thank you for trusting us. we'll be back next week because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." good morning, everybody. it is monday, june 1st. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot taking place overnight. we're going to begin with a nation in crisis. amid a global pandemic and record unemployment now comes unrest unlike anything we have ever seen in a generation. the death of george floyd exactly one week ago by a minneapolis police officer now charged with murder has lit an already combustible nation on fire. mass protests have hit all 50 states over the last few days as tense, mostly peaceful demonstrations during the day give way to violence at night.

those who wish to destroy use the cover of darkness to carry out their crimes. at least 40 cities have tried to quell the violence by issuing curfews which have been largely ignored. the national guard has been deployed in roughly 26 states. there were deployments overnight to rally, north carolina, and sioux falls. jay gray, talk to us about what you have been seeing overnight on the streets of minneapolis after we saw what took place this weekend. >> yeah. there seems to be a change here if at least for one night. large pockets of the city were

either boarded up or burned out. for the first time since his death, there was a calm here. while there were still several thousands out, there was not the fires, not the violence, not the things that have become unfortunateliel familiar in this city over the last several days. there were people here expecting to get arrested. no real issues overnight. that's the first time we've been able to say that since floyd's

death. >> what is the plan for the city of minneapolis going forward over the next couple of days? >> you know, we've asked officials about that and they say it's a plan that's developed each day, depending on exactly what they see happening in this city. the protesters have said they're going to be here. they're not going away. they want the charges stepped up to murder one in floyd's death and they want the three other officers to be involved, as well. the city says they're continuing to work through that and that their investigation will lead them to where the evidence does. but the protesters say they're going on be here, they'll continue to be peaceful. it's the police, the national guard, the sli's deputies on the ground and really a huge show of force over the last couple of days that are promising to keep that peace. >> jay gray for us, thank you.

stand by for us, jay. i'm going to check in with you a little later on in the morning. forbes points out in some cities police joined demonstrators in a show of solidarity. krigs swanson joined protesters calls to walk with us in flint township. quite a moment there to see. andy mills took a knee with protesters that it was in memory of george floyd. and officers in ferguson,

missouri, participated in a 9:30 kneel in floyd's memory while cheers erupted from the crowd. so as protests broke out across this country, president trump la largely silent except for a slew of tweets that appeared to stoke the tensions. a senior administration official said he and some of hesitate adviser say he should not speak to the nation because he had no tangible policy decision to announce as of yet. but in a series of tweets on saturday morning, trump addressed the protests that took place outside of the white house. he added big crowd professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. if they had, they would have been greated the with the most vicious dogs and ominous weapons i've ever seen.

the president tweeted in part this, tonight, i understand it's maga night at the white house. here is how he responded when asked about his tweets. >> are you concerned that you might be stoking more racial violence or more -- >> no, not at all. magas is make america great again. these are people that love our country. i have no idea if they're going to be here. i was just asking. but maga is make america great again. by the way, they love african-american people, they love black people. maga love the black people. >> so the president has dismissed advice from people urging him to tone down his rhetoric. there is broad agreement among trump's allies that his current messaging on protesters could back fire politically and

further fuel the turmoil. senator tim scott of south carolina, the only african-american republican in the senate said yesterday that he fold president trump some of his tweets that swept the violence were not constructive and that trump was responsive to him for ways to improve the message. >> i spoke with the penalty yesterday morning. i told him what i'm going to tell you which is mr. president, it helps us when you focus on the death, the unjustified, in my opinion the criminal death of george floyd. those tweets are very helpful. >> but senator scott, i've got a minute left. did you, sir, did you speak truth to power and did you say to him when you talk about thugs, when you talk about looting and shooting and vicious police dogs, what did you say

about that? >> i used the similar words that you just used which is we talked about the way there is a constructive way to have a dialogue with the nation. we don't always agree. i didn't agree with him with his tweets beforehand, but we have the ability to sit down and dialogue on how we move this nation forward and knonot let t detractors get in the way of what has been a -- >> so former president joe biden weighed in on the nationwide demonstrations over the weekend. in a statement, he said this. the act of protesting should never be allowed to over-shadow the reason why we protest. it should never drive people away from the cause the protest is meant to advance. i know there are people all across this country searching the loss of a loved one to

intolerable floyd circumstances or to the virus gripping this nation. and i know a grief that dark and deep may at times feel too heavy to bear. we are a nation in pain, but we must not allow the pain to destroy us. we are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us. the 2020 presidential candidate visited downtown wilmington, delive delaware, yesterday, and he tweeted a picture, as president, i will help lead this conversation and more importantly, i will listen. >> and former president barack obama said events like these should not be normal in today's tonight. it is natural for life to just get back to normal. as a pandemic and natural crisis

up end everything around us. but we have to remember that for millions of americans being treated differently on account of race is tragically painfully maddeningly normal. this shouldn't be normal in 2020 america. it cannot be normal. if we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, we can and must be better. still ahead, the protests over the death of george floyd are not just taking place here, but they've expanded globally. we're going to talk to richard engle about that. and later, the demonstrations have health officials warning about the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus infections. so much happening in this country right now. those stories and then, of course, a check on your weather when we come back. a check on yo when we come back.

