first up, confrontations in tulsa outside the president's first campaign rally in months. >> the unhinged, many call it a virus, which it is. many call it a flu. biden remains silent in the face of this brutal assault on our nation. >> so what about the covid comments? a doctor weighs in on that plus the fear last night's rally just became a super spreader. ready to reopen, the challenges for the city hit the hardest by covid while cases surge across the south. a very good morning to all of you, it is sunday, june 21st. i'm alex witt, happy father's day to all of you celebrating today. six staffers for the event in tulsa tested positive for the coronavirus before the rally

even started. straight to the white house. josh, this was something of a surprise. do we know when they found out they tested positive and who they are? >> reporter: they had been in tulsa for about a week as they prepared for this presidential visit for this rally he was using to basically kick off the new phase of his re-election campaign. we're told these six staffers had been basically going about business as usual in tulsa, going to restaurants to eat, most not wearing masks. we're told by a law enforcement official that at least two of the six staffers who tested positive for coronavirus were u.s. secret service. all six of them have been quarantined. the trump campaign now going back and doing contact tracing on those six staffers to figure out who else they may have been in contact with, trying to test

those people as well. but just a real reminder that even as the president is trying to use this rally to emphasize that america is back in business that america is getting over coronavirus, a fresh reminder this threat is still out there and even able to hit his own presidential campaign. >> testing is a double-edged sword. we've tested now 25 million people. it's probably 20 million people more than anybody else. germany's done a lot. south korea has done a lot. they said the job you're doing, here is the bad part. when you do testing to that extent, you'll find more people, find more cases. so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> reporter: and i have to tell you twitter lit up when the president said those words that he had asked to slow down the testing. a lot of controversy over that

and the trump campaign and the white house, in fact, quickly trying to clean that up with a senior administration official telling nbc news the president made that comment in jest, that he did not actually slow down testing. what he was doing there was making a joke to make fun of what they call the media's absurd coverage of coronavirus. but a lot of questions about that, including a response from joe biden, the democratic presidential candidate who said, in fact, speed up the testing in a tweet aimed directly at president trump on twitter. >> yeah. hey, do you have a takeaway on the trump campaign and sort of their reaction to how everything went last night? were they happy with the outcome in tulsa? >> reporter: well, the trump campaign is trying to put a positive spin on what clearly was a disappointing showing last night, the massive overflow crowd that the president had hoped to speak to outside of that stadium where some 20,000 were expected.

that overflow crowd never really materialized, and so the president and the vice president both had to scrap their remarks to the overflow crowd and even inside the arena it was not at full capacity. now we're seeing the trump campaign trying to put a good spin on this pointing out that about 4 million people watched the live stream online but clearly not the show of force that the president was hoping for as he heads into the fall presidential campaign. >> okay, thank you very much from the white house. a bit more on tensions between trump supporters and protesters in tulsa. both sides squaring off after the president's campaign rally. police and pepper spray deployed to control protesters as trump supporters left the arena. earlier in the day demonstrators came face-to-face, and there was one protester with a ticket to

the rally arrested. you saw that live here yesterday on msnbc. >> they're arresting me. they're arresting me. >> they're placing her under arrest right now, alex. >> i have tickets to this event. >> bear with me. >> i'm not doing anything. i came to a ticketed event. how dare you. ow! ow! no, they hurt! >> other protesters paraded a puppet mimicking the president. that was taken through the streets there. there were also some who set fire to a trump campaign flag. the president unmoved by it all delivering his message inside the arena. >> we will never kneel to our national anthem or our great american flag. we will stand proud and we will

stand tall. they don't sell a lot of bombs when we're not dropping bombs on people. it's called the military industrial complex. somebody two days ago said the elite are really working hard on trying to destroy you. i said, yeah. why do you call them the elite? why? they're not elite. i look better than them, much more handsome. got better hair than they do. i have nicer properties. i have nicer houses. i have nicer apartments. i have nicer everything. >> okay. well, be the campaign team canceled a second speech at the overflow space. you heard josh mentioning that. there were smaller than expected crowds in the arena. the president returning to the white house without making any further public remarks. let's bring in the chair of

