tore rarely during the covid shutdown are now being brought back to work. although permanent job growth is actually down. overall 2.5 million jobs were added and the unemployment rate fell to 13.3%. >> the numbers are great. and this leads ugs s to a long period of growth. we'll go back to the greatest economy in the world. nothing close. now we're open and opening with a bang. we're talking about a v, this is better than a v. this is a rocket ship. >> the president seemed to be rebooting his election campaign by speaking for a full 40 minutes nonstop, rambling account of his self-proclaimed successes after a morning of twitter tirades against his former defense secretary, retired four-star general jim mattis, senior public critics in the senate and, of course, joe biden. joining me now nbc senior business correspondent stephanie ruhle, "the washington post" white house reporter ashley parker, former republican

national committee chairman michael steele and william cohen, former secretary of defense in the clinton administration as well as former public house and senate member and our white house correspondent and co-host of saturday "today," kristen welker. first to you, stephanie ruhle in philadelphia, let's talk about the jobs report. the president was really celebrating after a pretty grim week. it seemed to be a good report, solid report, with the exception of a lot of job downturns in government jobs and that's where the state and local governments have to cut to balance their budgets at some point. we'll have further layoffs. this is a big bump but in an interim period, is that how you would read it? >> listen, it's a good jobs report. what it is not in this rocket ship that the president was talking about. the jobs report shows us it looks like in mid-april, sort of the height of the state closures, it looked like sort of the economic bottoming out.

but now that states are reopening, we are seeing some jobs come back. that's a positive. you have to remember, we've also seen an enormous amount of stimulus from the fed. we saw the small business program, ppp, go into effect in the last month. remember, this is a $600 billion program. to have any of these loans forgivable, you have to be at 100% employment, meaning you saw many businesses across the country rehire workers to get those loans to be forgivable. however, the president talking like this is the greatest economy ever and we're booming back, that's just not true. think about the hundreds of thousands of people protesting in the streets over the last week. yes, they're protesting about social justice. many of these people are out of work. the president is a great salesman. he's bulled up and wants to sell this thing. but let's get real, andrea, you know as well as i do across this country things are down, business has slowed. when you go from euro people

eating in your restaurant to 40% more, that's positive but come on now, it's not this huge party-time win. >> and in fact black unemployment did tick down a little bit. so that is not a good sign. it's not universal across the economy. male jobs are back. women slightly less. hispanics slightly better. but still it's not universal as you point out and some of those businesses are still not going to recover fully. some will still go out of business. kristen, the president again not taking questions. we don't know whether he will stop to take questions when he leaves shortly for maine but in this again, he was out there for more than an hour in the rose garden. there were reporters shouting questions from peter alexander. he didn't take any questions. it's been a rough patch for him and he's in a real dispute with the mayor of d.c., who was out now symbolically renaming the street in front of the white house, where the white house has

now been walled off from any residents and blocked in a way the mayor is objecting to, the military still deployed -- at least for now withdrawn, but that deployment was deeply offensive to her, and she symbolically renamed the street in front of the white house as black lives matter street. kristen? >> that's right, andrea. the mayor was just here. she just departed but defiant words from the mayor, muriel bowser, as she requested federal law enforcement leave washington, d.c., the nation's capital. and it does come as the president is coming under intensifying scrutiny for his response. today as you point out, in the rose garden he wanted to keep the focus on the positive economic numbers today. the fact they beat expectations, he's trying to make the case now the page is turning from the coronavirus crisis, from the economic downturn, that it is showing these signs of coming back and yet these very

significant questions remain for president trump. at the top of the list, does he face that systemic racism is the root of the problem? and what, if anything, does he plan to do about it? protesters still out here, andrea, outside of the white house. let me step out of the way so you can just get a glimpse of the scene here. again just to reiterate, this is new fencing that has gone up around the perimeter of lafayette park to keep protesters back at a significant distance. but here they are, standing in front of the fencing, holding up signs, black lives matter, silence is betrayal, among other things. they continue to call for change in the wake of the death of george floyd. now, buried in those economic numbers, of course, the fact that we, yes, did get jobs starting to come back but that was not the thing for the african-american community, which barely saw an uptick in its jobs numbers.

that is going to be one of the key questions president trump is going to have to answer as well, what is he going to do about black unemployment, which continues to be one of the issues that plagues the african-american community, andrea? a number of pressing questions as president trump is set to depart for maine today. will he take questions from reporters? that remains unknown at this hour, andrea. >> and michael steele, the president did mention george floyd almost in passing while discussing the economy and saying the great economic numbers is something that george floyd could be looking down from heaven and enjoying. i wanted to play that sound from the president, if we've got that ready. >> hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that's happening for our country. it's a great day for him. it's a great day for everybody. it's a great day for everybody. this is a great, great day.

