take us off the air tonight. that is our broadcast for this wednesday evening. thank you so very much for being here with us as always. on behalf of all my colleagues a networks of nbc news, good night. noning new claims by john bolton with startling new details coming out. also the former atlanta police officer who fatally shot rayshard brooks in a wendy's parking lot last friday has been charged with felony murder. and cases of the coronavirus continues to surge across the south. they hope to slow the spread by mandating face masks. good thursday morning,

everybody. it is june 18th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin with some of those explosive allegations in john bolton's new tell-all book about his time inside of the trump white house. among the stunning headlines from the normal national security adviser, bolton says the president asked chinese president xi jinping for re-election help. he says in a 2018 meeting with then british prime minister theresa may, president trump had no idea uk was a nuclear power, and when it comes to the house impeachment inquiry, bolton says president trump should have been questioned about ukraine but other troubling episodes as well. those are just a couple of headlines in the new book. president trump reacted, tweeting this just after midnight.

quote, whacko john bolton's exceedingly tedious "new york times" book is made up of lies and fake stories. said all good about me, in print, until the day i fired him. a disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. never had a clues, was happily dumped. what a dope. bolton is writing trump told the chinese president on the sidelines at the g20 summit in japan last year to purchase american agricultural products in order to help him win farm states. so according to a copy of the book obtained by nbc news, bolton writes in part this, with the press gone, xi said this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. he said some unnamed political

figures in the united states were making erroneous judges by calling for a new cold war, this time between china and the united states. whether xi meant to figure the democrats or some of us sitting on the u.s. side of the table, i don't know, but trump immediately assumed xi meant the democrats. trump said approvingly there was a great hostility among the democrats. trump, bolton writes, then stunningly turned the conversation to the upcoming u.s. presidential election, alluding to china's economic capability to effect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with xi to ensure he'd win. he stressed the importance of farmers, and increased chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. there was also an instance where trump appears to ignore china's

human rights abuses while encouraging the construction of large-scale camps to forcibly reeducation muslim minorities in that country. bolton also writes this. at the opening dinner of the osaka g20 meeting with only interpreters present, xi explained to trump why he was basically building concentration camps in xinjiang. according to our interpreter, trump said that xi should go ahead. and also bolton writes this. on the 30th anniversary of ch a china's massacre of pro-democracy, demonstrators in ten men square, trump refused to

issue a white house statement. that was 15 years ago, he said inat ratley. who cares about it. according to the filing, the administration claims bolton failed to meet the required review, arguing the book should not be released until that review is completed, but bolton submitted his book for review twice, first in december during the imt peachment and again after redactions when the administration claimed there was classified information. simon shuster released the following statement. tonight's filing by the government is a frivolous politically moat motivated exercise in futility. hundreds of thousands of copies of john bolton's book have been distributed around the country and the world. the injunction as requested by the government would accomplish nothing. and the prosecutors are

considering whether to criminally charge bolton with release of classified information as they say. joining me now, thank you. carol, aisle begin with you. major revelations emerging from the bolton book. i can imagine we're getting a reaction from the white house on the hill. what are you hearing? >> so far you're hearing basically what you would respect from either side, democrats and republicans. democrats are saying john bolton's book is revelatory.

as you recall, bolton refused to testify before the house when it held its impeachment hearings and instead said he would let a judge decide. then he writes in the book, the house should have gone further, there were all these other episodes with president trump was abusing his power in terms of putting him -- trying to use his relationship with foreign leaders to benefit himself politically. so democrats are essentially saying, you know, these revelations are very concerning and joe biden calls it morally repugna repugnant. at the same time they're critical of what bolton was doing, writing the book, and that he should have testified before the house. at the same time you see republicans trying to distance themselves from bolton, which is an interesting dance because as you know, bolton has been in republican circles and policies for four decades. he's served four presidents. he's well known.

