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U.S. High Court Rules Trump Not Immune From Grand Jury Subpoena; President Donald Trump In Dispute With Health Officials Over School Reopening; U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Trump's Financial Records; Asia's Mask Acceptance Contrasts With America's Resistance; Nine Nashville Players Reportedly Test Positive For COVID-19 Since Arrival. Aired 11a-12p ET
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POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: We'll see if that happens given that today was the final day of decisions of the terms of the high court. My thanks to you
Jeffrey Toobin as always for helping guide us through this and making us all smarter in the process it is a big day.
We appreciate it Ross Garber, Doug Brinkley, Kaitlan Collins, Joan Biskupic, Abby Phillip everyone we have Jessica Schneider outside the
court, Sarah Murray thank you so much. We'll see you back tomorrow morning. I'm Poppy Harlow. Kate Bolduan continues our coverage--
KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, welcome to "Connect the World." I'm Kim Brunhuber in Atlanta. Ahead this hour a short time ago, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled against President Donald Trump saying a New York prosecutor can access his financial records, but it wasn't all bad news for the U.S
President. We'll explain.
Plus Coronavirus showing no sign of slowing down while cases surge in the United States, Australia and Hong Kong deal with new outbreaks and new
details emerge about the final moments of George Floyd whose death at the hands of police cause global outrage. We'll have the latest for you.
We begin with breaking news out of the United States, and two Supreme Court decisions that will have major implications on presidential powers for
years to come. In the court's final day of opinions this session, it ruled that Donald Trump's financial records will remain blocked from the U.S.
House, at least for now.
The second ruling says Mr. Trump is not immune from New York subpoena requesting his tax returns, but the grand jury will not get those documents
yet either. The 7-2 opinion ways written by Chief Justice John Roberts saying in part, we reaffirm that principle today and the hold that the
President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas, seeking his private papers, nor entitled to a heightened standard of need.
And President Trump was quick to respond, tweeting the Supreme Court sends case back to lower courts, arguments to continue. This is all a political
prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt and others and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or
Administration. Courts in the past have given broad deference, but not me.
All right. Let's bring in CNN's Political Director David Chalian live in Washington. So David, the President fought so hard to prevent the release
of his tax returns mixed results for the President. He is not beyond the law, but his financial information won't be publicly available any time
soon. Is that a win for the President here?
DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Well, you describe it exactly right. I mean, constitutionally and legally, this is not a win for the President.
In fact, it's a pretty sweeping defeat of the notion that just because he's President, he can be shielded from this.
The court said no, including two of President Trump's appointees to the court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joining in that 7-2 majority that
you noted. John Roberts, the Chief Justice, wrote the opinion for. So that notion is a big defeat of what President Trump is looking forward here.
He does not have total immunity in this case in New York simply because he's President, but you are right to note the political victory that the
President does get here. He certainly has demonstrated over the last five years to break every norm as a presidential candidate and President by not
releasing his tax information to the public, and he will get to continue to not release it to the public.
The public will not see President Trump's tax returns, certainly not prior to the November election, and that is a clear short-term political victory
for him to avoid that headache. But the larger point here, I think, is not a ruling as the President's tweet indicates, that he won it, because it's a
fight now that goes on in these case in New York.
BRUNHUBER: So, we heard part of his response. How might this affect the election, even though we won't see the actual information, but might he
weaponize part of this certainly it might give energy to his anti-Supreme Court attacks and maybe a rallying cry for conservatives?
CHALIAN: Well, certainly you have seen he suffered a couple of big defeats from the Supreme Court in the last couple weeks, whether it was on the
immigration issue, DACA here for the dreamers in the United States, or if it was on LGBT rights?
But what he does, you are right he has used that as an ability to rally conservatives around the notion of needing to keep Trump in place to be
able to make more conservative appointments to solidify the court for a generation in a conservative direction.
Make no bones about this. This is a conservative Supreme Court right now in the United States. I don't think today's rulings specifically because we
are not going to see these tax returns, is going to have a real impact in the next four months in terms of the election.
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CHALIAN: I think there are larger issues that he will use, abortion rights, healthcare, immigration, that the court weighs in on to rally his base more
than whether or not he can be party to this lawsuit and not have total immunity and have his records pursued by the prosecutor in New York.
But it is a major personal headache for Donald Trump that this case continues. And that we know is something that Donald Trump can be easily
distracted by.
BRUNHUBER: All right. Certainly, lots of ramifications here, David Chalian, thank you so much for your analysis.
CHALIAN: Thanks, Kim.
BRUNHUBER: And we're hearing reaction from the Manhattan District Attorney in New York, Cy Vance Jr. who challenged the President in Federal Court
calls the ruling a tremendous victory for our nations system of justice and its founding principle that no one, not even the President, is above the
law.
