air this evening. and that is our broadcast for a wednesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. on behalf of everybody at the networks of nbc news, good night. the united states hits a new record as the coronavirus surjs across the states. plus, former vice president joe biden is set to accept democratic presidential nomination at a virtually a convention in august. and a federal judge has ruled on the case of former national security adviser michael flynn. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, june 25th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian.

we've got a lot to cover this morning. we're going to begin, though, with coronavirus. nbc news' tracking data shows positive tests from the country's most populous states helped drive the states to a new record for the most cases in a single day. more than 45,500 cases were reported yesterday, blowing past the previous record of more than 36,000 new infections set on april 26th. california's nearly 7,000 new cases was among its highest ever reported. florida broke its previous record set over the weekend by well over a thousand, adding more than 5,500 new cases yesterday. texas nearly doubling its previous high from the day board, recording nearly 11,000 new cases. south carolina also reported its highest number of infections yet as well as oklahoma. however, officials in tulsa say it is too soon to attribute the records in that county to the president's rally last weekend,

but we will be monitoring that. so in texas governor greg abbott warned his state is facing a, quote, massive outbreak and is urging residents to wear masks and stay at home when possible. as we mentioned, the state hit an all-time high with covid cases with texas adding nearly 11,000 yesterday alone. that is double from the day before. double. bringing the total to over 131,000 cases. this surge is coming as officials in some major cities, they're warning hospitals could reach capacity within the coming weeks. but officials in houston are warning icu beds are already at 97% capacity. according to ""newsweek,"" 27% of those beds were occupied by covid patients. and in an effort to slow down the spread of covid, three state are enforces guidelines as hot spots continue to emerge nationwide. the governors of new york, new

jersey, and connecticut have implemented a mandatory quarantine on visitors coming from viral hot spots. some are calling it a total reversal. according to andrew owe moe, cu states on the list so far are arkansas, arizona, alabama, florida, north carolina, south carolina, washington, utah, and texas. here's what we know. residents are not barred from coming to the tri-state area, but they must quarantine for 14 days upon arrival. those caught violating the 14-day rule face a fine. it's unclear how they plan to enforce these rules. so after a closed door lunch with the vice president, florida senator rick scott spoke to reporters, striking a blunt tone on the rising spread of the virus in that state. >> i mean we haven't beat it. you know, everything people are

doing, they're going to have to say, you know, wear a mask. are you social distancing? so i hope everybody takes this serious seriously, because we haven't beaten this. we don't have a vaccine. we hope to by the end of the year. doctors have done a really good job at trying to figure out how to keep people alive and recover, but we're not where we need to be. joining me now is a politico reporter. you heard it from rick scott essentially saying we need to mitigate the spread of this thing. marco rubio is essentially saying, you've got to wear a mask when you leave your home in order to stop the spread of this thing. that's in stark contrast, and w andrew, between what they're saying and what the president has been saying. it doesn't seem like the president is thinking about the coronavirus at this point. a couple of days ago, he said, we're going to hit 115,000

deaths in this country. we have far surpassed that. i wonder if he's even getting briefed on the spread throughout the country. what do you make about this huge difference about what we're seeing? >> the vigilance on capitol hill when it comes to the virus is very real. i'm there every day among reporters, staffers, and lawmakers alike. everybody's social distancing, everybody's wearing a mask, people are taking it seriously, republicans and democrats alike. you're seeing that contrast on full display lately here. for example, all of the members -- or some of the members are urging governor ron desantis to put in place a mask order, in other words, say that all residents of florida have to wear a mask when they go o outdoors. they're starting to put pressure not just on the white house but

individual state governs ors t try to do better at home when it comes to the virus. >> again, this is not just a local issue. it seems like there's not a federal lead, a federal response, a federal mandate from the top down. governors, senators alike are trying to deal with this thing locally. with that, we are seeing this tri-state quarantine as i laid out a little bit earlier from the governors of new york, new jersey, and connecticut. things are switched around, right? because when it was april, florida was looking at new york saying new yorkers cannot come down to florida. is there an effort by lawmakers in some of these harder hit states where coronavirus cases are surging to change their approach moving forward when we're seeing these really startling, scary numbers, frankly, coming out of states like texas, doubling within 24 hours? >> absolutely. and i'll give you an example

with texas. senator john cornyn, he's a member of the senate republican leadership, he called on the white house yesterday to continue federal fund firsthanding for testing sites in his home state of texas. at the end of the month, a lot of the funding will run out. i think that's a sentiment being suppressed not just by democrats but republicans and in these individual states, especially states that are seeing these massive new outbreaks like texas. you're seeing republicans start to speak out against the white house response in a way that's getting more attention than it has in the past. >> yeah. and we're going to be talking about that later on in the hour, the fact that the president has threatened that they're going to pull testing sites from hard-hit states, specifically texas, which is also troubling when testing is needed now more than

