circumstances and get exponentially worse 37. >> thank you, both, gentlemen, for your thoughts as both of you understand what is going on and particularly, marq, for your sources on the ground. we do appreciate it. good morning, everybody. it is friday, may 29th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. a lot of developments over the last 24 hours or so. we want to begin with that breaking news from minneapolis. violent protests raging for a second straight night following the death of george floyd after being arrested by a minneapolis police officer. last night, protesters turned their attention to the city's third police precinct, the base of the four officers who were fired in connection with floyd's death. a police spokesman says officers evacuated the building shortly after 10:00 p.m. local time after officers forced their way in and set it on fire.

here is how some of that played out last night live. >> they are celebrating symbolically that they have taken control of the police station. we know there are or were at least five police officers that i could see. they might have been the same ones on the roof as were in the back. we don't know where those police officers are, but the main entrance to the police station is now in flames. there's no sign of police and there is more debris going on. there's fire crackers being put off by the protesters in all directions. they lit fire crackers in the parking lot. you can see that. there is a police presence on top of the building. the earlier fire was over there, not even in the center of things.

there is no chance. there are thousands of people on the street. i get your point, that to let a police station burn is symbolically an important matter for them to consider. there is no chance of fire trucks getting in here at this point without a very heavy intervention by if authorities or by the national guard. and i just keep emphasizing that they're not here. we're not seeing that presence. we know the national guard is in town. i saw heavily armed vehicles on my way here earlier, but there are no police vehicles, no armored carriers, no national guard in the vicinity. there are a lot of fire crackers. >> so the mayor later said he made the call to abandon the building to cut the risk of injury. the city later took to twitter urging protesters to retreat. minnesota's governor activated more than 500 national guard

members yesterday afternoon. when asked where the police were when the police precinct was being overrun, the mayor said many were stationed at essential businesses like banks, grocery stores and pharmacies to prevent looting. wow. some startling images from overnight. give us the latest from your standpoint on the ground. >> we're downtown right now. where ali was is about two miles away from where i'm standing right now. we tried going live from there. that is where you have seen the majority of clashes the last few

days. each night, those clashes have gotten more intense and more dramatic. we saw the scene ralast night. when our crew went over there, it wasn't safe to be there. many buildings were on fire. there was still a strong presence of people there that were still milling about. that whole shopping plaza where we saw a target and a grocery store being looted, it was all chaos. we heard from the mayor overnight who talked -- who first responded, gave an update of the latest going on in

minneapolis. the president is getting criticized for this tweet but he says i can't stand back and watch this happen to a great american city, minneapolis. he attacks the mayor calling him a second left wing mayor. but it is a tweet that kind of gives a warning before you view the president's tweet. but he says these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen. he talks about bringing in the national guard and ends his tweet by saying any difficulty and we will assume control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts. listen to what the mayor said in response to the president's tweet, but also in response to the latest here in minneapolis. >> there is a lot of pain and anger right now in our city. i understand that. our entire city recognizes that. what we have seen over the past several hours and the past couple of nights in terms of looting is unacceptable.

our communities cannot and left-hand tolerawill not tolerate it. outside of the people who have been opening rioting, when you talk to protesters here, when you talk to people on the ground, their bottom line and the reason why they're still demonstrating and going out every day trying to do so peacefully, at least initially, they want the officers involved in the death of mr. george floyd arrested. it's that simple to them. they see the rioting. they call that a distraction. what they want, they believe the officers who had that knee on mr. floyd's neck for at least seven minutes in that ten-minute video, they want those officers arrested and it's that simple. you have the evidence that they need, they said. and of course now we have a new video surfacing of the arresting

officer with his knee on the neck and two others on his legs. stay safe, my friend. we're going to be checking back with you throughout the day. the president weighed in on the floyd case overnight tweeting this, i can't stand back and watch this happen to a great american city, minneapolis. a total lack of leadership. either the very weak radical left mayor jacob frey get his act together or i will send in the national guard and get the job done right. he went on to say these thugs are dishonoring the memory of freud and i won't let that happen. just spoke to governor tim walz and told him that the military is with him all the way. when the looting starts, the shooting starts. we should note twitter added a public interest notice to this tweet a short time ago saying it

