the dust cloud will bring beautiful sunrises and sunsets really from texas north and east, as far north as the midwest and to the east on up the atlantic seaboard for days to come. that is our broadcast for this thursday evening. thank you so very much for being here with us. on behalf of all of my colleagues here at the networks of nbc news, good night. three big legal stories in the headlines. trump took another stab. we'll talk about timing on that. also new reporting on the tension between the attorney general and manhattan prosecutors including claims about the bill barr case. and a case about asylum seekers.

good morning, everybody. it is friday, june 26th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. we've got a lot to cover this morning with breaking news. we're starting with yet another move by the trump administration to strike down obamacare amid the surge coronavirus pandemic and record unemployment. the justice department filed a new legal brief late last night asking the supreme court to overturn the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act. now, the move came on the same day the government reported that nearly half a million people who lost health insurance during the coronavirus shutdown, they enrolled in coverage through healthcare do healthcare.gov, a 46% increase from the same time last year. the brief makes no mention of the coronavirus. congress gutted the original mandate. that was filed by a coalition of

attorneys general in the state of texas arguing that the entire law must be struck down, including populist protections for those with pre-existing conditions. joe biden slammed the move while at an event in pennsylvania yesterday. >> perhaps most cruelly of all if donald trump has his way, those who have complications from covid-19 could become the new pre-existing conditions. some survivors will experience lasting health impacts like lung scarring and heart damage. and if donald trump prevails in court, insurers would be allowed once again to strip away coverage, jack up premiums, simply because of the battle they survived fighting coronavirus. mr. president, drop the lawsuit,

t top trying to take away the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act. stop taking away their peace of mind. i cannot comprehend the cruelty he's striving to inflict of pain on those he's willing to serve. this began with the case against the president's former attorney michael cohen. shortly after taking over the justice department barr spent weeks questions federal prosecutors with their decision to charge barr with campaign violations. at one point he instructed doj officials to draft a memo outlining legal arguments that could be raised to question cohen's conviction and look at prosecutions of the same kind. prosecutors reportedly did not

follow up on that instruction. chone was convicted and sentenced in december of 2018 before barr took office so he could not withdraw the charges like he did with michael flynn. in an interview, he said his choice in department of justice matters are not influenced by the president. but there's a claim of significant political influence on the department. and after ruling in favor of the dreamers, the young undocumented imgrants brought to the united states by children, the supreme court sided with the president 7/2 ruling that they can be fast-tracked for deportation and that decision cannot be challenged in federal court. the ruling considered the case of an asylum seeker from sri lanka who had been detained by federal agents. when his claim was denied, he

filed a writ of habeas corpus petition over unlawful detention. the supreme court said it was for those seeking relief from deterngs not as an avenue to get into federal court. in dissent, justices sotomayor and alaina kagan said it damaged the rule of law. so let's get into some of these cases. joining me now, nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning. >> good morning. >> we have a lot of ground to cover. a lot of things popping up. >> lots. >> let's start with the attorney general here. what is the major difference in your view between the michael cohen case and the michael flynn case when it comes to the

department of justice's ability to undo things, to walk back any prosecutorial measures? >> procedurally michael cohen is much farther along in the process because not only did he plead guilty a few years ago now, he was alrea technically sg his sentence even though he's on comic-con finement because of coronavirus concerns. so procedurally it's a lot different for the justice department to simply stop prosecuting someone whose prosecution is effectively already over. that doesn't mean his prosecution or conviction can't be overturned by a number of other procedural mechanisms, but he's in a different posture than michael flynn at this stage. >> so also let's talk about this asylum decision. it seems pretty straightforward especially when you have a 7-2 decision from the supreme court,

not split at all. you have liberal justices, shall we say, that were in the majority there. so talk us through this. are we missing anything here? is there any nuance that we're missing? >> federal law provides for a procedure for expedited removal for people who have just gotten over the border, and that's exactly what this individual had done. he was 25yards over the border, and they sought to remove him in expedited fashion. then he claimed asylum. there's an expedited proceed for th that. he challenged it saying, look, i'm being detained, i'm allowed to challenge that. the court essentially held, the federal law that provides for that expedited removal is not