he supports some of the lawmakers. but you heard from some of the president's allies saying bolton has an ax to grind, it was a manifestation of bolton's resentment, these things aren't true. about what you would expect so far at least. this is a tough one especially for republicans because the relationship there goes back a very long time with john bolton. >> so i will say this though, kwiks, carol, because you do bring up a good point about testifying before the house, the congress n which bolton did not do. so at the end of the day, these are really allegations that are being made because bolton essentially chose not to testify. so remind us why it is that john bolton did not testify, especially when you consider so many of the allegations that are made in this book. and when he goes so far as to say that this president should have been investigated for

things beyond ukraine. >> yeah. it's great point. a book is one thing. you can say anything publicly that you want and it can be challenged. it carries far more weight if you say these things under oath and testify before the house. he chose not to do that at the time. bolton's argument at the time was the white house told him he could not testify, that he stood apart from some of the other administration officials who did testify because of his close relationship with the president and his dealings in national security. and so the white house said he couldn't testify. the house was saying -- calling him to testify, he was never actual ly subpoenaed. bolton said, you know, i'm going to wait for a judge to decide, that basically he wasn't going to testify in democrat impeachment hearings unless he sided with congress over the white house that. never came to pass.

the lawsuit was withdrawn. they moved on because that was going to take alo long time to play out. >> danny, talk me through the motion. i'm wondering about the statement here. it makes the point that the book is already out there, not just in the country but around the world. thousands of copies as they've put it have been distributed already and this injunction would accomplish nothing. >> this motion really is attempting to stop the bleeding at this point. and the government can move for a temporary restraining order, but the standard for granting that is really very high. you have to show a judge that i d deserve this motion to be granted with a day or two. it's important that it happen.

there's a request for something further out in time to get the parties a chance to get together, respond, and then issue. these restraining orders are very rarely granted. what the government can do is they can impound the profits made from this book without running into as many first amendment concerns than if they tried to prevent the publishing completely. that's what they often do. folks have to submit their books for prepublication review. bolton's team is taking a risk by simply going forward and publishing and seeing if the republicans can win a battle against the first amendment. >> but that's essentially punishing bolton. it doesn't mean any less information is out there from the book if they're taking the profits earned from the book sales. >> exactly right. i mean the government doesn't

want to get into a battle over the first amendment because they might lose. the court might say he has a right to publish this. even though he signed this agreement and even if he brearound where they essentially say, all right, we're letting him punish, but we're going to divest him o are not going to make any money. you're right. in the sense that the text is already out there, there's nothing to stop this at this point, but the government can try to make it as uncensored as possible and others might do the same. >> a lot of folks in the white house not happy about the release of this book, that is to say the least. danny sell v danny say val la, thank you.

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the now fired officer who shot and killed rayshard brooks on friday night was charged with felony murder along with ten other counts. in an afternoon conference, district attorney paul howard explained the accounts which include aggravated assault. >> we also noticed officer rolfe was firing a taser at mr. brooks. the city of atlanta's sop, in

fact, prohibit officers from firing tasers at someone who is running away. so the city of atlanta says you cannot even fire a taser at someone who is running away. so you certainly can't fire a gun, a hand gurng at someone who is running away. >> so the second officer present, devin brosnan, faces a charge of aggravated assault and three charges of violation of oath. officer brosnan faces 20 years. rolfe possibly the death penalty. a by will was created by tim sc. >> certainly i think we achieve some of the same ends by our approach, frankly, if you think

about the inability to have any grands if your department has choke holds that basically is by day fault a ban on choke holds. there are things the conference will not support, but they all support a conversation. we don't make it about bipartisans. we make it about restoring trust, officers. if we can put that on the table not your skin's game, we'll get to the finish line. >> so the bill requires departments to keep and share disciplinary information on officers, but it does not create a national data base of police officer complaints. it also leaves no-knock warrants and immunity untouched. senator mcconnell plans to bring it to the floor next week which face as showdown with democrats. plus, does president trump

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himself have the responsibility to prevent these larger gatherings or encourage social distancing so the people around the world follow his example for the most safe environment? why is the president not following cdc guidelines? >> we're doing temperature checks, hand sanitizers, and masks. when you go to a rally, you assume a risk. when you go to baseball game, you assume a risk.