So joining us from New Orleans CNN Legal Analyst and Law Professor at Tulane University, Ross Garber. So let's discuss that the New York case. Go
over the reasoning here, 7-2, all nine justices basically rejected the argument that the President can't be subpoenaed.
ROSS GARBER, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Yes. So the President essential argued he was completely immune from subpoena, not just immune from prosecution, but
immune even from participating in a criminal investigation at all. And the court clearly rejects that.
And so, you know, the message there is that at some point it seems the President's financial firmness and remember these were subpoenas not to the
President directly, but to his financial firms, his accounting firms, his financial firms, at some point it looks like they're going to have to turn
over those documents.
And the Manhattan District Attorney is sort of playing a long game here, because the sort of half a loafer slice of bread the court gave the
President was that it wouldn't be today. And it wouldn't be very soon, because the President has the right to go back to the lower courts and
challenge the subpoenas, the way any other citizen can challenge subpoenas.
BRUNHUBER: Well, let's turn to that and that second decision about the house, they will not get access at least not right away. So take us through
the reasoning there and what will happen next?
GARBER: Yes. So, that decision is a victory for the President because while he's not completely immune from a subpoena from the House, the court
largely sort of ratified the President's arguments. What the President said was there are bunch of subpoenas from the House was financial firm that the
house didn't have a legitimate legislative purpose in issuing those subpoenas.
And so, what the Supreme Court said was that the House doesn't automatically get this information that was got to happen is, issues have
to go back to the lower courts. And then the lower courts actually have to weigh the need of the House for the information, whether they can get it
from another source and then the burden on the President that would occur if this information were provided.
The lower course have to do that way before making a decision and is a practical matter then, the issues would go back up through the court
systems. So again they are - it is absolutely clear the House isn't going to get this information any time soon and certainly not before the November
election.
BRUNHUBER: So, taking a wider view of this, then, how, if at all, will this sort of reshape the balance of power between the presidency and Congress,
in terms of the legal ability to have oversight of the President?
GARBER: Yes. I mean, that's the best question, Kim. I think and we're still all just kind of reading the opinions and taking them in. I think it could
re-shift things a bit. Previously the Supreme Court had said kind of two very important things in a variety of cases.
One is that the President is not immune from the law and he's got to provide information that's demanded of him. In a civil case with respect to
one decision of the Supreme Court, and a criminal case, federal criminal case with respect to another decision.
Here the Supreme Court said, well, that's the situation and those situations, but when the House asks for information, the Congress as for
it, it's going to be a different analysis. So that's one. Second, thing that Supreme Court has said is the house has a right to do investigations
in connection with its legislative authority. And it has the right to demand information.
Today the Supreme Court said, well, that's true, except when it comes to the President, the analysis becomes a lot more complicated. And so, in the
long term, this actually I think does make it tougher by the house to get information out of the White House.
These issues are hardly a relegated in court. But traditionally the House and the Senate have had kind of a potential bludgeon of code action. This
makes it a little bit tougher.
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BRUNHUBER: All right, very interesting indeed. Thank you very much, Ross Garber, for joining us. I appreciate it.
GARBER: You bet.
BRUNHUBER: President Trump is waging an open dispute with the country's own health officials over COVID-19, but the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention says it is not going to revise its guidelines about how to reopen schools.
Now this as one of the country's top disease experts says, a second shutdown might be the best move for some states, critical carry units and
hot spots are nearing capacity, and some states are setting records for average daily new cases.
Joe johns have more on the growing uncertainty over schools and that conflict over messages from within the White House.
JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: President Trump's push to reopen schools is going against the advice of some of his own, top health
officials. And as Coronavirus cases surge in at least 33 states.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We're finding out that learning by computer is not as good as learning in the classroom. We want
to learn in the classroom. So our schools, we want them open in the fall.
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JOHNS: The President complained about the CDC's guidance on a safe return to in person learning this fall in a tweet riding they're very tough and
expensive and they're asking schools to do very impractical things. Hours later, the Vice President made this announcement.
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MIKE PENCE, U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: The President said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough. That's the reason why next week, CDC is
going to be issuing a new set of tools.
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JOHNS: Some of the CDC's current suggestions include wearing face coverings, keeping desk six feet apart in classes and closing communal
spaces like playgrounds and lunchrooms. Trump comparing the U.S. to European countries that are allowing schools to open like Germany, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden, ignoring the recent record highs in new cases here while those countries continue to see lows. CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield
both defending and downplaying his own guidelines.
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DR. ROBERT REDFIELD, DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: We want to make it very clear that it was not the intent of CDC's
guidelines is to be used as a rationale to keep schools closed. Remember, it's guidance, it's not requirements.
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JOHNS: Pence also making this claim.