unconstitutional. somebody can challenge his detension or a prisoner can challenge his detention. but the major takeaway is this federal removable procedure is not unconstitutional. >> so this last one, i think, is astounding that we have been covering that really kind of broke overnight, and that is with regard to the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act. you have 500,000 people newly enrolled through healthcare.gov because of the coronavirus shutdown, folks that are depending on their health care right now, millions of people across this country depending on their health care right now. you have the administration filing this brief in support of striking down the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act. how strong of a case do they have? >> the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act was upheld as the federal government's taxing power, and

in a strange turn, when the penalty was removed, it was no longer a tax under the law. therefore t government said, hey, do you mind, please, paying for your health care or paying this money? without that kind of mandate, it's no longer a tax and the argument is it's no longer a valid exercise of the federal government's power, and therefore, the administration is arguing the whole thing should be struck down. >> and is the case strong? >> it's one of those interesting issues that if a part of the statute is unconstitutional, do you exsize it, server it out, surgically remove it, or throw out the whole statute, the whole baby with the bath water, whatever that saying means. >> all right. danny cevallos, thank you. >> that sounds awful. >> that is the saying and it

does sound awful. still ahead, the president is struggling with the second term. also we're going to run through the latest polling including the new numbers that show biden with numbers in the red states and georgia. that story, and a check of the weather with bill karins when we come back. weather with bill karins when we come back. among my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend.

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welcome back, everybody. the president attended a fox news town hall last night and was asked about his top priorities for a second term. this was his answer. >> well, one of the things that will be really great, you know, the word "experience" is really good. i always say talent is more so than experienced. i've always said that. but experience is an important word. it's got meaning.

i never slept overnight at the white house. i'm riding down pennsylvania avenue with the first lady and said, this is great. i didn't know much about it. i was from manhattan, new york. now i know everybody, and i have great people in the administration. you make some mistakes. you know, an idiot like bolton. you don't have to drop bombs on everybody. you don't have to kill people. >> let's show the polls. it's showing joe biden leading or statistically tied with the president in four key states. biden leads trump in florida, 5 47%-45%. also in north carolina and ontario one point cents biden and trump in texas, 45%/44%.

joining us now from politico anita kumar. thank you for joining us on some of these polls. i want to break them down. astounding to me when you look at some of the poll numbers from fox news. you have biden leading or tied with the president trump. the senior number interesting particularly. if you think about that comparatively to "the new york times"/sienna college poll that came out, i believe, two days ago, we also saw there the same trend among seniors, young people, african-americans, which has been consistent across the board, and women as well. what is your reaction to some of these recent polling that you are seeing with trump's fading in popularity. >> yeah. there's a couple of different things. obviously you've mentioned some demographics like african-americans where he was never going to do that well. they do want to do better with

him. but what really struck me is what you mentioned. older people, white americans as well as men. these are all demographics that are generally very strong for republican candidates and were strong for him in 2016. so that tells me he's losing that conservative base or he's slumping in those areas. he's got both to worry about. he's got his base, supporters, people who generally have been supporters, and all the demographics he's trying to get. he's already losing in the polls in both of those places. >> so with that let's talk about this attempt from the administration to overturn obamacare during a time when americans need health care more than ever. millions are losing their health care, half of those registering through healthcare.gov. how do you suspect this could impact the 2020 elections?

