extreme measures, Steven?
STEVEN JIANG, CNN SENIOR PRODUCER: That's what Hala, the hundreds of flight cancellations you just mentioned are the result of the soft lockdown they
have imposed on Beijing.
Now it's a soft lockdown because they're not sealing off the entire city like what they did in Wuhan. But still there is strongly discouraging all
non-essential travel. If you must leave town, you have to present a negative result from tests done within seven days of departure.
But if you happen to live in one of the communities that have reported recent cases, then your entire neighborhood will be placed under a strict
lockdown, no in and no out. There are dozens of such neighborhoods throughout Beijing and the number keeps growing.
Before your authorities their focus remains to be this now-closed wholesale food market where all the recent 137 cases have been traced back to. Now
that place used to house thousands of vendors and saw huge crowds on a daily basis. So that's what your authorities have been trying to track down
everyone who has been there since May 30.
And so far, they have found more than 350,000 people in this category. And the government says all of them have been tested for the virus by the end
of Wednesday. So Hala, right now the city officials here in Beijing are saying they're expecting the new case numbers in their city continue to
trend up for some time to come. Hala?
GORANI: And do they know where this all originated? Because in previous cases, they could trace the infection back to someone traveling from
outside of China back in, in this case, it seems potentially that it's kind of an organic spark that led to this last latest outbreak?
JIANG: That's right. That's still a mystery they're trying to solve. Now, they did trace everything back to the market. Now they say it could be from
human to human transmission or from a contaminated surface. And they actually found traces of this virus in multiple environmental samples taken
from the market including un-chopping boards used to chop imported salmon.
That actually has caused quite a bit of panic among consumers until the authorities came out to say, that does not mean the salmon itself is a
carrier, but rather it's the chopping board that is used to chop the salmon. But still this is very disconcerning for a city that has not seen
cases for almost two months.
Remember, before this latest cluster, people were kind of getting back to a sense of normalcy. They were taking off their masks and shopping malls and
bars and restaurants were getting crowded. But all of this, of course, came to a screeching halt, and this, of course, has also had a major impact on
many businesses across the city, Hala.
I was just speaking to the owner of a bar, and he said he was still sending out flyers about performances for the coming weekend on Tuesday. Then he
got notified by the authorities to shut everything down immediately. Now he has no idea when they'll be allowed to reopen. He also has to pay for all
the employees' testing for the Coronavirus. Hala?
GORANI: Gosh, so stressful. And this guidance about whether or not the Coronavirus can live on hard surfaces is a bit confusing. Can it, can it
not, how long does it last, when is it safe to touch something again? So many questions still. Thanks very much, Steven Jiang.
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GORANI: Florida's Governor is insisting his state economy will not be shutting down again after the state reported its highest daily number of
Coronavirus cases on Monday. Rosa Flores is in Florida.
ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Here in Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis is continuing to reopen the sunshine state, despite seeing its highest single
day increase of confirmed Coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic.
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RON DESANTIS, FLORIDA GOVERNOR: No, we're not shutting down. We're going to go forward. You have to have society function.
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FLORES: Florida will now host the Republican National Convention and could be the temporary home of the NBA and the WNBA. But as crowds return to
public spaces like restaurants and malls, a warning from one woman who says, she is one of 16 friends who tested positive after visiting a
recently reopened bar in Jacksonville.
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ERIKA CRISP, TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19: We got to the time that was more out of sight, out of mind. We hadn't known anybody. You had it personally.
The Governor, Mayor everything says it's fine. We go out, it's a friend's birthday, it was a mistake.
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FLORES: At least 21 states are seeing an uptick in daily new Coronavirus cases over the past week. This as Vice President Mike Pence made stops in
Iowa without wearing a mask. The leader of the Coronavirus Task Force downplaying the severity of the disease as President Trump encourages
states to ramp up their economies more quickly.
Pence, writing in a "Wall Street Journal" op-ed, the media has tried to scare the American people every step of the way and these grim predictions
of a second wave are no different. We've slowed the spread, we've cared for the most vulnerable, we've saved lives. That's a cause for celebration.
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DR. ASHISH JHA, DIRECTOR, HARVARD GLOBAL HEALTH INSTITUTE: The problem is the pandemic is not done with us. Unfortunately it's still in the early
days. If we do not want to end up with hundreds of thousands of deaths across the country by the time this whole thing is over, we've got to
change course and really move towards suppressing this virus.
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FLORES: On a call with Governors Monday, the Vice President making this claim.
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MIKE PENCE, U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: In most of the cases where we are seeing some marginal rising number, that's more a result of the extraordinary work
you're doing expanding testing.