ever, when more and more folks are testing positive for the coronavirus. andrew desiderio, thank you. stay close. i know you have reporting on the u.s. and china. i want to dig into that yet. also, everybody, the three white men involved in the kill of ahmaud arbery, they have been indicted. gregory mcmichael, his son travis, and their neighbor william bryan were charged after a video was linked. arbery was fatally shot after he was pursued by the mcmichaels. bryan is accused of using his pickup truck to box arbery in. each are charged with several counts. the men could face life sentences without parole if

convicted. lawyers said what they did was not criminal. also, mississippi is recalling their flags. mississippi has the only state flag that includes the confederate emblem, a red field topped with a blue "x" with 13 white stores. legislators chose it back in 1894 after the republicans gained reconstruction after the civil war. in 2001 voters chose to keep the flag in a statewide election, but the flag has remained controversial. there were separate statements issued, but controversy has arisen about whether a statewide election should be made to make this decision. this is coming as the ncaa and s.e.c. banned games taking place

in mississippi until the symbol is removed from the state flag. still ahead, everybody, former national security provider michael flynn's battle could soon be over. and the trump administration vows to cut funding to testing sites as i just mentioned with andrew. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. n your weather when we come back my nunormal: fewer asthma attacks. less oral steroids. taking my treatment at home.

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i'm very happy about general flynn. he was treated horribly. he was treated very, very horribly by a group of very bad people, and i think you're going to see things start to come out. but what happened to general flynn should never happen again in our country. he was persecuted and many other people were persecuted. they spied on a campaign, and they should never spy on a campaign to put it mildly. never happened before in the history of our country. the obama administration spied

on a campaign. this is just the first one. he's been exonerated, and i want to congratulate him. he's been through a lot. >> so that was the president yesterday commenting unprompted on the latest development in the michael flynn case after he was asked about progress with the coronavirus. and here's why the president was, quote, very happy. a divided federal appeals court ended the indication against former national security adviser michael flynn. in a 2-1 case they ordered the judge, emmett a sullivan, to immediately end the michael flynn case. the doj motion to dismiss prompted judge sullivan to appoint a former federal judge to argue against dismissal in an

amicus brief to the court. the appeals court may still keep the case for further review. so let's get into this. joining me now, nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. one question, danny, what just happened here? >> it's confusing, but this is called a writ of mandamus. what they asked the appeals court to do is grant the motion to dismiss. the district court hadn't ruled on it yet, and they're vsh very, very unusual forms of brevity. in this case t court of appeals said this writ of mandamus is warranted because when it comes to prosecution, the government is the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega of all prosecutions, whether a guilty plea has happened, the defendant has been sentenced, no matter

what. the executive branch is the fundamental power behind prosecutions, and to order an amicus, a friend of the court, to get involved and present arguments in opposition to the government when it has this exclusive power really unnecessarily puts the branches of government at odds. that's what the appeals court, 2-1 decision of the appeals court says. >> so there was obvious immediate shock and surprise about this decision. could the judge -- does he have grounds to appeal this decision at all? >> he could. i mean these are mostly legal issues, and it's possible that the supreme court might be interested in this case. but it's not strategically likely only because that could take a lot of time. and, frankly, the judge may just not have that much of a dog in this fight because he would rather move on with the case than risk having a supreme court

tell him he was wrong as well. at least strategically that may be what he wants do. in this case, the appeals court is essentially ordering the district court to order the dismissal of flynn's case and getting rid of the amicus because he's no longer needed. this is a fascinating -- you never see this kind of thing. this is not a case that has far-reaching kind of implications. even more rarely is the district judge saying anything other than, okay, that's fine with me. so this is not something like some of the supreme court cases we had last week that have far-reaching implications for the justice system. this is a very unusual set of facts. >> you and i have had a lot of conversations as of late where you begin your sentences with, this rarely happens, but. and then you go on. >> that is true.

