that's tonight's reminder that elections have consequences. that's also our broadcast for this wednesday evening. thanks for being here with us. on behalf of all of our colleagues at networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. emotional testimony on capitol hill as george floyd's brother urges police reform. plus president trump comes out against an effort to drop confederate names from military bases even after some military officials said they were open to the move. and a number of confirmed coronavirus cases tops 2 million as several states emerge with new infections. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, june 11th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian.

in an emotional appearance, the brother of george floyd went before law members and urged members of congress to pass police reforms. just days after laying his brother jorm floyd to rest, he appeared before the house judiciary committee and said he's only seeking one thing from congress, justice for george. >> he was mild-mannered. he didn't fight back. he listened to all the officers. the man who took his life, who suffocated him for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, he still called him sir as he begged for his life. i can't tell you the kind of pain you feel when you watch something like that, when you watch your big brother who you looked up to your whole entire life die? die begging for his mom? i'm tired. i'm tired of pain, pain you feel when you watch something like

that. i'm here to ask you to make it stop. stop the pain. stop us from being tired. george called for help, and he was ignored. please listen to the call i'm making to you now. >> for the rest of my life, that's all i'll ever see, looking at the video. kids had to watch the video. his kids had to watch the video. it just hurt. that's a lot of people with a lot of pain. my family, they just cry and cry every day and just ask why, why. he pleaded for his life. he said he couldn't breathe. nobody cared.

nobody. people pleaded for him. they still didn't care. justice has to be served. those officers, they have to be convicted. anybody with a heart, they know that's wrong. you don't do that to a human being. you don't even do that to an animal. his life mattered. all our lives matter. black lives matter. i just wish -- wish i could get him back. >> that's heavy. so his testimony was followed before lawmakers on capitol

hill, philonise floyd, brother of george floyd, led about 100 protesters down 16th street in washington, d.c., you see here. he along with the family attorney ben benn. mihm crump demonstrated with protesters on their way to church at st. john's in the square. they've come out against naming military bases named after confederate generals. tweeted in part this. these monumental and very powerful bases have become part of a great american heritage and a history of winning, victory, and freedom. the united states of america train and deployed our heros on these hallowed grounds and won two world wars. therefore, my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military installations. our history as the greatest nation in the world will not be tampered with. respect our military.

now, the president's position runs counter to the military. the secretary of defense and the secretary of the army both said they were open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic. former u.s. army general and general petraeus wrote an op-ed that reads in part like this, it's time to remove traitors' names like benning and bragg from the administration. here's the response. >> ft. bragg is known for the heroes and those who trained there. it's an insult from the men and women who left there, the last thing they saw on the american soil before going overseas and in some cases losing their lives that what they left was inherently a racist institution was a name. that's unacceptable to the president and rightfully so. and i also note where do you draw the line here? i'm told that no longer can you find on hbo "gone with the wind"

because somehow that is now offensive. where do you draw the line? should george washington and thomas jefferson and james madison be erased from history? >> so house and senate democrats will reintroduce a bill as soon as next week that would remove statues from the u.s. capitol. a bill will be reintroduced by barbara lee of california and senator cory booker from new jersey who originally introduced the bill in 2017 after the charlotteville rally. every state is allows to remove two statues displayed in the capitol building, but congress does not have the authority to remove or actually change them. this bill would give congress that authority. house speaker nancy pelosi called for the removal of the statues which read in part this, monuments to achieve such a

plainly racist ae isist are a g affront. they must be removed. the move calls for the removal of statues that are being damaged, defaced, and taken down across the united states in the wake of recent protests. joining me now is our guest from politico, andrew desedarrio. good morning. >> good morning. first you have nancy pelosi calling for the removal of confederate statues and then you have the president saying he's not renaming military bases. you have david petraeus saying he supports it. you have the secretary of the army saying he supports it as well. how do you see this playing out? >> well, look. the president has sort of staked out his position on this issue,

and i wouldn't expect house and senate republicans to deviate from it. what's different now compared to 2017 is obviously the fact that republicans seem more willing and open to address police reform, which is something that's active and ongoing on capitol hill right now. the president is expected to endorse senator tim scott's police reform bill, which is expected to come out in full sometime early this week or early next week. you see both sides staking out their side on this issue. what remains to be seen is whether the house and senate, republicans and democrats can come to a consensus on what they want to be included into this legislation that can at some point pass both chambers of congress and get a presidential signature, but it seems like we're far away from that happening at this point. in addition to that, it seems the president wants to craft an executive order on this issue. a bunch of republicans are urging the president to take steps on this that he might be

able to take administratively or without congress, so that's another aspect that i think will be worth watching in the coming days. >> >> so two things here. any idea what this executive order would look like, a, and, b, let's talk a little bit about the legislation you bring up here. we know the house drew up police reform legislation that most republicans said it's dead on arrival. they want something more bipartisan. they don't agree with what was part of this police reform legislation, but you heard and we played a part of it, this incredible testimony from george floyd's brother philonise floyd yesterday, emotional, powerful, raw. do you think what we heard from him yesterday will at all move lawmakers forward with coming up with a bipartisan legislation on police reform that is fair and that accomplishes some of what the protesters want?