violated twitter's rules about glorifying violence. but twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the tweet to remain accessible. and here is what the president told reporters just yesterday while speaking in the oval office. >> have you spoken to the family of george floyd yet? >> no, i haven't. but i feel very, very badly. it's a very shocking sight. bill and i were talking about it before. it's one of the reasons bill is here right now. as you know, we're very much involved. i've asked the fbi and the attorney general to take a strong look and see what was going on because that was a very bad thing that i saw. >> do you think those police officers should be prosecuted? >> i'm not going to make any comment right now. i can tell you. i think what i saw was not good, not good, very bad. >> so as the associated press points out, those comments that we just heard, they marked a

very different tone for this president. who has often been silent as we well know in the face of white on black violence and has a long history of defending the police. this change in tone is coming as his campaign has sought to chip into the advantage that democrats have with black voters. according to the ap, trump's campaign hopes to win enough support to win pivotal states in play or minimize enthusiasm for joe biden. but i want to take a look back. george floyd's death has been compared to the 2014 death of eric garner which trump has never addressed. garner's dieing words, i can't breathe, became a rallying cry. trump has invoked those words on several occasions to mock political rivals. back in 1989, trump took out a full page ad in four new york city newspapers calling for the death of the central park five.

five young african-american men wrongly convicted for the assault of a jogger. he has never, never apologized. trump repeatedly criticized colin kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality on african-american men. and in a 2017 people to law enforcement officials, trump seemed to encourage violence on the part of police. >> when you see these lugs thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. you see them thrown in, rough. i said please don't be too nice. like when you guys put somebody in the car and you protect their head, the way you put their hand -- like don't don't hit their head and they've just killed someone. i said you can take the hand away, okay? interest and hearing cheers from

the crowd there. joining me now, danny cevallos. wow, danny, so many developments overnight. so distressing in this country right now to see what is happening. there was this bizarre press conference yesterday where people were expecting to hear charges announced of some sort or some sort of conclusion to what has been going on there from the prosecutors involved. and we got nothing from the prosecutors involved in this case. in case, we got be patient, we don't want to make a rash decision. what are they trying to determine now considering the fact that we have videos from every single angle of this thing? >> they have to take their time investigating this because this is such a high profile decision. and if they are unable to get a conviction if they decide to prosecute, it will be considered a spectacular loss for the prosecution. so they're going to take their time and investigate.

the reason in this is so thorny is the law allows and police are trained to not only use force, but escalate force depending on the continuum. and because you have so many experts who disagree on the quantum of force allowed in a particular situation, prosecutors have to look as far back as they can to the genesis of this police encounter and analyze each use of force, each escalate and each choice by each officer before they decide whether or not they're going to bring charges. it is very difficult to secure a conviction against a police officer for use of force. >> let's bring up that video, guys, that we just had on the screen. this is a new video, danny, that has surfaced now. we have a single angle of the arrest. at that point, we had seen the

arresting officer with his knee on the neck of george floyd with another officer standing overhead. now we see two additional officers as i mentioned earlier holing george floyd down, as well. all the while, this man, this individual saying he cannot breathe, calling for his mother, crying. what do you expect if we do see charges emerge from this? what type of charges do you expect to see not only for the arresting officer, but the two additional officers that have restrained george floyd and the officer standing overhead who did nothing? >> those are the trickier charges if charges are brought against the officers who stood around. unlike normal bystander citizens who don't have any affirmative duty to intervene, police, it's the essence of their job, to intervene where there is somebody in distress. however, when you have a brother officer doing what the officer was doing, it's a really tough judgment call for police to

decide whether or not to intervene. so they're going to look closely at what the police were aware of. the most damning piece of evidence is the knee was on the neck for several minutes, not for just a few seconds or like a choke hold applied for a second or two. >> eight minutes. the knee was on the neck for eight minutes. the knee was on george floyd's neck for eight minutes. as he said, he could not breathe and he was suffocating and calling for his mother. eight minute. danny, good to see you as always, my friend. still ahead, a look at what is exactly inside the president's new executive order and what it zoo mean for facebook. also, trump rails about mail-in voting this time with a baseless claim will children stealing ballots.