>> i do think it's going become a major talking point. i think as you noted earlier, this probably wouldn't be heard until the supreme court -- until the fall. we probably wouldn't have an answer to this question before the november election. but what joe biden is going to do is do what he started doing yesterday. he's talking about this. look, we're in the middle of a pandemic and the president wants to get rid of health care for so many millions of americans. so i think it's going to become a talking point for democrats. the house will probably talk about it. joe biden will probably talk about it. look. this is something the president's been talking about doing for years. he talked about it as a candidate. he talked about it while in office. in that respelkt, it's not surprising. as you noted earlier, this documentation with the supreme court is not mentioned during the pandemic. so many people would lose their insurance. >> exactly. i feel like that's what a lot of

people are thinkinging that if they follow through on this thing and move forward, that a lot of folks will be risking the loss of their health care at a time when they need it more than ever. that's not going to look good for the administration with an election around the cornerle. anita kumar, thank you. stay close. i'll talk with you in a little bit. still ahead, president trump sounds off on black lives matter, disparages new york city and says police need to bring back stop and frisk, all of those remarks coming in the last 24 hours. we're going to have the latest on that coming up. we're going to have the latest on that coming up. heartburn happens when stomach acid refluxes into the esophagus. prilosec otc uses a unique delayed-release formula that helps it pass through the tough stomach acid. it then works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. with just one pill a day, you get 24-hour heartburn protection.

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statement? it's not a racist statement. frankly, black people come up to me and say thank you for saying it. they want help. these cities, it's like living in hell. it's very controversial to say stop and frisk, okay? stop and frisk. >> so that was more from the president at a fox news town hall last night. meanwhile, taking a look at some other polls, joe biden leading the president by 87 points among black voters. according to the latest "washington post" ipsos poll, biden is ahead. nearly 90% of black seniors believe that the former vice president is sympathetic to the problems of black americans compared to just 66% of those under 40 years of age. but black americans are split on the importance of biden choosing

a black woman as his running mate. 50% say it is important while 49% say it is not. and the president lashed out at the black lives matter movement accusing the leader of treason. if u.s. doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. this is treason, insurrection. in another tweet, bill de blasio wants to paint the fabled and beautiful fifth avenue right in front of trump tower, tiffany, with a big yellow black lives matter sign. pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bake con referring to killing police. the new york police are furious. new york city mayor bill de blasio wants to commission a mural on fifth avenue in front of trump tower similar to the one in washington, d.c., that

leads up to the white house. according to the "washington post," the chant blav lives matter has been heard since 2015 app has been a source of conflict ever since. let's switch gears and get a check on your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning to you, bill. >> 2020 is almost halfway over, yasmin. let's put a positive spin on this. >> i mean it's really just not going well these days, is it? >> yeah. can't get worse, right? all right. so let's get into the forecast for your weekend. dodging summer-like thunderstorms all over the place. a lot of heat and humidity, very typical for a summer weekend. as we go through the next few days, we will have severe weather plans that will interrupt your outdoors. the line of storms will be

moving in through the plains this evening. there are nearly 40 million people at risk. they have a slight risk of severe storms. the area in orange, that's enhanced. that's where we think the concentration will be the greatest and the most severe weather reports. that includes chicago, dubuque, southern milwaukee and much of michigan and a slice of illinois and indiana. then on saturday the storms will move from the northeast in areas of pennsylvania through new jersey. new york city, long island, connecticut, 38 million people included. the area of light rain will be ending this morning in areas around chicago. then the main round of storms, the dangerous ones, will be over the top of milwaukee, approaching chicago. for the chicago area, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. is your window. for detroit, you'll have on-and-off strong storms this evening too. then the overname storm willing weaken. then they'll roll through upstate new york.

then by 5:00 p.m., new york city has a chance of severe storms and scattered strong storms throughout philadelphia as you go throughout saturday night. the other storm we're tracking is the huge plume coming off of africa. it did arrive last night along the gulf coast. your forecast for the look on saturday, the worst air quality will be from tallahassee all the way down toward miami and that could linger into the beginning of next week. if you're watching your instagram feed, i'm sure you'll see dozens if not hundreds of pictures because of that dusty air later on today. >> all right. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, the latest on the coronavirus. the trump administration goes on the record with a major estimation about the number of unreported cases. also more states slowed down their reopening process amid the latest surge. we're back in a moment. the latest surge we're back in a moment