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PENCE: We're actually seeing early indications of a percent of positive testing flattening in Arizona, Florida and Texas.
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JOHNS: But the positivity rates of all three states have been steadily increasing since June and are currently well above 10 percent. Even with
pressure from the White House, some state leaders say they'll only open schools when it's safe to do so.
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GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER (D-MI): I'm not sending kids and our educational workforce into our schools unless it's safe. It's that simple through
listening to scientists, not threats, not politicians.
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JOHNS: Meantime Dr. Anthony Fauci telling the "Wall Street Journal" that public health and economic freedom don't have to be at odds.
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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: We shouldn't think of it as one against the other. Because once
you start thinking there's public health and then there's the economy opening, it looks like they're opposing forces. So what we're trying to do
is to get the public health message, if heard and implemented, be actually a gateway to facilitate opening in an easier way.
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BRUNHUBER: Right. We're going to go now to Joe Johns joining me from the White House. Joe this seemingly all-out war between President Trump the
administration and the experts? I mean, this can't go on like this. What effect is this having?
JOHNS: It really has a big effect, and it points to a larger problem, Kim. And that is something that we have seen throughout the pandemic in the
United States. This incoherent messaging where the President says one thing, the experts say another thing.
The American public needs clear information. And that's one of the most important things in health care messaging, particularly when you have a
crisis. We had another example of that just today when the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control in the United States seemed to suggest they were going
to revise their guidelines because the President had complained on Twitter that he thought they were too expensive for one thing.
And then we found out today this morning on Television in the United States that the CDC Director was saying, no, they weren't going to change the
guidelines, but they're going to send out a little bit more information.
It's all part of the same problem here, the continued confusing message that sends different signals to the American public. And it's one of the
things that so many experts say the administration needs to fix Kim.
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BRUNHUBER: Indeed all right. Thank you so much Senior Washington Correspondent Joe Johns. Well, one of the U.S. battles its latest surge in
cases other countries are trying to contain new waves of infection. Melbourne, Australia is under a second lockdown due to a pocket of cases at
an apartment block seen in this video.
Residents are being told to stay at home for six weeks except for essential trips. Authorities also closed the border between New South Wales and
Victoria. And Hong Kong says it's facing a third wave, although there has been praise for the stringent pandemic response there. Officials warn of
the potential for an exponential growth of cases since Sunday, 65 patients have been diagnosed.
As the Coronavirus cases in the U.S. go through the roof, Cuba is starting to get back to normal. According to Johns Hopkins University, the nation
has seen about 2400 cases and 86 deaths. The government declared the outbreak under control last month, and now as Patrick Oppmann reports, the
goal is to get the economy going again.
PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The doors are open again, even if it's not business as usual at Havana's El Cafe. Cuba was on lockdown for more
than three months. But following a massive country wide effort to bring the Coronavirus under control, the government is now easing restrictions,
allowing businesses like this one to reopen.
Staff at restaurants like El Cafe, have to wear masks, rearrange the tables to allow social distancing and sterilize the hands of every customer that
comes in. Nelson says that after four years serving some of Venice best coffee and all-day breakfast, he started from scratch.
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NELSON RODRIGUEZ TAMAYO, RESTAURANT OWNER: It was completely at the - alike collapse, I go down and I feel like the - star again the business.
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OPPMANN: While hit hard economically by the Coronavirus, Cuba's program of extensive contact tracing, isolating the sick and closing borders, paid
off. Health officials say there are now less than a few dozen active cases of Coronavirus on the island of 11 million people.
On the first day the beach reopened, Cubans swam in the pristine blue waters that had been tantalizingly forbidden to them all these weeks. It's
been really good for me and my family to get refreshed get some air and some sun, Mitchell says, but it's important to maintain the hygiene and
safety measures. That would be crucial to preventing a resurgence of cases and allowing the island to fully reopen.
Havana is in stage one of recovery and it won't be until stage three that the city's airport once again reopens to regular commercial flights. This
is the Malecon Seawall, Havana's couch Cubans call it, because everyone comes out here to sit on it.
But for months, it was eerily empty, off-limits. Now that people are permitted to come back out here, life does feel like it's returning to
normal. But there's still that strange sensation of being on an island that is almost entirely cut off from the rest of the world.
For the time being, only hotels on five keys, small islands off the coast of Cuba, are open to foreign visitors, to keep further infection from
spreading to the Mainland, both guests and hotel workers will be regularly tested, health officials say.
So for the time being the rest of the island is inaccessible to the tourists who Nelson estimates made up 80 percent of his clientele before
the outbreak.
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TAMAYO: We're going to mainly - I need to - I will enjoy more different things focusing on other customer.
