hello, everyone. i'm kate balduan. thanks so much for joining us for the next couple of hours. we really start with an extraordinary apology from the nation's top general. general milley expressing deep regret over taking part in president trump's photo-op last week when they walked from the white house to lafayette park to st. john's church across from the white house. defense secretary mark esper has already said he regrets having been there. you see the photo we're talking about right there. a slew of former top military leaders you will remember have in recent days offered a biting criticism of the president's response to the protests, but even with that kind of chorus of anger and criticism over the president's response it is today's comments by the current joint chiefs chairman that really stick out, that are really making news. let me play -- let me play mark milley's remarks to the

graduating class at at national defense university. >> many of you saw the photograph of me at lafayette park last week. that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society. i should not have been there. my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. as a commissioned uniformed officer it was a mistake that i have learned from, and i sip seriously hope that we can all learn from it. >> cnn's barbara starr is joining me now. barbra, what are you hearing about this. what else did he say? >> well, kate, general milley is making a very specific point here that really is resonating across the ranks and i think he hopes resonates with the american people, that as a serving officer, as chairman, guardian of keeping the u.s.

military out of partisan politics he is now apologizing. he shouldn't have been there. it had had the aura of a political event, and he says he should not have been there. you know, it's extraordinary. he has apologized. he's owning it without any qualification. he is just standing up and saying what he now really wants people to know is that he shouldn't have been there. so he goes on and says a bit more about how he viewed everything that happened. >> and we should all be proud that the vast majority of protests have been peaceful. peaceful protests means that american freedom is working, and i'm also proud of the response of our national guard forces who provided excellent support to state law enforcement under the control of state governors in more than 30 states across the country. we never introduced federal troops in the streets of america as a result of the combined efforts of the national guard

and law enforcement at quelling the violence and de-escalating very, very tense situation. we all know the system in the united states is imperfect, full of passionate debate and continually evolving, and we in the military will continue to protect the rights and freedoms of all the american people. >> reporter: perhaps the most important thing here is not the politics but milley along with esper had sought very much last week to dissuade president trump from even the notion of activating active military troops, putting them on the streets in washington, d.c. and cities where there was unrest. milley is telling everyone that peaceful protest is a good thing, that the american military does not take to the streets against the american people. kate. >> barbara, thank you so much. joining me right now is cnn military analyst retired general

mark hertling. great to see you, man. the chairman of the joint chiefs publicly breaking with the president, doing something that the president never does, apologizing. what's your reaction to this? >> i had a strong reaction to it, very positive, kate. this is something, this action of ten days ago has been reverberating through the military community. many people like me did not like what general milley did, when secretary esper did as being part of that photo-op. for general milley to now step forward and say, hey, this was a wrong move and the audience he stepped forward to do it to i think really says good things about the status of civil military relationships and is a poptive that comes out of this. a lot of people are talking about these kinds of things. what is the proper role of the military and the civil military relationship and general milley saying that this morning, at a

graduation of the university is a big deal. >> talk to me about the venue. do you think it's significant that he chose this graduation speech to speak about this? >> yeah. i'll first inform your audience because many might not know, kate, that the national defense university is not a college where 20-year-olds are graduating. this is the national war college. it's one of many war colleges in the military, and the attendees are senior-level military people who have been chosen to attend. so this is -- this is a group of up-and-comers. they are colonels and captains in the navy and the coast guard, and at this particular venue there's also senior executives from many of the agencies like the cia, the state department, usaid. they have been in a year's worth of study learning about how to apply national strategy. so for milley to address that -- i'm a graduate of the national war college, and for milley to address that audience with these words really says to them, hey,

i was wrong to do it, but it also sends a very nuanced message of you should never do something like this. learn from my mistake. the military is sacrosanct in terms of how they deal in politics. >> i also notice he's not criticizing the photo-op. he's not criticizing the forceful clearing of protesters that happened right beforehand as they were walking over right? he's saying very clearly he shouldn't have been there. this is on me. i should not have been part of that walk over. is that distinction significant? >> it is, because what he's saying, which is what all military senior leaders wrestle with, this civil military relations is, hey, i'm a servant of the nation. i -- i adhere to the constitution of the united states. i may disagree with the political leaders, but i'm never going to outwardly say that. i will obey the orders that i'm given as long as long as they are not illegal, immoral or unethical.