>> michael steele, that seemed to me a little tone-deaf. >> it's not only tone-deaf, it's borderline blasphemous in light of what happened to mr. floyd. i doubt george floyd is in heaven looking down going oh, gee, great jobs report. are you kidding me? again, it speaks to just how out of step this man is with real life. this reality television presidency is inconsistent, incompatible with democracy, it's incompatible with governing, it's incompatible with everyday people trying to realize the american dream. and that came to a shattering halt on may 25th when police abused the privileges and the rights and the freedom of mr. floyd by killing him.

so we have to account for that as americans. and that's what this process has been about. yeah, it's nice 2.5 million people got their jobs back but it does not take away from the underlying reality and truth that a man in the course of all of this was killed by the government. because the police represent the government, right? as they protect and serve us, and the reality of it is as president, is we saw what you did this week when you cleared lafayette park. we saw what you did when you put up fencing to keep the people symbolically from accessing their government. and how you used religionen against us, perpetrating a fraud by holding up the bible as if that's part of your belief system, not to question your belief system, but you expose it every time you do things like that. now to sit here and go, well,

george is looking down and is happy, are you kidding me? i think, andrea, we as americans have to contextualized things in our own way and recognize the president and the rest of us aren't on the same page. and that's just one more example of that. >> clearly i was being ironic because it's just incredible that after that memorial service yesterday, he couldn't speak to the hopes, to the dreams, the call for justice, the call for a new multiracial movement to try to address all of the abuses of decades and decades, if not 401 years as the reverend al said. bill cone, the other big distraction the president was trying to avoid today was the criticism from the military, from his former defense secretary, from the other four stars, is former joints chief

chairman mart t martin dempsey. i wanted to play the comments and ask you about it on the other side. >> the idea the military would be called in to dominate and to suppress what for the most part were peaceful protests, admitted admittedly where some had opportunistically turned them violent and the military would somehow come in and calm that situation, was very dangerous to me. >> bill, as a former defense secretary of state, you saw what happened with mark esper, you saw what happened with general milley and the criticism from jim mattis, the criticism from mike mullen, admiral mullen. what is the danger point you see here between the way the president conceives the use of the military and the way retired officers are speaking out? >> the danger is that we are seeing the president try to splittize the military.

he's virtually politicized every other instrument in government. you may recall he said, i want my generals. i want my attorney general. i want my judges. so now he wants his military. and he's using the military to carry out a political purpose, and that clearly was the case when he called upon the military to be activated to force those protesters back, firing rubber bullets and mace and pepper spray. that was using the military to accomplish a political act. and it's something talked about before from mcmaster. dereliction of duty, in which h.r. mcmaster warned we should not allow the military to be used to achieve political purposes. and that's exactly what is taking place. the president is taking a wrecking ball to every institution that is designed to preserve democracy. i have been reading a book that came out some years ago by helen

murphy, and in the book he talks about what autocratic societies do, secrecy, surveillance and social control. and that is what the president is doing in terms of trying to control a social protest that was largely peaceful in this city. yes, there were some violent outbreaks in other parts of the country but in washington, d.c., those people were out there protesting. what he was doing was subordinating as he was trying to crush that, show that he is a man full of strength and pushing them out of the way. that's why general mattis spoke out. he had reached his breaking point. mike mcmullen, admiral, and the former head -- you cannot do this with our military. this is a democracy. and if you are allowed to do

this in the future, continue to do this, this is not america. this is not a democracy. we're descending into a tyranny, into a dictatorship. that's why normally retired officials, military men and women, refuse to speak out because they want to preserve support in this country for a strong military and say provided you use it consistent with the constitution. and the president has on multiple occasions exceeded his role as command irin chief when he went to the president of ukraine and said i'm going to give you some money that's been appropriated by congress but only if -- not only if you reform your system, get me dirt on biden. he exceeded our authority when he went to the governors of this country and said to the governors, be nice to me or maybe you won't get the money congress appropriate rated. that's a clear abuse of executive power and that is what jim mattis is talking about and speaking of against. and thank goodness he did.

