him yesterday. >> a few feet but an unbridgeable divide when it is a matter of father versus son. >> that is all for this edition of "dateline." i'm natalie morales, thanks for watching. first up on msnbc, overnight breaking news. he wasn't briefed. that is what the administration is now saying after that bombshell report the president knew russia offered bounties to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> rising numbers and new alarm. four states with record breaking numbers and why the virus is spreading so parts in this part of the country. >> some refusing to wear masks. a look at how face coverings work. >> the end is near after more than a century with a flag carrying the confederate battle symbol, mississippi legislatures

could vote to make a change today. the latest is next. good morning, it is sunday, june 28th, happy pride. the beard is growing. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm cory coffin. >> let's begin with the breaking news. any reaction from the trump administration to the stunning "new york times" report alleging russia offers bounties to afghanistan militants for killing u.s. soldiers. >> for the latest, let's get to josh letterman at the white house. what is the response here from the administration to this overnight report? >> reporter: i'm going to have to put the camera away because there are issues right now with us and the computer systems are down. but we have some breaking news overnight from the dni john ratcliffe, the head of the national intelligence office. putting out a statement saying that he has confirmed that neither president trump nor vice president mike pence were

briefed on this alleged intelligence about russia putting a bounty on the lives of u.s. troops and other coalition forces in afghanistan. now echoed a white house statement from the night before that also said that the president and mike pence were not briefed on this. but it's raising more questions than answers this morning. because the really glaring question here is if the trump administration had intelligence suggesting that our top adversary was trying to pay people to essentially kill americans in afghanistan, why would the president not have been briefed about that, why would they not have told the vice president, president about that intelligence. so we're unclear what exactly happened with the intelligence and why it wouldn't be briefed or not briefed to them in person but over a what is called the presidential daily brief. it is a written document and

we're looking into now whether or not that information might have been conveyed to the president and the vice president in a different format such as that pdb. >> a lot of questions at the white house after this bombshell report. we'll leave it there but i'm sure there are plenty of developments throughout the day. >> hopefully we could get some questions answered right now. joining us now is jake jacobs. colonel, thank you for being with us this morning. the first thing i want to bring up is the white house is not disputing the allegations, the underlying allegation and what do you make of the intelligence, how plausible do you think it is? >> they rate intelligence from plausible to implausible and the sources which is important from being those that have verified and have given good information in the past, all of the way down to those who have never given good information, so it is difficult to say how this

intelligence has been rated. but the guess is that it is probably at least c-3, so reasonably good intelligence. apparently it is confirmed by interviews with a variety of taliban. so it certainly should come on somebody's screen and alert them to the fact that something is going on. >> a couple of quick questions here, colonel jacobs, it is kendis. do you believe at this point, this is going on a while, that any americans were killed as part of this operation by the russians. >> there is plenty of information that there were allied troops, including americans who were wounded but it is not entirely clear whether or not that anyone -- any of them were killed. the defense department is checking into that now, kendis. >> okay. and if the administration, the president and vice president were not told about this,

including the new dni in charge, john ratcliffe, what does that say about what is going on in this administration. >> flash floirst of all, it is necessarily believable that nobody was briefed, particularly the dni. this is particularly incendiary information coming directly from interviews with taliban on the battlefield and after the battlefield it is difficult to envision how nobody in the chain of command knew that this was going on. especially since the perpetrators of this, the gru, widely known to be involved in things like this, involved in assassinations in europe and also primary involvement in fooling with the 2016 american election. so it is difficult to envision that what ratcliff said is

actually correct. >> so despite the fact they say the president was not briefed, the white house has weighed their options, a series of different things they could do but what do you believe could be taken, what action do you think that we might see from the white house? >> well, given the white house response, it is entirely possible that the white house won't do anything. i don't necessarily think that they're weighing any options right now. trump is disinclined to impose sanctions on russia and reluctantly signed the bill imposing sanctions on russia after the crimea invasion and only because there was a veto-proof majority. he admires putin. and is not interested in imposing sanctions. but there is a lot that could be done, from a strongly-worded message would be something.