>> at this point i think it will. you saw republicans an democrats alike reacting to that raw testimony from george floyd's brother yesterday, but, on the subject of the executive order, nobody quite knows what the president wants to do on that issue yet. of course, the justice department could take a number of actions. senator lloyd blunt is urging attorney general william barr to reinstitute the pattern and practice reviews that were scrapped by former attorney general jeff sessions in 2018. that's something the administration could do without congress, of course. but when it comes to the details of this legislation, there's a number of differences between what republicans andom carats are proposing. the chief one is the democrats want to ban the choke hold by police officers. while the republicans agree with that principle of not using choke holds are not comfortable with instituting a ban at the federal level saying it's

already banned in a number of states, a number of localitiesing and they want states and localities to be able to decide on their own, and it shouldn't be the federal government's place to create a standard on this issue. so that's something i think you could see disagreement on in the coming days. but, again, the republicans have yet to release their proposal, which is, of course, being led by senator tim scott. >> all right. andrew desiderio. stay close. i will talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, former national security adviser john bolton moving forward with his new book despite a new warning from the white house. also a former federal judge to w.h.o.'s been tapped to review former national security adviser michael flynn's case has strong words for the justice department, those stories, and, of course, a check on the weather with bill karins when we come back. n the weather with bill karins when we come back. super emma just about sleeps in her cape.

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judge characterized the justice department's motion as a, quote, gross abuse of prosecutorial power. in a 73-page brief filed on wednesday, john gleason told judge emmett sullivan that the doa's decision to dismiss the argument was corrupt. gl leeson who once presided over trials for mafia members argued that the facts surrounding the doj's motion to dismiss was, quote, a decision to dismiss that is based solely on the fact that flynn is a political ally of the president. flynn's attorney will file their response later in the week. also in another ongoing issue with the former national security adviser, the white house has wasn't again told john bolton that the memoir of his time in the trump white house contains classified information

that could present a national security threat, but bolton says he believes he's made all necessary changes to accommodate national security concerns and that the white house simply wants to prevent release of his book entirely, release of, quote, the room where it happened, that's the teatle of the book, was scheduled to be released march and moved to june 23rd after redactions. joining me now, nbc analyst danny cevallos. good morning. great to see you this morning. there could be a lot of bombs in this book, revelations with regard to the happenings in the white house, especially over ukraine. all of that was discussed during the impeachment trial of the president. we know a lot of revelations have been leaked from this book. if, in fact, this book is released in two weeks regardless of what the white house says, does that put bolton in any kind of trouble?

>> both civil and potential criminal trouble. the government can file a lawsuit and seize almost all of the profits the book makes. that's a very easy burden for them to meet. if it's revealed he's revealed classified information, if they determine he's done so, potentially they could criminally prosecute him. but historically, they've done just as much damage by seizing all the profits from a book, which, again, it can do almost automatically. >> so then once again -- and i feel like i continually go back to this question with you, danny, when we talk about anything with regard to the president and not wanting things to be released, but is there any oversight? if the president has ultimate power to declassify, the executive branch has the power to declassify information, then he will continue to do that if

he doesn't want things to get out. is there any oversight? is there any checks s and blass to this for folks to say, no, this should be declassified? >> on the front, prepublication review doesn't violate the first amendment because people lime bolton have signed an agreement. there's more of a contractual obligation. but if at the end of the process the government is dragging its feet -- this has happened before, by the way, then bolton or other potential authors can file a lawsuit and ask the court to figure out these often vague and uncertain standards sri sri the first amendment. >> so, quickly, danny, i want you to weigh in on one of the first stories i brought up, which is michael flynn, right? you have this kind of stunning rebuke from gl gleeson, a decis to dismiss based solely on the

fact that flynn is a political ally of the president. of course, emmett sullivan appointing gleeson as i mentioned earlier and now you have flynn's attorney essentially wanting this to go to an appeals court panel instead of being decided by emmett sullivan. where do you think this goes? >> in my experience, i've never seen a government fight this hard to not prosecute a defendant. it's true before the indictment, the government's decision to charge or not charge is completely unreviewable. it'ser tirely within the executive branch and the doj, but once it decides to indict and once someone pleetds guilty, then the other branch, the judicial branch reflected that. they conclude permission shouldn't be granted because the motive behind it is wrong. >> all right. danny cevallos, thank you as always.