the president, on the other hand, doing this photo-op, you can debate that all you want, american people, but don't pull me into that debate because i am your guardian. i have pledged my oath to defend elections officials if they are giving me legal orders. >> can i also ask you, because at the same time you have another split between the president and what we're learning is top pentagon officials over possibly renaming military bases that have been named after confederate generals. >> right. >> trump tweeting out very clearly, his press secretary doubling down on this, that this is a no-go. there's no even opening for conversation. we're not renaming any base no matter how vile these generals were. what is your -- can you just give me your feel on this and do you have a sense among the military on this? >> i do, and the military split as they are on everything because they are representative of the american population. my personal feeling, kate, and i've been to all of these bases, ft. bragg, fortt polk and

ft. pickett never really connecting, you know, the people they were named after. each though i'm a student of civil war. i never real made the connection between these leaders that were not only traitorous to our country, but they accepted something that is anathema to who we are as a people, that the respect for all, the placing of value on all of our citizens, and frankly these bases we're honor when they were named were people that went after the constitution. they were traitors. they fought against the union. they held slaves as part of their property, so i think that the debate on this issue has been a good one, too. now you're going to see a lot of -- and i've seen on social media a lot of military thinking of names that should replace the ones like bragg and hood. let's not worry about that. let's think about how do we move forward in this and in fact take a look at this conversation of saying who do we really honor

with naming conventions and with statues and should we be doing that, and i think that that's the debate that's take is place in the military hand frankly there will be old soldiers that say i trained at ft. jackson. i don't want that renamed, and then there are some that are a little more thoughtful saying how is that representative of who we are, and how do black soldiers feel about serving at those bases? >> yeah. i mean, some vile people that these bases are named after. >> yeah. >> the more we learn -- go ahead. >> if i can add one more thing. if anyone were to do a study of these individuals, they were all terrible in terms of being not very good generals with the exception of one or two. >> right. >> they were bigots. >> also by definition they were not winner as we can say. just take a brief look at history. >> right. >> great to see you. thanks for coming in >> you got it, kate. thank you. president trump is also drawing criticism today for his decision regarding a return to

the campaign trail. the president is going to be going he says to tulsa, oklahoma on june 19th. both of those significant. june 19th is known as june teenth, the day that marks the emancipation of slaves and also freedom day and tulsa, oklahoma is the sight of the world's largest violence, massacre of hundreds of a can americans that happened again 100 years ago this month and senator kamala harris got to this today the fact that he's holding this real. this isn't just a wink to white supremacist. he's throwing them a welcome home party. let me bring in cnn political correspondent abby philip about this. abby, what are you hearing about the white house decision on this? are they at all reconsidering? >> reporter: well, they are actually doubling down, kate, this morning. the white house press secretary kailey mcenany and the president's campaign manager

brad paschal said that the president will be going on june 19th and said that the president understands what it is and basically is going to take a victory lap about what he's done for the black community, so that's the explanation today. it's notable to me that we are first hearing about it this morning as opposed to yesterday when this was first announced and there was all of this criticism exploding about it, but i think they have had some time to think about it and figure out how they are going to frame it, and this framing, i think, will be interesting and challenging, frankly for this president. yes, he has for many years touted low employment prior to covid for black americans. he touts the first step act, but on the first front unemployment is no longer low as we all know and there are extraordinary challenges for black americans in this country, but i also think that it's going to be challenging for the president to -- to do this kind of talk

about how he's done so much for the black community when there is so much of a sense among black americans right now that things are not all right. things are not going well and that more needs to be done, so kailey mcenany has said this morning that he will be looking forward to the work that needs to be done. the question now will be how specific will he get? he's not said what he will be proposing in terms of reforms. he's not said that -- how he'll be using the levers of the government that he now runs to rectify some of these wrongs, and -- and, in fact, he's been speaking about confederate symbols and all these other ancillary issues that have thrown fuel on the fire. >> if nothing else, it's setting the expectation for what should be discussed and brought up, and he should be talking about during this rally. it's setting an expectation now for what they should be doing. >> and it's notable, kate,