it's up to americans to make the decision whether to gotgo to the rally or not go to the rally. >> welcome back. that was kayleigh mcenany's response. president trump's own administration are starting to question whether the president wants to win a second term. he doesn't want to be seen as a loser going into the election, and in recent days he's been acting trapped and defensivdefe and his self-destructive behavior has been so off that his advisers are wondering if he's truly interested in serving a second term. they say he's been wallowing in self-pity about news coverage of him since the beginning of the coronavirus. he said no matter what he does,

he cannot get good stories from the press, which has often been his primary interest. and he's trying to find out who leaked that he went to the bunkers. chief of staff mark meadows says he had no idea how fractious and unwielding inside the white house was until he got there. now let's switch gears here and get a first look at your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning to you, bill. >> good morning to you, yasmin. you mentioned the climate in the white house. let's look at the forecast. quiet late spring/ear spring/early-summer-like weather

conditions. you have the bush fire in arizona. this is a stunning picture. it's been going on for four days. it was started by a vehicle fire. this is just outside of phoenix. it's spread up to 100,000 acres. to give you some perspective, it's now the seventh largest wildfire in arizona state history. we'll keep an eye on that one. it has caused a few evacuations, but it's avoided populated areas up to this point. with your forecast, we'll watch hit-and-miss storms in the atlanta region, heat through downtown oklahoma and texas and cooler in the areas of the rockies. now let's check the climate. we call these warming stripes. this is a look at how the planet has warmed from the mid-1800s to current, you go from right to left. you see how rapid the warming is on the globe.

let's break it down now by the top states. alaska is the fastest. but for the lower 48, here are the five farthest warming states, new jersey, de, utah, arizona, and new mexico. i did men alaska because global warming is amplifieded ified in atlantic and arctic. it's off the charts. the last two decades is all bright red. yasmin, it's been on the back burner. we haven't been talking about it much because we have so much breaking news. this issue isn't going anywhere. as long as we continue to use fossil fuels, the planet's going to continue to warm. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, we have much more to cover from john bolton's stunning new book about his time in the

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with more on john bolton's allegations against his former boss, the president. in his upcoming memoir, bolton reportedly writes that the

president did not know that britain has nuclear weapons. and even asked finland if it was part of russia. more starkly, bolton talks about his withdrawing from nato. and he describes a scene from trump's 2018 meeting with kim jong-un where mike pompeo slipped a note to bolton about the president in which it said he is full of blank. bolton also details how even the president's closest advisers had an unfavorable opinion about his abilities such as chief of staff john kelly who openly asked about trump, quote, what if we have a real crisis like 9/11 with the way he makes decisions. also bolton's explosive accusations confirm house testimony involving trump's decision to withhold military aid to ukraine over investigations into his political rivals. bolton writes that on august 20th, quote, i took trump's

temperature under ukraine's security assistance and he said he wasn't favorable in sending them everything until all of the information related to clinton and biden had been turned over. he adds mike pompeo and mark esper tried eight to ten times to get trum top release the a. meanwhile the former national security adviser had nothing but scorn for the white house's handling of the impeachment. "the new york times's" advanced copy of the book points to other troubling episodes that democrats should have tied to trump including his willingness to intervene in international investigations to curry favor with turkey and china as well. and in an interview president

trump called bolton a, quote, liar over packages in his new tell-all book. he denied there were any strans with the former secretary of state and denied giving permission to build detention camps for the country's uighur population. the trump administration had been considering sanction on china for its treatment of uighurs, more than a million of whom have been detained for the past three years. but according to bolton's book, trump did not want to upset trade negotiations. trump for his part denied this and pointed out he signed legislation earlier on wednesday calling for sanction saying, quote, i could have killed that very easily. bolton said trump failed to make relationships in the white house and mark meadows echoed it saying bolton could never find

consensus. trump said he kept bolton on staff as a negotiating tool, instill fear in other world leaders, and several times to blork ye-- blo yet another war. joining us once again is carol lee. there's so much to unpack. >> i know. >> i think we have go back to where we began, and that is the relationship between the president and john bolton, hearing differing aspects of that relationship from bolton's book versus the president. so talk us through that for a moment, the relationship between the president and john bolton. we know there was a lot of criticism when the president brought bolton in because bolton has been considered a warhawk from the get-go, and a lot of folks criticized that decision

from the jump. >> yeah, yasmin. and if you go back to when john bolton finally came into the white house t preside, the pres consulted him even beforehand. he was the flavor of the month. he was trump's new favorite. trump thought he was going to be the answer to some of his frustrations. he had been frustrated with bolton's predecessor h.r. mcmaster, and he really embraced bolton, and the two of them had a very close relationship initially, and bolton writes in his book he went in clear-eyed. he knew the risks and he believed he could handle it. now, trump also courted bolton for months. they had many meetings during the transition, many conversations. there were discussions whether he would be secretary of state. jared kushner told bolton the president really liked him.