through sanctioning individuals and individual companies. those who do business with these individual companies. and the most difficult sanction at all for russia would be removing them from the swift system, the international system of monetary payments which would preclude them getting paid for anything they sell overseas. >> we'll leave it there. colonel jack jacobs appreciate your time. confusing times indeed, thank you. now to the coronavirus pandemic and a grim milestone this morning. the number of confirmed cases across the globe surpassing 10 million according to johns hopkins. >> and the highest single day increase in cases yet again. nearly 46,000 new cases were reported. driving those numbers are four states, florida, south carolina, georgia, and nevada. all setting personal records for new infections. >> and mike sense canceled

two campaign events in arizona and florida this week out of an abundance of caution. pence will still travel to those states to meet with governors and health officials. >> texas is shutting down parts of the economy for a second time as the number of daily cases hits a record there as well. one texas congressman tells msnbc that governor greg abbott is to blame for the surge. >> 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. >> and over in michigan, health officials say 85 new cases are linked to a bar in east lansing, that number is expected to rise as officials investigate. they're now saying anyone who visited harper's restaurant between june 12th and 20th should self-quarantine.

and then there is florida. the increase in infections in that state alone topped more than 9,500 on saturday. it is now prompting officials to help with restrictions to slow the spread. so many brock has more from miami. >> at a time florida is breaking new records for kroifcovid, lea are taking extraordinary measures. that includes with the beach. miami beach looks free and spaced, but they are concerned on what this could look like on the july 4th holiday. nearly 10,000 cases in a single day, on heels of 9,000 the day before. the surging numbers in positivity rates prompting the mayor of miami-dade to close the beaches from july 3rd to 7th. >> if you didn't close down the beaches what would the potential outcomes be. >> what we've seen in other

holidays, like memorial day, two days later we see a spike. this is to stop that. >> not everyone is on board with that decision. >> with me. i'm pretty athletic, eat healthy, work out, i'm not worried about it. >> honestly, i think it is all politics in the end. >> as the number of cases spikes, testing is long. in the last two weeks more than 10% of tests in florida coming back positive. the governor ron desantis ordered bars shut down and bar owners breaking the news to patrons. >> i had to walk up to them and say, unfortunately we're not allowed to continue serving you. whenever you finish your beverage, please just close out your tab and go about your business. >> florida also a potential liability for professional sports. the nba preparing to return in orlando next month, the league announcing it tested 300 players

and 16 have covid-19. though they'll be isolated and have test negative twice in 24 hours to return. texas taking an even more aggressive stance with reducing capacity at restaurants after infection rates hit. >>. >> if i could do anything, it would be to slow down the opening bars. >> as they have reached 100% icu bed capacity and extending to other parts of the state, too. >> they can't even understand why could you just let my loved one sit in an emergency room, that is so ill and where do we need to go. >> for families impacted by detention immigration centers, a judge ordering they must be released by the end of next month saying they are on fire with covid. a virus invading society with

human life hanging in the balance. the state of florida has seen a huge spike in infection rates. that is also true for miami-dade county which was close to 20% and above that in recent days. so what happens if the trend continues? the mayor telling me it would bea reverse reopening starting with the beaches that could extend the closure and gyms and salons and dance studios and restaurants if necessary. back to you. >> unfortunately it probably will be necessary. we'll have move cockle up. and a deadly attack in northern california. a gunman crashed his car into the building and then opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. the gem then engaged in a shootout with police and was killed. investigators say the shooter was a former employee but the motive right now still unclear. let's get over to chicago

now where this weekend, at least seven people killed in shootings across the city including a 1-year-old boy. that boy was shot while riding in a car with his mother yesterday afternoon. she was grazed. she took him to the hospital. he unfortunately did not make it and later died. is 15 others were injured across the city. the police chief nearly at a loss for words. >> when is this going to stop? when are we going to stay enough is enough? i have -- i don't even have the words to see that family at saint bernard, the tremendous emotions and strife they were going through. >> there were no suspects in death for the 1-year-old. >> those numbers shocking out of chicago. it is 5:13 in the morning on sunday and already been this time this weekend 7 people have died including a boy, and 15 others injured. just startling. and it is still early in the weekend. >> half way through.