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FLORES: But according to Harvard Researchers, the United States needs to do at least 20 million tests per day to safely reopen by late July. The
current rate is roughly 500,000 tests daily. And with the President still set to hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Pence falsely claiming that numbers
in Oklahoma are on the decline.
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PENCE: Oklahoma has really been in the forefront of our efforts to slow the spread, and in a very real sense, they flattened the curve.
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FLORES: The truth is Oklahoma has seen newly reported cases increase since late May. A Senior CDC Official slamming Pence for selectively choosing
data to highlight, telling CNN, you can cherry-pick a handful of counties and use that as a way to say things are not as bad as they look. But that's
not the reality.
GORANI: Well, that was Rosa Flores reporting from Miami. Let's turn to a story we broke yesterday. A study in Britain found that a commonly used
steroid could reduce the risk of death for the sickest Coronavirus patients, potentially by one-third for the patients on ventilators.
Joining us is Dr. Ron Daniels. He's an Intensive Care Doctor for the UK's National Health Service and the Founder and Director of the UK's Success
Trust. Thanks for being with us. So first off, this common steroid has been used for some time in the sickest COVID patients, but here we have proof in
the form of data that it can be effective, correct?
DR. RON DANIELS, NHS INTENSIVE CARE DOCTOR: Yes, that is correct. So this is a steroid, of course, Dexamethasone and it belongs to a group called
Glucocorticoid. Now these are nothing new in the treatment of life- threatening, inflammatory lung conditions of which, of course, COVID is one.
So, it's some surprising people have been using them. They have been found to be effective in some other conditions, and this is, of course, the first
time that anything's been demonstrated to be very likely to be a benefit in COVID.
GORANI: But you say - you told my producer this is not transformational. Why not?
DR. DANIELS: It's not transformational because firstly, these drug steroids are being used, anyway. Secondly, it's a significant effect, but it's not
the difference between you will absolutely survive or you will absolutely die. This is not a cure, this is not a vaccine. So it's important that we
take this in context.
If you're admitted to an intensive care unit in the UK, right now with COVID-19, and let's say you're under 50 years of age, a slightly better
performing group, you've got a 75 percent chance of making it out.
Now, this drug, this Dexamethasone, if you went already on it, will increase that chance about around a third, so it probably means you've got
an 83 - 84 percent chance of making it out as suppose to a 75 percent chance of making it out. Still pretty good odds.
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GORANI: Yes, although I think people will take those extra percentage points if they can. What are the side effects, though, of steroids?
DANIELS: Well, this is one slight niggle, one slight concern about the way in which the results of this trial - and these are interim results, these
are not final results - have been communicated. Steroids are not without risk of harm. Now, used in Intensive Care Units in a short period of time,
that harm is minimal. We worry about patient's blood sugars going up as a result of steroid use.
If somebody's blood sugar goes up, then that can increase the risk of a bacterial infection coming in and taking over, so we have to look very
carefully for that. And here's the concern, if these drugs start to be used outside Intensive Care Units in busy floors where it's not possible to
measure blood sugar very regularly, and whereas if people start to self mitigate with these agents, then we're going to run the risk of the side
effects becoming a problem.
GORANI: Right, because this steroid is used in common arthritis and asthma drugs. What if people are already on treatments that include this
particular steroid? Does that protect them in any way?
DANIELS: It's not yet known whether the steroids are protective. What this research tends to suggest is that, if you're started on steroids during
illness, it reduces the way in which the illness - in which the cytocon storm takes over the body and overreacts.
So it dampens down the immune system. If you're already taking steroids, then of course, continue to take them as you normally would, and before any
consideration about changing your medication, consult with your physician.
GORANI: Let me ask you one quick question about how long this virus survives on surfaces. I know I've been quite confused, because I've read
and heard contradictory guidance on that after that outbreak in Beijing. They tested some surfaces in that big market and found that the virus -
found the virus on a chopping board or on a hard surface.
In the last few weeks, we were being told that perhaps the virus didn't survive as long as we thought on surfaces, that we didn't need to wipe down
our grocery shopping and that kind of thing. What's the very latest on that question?
DANIELS: Okay. So, I'm an Intensive Care Doctor, I'm not a Virologist. But my understanding of this is it depends on the circumstances, so it depends
on the ambient temperature, the humidity and various other factors. But in ideal circumstances, this virus appears able, on an absorbent surface, to
survive for up to 24 hours also, and on a hard surface with ideal conditions for as long as 72 hours.