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welcome back, everybody. protests around the world erupted over the weekend in response to george floyd who died in police custody.

in london, huge crowds gathered in tra fallinger square and protested at the u.s. embassy there defying the ban on large gatherings during the pandemic. police later arrested 23 people. in berlin on saturday, thousands gathered at the u.s. embassy, some carrying signs reading i can't breathe and black lives matter. in denmark, a similar scene. in toronto, protesters gathered at a park saturday in response to floyd's death as well as a plaque woman who died in toronto falling from her apartment after police arrived. trauma police say they are investigating that incident. and in brazil, clashes in rio de janeiro as police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators protesting police violence against black people in the city's working class neighborhoods. joining me now from london, richard engle.

good morning to you. thanks so much for joining me on this. as we've seen, protests across this country and across the world globally now, what can you tell us about what happened in london yesterday? >> so you listed off several protests. the london protests were the biggest and they were held in defiance with lockdown rules. it's not an easy thing these days to protest when people are being told to stay six feet apart. but they were relatively large demonstration eggs here, in germany, in canada. there was protests among the palestinian, in jerusalem. a lot of people are seeing themselves and seeing their circumstances in what happens in the u.s.

israeli security forces shot an autistic man over the weekend as he was heading to school. so there are a lot of people in support of the circumstances and seeing their own circumstances in a situation where they believe there is police brutality. but there soot layer to all of this. there are big powers that aren't necessarily sympathetic to the demonstrators who are playing up what is happening in the united states and those are primarily russia and china. russia likes to take advantage of unrest in the united states, and it always has going back to the days of the soviet union to point out to its own people, look, look what is happening in the west. our system is better. and for china, it's all about hong kong. there is unrest in hong kong that was a bit of a coronavirus pause, but now they are resuming

again and chinese officials are saying, should we be going out and supporting the demonstrations and unrest in the united states the way the united states supports what it considers unrest and riots in hong kong? clearly, china would like the same way president trump says he's going to crush the dissent and not allow lawmakers and rioters to today in the west. china is saying it wants to do a similar kind of law enforcement action in hong kong. >> some people have called this a possible tipping point across america. wonder if it is a tipping point around the world. still ahead, white house national security adviser robert o'brien says a few bad apples

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the president of the united states should bring -- to the office that he serves. he should be a unifying force in our country. we have seen that with democratic and republican presidents all along. they have seen their responsibility to be the president of the united states, to unify our country and not to fuel the flame, not to fuel the flame. and i think to take his bait time and time again is a gift to him because he always wants to divert the attention from the cause rather than describe it in his own terms. >> so that was house speaker nan nancy pelosi slamming the

president over his response to the violence in the country. >> do you think systemic racism is a problem in law enforcement agents in the united states? >> no. i think 99.9% of our law enforcement officers are amazing, great americans and they're my heros. but you know what? there are some bad apples in there. there are some bad cops that are racist and there are cops that maybe don't have the right training and there are just some bad cops. i think they're the minority and we need to root them out. >> some would argue not admitting that you have a problem, that systemic racism exists in this country, especially when it comes to

police brutality is the issue. with that, i want to take a turn and get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning to you, bill. >> good morning to you, yasmin. the coverage has been incredible and a story that they're telling in dangerous situations. so my appreciation to all our colleagues. so let me get into this forecast here. today is june 1st. today is officially the beginning of hurricane season. we've already had two named systems and now we have a chance of getting a third named system. right now we're watching this system and it's over central america. it is going to bring the potential for flooding. 60% chance of formation in the next two days, about a 70%

chance over the next five days. this would be cristobal if it gets a name. so that is the development zone there and then it may drift for the next week. here is your june outlook. warmer than average, temperatures are likely on the east coast. warmer than average in many areas of the west. as far as wet weather goes, we expect a decent amount of rainfall and a chance of thunderstorms in the middle of the country and the southeast. today we don't have too much weather issues. there are showers and storms in areas from minneapolis to des moines. and a few spots there heading out of the rockies. 10 million people at risk. could have some severe storms. and it looks like some of those storms could make their way towards milwaukee late in the day. so another gorgeous day in the northeast. what a sunday it was.