>> i just want to also share our pentagon correspondent courtney kube spoke exclusively with army secretary ryan mccarthy. she went inside the wore actual wire to speak with him inside the square behind lafayette wall and spoke about the troops supposedly now pulling out of d.c. >> our intention is this is a visible signal to deescalate the tension and that the active forces were only brought here because of a concern about being able to have enough personnel to support security in the white house, for other federal buildings as well as the national monument. but the intent of getting them home as quickly as possible was to send a message that we want peaceful demonstration. we just don't want violence. >> this after, of course, mark esper, the defense secretary, had split with the president and

rejected his proposal, his threat at least, to use the insurrection act, the 1807 insuracts, and keep troops deployed there. ashley parker, what about the is tension between esther aabout e white house? the president was so angry he was threatening to fire his defense secretary five months before elected and was talked out of 2. what is the temperature taking of the mood in the white house now? >> there's incredible tension there. you saw kayleigh mcenany after esper made the comments come out and ask if the president still had confidence in him. normally if there's a president who lost confidence in a leader, they claim there's still confidence until that person was fired but she wouldn't even go that far. it sort of felt like she was sitting the stage for esper to be fired any day now by tweet. you saw him in an incredibly

difficult situation, because he came out and was clearly uncomfortable. he was not the only one but clearly uncomfortable with what had happened at the photo-op at st. john's church. that's why it seemed he went and spoke exclusively to nbc news and said, look, i didn't even know where we were going. i thought we were going to inspect a bathroom at lafayette park. but he did have to walk that back because he did in fact know they were going to the church. he said okay, i knew we were going to the church but i didn't know what was going to happen when we were there. so you see esper's uncomfortable in the photo-op by the president and the president who can't handle any dissent, to be furious with him. >> michael steele, here we have the mayor of d.c., who doesn't have the power of a governor. can't say no to the deployment of military forces, was so angry about it, pushed back as much as

she could, what about having her have the displace of black lives matter on the street, painted on the street right in front of the walled-off area now outside the white house? >> well, it's a powerful moment. the district of columbia is a federally owned property, if you will. it is the only municipality city in the country that the federal government controls exclusively. and the citizens who live there, my parents still live in the city. i grew up there. we know what disenfranchisement knows like and feels like. and a heavy hand by the federal government, whether it's republicans or democrats, how that plays out on the streets of washington. so she took this moment and made the most that she could. she doesn't have the power of the governor to push back to

prevent the president from acting and behavior and bringing troops in that he wouldn't be allowed to do in other jurisdictions. so she painted black lives matter right in front of the street where they could see it. >> where they could not avoid seeing it, in fact. thank you all very much. coming up -- another disturbing incident of apparent police brutality caught on camera. why buffalo new york police officers pushed an elderly man to the ground and just kept on walking. a day after the memorial for george floyd in minneapolis, the mayor of st. louis, minnesota, joins me to talk about his city's plans to fix policing. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us. you're watching msnbc. hing's stk in the drawers! i'm sorry! oh, jeez. hi. kelly clarkson. try wayfair! oh, ok.

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another troubling incident of apparent police brutality captured in a video that went viral the other night. we want to warn you that the video you're about to see is very graphic, terribly disturbing. two police officers in buffalo, new york, has been suspended without pay after this video shows they knocked down a 75-year-old man, knocked him down to the ground. he just seemed to approaching him. the officers then walked past him as a pool of kblood was spreading under his head. the unidentified man is in serious but stable condition at a local hospital. an investigation has been launched.

buffalo mayor byron brown said he's deeply disturbed by the incident. and just in the last hour new york governor andrew cuomo said the buffalo d.a. is investigating criminal charges against the officers, is and that he did talk to the patient, who is recovering. he talked about what happened. >> you see that video and it disturbs your basic sense of decency and humanity. why? why? why was that necessary? where was the threat? older gentleman, where was the threat? then you just walk by the person while you see blood coming from his head. and police officers walked by. it's just fundamentally offensive. and frightening, it's just frightening. you say it like who are we? how did we get to this place?