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reform coming from, well, capitol hill, but really from a groundswell of communities across the country, demands for change, real change, and there is also the pandemic. the numbers of cases in the united states just topped 2 million, and the president is headed to a state that is seeing a spike in infections. cnn's john harwood is at the white house and is joining us right now. john, what are we expected to hear and see with the president today? >> reporter: kate, we haven't got a lot of details from white house aides about when the president may say today. there's some talk of an executive order that might include some data collection, standards, guidelines, that sort of thing, but there are few things we do know. first of all, the president is going to the political equivalent of that underground bunker beneath the white house. that is to say, a white evangelical church. that's his strongest particular group of supporters, so it's a safe space there. the second thing is apart from the efforts on capitol hill, the

president has personlly sent signals of escalating racial division rather than unity and rather than easing them. there was the tweet earlier this week about the 75-year-old protester in buffalo who he lumped with antifa. there was the dismissal yesterday of even the idea of renaming confederate military bases named for confederate generals, and we saw this morning that the president sent a tweet taunting protesters from that june 1st demonstration when tear gas and rubber bullets were fired to clear lafayette park which is, of course, behind me. the president said it was a walk in the park. of course, after the park was cleared he walked across to the church and was photographed. the president himself is not someone in his personal history, in his political history, who has been interested in messages of racial unity and we have no indication he intends to do any different today. >> how do they thread the needle if they even try to at all.

let's see, john. thank you. john will be standing by and the president will be headed out soon to head to dallas. let me bring in charles ramsey, the former police chief of philadelphia and was also the co-chair of the police reform task force put together by president barack obama. you'll remember after the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. that experience i really want to lean on because in the response to public outcry back then you put together a playbook of concrete steps and changes that police departments can make. these reforms that you think could be put in place. what among those changes can be accomplished through executive order by any president, i'm wondering? >> well, first of all, policing is local. it's really governed at the local and state level, but that doesn't mean that the federal government can't play a role in trying their best to standardize some training, some inclusions in policy and the like.

the only way to make states do it in local municipalities is by tying it to funding but that doesn't mean, again, that they can't play a role and they should play a role, but we laid out 59 recommendations and 92 different action steps, and i think all of them still apply today. can you also take a look at consent decrees that are in existence because a lot of information can be gleaned from that. there's no excuse for departments and governments not to take a look and try to do what they can to actually try to implement real reform. this is a moment in time that we have to take advantage of if we're actually going to see real change occur. >> no excuse on the local level and no excuse on the federal level as well. >> no. >> and this gets to a question of kind of policy and culture. i've got a question about it because there's a new video that came in overnight that we just got of an arrest in tulsa, oklahoma. the arrest is under investigation. two black teenagers handcuffed

by officers for jaywalking down what appears in the video as you see a peaceful street, and, yes, i did say handcuffed for jaywalking. as i mentioned,ness under investigation but this has me thinking of the famous quote that culture eats strategy for breakfast. >> first of all, jaywalking, give me a break. i can't think of anyone who has done that. it's meant for the safety of pedestrians and drivers on the roadway. it's not something you would handcuff individuals for. that's the kind of stuff we're up about. the stuff about sis testic racism, i've not seen policy or directives that have that thing included, but part of the culture of policing, you can't argue against the fact that it still exists because it do, and i don't know if if two white kids walked across the street if