african-american studies at princeton university. eddie, do you agree the president has the best hair? i'm just kidding. not going there. that was quite remarkable. what do you make of what he did say, the overall message from the president last night? >> you know, i took it at a preview of the narrative that will define the campaign. it is a mixture of desperation and fear and actually a kind of collection of lies. so we heard all the talk about this is the greatest economy in the history of the country, in the history of the world, prior to the pandemic and then, of course, he slipped and transitioned into, you know, a whole host of nativists and very hateful rhetoric. from chinese virus to kung-flu to trying to tear down our beautiful monuments in terms of the -- i mean, confederate monuments. and then we heard chants of lock

hillary up. lock her up. it was pretty sad, alex, and in some ways it showed how desperate the campaign actually is. >> do you think this president is just completely tone deaf, or do you think he knows exactly what he's doing in preaching to his followers, if you will, his supporters? >> i think it's a combination of both. i don't want to attribute too much to donald trump's intellect. i mean, i think he is what he is, and he demonstrates it over and over again. but i would say that there is a deliberate play here. i think we heard forgotten americans. we heard discourse around safety. no real mention of the racial crisis in the country. we want to make america safe again. he said they want to punish your thoughts not their violent crime. so there was a sense in which he

was just appealing to the old playbook. no mention of juneteenth. no mention of greenwood district in the tulsa riots. there was a sense he was very deliberate in what he's doing. very deliberate. >> isn't he the one who said thanks to him everybody now knows about juneteenth? so one would think he would want to take some credit for that because it would sound like he did a good thing by making juneteenth notable for everybody. but he said last night that he has done more for black americans than any other president. does anything he said back any of that up? >> no. that is just dumb. that is wrong. we need to understand it for what it is, right? so we know that president trump is the p.t. barnum of american politics, the carnival barker. he's going to exaggerate certain sorts of claims. we understand that for what it is. we know what he's trying to do. we know what he's trying to say there. it's always couched in this

rhetoric, this hateful rhetoric. at the very moment he says that he's going to make the claim around confederate statues. at the very moment he says joe biden represents the greatest threat to racial equality in the country, he's going to attack aoc and representative omar. so there's just a contradiction at every turn in donald trump, and we saw it in clear and color last night. >> given the large crowds that were expected, the overwhelming numbers, so many thousands had called in for the tickets and they expected so many on the streets there, what did you make of the way smaller than expected crowd, and could you read or interpret anything on the president's face as he came out to that podium? for me i think he had some trouble taking it in. >> i think he was a bit deflated. that's why he spent so much time talking about the west point speech and walking down the

steps. i think it's a combination of two things when we think about that crowd size. one, i think we -- some folks are reasonable. we're in the midst of a pandemic and people decided to stay home, be safe and take care of their family. my prayers are with everyone who attended that rally last night. we hope it wasn't the super spreader event. i pray it wasn't. i hope everyone is safe. the second thing "the new york times" is reporting, and steve schmidt was reporting all night last night, this was the result of those engaged in a tiktok strategy where they bought up tickets and, shall we say, tricked brad pasqual and the trump campaign. i think it's a combination of wisdom on the part of some trump supporters and a little shenanigans on the part of younger folks around the country. >> okay. never one for shenanigans, glad to have you on the show as always. thank you.