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OPPMANN: Cubans have endured hurricanes, economic sanctions and near economic collapse. And now the first wave of Coronavirus. Even if this
isn't a full recovery, the hope is that this new normal will last. Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Havana.
BRUNHUBER: Coming up distressing details are coming at about the final moments of George Floyd's life. We'll look at the transcripts of his arrest
just minutes before his death, next. Plus a quick job recovery remains an aspiration in the U.S. And we have a report on new unemployment claims.
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BRUNHUBER: New details are coming out about the final moments of George Floyd's life. Transcripts taken from police body-cam footage during Floyd's
arrest detail his distress under restraint as he was pinned to the ground, an officer's knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Transcripts were
obtained from court documents and CNN has been unable to verify them with unreleased footage.
Officer Chauvin who has been since arrested in charge with murder cab be heard saying, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to say that. Floyd then
responds saying come on, man, I cannot breathe, they're going to kill me. They're going to kill me. I can't breathe. Just a few minutes later, George
Floyd was unresponsive and pronounced dead.
Joining me now is Omar Jimenez, who has been covering this story from the beginning he is in Chicago today. The sheer number of times he tells
officers he can't breathe is heart-wrenching. What are those transcripts telling us?
OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Exactly, Kim, very heart-wrenching in some moments. And when you talk about these transcripts they come as the
attorney for one of the four officers charged in the death of George Floyd.
The Attorney for Thomas Lane filed a motion to dismiss the case against his client, saying that there was no probable cause. Now one thing that we had
been looking at in these transcripts are the added clues and concepts that come leading up to the moments, George Floyds's final moments starting
specifically with a struggle to put George Floyd in a police car.
Remember, this all started over a call over a counterfeit, $20 bill. Floyd says he's claustrophobic and then Floyd says, okay, okay, I want to lay on
the ground, I want to lay on the ground, I want to lay on the ground to which Lane response, "you're getting in the squad car"
Floyd says' "I want to lie on the ground, I'm going down, I'm going down, I'm going down. Then they go to the ground. And then a little bit later,
Floyd says, "I'm through, I'm through, I'm claustrophobic, my stomach hurts, y my neck hurts, everything hurts, I need some water or something,
please, please? I can't breathe officer.
Then Officer Derek Chauvin, he is the one seen with his knee on Floyd's neck then stop talking, stop yelling. Floyd says, "You're going to kill me,
man". Chauvin, "then stop talking, stop yelling it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk". Floyd says, "come on, man, I cannot breathe, I cannot
breathe. They'll kill me. They'll kill me. I can't breathe, I can't breathe".
At one point the transcript shows Lane actually asked Chauvin if they should put Floyd on his side, which Chauvin said, no, he staying put. And
that's part of what the Defense Attorney for Lane is arguing here, that Lane was simply deferring to a senior officer there.
They also argue that Lane had no reason to believe a crime was being committed it that moment and I'm calling from the motion here, and the
Attorney saying, Chauvin was calmly positioned near Floyd's neck and back area, though cell phone video we've seen may dispute that description.
Chauvin's Attorney officially has no comment at the Simon, it's important to note we have not seen the actual body-camera video to collaborate this
transcript, but the transcript has been released nonetheless. Kim?
BRUNHUBER: All right. Omar Jimenez, thank you very much for that report. U.S. job creation remains stuck in low gear, according to numbers released
about three hours ago, 1.3 million Americans filed for unemployment aid for the first time last week.
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BRUNHUBER: Continued unemployment claims stand at more than 18 million. The U.S. economy added close to 5 million jobs last month which was better than
expected. But the unemployment rate is above 11 percent, the highest in many years, and the economy is still down more than 14 million jobs since
the pandemic began.
Some unemployed Americans are taking a one-two punch as the economy struggles to create jobs. The reason almost half of the U.S. states are
pausing or rolling back their reopening plans. And as a result, some workers are now out of their jobs for a second time in weeks. Vanessa
Yurkevich has the story.
VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN BUSINESS AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: For over two weeks, Warren Koguc battled COVID-19, isolated in his apartment in ft.
Worth, Texas.
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WARREN KOGUC, BAR MANAGER, FURLOUGHED TWICE: It was brutal; it was a constant beating on your body.
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YURKEVICH: He believes he got the virus when he went back to work mid-May when bars in the state reopened nearly two months after being shut down.
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KOGUC: I really thought we should have waited a couple more weeks. You have to make that constant choice when you're in this type of business between
your health and safety and working.
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YURKEVICH: Now bars in Texas are closed again, and Koguc who was symptom free is out of a job again. He was one of 2 million Texans who applied for
unemployment from mid-March to mid-May. Weekly claims started to drop when bars and restaurants reopened. But now, like COVID-19 cases in the state,
unemployment claims are on the rise again.
