pushing around forever, and may it always be. that's our broadcast for this monday evening as we start a new week. thank you so much for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. from coast to coast across the united states, the coronavirus infections are on the rise, but some state and local leaders are still pushing to reopen. also, house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler pushing for a s&p of bill barr. and pushing the border wall between united states and mexico. good morning, everybody. it's tuesday, june 23rd, and i'm

yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin with the president's remarks following the tulsa rally calling for officials to slow down the coronavirus testing. the president and white house officials are delivering mixed messages again about what trump actually meant when he made those comments. his aides claim trump was just kidding, but in an interview yesterday, the president declined to say it was a joke. >> we do more testing than any other country in the world by far. other countries do 1 million. every time you do a test, it shows more and more cases. we're so far advanced in terms of the quality and amount. we're doing more testing which shows other cases. you're showing people that are asymptomatic, young people that have no problem. >> are you asking for it to slow

down? >> if we slow it down -- frankly, we're way ahead of ourselves. we did too good a job. every time you go with 25 million tests, you're going to fie find more people. the reason we have more cases in the united states is because we do more testing than any other country by far. >> the tulsa rally where you said, i told my staff, stop the testing, was that tongue-in-cheek? >> it's semi-tongue-in-cheek. i say it all the time. it's unfair. >> just to clear it up, there wasn't a direct order for staff to stop the testing. >> no, but i think we put ourselves at a disadvantage. >> i gotcha. >> i said, we've gotten so good at testing. number one, we have the best test. number two, we have the most tests. we test more than any other nation. so you hear about all these cases some of instead of doing 25 million tests. let's say we're doing 10 million tests. we'd look like we're doing so

much better because we'd have far fewer cases. >> you heard that from the president. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany gave a different impression. here's what she said. >> it was a comment he made in jest. it was a comment he made in passing. specifically with regard to the media coverage, pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledging we have more cases because when you test more people, you find more cases. >> is it appropriate to joke about coronavirus when 120,000 people have died? >> he was not joking about coronavirus. i said he was joking about media and their failure to understand that when you test more, you also find more cases. >> and finding more cases is often a good thing so then you can do contact tracing. so increased testing is a good thing in order to stop the spread of the virus some of you can tell, differing

presentations from the presid t president. two more people from the campaign rally have tested posted. on saturday it was announced six campaign staff who were in oklahoma to set up for the rally were tested positive. they were immediately quarantined. the two additional staffers were tested after the rally as a precaution for flying home. according to the campaign, they were at the rally. they wore masks throughout the entire event. i want to get to some grim new data on covid as florida broke an unwanted record. with more than 100,000 cases in the state, the state has added 3,000 infections just since sunday. the death toll is just over 3,200. it includes a 75-year-old woman and two 98-year-old women as

well. amid this, florida is changing the guidelines for hospitals' reporting on the care beds. the change could reduce the number of occupied icu beds being reported to the state. the florida surgeon general who is also the secretary of the department of health said he no longer wants the hospitals to report to the state the number of patients and beds but only those that he describes as an intensive level of care. meanwhile covid-19 is also spreading in texas at an la alarming rate. yesterday governor abbott spoke on it. he stopped short of introducing any new policies. the governor reiterated that, quote, closing down texas again will always be the last option. texas has broken its record for

the number of people hospitalized for the last 11 days. the state has recorded over 1,100 cases each day. mask policies are popping up in dallas as well as austin and san antonio. they're two of the five hot spots in the country. jerry nadler is preparing to subpoena attorney general bill barr to testify before the committee on july 2nd. a committee spokesperson confirmed that last night, nadler telling rachel maddow that he's preparing to force the a.g.'s compliance. watch this. >> let me say, we have other remedies, too, to try to force the attorney general. we can -- we can eliminate his -- his office budget. there are a number of things we can do, which we will do.

>> his office budget like his paper clips budget or does he have some sort of large discretionary funding you can cut off? >> no, no. we're talking about the budget in the department of justice. >> so politico is reporting the decision with nancy pelosi over the weekend. it's going to be issued if barr declines to reskeed annual his march testimony which was canceled due to the coronavirus. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> he felt like it would end at a standstill considering we have a republican-controlled senate, but nonetheless, he is now pursuing testimony from attorney general barr. he has to get him to comply.

