Roger Stone was brought into this witch hunt, this whole political witch hunt, and the Mueller scam. Hospitalizations topped 50,000 this week, the highest number since May, and the death toll, which had been falling for months, now rising again. Any sense from you that that could work for him politically?
TRUMP: I think it's a great thing to wear a mask. But I think they're going to do far too little, given the economic circumstances and given this dire health threat to the American people. And here you have no more than a couple of Republicans willing to say a single word about someone who came before Congress and lied to them, intimidated witnesses and obstructed them. STEPHANOPOULOS: Chairman Schiff, thanks very much for your time this morning. STEPHANOPOULOS: President Trump, Joe Biden sparring on the economy, one of the areas where President Trump still holds an advantage over Joe Biden. He urged the Russians to hack Hillary's e-mails. And I would say one other thing in response to what Zerlina said, putting the vice president in places where he can be most effective, let me tell you something that's not the way the presidency works, George, you know it and I know it and Rahm knows it, you get put into the presidency, you can't be put into some place where you're most effective, you have to show during the campaign you can deal with the stress and the strain and the difficulty of the job. And here's the problem with Vice President Biden on this point, he still refuses, with the exception of one speech this week, to get out there and really start to talk about things.
Unfortunately, it’s still hands on deck during the summer, but we are preparing for the fall. And right now, change is beating stay the course by 15 points. But we are in a much better place.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Amanda Carpenter, the vice president chief surrogate... STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's bring in our roundtable right now. If we don't have that, we will not get control of the virus. And so I think the debates are going to be something, because Biden has hidden so much, that are going to be even more important this time than they were at any time in recent memory. The types of test are getting better. But the U.S. has set a single-day record for new cases seven out of the last 12 days, and the death toll is rising. We think we have enough tests today to identify where the hot spots are. tipping point. And unfortunately, even though the mortality rate, your chances of dying if you get COVID are way reduce than they were before because we know how to care for you better, we have remdesivir, we have steroids, even though the death rate if you get it is going down, your chances of surviving are much better, we do expect deaths to go up. It seems like the strategy from the Republicans is to sort of force Biden out of hiding. And the more data we get about potentially some aerosol spread, particularly in very closed spaces with poor ventilation, it's really essential to wear masks.
But nonetheless we knew the damage would be grave. GIROIR: So, you know, I'm not the person who can say who could nationally mandate things. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?