>> meanwhile, minneapolis is trying to start the healing process after the first memorial service honoring george floyd was held yesterday. it was a day of prayer and moving eulogy from reverend al sharpton. >> what happened to floyd happens every day in this country and education and health services and in every area of american life. it's time for us to stand up in georgia's name and say get your knee off our necks! >> and in a huge rally in brooklyn, new york, george floyd's youngest brother called for action. >> i want to thank god, because at the end of the day, my brother's gone but the floyd

name still lives on. >> and joining me now is mayor melvin carter of st. paul, minnesota. mayor carter, thank you very much for being with us. it's been -- i can't believe how emotional this has been, deeply troubling for you, twin cities, all of minnesota. but somehow that memorial service lifted this to a whole new level. especially with not only the eulogy and wonderful music but the family, the family describing really great extended black family in america, the mom, the brothers, the sister. tell me how that may have helped the healing process for your community as well? >> i'll tell you, that service was touching. there were certainly a lot of moments between hearing his

family describe who he was as a person. that is so important because so many of us know exactly how he died but have no idea how he lived. so it's important for us to hear that. there were touching moments and there were certainly a powerful message, like all of these are, but that's the problem. we've been to so many of these funerals. we've seen so many of these. we've participated in so many marches and rallies. we've called for change. this may never happen again. so many times. it's not a new story, my grandfather and his grandfather can tell you about that story. so while having that service was definitely an important moment, while even this week seeing those officers charged was an important moment, the healing that we have to do with regard to this open wound that we've experienced in minnesota and across our country over the last week goes far deeper than just this one case and just this one

community. >> and you have a special qualification, i believe, watching you in your interviews and watching you last night again on msnbc, your relationship with the police is so special because your father, veteran policemen, you understand policing. you understand community policing and what i good person who becomes a police officer can do. so how does that help you in trying to reform your own police force and deal with what steps need to be taken to make sure rekreer recruitment and training and basic humanity as a police officer is taken into consideration? two of those police officers who were charged yesterday were rookies, brand-new cops. >> that's exactly right. my father spent nearly 30 years as a st. paul police officer patrolling in the neighborhood he grew up in, the neighborhood he was raising his children in, the neighborhood he went to the grocery store in.

he always used to say listen, when you patrol in a neighborhood, you work in a neighborhood where you know the people like that and they know you like that, they're around your family and friends and children, you can come up with a whole lot of reasons not to shoot someone, a whole lot of reasons not to take deadly force because you know that community and you understand that community very well. there's no us is and them involved in police. we can't afford that. it's got to be us. everyone who we engage has got to be a part of we. right here in st. paul, we're fortunate to have a chief who's focused on community-based relationships. he talks about every day about the bank of trust we have to make our deposits in preemptively before we ever have to make a withdrawal. i hear him ask our police officers literally daily about our actions. were your actions reasonable and necessary and done with respect? that's the standard we set for our police officers right here in st. paul. that's not to say we don't have more work to do. we do. it's been a priority actually of

my administration. not only did i grow up praying for the safety of police officers and hanging out with police officers at super bowl parties, i also grew up an african-american man. so i know what it feels like to be pulled over for driving while back. it's been a priority of our administration. we revised our use of force policies within the first 100 days. redefined our purpose and use of k 46 -- k-9 units in st. paul. and we changed our philosophy so we can't think about what happens after something happens, after someone calls 911. we have to invest in people and neighborhoods so we minimize the number of times we have to call 911 in the first place. >> hopefully more white americans who have not experienced what you have and other people of color have, will begin to understand the depth of the racism, systemic racism in our society out of all of this.

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arrived at the emergency room, he had shortness of breath, he was put on a machine to help him ventilate, his kidneys started to fail. he was diagnosed with coronavirus. the avid cyclist who used to go on a 40-mile bike trip was put under medically induced coma. they told his family to prepare for his death. instead he called him several times a day, the nurse put the phone near the speaker and they sang and talked to him. and then they tried a 1-2 punch of steroids of blood plasma from antibodies of those with covid-19. 18 days after he was free to leave, expressing his joy with a big thumb's up. joining us now is john's physician, the medical director of respiratory care services at health shore university hospital. ron and ron's daughter amy herald. first, this is such a good news,

feel-good story. we're so happy to end the week with us and i'm so happy to see you all healthy. first, doctor, how did this all work, all of the things you brought to bear to bring ron back to life? >> ron is a remarkable gentleman as you can tell. i tried to use as much medical knowledge as i had to try to get him through this. i started out with giving him steroids. and then from the steroids, which i worried would make the viral infection worse, i did that 1-2 punch. i followed the steroids up with the convalescent plasma in hopes of knocking the virus out. literally, five days after the plasma, ron became covid-19 negative and he kind of progressed and you're going to hear a wonderful story from him and amy. >> amy, i don't want to put too and pressure on your dad but if

he's able to talk, we would love to hear him talk and say how thrilled everyone is, not just your immediate family, wonderful family, but all of us to see you there convalescing and in rehab. ron? >> yes. after the doctor and the medicines and the many excellent people and the doctor that saved me here, when i came out from a coma, ip cot move my head. i couldn't do nothing. i couldn't wash my face, nothing. slowly, slowly, getting me better and i'm feeling better. the doctor and physical therapy. it's a miracle. i never thought it would happen to me. >> it is a miracle.