GORANI: All right. Sorry to throw that one at you, I just wanted your immediate reaction to some of the reporting we've been getting from China.
Dr. Ron Daniels, thank you so much for joining us. Really, really appreciate your time today on the program.
Two nuclear powers are facing off in a remote corner of the Himalayas. And now officials from China and India are scrambling to try to ease tensions.
On Monday, soldiers from both countries fought on disputed land, and the Indian side lost around 20 soldiers, and that's prompted anger in several
cities.
You see people here stomping on Chinese-made products. Others burnt effigy of China's President. The Indian Prime Minister had this to say.
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NARENDRA MODI, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER: India wants peace, but on being provoked, India is capable of giving a befitting reply in any case. We
don't compromise with the integrity and sovereignty of our country.
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GORANI: Well, Senior International Correspondent, Sam Kiley is tracking developments for us today, and both sides say they want de-escalation. Will
it happen?
SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, that is the question that I think is very, very worrying, particularly for India
following those fairly bellicose statements that you just played from Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister, who is elected Hala on a Hindu
Nationalist platform, has taken a very robust, to say the least line with Pakistan and indeed the Indian Administration of Jammu & Kashmir where this
incident has occurred.
In the case of Pakistan of course, it's on the opposite side on the Chinese border. The Chinese meanwhile have been saying that they favor talks and
that they believe the situation is under control.
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KILEY: But with the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers without there being the use of firearms along this 3.5 thousand kilometer contested border, about
14,000 feet, the Indians saying that some of these troops may have died of hypothermia and a combination of that with the wounds following what the
Indians are saying, and we haven't gotten this from the Chinese.
But the Indians claiming that their soldiers were attacked by the Chinese, when the Chinese tried to put up some kind of structure on the Indian side
using battens spiked with nails and rocks and other sort of equipment that you might see in a hooligan brawl rather than in a moment of international
strategic importance. But that, Hala, is precisely what it has become now.
GORANI: All right. Sam Kiley, thanks very much for that update. And as we mentioned earlier, a lot of anger in some parts of India at what has
happened. We'll keep our eye on that story. And still ahead, U.S. leaders push multiple proposals for police reform. But skeptics say some of those
ideas are not going far enough. Plus, prosecutors say a suspected cop killer in the US had ties with an extremist group that is hoping to incite
a civil war. The very latest, next.
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GORANI: A push for police reform is picking up steam in Washington. Senate Republicans unveiled their reform proposal a short time ago. House
Democrats are moving to advance a competing bill, their own version, which they unveiled last week. And all that comes a day after President Donald
Trump signed an Executive Order on police reform. But as Jim Acosta explains, his critics are not satisfied.
JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Offering up little more than new guidelines aimed at ending police brutality, President Trump let
loose on the protesters who have marched in the streets across the U.S. since the brutal killing of George Floyd.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I strongly oppose the radical and dangerous efforts to defund, dismantle and dissolve our police
departments. Americans want law and order. They demand law and order. They may not say it, they may not be talking about it, but that's what they
want.
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ACOSTA: The President downplayed the problem of police misconduct, insisting only a small number of rogue officers are to blame.
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TRUMP: They're very tiny. I use the word tiny. It's a very small percentage. But you have them.
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ACOSTA: The Executive Order signed by the President urges police departments to improve their practices. On the controversial use of police
chokeholds, the Executive Order recommends that the state or local law enforcement agencies use of force policies, prohibit the use of chokeholds
except in those situations where the use of deadly force is allowed by law.
Despite the fact that his own administration violently cleared Lafayette Square earlier this month, gassing and beating protesters, the President
argued the country should be more unified.
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TRUMP: What's needed now is not more stoking of fear and division. We need to bring law enforcement and communities closer together, not to drive them
apart.
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ACOSTA: Civil right advocates were disappointed in what they heard.
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DAVID HENDERSON, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: I haven't had a chance to take a look at the Executive Order on paper yet. But based on what I heard, I am
disappointed. I think it is a slap in the face of everyone who has been out protesting around the world the past several weeks.
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ACOSTA: The President also used the speech to tout the latest numbers on Wall Street.
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TRUMP: The stock market went through the roof. We're getting very close to the level we were before the pandemic and before all of the things that
you've seen happen happened.
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ACOSTA: Mr. Trump also falsely said Former President Barrack Obama did not attempt to reform police practices. But that's not true. Obama released his
own proposals more than five years ago.
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TRUMP: President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this during their eight year period. The reason they didn't try is because
they had no idea how to do it. And it is a complex situation.