they would have done the same thing or not. i'm not going to get that, but that just shows that policing is in crisis right now and those kinds of things is what people out in the streets right now are protesting pause it is unequal treatment and makes absolutely no sense. i think it's fixable, and i really think it will require holding people accountable and not accounting that type of stuff >> you don't need to investigate that to take action to know that that was not appropriate, and it's certainly not something that the chief wants to see. >> okay. thanks for your leadership on this. >> thank you. >> coming up next for us, lebron james also leading the way in a new push to protect black voting rights. basketball great jalen rose, he's part of that effort. he joins me next. to baking fails... to sweat sessions. even life inside can bring on things like sweat and oil. but it's nothing a deep clean can't fix. love, neutrogena®.

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georgia's primary election this week widely considered a complete mess, and all you have to look apt are scenes like this. people lined -- forced to wait in line for sometimes four hours to cast a ballot. facing broken machines and now, of course, it's a lot of finger-pointing as to who and

what is to blame. nba superstar lebron james captured the impact of this in a tweet writing this. everyone talking about how do we fix this talking about racial uninjustice and what about asking how we vote is what is racist. the group called more than a vote is aimed at getting more african-americans registered to vote and cast a ballot in november. joining me is another nba star, former indianapolis pacer jalen rose who is joining lebron james in this effort. thanks for taking the time. tell me how this is about and how it came about. >> one of my favorite artists is chuck d. -- they are so many people that will try to politicize this and more than a

vote the mobilization of inner city environments, black and brown people to unite and be energized the same way were in 2008 to help barack obama get elected, in the same way in 2012 we didn't have that same energy in 2016, and we feel like our country has suffered because of that. so as you mentioned, the extremely long voting lines. we want to let people understand that you can mail-in vote if you need to. how about living in a country that doesn't give us a day off to go vote. how about having a smart phone. shunned we be able to vote on our phone. we should be able to do everything else with t.taxpayers and citizens, voting from cell phones, the process should be more easier and since it isn't we're here to give confidence to those who have a little hesitanty to go oat out and vote and let their voices be heard. >> it's one thing to get people to register to vote but lebron's

tweet gets at something bigger that we see in georgia and across the country. looking at if and how we vote and how we tackle structural racism in voting. how dou tackle that? >> the power dynamic won't get changed between now and november, but what i will say is the oppression and the racism that has taken place in our country is systematic, and there are a lot of people that are saying the system is broken. actually it isn't. it was built this way. now it's up to us to help change it. i get refreshed when i see young people, white people carrying signs that say black lives matter and unlike the '60s when blacks were protesting for equal rights that 92% of the audience was black. now it's a mixed crowd, and i appreciate that. the america of those that are 50 and 55 years old that probably didn't fall in love with rap music growing up, it's a lot different for people who live in your house 35 and under.

athletes and entertainers we moved to the suburbs and your kids started listening to rap music and war baggy shorts and socks and they don't look at black culture like they did 50 or 60 years ago. >> you're putting your name on this office and lebron james is committing thousands had of dollars to that cause. what are you looking forward to do in your role in it? >> i applaud lebron, maverick carter,ed a many a, and here's what we're doing for mobilization and confidence. we're tax-paying citizens, and what's going to happen is there are so many people that use coded terms like make america great again, frankly, and there's certain terms. i'm a former athlete, oh, he thinks he's woke or just shut up and dribble, or stick to sports.

