"elections have consequences." that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you ever so much for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. the country's top military official offers an apology. general mark milley says he's sorry for participating the president's controversial photo op outside a church this month. also a growing number of republicans are considering a break. they're opening to renaming military bases. and a backlash over holding a rally on juneteenth, one of the biggest riot days in american

history. good friday morning, everybody. it's june 12th and i'm yasmin vossoughian. we've got a lot to cover this morning. yesterday the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, says he regrets his role in the president's controversial photo op in front of st. john's church. here is the nation's top ranked military official wearing his combat fatigues, walking with the president across lafayette park after tear gas and rubber bullets were used on peaceful protesters to clear the way. the general addressed the incident in a prerecorded message to graduates. >> as senior leaders, everything you do will be closely watched, and i am not immune. as many of you saw of the photograph of me last week, that

sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society. i should not have been there. my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. as a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake that i learned from. >> so three defense officials telling nbc news that milly considered resigning over his role in the photo op. nbc's courtney kube and carol lee are also reporting this. quote, in an oval office meeting with mike pence, mark esper, attorney general bill barr, general milley said he was angry the national guard had not yet been deployed in washington. esper, milly, and barr all pushed back on the idea. milly became so fired up explained why using active duty

troops was dangerous that he shook his fists to emphasize the points. there's also new reporting on how the general ended up wearing those combat fatigues in that photo op. nbc's carol lee is going to have much more on that story coming up on "morning joe" in the next hour. also speaking at a roundtable with faith leaders, law enforcement officials at the gateway church, the president praised the national guard for the ease in which it forcefully dispersed protesters in minneapolis. >> minneapolis, they went through three nights of hell, and then i was insistent on having the national guard go in and do their work. it was like a miracle. everything stopped. and i'll never forget the scene. it's not supposed to be a beautiful scene, but to me it was after you watched policemen running out of a police precinct, but we are very proud of the fact that i called. i said, i'm sorry, i have to

have them go in, we went in, and it was like a knife cutting butter, right through, boom. i'll never forget. you saw the scene. on that road, wherever it may be, in the city, minneapolis, they were lined up, boom. they just walked straight. and, yes, there was some tear gas and probably some other things and the crowd dispersed and they went through. by the end of the evening -- and it was a short evening -- everything was fine and you didn't hear too much about that location and having problems anymore. >> i'm not sure the protesters or even the officers that were guarding that screen or fled from the area would have called it a beautiful scene or a knife cutting butter. and as we know, even after the national guard descended on minneapolis, those protests continued in that city. the president yesterday also defended his comments about dominating the streets, saying it is being done with compassion for businesses damaged during

the recent unrest. >> i said we have to dominate the streets. you can't let them do the damage they've done in new york city. they have to dominate the streets. and i was criticized for that statement. i made the statement, you have to dominate the street. they said, oh, that's a terrible thing. well, guess what. you know who dominated the streets? look at the damage they did. i'll stick with that. maybe every person in this room will do it. we're doing it with compassion if you think about it. we're dominating the streets with compassion because we're saving lives, family, businesses, businesses wiped out after 20 or 30 years. it was totally wiped out. leaders are calling on the

president to change his kick of rally date. two officials say the campaign knew of the historical context behind the date but are not considering changing it. here's how the press secretary responded. >> the african-american community is very near and dear to its heart. at these rallies, he often shares the great work he has done for minority communities. he's working on rectifying injustices, injustices that go back. it's a meaningful day to him and a day where he wants to share some of the progress he's made as we look forward to more that needs to be done especially as we're looking at the police reform. >> two things here. not only is the day considered offensive by some, but the tulsa, oklahoma, location as well, which back in 1921 was the site of a white and black clash

that killed as many as 300 people. so two things going on here. joining me now, shannon pettypiece. shannon, i'm going to get to that story in a moment, the backlash over the campaign rally coming up in tulsa. but i want to first talk about mark milley here, the chairman of the joint chiefs. more and more are coming forward to rebuke the president's response to the protests. the latest i explained coming from the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley, specifically with that photo op saying he regrets being involved in the photo op. how do you think the president is reacting to this apology from mi mill milley? >> well, this is what i can tell you. last week when defense secretary mark esper came out publicly, he did a press conference where he appeared to be trying to distance himself from the

president and that controversial church visit and going out of his way to say he didn't think that u.s. troops should be used in u.s. cities at this point appearing to, you know, contradict the president or give the impression that the defense secretary would stand up against the president if the president tried to send in u.s. troops, the president got furious over that press conference that the defense secretary did last week. nbc news was told he threatened to fire esper at one point, but eventually aides were able to convince the president that it was not worth the trouble in a political year. you know, aides told him, you know, this was not esper trying to contradict the president but a miscommunication, a misinterpretation of what he was saying by the media, and this this close to an election, you couldn't have this type of disruptive shakeup. so i could see aides making a