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welcome back, everybody. the president signed an executive order that could punish tech companies. tech giants harolded protections known as 230 as the bedrock of the internet. the order is encouraging the federal communications commission to rethink the scope section 230 and when its liability protections apply. it seeks to channel complaints about political bias to the federal trade commission. and president trump continued his rage against mail-in voting yesterday, as well, tweeting in all caps this, mail-in voting will lead to massive fraud and

abuse. it will also lead to the end of our great republican party. we can never let this tragedy be fall our nation. the president defended a separate tweet that alleged, with no evidence, by the way, that children will steal ballots from mailboxes in california. >> governor newsome has not sent ballots out to everybody in california. they're only going to registered voters. >> how many are there? >> so what your tweet said was -- was not wrong -- was not correct, it was wrong. >> oh, really? so when he sends out 28 million ballots and they're in all the mailboxes and kids go and raid the mailboxes and they hand them to people signing the ballots down at the end of the street, which is happening, they grab the ballots. you don't think that happens? there's ballot harvesting. they rip them out of the mailboxes. it's all the time. you can read about it. take a look. >> joining me now, white house

correspondent and associate editor of politico, anita komar. i don't even know what the president is addressing there. this is something that i have never even heard of, by the way. good to see you this morning, by the way. what kind of damage might some of these accusations by the president elicit heading into election season? >> you're exactly right. we don't know and he hasn't said what evidence he has for these allegations or the allegations he's been mentioning really for the last couple of weeks or those he mentioned right when he got into office in 2017. .he has frequently talked about, you know, election tampering and fraud, but doesn't really back it up with any of that evidence. so, you know, what he's trying to do is shift how people are going to vote this year. it is clear he does not want mail-in voting, but what is happening across the country in various states, both run by republicans and democrats, is

that election officials feel like they need to move that way just because of the coronavirus. but you have to remember that people -- states were moving that way. people tend to forget that in 2016, one out of every four voters was voting by mail. so he's trying to shift that back into in-person voting. >> it also seems as if he is trying to build this case that if the election does not necessarily go in his favor, then he will claim that there was malfeasance, that there was wrongdoing. that there was election corruption during this time period. i want to get to, while i have you, anita, the trump's new executive order on social media. what does this mean for companies like twitter and facebook and quite frankly, what does it means for the president if, in fact, he is tweeting and glorifying violence in his latest tweet by saying with looting comes shooting?

>> we don't really know what it means for those companies. i think those companies are trying to figure out how to response. obviously, twitter is not backing down since they have cited another one of his tweets. there's all sorts of talk that they could take him or the federal government to court. i think you're going to see some legal challenges, whether it's from those big companies or some other companies. you have members of congress and some democrats saying this is illegal. what he's essentially asking the federal government to do is intervene on, you know, as his critics are calling a political vendetta, right, get involved, get the federal trade commission, federal communications commission involved in something that, you know, these agencies are supposed to be independent, right? and so this is getting them involved in something that's political just a few months before the election. and so it can sort of go either way, but it's clear now, overnight, as twitter has flagged another tweet that this is not going to end.