that's the problem. the people really don't want to have the honest conversation about things systematically of the changes that need to take place in our country, and you're not going to see a lot of corporations, a lot of businesses with statements and writing checks and then they will look at their power dynamic. they will say we don't have many black and brown people in positions of power so hopefully those scenarios start to change but more than a vote is strictly about mobilizing those who may or may not have are the confidence based on their past experience to get out and vote to make sure they are heard this year the way they were heard in 2008. >> you know, there is a big announcement in another sport overnight coming from nascar banning confederate flags from all events that nascar is involved in. let's be honest, where that flag is often omnipresent. were you surprised by that move, jalen? >> i was not surprised because the movement has become

mainstream in a lot of ways. you can see the giants whose shoulders i stant behind me at the ali summit, kareem abdul-jabbar, jim brown and bill russell at a time when they were protesting racial injustices, you know what they were doing, losing their championship belts, losing their reputation, losing sponsorship, losing their careers. tommy smith and john carlos when they got back from the olympics after raising the fist could not find a job so for those sacrifices that led to colin kaepernick to take a knee and how eerily similar is colin kaepernick taking a peaceful protest before a football game is to george floyd and the officer who murdered him. let's call that what it is. let's stop saying died when one of these situations happen at the hands of police, okay. that's not dying. dying -- at 105 in your sleep is peaceful. these are murders. these are lynchings. these are killings, so what we want people to do to understand that they have the strength to

make changes, prosecutors, judges, senators, mayors, governors and definitely the president. >> jalen, i have to say, i said to you in the break, i always loved will you on the court and i'm falling in love with you off the court. thank you. >> thank you very much. we appreciate the opportunity and the platform to spread this very important message. >> thank you for your leadership. >> coming up for us, more than a dozen states are now seeing an uptick inizations for the coronavirus as the number of cases in the u.s. surpasses 2 million. we'll focus on one of the states that's seeing real trouble, arizona. that's coming up. first the coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on many aspects of lead including mental health. the nonprofit mindful schools is helping families cope with free online classes. >> there were days, i could see it in her face as a 1-year-old, being stressed and, of course, we don't want to see our children stressed. >> i would get upset and then i

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do you remember the coronavirus task force put together by the president to lead the national response to the unfolding dangerous and deadly pandemic. it has been weeks since they have updated the public on the course of the virus and the status of the national effort to increase and improve testing to contain the virus. now there's spikes in cases in several states and what's really trouble is spikes in hospitalizations of the right now 20 states are trending in the wrong correction in terms of new cases.

are they paying attention? cnn's ed lavandera is in texas and rosa flores is in florida. texas is joining a number of states reporting the highest number of new cases, ed. what are you hearing about this? >> reporter: well, it's definitely a trend that needs to be watched very closely. remember, texas is one of the states that started pushing the reopening of the economy here rather early, back at the beginning, late april, beginning of may, and what we're seeing now is that if you look at the number of new cases over the courts of the last week, seven-day average is around 1,700 new cases a day. that is numbers that we have not seen since this pandemic started. now, the number of tests being done daily has also gone up, but if you really look at those two and the correlation between the two numbers closely the number of new cases being added is higher than the number of tests being added, and then the more troubling part here and is of greater concern is the highest

number of hospitalizations, more than 2,100 now being reported. we've not seen those numbers here in texas since these numbers have been kept, so that is something that is of great concern. the strategy here in texas has been to contain the outbreaks in the various parts of the state where these cases are flaring up. more than 2,100 hospitalizations are higher numbers that we've seen in some time. the cause of this is really hard to pinpoint. remember, there's been the reopening of the economy. you have the memorial day weekend and the large number of protests over the last couple of weeks, so all of that have could be playing a large factor into this number of people that we're seeing here. kate? >> the florida has also seen a recent increase in cases. what's happening there, rosa? >> reporter: if you look at daily number of cases it might seeming alarming but for several

days we've seen 1,000 cases registered and if you look at the number of cases posted by florida, you'll see sometimes 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 cases have been posted so a better metric is to look at the percentage positive, just how many positive cases per day by percentage, and if you look at that graph, you'll actually see that the line is pretty steady for the past two weeks between 3% and 4%. the other very important metric are hospitalizations of the right now, according to the state of florida, is 25% of beds are available. that's the key metric. governor ron desantis has mentioned from the get-go that's one of the metrix he'll look at and will continue to look at as the reopening of florida continues. right now we're in phase two. elective surgeries were allowed in early may to resume, and so that, of course, increases the number of individuals taking