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tension at a protest site following a shooting in louisville, kentucky, last night. one person died at at scene another one was injured at jefferson square park where demonstrators were gathering to demand relief for the killing of breonna taylor. >> and a large crowd to demand justice in the death of elijah mcclain. t the 23-year-old was on mis way ome when police stopped him nearly a year ago. he was put in a choke hold and died a few days later. protesters want police and emergency responders involved to be fired and charged.

all new today, the mississippi legislature is expected to pass that bill we told you about yesterday to redesign the 126-year-old state flag to remove the confederate battle emblem. [ applause ] >> the applause erupting in the chamber yesterday after a bipartisan vote to move ahead with this change. joining us now is keisha blaine who is a history professor at the university of pittsburgh and rach yard richie a political analyst and host of a morning show on atlanta talk radio. rashard, i want to start with you. this is the only state that reflected the confederacy. is this symbolic or a substantial. >> it is symbolic and

substantial. in that this confederate flag represents a symbol of oppression, racism, slavery and it is an expression of a changing sentiment in mississippi. let's be very clear about what the flag represents. the flag represents the -- the confederate flag represents a band of traitors, those committi committing treason and had the audacity to say that slavery was a moral and appropriate enterprise. it is not only time for that level of symbolism to be eradicated, i find it laughable that if we're debating it should be part of the societal context in the way that it is. it is honored among many in the united states and they would say it is history, but so is out cast. they put atlanta on the map in the rap game. we're not talking about big boy and andre. so the historical context is

irrelevant and we should not have this flag as honor. >> we have outcast in there. >> i worked it in. >> and they've held out on making the change, that did not come from the voters, what does it mean that it came from the legislature instead of the referendum. >> i think it matters and it is all connected. i think certainly this tep would not have happened were it not for the fact that people have been hitting the streets for the past three weeks and even longer, for so many years, demanding changes take place. eefbl thou even though it is happening at this level, it doesn't dismiss the amazing work of the protesters who have been pushing the issue and demanding changes and it demonstrates that mass protests do work. i think we're having this conversation again and we've had it time and time and we're certainly having it now because of the climb, because of the

climate and the fact that people have been toppling confederate monuments and statues and we've been talking about the problem of these sim boymbols and how t represent a racist past and it is connected. >> and you wrote about this and the destruction you say of the monuments to the confederacy saying this not about erasing history but learning from history. what is the point man that you think people are missing out on? >> well, people need to understand that the confederacy upheld an undemocratic vision of america. and this is key because ultimately the underlying reason that we had a civil war in this country was because of conflicts over the issue of slavery. and the confederate states of america, they were fighting to uphold slavery. some people would say they were fighting for state rights to keep black people enslaved and

if we uphold these symbols we're saying this is a good thing and this is a moment of our past that we treasure and i would hope that we are at a place where we could recognize that slavery is wrong and evil and we should not have had in this this country or anyplace in the world and we should not be celebrating the people who stood for it. >> and when you look at the timeline for the monuments were erected, there is a great illustration of this, what is your big takeaway here. >> well, there was definitely an attempt to retain not only the historical sentiment of those that fought for the confederacy, but also a way of saying that racism and racial sent. has gone absolutely nowhere. so this is a compromise that the united states of america should have never engaged in and we're now finding out why we should not have engaged in that level of compromise.

and when you like at this timeline not only have you seen the erection of the particular statues, you've seen continually and advocacy against the statues only now. and i agree with the guest, because of protest and mass demonstration and the changing of the narrative are you seeing a significant expression of not only black people and every freedom-loving american, period, coming against these symbols of oppression and we as taxpayer have to pay for that. i don't understand why we as a taxpayer or you as a taxpayer would have to literally fund symbols of our own oppression. >> and we have, keisha, they plan to remove woodrow wilson from the public policy school and a two-term president and after racial integration, five years ago students were manding this. why do you think they're doing it now? >> once again we're going back to the climate.