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ACOSTA: The President's event was notable for another reason as few officials wore masks despite the current pandemic. Traveling in Iowa, Vice
President, Mike Pence also decided to forgo a mask as he sat down for lunch inside a restaurant and toured a factory.
On a phone call with Governors this week, Pence tried to dismiss the latest rise in Coronavirus cases as a result of more testing. Even though public
health officials caution infections are increasing as well.
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PENCE: I would just encourage you all, as we talk about these things; make sure to continue to explaining to your citizens the magnitude of increase
in testing. In most of the cases where we are seeing some marginal raise in number, that's more a result of the extraordinary work you're doing
expanding testing.
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ACOSTA: Pence was sticking to go the President's talking points.
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TRUMP: If we stop testing right now, we would have very few cases, if any.
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ACOSTA: And Vice President Pence has posted an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal declaring there won't be a second wave of the Coronavirus, even
though public health experts warn it is way too early to say that.
The President is moving ahead with plans to hold a rally in Tulsa on Saturday, but the Oklahoma Department of Public Health wants Trump
supporters headed to the rally to take some precautions, such as getting tested for the Coronavirus before and after the event. Jim Acosta, CNN, the
White House.
GORANI: Chances are you probably have not heard of the Boogaloo Movement. Official say it's a fringe extremist group that is trying to start a civil
war in the United States. Now prosecutors say, this man is linked to it.
Steven Carrillo he's accused of gunning down two law enforcement officers in separate attacks in California. He was arrested last week. Officials
said Carrillo had an - who drove this white van during one of the shootings. This is how prosecutors tied Carrillo to their radical group.
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DAVID ANDERSON, U.S. ATTORNEY FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: On the ballistic vest was a patch, the patch could be described as follows. It had an
American star flag with stripes like an American flag, but with noticeable differences. One difference was that in area where the stars appear on
American flag, there was instead the picture of an igloo.
In addition, Carrillo appears to have used his own blood to write phrases on one of the cars that he carjacked. The complaint alleges that the patch
and the phrases written by Carrillo are associated with the so-called Boogaloo Movement.
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GORANI: Well, we should note that Carrillo is a highly trained U.S. Air Force Sergeant. Drew Griffin in Atlanta with more on this move. Are we
talking just two people involved here, is it a wider movement? What more do we know?
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Well, that is what is under investigation right now. And this Boogaloo Movement, it is a movement
Hala, very confusing not necessarily a group and not a homogenized group politically either I've researched them and spoken to some. Some are far
left libertarian types, some are far right very conservative types.
What is very, very frightening about this arrest in California is this Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force trained to protect U.S. Air Force
assets in very troubling places, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. He was using his own homemade gun in these killings that he's alleged to have carried
out, a machine gun style gun.
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GRIFFIN: And again loosely affiliated with Boogaloo Movement, which is either calling for civil unrest or preparing for civil unrest, but are more
and more showing up at protest scenes across the United States, heavily armed, heavily fortified with protective gear and carrying out these kind
of Boogaloo Civil Authority type missions where they believe they're protecting society.
Steve Carrillo is now charged with two cases of murder, one attempted murder, and again police very, very detailing that he was involved in this
Boogaloo Movement, which is a fairly new radical group of people that I don't think anybody quite understands at this time, Hala.
GORANI: All right, and this radical group has a Facebook page, Carrillo himself falls out of Facebook presence, and the social media groups are
looking into whether or not they are organizing and recruiting? Is that correct?
GRIFFIN: Yes, there are multiple, multiple Facebook sites that are connected loosely to this movement, and they all have different style names
- is one, the Boogaloo Boys et cetera. There is all kinds of different Facebook groups out there.
Facebook has stripped the once that Steve Carrillo and his accomplice were using. They've taken them off Facebook. Facebook also tells us that they're
actively looking into other Boogaloo Movement sites.
But again, it is hard to pin down the actual group as a group of organized individuals other than their common belief in being heavily armed and being
prepared for some sort of civil unrest. Hala?
GORANI: All right. Drew Griffin, thanks very much for that. Next we will have a lot more on the COVID outbreak and also the wider global black lives
matter protests. Stay with us.
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GORANI: Returning now to our top story, the global fight against COVID-19. Let's hear from some of CNN's reporters spread out across the globe as the
number of Coronavirus cases rises to more than 8 million worldwide.
MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Matt Rivers in Mexico, where there are two things happening right now. One, we're in the worst stage of this
outbreak so far. But two, the economy here is beginning to gradually reopen. And in some places that means tourism, like on the Yucatan
Peninsula that's where there is famous resort towns like Cancun and Playa Del Carmen.