>> i mean, the writing is on the wall here, anita. is there any checks and balances involved to hold the president accountable per these advances that he has made on these social media companies that we've seen? >> i think the thing that you're going to see is him being taken to court. and so many times in the last 3, 3 1/2 years, that's sort of the mechanism people use. they'll take him to court and sort of let the courts decide. but i think you might see congress get involved. you saw members of congress say what he's trying to do changes that law. so there might be some members willing to do that. it's unclear, though, if the neat would go that way. obviously, the senate is run by republicans. they're very unwilling to stand up to him. we've seen that over and over. this is right before an election so it's unclear that they would go that way. i think you're going to hear a lot of people talking about this. you're going to hear the president talking about it.

it's going to be a campaign issue for him now the next few months saying that there is this political bias, something he's been saying for three years. you're going to hear him continue to say that again. >> if we know anything about leader mcconnell, he will not go that way. i think we both know that pretty well. anita, thank you as always. i appreciate you getting up for us. still ahead, minneapolis is not the only city dealing with unrest this morning. we're going to take a look at the protests going on across the country in the wake of george floyd's death.

welcome back. protests have erupted across the u.s. in response to george floyd in custody. they began in minneapolis before spreads to go st. paul. the st. paul police department says 170 businesses have been damaged or looted in that city with dozens of fires. in chicago, protesters marched on the city's south side carrying signs reading black

lives matter and a warning for our viewers, disturbing footage out of denver yesterday where a driver struck a demonstrator at the colorado state capital. someone also firing shots, scattering protesters. as police fired teargas canisters and pepper spray. in phoenix, as well, protesters marched through the city's downtown reaching the state capital last night where authorities say one of the building's windows was broking with an attempted entry around the same time. in louisville, seven people were shot in a protest for breanna taylor, an emt who was shot and killed by police in a botched raid earlier this month. the louisville police office says no police officers discharged their weapons.

joe biden said this last night, we can't ignore that we are in a country with an open wound right now. a wound far older and deeper than george floyd's. george floyd's killing, and his brutal, brutal death captured on film, his final words pleading for breath. let me breaths, i can't breathe. he went on to say this, i urge the protesters to exercise their rights peacefully and safely. but people all across this country are enraged and rightly so. every day african-americans go about their lives with constant anxiety and trauma of wondering, will i be next. sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not. these tragedies, these injustices cut at the very heart of our most sacred of beliefs, that all americans equal and rights and indignity are part of an integrated systemic cycle of

racism and oppression that throughout every part of our society. meanwhile, president trump yesterday marked the solemn milestone of the united states passing the milestone of 100,000 deaths due to the coronavirus. he tweeted this, we have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. to all the families and friends of those who have passed, i want to extend my empathy. god be with you. the total death toll in the united states passed 100,000 as trump was returning to the white house from the delay spacex launch from kennedy space center down in florida. yesterday, reporters pressed white house press secretary mcenany about the president's delayed response. >> yesterday, the u.s. hit 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus. that happened around 6:00 yesterday evening. it took until about 9:00 in the

morning for the president to recognize that on twitter. what took him so long? >> the president recognized that landmark before we even hit it. after all, it was the impetus behind him lowering the flag to half-staff. he did that for several days. that was an acknowledgement of that number approaching and he acknowledged it yesterday morning. >> but it took 13 hours, some odd hours for him to recognize that and tweet about it. >> and far in advance of that benchmark, as i noted, he lowered the flag to half-staff. >> all right. so you've heard the saying no shirt, no shoes, no service, right? so some states are add to go that list now. masks. new york governor cuomo said he will sign an executive or his authorizing private businesses to deny entry if they're not wearing a mask or a face covering. wearing face masks has become a political symbol for some americans, despite public health officials urging people to do so to prevent community spread.

watch this. >> when we're talking about reopening stores and places of business, we're giving the store owners the right to say if you are not wearing a mask, you can't come in. that store owner has a right to protect themselves. that store owner has a right to protect the other patrons in that store. you don't want to wear a mask? fine. but you don't have a right to then go into that store if that store owner doesn't want you to. >> so meanwhile, virginia georgia ralph northam issued all residents over the age of 10 to wear a mask in indoor public spaces beginning today. and the white house bungled the distribution of the only approved coronavirus drug. nine former and current senior trump administration officials spoke to the post detailing how the first batch of 607,000 vials