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KOGUC: I don't know if or when I'll be able to go back to work. I got about a month and a half, maybe two months before it gets super tight.
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YURKEVICH: It's also getting tight for bartender Randee Heitzmann. She brought a brand-new car in February, and was just furloughed for a second
time.
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RANDEE HEITZMANN, BARTENDER, FURLOUGHED TWICE: Not what I would have done if I would have now - and I was going to go on unemployment and I have to
work.
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YURKEVICH: The extra $600 a week in enhanced unemployment expires at the end of this month, leaving her financial future in jeopardy.
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HEITZMANN: If that $600 goes away, that is gone like - that doesn't even cover my rent. That's $200 to $300 a week. That's not livable for anybody
at all let alone somebody that has bills that are for somebody that's used to making twice that in a day.
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YURKEVICH: Omar Yeefoon reopened for just four days before closing shoals, sound and service.
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OMAR YEEFOON, OWNER,"SHOALS SOUND&SERVICE": I knew that the flood was coming.
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YURKEVICH: The risk of staying open as cases surge was too great forcing him to lay off his employees for a second time.
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YEEFOON: How do you turn around and ask for someone? You know, here we go again. I swear we're going to make it this time. It's really humbling.
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YURKEVICH: Americans out of work have nothing but time. For Heitzmann, she's using it to watch how elected officials are responding to the health
and unemployment crisis.
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HEITZMANN: We're sitting at home. So the only thing that we have to do is to watch you. So the decisions that you're making might not have
repercussions for you right now. But they will in November and they will the next time we vote after that.
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BRUNHUBER: Right. We're going to check the U.S. markets now. As you can see there the Dow Jones Industrial is down about 1.8 percent, and the S&P 500
and NASDAQ, you can see are also down.
Right, now we're going to turn to a developing story from California, where rescue crews are back searching a lake for missing actress Naya Rivera. She
is best known for her role on the musical series Glee. Police say she was on a rented pontoon boat with her young son Wednesday on a lake near Los
Angeles.
Another boater found her 4-year-old son alone and asleep on the boat a few hours later. The child is now safe with other family members. Law
enforcement says the case is being treated as a tragic accident.
Just ahead on "Connect the World", the U.S. Supreme Court kicks the can down the road on revealing President Trump's financial records we'll get
reaction and a look at how the ruling could impact the November election plus.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For me it's really just common sense. We want to protect each other, so everyone is wearing a mask.
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BRUNHUBER: No protests over wearing masks in most of Asia, unlike the U.S., there's a stark difference in attitudes. We'll show you.
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BRUNHUBER: Back now to our top story. Two U. S. Supreme Court rulings with major impacts on presidential powers but in these cases seeking the release
of President Trump's financial records timing is everything.
The justices ruled essentially that no President is above the law but it looks like neither Congress nor the Manhattan District Attorney will get
their hands on Mr. Trump's tax and other financial documents at least not before the November Election.
So let's go straight to Jessica Schneider now outside the U. S. Supreme Court. You were right there when it all came down, two cases two different
results can you break them down for us?
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Yes that's exactly right, Kim two different results for really the same practical effects. So the bottom
line from the Supreme Court is this that the President is not absolutely immune from these criminal subpoenas while in office. That was something
that his lawyers argued for - for saying that he was absolutely immune.
The Supreme Court saying that that is not the case and also the Supreme Court saying that Congress does have the power to get information like
financial records from the President however big caveat here there are limits and there is a heightened standard.
So what does that mean practically? It means that these two cases will now go back to the lower courts which mean that likely none of these financial
records and of course not the tax returns either. These won't be released anytime before the election which is in less than 4 months here.
So the two different cases the first one involving New York prosecutor the District Attorney in Manhattan sidebands wanting eight years of the
President's personal and business records for investigation they were doing into those hush money payments that Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels in
the lead up to the 2016 election.
The prosecutors there want to know if there was any illegality when the Trump Organization repaid Michael Cohen. The President's Attorney saying
look you can't serve these subpoenas on the President but the Chief Justice in writing this opinion saying that the President does not have absolutely
immunity.
Putting it this way, saying we hold that the President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers
nor entitled to a heightened standard of need however the Supreme Court saying that it should go back to the lower courts for consideration because
the President does have some recourse and he could still put up a fight.
So that is to be determined as to what happens there? Now as for the congressional subpoenas they were issued by three different committees,
they sought a broad array of financial documents not though any tax returns.
And the Supreme Court there really is laying out a roadmap to what Congress has to approve in order to get those documents? And the Chief Justice
warning of the political effects here.
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SCHNEIDER: He said this in the opinion but burdens imposed by a congressional subpoena should be carefully scrutinized for they stem from a
rival political branch that has an ongoing relationship with the President and incentives to use subpoena for institutional advantage.