And in those places some resorts have already reopened. Now the U.S.- Mexico- land border remains closed on non-essential travel, but the Americans can still fly to Mexico and go to those resorts. And the
government here says, it is safe for them to do so. The American government, however, disagrees.
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RIVERS: The Ambassador here in Mexico City on Tuesday urged Americans to not take the vacation in Mexico right now, saying that community
transmission rates are still far too high.
ALEX THOMAS, CNN WORLD SPORT: I'm Alex Thomas in Manchester where after three months England's globally popular Premier League is back. COVID-19
meant it was called off back in March on Friday the 13th, less than it has been a real horror show that EPL officials since then faced with losing
hundreds of millions of dollars of TV money.
They had to wait till June before the UK government gave permission for the seasons to resume with 92 games still to play, including reigning champions
Manchester City against Arsenal here on Wednesday night. If the city loses, Liverpool can take that title with a win on Sunday.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Matthew Chance. Russia's President is being protected from Coronavirus but a special
disinfection tunnel his visitors must pass through. Footage on state media shows people being sprayed from all sides with what's described as a fine
cloud of disinfectant that covers clothes and exposed upper body flesh.
This is an indication of how effective the Russian-made device is, but it underlies the extraordinary measures being taken to shield the leader of
the country with more than half a million Coronavirus cases.
GORANI: All right, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under intense scrutiny on three fronts. The opposing labor party is criticizing his
government for mishandling the pandemic response, not providing assistance for schoolchildren, and how it's addressing social unrest in the country?
For more on UK's political differences, let's hear from British Labor Party Politician and Former Shadow Homes Secretary Diane Abbott. She joins us
live from London via Skype and in fact no, she is not joining me live via Skype. We've had a slight technical connection with our connection to Diane
Abbott.
We are instead going to talk about the increased needs for food banks in the United States. Of course, the economies of many countries around the
world as a result of these COVID lockdowns have been severely affected. And in the U.S. as well as in other countries, there have been families that
have ended up in dire need of support. Here's Sunlen Serfaty with that story.
SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a striking contrast as the White House declares that the economy is starting to pick back up.
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TRUMP: The greatest comeback in American history.
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SERFATY: Millions of Americans are still struggling to afford the most basic of human needs food.
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LARRY THREATT, FOOD PANTRY RECIPIENT: By the time I get the assistance that is needed, I may be found somewhere dead.
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SERFATY: This woman in Maryland who lost her retail job in April due to COVID and is trying to feed a family of six. CNN agreed not to use her name
because of privacy concerns.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Every time you look at your refrigerator, you don't have that much food, or you're missing milk. It's hard. It's not like when
I was working, if I don't have anything, I just go to the supermarket. No, if I don't have it, I come here to get the help that I need.
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SERFATY: Food banks are overwhelmed, feeding 60 percent more people than they did this time last year, including 4 in 10 people who had never been
to a food bank before the pandemic hit. The Capital area food bank in Washington, D.C. has seen a 400 percent increase according to CEO Radha
Muthiah.
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RADHA MUTHIAH, PRESIDENT & CEO, CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: It's a whole new group of individuals that have been affected by this. People have lost
their jobs within a matter of a week or two after the pandemic hitting.
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SERFATY: And this Food Bank could be facing a potential crisis of its own due to the enormity of the demand.
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SERFATY: It's so immediate. It's not just sitting on the shelf.
MUTHIAH: It's not. I mean, you can see the empty shelves and the racks here that we have. It's food coming in and then it will go out almost
immediately. So our inventory is at the lowest levels that it has been in, gosh, decades.
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SERFATY: 75 percent of the food donations from retailers have stopped. That amounts to about 60 percent of its food now gone. So Muthiah says they
would have to purchase hundreds of truck loads of food themselves.
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MUTHIAH: In April alone we purchased about 3 times what we purchased the entire last year to be able to provide to individuals in our region.
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SERFATY: The Coronavirus relief bills passed by Congress in March set aside $850 million specifically to help Food Banks. But so far the USDA says only
377 million of that has been given out. A USDA spokesperson admits to CNN that the rollout of funds has been slower than expected.
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SERFATY: In part because vendors had been low on supplies. But additional food is expected to start arriving at Food Banks this month. Sunlen
Serfaty, CNN, Washington.
GORANI: Coming up next, two new tell-all books are rattling the White House and Donald Trump, shedding light on President's administration and on his
personal past.