you don't have many low humidity days left. a sneak peek of tomorrow shows some of that heat in the middle of the country. with everything that is going on, as a parent, typically our kids are in school. they would be learning about these events and the teachers would be teaching about it. that is another added element for home schooling today is our teachers were forwarding books and learning about race and the history of this country. another layer to add on there. >> yeah. it is a tough time for people in this country, especially when it comes to children and where you have to actually think about talking to your kids about what is happening in this country, why so many people are on the streets and so many people across the world are in pain and are hurting and are wanting justice. thank you, bill. appreciate it.

still ahead, much more noise unrest in the wake of george floyd's death. we'll go live to minneapolis for the latest. actually, president trump said he spoke with the family of george floyd. but did he actually listen to what they had to say? we'll be right back. to what they had to say we'll be right back. the men and women of the united states postal service. we're here to deliver cards and packages from loved ones and also deliver the peace of mind of knowing that essentials like prescriptions are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will. less oral steroids. taking my treatment at home. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred.

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ahh, the weirdest. you make everyone around you crazy. people are normal and then they hang out with you and then they're jack nicholson in the shining. i'm gonna tell my mom you tried to drown me. it's an above ground pool. you're like eight feet tall. welcome back, everybody. we're going to begin this half hour with a nation in crisis. amid global pandemic and record unemployment, the death of george floyd has lit an already

combustible nation on fire. mass protests have hit states as mostly peaceful demonstrations during the day have given away to violence at night. with those wishing to destroy using the cover of darkness to carry out their crimes. at least 40 cities as you've seem on your screens have tried to quell the violence by issuing curfews. there were deployments overnight to rally, north carolina, and sioux falls, south dakota. derri derrick can chauf vderek chauvi arrested four days after chauvin could be seen kneeling on the neck of floyd for nearly 9:40.

chauvin is being held in the ramsey county jane and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years under the third degree murder charge. chauvin is the first whites officer in minnesota history to be arrested for the death of a black man. jay, there have been calls to upgrade the charges against the former officer involved in george floyd's death. in addition, calls to charge the three additional officers that stood over george floyd as chauvin had the knee on floyd's neck. there was one standing above him, two others restraining his legs. what has been the response from officials so far as to the possibility of this happening? >> well, yasmin, they say -- and good to talk to you again, that

those options are open and they'll go to where the evidence takes them. more likely they say more charges will come against those other officers who were involved in the incident. but, again, there are many protesters you talk to here, peaceful protesters. there are many of them who say they won't rest until this is moved up to a murder one charge. now, when you talk to analysts and legal minds looking from the outside in on all of this, they say that is not likely to happen, although the officials here say, again, their investigation is continuing and they haven't ruled anything out.

>> this is the seventh day since the starts of the protests in minneapolis. what are officials telling you they're expecting to see on the streets today? >> large numbers. it is exactly a week to the day when floyd was killed in this area. so they expect to see a lot of protesters out, a lot of emotion, there is a growing memorial to floyd just a few blocks from where we're standing right now. and something we saw yesterday and something that seemed to be helping this community is a lot of people getting out, cleaning unand trying to do anything they can to move forward in a positive vain. so i think you'll see people saying they feel like there are problems here and they want to make sure the world knows about

those problems, but the reaction, the violence, the fires and destruction they insist is not something that really represents this community and they say frankly that a lot of their message is being lost in that violence. so as civil unrest is continue to go rock this nation, president trump is blaming antifa for the violence. according to the "new york times," the declaration lacks any clear authority. they may not have any real meaning beyond his attempts to stir a culture war controversy, attract attention and satisfy his base.

there is no legal authority for the u.s. to designate any organization as a terrorist group. meanwhile, the minnesota governor suggesting that white supremacists are mainly responsible for the violent protests. state officials assessed up to 80% of those protesting or rioting came from outside of minnesota. and that they were confident far right racist groups had encouraged their followers to dece descend on the state. >> unfortunately, with the rioting that is occurring in many cities around the country, the voices of peaceful protests are being hijacked by violent radical elements. in many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by an archic and far