very similar argument about milley as chairman of joint chiefs of staff. you know, despite whether the president is upset about this or not, convincing the president, you can't be firing top military officials, certainly not over this less than five months out from an election. >> so let's quickly also talk about the story that i mentioned as i was coming in to you, the president facing major backlash with regards to his rally in tulsa, marking the end of slavery in tulsa, where there was a major clash, white on black clash, 300 lives lost. a lot going on there, and the president choosing at this point to go forward with this campaign rally. how if at all, shannon, do you think this is going to impact him for the 2020 elections? >> well, and throw into all of that the fact that we have a pandemic going on and this is an

indoor venue that holds about 19,000 people. when you sign up for tickets for this event, there's actually a disclaimer that makes participants acknowledge -- they know the risks of covid-19 and attending a large gathering and they wave any right to sue the trump campaign or venue or anyone involved or associated with this event, so they're very well aware of that. we have been told that those images of protesters, thousands of them in the street, not social distancing following the death of george floyd gave them a bit of cover to be able to have their own mass gathering. of course, there's many differences there. that was their feeling that those images on tv helped make it more acceptable socially to be able to have a rally like this. but the president's trying to portray an image of everything back to normal. he's off a to his retreat this

weekend where he'll be golfing, back on the road with rallies, and the report at the white house is coronavirus is behind us, now under control, and despite the increase in multiple cities, the president is very eager to move past coronavirus. >> having the cover, i have to say, of the protest does not necessarily address the controversial date and location of this rally, and i will also say having been out with protesters reporting on this, at least in new york while they weren't necessarily able to socially distance, i certainly saw the majority of protesters in my experience at least wearing masks, and from my understanding, masks are not even required at this rally when they pack thousands of people into this venue. >> yeah. it's certainly different. >> shannon pettypiece, nbc, thank you so much. stay close. i'm going to talk to you again

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welcome back, everybody. nationwide protests and police brutality are changing at the state and local level. >> say her name. >> brie o aneonna taylor. >> that was the scene in louisville, kentucky, with the mother of breonna taylor after the council voted unanimously to ban the no-knock warrant that

ultimately cost breonna taylor her life. it was days after calling for an end to the practice of breaking into a home to make an arrest. in the district of columbia, the council now requires the names of officers involved in deadly images and their body cam video from those incidents. there are other changes under way as far as police policies in california and minneapolis among them. the president looks to get back to normal with his first campaign rally we mentioned earlier since the battle of coronavirus began. but rally goers will now need to effectively sign a waiver to get a ticket. the message on the campaign website to register for the rally in tulsa next week reads

as follows, quote this, by clicking register below, you are acknowledging an inherent risk of exposure to covid-19 exists in any public place where people are present. by atnlding the rally, you and any guest voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to covid-19 and agree not to hold donald j. trump for president inc., or the stadium, its employees, or volunteers, et cetera, liable for any illness or any injury. joining me now once again nbc legal analyst danny scevallos. good morning. >> good morning. >> we're seeing a lot of changing, sweeping changes throughout the country in light of the most recent protests. let's talk for a moment as a defense attorney from your perspective. do you see these reforms facing legal battle from police unions especially when we know

historically police unions have been a roadblock for reforms inside departments? >> quietly the biggest change is the loosening of police disciplinary records. i've litigated these wrongful arrests and excessive force cases, and it's very difficult to get ahold of these prior disciplinary records. this is the kind of information that can go a long way to show a pattern or practice that shows this officer did this in the past so each time they come to new litigation, it's like a fresh new case because people can't get ahold of their prior disciplinary record. this could change the landscape for civil liability for officers and police departments if these records are lucid. look for unions to oppose this, of course, but it's really questionable how much control they have over a police department's internal investigation and how they do things. there's nothing we lawyers can do about it.

>> so you are talking about the new york change, which was the 50a law. my hunch is as you mentioned, they will challenge it. i want to talk about this disclaimer to protect the president's campaign and the rally organizers. i read through some of it. does the fact that it's there mean that this rally is dangerous to its participants, and does it actually protect the president and the rally organizers? >> at the outset, cases involved coronavirus liability for premises or people that hold rallies or group events are already going to be challenging because of issue causation. how will a plaf show that this particular incident caused the infection with coronavirus and it wasn't something else like their air-conditioning system or a contact at home or in their

apartment? so these cases are already challenging. all these liability rallies do is kick these cases out before they even get started in court. so even though causation is a huge part of it, the liability waivers, even the ones you click on or click through to buy something or a ticket are usually held to be valid unless they're completely unfair. so this is the kind of thing that probably will be. generally speaking these will be enforced, even the ones you click through and didn't even read. >> maybe the bigger question here is if you have to have participants signing a liability waiver, maybe you shouldn't be having a rally in the first place if it could mean hurting people's health. danny say v