of the drug remedies virginia donated by the drugmaker was distributed in early may, quote, in some cases to the wrong hospitals, to hospitals with no icus and therefore no eligible patients and to facilities without the needed refrigeration to store it. as a result, they go on, quote, some had to be returned to the government. many hospitals were not prepared to receive the shipments because they were not alerted. and state health officials does not know the government's reasoning for where the medication would be sent. speaking to the post, the department of health and human services office for preparedness and response which oversaw the initial distribution does not address the claims that the drug went to the wrong hospitals or whether it was sent back. and president trump is preparing for yet another grand independence day celebration in the nation's capital, but his plans may be foiled as they do

not match the city's social distancing guidelines. white house deputy press secretary judd deer released a statement on the president's holiday plans writing, quote, this, as president trump has said, there will be an independence day celebration this uyear and it will have a different look than in 2019 to ensure the health and safety of those attending. the american people have shown tremendous courage and spirit in the fight against this global pandemic just as our forefathers did in the fight to secure our independence and both deserve celebration on america's birthday this year. however, the d.c. mayor bowser said in a news conference tuesday that the city would not issue any permits for parades during the district's first phase of reopening, which would limit social gatherings to no more than ten people. the president last spoke on his july 4th plans on april 22nd and here is what he had to say. >> on july 4th, we're going to

be doing it. last year was a tremendous success and i would imagine we'll do it -- hopefully i can use the term focus. >> all right. saying he's going to do it focus. we'll have to wait and see what happens this july 4th. joining me now, dr. dara cask. good on you, congratulations. thank you so much for all the work that you have done. and thank you for surviving covid-19 so you could do more work. we appreciate everything. let's get into this a bit, dr. cass. as seeing so many americans ignoring social distancing guidelines during memorial day weekend, not wearing masks at all, you saw these images from the lake of the ozarks over the weekend, as well. do you foresee a spike once

again happening in the next three to four weeks or so? >> do i think, obviously, every time we ignore social distancing and we don't use the public health metrics that have been in place and working, we do expect to see an increase in transmission of the virus. and what we're realizing i think is communities may have a higher threshold for the disease transmission and are okay with more of their citizens maybe getting sick and maybe dieing for the, i don't know, decision to go to the beach and not socially distance. i mean, we're not saying don't go to the beach. we're saying if you're going to go, be responsible and care about your fellow citizens. we certainly don't try to predict and we don't want more people to get sick. but this is a direct correlation. the less you distance, the less you use a mask, the less you follow public health measures, the more likely the virus is to spread. so we still haven't gotten to a dip in america where we would expect to see a spikes again. it's more like we're at a plateau and now we're going to get to a higher plateau.

>> so let's talk about a subject that a lot of parents are concerned about, right? and that is summer camps. we have had three months of our children at home and it has been hard, dr. cass, to say the least. i have two little ones at home. and you at this point, while i love my kids, would love if they could go to a summer camp every day and be taken care of by someone else for a couple of hours. you, however, are advocating for something very different. you coauthored a "new york times" op-ed in cancel sleep away camp advocating for parents to keep their children home this summer. why? >> so i think we have to remember, all camps are not created equal and we need to look at camp and the variety of camps and say before should we go next? so one of the things i felt strongly about was setting apart sleep away camps, specifically those that are for long periods of time away from our child care or day camp experiences. the reason why is when you go to camp for a long period of time,

the camp is responsible for the child. kids are really -- look at the lake of the ozarks. imagine if you took a bunch of 10-year-olds and finally gave them freedom for the first time. on camp, if kids got sick, it's impossible to determine is it a virus that's a regular fever virus or something that we see that passes quickly or is this covid-19? and i think that a shorter duration experience for just the day where parents are involved, day camps and really local camps that are keeping people where they live is a much better next step this summer. we're optimistic that next summer with better tracking and tracing and metrics and understanding of this disease even before a vaccine, we could get to sleep away camps. we're just not there yet. and i think as we open, one of the things we need to be humble on is what are the right next things to do? the goal is to get back to school. consistently and actually so that our kids can learn.

and it seems like for this summer, day camp experiencing, local experiences are just the better next step than sending kids hundreds of miles away to sleep away camp. >> you see, this is why we are so thankful to have you. you guys are thinking about next summer as we're trying to get through this one. dr. dara cass, thank you so much. appreciate you getting up so early with us this morning. thank you. still ahead, a reminder abofrom joe biden about the president's focus. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. where will you go first?

