Pelosi Under Fire Over Indoor Haircut.
PAMELA BROWN, CNN HOST: Breaking news in our politics lead. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says she was set up after her trip to a San Francisco hair salon drew backlash from Republicans for breaking the city's coronavirus rules. Now, the business' owner shared this video right here of Pelosi inside the salon, as you see, not wearing a mask as she walks from one room to another. Right now, the city's guidelines require services like haircuts to happen outdoors. But Pelosi says a salon staff member told her one appointment at a time was allowed inside the building. CNN's Manu Raju is live on Capitol Hill. Manu, that's a strong allegation from Speaker Pelosi. Does she have any proof?</s>MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, she's pointing to how this all played out. Typically, when she gets her hair done in San Francisco, someone comes to her house, but, apparently, her regular stylist was not available. That person referred it to someone else at this salon. And the person that she, her staff interacted with at the salon conveyed to them that she could come into the salon, it would be no problem. But, of course, as you mentioned, this is a complete violation of what San Francisco rules allow, which is that such hair appointments need to happen outdoors, not indoors. And after this came out, the footage was first provided to FOX News. The owner criticized Nancy Pelosi in an interview with FOX News. We reached out to the owner too. And then, after she's -- she's gotten some criticism by the president, by Republicans, she responded very strongly today by saying that all this appears to have been a setup.</s>REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon that I have been to over the years many times, and that when they said what -- we're able to accommodate people one person at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup. So, I take responsibility for falling for a setup.</s>RAJU: Now, in that footage that shows or not wearing a mask, her office says that she was wearing a mask through the course of the appointment. The only time that she didn't was that exact moment, when she pulled it down after getting her hair washed for a very brief moment, that -- they contended. So it's part of their argument that this was an effort to make her look bad, leak this footage, invite her in, in violation of the rules. She's calling for an apology from the salon as well. But, clearly, regardless of how this played out, it was a violation of what the rules allow in San Francisco, which is, if she's going to get her hair cut there, it has to be outdoors.</s>BROWN: Right. It's interesting, her words there, saying, I take responsibility for falling for a setup. But the rules are the rules in the city. And that is that. All right, Manu Raju, thanks so much.</s>RAJU: Thank you.</s>BROWN: Turning to our 2020 lead and a new campaign strategy. Sources tell CNN the White House has decided the spread of coronavirus is inevitable and is now moving away from heavy-handed actions to stop the virus, focusing instead on reopening the economy with just two months until the presidential election. Well, President Trump is now speaking less about the virus in public, as you may have seen, and is making law and order the focus of his reelection effort. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.</s>JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Two months out from Election Day, President Trump is on the trail in the key battleground state of North Carolina, pivoting away from the pandemic and turning to the economy and law and order.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: American warriors did not defeat fascism and oppression overseas, only to watch our freedoms be trampled by violent mobs here at home. We stop those violent mobs very easily. These people only know one thing, and that is strength.</s>DIAMOND: With U.S. coronavirus cases topping six million, sources telling CNN that Trump and top White House officials have all but given up on suppressing the virus, focusing instead on doing just enough to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed, while waiting for a vaccine. One senior administration official telling</s>CNN: "You can't stop it."</s>JOSEPH BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The idea that you're going to be able to get the economy back on track without getting COVID under control is completely counterintuitive.</s>DIAMOND: Democratic challenger Joe Biden also preparing to counter Trump's visit yesterday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, announcing he will hold a community meeting there tomorrow.</s>BIDEN: We have spoken to all the leaders up there. And there's been overwhelming requests that I do come, because what we want to do is, we got to heal. We got to put things together, bring people together.</s>DIAMOND: Meanwhile, Trump is continuing to make baseless claims about Biden's health.</s>TRUMP: He's done some kind of an enhancement, in my opinion. And I say we should both -- I should take a drug test. So should he.</s>DIAMOND: But, these days, it's the president who is facing questions about his health amid new reporting that Vice President Mike Pence was put on standby when Trump made an unscheduled trip to Walter Reed Medical Center last year. Biden declining to weigh in.</s>BIDEN: And I'm not going to speculate. I will let the experts do that. The only time that I have been on notice is when the president is out of the country, and I'm in the country.</s>DIAMOND: And, Pam, the president today in North Carolina continuing to stoke unfounded fears about the integrity of the 2020 election, now suggesting that his voters should actually -- if they vote by mail, also go and try and vote in-person. Listen.</s>TRUMP: So, let them send them it in, and let them go vote. And if the system is as good as they say it is, then, obviously, they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they will be able to vote. So, that's the way it is. And that's what they should do.</s>DIAMOND: And what the president is suggesting his voters should do here is essentially commit voter fraud. If you vote via absentee or if you vote by mail, you cannot go and then try and vote in-person as well. And if you would be allowed to do so, you would be committing voter fraud. So, again, not clear what the president is trying to get out here. But, Pam, it does seem like the latest attempts by the president to try and stoke fear and concern about the 2020 election without any evidence whatsoever.</s>BROWN: That is stunning that he's encouraging voter fraud, from a president who has claimed repeatedly that he's so concerned about voter fraud in the election. All right, Jeremy Diamond, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Well, coming up: fear factor. President Trump claims violent crime is up in cities run by Democrats. Is that the whole truth? We will take a look.