left extremist groups using antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from outside the state to promote the violence. >> so over the weekend, president trump said he met with members of george floyd's family. george floyd's brother, however, had a different take on how the conversation went. >> i spoke to george's family. >> he didn't give me the opportunity to even speak. >> and expressed the sorrow of our entire nation for their loss. >> i was trying to talk to him, but he just kept, like, pushing me off. >> i stand before you as a friend and ally. >> like i don't want to hear what you're talking about. >> to every american seeking justice and peace. >> i just told him, i want justice. >> joining me now, usa today

opinion columnist and former adviser for the house oversight and reform committee, kurt bardella. good to have you this morning, kurt. i want to talk specifically about who the president is blaming versus who we see the governor of minnesota blaming. so you have the president and the attorney general essentially blaming antifa. we know historically antifa has been against trump specifically. we know governor tim walz is blaming white extremist groups for the violent protests taking place in his state. what do you make of the disparity here in this blame game? >> i think a lot of this

underscores what we're all fighting about now, which is that on one hand, you have someone in donald trump and the attorney general who are so quick to rush a judgment and put political blame on a political ideology without having the facts or the data. the reality is those who have been arrested, the work to trace their origins, that could not have happened with everything going on. i think a lot of people feel like when it comes to donald trump, anytime abdomen action is being done where the optics are bad for him politically, he's ready to rush to judgment. donald trump encouraged some to exercise rights of free expression. however, when you have a situation like this where people of color are protesting a major

racial ip justice caught on tape, there is a rush to whitewash what they're doing and assign it to a political entity without having the facts. donald trump seems more interested in trying to find a way to agitate his showersers. address the injustices that have happened. let's be honest here, this sibts the first time we've gone through this. this is a pattern of behavior. there is no tolerance to hear that from donald trump right now. >> i mine, it seems as if the president amid all this just refuses to address any sort of racial injustice in this country that we are dealing with. we learned amid protests outside of the country on friday, the president was rushed to an

underground bunker by secret service agents. the tweet that stood out to me the last four days or so was with the looting comes the shooting. this president has failed across the board with responding in any way to unify this nation and address racial injustice in this country, which i don't think is necessarily surprising considering the president's history. >> i think what we're seeing is when you have a racist as the president of the united states respond to a racially charged issue. we've seen it when he called on the campaign trail, mexicans, drug dearlies and rapists. none of this was a surprised, but it was a big contrast from what we saw from donald trump over the weekend hiding in his

bunker and joe biden being out there. you can't get further apart in what we're seeing in leadership style from biden and trump. >> thank you for joining me this morning. appreciate it. good to have you on the show. we're going to be digging into your new piece for nbc's opinion page coming up. so stay close. still ahead, new warnings about the deadly consequences of the weekend's mass gatherings. your first look at "morning joe" in back in a moment. look at "m" in back in a moment.

welcome back, everybody. officials are warning of the potentially deadly consequences of large gatherings during the pandemic. >> there is going to be a lot of issues, but one of them was the chains of transmission will have become lit by these gatherings.

and minnesota, that state has been seeing an uptick of cases. this country isn't through this epidemic. this is continuing to expand, but at a much slower rate. but it's still expanding. and we have pockets in communities that are under good control. >> if you were out protesting last night, you probably need to go and get a covid test this week because there's still a pandemic in america that is killing black and brown people at higher numbers. >> let's switch gears here and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. and that is part of the fear here, bill, while people are convening and there's still a pandemic and they're not necessarily able to social distance as authorities would like. >> yeah. and we're going to have to live through this, i mean, through hurricanes, through life.

it's not going anywhere until we hopefully get a vaccine. one story that is being buried is the story in california. you notice that this is not going down. california continues to slowly go up. they started with such small numbers and everyone was like, wow, california is doing great for the state with the most people. but they have been the state that has reported the most new cases. let's compare that to what is going on for the country as a whole. let's briefly give you the forecast for the week ahead. a cool start to the day, nice afternoon, a few storms here and there. by the time we go to tuesday and wednesday, we'll track severe storms tuesday and wednesday. ohio valley into area of the northeast. then we end the week with wed areas in the east.