down to morgan radford for more on the aftermath of the president's rally with a good morning to you, morgan. talk about the mood. what was it like after the rally? >> reporter: yeah, the reality of it, alex, this is the scene where a lot of those intense moments you saw play out overnight happened this is where those trump supporters who had been waiting in line all day to get into the arena were met face-to-face with those protesters who felt like his visit was a disgrace to the city. take a look at what some told us. >> i think we needed to come out and protest against the hate and racism that is around by trump and his supporters and the best way to hear our voices heard is to be right here in the middle of it. >> looks like they have plenty of security guards to handle people running around like idiots. i think they're just tearing everything up. no point in tearing everything up. i don't think it will happen

around here. >> reporter: both groups essentially said that they felt like it was important to just show up. that's what they felt was the first step. as you heard eddie previously mentioned the question now is will this trump tulsa rally become a super spreader for the coronavirus? we've already seen about 10,000 cases now over the weekend in the state of oklahoma, and then right here in tulsa county we've seen cases surge over the past week. tulsa county has become the hotbed of tulsa, oklahoma, the highest number of deaths and the highest number of cases. the question, of course, was brought to protesters and at the entrance of the arena yesterday the campaign was handing out masks as well as hand sanitizer and there were temperature checks at the door. but, of course, you saw the footage. when we were here very few people had masks. once they got inside very few people were socially distanced. of course you saw the empty risers on the top but where people were on the main floor,

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than 4,000 new cases yesterday. governor ron desantis said more people in their 20s and 30s are contracting the virus there. he's encouraged people to wear a mask but stopped short of requiring them. >> i think statewide penalties would be problematic for a whole host of reasons and i think we have to trust people that give them the opportunity to do the good things, make good decisions. i think that tends to work better than to mandate this, mandate that. >> we'll see if the numbers back him up. meantime in arizona an uptick in cases is putting a strain on hospitals there. the straight only has 15% of its icu beds left. that's just 257 beds statewide. officials there recording more than 3,000 new cases for the second day in a row. major league baseball has shut down all training camps in florida and arizona after several players in both places tested positive for coronavirus. those facilities will reopen once they've been disinfected.

some teams like the new york yankees and mets will train at their home ballparks instead. those players will be back just in time for new york's phase two reopening. outdoor dining, barber shops, salons and some shops will be back in business. to msnbc's cory coffin joining us outside a restaurant in lower manhattan. it is a big day tomorrow. what are the plans for reopening? >> reporter: i think that everybody is holding their breath for this next major step, alex. a good morning to you. these plans, as you mentioned, include the very important outdoor dining for these restaurants. that will be a huge next step. hair salons and barber shops, in-store retail not just curbside pickup. we also have offices opening up, real estate, vehicle sales and more. we're here in the historic district here and this area specifically we have restaurants, businesses lining the streets. they're all affected by phase

two tomorrow. restaurants we spoke with say even with the caveat of still making sure that we have a lot of rules in place including social distancing, wearing masks, making sure things are sanitized and cleaned properly. this is going to be much needed for their business because, of course, as of up until now for more than 100 days they've been relying on takeout and dine-in. listen to what they told us. >> i think it's a positive thing we're able to use this space. being with covid we're not able to serve inside so at least this gives us a little extra more tables to have outdoor seating. the only disadvantage is the weather, all weather permitted. if it's raining, we can't serve. if the weather's great, it's actually very positive. >> reporter: right now is a perfect time because the weather is wonderful. i said right before hearing that woman takeout and dine-in --

takeout and delivery. the next phase for new yorkers will be dine out. their neighbors across the river have been able to do that for the last week or so. unclear if they'll start to put out those patios you see on the streets, alex. that's something we've seen from a lot of restaurants. that could be the next step here for restaurants in phase two and, of course, governor cuomo noting the infection rate below 1% for new york. he says we have to move very slow and methodically so we don't see that resurgence like a lot of other states have seen. >> as i was driving home from work, i noticed traffic is picking up and it's charming to have restaurants with outdoor tables throughout the streets. i love that. but do you think it's going to be a problem, they're going to have to close streets just as traffic is picking up in order to keep it safe? has there been any discussion about that? >> reporter: we have already heard from mayor bill de blasio