i mean talk us through this. the attorney general must comply with this subpoena. >> the attorney general must comp comply. and let me put an asterisk in there. there's a number of reasons why the attorney general doesn't have to comply, and what we've seen at least over the last year during the impeachment proceedings in the muller report, congress can issue a subpoena. the challenge is that congress's enforcement mechanism especially against members of the executive branch is not quite as clear. we talked about the several different ways that could force that subpoena. it could send its sergeant-at-arms to go arrest the attorney general. but good luck. he has his own sergeant-at-arms. guess who the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia works for? the doj and attorney general bill barr. so while congress has these powers to subpoena, it doesn't really have true powers to force

the subpoena against members of the executive branch and especially folks like bill barr. >> okay. so nadler referred to other remedies there in an interview with rachel maddow last night they just played, and one of those other remedies he is referring to is the budget for the doj that the committee could basically withhold that doj budget to force compliance from the attorney general. what is the likelihood that this decision, this course would be taken? >> it is not as rachel mentioned just paper clips and copy machines. the doj's budget in 2019 was something on the order of $29 billion. so this is a lot of money, and this is a technique that the house appropriations committee can use to force compliance. they have the power to investigate. of course, they have the power to impeach. but far more often, they use the power of appropriations and

budget, and that budget for the doj is a gigantic one. some 30% of that alone is for federal prisons. so imagine if you start defunding federal prisons? maybe that means more early release. who knows. the challenge for congress here is to use its tools to try to force compliance, but the clock is on. not just because there's an election in november, but because congress's power only exists so long until the next congress comes in and then things go moot or poof. >> danny cevallos, thank you for seeing us this morning. trump is calling the tulsa rally a success, but it could be a different story behind closed doors. also a white house clash as protesters try to take down a statue of andrew jackson.

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welcome back, everybody. despite reports that president trump was furious about the weak attendance at his tulsa rally over the weekend, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany argued he was pleased with the turnout. >> was something happening with the size of the turnout? >> the president was very pleased with the rally. i was with him. i have to say the media reports that he was furious on the plane, there's no grounding for that. i was with him on "marine one" with him. he was very, very pleased with how the rally went. the media reporting on this prompted me to go around and ask some of my colleagues if they saw something different. i spoke with dan scavino who was in the beast with the president after the rally. he said he was very energized after having been around the american people.

he was quite pleased with how the rally went and a political pundit wrote to him it was one of the great all-time speeches he ever heard. he described his own humanity when he spoke about the west point speech. out of the swamp and in the country, those are comments the president feels too. one thing i want to point out. wow. a whopping 7.7 million viewers turned in to fox news to watch the rally on saturday night. big numbers. thanks so much, guys. >> all right. so trump also touted the numbers, tweeting, wow, fox news gives the largest number in history. isn't it amazing no other news media are reporting this? corey lewandowski said trump's campaign made an embarrassing

mistake by touting how big of a crowd was expected. speaking to radio, he said it's a failure of politics 101. >> i think it was the biggest mistake you can make in politics. and even if you receive a million or a million 200,000 rsvps, it's always about the turnout. jack, i lived this as you know. i did it when candidate trump was running. we rad 138 caucuses under my stewardship, obviously all due to donald trump, but we never did something like this. what that means is we have to go back and re-evaluate the system in which people were getting those tickets and determining if they were real, if they were robots put in place so this doesn't happen again. >> so according to the "associated press," major republican donor and trump supporter dan ever hart said,

quote, trump did pretty well pulling in a crowd considering americans' comfort level at the moment. he also said brad parscale completely failed expectations in politics 101. and police pushed out proprote proprotest proprotesters as they tried to pull down the statue of andrew jackson saying hey, hey, andrew jackson has to go. someone drew killer in black on the pedestal below. police eventually performed a barrier in front of the statue and swung batons and sprayed pepper spray to get them to move back. it was confirmed some people were, in fact, pepper sprayed, and some people were also

arrested. a pretty dramatic scene there as you can see. so according to the "washington post," one woman hurling a folding chair, striking an officer. things finally calmed down by 9:00 p.m. last night. in a statement, interior secretary david bernard said in part this. i left lafayette park where another so-called peaceful protest led to destruction tonight. let me be clear, we will not bow to anarchists. law and order will prevail and justice will be served. the president also weighed in, tweeting this, numerous people arrested in d.c. for the disgraceful vandalism in lafayette park of the magnificent statue of andrew jackson. in addition to the exterior, defacing of st. john's church across the street.