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour as the trump administration plans to hole its first coronavirus task force meeting in two months today. this is coming as the director of the cdc says the number of americans with the virus is likely ten times higher than the nearly 2.4 million cases reported. that is something we've heard before from other experts. according to the "washington post," dr. robert redfield based his estimate on blood samples of

antibodies. for every confirmed case of covid, ten more had antibodies meaning they were able to fight off the virus. and amid hospitalizations and covid cases, several governors announced they're hitting pause on reopening plans. this is coming afternoon a record single-day spike, bringing the total number of infected to over 2.43 million people nationwide. texas, new mexico, arizona, and florida are on the list of states currently halting reopening plans. texas has reported record surges, and its rolling average has increased by 340% since memorial day. governor greg abbott also holds elective surgeries in several counties to ensure systems do not become overwhelmed as they're on track to do some of and as coronavirus cases continue to surge in texas, republican senators ted cruz and john cornyn, they're urging the

trump administration to not pull federal funding to several covid testing sites in the lone star state. the lawmaker says, quote, it's a risk not worth taking. the move in the white house will impact 13 testing sites in five different states. at least seven of those sites are in texas. according to the "houston chronicle," quote, the sites administer thousands of tests per day and include the backbone of houston's testing effort. and during a news conference, ron desantis held a news conference. when asked if the rise in cases would mean business closures, this is what he said. >> we're not forcing them to do it. if that's the choice they're making, they're making it. i think the folks following the guidelines, people have been able to do it in way that are low risk and that's been the case since the beginning of may.

remember, we did the opening at the beginning of may. we had steady manageable cases. we've obviously seen that turn lately. but we've had a very quiet may and i think everyone has to acknowledge that. >> and the president attended yet another public event yesterday, and he wasn't wearing a mask. this time he was surrounded by veterans to honor the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war. the white house says all the veterans who participated were tested for covid ahead of time. still you could see the president and first lady were relatively close without wearing a mask. the average achlk ge of a veter 69 years old. we will never forget them nor the last time we saw them as

they slipped through the bonds of earth to touch the face of god. >> those who are lost now, their legacy must be our lives. >> we can hear you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. ♪ amazing grace >> i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers. >> we dominate the streets. >> i'm won't traffic in fear and division. i won't fan the flames of hate. >> it's time to pick up our heads and remember who we are. this is the united states of america. all right. joining me once again, white house correspondent and associate editor at politico,

anita kumar. wow. to look at that ad from the lincoln project. it's astounding to see. really powerful. what's your reaction to that? >> right. they're very much wanting to show that donald trump is not being presidential. going back on these critical moments in our history and really pushing joe biden. that's the message joe biden has been pushing from the beginning. he wants to restore, as he says, the soul of the nation, so the lincoln project pushing that message. >> i want to talk about the reaction that we're getting from republican texas senators ted cruz and john cornyn. they're urging the trump administration, rightly so, to not pull federal funding to testing sites. 7 out of the 13 they want to pull are in the state of texas as i mentioned earlier. you also have the president at the same time yesterday in wisconsin once again saying if we don't have testing, we don't

have more cases. essentially it seems like he doesn't want that testing to happen when, in fact, testing needs to take place in order to know how many coronavirus cases we have and to do contact tracing. what do you make of the start contrast between the president's behavior and now also what we're hearing from republican senators whose states are hard hit? >> well, i mean it's very telling obviously that the senators, they're both allies of the president that would come out and say they're opposed to this and urging him not to do this. what federal officials and i'm sure what the vice president will say later when he has that meeting that you mentioned is that the federal government isn't stopping testing. they're just pushing it into a different way. they're asking pharmacies to do these tests, including primarily cvs. so they're saying, hey, we found another way to do this better, but it's very, very telling that you're finding officials in these particular states saying this is not the time to do it. it also shows a lack of