who says there are only certain streets that can be closed off. the major roads, if there's a restaurant on those roads and thoroughfares will not be able to do that. maybe they can claim some of the parking spots on the side and it will be a roped off area. that is something they are considering. the traffic has picked up what feels like tenfold since offices are reopening. >> thank you for that. >> joining me now is dr. tonya elliott from nyu. dr. elliott, nice to see you again. let's take a look. attendees were not required to wear masks, they were given masks but look at the crowd there for yourself. i actually don't see any. oh, there's one in a close-up. look, there are health experts who worry this could be a super spreader event. what about you? did y

do you agree? do you have concerns? >> the slowing of the virus was a result of massive lockdowns and eliminations of large gatherings where people were in close contact. in order for the reduction in cases to sustain we have to continue those practices. this was a situation those practices were not followed and we are likely to see an increase in cases and now have to cross our fingers and hope that this was not a super spreader event. >> the president made some remarks and we should slow that down. here is what he said. >> here is the bad part. when you test -- when you do testing to that extent you'll find more cases. i said to my people, slow the testing down, please! we have another one over here. the young man is 10 years old. he has the sniffles. he'll recover in about 15 minutes. that's a case. that's a case. >> hang on a second. how is finding out who has

coronavirus via testing a bad thing? >> yeah, i don't have a response to this. the importance of the testing is to understand the scope of severity of the cases. if someone tested positive and they have the sniffles, great. maybe coronavirus is more mild than we thought. we have to do the testing in order to understand the scope of the disease. >> one thing that we noted ahead of the rally there were six of the president's advanced campaign staffers, they were in tulsa for a week or so. they have tested positive for the coronavirus. that would include a couple members of the secret service. how seriously should the administration be taking this fact in regards to the president's health? >> they should be taking it very seriously. there's nothing that's changed about this virus. we don't have a having seen fva

for the virus. the sun light will not kill the virus. all we have in terms of treatment is social distancing, quarantining, wearing masks and that's all we have. we do need to take these things seriously and treat this as a hot spot. >> dr. tonya elliott, thanks for weighing in. >> the manhattan prosecutor who refused to resign has been fired. up next why his ouster appears to fit a pattern of political retribution. >> why did you fire geoffrey berman? >> that's up to the attorney general, attorney general barr is working on that. that's his department, not my department. we have a very capable attorney general. that's up to him. i'm not involved.

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we are back with a look at what some of the newspapers around the country are covering this morning.

on the front page, trump returns smaller than expected crowds shows up for first rally since march. trump's rally landing on the cover of "the minnesota star tribune" which reads "trump rallies amid pandemic." tulsa crowd much smaller than promised. the la"los angeles times" putti police front and center. making of a movement. how black women, including two prominent l.a. activists, turn a hash tag into a global movement. and "the new york times," backlash after prosecutor fired. he had refused a request to resign. so let's get to more on that stunning and chaotic standoff between the trump administration and that u.s. attorney. barbara mcquaide, former u.s. attorney in michigan and msnbc contributor. welcome to you. it's good to see you. a former u.s. attorney can weigh in on this. i'm curious what your reaction was watching this play out. >> well, it was very interesting. i think william barr

miscalculated here. he tried to do to geoffrey berman what appears to have been done to jesse lou in the district of columbia u.s. attorney's office, push her off stage so that he could insert an ally to do his dirty work. that was timothy shea who sought a reduction in the roger stone sentencing and reduce the michael flynn case and similarly we see here in the southern district of new york william barr offers, dangles, the opportunity for him to go become the assistant attorney general for the civil division, is what he says in his letter, a very high job. and berman says, no thanks. and then takes this very aggressive bullying tactic of issuing a press release saying that geoffrey berman has stepped down when he hadn't. i say bravo to geoffrey berman for calling him out on it. william barr assumed he would go quietly and he didn't. instead, as a result, although he is fired and he has to go, he was successful in getting his

replacement to be a career professional rather than the trump administration's hand-picked person who might do his bidding. >> and that's part of the reason he said he wasn't going to step aside. he wanted to follow the rule of law and proper procedure. i want to pick up on the point of the carrot dangled, if you will. in his letter to berman, it's really quite something. he wrote he had been surprised and disappointed. he hoped his departure could be amicable. you've chosen spectacle over public service. do you think he really was being considered for an assistant ag position or even chairman of the s.e.c. as was written? if so, if that was the case, would berman have made such statements blatantly defying bill barr? >> i don't know.