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for whoever left a noose in his team's gra raj stall the day before. in a show of solidarity ahead of his 14th finish, they wrote, i stand with bubba wallace on the infield grass and drivers pushed his number 43 car to the front as members followed him to the end of pit road. afterward as he climbed from his car he sat on the door's edge and lowered his head. he was consoled by richard petty and hugged by the other drivers. petty stood with him for the anthem as drivers and crew stood behind him. quite a show of solidarity and support for bubba wallace during that difficult time. commissioner rob manfred has reportedly decide ed d to scheda

60-game 2020 season. he's exercising mlb's right in the march agreement that allows owners to set the schedule and pay players their full baseball salaries. i can report to camp on july 1st, also agreeing to their 67-page operating manual that contains health and safety protocols, quote, necessary to give us the best opportunity to conduct and compete in our regular season and postseason. the season is expected to start the weekend of july 24th and end on september 27th. so a season will be had hopefully, but a shorter one at that. with that, let's switch gears, get a check on your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. there's been a lot of stops and starts as to when the baseball season, what happened, and even phen it would happen.

it's looking like maybe it will happen, but only lasting about two months or so, bill. >> yeah. we don't know what to expect with any of these sports. you get the people together, an then there's a couple of cases, and they're quarantined. what happens to the games and the schedule. yeah, it's going to be a work in progress all through summer and fall and winter too. we have this area of severe weather we've been tracking through texas. it's about to move through the ft. worth in dallas. damaging winds and a lot of lightning. you're safe in abilene, but the dallas to waco area, you're next for that line of storms. later on today, we're not expecting too many serious storms. you could have strong storms, and that will be about the worth of it. the saharan dust layer came off of africa. it's traveled about 5,000 miles. this is the virgin islands.

this is one of the most extreme events they've had in 50 years. it's just this hazy bad air quality layer of dust. let me show you what it looks like on the satellite imagery. it's this area of brown you can see over areas of cuba all the way through haiti and dominican republic and puerto rico. it's typical. it happens often. but this time it's heading all the way to the gulf coast. the air rises over africa. the thunderstorms and everything else suck it up, they dislodge the dust, and it gets trapped and traveled all the way across the ocean to the gulf of mexico sometimes. sometimes it's actually good. it suppresses hurricane season, which is good, but it can provide bad air quality and amazing sunsets. we expectation it to arrive to areas of the gulf coast on saturday and linger up into st.

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i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour as the president is slated to visit yuma, arizona, to mark a campaign promise. the completion of 200 miles of a new wall along the u.s./mexico border. it's the president's second visit to arizona in the past couple of months. after a stopover in yuma, president trump is expected to head student organization called turning points usa. but in a statement the mayor says the president does not abide by covid-19. she also says this. while i do not believe an event of this magnitude can be held safely, particularly as arizona sees rising covid cases, the president has decided to continue with this rally. even attending tomorrow's event, particularly any elected official, should set an example

to residents by wearing a mask. this includes the president. we'll see if that happens. the white house announced the president plans to sign an executive order freezing new visas for a lot of foreign workers through at least the end of this year. senior administration officials say sri sass for tech workers, low skilled jobs for visa holders and those participating and for intracompany transfers will all be suspended through the 31st. all people are exempt from the visa exemptions. joining me is julia ainsley with nbc. good morning. thanks for getting up with us. >> thanks for having me. >> talk about this executive order here. what is the white house saying about how many jobs here are going to be potentially impacted.

. >> the white house says they're saving over 5,000 jobs by keeping new immigrants. this doesn't apply to any in the country now. to prevent them from taking jobs that should go to americans. the problem is it doesn't exactly work like that. it's not an exact exchange. there are a lot of jobs that companies say they have a hard time filling with americans. these include some of the high-tech skilled jobs. it also includes some of the lower jobs, a lot of jobs that americans simply might not want to apply for these days. so it's a hard sell right now. also it's a hard sell that this is really supposed to boost the economy when you're talking about 46 million unemployed even if you saved 125 million american jobs. right now we're seeing pushback. they're saying, look, you're going to hurt the economic

community if you limit how they hire. >> could they challenge this in the court system if the president goes forward and signs an executive order? >> yes. i heard lawsuits are almost inevitable. this is really an extension and expansion of what the president signed april 22nd. now he's kicking it to the end of the year. i would go back to my previous statement about what the companies are saying. they're saying how they'll hire. if they can't go to the most talented candidates, that hurts their company and then the economy. we're seeing statements from many of its executives shoo just quickly here, julia, how do they plan to plug those holes in their company that they're going to be missing out on, some of these employment opportunities if, in fact, the president moves forward with it because we know if they challenge it in the court, it's going to be a long

drawn out process. >> yeah, that's true. i think a lot of these could go vacant. that could be a long drawn out process that could play out by the time december 31st even rolls around. but at theheart of this is what it means in the long term. right now we're seeing a temporary executive order, but these goals are goals that the administration has wanted to make permanent for a long time, and hidden in this executive order goes beyond the temporary visa changes and also asks the department of homeland security to ending permits for asylum seekers, trying to increase deportations for asylum seekers. there's a lot in here that the white house has wanted for a long time and that they weren't able to get through legislation. and what we're hearing, really, is they're using covid-19 and the pretext here. they're pushing for an agenda steve miller wanted since they

