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. it is high noon in the east. 9:00 a.m. out west. covid cases on the rise. florida and texas scaling back their reopenings. hear from the governor of another state who says the virus is everywhere. the president talking about ditching obama care in the midst of a health crisis. what's his reason? keeping the president's niece from publishing a book about her famous family and later a history lesson when it comes to people who just won't wear masks. what you didn't already know about the 1918 spanish flu, ahead. but we begin with breaking news this hour. "the new york times" is reporting that american intelligence officials have concluded that a russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in afghanistan, including targeting

american troops. amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter. josh leven is standing by with more on this. quite an explosive story. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: a disturbing story sending shock waves through the national security community. "the new york times" reporting that the president was actually briefed on this months ago, and that in march there was a national security council meeting where they discussed potential responses to what they were learning about this apparent attempt by a russian military intelligence unit to offer money to these taliban-linked militants if they would kill not only u.s. troops, but also troops from other members of the coalition that are fighting in afghanistan, including close u.s. allies like the united kingdom. at that national security council meeting, according to "the new york times," several options were discussed, including potentially raising a formal objection with the

russian government as well as more significant steps, such as sanctions on russia. so far, no signs that any of those steps have been taken. but we're already hearing a lot of outrage from both sides of the aisle really, particularly as the president, even in this period of time in which he reportedly knew what was happening with this, the president continuing to curry favor with the russian government, including suggesting that russian president vladimir putin should be allowed back into the group of eight nations. take a listen to what congresswoman madeline dean had to say about this report today. >> it is chilling. it is sickening. and it's shocking, but maybe it shouldn't be. this is how rotten to the core this president is. he doesn't seem to have any compassion or understanding. he doesn't seem to really love this country. he doesn't seem to really

understand our constitution. he certainly curries favor with our enemies and disrespects and disregards our allies and our friends. >> reporter: alex, while nbc news has not independently confirm this had report as of yet, i did speak with the national security council official who said they're not commenting on this because it involves alleged internal deliberations as well as u.s. intelligence matters, but we can say that both the russian government and the taliban have now denied this report, with russia's government saying it's a baseless accusation and saying that there are diplomats who are already coming under threat as a result of these allegations that were published today. alex? >> like i said, explosive. thank you for following up. josh lederman at the white house. meantime, let's go to the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. a troubling new surge in cases friday. the u.s. saw its highest sing e

single-day increase in new infections. more than 40,000 cases. now topping 2.4 million cases. florida once again shattering its daily record for new cases with more than 9,500 new infections confirmed. this, as the mayor in miami-dade county announces all miami beaches will be closed for the july 4th weekend. arizona governor doug ducey sounding the alarm as new cases and hospitalizations surge there. >> covid-19 is widespread in arizona. it's in all 15 of our counties. it's growing, and it's growing fast. we expect that our numbers will be worse next week and the week following in terms of cases and hospitalizations. this virus is everywhere.

it's likely in this room right now. >> and overseas, the european union is on the verge of barring american travelers when it reopens its borders next week. two diplomats tell nbc news, it's drawn up countries whose levels are low enough to travel into the countries. the u.s. does not meet those requirements. florida just confirming its highest numbers of cases of coronavirus within one day with an additional specifically 9,585 new cases. sam brock is in miami with a look at what is closing ahead of the holiday weekend. sam? >> you will recall for weeks all the governors of florida and texas have said it's the last thing they want to do, is rollback reopenings. governor desantis in florida said he wouldn't do it. with the reality of cases

surging right now, bars and beaches over the holidays are closing. in florida, weeks of surging coronavirus cases just reached a new high watermark. almost 9,000 cases in one day, leaving governor ron desantis to pull the plug on bars. >> widespread noncompliance, and that led to issues. >> reporter: in sunny miami-dade, the mayor announcing the beaches will close for the july 4th holiday, as miami beach's mayor already bracing residents for potentially severe rollbacks down the road. >> we're a hot spot and we remain the hot spot. we don't have a lot in our tool kit to stop this, short of the prophylactic decision to shutter the economy. >> reporter: closing down again would be unimaginable for one delray beach bartender. >> you cannot keep shutting down a town, city, state or country and expect things to just come back to normalcy. it's never going to happen. >> reporter: texas, taking an even more aggressive stance, with governor greg abbott closing bars and reducing capacity at restaurants on the heels of infection rates hitting

double digits. >> we find ourselves careening toward a catastrophic and unsustainable situation. >> reporter: some restaurant owners playing the long game. >> i'm not worried that we'll have to close our restaurant. we'll continue to still do curbside pickup. i am worried about customers of ours becoming more concerned and staying away. >> reporter: hospitalization rates are also triggering alarm beds. in houston, hospital bed capacity hit 100%, while in phoenix, an e.r. doctor describes a ticking time bomb. >> this is tinder, waiting to explode. i'm thinking some of that has already been lit and that is concerning. >> reporter: and on the west coast, california seeing a two-week jump in cases, now crossing the 200,000 mark. governor gavin newsom, singling out imperial county with a positivity rate of 23%, asking the county to reinstate a stay-at-home order. concern this morning heightened, new cases in the south and west

will spread to the rest of the country. and as florida right now is working to curb its outbreak, the nba is planning to resume its season, and the guys just announcing this weekend went through a first round of testing, 16 nba players tested positive for covid-19. >> sam brock reporting from miami there. let's go to arizona where the latest numbers show more than 66,000 covid cases. that state under pressure to reclose, as cases are spiking. let's bring in vaughn hillyard from the arizona state fairgrounds, where people are getting tested. they're not exactly on the rides and buying all those special treats like fried oreos, right? what's the situation like where you are? >> reporter: actually, alex, the disappointing part today is that we showed up at the arizona state fairgrounds, thinking that was going to be a testing location, but like a lot of other folks, there was no testing taking place at the state fairgrounds. that's kind of been a story trying to get a test in the state of where do you go?