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colleagues tested positive for the virus. according to the "washington post," it came the wake of the y came hours before the rally after six tested positive including two secret service employees. another two tested sundpositive sunday after the president returned to washington. a spokesman who chose anonymity said the president chose a rally in a closed environment and said he lacked concern for safety for his own staff. it also puts a strain on the agency, requiring other agents and officers to fill their shoes while they're off duty. all right. let's switch gears an get a look at your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning, bill. >> good morning to you, yasmin.

the weather is going to be interesting over the next couple of days, tracking some severe storms, still very summer-like, and i know a lot of people are trying to cool off outdoors. we have one concern. heavy rain continues around houston. houston is very flood-prone. we also have a section of louisiana with a concern for flash flooding. also mississippi, the biloxi area, new orleans. and we have numerous thunderstorms around houston north of bay city. that's where we could have isolated flash flooding. later today, we're going to track the storm system across the northern plains. it will make its way northeast on saturday. for today, a slice into nebraska, a severe threat. on friday b prepared for a line of storms to come through. madison, green bay, milwaukee, chicago, and eventually michigan

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. just days after the president said in tulsa the coronavirus should slow down, the trump administration is planning to end its support for testing sites at the end of the month. the move will affect 13 reported testing sites in five different states. at least seven of those testing sites are in texas where coronavirus cases are surging. houston's health department reacted in this statement saying, quote, losing the support of the federal government for testing sites will undoubtedly have catastrophic cascading consequences. and in a conference call with the prs, republican john cornyn said this, quote, it's pretty clear to me that with the uptick

of cases now is not the time to retreat from our jij lens in testing. believe they need to extend that federal support in texas at least until we get this most recent uptick in cases addressed. and as you'll recalling the president's aides have repeatedly said trump's remarks about slowing down testing was just a joke. >> when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, find more cases. so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> you know it was tongue-in-cheek. >> come on, now. that was tongue-in-cheek, please. >> it was a comment he made in jest. it was a comment he made in passing. >> i think the president clearly said that in jest in a rally when he was talking about the numbers. in no way is it the president's policy or our policy to slow down testing. >> meanwhile the president has said he does not joke around. and as the coronavirus cases spike across this country, vice president mike pence urging republican senators to focus on,

quote, encouraging signs. the "washington post" reports that the vice president made the comments with lawmakers yesterday on capitol hill where, quote, multiple senators said that pence pointed to positive indicators, including fact that while infections are rising, the mortality rate is not. pence reported, quote, that's partly because there's more testing and younger and healthier people are adding to those getting tested, adding only 3% are actually experiencing case increases. but the "washington post" data shows marked increases in 5% or more of counties and rising, quote, cases in around 20 or more states. speaking to senator cornyn, he said they're continuing work with states like ours who are seeing spikes why lindsey graham

and kevin kramer said ppe is in a good position. i'm not sure how cutting funding to testing sites meaning continuing to work with hard-hit states. senate democrats are blocking the bill to overhaul policing yesterday, calling the legislation flawed and a non-starter. the measure, which needed 60 votes, failed 55-45, unlike the measure introduced by house democrats. it did not include outright bans on choke holds or no-knock search warrants that killed breonna taylor. it did not touch on qualified police immunity which shields police from lawsuits. senator minority leader chuck schumer called the bill partisan while senator tim scott accused democrats of taking their time

and biding time until after the election. here's how the president reacted after the failed vote. >> the democrats don't want to do it because they want to weaken our police. they want to take away immunity, take away a lot of the strength from the police and law enforcement generally, and we can't live with. we can't live with that. this is a great bill. >> all right. meanwhile the house will vote on a separate police reform bill introduced by democrats which is expected to pass today. let's get into this. joining me once again, politico reporter andrew desiderio. a lot to dissect. we moved through a lot there. let's talk about this police reform bill. democrats blocking the republicans' bill to overhaul policing yesterday. some would argue if this was even an overhaul of policing at all. it was more to placate protesters, some are arguing.

where do you expect things to go from here? >> so the lawmakers i spoke to yesterday pretty much expect that this issue is going to be dead in the water, at least until -- at least election day at that point. you know, each side yesterday, you know, the tensions were raw on the senate floor. each side, their positions are more hardened than they were before. the odds aren't great in this polarized senate in terms of getting something done, but what you did hear were a strong minority of democrats saying, look, this is a divided government, divided congress. republicans control the senate. this is the way to achieve some sort of result. you did see some sort of democrats hoping to amend it. according to democrats, that was not a deal they were going to take, especially with the

guarantee from senate mcconnell on which types of amendments would come up. there's a lot of distrust and it seems unlikely this issue will come up again in the another. >> again as we have seen on so many other issues, it seems like more changes are happening more quickly on the local level versus the federal level where things seem to be stalled once again, because we've seen reform across the country. let's quickly talk about this cutting funding to testing sites. the federal government cutting funding to funding sites especially the hard-hit states like texas. you have cornyn saying now's not the time to cut fujd. you have doubling numbers in texas as we mentioned in the first half of the show. it's really troubling. you need testing more than ever. is there an effort to change the president's mind on this decision to cut funding to some of these sighttes?