took office. >> so essentially using covid as an excuse for the immigration policy they've been pushing for a long time. >> that's right. >> julia ainsley, thank you for your great reporting. always appreciatet. tot officials are expected to testify before the house and energy commission today and claiming the coronavirus pandemic won't be ending any time soon and the flu season could make it worse. among those testifying is dr. anthony fauci and cdc's robert redfield. the officials wrote in part this. while it remains unclear how long the pandemic will last, covid activity will likely continue for some time. if there is covid-19 and flu activity at the same time, this could place a tremendous burden on the health care system related to bed occupancy, laboratory needs, personal protective ee kwipgs, and work

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welcome back. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is planning to hold a vote but democrats may try to block the measure. mcconnell has scheduled a procedu procedural vote tomorrow, but democrats are arguing this bill is inadequate. the republicans need support of seven democrats before even beginning to debate this bill. last night the democrats said they would not vote for this bill. joining me now, nbc news leanne

caldwell. great to see you this morning. >> you too. >> let's talk about this. there's an idea that they want to move forward with this bill burke this bill doesn't even go so far as to ban choke holds. ee sent chaully they said choke holds are bad especially in instances where police officers believe their lives are in threat. we know the democrat is house bill had a full on ban on choke holds. do you fore see democratic senators blocking this reform bill? >> democrats have a very difficult decision ahead of them. they know the dilemma they're in. if they go ahead and block it because they're not satisfied with the legislation, they could be seen as obstructionists who don't want to be seen as being open with this legislation. on the other hand, there's a lot of mixed press with democrats

among mitch mcconnell. they don't know if mcconnell is going to give them a fair debate, offer changes to the bill and democrats don't have a lot of faith that the president is serious and wanting to find a compromise on this issue. they point to recent tweets of his where he slams the democrat bill saying it's going to destroy the please. so demonstrates at this point are not completely sure what strategy they're going take, but they are in agreement that the republican bill is fully inadequate. >> so i want to turn while i have you also to your reporting about congressman adler preparing to subpoena a.j. barr over several criminal cases including roger stone, michael flynn. what are you expecting to happen here. >> well, this is a big

turnaround from what the chair of the judiciary committee jerry nadler indicated over the weekend, that he had no intentions of subpoenaing a.j. barr. he said it's complicated. he's going to defy the subpoena anyway, but now it looks like they're moving in that direction. they indicate they're going to subpoena him. this is the latest frustration the democrats have with a.g. bar, this on the heels of firing district attorney giuffeofiuffe berm berman. now there was no agreement for him to come yet and now they say they're going subpoena.

but republicans say they're going to oppose. >> well, i have a feeling the attorney general will not take to that subpoena very well. >> exactly. >> nbc's leanne caldwell. thank you as always. let's switch gears and get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins who's also going to take us through covid numbers as we've been tracking really troubling numbers in florida and texas especially, bill. >> yeah. let me go to the positive side first. that's the fatality curve and all the new cases rapidly going up. yesterday we had 363 new fatalities reported. here's the seven-day average. it's still going down. we're at a rate now of 619 is the seven-day moving average. that's going to fall. we only hat 200 30r 00 in the last couple of days in a row. we keep talking about texas, arizona, florida. texas reported 16 deaths

yesterday. florida, 12, and arizona, 3. so i mean you compare that to number of new cases which continues to skyrocket, and it's just -- you know, it's yin and yang. new cases, 31,000. that was only 250 cases shy of the monday record. and to show you where we are on the curve, look at that. we're almost getting close to the peek we hit back in april for new cases. it's the highest since may 1st. the area we've been watching, texas was the area of 5,112. look at the curve for texas going up at the end. as of yet, they're not reporting a lot of fatalities to go along with the in number of cases. in florida, the average age is way down. it's 30 to 39. that's why we're seeing less fatalities. younger people are getting it and they're surviving.

there's going to be hit-and-miss chances for showers and flooding along the coast. it's a tale of two cities. we're talking single digits for fatalities in some areas, but on the other hand, we have 31,000 new cases. those are people quarantined and contact tracing. >> i was thinking, let's hope the death rate stace where it is because we have to look two weeks ahead from now. >> we're thrilled. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, the president hints at a second round of stimulus checks for americans. that story is ahead on your business day, coming up.

