Trump, Top Health Officials In Test Of Wills Over Schools; President Trump, Health Experts At Odds Over Testing; President Trump Threatens To Cut Funds For Schools That Don't Reopen; Joe Biden Unveils Build Back Better Plan; Joe Biden Unveils Plan To Spur U.S. Manufacturing Technology; U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Congress From Seeing Trump's Taxes; Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Taken Back Into Custody; Trump Ally Faces Tough Runoff Election; Black Live Matter Mural Painted Outside Trump Tower.
NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back, you're watching CNN Newsroom, live from Atlanta. Let's get you the latest on our top story. The United States, breaking another record, with more than 63,240 new coronavirus infections in the past day. Almost half of the cases are in four states, California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Doctor Anthony Fauci says some of those states jumped over key checkpoints, and reopen too quickly. The percentage of people testing positive for covid-19 is above 25 percent in Arizona and Texas. Despite the U.S. reporting more than 63,000 new infections on Thursday, President Trump is doubling down on his push for schools to reopen, and that has set off a test of wills between the countries top health officials, and the White House. CNN's Kaitlan Collins is in Washington for us.</s>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: With only weeks before some schools are scheduled to reopen, more confusion is emerging from the CDC today.</s>DR. ROBERT REDFIELD, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL: The guidelines, our guidelines, but we are going to provide additional reference documents to aid, basically, communities that are trying to reopen k to 12.</s>COLLINS: CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield now says his agency won't change its guidance on reopening schools, after President Trump criticized it, but will release additional information instead.</s>REDFIELD: It is not a revision of the guidelines. It just -- provide traditional information to help the schools be able to use the guidance that we put forward.</s>COLLINS: Yesterday, President Trump said the guidance was too tough and expensive, but officials have struggled to say exactly what Trump has a problem with.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Which guidelines are too tough? Which guidelines are impractical?</s>REDFIELD: I think it is important, George, to realize and you use the word guidelines. That is what the CDC has done, they provide guidance, they are not requirements.</s>COLLINS: With the president and the CDC on different pages, Maryland's Republican Governor, Larry Horgan, says it is Trump who is mixed up.</s>GOV. LARRY HOGAN (R-MD): Well, actually I'm not confused, I think it's the president who's confused. The governor seem to know exactly -- yes, we know exactly what the CDC was talking about.</s>COLLINS: As to how the administration can say that they are not going to tell schools how to open, but they will say when, Kayleigh Mcenany says this.</s>KAYLEIGH MCENANY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The costs are too high to keep schools shut down.</s>COLLINS: How can you say, you are going to tell all the schools how to reopen, but you are going to tell them all (inaudible)?</s>MCENANY: There are 47 guidelines issued by the states, there's local guidelines that have been put in place, this can be done safely, it can be done well.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: When you do testing, to that extent --</s>COLLINS: Also today, Trump repeated his inaccurate assertion that there are more cases in the U.S., because there is more testing. Claiming, if half the people have been tested, there would be half the cases. But again, that is not true, even according to his own health experts.</s>FAUCI: That is an indication that you do have additional infections.</s>COLLINS: The Trump administration is also being accused of politicizing the reopening of schools by threatening to cut off funding if some of them don't reopen. Today, the education secretary, claimed that money could go towards a conservative cause, schools choice.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If schools aren't going to be reopen, we are not suggesting pulling funding from education, but instead, allowing families to -- families to take that money, and figure out where their kids can't get educated.</s>COLLINS: And when he was in the Rose Garden, the president repeated that comparison that he made the other day, saying, that kids in Germany can go back to school, so can kids in the United States. However, the president did not note that the case numbers in Germany are much different than the one you are seeing in the U.S., and they were more successful of flattening the curve, while here in the United States, of course, cases are still very much rising. Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.</s>ALLEN: President Trump presumed Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, has unveiled part of what his campaign calls, a build back better agenda. It is a plan that would spend hundreds of billions of dollars over four years to rebuild and reset the world's largest economy. Let's talk about it with CNN's John Defterios, he's joining me now, live, from Abu Dhabi. Hello to you, John.</s>JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR: Hi, Natalie.</s>ALLEN: Well, Joe Biden launched what would be his industrial policy if elected, how would you define his approach?