you have long lines, hour-long waits, delayed turnaround times. we're here now in the west valley of arizona, in maryvale, arizona, and julio, we just met, why are you coming to get a test today, julio? >> because i want to make sure i don't have any symptoms of the virus. >> reporter: you're telling me you're a cook? >> yes. >> reporter: you have family members. this is the issue, actually. one of the major hospital system here in the state, alex, is actually turning away asymptomatic individuals because right now the demand for tests is so high, the number of tests in arizona cannot be processed. and when you take that into account today, despite all of that, was the single day highest number of recorded new cases in the state of arizona. 3,591. 44 arizonans have now also pass add way per new numbers from the state. i want to bring in tomas leone. you are here running this

facility. how many people will be able to get tested today? >> 1,000 today, just like last weekend. the demand is great. as of monday over 1,000 online preregistration for this event. we had to close it off and turn it into an appointment-only event. >> tell me about the demands. you have 1,000. last weekend you found the demand to be extraordinary. >> we were prepared and planned to test like 500, 600. we had over 1,100 people show up. it overwhelmed our process, our system. we weren't prepared for that many people. we are prepared today to process 1,000. we expanded it to eight lanes, registration, six nasal swab lanes. we brought in the wifi tower to create more efficiency. the demand is there because in this zip code, in the maryvale area, it ranks in the top five of most exposed zip codes in the state of arizona. >> when it comes to testing, clearly there's a demand. what are you seeing that you want the state to understand and the federal government to understand? >> what's happening, we're

pulling everybody together in a public/private partnership now. it's a public health crisis and it requires urgent action. and so it requires partnership with the city, the county, the state, local stake holders and organizations like ours to mobilize, coordinate and scale and implement these community-based testing models quickly throughout the state of arizona. >> reporter: are enough folks able to get tested right now? >> the big issue is not enough testing sites and locations, which we're expanding now in arizona, and they're taking too long to process. so, we have to adapt and respond and innovate, and scale quickly. because people's lives are on the line and people are dying. we need to act with urgency as a state and as a coalition and a collaborative, make this happen. >> tomas, appreciate it. alex, god people like tomas. it's 105 degrees out here. last weekend you saw hours long wait. people like tomas with limited resources are pulling this off

here in the state of arizona. >> can i play big sister for u you? get sun screen on your neck, my friend. i'm looking at you. >> yeah. >> say thanks mom. appreciate that. more than 142,000 confirmed cases in the lone star state. texas governor greg abbott turning back the state's reopening, including closing bars and reducing restaurant capacity. texas democratic congressman mark visey. good to see you again. >> thanks, alex. >> can i ask you what, if anything, you know about this explosive "new york times" article, that i was talking to josh lederman about american intelligence officials thinking or concluding that a russian military intelligence unit was secretly offering bounties to taliban members to go after anybody in the coalition to

include american military personnel, and the timing of this was while there were ongoing peace talks. >> you know, i'm not surprised. i think that it was clear from the beginning of the trump presidency that the russians were really going to try to push and manipulate trump, to see to what extent they were able to control him. and in my opinion, it just reinforces what a lot of us were saying early on. why did it seem so obvious to everyone that donald trump was trying to capitulate to the russians? he seemed to be very soft towards them. he didn't really want to address the fact that they may have been trying to undermine our elections, and it really makes you conclude that to some extent -- and we'll probably never know the full extent of it, but to some level, this man is probably a russian asset. again, to what level we may never know. maybe they just control him

financially to a certain extent, but i think this is very dangerous and that it needs to be looked at seriously. and i hope in the coming days we find out more about this. it sounds like from what i heard at the beginning of your report that they're trying to say this is a classified matter and they're not going to answer questions on this but we deserve to have answers because this is a very serious allegation. >> absolutely, it is an allegation. i just want to reiterate, being reported by "the new york times." nbc news has yet to confirm this. we should say both russia and the taliban have denied all these allegations in this report. that said, let's move on to what we booked you for, sir. >> yeah. >> let's talk about the turnaround, closing of bars and restaurants and the like. should this have happened sooner in your state? should texas not even have reopened to begin with, to the extent that it did? >> this is very sad for me, because it didn't have to happen this way.

the governor was warned months ago that we were facing a looming potential health crisis, and he absolutely wanted to do nothing about it. i was on a conference call that all members of the texas congressional delegation were invited to, and state reps as well. i asked him a question about the churches because there had been a report that there was a church in sacramento, california in the early days of coronavirus, where there was one person that attended a church service and made about 40 other people infected, from one church visit. and i asked him, what about the churches? he says we're just going to let the ministers decide on their own. they don't want to make their parishioners sick. it is that sort of weak leadership that he showed from the very beginning of the covid-19 pandemic that has made this absolutely worse. he knew it was going to be

catastrophic. he was warned that it was. we have some of the leading epidemiologists and allergists in the state of texas from our public and private university system here, and he absolutely ignored all of their warnings that this was going to get out of control. and he decided that he was going to follow trump, who downplayed this and said it was being used to harm him politically, to our lieutenant governor that said that we should allow old people to die. to hairstylists in dallas who could figure out a way to use the pandemic to line her pockets with money. those were the people that he listened to, instead of the health experts that told him this is going to get out of control. and what i'm hearing about hospital beds being overrun, children's hospital beds having to be used. that should be reserved for our young people that get sick. you know, texas is not the place that you want to have an

accident that's noncovid related right now because it's going to be hard for you to get treated. >> let me ask about tarrant county. by the way, that's part of your district. >> absolutely. >> requiring face masks in all the businesses. you and the colleagues in the house have urged the governor to do more with regard to safety measures statewide. >> right. >> like what? what do you think can be done? honestly, has the horse left the banner here? >> i think that it's too late. now that does not mean that we don't need to do anything else. >> of course. >> to try to curtail this. even in tarrant county right now we have a very affluent suburb just outside -- i live in tarrant county. it's right outside dfw airport. it's colleyville. lot of former nfl and major league baseball players and basketball players live there and the mayor of that town and the council have decided they're not going to listen to the

governor or the county judge, and they're going to do whatever it is that they want to do, that they're not going to reduce restaurant capacity, not going to require masks, that they're going to do whatever it is they please, and the governor needs to be serious about his order and let people know that if they do not comply with these orders that they will be shut down. >> yeah. >> people need to take this very seriously, and they're just not right now. and it's going to make this matter worse. >> i just have to tell you, you mentioned ft. worth and i'm going to tell you last night i found out about a sorority sister of mine who, about a month ago we were speaking, and she was ridiculing those of us in new york with the severe restrictions we have under way. she is now in icu in a ft. worth hospital battling covid. i'm heartbroken over it, and sending prayers to her and a lot of other people. but congressman veasey, good to see you soon. >> thank you, alex. dr. natalie azar will join