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model for future generations. he said in part, i'm inspired by the likes of muhammad ali and career abdul jabars, thescar robertsons. those guys who stood when the times were even way worse than they are today. all right. let's get a first look at your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning you do. bill, good to see you. >> yeah. good thursday morning to you, yasmin. there's a lot of cleanup from indiana, michigan, and through ohio. we had a line of storms that went through. it wasn't tornadoes. it was wind damage and widespread. this is just one example. traffic was just completely stopped near la grange, indiana. those are wind gusts of nearly 50 to 60 miles an hour.

we have trees down all over the place. at one point we had about half a million people without power behind me each of these blue dots represents a severe storm and wind gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour. you see michigan and indiana the worst. we're going to continue to watch these storming moving to the east. we've had areas of heavy rain overnight from areas of new york state and pennsylvania and now some of those storms are weakening. we expected this to happen. still downpours heading toward the capital district. new york city could see a stray shower. but then the main line will come through during the early afternoon. now, we only have a marginal risk of severe weather. we're not expecting widespread weather like we did yechld we're not expecting any tornadoes or hail, but we do expect to see storms. they stop right around 3:00 this afternoon. in new york city, from about 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. is when it will be over. same for boston and d.c. it will clear out this

afternoon. then the southeast will be the area later on today that will still have some storms in south carolina, eastern north carolina, and then tomorrow this front gets kind of -- stalls along the southeast coast. so while the rest of the country is looking for a beautiful summer-like day from myrtle beach, charleston, savannah, all the way to brunswick, jacksonville, florida, showers and storms. we could be dealing with isolated flooding too. for today's forecast, along the east coast, by far the worst weather in the country with hit-and-miss showers and storms. the great lakes will be cleaning up from the big storms yesterday. when we come back, i'll take a look at the weekend forecast. and also new covid numbers? we had one of our popular states crush the record for new daily cases. i'll tell you who coming up. >> all right. thank you, bill. still ahead, the u.s. has surpassed 2 million coronavirus cases. we'll take a look at where the new hot spots a pyre to be emerging. >> also, a search for a new location for this summer's rnc

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according to a document by yahoo! news for the centers for disease control and prevention, the u.s. had the highest spike of percentage change in daily cases with a 36.5% jump in recent days. that is marking the biggest spike by a significant margin compared to the top ten countries in total cases. this compares to drops in cases in brazil, spain, russia, and india. nbc news has not obtained or seen the document in question. meanwhile in texas, health officials saw a third straight day of breaking viruses. in arizona, the number of coronavirus has spiked three weeks after the governor listed his stay-at-home order. the rapid increase there has lawmakers and medical professionals warning there might not be enough emergency room beds to handle what could be a major influx of new cases. also, a senior administration official telling nbc news that during a meeting yesterday, members of the white house's coronavirus task force

expressed concern about a possible spike in cases across the country in the next two weeks because of the protests following the death of george floyd. the officials are saying they reviewed the task force and feel the numbers were not alarming but find the projection for cases in the next 10 to 14 days are concerning. on a conference call with governors on monday, mike pens and dr. deborah birx also expressed concern about a spike in coronavirus cases two weeks from now. according to a person familiar with this phone call, pence and berks said some testing sites were taken down as the numbers decreased in recent weeks. also vice president mike pence tweeted and then deleted a photo showing a large group of president trump's re-election

team not wearing face masks or social distancing. those are two recommendations given by the coronavirus task force which pence leads. it appears to have been taken from the arlington, virginia's, office, which requires face coverings in indoor settings. you might remember the vice president has been in this situation before. back in april pence was criticized after touring a mayo clinic. the president is returning to the campaign trail, it is official, next fred in tulsa, oklahoma, for the first time since the outbreak. he won it back in 2016. they began lifting restrictions on businesses at the end of april and moved into phase 3 of its reopening on june 3. according to "the new york times," trump cad pain officials