</s>DEFTERIOS: Well, I think it's a bit of a tongue twister if you will. Build back better, right? The three B's. But we get the point here. It's to reinvest in America, here, but it is not like I would say a more left leaning policy, like Elizabeth Warren, or Bernie Sanders, when there campaigning against Joe Biden. The focus is on energy, for example. Move away from coal, very rich hydrocarbon, into clean energy. Number one. Number two, infrastructure, it's fair to say that the U.S. needs renewal on its roads, and its rails, and also, the power systems of the United States. And finally, health care. To make it more affordable, but also an emphasis on research, and development, after the shock of the covid-19 virus. Joe Biden suggested we could be much better prepared. The other thing, he was positioned himself is, he is a man of the working class and the middle class, the real deal. A man from Pennsylvania and then juxtaposing himself against Donald Trump, who was a billionaire developer. So, you can see the narrative that Joe Biden is trying to take here, Natalie. I would say, it is a no risk strategy, it puts Joe Biden at the center, very much in the kind of genre of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and overseas as a Tony Blair. Who said there is a third wave, you can do both at the same time, and still support business.</s>ALLEN: Well, is Wall Street getting used to the fact that he might very well be elected president, and what would that mean?</s>DEFTERIOS: Well, not if you are listening to Donald Trump. Because he keeps on saying this is going to be such a shock and a major sell-off if Joe Biden was elected, but I would invite our viewers to go back to post global financial crisis in 2008, 09, and 10 under the Barack Obama presidency and with Joe Biden as the vice president. They surrounded themselves with those that were from Wall Street, and policy makers who took that center view again. So, they kept interest rate low, investment was high, it was pro-business, but at the same time having some sensibility, as I was suggesting to the middle class and the working class population. We had a huge rally on Wall Street under Barack Obama, in that low interest rate environment. One would say the same thing for Bill Clinton. In fact before we had the etch bubble burst under him because of the high investment in Silicon Valley. Something we are seeing yet again right now. I think Wall Street, to your point is warming up to Joe Biden, particularly, because he is scoring well in the swing states which are vital, the five or six to get him to the White House. It's up for grabs right now.</s>ALLEN: John Defterios, in Abu Dhabi. Always appreciate you. Thanks, John.</s>DEFTERIOS: Thanks, Natalie, you take care.</s>ALLEN: Donald Trump is lashing out at the Supreme Court for what he calls a political prosecution after ruled even the U.S. President is not above the law when it comes to finances. In a 7 to 2 vote, the court cleared the way for New York prosecutors to subpoena Trump's tax returns, and personal financial records. However, in a separate ruling, they blocked Congress from obtaining many of the same documents, at least for now. In response, the president had this to say.</s>TRUMP: -- from a certain point, they are satisfied. I'm on (inaudible) who is satisfied, because that way -- this is a political witch hunt.</s>ALLEN: Both cases are being sent back to the lower courts now. CNN's Jessica Schneider has more about it.</s>JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: The bottom line from the Supreme Court, the president is not absolutely immune from criminal subpoenas while in office. And, Congress also has the right to subpoena the president for financial documents. That was the bottom line. But the Supreme Court says there are limits, and there is a heightened standard, meaning, these cases will go back to the lower courts, and no documents, and no tax returns, will be released, likely, before the election, less than four months away. These were two separate cases, one of them, coming out of Manhattan, the district attorney there, trying to subpoena eight years of the president's personal and business tax returns for a criminal investigation into those hush money payments that Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the election, after she alleged an affair with Donald Trump. The court, saying that the president is not absolutely immune, but that the president does have some recourse and that the lower courts should determine whether or not the subpoena from the Manhattan prosecutor should move forward. Then, on the Congressional side, three committees have subpoenaed the president's banks, as well, his accounting firm, for financial records for a broad swath of investigations. The court saying today that Congress needs to tailor their request and that the lower courts need to look at four different factors to determine whether or not those subpoenas can move forward. The chief justice, writing in both opinions in a seven to two decision, joined by some conservatives and in the Congressional case the chief justice putting it this way, saying, but burdens imposed by 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 subpoenas for institutional advantage. So, really they're pointing to the politics at play here. The fact that Democrats control the House and they have been in a very adversarial position against the Trump White House throughout the administration. So, of course, all of this remains to be seen. Will Congress, will the prosecutors in New York see the president's tax returns or his financial documents, that is something that lower courts will determine. The Supreme Court saying that they can, that they have to meet some heightened standards here. Jessica Schneider, CNN, Washington.</s>ALLEN: The president's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, meantime, who as we mentioned made those hush money payments is back in federal custody. The bureau of prison says, Cohen refused the conditions of his home arrest, which was granted after growing concerns over covid- 19. His lawyer claims, one of the conditions would have prohibited Cohen from speaking with the media and publishing a tell-all book that Cohen is working to release. Next here on CNN Newsroom, South Korea's capital stunned by the sudden death of its powerful mayor. We will go live to Seoul, to talk about that story that is developing. Plus, a high profile visit to the White House, may not be enough to get Poland's president reelected. We head to Warsaw, where the campaign is coming down to the wire.