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a new surge in coronavirus cases is causing some states to press pause on reopening plans, while others are putting restrictions back in place. in texas, governor greg abbott telling a local abc affiliate he regrets allowing bars to open so early, saying he did not realizrealize how fast the virus would spread. >> if i could go back and do anything, it would probably be to slow down the opening of bars, now seeing in the aftermath how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting and, you know, a bar setting in reality just doesn't work with a pandemic. >> dr. natalie azar, nbc news medical contributor. can you make sense of what the governor said? i had no idea this virus would

spread so quickly. what? >> i know, alex. look, what i said from the beginning, there's so many things why some people get really sick, why some people don't get very sick. but what we have known is that asymptomatic transmission is definitely driesk this, that it's spread person to person via respiratory droplets and mask wearing, hand hygiene and social distancing works. governor abbott made clear he's not placing blame on everyone, saying it's multifaceted. maybe states reopened too soon, maybe they didn't follow criteria. but to me and him, it's virus versus behaviors, and he makes a very, very strong point that says this is not about personal risk. this is a societal obligation. this is a dynamic and global pandemic, and that every person needs to play his and her part in putting this. >> it's a societal issue, not

just an individual issue. pausing on reopening, reimplementing some kinds of restrictions, is that going to help or is it too late? do you think all states should be doing this now? >> i think it's definitely going to help. we're going to see if our experiment now in the northeast is working, ie, we followed criteria. we are in phase two in new york right now. we are still practicing social distancing. everybody is wearing a mask, and we're going to see in the next couple of weeks if that, in fact, is enough and that allows a reopening. and i think people need to keep that in mine. you don't go from a to z here. you don't get to reopening an economy and have it be rebust and work with sick people. it starts and it ends with controlling the virus. >> but can i just ask you also about something that was concerning, a new cdc finding pregnant women were almost 5 1/2 times more likely to come down with covid, to be hospitalized, more likely to be admitted to

the icu and subsequently put on a ventilator? what is behind this? >> yeah. so, let's think about what we knew, alex, before this report came out. we have known for some time that pregnancy changes a woman's immune system and does make her more at risk for developing respiratory illnesses such as influenza. also before this report we didn't have that safety signal necessarily. what this report adds, in fact, is that there is a concern that pregnant women do have more severe illness and specifically, as you mentioned, they're 50% more likely to end up in the icu. they're 70% more likely to end up on a ventilator. importantly, there was no difference in mortality between pregnant and nonpregnant women. and i think especially notable, as we talk about racial disparity, that hispanic and black women were overrepresented in the pregnant women who were hospitalized. a major limitation of the study, however, is that they couldn't determine in terms of

hospitalization rates whether they were pregnancy related reasons for hospitalization versus covid. in spite of that, even the american college of obstetrics and gynecology said they're reviewing this material and definitely are acknowledging there is a different level of risk among pregnant women and are currently updating their resources and their guidance to pregnant women. the cdc also offered a list of things that pregnant women should do, and that is certainly don't skip your prenatal appointments. make sure you're taking all the precautions we talk about, limit interaction with people. when you are interacting with people, practicing those mitigation measures we discussed and keep a 30-day supply of your medications on hand. >> thank you for all of that, dr. natalie azar. next, the convergence of three seminole events in america, how it's playing out in a small town. america, how it's playing out in a small town when heartburn hits fight back fast... ...with tums chewy bites... beat heartburn fast tums chewy bites

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the robert e. lee monument grounds in richmond, virginia. police in riot gear shot rubber bullets. lincoln park in washington, d.c., a monument paid for by freed slaves, depicts president lincoln standing over a neili kg african-american man. >> how many know the history of this statue right here? raise your hand. see, a lot of people are out here, talking about tearing something down that they don't even know the history of. >> if we remove this, we can move on to other conversations and we can do that while honoring the elders that came before that. we know how hard they fight. we know what happened. >> and in seattle, mayor jenny durkin is expected to start removing barriers from the occupied protest zone. she held a meeting yesterday.

first clearing roadways and then later the east precinct. let's turn to beaver county, pennsylvania. it's a small, mostly white area. it's upholding its own unity march today against police brutality. joining me now is my colleague dasha burns. tell us about how this all got started. >> reporter: well, alex, we've covered these protests, these marches a lot in places like new york, l.a., chicago, diverse urban communities, but this is really a national conversation that's also happening in places like beaver. it may look a little bit different, but it is happening here. this community is more than 90% white, only 6% black. a mostly white crowd from the unity march, standing up, standing behind their black community members against police

brutality, against racial inequality. this all started four years ago when sean owen, leading that march today, began to have this conversation in his community. that movement is catching fire. take a listen to what he told me earlier today. >> i look at the landscape across the country. i see so many young, white people standing on the front line. now beaver county is standing up saying we've had enough, too. and i'm happy to see my white brothers and sisters walking alongside of my, holding -- locking arms together in solidarity to say enough is enoug enough. >> this is a unity pledge that says i will be an ally. i will listen. i will be anti-racist. we're hearing this in beaver

county. they're having this conversation as well and they believe it's an important one to have as well, alex. >> all of those points in the unity pledge of if only we could all live our lives like that. thank you, dasha burns. a report of rather 9,585 cases in the last 24 hours in florida. now more than 132,000 cases in that state, nearly 3,400 people have died. florida governor ron desantis closing bars and pausing the reopening efforts in an effort to stop the virus. thank you for joining me. orange county, as you well know, had nearly 8,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 50 deaths. what do you think about governor desantis pausing the state's reopening? >> in some ways, i think it was a little shortcoming.

we had very low numbers here in this area. i'm the mayor for the county, the orlando area. we had a low positivity rate for a sustained period of time. within the last 14 days, what we've seen is our positivity rate has hovered around that 17% period of time. and so it's created a bit of a challenge for us within the last week. we have seen nearly 5,000 new cases here within our community within the last 24 hours. we saw nearly another 1,000 new positive cases. if there's any good news about it, we still have not exceeded the capacity of our hospitals. the number of individuals who were critically ill, who have to be hospitalized remains relatively low. and so we look at both things, the number of new positive cases and the hospital capacity. so, we have contiguous plans in place to be able to protect our

people. we wanted to reopen our commerce in a safe manner, and we still have some challenges, i think, going forward. >> absolutely. mayor demmings, as you know, there's reports that disney pass holders have scooped up passes for the reopening at disney world. disneyland in california has announced it has delayed its reopening. you approved disney world's reopening plan. where does that stand now? >> at this point we've had recent conversations with the executives at disney they do plan to reopen at this point on july 11th, the magic kingdom and animal kingdom here. they have an abundance of safety protocols they have put in place. and i believe that if we're able to contain the virus with the mandate that we recently put in place, the wearing of facial coverings and a number of other things, we may be able to still do that safely. each day is going to become very critical for us to monitor these

numbers going forward. >> at any period of time, i believe disney has demonstrated they're good corporate and community partners here. they were one of the first major employer centers within america to shut down. they're the largest single site employer in nor north america with 77,000 employees and furloughed about 43,000 of them. they've led the efforts, and i think their actions early on helped us to contain the virus. so, we're monitoring that. we've worked with them on a day-to-day basis. quite frankly, if we continue to see the hospital capacity worsen, then we may have to make some other decisions. >> absolutely. key numbers to keep an eye on. sir, i want to ask you about last month when you encouraged those to paint a new black lives matter mural in orlando and you tweeted you were excited to this addition of the new city. you were part of that.