are unlikely to put in place any social distancing at the rallies or require face masks. people familiar with the decision-making process adding that it would be unnecessary because the state is so far along in its reopening. the choice for trump to hold the rally on june 19th is receiving criticism from black communities who note that the event is scheduled on juneteenth, an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states and celebrated asafter can americans and independence day. in addition, back in 1921, tulsa was the site of one of the bloodiest outbreaks when a racist white mob killed hundreds of black residents there. in response the trump campaign released a statement reading in part this, as a party of lincoln, the party is proud of

juneteenth. it's the anniversary of the last reading of the emancipation proclamation. president trump has built a record of success for black americans, including unprecedent low unemployment prior to the global pandemic, all-time high funding for historically black colleges and universities, and criminal justice reform. joe biden spent last june teenn't raising money at a private fund-raiser and defending comments he made celebrating his work with segregationist senators. an rnc spokesperson said this. many cities are eager to host the president's renomination and talks are continuing with several of them to host that celebration. a final decision will be made it soon. joining me once again, congressional reporter for politico andrew decembsiderio. the president loms rallies inside of an election year.

it's where he gets his, i guess, boost, right, amidst all of this. what do you make of it and how do you think this is going to impact his campaign going forward? do you think supporters are actually going to turn out considering the fact that we're inside of a pandemic? >> well, i think that's the big question,age you make a good point, that the president really does thrive in this type of environment. i think that's quite obvious. you saw that early on in the pandemic when, of course, he was holding those daily press conferences. he seemed to want to engage, beout there, and then he's taking the reverse kind of strategy over the last month or so. of course, the president wants to be out there. for example, he's traveling to dallas. he'll also be at a private residence for an eight-figure fund-raiser for his campaign. and then after that, he's going to fly up to new jersey to bedminster to his hideaway there. so, you know, i think it's

important to note that presidents often travel in the middle of a crisis. you know, president obama certainly did that. president bush certainly did that as well. the white house makes the point that presidents can do their jobs from anywhere, and i think this is a reflection of that, and i think you'll start to see the president start to have these rallies more and more often, but i think the big question will be whether people will show up, especially given that there are likely to not be any social distancing guidelines in place. >> and that's the difference that i want to point out here, right? of course, presidents are allowed to travel during crisis. it is expected, right? but the fact we're inside of a pandemic where 100,000 people have lost their lives because of the pandemic, the crisis inside of three months, and then he's asking people once again to risk their health to come out to a

rally that we know will draw thousands of folks. and consider this prospect, that if, in fact, this happens and thousands of people to come out if they get the coronavirus, when they walk away and bring them back to their respective states, that's not going to look good for this president. >> exactly. a number of states ban these types of gatherings as it happens right now. the picture that mike pence tweeted out yesterday that you rereferenced earlier showed the trump campaign headquarters right outside of washington, d.c., and that gathering violated virginia law because offices and other types of gatherings are not allowed yet in that state, and i think that's part of the reason why the vice president ended up deleting that photo. also because none of them were wearing masks. but depending on the state the president wants to go to to hold these rallies, he might not be able to under that state's current laws.

>> all right. andrew desiderio, thank you so much. great to see you this morning, my friend. still ahead, answering the call of its only black driver, nascar bans the confederate flag from its sport. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. look at "m" is back in a moment. still fresh... ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster

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bringing confederate flags to races starting in 2015 after nine people were killed at a church in south carolina. now the decision to ban them outride. nascar said in a statement this. the presence of the confederate flag at nascar events runs contrary to or commitment to providing a welcoming and inclues everybody environment for all fans, our competitors, and our industry. bringing people together around a love for racing and community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special. with that, let's turn to bill and the weather. let's talk about the covid number and then look at the weekend whereveather you have f. >> first let's take you through the national numbers. we kind of hit what has become our norms. about 20,000 cases and about 1,000 fatales. that's kind of been our middle

of the week-averages. yesterday, 982 fatalities to report. that's our lowest wednesday number since late march. that's good. it's coming down. new cases, 820, 852. states with the most cases, california, texas, arizona, florida, and north carolina. they have air-conditioning. that's where some of the highest cases are. when they talk about the second wave in the winter for the northern half of the country, that's what they're saying. we're getting a good example of that right now with a lot of our air-conditioned states. let's talk about texas. you see the gray lines. that's since early march. look at yesterday. 2,437 cases in texas. that's easily more. that's definitely a hot spot

especially around harris county and houston. so today's forecast, rain and thunderstorms moving along the east coast. middle of the country is quiet. a cleanup day from severe storms yesterday. as far as a weekend outlook goes, friday, we're watching heavy rain, north carolina, south carolina, florida, warm and sunny in the northeast. we hold onto a nice day the n the northeast on saturday. rain along the coast. by the time we get to sunday, we'll be looking at off-and-on storms in the mid-atlantic area. you're talking about a heatwave in the middle of the country. the galaxy loves humid. overall, a pretty much summer-like weekend, yasmin. no one's going to get watched out completely. >> it's interesting, bill. you're talking about the spikes we're seeing in the south. this is exactly what we talked about with experts leading up to the reopening of some of those states because they had to keep