to the mass protests. and i attended princeton and for many years i was there, 2009 to 2014, pursuing a ph.d in history and wondering why are we celebrating somebody like woodrow history. and i studied and i knew how racist he was and the role in the u.s. occupation of haiti and the list goes on and on when you look at this administration and people were talking about the problem back then about having his name on the building, on several buildings actually. but again the climate. people had hit the streets and people are pointing out that black lives matter and people are saying enough is enough and we need to take a stand. we could argue this is symbolic but it is an important step in the right direction. i hope that princeton will follow up and also make some changes in the hiring practices and admitting practices and the

list goes on. but certainly this is a vital step. >> and a real vital step back to rashard's point, the biggest hip-hop group has z have a statue in atlanta -- >> it is a start. >> it is 30 feet tall. check it out. it is in black and white. tribute to outcast. keisha blaine and rashard richie. >> we need more fusic from them as well. thank you. tonight on msnbc, this program, the road to reform, joy reid is hosting tonight at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. check it out. but coming up right here on msnbc, we do have a lot ahead. we're going to cover the very latest from overseas. and the pandemic impact on europe and european leaders. the european union is about to ban most americans from traveling there. but what about the u.s. ban on

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we've got breaking news to bring you now. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has passed 10 million as cases in the u.s. are skyrocketing. five states, florida, south carolina, georgia, arizona and nevada all setting their own records for new infections. >> and here is the long-term impact of what is happening here in the country. american travelers will now likely not be allowed to europe when it reopens borders in a few days. e.u. will approve a list of which outsiders will be welcome back if their countries could contain the coronavirus. >> we live in brussel this is morning. tessa, when will this final decision be made?

>> reporter: well, very soon, guys, considering they're going to be reopening borders in a couple of days. and it is been a long process to get here. a lot of hours and days of discussions. and two e.u. diplomatic sources involved in the discussions told nbc news that the u.s. did not make it to a final draft list of countries who citizens would be allowed in. and that is circulating among member states that have to be approved and the reason for that is the high number of cases in the united states coming out of the breaking news story and the numbers in the u.s. is still too high so the e.u. has come up with their own calculation and but based on the average number, the average here is 16 compared to the number for the united states it's 107 so this is what they're basing their decision on. they say it is the science and the fub but it does get complicated because there is sensitivity where the u.s. could be grouped with countries like

russia who might not be allowed in but travellers from china would be allowed in so that does touch on geopolitical sensitivities. one e.u. diplomat expects it to be approved and so if it does it is not great news for a traveller. it is not just for summer and americans. the e.u. does rely heavily on american tourism. we spoke to the greek tourism minister, he said they love americans here, they tend to stay longer but he understands why there shouldn't be a rush to reopen borders to americans. there is still those coming from 26 countries into the united states put into place by president trump in march. so that is the situation here. so if it does get approved we'll know in a couple of days. anyone planning to have a roman holiday or an escape to the greek islands may have to

revisit plans for now, guys. >> and this is going into effect possibly this week, july 1st. but how long, tessa, do we think this will last? >> reporter: well that depends on number. the e.u. is insistent any decision is based on science. so they review this constantly every two weeks and in fact they meet almost every week discussing which country should get on that list and for as long as the numbers in the united states remain high, i think that decision is difficult for the e.u. to over turn. >> so there goes our christmas vacation in paris, the way that sounds. tessa, thank you. live in brussels for us. >> look for 2021 if you're looking to travel. as cases rise, a beg to wear masks in public. >> but how much difference is a mask making.