what does this mural mean to you, especially as a former police chief? what do you think it will mean to orange county? >> what we're trying to demonstrate is that we're an inclusive community within the metro orlando area and we put a focus on the fact that given everything that's happened in america, we have to first agree that there was a problem with systemic racism within america, within our community, and so there was a group of young adults here within our community that felt that it was important to demonstrate through a symbol of painting the black lives matter on the street in the central quarter of our downtown area, near one of our iconic parks. and so i participated in that just yesterday, matter of fact. and overnight, i sadly have to say that the mural was vandalized. someone spray painted on it, had a different agenda in mind. this is not where the

conversation begins. it's not where the conversation will end for us. it's really just part of the collective that we have going in our community to amplify the voices of those who feel like they have not been heard over time. so this is a good time for us to double down and look at police reforms. formerly elected sheriff here in orlando i can tell you we were always under the state of reform for the nearly 40 years i spent in law enforcement, we were constantly looking at best practices and i think good law enforcement agencies should not be afraid to be transparent. they should not be afraid to be held accountable. they should not be afraid to involve the citizens in the process of deciding what type of policing they're going to desire and deserve within their respective communities. >> mayor demings, i'm so sorry about that vandalism. that is heartbreaking. i hope that gets cleaned up and i hope that message is out there

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and forth. but you do not expect to be in a dog fight in arizona, a dogfight in texas, a dogfight in georgia. if democrats can expand that playing field, they have more avenues to the electoral votes to get to the white house and republicans' electoral path is shrinking mightily. if i'm sitting at the rnc and seeing these battleground states, these new states come online, i'm not only concerned about the white house, i'm starting to get a little concerned about the senate. >> so let's get to a "new york times"/siena college poll. how do you explain these numbers? let's all keep in mind these polls did not exactly pan out in 2016. so, cornell, is there anything different this time? do you think these numbers can hold? >> well, look, the dynamics of

this race have just begun to unfold. so, it's way early, but you're looking at a president who is as unpopular as any going into an election, but also, look, alex, that piece you showed on beaver in that very, very white county there, where you have this group of white people coming out in solidarity of black lives matter, i think that encapsulates the change that's different, what's happening in this country right now. when you look at polling that especially for white college voters, race and division that's happening in this country is a top tier voting consideration going in right now. it's not just the economy, stupid. it's racism and division. when you look at donald trump and as the polling showed, he barely won, but narrowly won college educated white voters in 2016, but now he's losing them in these battleground states by 20 points, that is a sea change and it's not just about the

economy. americans are looking for something bigger and are tired of the division. i think that's the fundamental problem with donald trump. >> do you know what it's also about, cornell? health care. specifically obama care. you mentioned the senate. what's going through the minds of republicans in the senate? are they frightened listening to donald trump say i want to do away with obamacare, we're going to step that up right now. right now? in the midst of this pandemic? we've got 20 million people on obama care. >> right. it's unconscionable that our president would be trying to kick americans off of obama care and further their health care crisis, but if you're in the senate and you're looking at these numbers -- by the way, you know, republicans don't want to run another 2018 where we absolutely demolish them on health care as well as division, particularly among these suburban swing districts. if you're sitting in the senate

right now, you have to be -- mitch mcconnell is in danger. at some point, as we draw closer, at some point, don't be surprised if republican senators start breaking more for donald trump when they see his ship going down and they want to save themselves. >> interesting that biden still faces challenges with african-american voters, right? politico magazine by tim alberta, here it is, i'm tired of being the help. a group of african-american democrats in detroit, being taken for granted cornell, that many are certain 2020 is in the bag for trump. let's get to details. don't wait until election year until you're in trouble to come to us and ask for help saving your blank. they say it will always be different after the next election and it never is. we're sick of it. do you think this might be a problem for biden? >> it's like you're poking me

with a stick. yes! yes. i've heard it consistently and particularly in 2016. look, when you look at those states like michigan, those battleground states like michigan where this is coming from, hillary clinton is off of obama's winning margins by almost the exact percentage of voters that protested, especially those young voters who said, you know what? just being anti-donald trump isn't enough. i say and i say again, democrats still have to give particularly minority voters something to vote for. we cannot believe or double down on the idea that we did in 2016 that donald trump and his racism is going to be good enough, because it wasn't good enough in 2016. these voters still think democrats take them for granted. what keeps me up late at night is that democrats will take this vote for granted and will not put the resources and the conversation there, particularly around criminal justice reform

and policing reform. they'll back away from these issues, and we'll have 2016 once again. that's how we lose 2020. >> cornell belcher, please come see me again. i'll try to not poke you with a stick. sorry, i guess. thank you very much. president trump's brother has filed a lawsuit. what's in the book that the president would rather you not read? t would rather you not read t of the year. it works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. gum detoxify, from crest. whether you know what day it is or not... consistency is key when taking on acne. and an everyday cleanser? that's breakouts worst enemy. love, neutrogena®.

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does this mean this book will definitely be published now? >> it's not clear. they lost and have now gone to the state supreme court. that will be decided soon. the publisher says they're going to go ahead. july 28th is publication day. >> any chance this could be blocked between now and july 28th, delayed for the publication and public consumption? >> sure, there's a chance, depending on what the court decides. publisher might try to put things out anyway but sure there's a chance of that. >> let's get to your latest article, what it says. mary trump once stood up to her uncle donald. now her book describes a nightmare of family dysfunction. then you go on to continue to walk through a lot of this di dysfunction. what do we know about this family? >> mary trump, the thing to remember that mary trump's father, fred trump jr. is the

brother of president trump. he died of alcoholism. it's been a tragedy in the family. mary, the niece of donald trump, was 16 years old at the time her father died. supposedly the family was going to take care of her and her brother. then when donald trump's father in 1999 -- there was a big fight over the inheritance and mary basically with her brother got in a probate fight with donald trump and his siblings and in the end there was a settlement that was subject to a nondisclosure, which the trumps are now citing in trying to stop the book, but it was a bitter feud. mary trump has an interesting backstory. i spent a number of days trying to understand who is mary trump? she has a background in clinical psychology, studied schizophrenia, stalkers. interesting background. look at the title. it says mary l. trump phd. that's in clinical psychology. she's going to apply her expertise in psychology to analyze her uncle and why she

says he's the world's most dangerous man, quote, unquote. >> let's read from the excerpt in this book in which it describes mary saying a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and tragic combination of neglect and abuse. she explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who occupies the oval office, including the strange and harmful relationship between fred trump and his two oldest sons, fred jr. and donald. that sounds explosive. what are you expecting ultimately out of this book? >> i heard a lot about the trump family over the years. i'm interested to see if she has personal information where she talks about what happened with her father and donald trump, and donald trump's father. as i mentioned, her father decide of alcoholism. president trump actually last year, a story for the post, about what happened with president trump's brother and he told me he made mistakes dealing