>> you heard some were urging vice president mike pence during their lunch to not pull back on testing. individual senators have contact with the white house on a daily basis to urge them to do certain things. but on this matter in particular you're hearing from republicans from these newly hard-hit states like texas, like florida, for example, who are telling the president and the vice president and the task force, now is not the time to cut back on funding for testing, which is slated to run out at the end of the month. >> i want to touch on a t latest piece you have out, andrew. tell us about this new partisan bill to pose sanctions on china for its interference with hong kong's independence. >> that's right. last week chris van holland went to florida and asked for the

passage of a bill that wows sanction kai na over its continued encroachment into hong kong's independence. but cramer is actually a co-sponsor of it. what i reported yesterday is the white house actually asked senator cramer to block this bill, which is quite unusual, but what it underscores is two things, number one, just how strong the president's grip on the republican party is these days to the point they would be willing to block a bill that they're a co-sponsor of. and, number two, it shows how difficult it is for the china hawks in congress -- there are dozens of them -- to try to push the trump administration to get tougher on china on an array of issues from hong kong, coronavirus pandemic, human rights abuses, and things like that. it was a really remarkable turn on the floor last week.

no one knows why cramer had done this, even though he supports the bill. what i was told yesterday is the white house asked him to do it, and the senator obliged. >> wow. that is shocking. andrew desiderio, thank you so much. great reporting. appreciate it. >> thank you. still ahead, we're learning how democrats plan to gather together to vote for joe biden. the president is urged to change his tone after he's found to be trailing behind biden with independents and women. your first look at morning joe is back in a moment. ur first loe is back in a moment. - [narrator] the shark vacmop combines powerful suction

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the former vice president has an 18-point advantage. trump won by six points back in 2016 according to exit polls. republican senators on capitol hill voiced their concerns about trump's drop-off in support. >> i think right now obviously trump has a problem with the middle of the electorate with the independents. they're the people who are undecided. i think he can win those back, but probably it will require not only a message that deals with substance of policy, but i think a message that uses perhaps a different tone. >> the president has on obviously been presented with a very challenged situation. obviously how he handles it and how people perceive him handling it will have an impact on

whether they want him reelected or not. the democrats have shown an interesting strategy, and it may well work. the first strategy is making sure the republicans aren't successful even in discussions about police reform, continue the chaos and take advantage of it and make sure biden never gets out of his basement. it may work. and there was a quote, pre-covid. i thought the president could carry the day with women and college-educated voters, with high unemployment and the economy shredded by covid he needed to adjust his message. that's where he probably began slimmage. i'm an american woman, i've got three kids and seven grandchildren. i want a message of optimism and

hope that's themy, i think, people are looking for. the dcn says the basketball event will still be televised over four nights in august. among the other changes, five voting delegates have been asked to participate from home. official business will be handle remotely. the changes come in major contrast to the president's plan to continue to host large rallies and events despite the recent uptick in certain states. the ceo of the democratic convention joe solmonese said, the think that i believe more than anything is that donald trump needs the roar of a crowd to feel he is in charge, and joe biden was born to be in charge. with that let's check in with bill karins on the weather who is also checking covid numbers.

i feel like we're back in april, bill, with the numbers we're seeing. the location has shifted, doubling the numbers in texas, really startling. >> yeah. for the people in those states, we know how you feel being in the northeast where the case kept increasing and you felt like it was everywhere around you. and now being on the side of it, it's like, oh, god, it's happening again. we were kind of hoping it would fade for every p. let's get into the fatalities first. the question is are the fatalities going to increase. yesterday we had 808 reported. today it's at 620. the last two days were above 620. we were waiting to see if all the new cases will equal more fatalities. we'll find that out in the days ahead. of course, we've already highlighted the hunl number of cases reported the last couple

of days. yesterday we broke the wednesday record by 5,000. that was the most we ever had on a wednesday reported. here's the other thing. the seven-day average peaked in the beginning of april at 32,425. this is according to the worldometers sight. if we're over 32,000 today, we'll be the new peak for the pandemic in our country for the cases that are going to be counted. a lot of people are saying we're testing so much more. we're about half a million cases per day right now, but if you look at the blue lines, those are the negative. the orange is the positive test. at one point we were down to 5%. so the positive rate has increased. and if you look at the blue lines and total number of tests, it hasn't increased in the last

two weeks and that's where you see the spikes. it's not just increased testing. we're seeing more people testing positive, and the community spread has increased. even dr. fauci said that yesterday. let's talk about the forecast heading into the upcoming weekend. very summer-like. dodging thunderstorms along the gulf coast. as we head toward the weekend forecast, watch out. washington, chicago, des moines, severe weather on friday. on saturday, it will stretch into areas of the northeast. so dodging thunderstorms in the northeast are pretty typical. i don't think anyone will have their weekend rained out. yasmin, we're all going to be watching the fatality count. remember not long ago we had a lot of positive cases, but not many deaths. hopefully that correlation will continue. >> yeah. that's something to watch. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, cities are reopening, but the road to recovery is uncertain as