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GORANI: Welcome back. To Seattle, Washington now where the Police Chief is denying claims that officers have been instructed to avoid 911 calls in the
City's Capitol Hill neighborhood, also known as the CHOP. The area has been occupied since last week, and all police were pulled out after tensions
with protesters reached a boiling point there. CNN's Elle Reeve spent a day in the neighborhood with an up-close view of what's really going on?
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ELLE REEVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So the idea is this is what society could be without police?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To be honest, we're three days deep, so forgive us if it's not as organized as we hope it to be. What we want to do is show that
people can police themselves, people can take care of themselves?
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REEVE: This is the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, also known as the CHOP or the CHAZ. It's a six-block area being controlled by protesters after
Seattle police abandoned their east precinct. Now police don't dare enter and they're under orders not to answer to calls in that zone unless there
is a mass casualty event.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once they left it was just kind of took in mind of its only. We finally don't have to worry about police brutality.
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REEVE: But it wasn't always like this. The CHAZ was born after violent clashes with police.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The medics gave me this because I got shot in the chest with it.
REEVE: Can you tell me what happened that night?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was about to get on my knees. We all had our hands up, and then they shot me and the medics, like, couldn't get a pulse four
times. We are unarmed. We are unarmed. Why do they feel so threatened against us?
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REEVEES: The SPD says this incident is under investigation. And if policy or law violations have occurred, they will take proper steps to address it.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All the people are here for each other. We don't want any violence at all.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody is peaceful, man.
REEVE: How do you create the rules for the CHAZ?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is leadership out here. We communicate the best we possibly can, right, and it's just human decency. How you doing?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's up, family? Put your joint out, or hand it t somebody and come talk to me. Try not to curse either. Is it working?
Absolutely not, I think statistically if you look at the amount of people here and the amount of violence that is occurring, it's so minimal that it
reflects very positively on this experience.
OFFICER MIKE SLOAN, PRESIDENT, SEATTLE POLICE OFFICERS GUILD: The CHAZ is a poor reflection on Seattle. This is a result of elected officials that are
failing to enforce the rule of law. But if I were to go 50 yards to my west, I wouldn't be allowed in there. In fact, I would be concerned about
my safety.
REEVE: They say it's quite peaceful it's kind of like a party in there.
SLOAN: Okay, with the reports that we have is that there aren't people inside. I would love to see you stick around until 3:00 am, I would love to
see your footage and maybe you can document the unreasonableness that's going on in there.
REEVE: Okay. It's 2:30. What's the scene?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For the most part, people are where they're going to camp out for the night, and people are winding down.
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REEVE: There are still a few bursts of confusion and anger when a suspicious person comes through. They're still trying to figure out how to
make their own world in a cop-free world?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Their long term strategy is to stay here and protest and be a demonstration. If the PD wants their precinct back, if they want to
return and not suppress our right to protest, and not engage in war tactics to do it, we're more than happy to have them back here.
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REEVE: Elle Reeve, CNN, the CHAZ.
GORANI: To politics also in the U.S., the Trump Administration is suing Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, trying to stop the
publication of his new tell-all book. The Trump Administration says the room where it happened still canes classified information, but Bolton's
book isn't the only one on Trump's radar, not by a long shot, because his niece, Mary Trump, is set to release a book later next month described by
Amazon as a revelatory portrait of the U.S. President.
The book is called "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man." Let's bring in our Chief Media Correspondent,
Brian Stelter. Let's take these books in order of publication. So we have the John Bolton book, "The Room Where It Happened," and the White House is
suing, saying that John Bolton cannot publish some of the information contained in the book because it is still classified. What's the latest on
that?
BRIAN STELTER, CNN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Now, we don't know for sure that there is anything classified in the book. Bolton's Attorney
in the past has rejected that argument. And the government is not providing any specific evidence of classified info in the book.
But they're saying that he didn't finish the process that he was supposed to go through as a Former Government Employee. But look, it is not the
publisher that's being sued, it's only Bolton. So I think what's really going on here, Hala, is an attempt to intimidate Bolton. This is about
trying to intimidate a Former Government Employee from spilling the beans he says he has about working for Trump.
This is a book that alleges Ukraine like malfeasance all around the world. What Trump was impeached for, the Ukraine scheme. Bolton says it happened
in other countries as well. So there are disturbance in this book, and it seems that the DOJ and the White House is trying to keep Bolton from
speaking.
But this is not going to work, and I'll tell you why. Bolton has already given an interview to ABC News. News outlets have already obtained copies
of the book. It's already been printed and sent to stores so this book is coming out but in the meantime, the DOJ seems to be trying to intimidate or
pressure Bolton maybe to send messages to other people in the future not to write their own books.