>> if offered they could be removed. i think it also suggests this idea. if geoffrey berman was someone of such stature that he was being considered for these very high level positions which are higher level jobs than the u.s. attorney, some would argue. they can't say they've lost confidence in him. why don't they want him to be there, what cases is he working on that they fear? >> so you talk about others who have been replaced and then trump's bidding, if you will, via bill barr, pursued in cases trying to lower the issues with roger stone, any number of things. you're saying that. i listened to our colleague in the last hour and others making those observations. why in the world do this.

doesn't it look bad? does bill bar -- does the doj think we're not noticing? >> i think they must know that we're noticing. they must know there would be an outcry as a result of this. what that says to me whatever it is they're seeking to suppress or hide is even worse than the political fallout that they would anticipate from this departure. what is it? we know the southern district of new york is working on many cases related to president trump, of rudy giuliani. there's an investigation into the spending of his inaugural committee. there is the campaign finance violation with michael cohen in which the u.s. attorney's office referred to president trump as individual one, as an tun unindd co-conspirator. and this move, if they could get berman out, could at the very least achieve a stall, if they could have a new person in place that person could say i need

more time to get up to speed. that would likely take us until past the election. most of these cases pending are suppressed until after november. >> i need a really quick answer on this. you've heard about the book on its way to being published by the president's niece who signed some sort of a dna back in 2001. and that is allegedly something that trump wants to have enforced. 2001? what would that be about? might that be able to keep this book from being published next month? >> i think we'll see something similar to what we saw with john bolton's book which is the book will come out because prior restraints are so highly discouraged in the law but she might owe some money as a result of it. you'd have to pay a million dollars if you disclose. i think the book might come out.

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their new oppressive regime in its place. they want to defund and dissolve our police departments. >> the president criticizing protesters and the movement, which has been ignited by the death of george floyd during last night's rally in tulsa. the president's return to the campaign trail coming a day after juneteenth in a city that was the scene of one of the worst race massacres back in 1921. joining me now is capitol hill reporter and producer with "the washington post." rhonda. good to see you. as you think about and listen to this president's nearly two-hour speech, zero mention of juneteenth or the tulsa massacre despite moving the rally one day out of respect. after all the controversy including the president saying he made juneteenth famous, are you surprised he didn't even mention it. >> i don't think we can say we're surprised. he said he should be credited for telling people about

juneteenth and letting them know the history. they are campaign tools to rally his base not bring new voters in. he is more trying to energize his own base. it would have been an opportunity if he mentioned juneteenth but i'm not really surprised. >> anyone can look at their iphone and the date, june 19th. seems like it was out there before. what about the president taking aim at joe biden on the issue of race? >> virtually every policy that has hurt black americans for half a century, joe biden has supported or enacted. i've done more for the black

community in four years than joe biden has done in 47 years. racial justice begins with joe biden's requirement from public life. what do you make of that, and is this an indication, rhonda, of how large a role that the issue of race is going to play in the campaign? >> i think very much so. it's showing that race is going to be a big part of the campaign. we're already seeing it as voter registration went up a bit in the last couple weeks during a protest. so i believe the trump campaign does know that this is going to be an issue that is an uphill battle for them. joe biden has a pretty solid base of voters among black americans. you can see that and how he won the south carolina primary and also you're seeing evidence that the latino vote is going a little bit toward joe biden as well. he's seeing regular upticks in polling of regular voters who are latino. so i think the trump campaign