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welcome back, everybody. white house trade adviser peter navarro tweeted yesterday the

month-long negotiations for a u.s. trade deal are over before quickly walking it back. cnbc's karen cho reporting live for us from london. talk us through there. talk us through the status of the deal. futures tumbled initially on the comments from peter navarro, which is significant because bad news has barely touched wall street recently but then the president tweeted saying the china trade deal are intact and peter navarro walked it back as well. it does hint at unconfidence underlying the surface. wall street will be encouraged by the business activity data out of europe, suggesting that even though demand is still falling it's not collapsing at this stage. in united states, businesses

reeling from decisions made on visas that may ham ber businesses getting them back. we saw a ban on immigrants getting visas, including h1b. many silicone valley, tech companies use this visa to recruit professionals. but it goes to consulting, landscaping, and seasonal jobs in resorts. many businesses fear they'll be affected as the law goes into effect tomorrow until the end of the year. it's a way to play to the base due to the job losses we've seen with the lockdown and pandemic. in terms of new stimulus, there is a feeling there may be more coming. president trump said he may be on board for a second round of stimulus checks.

originally $1,200 was rolled out for individuals. democrats have already passed 3 trillion in a new stimulus. there is hope there may be more forthcoming, the federal reserve indicated it wants to see a new still pus but the size is still a huge unknown at this stage. thank you so much karen, great to see you this morning. up next a look at axios's one big thing. and a look at the emerging coronavirus hot spots in the united states as infection rates spike in one part of the country. republican senator mike braun of indiana will be our guest. "morning joe" is it moments away. to lock away deb ris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad.

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it's something that i would recommend. with spray mopping to lock away debris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad. welcome back, everybody. joining us now from washington with a look at axios a.m. political reporter for axios, alexi mchammond. greet to see you this morning. >> hi.

>> talk to us about axios' one big thing. >> well, happy tuesday. today's one big thing is about the race media moment. we're watching the moment unfold in real time across every type of media, books, tv, podcasts, music. we're seeing how themes of systemic racism and social justice are not only topping the charts but dominating the country's attention span. just as the 1960s propelled a new wave of tv and music around similar themes we're seeing how the media is acting as a sort of lasting record of american history that will reflect this moment in time for generations to come. it's also reflected in the dynamic where material that doesn't quite meet the moment thinking of "gone with the wind". we moved from hbo max temporarily. those materials that aren't

meeting the moment are getting axed so that's a fascinating dynamic in addition to the protests we're seeing play out. >> it is true because when i was out reporting in the protests last week. it seems so different this time than so many times before, because it is long lasting. people are continuing to come out every day in the thousands to protest. and you're seeing it across every level, every medium. you're seeing it in news, books, music, television, and it is continuing. it is sustained like anything we've ever seen before. with that, aknow that axios is also reporting donation websites, the traffic to donation websites have exploded over the past couple of weeks because of these protests. breakdown that impact for us. >> yeah, that's exactly right. so that's another facet of this. donation websites, the traffic

they've received has increased 20% after this. social platforms like facebook, instagram and twitter are driving people to these donation websites. to your point just now, being out in the streets and noting how this feels different than the past, the fund-raising is different than anything i've seen since 2014 alone. we saw how go fund me started in ernest in 2014 and continued through the 2016 election when there were other police-involved shootings like this. but i haven't seen the levels like this, organizations turning people away, saying we don't need this money right now, give to these organizations instead, i've never seen that before. >> quickly i want to talk about joe biden here and a possible vp pick. lots of names, kamala harris, stacey abrams, val demings. college students are pushing for

senator elizabeth warren to be the vice president pick. >> you and i both know there's a growing conversation around whether joe biden should pick an african-american woman to be his vp and meet this moment and get the country through. but that college reaction axios poll showed a lot of young people, college students in particular, liked elizabeth warren for president, liked the policies she proposed when she was running for president. the other thing is i saw several polls that showed black women and black voters in particular like elizabeth warren. that's the thing. while some black voters may say in polling a black vp would motivate them to get to the polls. elizabeth warren's favorability numbers remain the highest. so that's an interesting dynamic to watch. especially when it seems she might be the last white woman standing in serious

consideration here. >> that is fascinating and shows her sustained popularity. thank you alexi. great to see you. you too can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this tuesday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >> if you add up the network streaming numbers, netflix, youtube, i don't think there's any question it was the largest watched inauguration ever. >> finally one thing i want to point out that was handed to me, wow, a whopping 7.7 million total viewers tuned in to fox news to watch the rally on saturday night. big numbers. thanks so much guys. >> spicy, the more things change, the more things stay the same. good morning and welcome to "morning joe," it is tuesday, june 23rd. joe is off this morning.