the fact miracles can happen. >> yes, thank you very much. my daughter and my doctor, casseria, i don't know how to thank them. much they've done such a good job with me. >> amy, tell me about the family and coming together and how you all organized to keep your dad going and keep him connected. >> of course. he was in a medically induced coma. so once he started getting better in terms of his respiration, unfortunately the issue became he wasn't waking up from his coma. ien even though he was ready to be taken out of ventilator, we were not ready to extu bait because he wasn't conscience. that's when we stepped in and the nurses put a telephone in his room and the family would take turns. we would call him at least three times a day. we would sing to him the most familiar songs we could think of, his childhood. holidays that had occurred. he was asleep for over six

weeks. three times a day we wanted to make sure he heard our voices, he heard familiar song. we thought that might jolt some sort of memory and help gain consciousness so he can be extubated. so the entire family, my brother, my sister, my mother, we all chipped in, we all took turns. i thought that was a really big help in terms of getting him further in his recovery. >> we're showing pictures of your wonderful large family. there's got to be a medical effect to this of the connection of all of the songs, voices, familiar voices, to help bring him out of the coma. >> i'm a firm -- you read the article, i'm a firm believer in human touch and families connecting with patients. and i absolutely agree, all of that love and goodwill that was

funneled through that room, which was literally dark, quiet, with just alarms going on, was filled with ron's family, with love and support. together with the amazing staff. i can't tell you, i was just a shepherd. we had an entire team taking care of it. no one person is responsible. and ron has genetics on both. he's amazing. he got through this. his family shepherded him with me through the process. >> well, i love that, you describing them and, of course, the doctor used skilled but the nursing staff and all of the caregivers as well. it also emphasizes the tragedy for so many family that's can't in a large city perhaps or can't because of the infections, nature of this terrible disease, be connected with the people they love as they are so ill. thank you so much for being a

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apparent democratic presidential nominee joe biden is expected to speak in remarks that were scheduled before the president's remarks. meek memoli is on the biden beat, coming to us from dover, delaware. he's on the campus. tell us about what we can expect from him. obviously, the college is not still in session with the shutdown -- and is delaware back in stage one? maybe just in stage one of the reopening. >> they're just in to phase one this week, andrea. but interesting actual milestone day in this general election campaign. for the first time, we have a little split-screen moment. you see president trump leaving washington heading to maine to hold an event as joe biden also left home, just a short drive from wilmington here to dover, to react to the job numbers. this event was added last night in anticipation of this jobs report coming out. so the remarks from the vice

president probably revised some given the surprising news of the unemployment rate in fact dropping to 13.3%. but this venue is significant in terms of what the vice president might say in terms of reacting to the fact of we saw the unemployment rate of african-americans increase actually to 16.8%. this is delaware state university. it is historically a black college, the one joe biden talked about often over the course of the campaign in talking about his roots in the civil rights movement and african-american community here in delaware. we should also expect to hear the former vice president continue to talk about the dis-pritt effects what he referred to as the coronavirus pandemic affecting people of color differently than the rest. country. we also heard from the vice president last night holding a town hall virtually with young americans focusing on african-americans as well, where he gave us a little preview of what we expect to be new policy from the former vice president about police reforms. the former vice president talking about what he called you the need for real community

policing. that's the as secretary of the 1994 crime bill biden still continues to talk about as success and potential model for the future, andrea. >> we will wait to see what joe biden has to say when he does speak there. but thank you for advancing that. much. joining us now is democratic national chair and former labor secretary tom perez. good to see you. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> the jobs report better than expected, the president is touting it, and he seems to be trying to reboot his campaign as he was with in the rose garden speaking for 40 minutes nonstop about this jobs report as the greatest ever. what is your approach to the jobs report today? are we back on a better trajectory? >> the greatest ever, talk about an inaccurate statement. over the last three months, andrea, we've seen 19.6 million jobs lost over the last three