he finally comes in but he writes he was appalled by the president's outreach to kim jong-un, that he thought it was a terrible mistake. and he also describes the president as transactional in nature in terms of how he deals with foreign leaders and that it's one-offs, that there's no cohesion to his world view. however, bolton also makes clear he saw the relationship with president trump and his job as a bit trance actional in the sense that he decided he would go into the white house to try to get things done and he did that and the relationship over time just completely deteriorated. >> so while we were seeing some of these revelations overnight, yesterday from this book emerge, some of which point to mike pompeo and how he was -- has been acting inside of the white house and his opinions of the president, mike pompeo meeting

with the minister, i know, carol, you have a copy of the book. i'm wondering if you could share with us any of the surprising revelations you have seen that we haven't necessarily mentioned. >> well, in terms of pompeo, the state department is not commenting. they're saying he's focused on that meeting. obviously this is something he's not going to want to engage in. people can disagree with john bolton and say a lot of things about him, but the one thing he's had is credibility and he's known to tell the truth. that's what i'm finding most striking is the detail, yasmin. there is so much detail. there are direct quotes from meetings, dates, times. it's as if he was taking notes while he was in these meetings and was able to re-create all of

these scenes inside key meetings. the other thing is he really tries to settle some scores. no accident that he put in the comments from mike pompeo, his relationship with mike pompeo also really deteriorated over time and deteriorated. he has a number of things to say about many of the officials that he worked closely with and how he felt about the president and how he thought they did their jobs. >> and now we know why the white house did not want this book released and why it was drawn out for so long. >> yes, we do. >> nbc's carol lee. thank you for getting up early for us. up next, measures now seeing record-high coronavirus infections. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

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donald trump wants to establish himself as a wartime enemy against the coronavirus. like any other war and any other wartime leader, he takes no responsibility, he exercises no leadership. now he's just flat surrendering the fight. instead of leading the charge to defeat the virus, he just basically waved a white flag and has retreated. >> so that was former vice president joe biden in pennsylvania yesterday, criticizing the president over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. and as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to reach record-highs in a lot of southern and western states, officials are turning to mandatory mask wearing in the hopes of slowing the spread of infections there. in recent days, a lot of southern cities including

memph memphis, montgomery, fayet fayettevil fayetteville, they've made masks mandatory. in arizona, hospitalizations have nearly doubled since memorial day. the governor reversed a previous order and gave local authorities the ability to make their own rules regarding mask wearing. in texas, they've set new cases. governor abbott said he would not issue a statewide order. he says they can require businesses to mandate customers and workers to wear face masks. with that i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who's been tracking the covid numbers for us. bill, it is troubling to see, to say the least, because as you see a lot of states as we've talked a lot about every single day especially in the northeast because we were hit so hard, so many of these states, the

southwest states, they'll be hit really hard right now as they're in their phase 3 of reopening to say the least. >> yeah. i don't think they had anything to fear when it was at its peak and it was everywhere. the social distancing and masks definitely not being done equally across the country. let's get into what's happening. there's a huge lag between the number of cases and fatalities. if we look, they were fighting this all along, illinois, california, massachusetts, new jersey, and new york. 809 fatality reports. we're soon approaching the 120,000 mark. look at this. we're almost at 2.2 million

cases. and the seven-day moving average, it did go down on june 10th to around 21,500. that seven-day average is now up to 24,000, and we had 26,000 new cases yesterday. so, in other words, we had our little dip in the seven-day moving average, and now we're heading back up again. and here's the states with the most. california set a new record yesterday for the most new cases. texas, that was your second most. texas will go over 100,000 total new cases. florida was your third most new cases. you get the opinion with arizona, north carolina, and georgia, those six states had been atop the daily board. as far as the weekend forecast is going to go, not a lot of highlights. we have a few scattered showers and storms on friday throughout the mid-atlantic region and watch for a few storms in the midwest. as far as father's day goes, very humid.

i don't think anyone's plans if they're going to be outdoors are going to get ruined. you may have to dodge a shower or two. no real issues for dad this weekend >> i've got to say, bill, you make a good point about the fear factor because when you're in new york city and thousands of folks are dying around you every day when we're at the height of the coronavirus and we're hearing the wiri iwhirring sounu put the mask on not knowinging what the pandemic can do. thank, you bill zwriel ahead, classic brands with a move to change their js in light of racial injustice. that story is coming up. in th, working to care for all of us. at novartis, we promise to do our part. as always, we're doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. if you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online.