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is about 30% african-americans was known to the officials before its selection but, again, another controversy there. let's switch gears and get a look at your forecast with nbc's bill karins. good morning to you, bill. >> good friday morning to you, yasmin. it looks like this weekend we're going to have mixed weather. we saw rain go through areas in the northeast. that humid air mass, that's being replaced, but the exception is down in the southeast. we still have numerous areas of rain especially in areas of north carolina, exiting areas around the norfolk, virginia beach area. as we go through the day, the showers and storms are going to linger. you have the charleston area, savannah and other areas will be dodging storms. unfortunately this is going to linger right through your saturday. definitely if you can make other plans besides the beaches at

south carolina, you may be better off. there will also be rip curbs you'll have to deal with too. 1 to 2 inches, isolated up to 3 inches. let's take a little turn now. let's talk climate. our friends at climate central came out with this graphic showing that over the last 50 years the changes in the summer weather, look at areas of the west. areas have gotten ten degrees warmer. you notice there is a cool spot. we've gotten cooler. but even on the east coast, temperatures have gotten 1 to 3 degrees warmer. as we set up our summer season, the temperatures are on the rise, already 90s in den version san antonio at 95. we'll have a great weekend. areas in places like new york city should be perfect. >> all right. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, a growing number of republicans are voicing support for removing

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the section is being called the capitol hill autonomous zone and stretches for about six blocks and surrounds the city's abandoned east precinct in the downtown area. according to "the new york times," in the absence of law enforcement, quote, what has emerged is an experiment in life without the police part street festival, part commune. the president threatening to take back the camp in seattle created by protesters. on twitter he wrote this, domestic terrorists have taken over seattle run by radical left democrats. trump also said the radical left governor and mayor of seattle are being taunted and played and issued a warning. quote, take back your city. if you don't, i will. this is not a game.

seattle senator durkin pushed back on the president's threats. >> one of the things the president will never understand is that listening to community is not a weakness. it is a strength. a real leader would see nationwide protests, the grief in so many communities of color particularly our black communities and the call to be an antiracist society is an opportunity for america, an opportunity to build a better nati nation. >> if they don't straighten it out, we're going to straighten it out. >> what do you mean by that? >> very simple. wear not going to let them occupy it. this woman, she hasn't done this before. we f we have to go in, we're going go in. >> in an effort to remove the names of confederate leaders from military bases, it's gaining support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle despite the president voicing

opposition to the move. the republican controlled senate armed services committee has adopted an amendment by elizabeth warren that requires the department of defense to rename military bases after confederate generals. trump tweeted this. seriously failed presidential candidate senator elizabeth "poke honor as the" warren just introduced an amendment on the renaming of many of our legendary military bases for which we trained to win two world wars. hopefully our great senators won't fall for this. a number of republicans signaled that they're open to the idea. >> you know, thinoknow, i thinko try to rewrite history. i think it's always appropriate to review the people and places that we honor to see if they fit the context of the times in which we live. >> i think we should look long

term at what it really means. i've been pretty outspoken about schools. i don't think schools should be renamed after confederate leaders. you've got the same thing with military bases. >> the message is if we're going to have bases throughout the united states, i think it should be with the names of individuals who fought for our country. we don't want to forget our history. we don't want to forget what's happened in the past. but at the same time, that doesn't mean that we should continue with those bases with the names of individuals who fought against our country. >> and republican senator roy blount also told reporters yesterday he had no problem changing the names of military bases. he told reporters this. if you want to continue to name forts after soldiers, there have been a lot of great soldiers who have come along since the civil war. the senator noticed that braxton brag who is honored at the sprawling base in north carolina was, quote, probably the worst commanding general in the entire

confederate army. he's an interesting guy to name a fort after. and on confronting bigotry and prejudice in this country, the president yesterday said it will go quickly and very easily. >> americans are good and virtuous people. we have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear. but we'll make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens and millions of decent americans as racists or bigots wchl very to get everybody together. we have to be on the same path, i think, pastor. if we don't do that, we'll have problems. we can do that. i think we'll do it very easily. it will go quickly and it will go very easily. >> 400 years of history of racism in this country and this president thinks it's going go quickly and easily to rectify the problem. with that i want to bring in the