perception if you will. this is the time where these cases are going up. people are worried about it. this is probably not the time to do it. they have already, you know, delayed this once, and it's possible, i suppose, they could delay it before the end of the month. >> also if they're shifting the testing sites to pharmacies as you say, the major question is do these pharmacies have the capacity to deal with the number of folks that are going to be coming in, especially in a state like texas, where you're seeing huge numbers right now to actually test them as they do at these testing sooitds. i'm sure you see them. i've seen them. i'm sure they're in new york state. the testing sites are massive and there's a lot of infrastructure that goes into these testing sites with so many workers helping those coming in. >> what they don't want to happen is to say, look, we're switching to a system we think is better and then to see pictures all over the states

with people in lines or at cvss where they can't handle it. they don't have enough tests or they don't have enough people to help with the testing. >> all right. anita kumar, thank you as always. great to see you this morning. >> thank you. still ahead, everybody, we're going to show you newly released images from nascar, a noose found in bubba wallace's garage from over the weekend. your first look at morning j"mo" is back in a moment. among my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum

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less charged environment start to have conversations about how we -- and the "we" in that sentence is the commissioner's office -- can go forward. and nascar released a photo of the noose saying it was, quote, real. that's after the fbi concluded that wallace, the only african-american driver in nascar's top series was not the victim of a hate crime and the noose was actually a garage door pull handle that had been placed there early last fall. but yesterday nascar president steve phelps said thursday, the noose was real as are our concerns for bubba. they're not able to determine who crafted the noose. phelps also said nascar inspektd all garages, and out of 1,684

stalls, ohm 11 had a pull-down rope tied in a knot. the only one fashioned in a noose was found in wallace's garage. he expressed frustration over the news. the noose was found after nascar moved to ban all confederate flags from its races and properties earlier this month. all right. let's switch gears and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who's been tracking covid numbers for us. bill, it is not a good trend that we're seeing across the country right now. there's a lot of states that are pausing their reopening. >> yeah. we had nine states, yasmin, report over 1,000 cases. that was -- you know, that's an incredible number of states. obviously the big headline was most cases reported in one day yesterday. we had over 40,000 for the first time ever. that broke the new daily case record by a thousand. and now we're at 2,500,000

total. so let's break this down. now t last three days, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, all three are in the top five for the most daily covid-19 cases reported. you see where yesterday was right there. april 24th was the previous record at 39,072. there's no reason why today won't also be in the top five. here's a grf of the daily positive cases. you can see how early april, mid-april you see that peak. the seven-day average is 34,150. that seven-day average is up 13,000 in just the last two weeks. that's how quickly we're going back up there at the end of the graft. how much does this have do with testing? yesterday we did break the record for most tests in one day, 638,000. and the positive rate yesterday was 6%. it was actually 8% the day

before. i wanted to compare that to the previous record we had back in the third week of april. well, we were at a 15% positive rate back then. we're testing more people and the positive rate has dropped, but we're also seeing a rapid increase in the last two weeks. as dr. fauci said, there is community spread. it's not just because we erie testing more people. let's get to the forecast. very summer-like this weekend. watch out, iowa, southern wisconsin. severe weather threat later on today. and into your weekend forecast, saturday is the stormy day for areas in the ohio valley and the northeast. by sunday, still storms in areas like west virginia and virginia. we'll be watching the hot weather moving in to the middle of the country. so as we've been talking about, yasmin, for the last week or two, there's many different reasons for the number of new cases. but as for the community spread, as dr. fauci said, it's happening.

it's getting worse, not better, in at least a dozen states. >> the big message here is wear your mask when you're out and about if you have to be out and about. bill karins, thank you as always. great to see you this morning. >> still ahead, everybody, americans may see the last of the pizza rat as chuck e. cheese filed for bankruptcy. k e. chees filed for bankruptcy my gums are irritated. i don't have to worry about that, do i?