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welcome back. as many european countries were preparing to settle upon a digital tax on tech companies yesterday, secretary steve mnuchin suddenly declared an impasse on international talks,

putting our european partners' plans to a halt. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum joins us this morning. good morning, julianna. >> good morning. >> talk to us treasury secretary steve mnuchin. >> so this is really sending shock waves through europe this morning, steve mnuchin sent a letter to four european finance ministers saying discussions reached an impasse and attempting to rush the talks was a distraction from more important matters, primarily the covid-19 economic response but already we've heard strong word come out of several european officials this morning. coming out calling the u.s. decision a, quote, provocation and said the tax itself was a form of justice pledging to move ahead with the tax despite the fact the u.s. has pulled ahead with talks. we also heard from the eu commissioner for taxation, he

also said the europeans would push ahead, even without the united states. so this is a space we will definitely be continuing to watch over the coming weeks. in other news the u.s. justice department is attempting to roll back protections for big tech. under the current laws they did not have to bear responsibilities for their users' posts but this could force them to take action against criminal content online. this comes after president trump vowed to crack down on tech giants after twitter added a fact check notice to some of his tweets earlier in may. yasm yasmin. >> i also want to touch on something else, hearing news about changes to aunt jemima and uncle ben. companies planning to update their logos whose origins were based on a racial stereotype.

what more can you tell us about this? >> that's right. uncle ben's owner is planning to change the brand identity, following quaker oats is retiring its 130-year-old aunt jemina sbrand logo. >> julianna tatelbaum live from london for us, great to see you this morning. up next a look at axios' one big thing, speaking to an author in the atlantic. also democratic senator of chris murphy of connecticut will be our guest on "morning joe." "morning joe" is moments away. - oh. - what's going on?

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nicholas johnston. >> good morning. >> talk to us about the one big thing. >> from my mother-in-law's kitchen, an axios exclusive on the trump campaign plans for their rallies kicking off this weekend in oklahoma. the trump campaign is looking at this as a big moment sort of their reopening america, back to the campaign trails. it's more than a presidential speech, they'll be bringing in a plane load of republican surrogates to set a series of events capping off the president's big rally, and tens of thousands more at an outdoor arena. the president is looking at this as a getting back to work, getting be back to the campaign trail ahead to this summer. and looking to how they'll do the convention. this was removed from charlotte down to jack zoneville. so the president is looking at

this as a template for that. they're also bringing camera crews. look for this to quickly show up in campaign ads as the president ramps up his campaign trips again. this is something the president has been telling officials for many, many months. this is trademark rallies, live for crowds and look for a lot of these, and maybe coming to a town near you later this summer. >> quickly, though, we're seeing a spike -- getting reports of a spike in tulsa, oklahoma. do you think this is going to affect turnout for his rally? >> the president said they have a million people signing up. that is a million people giving information on the internet. they expect tens of thousands of people to attend the event. the campaign had to release information how they're dealing with possible coronavirus, there'll be hand sanitize es, masks provided by the campaign. and if you look at the polling,

using a mask is a very partisan issue, it's very much along partisan lines so it'll be interesting to see how many people put those masks on. >> let's get to john bolton's book. the white house is trying to get a restraining order against the publication, seems that's too little too late because you have thousands of copies out there in this country and around the world and to news outlets. what could the impact on the upcoming election be, not on voters, necessarily, nick, but on senate republicans, for instance? could we see folks leading the trump team because of the revelations we have seen from this book. >> isn't that the question every time there's a new revelation, will this change anyone's mind.

remember, john bolton had the information during the impeachment and didn't release any of that. what we're seeing is nothing really moves the needle. what can someone, a former trump administration official say about the president that will make people that are prone to dislye like the president, dislike him more, they're not going to vote for him already, or those that like him change their position. the president went on twitter last night calling bolton a dolt. and we're not seeing anything speaking to members of congress or other republicans saying this is going to suddenly change their mind and make them turn on the president. >> nicholas, johnston. before we go, happy birthday to you. >> thank you very much. >> enjoy the rest of your day. have fun with your family up there. thank you for joining us so early on your birthday. i'll read axios a.m. in just a bit. that does it for me on this thursday morning.

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