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markets was yesterday's federal reserve policy decision and part of the decision was releasing economic forecasts for the first time since the outbreak began, and the message from the fed yesterday was that message from yesterday was they plan to keep rates near zero through 2022. and the fed ex pects the u.s. economy to contract by 6.5% this year it sees unemployment hitting 9.3%. we're looking at a dire picture of the economy. the fed added it would take years for joblessness to return to precrisis levels. the key is the fed planned to support the u.s. economy through the recovery phase. but as you mentioned we are looking at a negative start to trade in the u.s. today, dow futures point to a more than 500 point drop at the open. we have a lot of nerves building around the escalation of cases in parts of the united states. i know you were going through this in detail before the break

but that's concerned investors across the global markets. one story about amazon, amazon has announced it's beganing the use of its facial recognition software by one year saying we hope this might give congress enough to make appropriate rules and we stand by ready to help as requested. the company is urging governments to put in place stronger regulations to govern technologies like this and ensure that use of this type of technology is done in an ethical way. that coming on the back of the protests that have broken out across america and really across much of the world. >> it seems like a lot of folks are trying to do their part when it comes to racial injustice and identify their part in the problem. we talked yesterday about the canceling of the cop show and now a&e canceling "live pd," it

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johnston. talk to us about axios' one big thing. >> today is where it might make sense to shift police budgets. in the debate about defund the police there's a lot of nuances so we've talked to law officials and government officials to talk about how the budgets might begin to shift in a way to refocus police efforts as opposed to closing them entirely, which few are likely to do anyway. thinking about homelessness, if we can shift the resources, the budgets might follow. other key issues are mental health, that's often the place where police respond first, probably not the best people equipped to deal with those people if they're not involved in violently breaking the law. there are social workers that can perhaps be better used for

those things. drug addiction is a thing people are telling us police are not best to deal with. and if they could be shifted to social workers to deal with addiction and other issues like that. and crimes that happen on the street that are nonviolent maybe it's best to send social workers or even emergency medical technicians. and these relationships between police and school districts, there's a lot of schools that put police officers in schools, a lot of districts are severing those agreements and it's leading to a discussion, maybe there are other local officials who should be in those schools instead of a uniform police officer. and the nature of decriminalizing small crimes. the call of a police officer, whether it's littering or va began gran si.

so officials are rethinking what kind of things are illegal and require the police to be called. yasmin. >> it's interesting, if you look at new york city's budget, for instance, when it comes to the nypd over a span of 5 years, i believe it was over $40 billion, compare that to the homelessness budget and the housing development budget which is around 6 to $7 billion respectively for both. so there is a major difference there. and possibly money that could be shifted elsewhere. as you talk about responsibilities as well, it is important that we continue to find what the majority of protesters mean by defunding the police. for the majority of the protesters it does not necessarily mean dismantling entire police departments, but just reshifting responsibilities and some money elsewhere. >> that's exactly it. >> while i have you i want to talk quickly about the pandemic

as well. we are seeing increased cases across the board, especially in southern states. >> yeah. >> what does this mean for the overall-out break here in the united states? >> we can dig a little more into the state cases we have an update of our weekly maps, looking at the long term trends, growing case rates across the united states. this is a key metric governments suggests they use. most of the states are heading in the right direction that were peak states. but look at the brown, in florida and arizona, that's because they're testing more, the growth in testing rates are matching the increase in positives. they are getting a much better handle on the scale of it, so partial credit for those states. where it's worrisome is oregon and new mexico we're seeing the growth in cases increasing over

testing. so they don't have a handle on the pandemic in their states. you mentioned texas earlier in the broadcast. we have that gray as something not worrisome yet in our map but we saw the growth rate is 7%, which is right on the line between whether it becomes worrisome and the cases are outpacing the speed of testing. so worrisome signs impacts us now. >> the good news is increased testing means more readiness, preparedness for a possible phase two in the fall. thank you so much. i'll be reading axios a.m. in a little while. sign up at axios.com. "morning joe" starts now. george wasn't hurting anyone that day. he didn't deserve to die over $20. i'm asking you, is that what a black man is worth, $20?