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welcome back. time now for business. u.s. futures are lower this morning following yesterday's steep selloff over the rising numbers of coronavirus cases. karencho is joining us from london on this. great to see you this morning. i know that you have been following this somewhat rocky recovery, if we can even call it that. what are we expecting this morning as far as jobless claims? >> another key read on the jobs market in the states when it hits this morning, we're expecting initial claims to reach 1.3 to 1.4 million american workers, which is concerning because this would be the 12th straight weekly job. and it begs the question, where are the jobs and why are we seeing the layoffs.

it says despite the reopening of economies, companies may be concerned about their sales and layoffs are in place. the tally is brought to about 47 million jobs americans fighting for unemployment claims in the last 14 weeks. we have fresh news out too from the imf on its global growth forecast. it suggests the last ten weeks has not been kind the slump is worse than anticipated in april. 4.9% contracture, versus the 3% drop from april when it comes to the united states the economy likely to contract 8% this year. so it tells you just how bad conditions are out there. they did point to the hit in consumer spending in particular that that has been extreme because of social distancing lockdowns but also people saving because the uncertainty is great

for people still given the economic hit. >> karen, thank you so much. great to see you this morning. up next this morning, a look at axios's one big thing. and coming up, the u.s. records its highest number of coronavirus in a single day in the middle of a reopening. we'll discuss what this means for public safety and the economy overall. also, dick durbin joins the conversation after a bill for police reforms was blocked. "morning joe" just momentsaway. d "morning joe" just momentsaway mop, and t oss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad.

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welcome back, joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. nicholas johnston. great to see you this morning. >> good morning. thank you. >> give us axios's one big thing today. >> the shape of the recovery building off the economic data you just talked about. we're getting information from economists about what they think the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will look like. there's a lot of talk will it be

an l, a w, a v? we're hearing a reverse, there's a sharp downturn and a recovery by the recovery is not as big as the downtown r turn. we'll see an economic growth lower than otherwise. that is in sharp contrast than what the trump administration has been saying, particularly larry kudlow, they've been saying it'll be a v shaped recovery, based on early data, especially on things like jobs and retail sales. those increases are still getting the numbers to below where they would be. another thing to worry about, however, even the reverse radical recovery wouldn't be the reverse scenario in that there could be a w recovery, a sharp recovery after the initial wave and then a deeper drop as a

second wave spreads. that's something to keep an eye on with increasing cases. if that shows in the economic data, that could lead to a w recovery. >> let's talk about the numbers. they're drastic, awful to see. i feel like we're back in april again with the numbers spiking across the south and west. i know axios is reporting this as well. it is getting worse. is it inevitable at this point, in your estimation, nick, that another shutdown is on the horizon. >> i think that's a good question. we've been doing this weekly math now for eight weeks looking at the bright spots and dark spots on the recovery and growth in coronavirus cases in the united states. almost every week we've done this. i've had a little bit of a bright spot, not today. this is the grimmest math we've had in all corners of the united

states are seeing increased rates of coronavirus infection. and with -- not due to testing at all, really. this is -- rates of increase are outpacing the testing and it gets back to the point you mn mentioned, will it lead to shutdowns? a lot of places are saying it's not acceptable, like texas but will we see these rates continue to more, lead to more hospitalizations and that might lead to more shutdowns. a lot of infections are happening with younger people which might lead to fewer hospitalizations. >> nicholas, thank you my friend. that does it for me on this thursday morning, that does it for me, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. face coverings have become a polarizing or political issue.

how can we get past that? >> there's no secret formula for that except to say get past it. it should not be a political issue. it is purely a public health issue. >> we haven't beat it. everything people are doing, they're going to have to say, wear a mask. are you social distancing. so i hope everybody takes it seriously, we haven't beaten this, we don't have a vaccine yet, it seems like the doctors have done a good job trying to figure out how to keep people alive and roecover, but we're nt where we need to be. >> it's a virus. it's a respiratory virus that spreads from person-to-person and the more people you come into contact with in an unprotected setting the likelier you are to be infected by