with his brother and regrets trying to pressure his brother into the family business, which some -- may have played a role in the fact that he became an alcoholic and died at an early age. it's very rare, few instances where donald trump said he made mistakes and has regrets. this is one of those cases. understanding the family dynamic between those two brothers and then mary, as the daughter, seeing all of this, helps you understand there's a lot going on. then they had this feud later on, mary trump saying it was over money. there's a lot there perhaps that we don't know. other members of the family have not spoken negatively about donald trump. you don't even see, for the most part, other members of the family, siblings and so forth, very much. it will be interesting to see if she really gets into what happened with her father and donald trump and then fred trump sr., donald trump's father. >> michael, things that specifically have been leaked, have there been specifically responses, denials, anything

said by the trump family to what we've been hearing? >> well, there haven't been -- the general description that you showed from the publisher's press release doesn't provide specifics except a few things. most of it, we don't know yet what's in the book. most of it is yet to be known, about a month away from the planned publication date. maybe within -- who knows when it will happen. there's no real excerpts. the trump family is concerned. robert trump, the president's brother, is the one who fought this case 20 years ago when it was in probate court and other courts over the inheritance dispute and is basically trying to file a petition that failed in queens county and now they're going to state supreme court in new york to try to stop this, saying she agreed to a confidentiality agreement and she has no right to do this. and her lawyer says, no, it's first amendment. she does have the right to say what she thinks. >> i guess we'll all wait and see what happens july 28th. michael, thank you so much, from the washington post.

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>> good day, everyone. lots going on right now. we begin with breaking news. a stunning headline from "the new york times," reporting that russia secretly offered afghan militants bounties to kill u.s. troop. let's go to josh lederman at the white house with this. this is sending shock waves among national security officials. >> that's right, alex. not only here in the united states. i just spoke with a senior british official who said this is exactly the kind of thing that the gru, russian military intelligence unit would likely do. this british official pointing out that this is the same unit

in 2018 used a chemical weapon on the streets of the united kingdom against that ex-spy according to intelligence officials. and this official pointing out this is one of the reasons why it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, continuing to milk these overtures to russia, continuing wanting to see havladimir putin put back into the g8 group of nations even as, according to "the new york times" reporting, the trump administration was aware to pay to kill u.s. troops and other troops from coalition forces fighting in afghanistan. we should say both the russian government and the taliban. senator brian shotz, democrat from hawaii, who is saying just

to be extra careful this morning, i asked my military and foreign policy staff if there is any context to this "new york times" story about bounties against american soldiers that make it less explosive and damning and shocking. the answer is no. in the coming hours and days here, alex, but the times is reporting it came to the attention of the u.s. officials months ago. back in march about whether to raise this against moscow that so far no actions have been taken against the russian government in response to pay bounties to harm u.s. troop. >> pretty explosive. josh lederman, thank you. joining me right now is analyst and contributor on the joiterrot

task force. >> this is a long-term trend. it's been going on four years. we've seen this. russian s see weakness in america. right now we're coming down to an election in 2020 where the russians are again trying to interfere. we see them doing a lot of messaging. the russians are having a heyday. we've seen in the uk with the skrpol poisoning. now a battlefield where the russians probably see opportunity, see the way to put the united states in a quagmire at a time when it's clear the u.s. is trying to exit militarily. when the u.s. displays great weakness around the world, russia is there, to try to exploit it and mire us in division. >> how do you think the white house could respond and should respond and will this white

hou house, given the reporting -- i believe josh said it was months ago. how do you believe the white house will respond? >> reporter: alex, i don't think the white house will respond. the whole idea that they knew about this report, this intelligence coming up to the white house, instead they looked to advance russian interests, like rejoining the g8. making a g7 to g8 again, that we would see what the gru is doing all around the world, particularly in europe to our allies and ignore it and try to actually increase russian interests around the world. the idea that the white house would do anything seems like complete nonsense. i imagine they wouldn't do anything about it now. the white house keeps advocating they're such strong supporters of the u.s. military. this would be seen as one of those instances where we need to be pushing back and never look to be putting russia back in the

g8. >> according to this report, russia has targets on u.s. troops and the white house has not responded, or at least responded in this particular manor. what's that say to you? >> it's remarkable. we've been trying to negotiate a peace settlement. we've been trying to barter with the taliban. what we've seen from this intel report that they might have had influence from our adversary to keep us in a quagmire, to harm us on our way out as we with trying to bring peace. in another state it seems we're trying to advance russian influence t doesn't make sense. the targeted assassinations that have happened in afghanistan, if you remember a year ago, we were worried about the commander in afghanistan, general miller, being targeted with a suicide bomb. i'm not sure many people

remember that. he had to come out and be very aggressive and show assertiveness. think what you could do as the taliban if you're paired with a nation state intelligence service like the gru, one that has a lot of information, that it can relay in terms of targeting. you put those two together, that's incredible capability to do incredible damage against the united states. >> do you think any of the military deaths could be attributable to what's being reported here, that they were literally assassinations? >> reporter: yeah, i have no idea, alex. i think that's a question for the u.s. intelligence community. and maybe we can look back now and ask questions about why the taliban may or may not have gone along with different piece negotiations that we've been advocating for, why it's taken an extra year, it seems, to get to this point. president trump has been pretty vocal or seeming to say hey we need to move back to afghanistan, and bring troops home, yet we've not been able to do that. how much of that has been because the russians are working

against our interests in that country? something i don't know but a question we need to be looking at, at this point. >> clint watts, thank you for getting to a camera quickly for us. appreciate your insights. let's get to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. troubling new surge in cases. on friday, the u.s. saw its highest single-day increase in new infections. more than 45,000 cases in 24 hours. the total number of confirmed cases in the country topping 2.4 million. florida once again today shattering its daily record for new cases with more than 9500 new infections confirmed. this, as the mayor of miami-dade county announced all beaches in the county will close for the fourth of july weekend, and bans gathering of more than 50 people, and says no one can have public viewing of fireworks. as some states press pause on reopening plans, texas governor greg abbott telling a local abc affiliate he regrets allowing bars to open so early, saying he didn't realize how fast the virus would spread.