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so, as if there weren't enough problems because of it, the coronavirus pandemic has created a new problem for the environment as disposable masks and other personal protective equipment, ppe, are now ending up in oceans and rivers. you see the evidence right there. nbc's tesa arcello is joining me from brussels to discuss this. what have you learned about the impact ppe is having on water

pollution, and are there any alternatives being discussed? >> the impact can already be seen. you see them ending up in the ocean. environmentalists are calling it a new type of pollution literally popping up on streets around the world and in the ocean. and there are efforts to look into alternatives, and the bigger question is, what is the long term impact of covid-19 on the health of the environment. what's helping to protect millions of people from the new coronavirus could prove devastating for the environment. with mask wearing now mandatory in now than 50 countries around the world, the sheer volume of discarded single-use equipment or ppe has environmental activists sounding the alarm. >> because of covid, there's a lot more ppe ending up in the ocean. like all other plastics in the ocean, it's going to be causing problems in general. we're trying to solve a health problem, yet we're creating another environmental issue. >> it's a problem that is

surfacing in all corners of the world. including hong kong, where widespread mask usage is credited for some of its success in containing the virus, with only four covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began. but could there be an alternative? researchers in canada are developing n-95 grade masks that are combustible and biodegradab biodegradable. >> they're wood based pulps with a partition on the front. breathing happens through the filtration, the active part, and after use, these materials are just pulp, so you can take that whole mask and deposit it into a compost. >> with the fight against covid-19 far from over, the demand for masks isn't going away anytime soon, neither are calls to make sure they don't up up where they shouldn't. well, you see, the environmentalists, the main

message sthey say is simple, do not discard them improperly, and also for the public to be cognizant of the bigger problem this could cause way after the health issue is over. and they just want people to be aware of that and have something be done today rather than wait for the problem to arise later on. >> makes absolute sense. i really like that pulp biodegradable mask. that's a good idea. hope that really picks up. thank you so much for that. >> amc theaters has reversed course. the world's largest movie theater owner will now require patrons to wear masks when some of the u.s. locations open on july 15th. the ceo told variety he originally believed forcing the use of face coverings would be counterproductive. earlier, they declared over $2 billion in losses due to the pandemic. amc one of many theater chains

that has announced reopening plans with new plans in place. good morning to you, we have movie theaters already seeming to be challenged before the pandemic with the availability of at-home movies, streaming tv, all that. so will the big screen theater industry bounce back from the pandemic's economic hit? >> that's definitely what they're hoping for, alex. they're hoping to have a summer movie going season. what we're seeing is amc in trying not to be drawn into a political controversy ironically ended up exactly there. what amc was trying to say this week is if someone doesn't want to wear a mask to go to the movie theater, they shouldn't be required to. then they faced pressure and criticism from moviegoers and health officials said they should still be required to wear a mask even if they don't want to, so they had to reverse their stance. going to the movies is about escapism, we want to forget about our world and problems,

and now the movie business has lost billions of dollars since the shutdown and they have the challenge of not only telling us why we should see this movie, but we should leave our homes in the first place, leave our comfy couch, wear a mask, and see it in a environment where we're worried about our health. >> i'm going to have a problem looking at the screen and trying to give a sideways glance to the person next to me who is not wearing a mask. let's look at unemployment. 1.1 million people who filed for unemployment last week. this time lapse video from kentucky, people waiting in line to file. many waiting up to eight hours just to talk with a state employee. you have the governor there, andy beshear, blaming the former administration for these issues, but what is the holdup for unemployment help with kentuckians. >> this is extremely disappoi disappointing to find out there are thousands of americans who still have not received their

first unemployment check after losing their jobs in mid-march, april, and may. kentucky has seen more than 900,000 unemployment claims they have been trying to process. what has happened and residents in the state have taken matters into their own hands because they have to pay their bills, they have to make ends meet. they protested at the state capital. after that, the state actually opened unemployment claims offices where they could go in person to file these claims to kind of get rid of the backlog. that's what we're seeing there, people in desperate situations. some had to borrow money, go into further debt, trying to survive. >> hard to maintain patience under those circumstances. and thanks to all of you for watching. i'll be back at noon eastern time. coming up on velshi, former hud secretary, julian castro reacts to president trump's rally in

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