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25th. biden responded to a washington post report highlighting that the united states and 194 other countries were not prepared for a pandemic. he tweeted this. we are not prepared for a pandemic. trump has rolled back progress president obama and i made to strengthen global health security. we need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores. two hours later, trump on that same day posted a tweet to apple's ceo, tim cook, writing this, the button on the iphone was far better than the swipe. okay. with that, let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins for a check on your weather. good morning to you, bill. >> yeah, good morning. a crazy morning. yeah, thanks for all the coverage that you guys have been doing and showing us. so let's get into what we have been doing starting with the covid numbers and i'll give you

the weekend forecast. spacex trying to get up on saturday arch. fist thing's first, the fatality curves yesterday. wednesday and thursday are days that we usually have the most deaths reported because of the way it works with the holiday weekend and just in the middle of the week. 1,223 yesterday. that was the lowest thursday going back since april. wednesday and thursdays tend to be our peak. as far as new cases went, we had 22,000 plus new cases yesterday. what's interesting is for the first time since this really has begun, california was the state that reported the most new cases the last two days in a row. kind of makes sense when you see the population of california, so much bigger than even texas or florida or new york for that matter. texas was the state that reported the second most highest number of cases. that has changed. for so long, new york was number one. new york is now down to number three. so as far as the forecast goes, we need to let everyone know in

the northeast, it is humid, it is hot. 29 million people are at risk, maybe even an isolated tornado or two. this does include washington, d.c. in the new york area and as we head through the weekend, the storms will head off the east coast by the time we get through saturday afternoon. the exception being along the south carolina/georgia coast. our launch forecast for spacex dragon, i pause the radar right here at 3:30 in the afternoon. the launch is scheduled for 3:22. there's a 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms. right now, it's only a 40% chance that we're going to have weather that is good enough for the rocket to launch. so that would bring us to sunday. sunday's launch, if it's needed, would be for 3:00. unfortunately, same exact thing. numerous showers and thunderstorms in the area. hopefully we'll get it off the

ground this weekend, but it's iffy. >> just not a good weather time in florida. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, we're going to go live to cnbc for an early look at what is driving the day on wall street. as we go to break, a look at some new technology helping to keep medical workers out of harm's way. robotics researchers in denmark have developed a machine that can taste test patients for covid-19 which they had could help limit the need for health care workers to kokt inspecting contact with the virus. placing the swab into a glass bottle and screw on the lid. we are back in a moment. mess. but scrubbing still takes time. now there's new powerwash dish spray. it's the faster way to clean as you go. just spray, wipe and rinse. it cleans grease five times faster. new dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse.

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welcome back, everybody. the white house has opted against releasing their financial mid session review this session amid continued

volatility in the u.s. economy. usually they are amped to release something like this, but not necessarily this time around. what more can you tell us about this move? tell us about this move? >> that's right. we are usually expecting economic projections to come out over the summer. this has been happening each summer since the 1970s. this year, the white house won't make these projections. administration fsofficials reportedly saying the data is too volatile to make real projections at this point, and also the federal agencies responsible for making the projections are somewhat overwhelmed, dealing with the implementation of the federal legislation that was pushed through in recent weeks to deal with the pandemic. critics are saying that this would, no doubt, these projections would show a very severe economic impact, and this would come just months before -- a few months before president trump heads back to the polls --

or voters head back to the polls to consider whether to re-elect the president. the timing of it drawing criticism. on the economic front, we got fresh jobs data yesterday. initial jobless claims coming in, showing an additional 2.1 million americans filed for unemployment in the last week. this is a very high number, again showing that high numbers of joblessness continue despite the reopening of states. now, the continuing claims number has come in showing 21 -- just over 21 million americans. this does mark a sharp drop from previous weeks. the reopening of some states is pushing businesses to rehire some workers who were let go because of the virus. but the data is pretty noisy. we don't want to read too much into it yet. no doubt about it, the numbers remain staggering. yasm yasmin? >> it seems as if, julianna, the united states has also made some major steps towards utilizing more renewable energy amidst this pandemic.