>> if i could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars. now seeing in the aftermath of how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting, and how a bar setting, in reality, just doesn't work with a pandemic. and overseas, the european union is on the verge of barring american travelers when it reopens its borders next week. the eu has drawn up a list of countries whose infections are low enough to allow their citizens to travel into the countries, however the u.s. does not meet that criteria. for more on that, let's go to paris. molly hunter is joining us once again. molly, with another welcome, how could this decision affect the all-important tourism industry there? >> reporter: hey, alex. that's right. the skies are just opened up in what was a sunny paris when we last spoke to you. we've been talking to small business owners, museums, monuments in the last couple of

days and everyone, of course, has been bleeding money the last few months, like so many of these big european capitals that run on tourism. the world famous museum, home of the mona lisa has upwards of $40 million. they'll see their viewership drop by 80% and they say 1.5 million americans come through their doors. not only is this a huge blow to the u.s. in the handling of their coronavirus, but also to the tourist industry. they thought maybe they would get to go across the atlantic for vacation this summer. two diplomats have told my colleague alex smith of nbc news that there is a final list now of countries approved to travel into the eu starting on july 1st when the block opens up to nonessential travel. not on that list, as you said, the u.s. and russia. one more thing i want to add, alex, chien is on that list, on

the condition that china open up its borders to eu travelers. >> molly, europe is recovering currently from a new surge in coronavirus cases, a few months after lockdown restrictions were lifted. how is that affecting the reopening plans there? >> reporter: that's exactly right. the reason this has to be a 27-member state decision, the whole bloc has to agree, of course, is because once you're in, you can travel freely around. during lockdown in pandemic times, countries made unilateral decisions. this has to be a bloc-wide decision. warning of a surge in 11 countries and territories. most of those countries in eastern europe, alex. that's the real fear, if visitors start coming in, and certain countries start surging, it's going to spread all around europe once again. alex? >> molly hunter in paris, thank you so much. joining me now, dr. john torres, nbc news medical correspondent. good to see you. i want to get your reaction to the starting new number of cases

in the u.s. how concerning is this for you? >> alex, this is very concerning. what has happened is overall, across the country, we flattened that curve and did a good job of plateauing out. across the nation, some states are worse than others, but across the nation you're seeing those numbers creep up again. thursday was the highest single day of new cases we've had since the pandemic started. true, there are more testings out there, more testing sites and more testing being done. that contributes to that increase in numbers, but we also have higher positivity rates, higher hospitalizations, which means those numbers aren't just testing. that's actual cases that are out there. the concerning thing is that we've started to open up, which needs to be done, but needs to be done safely t doesn't look like we've done it in the safe manner we need to do it in. those rollbacks are in place and are probably warranted at this point, alex.

>> a sobering point. the cdc says the number of cases in the u.s. could be ten times higher than reported. that would make it around 20 million. what do you make of those numbers? are you surprised about that? what does that say to you about this virus, if true? >> i'm not very surprised about it. we've been talking for months about the number of people that don't have symptoms, that can spread coronavirus. and now, according to the study, where they looked at blood samples and tested antibodies in those blood samples across the nation and found that the number is much higher than we thought it was. what this means is that there's a lot of people out there that don't have symptoms but do have coronavirus and are spreading it. like the governor talked about, the bar scene seems to be a scene that is conducive to. nobody else wants anybody else to get sick from them, but you might not know you even have it, and could easily spread it to somebody else, alex. >> silver lining here, if these numbers are true, 20 million, does it also then say that the number of severe cases is

significantly less proportionately? >> that does tell us that. and it tells us that the death rate isn't as high as we initially thought it was. that is good. there is that silver lining in there. we need to be careful. we know cases have gone up. thursday was the highest number of new cases. hospitalizations follow that trend and deaths follow the hospitalization trend. still looking at noticing deaths from what's happening now happening over the next two to three weeks. we're not quite there yet of finding out how bad it's going to be. one thing we do know, it seems to affect young people more at this stage. they don't have that high death rate. they could certainly spread it to somebody else who is vulnerable, and that is a big concern, alex. >> you anticipated my next question about the younger folks and answered it for us. thank you so much, dr. john torres. so, questions about timing, what's behind the president's push to tear down obama care right now in the middle of a

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. new efforts by the trump administration scrap protections from in a late thursday night filing, trump administration told the supreme court obama care must fall. washington deputy bureau chief of the boston globe, and national political reporter. sah sahil, let's get to this. what prompt this had late-night filing? do we know if this was a push by the president himself, perhaps in haste, or had it been in the works? >> reporter: this was a court-imposed deadline. the administration supported this lawsuit by texas attorneys general. they had to decide by the end of thursday whether they would file a brief for the supreme court or back off. the president has gotten advice

from fellow republicans to back off. they don't want to be litigating this at this point. he refused to do that. the strag has decided to side with texas and argue that the individual mandate in the aca is unconstitutional and the entire rest of the law needs to go with it. the really striking thing about this brief is that it includes an entire section arguing that the pre-existing protections in the aca also need to be struck down. that's going to be political dynamite for the president. not going to be helpful to him. republicans are not happy about that. >> i want to get to that in a second. in terms of timing, in the middle of a pandemic, sahil, the administration makes this move from a political perspective. we're a few months before a general election. this must have been met with shock by republicans, yeah? >> it certainly was. it's damaging not only to the president politically but several republican senators up for re-election. the most stark response came from susan collins, facing a tough re-election battle in maine, saying the administration was wrong legally, they're wrong on the policy and they're very much wrong on the timing. aca enrollment is spiking.

it's one of the very few options that people during the pandemic were losing their jobs and job-based insurance, have. there's a 31% increase in aca enrollments. it's a precarious time to be calling for something that would take away insurance from something as much as 21 million americans. >> the president's tweet on this today says, in particular, many states are asking the supreme court that obama care itself be terminated so it can be replaced with a far better, much less expensive alternative. couple of questions here. it sounds like he's trying to project this move on to others. did he get pushback from within his own party? >> yes. as sahil was saying, this is an uncomfortable issue for republican senators who are already struggling in their re-election bid like susan collins, joni ernst. one of the tough things about this case, it's basically arguing if you voted for the tax

cut bill, you were essentially voting to end obama care because the tax cut bill did get rid of the individual mandate and the legal argument is that without that mandate, that tax, if you don't buy insurance without that, the whole law falls. so, you could see, you could imagine kind of democratic attack ads saying that, you know, susan collins voted against the health care repeal bill but voted for the tax cut bill so essentially she voted to take away your health care. and that's something that republicans are obviously very nervous about. >> okay. second question to you, liz, has the white house ever produced any alternative? what's he talking about? >> yeah. i mean, this was what happened. it's kind of deja vu feeling, right? in 2018, the president said i'm going to have this amazing health care bill and it's going to -- everyone is going to be covered. it's going to be cheap. he made a lot of really big promises, and they didn't come through.