GORANI: Right. Let's talk about Mary Trump's book. Mary is the daughter of Donald Trump's eldest daughter who passed away several years ago. There has
been bad blood, by the way, between Mary and her other sibling in the Trump family over the years, but she's now writing this tell-all - I wonder if
that's the one that will get more attention, because this is a real window into Donald Trump the man, his personal life, his family?
STELTER: Mary Trump is a licensed psychiatrist, somebody who has a PHD, who has studied psychology for many years. And she is now studying the
President. She is now looking at Donald Trump and saying, my family created this dangerous person.
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STELTER: So she's going to come at this looking at him from a mental health point of view, and I think that is going to aggravate a lot of people in
the Trump White House. By the way, her book, we just heard about it two days ago, it was just revealed to the world. It's coming out end of July in
the United States.
It's already on the Amazon best-selling list just based on preorders. I think you're right; this book by Mary Trump may be more the bombshell book
when it comes to the psyche of the President, at least.
GORANI: Does she also talk about some of her direct personal experiences with President Trump? I mean, she obviously - the parents of the President
were her grandparents, so she would have spent time in the family home.
STELTER: Right. And the book's description sure suggests that she wants to tell all that she knows, according to reporting. She was also instrumental
in leaking a little bit of the President's tax returns. There was a time a couple years ago where a couple key pages of a tax return were leaked out
in the public sphere, and apparently she had a hand in that.
So that makes you wonder what else she knows. These books, Bolton, the Mary Trump book, there are other books coming out in the next few months -
they're like water up against a dam. Eventually you think it breaks because there are so many ugly stories about the President. But then again, we have
seen this for three years, so I'm always careful not to expect too much impact from any single book or any single tell-all.
GORANI: All right. We'll see what's in that Mary Trump book, the John Bolton book as well. You mentioned embargoed copies have already been seen
by some, and the Mary Trump book will be out before the Republican Convention this summer. We'll see how that's received? Thank you very much,
Brian Stelter, as always.
STELTER: Thanks.
GORANI: The Coronavirus sent the Premier League into lockdown for 100 days. Today they're back. These two managers were directly impacted by COVID-19
they will go head to head in Manchester. We're in Manchester for you, live.
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GORANI: Welcome back. Football fans are celebrating the return of the Premier League today, not that any of them will be able to see the games
live. The Coronavirus means they're going to have to watch the action on television. When Bundesliga games started back up, Don, they added some
fake crowd noises and stadium noises to the TV transmission. I wonder if they'll do the same with the Premier League. Either way, I'm sure people
are happy the game is back.
DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yes, I think they might do something similar. Not everybody loves that with the Bundesliga games and the other games in
Europe, Hala, because they're obviously fake but it does make it a little bit more real, if that makes sense.
We'll see what the broadcasters do today? Would you believe it's been 100 days since we last watched a game of football in the Premier League? When
the action resumes again in just over an hour's time, there will be visual reminders of how much our world has changed in that time?
All of the players, for example, all of their shirts will have an NHS logo on the front. That is in recognition of the dedication and sacrifice of the
health service workers tackling the Coronavirus. And every shirt will also have the words black lives matter. That's in support, obviously, of the
global cause for an end to racial injustice.
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RIDDELL: There are going to be two games today. First, Aston Villa at home with Sheffield United there won't be no fans inside the stadium. Villa has
urged their supporters not to gather outside. And then at 8:15 pm local time it is the defending champions Manchester City against Arsenal the game
that one.
Covering these matches for us will be World Sport Alex Thomas, who is outside the stadium in Manchester, and our Contributing Darren Lewis from
London. Alex I'll start with you, this must just be the most surreal game I would imagine that you've ever covered. Obviously there aren't any fans
behind you, there doesn't seems to be any atmosphere. What does it feel like to be there covering this?
THOMAS: Now here we are 3.5 hours away from kickoff, Don. You would expect people to start milling around. It's been very quiet. Some security staffs
came around earlier to check our permission to film here, because we're within the green zone perimeter, fans not allowed inside.
There are normally be 50,000 strong in the stadium. The Premier League tells us there will only be around 300 people allowed outside of the two
teams involved. Of course you have got the match officials, the people on the bench, some health and safety officials.
Certainly a fraction of what you would normally have. So no atmosphere for real, just some fake atmosphere on some of the TV coverage if you choose to
do that but nonetheless there is still real excitement, because it was way back in March, Friday the 13th, when this was called off due to the
Coronavirus crisis.