what can you tell us about this? >> well, that's absolutely true. we heard from the u.s. economy information administration yesterday, saying that for the first time in 134 years, renewables outweighed coal for the first time. this is renewable sources like solar and wind. this milestone comes despite president trump's pledge to prop up the industry. just one number for you, america's coal consumption collapsed by another 15% last year to its weakest level since 1964. that's the sixth straight year of declines for coal. fresh numbers coming out of the eia. >> julianna tatelbaum live from london. thank you. great to see you. up next, axios' one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," we'll go live to the scenes in minneapolis and the protests over george floyd. plus, actor robert de niro will start the conversation

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welcome back, everybody. joining me now with a look at axios am, the co-founder of "axios," mike allen. good the see yo see you. >> morning. >> talk about axios' one big thing. >> twitter's quick hit. we've seen on the show how twitter has lolly gagged in responding to president trump's tweets. 1 12:53 in the morning eastern time, the president was tweeting about minneapolis. he took a shot at the minneapolis mayor. and he said, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. now, twitter quickly pointed out that that was a reference to a 1967 threat by the miami police chief, who was threatening to bring shotguns into the slums to

reduce crime. twitter, late night on the pacific coast, they took a look at this and popped up a gate on top of the tweet that says, this violates the twitter rules against glorifying violence. now, why this matters, this is very different than the fact-check that twitter did earlier this week on those two presidential tweets about mail-in ballots. this was now, you have to click through this warning to see the tweet. "axios'" chief tech correspondent was talking to execs, and they tell us the ceo, jack dorsey, knew about the decision before it was made. this is a different posture by twitter against the president. >> how quickly, from your understanding, mike, from your reporter on the west coast who spoke to twitter, how quickly did they make this decision, did they turn this around? >> very quickly. this was up within a couple

hours. at the same time that on msnbc the minneapolis mayor was being asked about this tweet. msnbc had fantastic coverage last night. you dipped in right away when, at 1:30 in the morning his time, the mayor of minneapolis came out, was talking to the press. he was asked about this tweet, and he seemed to either have not paid attention to it or -- because he said, read me the tweet again. the reporter read the tweet from the president, accusing the mayor of being weak. the mayor said, "donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis." the mayor got emotional. he said, "this is a tough time," but he hit the lectern and said, "we will get through this." >> it is just astounding to me, the president tweeting something like that, when looting starts, shooting starts, glorifying

violence. >> and the -- >> non-profits -- go ahead. >> i was saying, a mayor who is trying to manage the situation, firefighters, police have been pulled out for their own safety. he's trying to manage that situation, and he is being asked about tweets from back in d.c. >> "axios" is also reporting that governments and non-profits are trying to come up with a plan for how a potential coronavirus vaccine could possibly be distributed. because while we are following what is taking place in minneapolis, and it is so incredibly difficult to watch, the video of george floyd, we are also following other news with coronavirus and reaching this grim milestone of 100,000 deaths. americans focused on both topics right now. take me through this quickly, mike. >> that's right. so you know the scramble we've had for tests. so when there's, god willing, when there is a coronavirus

vaccine, imagine the melee in people trying to get their hands on the vaccine. ilene o'reilly, who covers epidemiology for "axios," found out the u.s. military is going to help distribute the vaccine when the doses become available. they're good at logistics. the president made a reference to it when he made a push for the vaccine. he said every soldier was to be involved in that. we dug into what that means. the vaccines will be prioritized first for first responders, and then the military will help get it to everyone else. >> mike allen, thank you, as always, my friend. i'll be reading "axios am" in a little bit. signup.axios.com. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, may 29th. along with joe, willie, and