and the final bill that the house passed in the senate wand was not able to pass. they tried to find a solution for it but it wasn't the same level of protection that people receive under the affordable care act. since then, the white house has not produced anything that would address that issue. >> so, sahil, i want to get to that point we're talking about. it seems somewhat insplexplicab to me. in his tweet the president says he will always protect people with preconditions, but pointing to a section arguing that the affordable care act's pre-existing condition rules must be overturn ed as well. what am i missing here? >> the president has seen the poing that pre-existing conditions poll well and wants to be seen on the side of that. the president is consistently

driven toward a couple of things, giving his hard-core supporters what they want and undoing president obama's achievements and the aca falls in the sweet spot of that, which is why he has not been able to let it go. as liz pointed out, the white house has not offered an alternative plan. when it has supported a piece of legislation back in 2017, it weakened pre-existing conditions by providing state waiver so state insurance companies could charge whatever they want. that's being priced out of market, essentially. no matter how many times the president says it or tweets it in all caps, it doesn't change the fact. the popular pieces of the aca are what remain. the unpopular pieces like the individual mandate, the cadillac tax, have been repealed. what's left of the consumer protections, subsidies for people to find coverage and medical expansion, including many millions of people in president trump's base, are relying on. >> thank you so much.

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this store. how did that go? >> yeah. so this is the fifth protest we've seen in support of black lives matter in branson, missouri, the majority of those being led by teenagers who are from this community. the third protest in front of this particular store, you know, since that video came to light of george floyd, we've seen protests spread out across the country. and one thing we've also seen is we've seen protests happening kind of in unlikely places, smaller cities, smaller communities, rural communities, predominantly white, even conservative communities and branson, missouri, is an example of one of those types of communities. if you walk back with me a little this way, you can see the protests that have started here. on this side, you have protesters who support this store, dixie outfitters. they believe that the store should stay open. obviously, you can see from the flags they have there, they support the use the right to carry the confederate flag.

over here, a small group has started to gather that are against this store, black lives matter's group. they're starting to gather down at a store a little further down the road here. then they plan to march in this direction. every week since they've been doing this, they've seen the crowd grow and grow, the crowd grow on the other side of the street, not in favor of this store here. we spoke to one of the organizers who said she felt this was a small, tangible thing that she felt she could change in her community. listen here. >> i can comfortably stand there and speak out, because i know that this is an issue that has perpetuated because of my community's silence. that's my responsibility to fix, is that silence. and there are people in my community that i know that i can reach. >> reporter: branson is a small community. they have about 10,000 permanent residents, but thousands, hundreds of thousands people

come to visit this area every single year. protesters say they should want everyone to come here, and this store does not represent the values that they believe this city represents or should represent today. alex? >> i've got to wonder, allison, how long the word dixie will stay part of the dixie outfitters there. as you're well aware, the dixie chicks, popular country group, dropped the word dixie from their name. they're just now known as the chicks. we'll see if that carries to branson. thank you. the governor of mississippi says he will sign a bill if the legislature passes to ban the flag. the flag was removed by executive order. >> should not be flown at any of the public facilities. i don't apologize for being emotional.

i have lived through some things with this flag. and as they told dr. king to wa wait, time for waiting is over. >> joining me now, my friend and the reverend al sharpton, part of the national action network and host here on msnbc, in fact later on today. that was hard to listen to. it was a really emotional response, wasn't it, rev? >> very emotional, but when you think of what the confederate flag means, particularly to blacks, but also to all americans of goodwill, it represents an insurrection of people who wanted to overthrow the national government of the united states, to people that

wanted to keep slavery, to keep people in bondage, to keep people in an involuntary servitude, and overthrow the u.s. government. so when you think about these people fought to keep our great-grandparents in slavery, to work fo no wages, to be less than considered for human beings and overthrow the government, there's no country in the world that celebrates people who committed treason, betrayal and were traitors to that country. so why would we have them on their flags? why would we have statues that taxpayers, including black taxpayers would pay for? it needs to be eradicated. >> this action by the mayor of laurel, with whom we heard that sound bite there, is it symbolic, or is it significant? do you think it will have a domino effect, at least be the start of that? >> i think it will have a domino effect, because i think this is

a time of an idea, a resolve whose time has come. people are tired of saying that we represent the land of the free and the home of the brave, but we celebrate slavery. we celebrate slave owners. we celebrate people that fought and killed people. more people died in the civil war because of the fight over this, than combined that died in world war ii and world war i. it is absolutely a statement that we, in the 21st century, cannot tolerate that kind of celebration. why would you exalt people like that? why would you exalt their flag? >> yeah. so, as you know, rev, nascar's only black driver, bubba wallace, has been at this fo forefront of banning the confederate flag in nascar, if not all together. days ago the fbi wrapped up the investigation into the noose found in his garage stall. they said it was a garage pull,

adding it had been there since october of last year. here is how bubba wallace responded. >> we've raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pulls like that. it's a straight-up noose. the fbi has stated it was a noose over and over again. nascar leadership has stated that it was a noose. i can confirm that i actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage, over my car, to confirm that it was a noose. >> look, he later thanked the fbi for investigating. he accepted the findings, rev but that clearly looks like a noose. how do you interpret the way this all played out? >> it looks like a noose, it hangs like a noose. if it is not a noose, what is it and why was it only in that stall? the issue is not whether it was intended for bubba wallace. the issue is why was it there? who put it there?

what was their intent? if it was just there as a pull, why didn't whoever put it there come forward and say this was my intent? whether it was clearly there for bulb with an wallace or not is, it is a symbol of the lynching of black people and it is absurd to act like we should just let it go. if someone had a symbol that killed other people, if somebody had a swatstika up, would we argue who put it up, when it was put up or why it was put up? >> do you see these changes as being baby steps toward something bigger or is this window dressing? what do you think of these changes? >> some of it may be window dressing, but it is baby steps in the right direction, and i think that we need to deal with the fact that we are at a point

in our history where the country is shifting toward fairness. we're not there. we have a long way to go. but it's clearly saying that there are people now, intergenerational, i might add, that have said look, we want to get rid of the legacy of bigotry. as we're fight noug around police reform and criminal justice reform, and economic disparities, and even in covid-19, alex, the disparity among races. you cannot celebrate the symbols of bigotry and then claim that we're trying to make progress. the symbols speak to the substance of what you're doing. if you tolerate the symbols, you'll tolerate the policies that those symbols represent. >> as always, thank you very much, my friend, for this conversation. i appreciate that. >> thank you. >> for all of you, you just have over three hours to catch reverend sharpton and every saturday and sunday here on