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welcome back, everybody. small businesses and large retailers alike have been hit hard by the coronavirus. over the weekend, they were faced with a new challenge, significant damage to storefronts amid nationwide protests. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum is joining us live from london. a lot going on over the weekend here in this country. how are businesses handling both of these issues? >> let me run through a few of the major companies in focus this weekend for the measures they've taken in response to the protests across america. apple left many of its stores closed yesterday due to the ongoing unrest. tim cook, the ceo of apple,

addressed the death of george floyd in a company wide memo. let me bring you a couple of his comments. he said there was deeply rooted discrimination within the criminal justice system and called for the creation of a better, more just world for everyone. amazon also in focus. they shut several whole foods stores across the country as a result of the protests. target announced it temporarily is closing 175 of its stores due to the ongoing protests. this is a minneapolis-based company, and several of its outlets had been targeted by demonstrators. the big and small businesses alike are being impacted by what's going on in america. now, the restaurant industry, as we've discussed many times, is one of the key victims of the coronavirus. chain restaurants have permanently closed over 500 locations so far in 2020. even though we are seeing the reopening of the u.s. economy, it's still very difficult for restaurants to make a profit when operating at partial capacity. ihop, denny's, tgi friday's are

chain restaurants that are closed for good, not just temporarily. back to you. >> cnbc's julianna tatelbaum, live from london, thank you. good see you. up next, axios' one big thing. on "morning joe," more from the weekend's protests and brutality sparked by the death of george floyd. also, potential joe biden running mate val demmings will be our guest. "morning joe" is moments away. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn

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ahh, the weirdest. you make everyone around you crazy. people are normal and then they hang out with you and then they're jack nicholson in the shining. i'm gonna tell my mom you tried to drown me. it's an above ground pool. you're like eight feet tall. welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at "axios" am, the co-founder after "axios," mike allen. good morning to you. it has been quite a weekend, to say the least. what is "axios" one big thing today? >> good morning. welcome to june. amazing coverage by you and msnbc over the weekend. the "axios" one big thing is trump's private scolding. our reporting shows that behind the scenes, both internal aides and external advisers the

president listened to have been very unhappy about the escalatory tweets, most especially, of course, of the one, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." jonathan swan shows that behind the scenes, his advisers became concerned about not only what this was going to the country but what it was doing to them. there is great concern this is going to hurt with independents and suburban women. they're always thinking in that election context. of course, when you're talking to trump, the bottom line is a way to communicate with him. his bottom line is being hurt by the tone and substance of the tweets, these advisers say. in fact, one adviser told us they thought it was the president's worst moment since shcharlottesville charlottesville. >> wow. so with that then, let's talk about sort of what you're finding out about the insides of

what took place in the white house over the weekend, as the president, i'm sure, was watching these protests unfold across the country. >> yeah. you know, he's flipping among the cable channels and referred in a tweet at one point that he was seeing everything. at the aides try to figure out what to do about the tweets, and hope hicks, back in the white house, very powerful adviser, when she walks into a room, when she asks for something, people snap to because they know she's speaking for the president. they know she is the president's ear. she is among the people who thought this was not the way to go. there was a lot of debate about whether you have a primetime address sometime over the weekend. could they do something last night? what the white house told us is they thought that the president's remarks, when he was down at cape canaveral, bought him some time. that they found the right balance.

of course, it was that friday moment in the rose garden. that's when people were expecting something. that was the moment to try to change the temperature, to lower the temperature going into this weekend, to set a different tone, to push the nation in a different direction. so the remarks saturday were what my mother would call a day late and a dollar short. >> i've got to say, using the term "buying time," there is no time. this thing is unfolding before our eyes at every moment. people are being injured. people are angry. there is racial injustices in this country. yet, they're talking about it in terms of the president buying time. that in and of itself, mike allen, i think you can agree with me, is part of the problem. let's talk about the media aes ro role in all of this. we have seen our colleagues, some of which have been arrested. a cnn colleague friday morning, i believe, was arrested in the streets. being hit by rubber bullets, so

on and so forth, tear gas. talk about how the media and the importance of capturing the stories and the images coming out of these protests nationwide, how important it is, and how it will likely leave a mark on history. >> yeah. no, it is amazing, how much we know and has been exposed because of technology. i came up, as a police reporter, i was the night police reporter at the richmond times dispatch. it was right when dna evidence was coming into use. there were so many cases where it turned out that there were people who had been convicted, who were innocent based on dna evidence. i thought, certainly, the same thing was happening before dna. you knew how much injustices were happening over the years. of course, the same thing before cops body cams and before cell phone cameras everywhere. so this technology of witness during the civil rights era, it was still cameras. for rodney king, it was a camcorder, a term you haven't

heard in a long time. now, of course, video everywhere. we've had so many videos telling the same story, about what happened to george floyd. >> mike allen, thank you. i will be reading axios am. >> thank you for your coverage. >> you, too, can sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this monday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. i'm duty bound to be here to simply say that it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with an enemy. it is your duty to fortify your own house so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organization. now is the time to plan, strategize, organize. my question for us on the other side of the camera is after it burns, will we be left with char, or will we rise like a phoenix out of the ashes that

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