professor at lyndon b. johnson school and an nbc contributor, victoria. thanks for joining us. i really appreciate it. gosh. this country is completely different than it was just a couple of months ago. we have dealt with a pandemic, we have lost upwards of 110,000 lives in a matter of just a couple of months. an administration that didn't deal with this pandemic early enough if had dealt with the pandemic, lives would have been saved on top of that. we have massive protests across the country protesting the death of george floyd, demanding racial justice, and an end to racism as we know it in this country. so much has changed. so many states are in play as we're inside of an election year, heading toward november, states that would not have necessarily been in play just a

couple of months ago. talk about the state of texas in general and where we are overall with regard to the state of the election. >> right. so, yasmin, texas has been one of the deep red states. we just know it's a solid republican. i'm not going to say it's going to flip blue or definitely be purpose, but what's interesting to see is the change we've seen in a couple of years. hillary clinton in 2016 won here in single digits. there was a different of nine percentage points. saw in 2018 some very substantial gains among the congressional leaders and in the state legislature here in texas. we're seeing frustration and exhaustion that folks want change. we don't see that necessarily translate in terms of what we see on the streets and to the ballots. historically, yasmin, we know there's the lag between the public protest, the public

outcry, and what happens at the ballot boxes, but it's going to be really interesting to see how that frustration, how that anciented from the past couple of months as you pointed out from a global pandemic, from the outrageousness of how we have become essentially a police state, how that culminates to push people to vote and in particular people of color who traditionally have lower voting rates. how are they going to react in november? >> so on top of that, you have the president kicking off his re-election campaign in nearby tulsa, oklahoma. i have talked about the history in tulsa, the murder of 300 or so african-american individuals in tulsa, also marking the day, juneteenth. there is a very dark history related to this location and this day in which the president is kicking off his rallies once

again after shutting them down during the pandemic. talk about the significance of this. >> i'm a believer that there are few coincidences. love the trump administration or hate them, they are incredibly smart and incredibly savvy, and in politics, we know that we react with our head and with our heart. so there's the policy positions that our political leaders put forward, but there's also that symboli symbolism, that emotion they con j jur. what's the music, what's the tone. we react to that i would argue almost as strongly as we do the message. sadly this is a very dark message the president is sending. yesterday, yasmin, he put forward a rhetoric of let's try

to unify, but then his actions and symbolism are saying something quite different. so it's really sending a very frustrating message to people right now who want healing. >> victoria de-fran chess ka soto, thanks for joining us this morning. at least one major city is preparing to reissue lockdown orders following a spike in coronavirus cases. your first look at "morning joe" is coming up. we're back in a moment. rning jo" is coming up we're back in a moment

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jerome adams. the virus persists. americans have to remain vigilant and follow protocols to limit transition across the country, but the houston area, there officials are announcing yesterday they're preparing to reimpose stay-at-home orders and reopen a covid-19 hospital at a football stadium after the lone star state recorded its highest one-day tally. a judge said yesterday, we may be approaching the precipice of a disaster. it is out of hand right now. the good news is it's not severe out of hand. any plan, though, to reinstate local lockdowns may hold little legal authority after the governor there greg abbott issued executive orders to reopen the state that superceded county and municipal directives.

with that i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who has been looking at covid numbers for us. we talked about this yesterday, bill. some of the spikes we're seeing in these southern states as we're seeing a leveling off here in the northeast, texas being one of those states. >> yeah. it was interesting to hear the surgeon general saying they're flattening the curve. let's take a look at it. this is the fatality curve. this will never go down. it's linear and accumulative. you notice where the "x" is. it's not rising as fast as it was. yesterday we had another 904 people who reported fatalities. the top states were illinois, new jersey, california, new york, and florida. there's a lag. even though the number of cases have gone down significantly in new jersey and new york, there are still people in the hospital fighting for this disease and fighting for their lives. now let's get to the total

cases. this line does not appear to be dropping off as much as the yellow one was on the last one. you notice they had 23,000 yesterday. the seven-day average is the lowest, but we're still right around that 20,000 to 22,000 average each and every day. as far as the states yesterday, florida set their record for the most new cases. california had their fifth highest total, and texas was also a top five. those are the hot states right now. as far as your forecast goes, we have a pretty quiet weekend coming your way, yasmin. many areas are pretty nice. we're not going to see too many problems. my friends on the southeast coast, those are who could have problems with shower liengs the coast. not the best beach weather in south carolina. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, we'll go live to cnbc on what's driving wall street and stocks rebound following the worst day since march.

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the rising numbers of infections in the united states causing some nerves to reenter investments' minds, as well as a dire picture of the economy and trajectory for the united states. but we are looking at a rebound today, looking from we go from here. the uk economy, today we got fresh data showing economic activity in the uk suffered its sharpest contraction in april. this was the first full month of lockdown so we're getting into the full extent of damage and it is pretty severe. >> julianna live from london, good to see you. coming up next a look at axios big thing and on "morning

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