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turning now to new york city. after tuesday's primary, two long-time democrats are in danger of losing their seats. house foreign affairs chair eliot engel trails jamaal bowman, and carolyn maloney

holds a naro lenarrow lead over patel. mail-in ballots are still being counted. unofficial machine count shows congresswoman maloney is ahead of you by 648 votes. how confident are you about the outcome? >> well, alex, thanks for having me. i am very confident about the outcome. this was a change election, and we said it from day one when we start this had race, that the electorate is ready for change in november, obviously, but i think democrats across the country, especially in the most educated district in america, which is mine, know that change in november starts with changing out the people who represent some of the worst parts of the political system that we've all come to detest. so 600 votes down. we have about 40,000 absentee ballots we estimate, which is exactly 50% more of the

electorate to count, and i'm excited because i know when we count those ballots, the work my team put in. we made 1 million phone calls, alex, on this campaign. >> wow! >> all volunteer effort on election day itself, which i know aoc tweeted the other day she made 56,000 phone calls on election day, which is a record for them. we made 106,000. we ran an incredible campaign, my volunteers, my team. i'm confident in the work they put in, and the work we put in to come out on top. >> those numbers are staggering. well done, you. let's talk about one of our reporters on the hill asked speaker pelosi about this yesterday and here is what she said. take a listen. >> is it a troubling trend or sign you have another powerful chairman, maloney, who might also lose? >> i think she will. i think she'll win. i'll talk to you next week when we see what the results are of the election. i'm not going to speculate on what we don't even know has

happened. in those districts, a district like mine, anything can happen. it has nothing to do with who controls the house of representatives, and that's where my focus is, not within democratic districts, but within who controls the house of representatives. >> what's your response to that? >> well, alex, we have been underestimated on this campaign from day one. we got some -- even compared to bowman and others, no one covered this race. and we're okay with that. speaker pelosi, i respect incredibly, and her leadership. at the same time, she represents, or her attitude here represents that of an establishment and institutions that are far behind where the american people are in terms of their desire for change. i'll give you an example. "the new york times," our home district newspaper, after tw years ago, i got over 40% of the vote. i will be the first asian in new york and east of the mississippi

river in congress and we begged them to do an endorsement meeting. they didn't even meet with the challengers. in a last-ditch effort to save her seat they endorsed her, which is why these institution are no longer respected or at least are in trouble, post tom cotton, op-ed gate and all those things. so i think that we'll see, as the counts come in. but there's been this idea, alex, that young people for whatever reason, or people of wealth don't want change. and that's not true. upper east cidsiders in new yor may be wealthy but also want to see racial justice in this country. that's proven by how we won broad swaths of manhattan, some of the wealthiest zip codes in america. >> look, the numbers speak for themselves at this point. 648 votes separate you. that's it. do you know when you expect to have the results finalized, all those absentee votes, mail-in

votes tabulated? >> yeah, absolutely. so, starting wednesday is when they start opening up these ballots. we are gearing up, as you know, the establishment in maloney's plan is to challenge every single ballot on technicality, with the assumption that young people unaccustomed to voting absentee will make mistakes. we are prepared to fight to the last tooth and nail to get every vote counted. voter suppression is a real thing. we're up against a representative who will try to suppress those who mailed them in. we'll try to count every vote. i'll be back on your show, hopefully, in a week and a half as the democratic nominee for new york's 12th congressional district. >> enjoy your holiday weekend and perhaps we will see you in two weeks from now. suraj patel, thank you so much. it may have been the wildest proclamations against wearing

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you literally cannot mandate somebody to wear a mask knowing that that mask is killing people. >> they want to throw god's wonderful breathing system out the door. you are all turning your backs on it. >> voting yes to mask mandates makes no scientific sense. do you want to be called for nope as communist dictators? is this the legacy you want to be known for? >> that's are the cries of residents in west palm beach head of the vote to make masks wearing mandatory. alex, what is your reaction to the anti-maskers we just heard? >> thank you for having me. i can't speak to the exact rhetoric that's being used today. certainly the sentiment was one

shafs shared by many a hundred years ago when the nation and world was going through the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic. masks were one of these non-pharmaceutical interventions along the school closures and public gathering ban and seems to be the one that riled people up the most. san francisco, denver, seattle, wearing a mask seemed to get a lot of people angry in 1918. >> how did that work out for them? wasn't there a massive second wave that was even worse than the first. >> no some cities, you know, that was the case. denver for example. san francisco had a major second spike. it was not as bad as the first but it was quite severe. denver had a spike of cases after rescinding their closure orders on armistice day. everyone gathered, case increased. the city tried another round of gathering close oars and close

yours, that was met with resistance and they ordered masks. san francisco implemented a mask order, two of them, actually, the first one, the police chief informed the health officer and the mayor that if they kept enforcing the mask order he were going to run out of jail cells. it was definitely widely despised. >> alex you are summing it up, but in a quote from an interview you gave you said they faced a second spike in cases in 1918 because they got back to life too quickly. is history repeating itself? >> i fear it might be. back in early april a colleague and i wrote an op ed in the woechlt where we said to people you know based on the experience of 1918, based on our study along with the cdc looking a of the the non-pharmaceutical interventions knowing they were going to be written into the pandemic response guidance today

people have to prepare themselves to live under these orders for a long time. and every single state has opened up too early in my opinion. and we are seeing the result of that now with massive spikes of cases in more than half the country. >> yeah, hey, my director steve, can you put up the graphic you just displayed? because this was another statement that we want to get from this interview. no state was able to implement a second round of closures orders that was as sweeping as the first. the political and economic bill didn't exist. it just ehave been rated. what does that -- it just evaporated. what does it mean for states like florida and texas? they are sartding to roll back their their reopenings. >> history isn't a perfect template for the present for for the future. i hope we have learned from the past. i hop now as we face the second spike in cases that some of the governors will start to roll back some of the closure orders and in fact we might have to go back to non-essential business

closures again if we can't get this pandemic under control quickly. >> alec navarro thank you for the history lesson, sobering as it may be. appreciate that. i am alex witt, i will see you again at 7:00 here on msnbc. up next, alicia men ends talks with the mayor of miami in florida about how that state is deal with the spike in coronavirus cases. w that state deal with the spike in coronavirus cases.

hello, everyone. i'm alicia men ends.

across the south is west states are seeing a surge in cases of covid-19. now governors are facing a big question -- what to do about it. some are pausing their plans to get their economies back open. when it comes to the 2020 campaign, the trump team had this to say about rethinking the president's own rallies. >> well, i want to remind you again that the freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble is enshrined in the constitution of the united states. >> plus with those rising case numbers there is a major ruling for migrant children being held by the trump administration. a judge says it is not safe to keep them in custody. in another new ruling a court says the trump administration broke the law by using military funds to build his border wall. we begin with the record spike in coronavirus cases in several states across the country. frontline workers warn that the battle is far from over. >> today has been one