some of those hospitalization beds, but, kate, i'll leave you with this. one of the concerns, of course, is lately we've seen thousand of people here in the state of florida and around the country hit the streets to protest, and experts, of course, taking a look to see what effect that will have. we won't know needily but something we need to look at. >> ed, rosa, thank you. let's turn to arizona. that the state is seeing a very big surge, a massive surge in new cases. i want you to look at the increase in maricopa county alone where phoenix is located. the medical director is saying 27% of all cases during the pandemic came within just the last week. we've been in this for three months, guys, just the last week. statewide officials are telling hospitals that they need to be activating their emergency plans as intensive care units, they are filling up. right now they are 79% full. joining me now is someone watching this very closely and

is very concerned, the director for the arizona public health association, previously served as the head of arizona's department of public hill, will humbolt. thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >> you said that the spike is not the problem. what do you mean? >> we had a really successful stay-at-home order at the end of may. people complied with it. it was really effective, and you can see that we did, you know, slow down the transmission of the virus and it really worked, but when the state opened, it replaced the stay-at-home order with basically nothing. i mean, it was a purely volunteer program, and so businesses could reopen, and they were asked to comply with cdc guidelines, but there was no criteria, no enforcement in play, so some places are doing it well, but a lot of places are just not doing anything at all. in addition, the governor limited -- actually eliminated the city's ability to do anything at the local level, you know, in terms of putting

mitigation measures in place, you know, for night clubs and really for anything, and so that limited the effectiveness of the post-shutdown order world. finally, i think, and this is underappreciated i think nationally, there has been really limited effort to deal with assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, and when you look at what's happening with new inpatient hospitalizations and total hospitalizations, a lot of -- i think the majority of those hospitalizations are coming from those congregate settings, so without a real focus on those types of settings, we're really setting ourselves up for what we're seeing right now. >> the governor and his office have continued to point to an increase in testing as part of what is driving the number of infections and cases up, but i'm also seeing, you know, increased testing doesn't increasizations, so why does that not hold water? >> yeah, well, that's exactly right. the previous reports were right

on target in texas and florida. one of the things you look at is both new hospitalizations, total hospitalizations and then hospital capacity along with percent positive on the tests, and, you know, we are -- we're actually in worse shape than texas and florida in terms of what's left in our capacity. you know, one of the things the governor talks about is, well, we're going to go into a surge plan and increase the number of beds, and i don't think many people realize when you talk about surge capacity and when you go to a surge plan for care, that impairs the level of care that people get. the standard of care decreases when you go into a surge and contingency plan, so i think you need to be -- if that's your plan to surge the number of beds, you should be straight with the people and tell them the level of care you're going to get, however, is not what you would have gotten under a normal state of affairs in a hospital, so that's where we are. >> yeah. and we are in a really tough spot, and it is unclear what the

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u.s. stocks, check on this. sharply down as america marks 2 million cases of the coronavirus and fed chairman powell issues a warning. the dow's down more than 1,000. add to that now that we learned this morning another 1.5 million americans filed for first-time unemployment benefit last week. the good news is that the number of new claims each week is slowing down. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here to break this down. >> so many jobs lost in the past 12 weeks, another million and a half workers filed for unemployment benefits for the first time last week, more than 44 million over the past 12

weeks laid off or furloughed. think of that. that is 27% of the labor force. more than 1 in 4 workers at the beginning of march has now filed for unemployment benefits. some states have been hit harder than others. in georgia it is 48% of a labor force. in kentucky 45%. in hawaii 38%. the numbers unprecedented but the hope is this is the bottom. you are seeing fewer layoffs in health care and social assistance, retail and first-time claims have been declining since the peak in that final week of march. we are finally seeing numbers under 2 million each week. another thing to pay attention to here, continuing claims. those count workers who filed for benefits two weeks in a row. that number slipped to 20.9 million last week, still a huge number. economists are shifting focus to

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