And while Germany's Bundesliga got back some time ago, the Premier League had to wait until June before the UK government gave the go-ahead for this
season to resume. So 92 matches to play so it's going to be a real football bonanza for fans between now and the end of July when they hope to get the
season finished by.
In fact, around a third of the games will be on free to air television, which is a real change from the normal subscription services and there has
to be a bit of a refund of TV money by the Premier League back to broadcasters because of that. A financial reason coming into play, but only
after weeks of negotiations with players, unions and the clubs to make sure it was safe to do so.
As you say Don, the two games on this opening day, the resumption of Premier League action. One involves the club behind me, Manchester City,
the reigning champions up against Arsenal. City has already given up the title to Liverpool already. In fact if they lose Liverpool can clinch that
on Sunday. After weeks of uncertainty, they're probably not at 100 percent yet ready for these matches, but they do simply have to get on with it.
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PEP GUARDIOLA, MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER: I think we are ready to play one game, but three days after, another one, and then another one, we are not
ready. Germany and Spain work five to six weeks. We had maybe three weeks, three and a half. Of course we know it is not enough, but it is what it is.
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THOMAS: So the Premier League is back, certainly in a very different look and feel to when we last experienced it, but it's nice to see some action
on these shores.
RIDDELL: For sure. Darren, we just saw Pep Guardiola there. It's obviously been a tough 100 days for him because he lost his mother during this break.
And he's going up against the Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta who also has something in common with this Coronavirus crisis. He's been touched
personally by it as well.
DARREN LEWIS, CNN WORLD SPORT CONTRIBUTOR: Real emotional under current to the game tonight - we'll update the concerns that both teams have had
during the last three months. As you say, Pep Guardiola was in a very emotional bereavement. There were messages of support for him throughout
the Premier League.
And Mikel Arteta it was his positive test that had shot the Premier League down in the second week of March. And then of course you had players on
both sides saying, look, we don't want to come back and play. We're worried about the Coronavirus, we're worried that enough steps haven't been taken
to eradicate it, and we're worried about the risks that we might be subjecting our families to.
So there are still all sorts of concerns surrounding the game, even though the Premier League have done their best to ensure that the contest, as Alex
was saying just a second ago, will take place in a bio-secure stadium.
If I could just add, Don, that when we go to cover these matches, there will be all sorts of signs everywhere telling even the players where they
can and can't go. There will be very, very stringent tests.
The players are subjected to temperature tests every single morning when they get to the stadium. Again, there will be club doctors making sure that
they are okay, making sure that there is not one element of risk that somebody could infect somebody else.
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LEWIS: But for all that, there will still be concerns because of what we've seen over the past three months.
RIDDELL: Yes, for sure. A lot of people are really anxious about doing this. Darren, I'm really curious to get your perspective on what I think is
inevitable at this point, that Liverpool are going to win the Premier League title.
They ran away with the season up until 100 days ago they're 25 points clear. They are on the brink of clinching it. But how is history going to
remember that? They've waited so long for this title, 30 years. Is it in any way going to be diminished because of what everybody has had to
experience for the last three months?
LEWIS: Sadly, it might be a concern. History will remember this Liverpool team as one of the most outstanding teams in Premier League history,
defensively strong, offensively powerful. They have scored goals for fun and they have exhilarated all of us with their style of play and ecstatic
abandon.
But the problem is that we're two-thirds of the way into the season and there are a number of things that have been introduced that simply don't
make it the same competition. You can have five substitutes now, for example, instead of the three that were in the first two-thirds of the
season.
If the games can't be played on any one ground, they'll be moved to neutral venues. There are a number of things that have been introduced that simply
do not make it the same competition that it was before the Coronavirus outbreak. That should not take anything away from Liverpool, but,
unfortunately, there may well be an asterisk next to their name. This is the season that was undone by the Coronavirus outbreak. Don?
RIDDELL: Yes, I guess they should at least be grateful they got to finish the season, because there was no guarantee that a season in the Premier
League would have been completed. Darren Lewis thanks very much Alex Thomas to you as well in Manchester. We'll continue our coverage throughout the
day here on CNN.
By the way, today we heard that the Champion League Final will be played in August in Lisbon, Portugal not as a change from Istanbul but should have
been the 2020 host. The last 8 teams in the competition will be playing a mini tournament in Lisbon before the final is played on August 23rd. Hala,
that's it from us, back to you.
GORANI: Thank you, Don. Exciting and it looks like a nice weather in Manchester. We had some terrible storms in London that may have caused some
of the technical problems we experienced these last two hours. Thank you very much for watching. I'm Hala Gorani. I will see you same time, same
place tomorrow.
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