So the court they're speaking about of course the fact that the House now controlled by the Democrats having this extremely adversarial relationship
with the President. Of course the President was impeached at the end of 2019 eventually acquitted by the Senate which is Republican controlled.
But Kim, this is really a mixed bag from the Supreme Court and the practical immediate effect is sort of a win for President Trump in that his
documents and tax returns will not be immediately released but the fight can continue that may lead down the road to these documents being released
just not anytime soon, Kim.
BRUNHUBER: All right, so a momentous decision but perhaps not as much as there's someone hoped. Jessica Schneider outside the U.S. Supreme Court
thanks you very much. I appreciate it. Across the U.S. President Trump speaks out against health experts on how to reopen states as Coronavirus
cases surge beyond the 3 million.
The Head of the CDC said Thursday saying it will not revise guidelines regarding the reopening of schools even though President Trump says the
guidelines are too strict. Instead the CDC says it will release additional reference documents.
At least 35 states are seeing a rise in infections however Mr. Trump remains in opposition with his own health experts. The feud has become more
public as he insists the U. S. is in a good place on his top experts Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U. S. is still mean deep in the first wave.
Meanwhile, doctors in some states are concerned about the rise in admissions and say they're running out of beds in intensive care units. In
Florida ICUs at 42 hospitals reach capacity. CNN's Rosa Flores joins me live from Miami, Florida. You know basically becoming the world epicenter
of the Coronavirus epidemic?
ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know Kim; there is so much worry here by local leaders. There was a press conference just wrapped up where
multiple Mayors from Miami Dade County like you said this is the epicenter of the crisis. It accounts for 24 percent of more than 220,000 cases right
here in the State of Florida.
They were so upset, these Mayors were so passionate demanding that the State of Florida higher contact tracers. They've said that the Department
of Health here has failed and that they are demanding that at least 500 contact tracers be hired immediately so that they have the information that
they need.
So that they can make the decisions that are appropriate for the safety of the citizens of this area. I want to share with you the numbers here
because these are really telling a very passionate Mayor from the City of Miami Francis Suarez said that on June 15 contact tracers were contacting
about 92 percent of the patients.
On June 22nd that number dropped to 86 percent. On June 29th that number dropped to 78 percent. On July 8th that number dropped to 17 percent in
essence contact tracers were only contacting 17 percent of the people that had contracted the Coronavirus.
Now we all know from talking to experts that contact tracing is key to try to stop the spread of the virus. Now compliance according to this Mayor is
also a very difficult issue right now because they're finding that people are not compliant.
They are not coming back contact tracers. They're not filling out the forms. They gave various examples and one thing that we have been hearing
anecdotally from these Mayors and they finally gave us statistics and again they don't have accurate statistics because you don't need it - you can't
have information if you don't contact trace.
And this was their frustration they said that right now the number of individuals who are getting this disease from their family members, from
just one person who gets infected and then goes to households and then infects the other people Kim is 35 percent.
So right now the latest here in Florida in Miami-Dade the epicenter of this crisis Mayors here are demanding that the state help with resources so that
they can do what they can do best which is make decisions here locally to save lives, Kim.
BRUNHUBER: All right. Thank you so much, Rosa Flores in Miami. Wearing a face mask in the U. S. has become almost a political statement but in Asia
there's hardly any resistance. In fact the stigma comes when you're not wearing a mask. David Culver shows us what it's like on the streets of
Beijing?
DAVID CULVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A weekday morning rush hour walk with us through the streets of Beijing. Look to my right, my left, behind me and
even headed right toward me, you noticed just about every commuter wearing a facemask.
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CULVER: To see a smile around here these days it's a bit rare and it's even a little unnerving because it obviously reveals that somebody's not
covering up their face.
In China from passengers boarding trains and planes to those with shorter commutes riding scooters or hopping on the metro rail masks are on concerns
of the virus still very fresh here in China's capital especially with the recent cluster outbreak. That's partly why folks of all ages wear them? And
unlike in parts of the U. S. it is not political here.
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LILLY JUNG, BEIJING RESIDENT: I think people really take as a social responsibility to wear a mask.
CULVER: Does it seem like a controversial issue when you think about putting your mask on every day?
JUNG: You know for me is really just common sense. We want to protect each other so everyone is wearing a mask.
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CULVER: Lilly Jung is got a go to stash of surgical face masks at home.
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JUNG: You can see we do have plenty of this white one and put it on.
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CULVER: And she always packs extra.
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JUNG: Just in case I forgot to wear a mask before I leave.
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CULVER: Some folks treat masks like a pair of cheap sunglasses, keeping spare ones in places you're likely to come back to. It is just one of many
layers of protection from COVID-19 that is in place here. Mass testing is routine and in some cases mandatory and contact tracing is strict.