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nbc's karen cho is joining us live in london on. this karen, good morning to you. how did this happen? >> it's dead people receiving the money. what we hard was the irs can access the social security administration's death records but the treasury department and the bureau of fiscal service cannot access the same service. we heard all along the rush to get the checks out, there may be issue. but we thought it may be more identity and fraud issues not necessarily money going to dead issue. so it is an issue, particularly when you talk about the next wave of the stimulus. when you talk to republicans and trump administration and his team talking about the stimulus payments. we've been watching the fed and we have a u turn in direction.

many hearing the banks have provided huge amounts of money for bad loans however that money may be getting worse, hearing that $700 billion may be because of the crisis. so we're hearing the banks asked to share buy backs now not happened as soon as the market expected. we see another day, another bankruptcy, the parent company of chuck e. cheese filing for bankrupt spip what does this mean? >> chuck e. cheese is big on the child party's circuit. they went about a year a year ago last year with the ball pits but huge interactions. the writing was on the wall. we heard the private equity company recently tried to reopen some stores but this came a little too late for the

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joints, muscles, and bones. try boost mobility, with added collagen. welcome back, everybody. joining me now with a look at axios a.m., political reporter for axios, hans nichols. you leave us but you come back with a different hat on. so great to see you, hans. good morning to you. give us axios' one big thing this morning. >> one big thing we're looking at is beer sales across the

country. in particular microbrew sales that come from a tap. why are we looking at this? we wanted visibility into where the country was open in the age of covid. what this does is give you a heat map. it says here are the states that are truly open and here are the ones that are in early stages of their opening. there's a lot of data in here, we worked with this company called beer board, that monitoring taps in locations across the country. what's interesting to me the most in this, we have three different weekends. yeah, you'd expect the beer to be higher and flowing more in a place like arkansas, 70% less than new jersey. what's fascinating, though, you've seen the beer go flat, excuse the pun, in states covid is on the up tick. georgia is going down. so we hope this map gives people visibility into what's actually happening in the country as

we're saying micro brews provide some macro trends. >> what does this mean for the restaurant industry overall? as we entered the shutdown, we've done a lot of stories on how the restaurant industry has been impacted. it was one of the hardest hit industries across the board, losing billions of dollars. so how are they recovering amidst it all? >> you have separate data out of the department of labor statistics and credit card data that shows there's a bit of a pickup. the restaurant industry lost $6 milli6 million jobs in april but gained 1.4 million back in the month of may. so that suggests that restaurants may snap back. maybe not to pre-covid highs but restaurants could come back if people feel confident. if people have the confidence to

go out, belly up to the bar and get draft beer. what's one thing you can get at a restaurant and not at home, well, two things, deep fried french fries. but draft beer is one of them. this has serious implications. i ran these numbers by the white house because they're trying to decide the size of the next stimulus. 1 trillion or 2 trillion. and they're looking for ways to telescope in to different industries and figure out what's actually happening. so data like this ricochets around the white house. the graft you see right now, it shows you how much things have come back. it's up to 84% of locations are pouring beer. but in those 84% of locations, only about half the taps are actually open. so there's a loath long ways to. yasmin. >> while i have you, i want to get into something else. how corporations are discussing

slavery reparations amidst all the protests we are seeing across the country on the heels of the death of george floyd. how do you see the politics of this issue? >> in some ways corporations, they've hinted at this now for a couple years, are not just trying to please their boards and shareholders, they're trying to please their companies and employees. when you look at the direction of corporations, it's clear they feel they have broader social responsibilities, not just to their sharehold ers. you're seeing lloyds of london start the beginning process of this. no one thinks this will be a clean, neat and easy process. you're starting to see the beginning of it in corporate america, it could be what happens in the political front. it's already happened with certain universities. georgetown university here in washington d.c. tried to make amends for their past with slavery. offered amends to descendents of

slaves they owned 200 years. ago. we don't know what direction it'll take politically in this country or other countries because the legacy is long, difficult, and troubling. yasmin. >> yes, it is. hans nichols, so great to see you this morning. we'll be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you can sign up for the newsletter. that does it for me on this friday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. i want every single american to know, if you're sick, if you're struggling, if you're worried about how you're going to get through the day, i will not abandon you, i will not leave you to face these challenges alone, and we're going to get through this together. >> what do you say to americans who are watching you right now who are scared? >> i say