months. to give you a perspective, andrea, in the worst three-month of the obama administration, the worst three-month period, we had 3.2 million jobs loss. every president since f.d.r. has seen net job growth in their presidency until now until donald trump. >> excuse me, in fairness, there was a pandemic. but let me just say in fairness, there was a pandemic, which caused a complete shutdown of the economy. the most jobs ever, but the fact is it's coming back from a flatline. >> but the reality, andrea, is it didn't have to be this way. what we know is that last december, last january, last february, this president was asleep at the switch. when he should have been asking, when he should have been listening to his experts, he instead was negotiating a trade deal with china. he wants to get that trade deal. it was a crappy trade deal he

got. so here we are now. it has exacerbated the extent of the job loss. and so as the vice president will talk about, the extent of the job loss hits harder in communities of color. the african-american unemployment rate, as you correctly pointed out, went up. at the end of the obama administration, the african-american unemployment rate was 7.8%. now it's more than doubled. the hispanic unemployment rate is roughly triple what it was at the end of the obama administration. you look at all of these. you look at the racial disparities in the covid-19 deaths. you look at what's happened with george floyd and all of the unrest. i mean, i think james mattis hit the nail on the head when he said, i have never seen a president in my lifetime who doesn't want to unite. we need a uniter in chief at the moment. we need a consoler in chief at the moment. we are in a crisis, a real crisis. this is like -- this jobs

report, i want people to get their jobs back. this is like saying, we were 42 points behind in the football game. now we're 35 points behind. and he wants to spike the football for being 35 points behind. we're in a crisis, andrea. many we need a president this november who can do crisis management, who has the experience, the temperament and the character to unite our nation, to lead our nation, to make sure that the zip code never determines destiny. to make sure we don't play this us against them games that this president plays. look what he said today about george floyd. i bet george floyd would be very happy looking down today. george floyd is dead. he was murdered by police officers. we've had rioting because we had people who are so angry, we're going to temper that anger and we're going to channel that anger into voting success, andrea, in november. just like ella jones did this

week in ferguson, missouri, becoming the first woman, first african-american to become the mayor of ferguson, missouri. now they have a majority african-american city council. that's what we have to but, i'll tell you, we have three crises right now. a crisis of our democracy, a crisis in our economy, a public health crisis, and we need leadership that can do crisis management. you are about to hear from the next president of the united states because he is that steady hand at the tiller that we need. >> well, the chairman of the democratic national committee, as a former president said, you're fired up and ready to go. i can hear it now. we will see what the former vice president has to say. thank you so much. >> we're going to get people out there to vote, that's what we're going to do. thank you, andrea. thanks for joining us today. coming up, america's history of overcoming adversity during the darkest days. we have at least some hope to offer.

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finally, as we close this emotional -- in fact, wrenching week across our nation, as we witness the growing diversity of a multi racial outpouring of humanity in cities small and large, at times scarred by the ugliness of those seeking to exploit the crisis, at a time when our greatest retired generals are trying to protect the constitution's fundamental separation between the military and civilian law enforcement, let's pause. let's pause to consider the real greatness of the american spirit as displayed by the courage of the men who landed on the beaches of normandy 76 years ago tomorrow, as recalled by tom brokaw again today. the chaos and the death went on all day long, the longest day. the allies were now taking the fight to the germanes. ray lambert was a hero medic on

the beach, dragging the wounded behind a large boulder to protect them from the german owes wgerman's who were firing from above. >> there are not many of these kind of plaques dedicated to combat medics. sergeant ray lambert set up the first collection spot on the beach that will live forever. there are many tributes from that day and the fighting still to come, none more memorable than the american cemetery overlooking omaha. on one of my visits i tried to sum it all up. [ taps playing ]. >> this is why we're here. here above the beaches of normandy just beyond the water. that brought liberty at a great sacrifice. for those who survived that day and for so many others, this is

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♪ well, a good late morning out west and a good afternoon here in the east. i am chuck todd. president trump spoke today following better-than-expected jobs number for the month of may. he said the economy would be better than a v shape, calling it a rocket ship, a claim that does not reflect the reality of this situation of this unexpected good news today. another number worth noting, we have now crossed 109,000 deaths of coronavirus here in the united states. the president also invoked the memory of george floyd today after calling for governors to bring in the national guard to, quote, dominate the streets. >> we all saw what