Call or ride share and both you and the driver must show one another your digital health code certifying you have not been in high risk areas of the
virus. Step into a local shopping mall with us and it's a temperature check first and another check of the health code.
At the food court you order by phone to avoid contact and you pick up with your mask on. The one time you can actually take off your mask is when
you're eating. That is if you're dining in even the chefs working behind a protective glass cover up and as soon as the diners are done look, they
immediately putting their mass back on as they walk out.
They may be in a place like China and you say well naturally people are going to follow the rules. It's an authoritarian government otherwise
they'll face more serious consequences. But you don't have to look far to see a democratic society doing the same thing. You've got in South Korea
and in Japan.
And the leaders of all these Asian countries and territories often, seen wearing a mask in public. Stepping out of their own now it's religious part
of their routine. I mean, you grab your cell phone, you grab your keys, your wallet and you make sure you have your face masks.
Naturally there are times you forget right? You walk out of your house barefaced. You're in a rush, if the strange looks don't remind you then a
police officer or security guard will sometimes gesture to you and shout and you realize they are telling you put on a mask.
No question culturally mask wearing is not that foreign here. Many wore them for the SARS outbreak in 2003 in 2004. And of course here in Beijing
masks have been worn on heavily polluted days. But you will even find folks here who have forgotten to wear a mask and if you encounter them say in the
elevator, they will quickly realize it.
They become embarrassed. They try to cover up their mouth with their clothes without turn to the wall of the elevator to not breathe near you.
Or in some cases they believe in step off the elevator just as a courtesy. David Culver, CNN, Beijing.
BRUNHUBER: Next on "Connect the World" preserving the art of tracking with technology how one man's called earth is helping protect wildlife?
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BRUNHUBER: Call to earth is a call to action to the environment, to share solutions to critical issues like global warming, deforestation or plastic
waste. It's a long-term policy for CNN to work with you our audience to drive awareness and inspire change so we can engineer a sustainable future.
In this week's "Call to Earth" report Scientist Louis Liebenberg Rolex Laureate created free software used to track animals by monitoring and
gathering data. He and his team hoped the CyberTracker will play a role in helping protect wildlife and ecosystems around the around more now from
CNN's Rosemary Church.
ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: In Namibia's Kalahari master trackers are hashed at work, doing their part to help conserve the
wildlife that roams across these plains. Dam Debe has been tracking here since he was a child.
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DAM DEBE, MASTER TRACKER: During my school days in my holidays I used to walk out with my parents, and while we are walking in the bush, I used to
read some tracks.
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CHURCH: It's no easy task and the art of tracking which goes back thousands of years is at risk of disappearing.
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DEBE: It is very important, because in our tradition we are hunters and gatherers. So if we leave our culture then it will falls down, that's why
we have to keep on making use from our culture so that we can share it to the youngsters to be involved in our culture.
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CHURCH: That's one of the reasons why scientists Louis Liebenberg developed this software more than 20 years ago. It's called the CyberTracker and it
enables trackers to collect complex biodiversity data.
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LOUIS LIEBENBERG, CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CYBERTRACKER CONVERSATION: Purely from a heritage point of view, I think it's essential
that we develop a program that will keep these skills alive. Combining the skills with the CyberTracker enables us to capture data that can't be
captured in any other way.
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CHURCH: The CyberTracker software uses an icon interface to make it easy to use designed for users around the world. As they track Debe and his team
input data into this handheld device.
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DEBE: So as we track, then we have to make a discussion on the track which animal is that one, and then as we get that as a group, then we put it in
the data, and then put the data to mark exactly the place where we have seen the track.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Obvious in this direction, you can see the track over there.
LIEBENBERG: They're looking at signs of behavior that cannot be seen. In order to do that, they have to visualize the activities and the behavior of
the animal.
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CHURCH: At the end of the day they return to camp to enter the data into a similar-powered laptop.
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LIEBENBERG: With climate change endangering almost a million plant and animals species, there are enormous gaps in our knowledge of biodiversity
worldwide and particularly in developing countries these are the very areas where indigenous communities can make an enormous contribution to
monitoring biodiversity.
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CHURCH: The free CyberTracker software has been downloaded almost half a million times across the world, spanning from Costa Rica to Mongolia.
According to its website it's being used by trackers, scientist researchers, citizen's scientists, environmental educators, and in
forestry, farming, social surveys as well as crime prevention.
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LIEBENBERG: To actually solve these problems, we need more people on the ground to be able to physically do what needs to be done to manage
biodiversity, and to bring biodiversity back.
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BRUNHUBER: And will continue showcasing inspirational stories like this as part of the initiative at CNN and let us know what you're doing to answer
the call with the #CALLTOEARTH?
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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to "Connect the World". This Thursday here in the United States Major League Soccer has resumed its season in Florida amid
the ongoing global pandemic. So let's bring in CNN World Sport Patrick Snell. And Patrick they've done so with a very powerful message. Tell us
more about that?
PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yes. It came absolutely very powerful indeed. Two - matches taking place today in Orlando short while ago.
Philadelphia beating New York City FC but we're going to reflect really on what we witness Wednesday night over there at the Disney Complex?
Strong images resonating globally two MLS league's first match in some four months. CNN's Sports Carolyn Manno on the ground for us in Florida. Carolyn
thanks for joining us. So the wait is over?
CAROLYN MANNO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right Patrick, hello to you. Despite issues concerning Coronavirus as you can see the security's been up
just slightly heading into the weekend. Everybody here is wearing a mask.
But there are two stories happening here. There's Coronavirus and there's also the signs of unity and strength that are being displayed by Major
League Soccer. So far in this tournament it all started last night even before everything began it was the first game here and you saw a moment
that was truly, truly powerful.
It was players coming together over 100 black players taking the field. It was a moment organized by the newly formed black players for change
initiative. It's a player driven movement that aimed at tackling things like racial inequality, human rights issues not only in the league but also
in society.
Further than that there were Black Lives Matter masks and T. Shirts. The National Anthem was not played. At halftime of the game the Executive
Director of this initiative detailed the group's goal.
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JUSTIN MORROW, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BLACK PLAYERS FOR CHANGE: What you just saw was a moment of solidarity standing out with our brothers and sisters
fighting the fight for racial equality and human rights. You know we as professional athletes we see what's happening across the sports landscape
in North America and the world? And how as black players have been galvanized by the death of George Floyd?
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MANNO: This morning's game between New York City FC and the Philadelphia Union featuring continued signs of solidarity. Philly players replacing
their own names on the back of their jerseys with the names of victims of police brutality here in the United States the words one name too many also
written on the bottom of their kits.
And this is all happening under the umbrella of Coronavirus before last night's game ESPN was reporting that the four additional players from the
national team who needed further testing to determine whether or not they had Coronavirus are in fact positive for COVID-19.
And in the last few minutes here Patrick there been multiple reports stateside including one most notably from the Athletic that Nashville is
now out of the tournament. And that's been a line of demarcation for the players here that we've spoken with.
They said if there is another club outside of Dallas and Nashville the falls victim to this in multiples of 9, 10 and 11 players? They're going no
longer feel safe here. So that's something to monitor moving forward.
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MANNO: But it's not just the physical effects of the virus that are front and center there's also a mental aspect to this. Global soccer star Thierry
Henry who was now the coach of the Montreal Impact here believes that the effect on player's mental health is just as important.
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THIERRY HENRY, MONTREAL IMPACT MANAGER: People forgot about mental health is very important that those guys are mentally okay to play a game and feel
safe to come and play. And so this is where we are right now. We all know that it is not ideal in terms of preparation. \
Why it is what it is you have to adapt to what comes your way and don't understand the protocol and what of a protocol it is? You have to adapt
about to it so we try to prepare the team the best way we could physically and also mentally.
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MANNO: And Patrick that's what one veteran MLS player told me is the most important, the most challenging part of all of this is the physical and
mental discipline that's required to fully focus on the soccer. He said they're putting full trust in the health officials here working with the
lead to ensure their safety. So it's a one thing that can be taken off their play.
SNELL: Carolyn, thank you so much, yes, a fast evolving situation. Thank you so much. I want to get to Spain now where there are 3 fixtures later on
- Liga table topping around the gridiron action Friday's champ Barcelona trying keep the title race alive with victory over Espanyol Wednesday.
The gap between Real and Barcelona now just one solitary point lost to - though still with a game in hand. Boss's victory over their cross town
Catalan rivals courtesy of a Luis Suarez goal there meeting heartbreak for Espanyol who are now relegated as a result of the Segunda for the first
time in over a quarter of a century.
And to England where there also three matches on the slate full today Champions Liverpool meantime swatting aside Brighton Wednesday - superstar
- on target early on they made shocking Siegel's defending it has to be said.
Jordan Henderson making it two and this was within the first 8 minutes of play there, the Reds going on to put the game to bed with - again a near
post header. Again was the defending nonexistent 3-1 the final the champs move on to 92 points now edging ever closer to breaking Man City's 100
point record tally.
They have also won now 30 of 34 matches in the Premier League the farthest any team came as ever done that. And Kim, I know you've already got your
eye on this weekend's big London dobby right as your beloved Arsenal take on Spurs?
BRUNHUBER: That's right, well Arsenal's had some good results lately so we'll see I'll be watching. Thanks so much. Well, I'm Kim Brunhuber. Please
stay with CNN.
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