khq in spoken found out. >> i had a petri dish in front of my facing and then with and without a mask, i talked, saying -- somebody once told me the world is going to roll me. i coughed and sneezed. dr. davis put the dishes in an incubator and we waited 24 hours for the result. let's start with the mask on left and no mask. let's go with talking first. >> that looks good. >> talking without -- oh, okay. i'm shocked. >> next up is singing. >> this is changed by tupac and this is smash mouth. >> pretty similar to talking. but doctor davis brought up a good point about one of night

life's choices. >> the caroake mic is probably gross and wet. >> so we have two coughs. >> really? that's crazy. >> remember, all those yellow dots, that is where bacteria grew after the droplets out of my mouth landed there. but those droplets were nothing compared to the ones from sneezing. first mask on. >> i'm tierrified to look at ths one. this is no mask. >> how is your breakfast? right about now? so it works. high dr. rob davidson, emergency room physician in the grand rapids area, appreciate it. your reaction to that video? any of that surprising. >> no, it is not surprising. we've been talking about wearing masks for several months and i foe the initial recommendations

were that they weren't necessary but science evolves. we learn things. i've been a doctor for 22 years and we've learned things, so it is not surprising that masks do work and it is not surprising that the science now is catching up and the public needs to catch up with the science. >> doctor, let's talk about the effects of all of this compounding on each other. texas medical center in houston hit 100% icu bed capacity this week. how concerned about you for the hospitalization rate in texas and other states and about where you go from there once you hit the 100% rate. >> it is terrifying as a physician to consider that my hospital could hit 100% capacity and then we all have surge capacity using rooms as icu space and outpatient and inpatient space to free up beds for more intensive care-type

patients and practicing outside of the norms and when that happens the care can't possibly be what it is when we are practicing within the norms so this is terrifying and texas needs to put on the brakes and go in reverse and anywhere else that is approaching that number needs to consider doing that. >> you mentioned texas because it is putting on the brakes and kind of going in reverse a little bit. many of the states are pausing reopening plans and others are putting restrictions back in place. will that help stop the spread or is it too late at this point? >> well, my concern is that even a place like texas that puts on the brakes, they are already so completely or near completely open that i'm not sure what that could possibly do. and it becomes about communication and messages and public health. it is a concern from the coronavirus task force briefing from just a few days ago. we seem to see a disconnect

between public health advice and politicians advice. and governor abbott is unfortunately now allowing municipalities to mandate mask wearing, something that should have been allowed months ago. so we could be hopeful. if we could get people to wear masks, then i think we can decrease that spread. >> we're starting to see more numbers for the case of that and we want to warn viewers there are sms fraudulent documents where people say that they have the ability to not wear a mask and they have medical excuses and that sort of thing. so that is also floating out there. >> so, doctor, i'm curious about this because florida and texas decide to close the bars, why bhars as opposed to a gym or the restaurants and why are those -- doesn't alcohol kill everything? >> honestly, alcohol may make people feel more

inconveniencibinvincible. i think it is ridiculous in places with positive rates of tests of rates of 15% and cases going up and icu beds filling up. if they start with that, that he great. they need to consider any indoor space where we can't maintain social distancing or can't mandate mask wearing is high risk. in east lansing we had one bar that resulted in 87 cases across the state. and that is just raising the red flag everywhere. >> doctor rob davidson, thank you for weighing in with us this morning. >> thank you. president trump has begun to accept all of those polls and the fact that he is losing. >> but does he actually believe that, does he believe he'll lose the election? we'll have the latest inside word coming up next. latest inse word coming up next. come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card.

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a new report in politico with a stark look at how the president views his re-election prospects. it is headlined trump admits it, he's losing. that he's come to the realize is in recent days multiple people close to him told politico amid warnings that he's on course to be a one-term president. >> joining us now is a political correspondent at business insider. sonam, good morning. when did this sink in. was it when he looked up in tulsa and saw 6,000 people and

while he expected a million. when did this realization set in? >> yeah, i think it is been a slow development. certainly the tulsa rally was not helpful to the president. and the lesser chances given that he judges everything based on his poll numbers and number of people who show up at his rallies. but certainly he's starting to finally coming to the grip, come to grips to the extent of the crisis. he's running for re-election in the middle of a pandemic that his administration has largely failed to keep under control and infected i believe 2.5 million americans. and which seems to be resurging. specifically in rural areas with communities that largely supported him up until this point. he also is right in the middle of widespread civil unrest over

the arrest of unarmed black men and instead of sending a message of unity or hope he's tweeting that the protesters were thugs and terrorists and quoting a racist police chief that said when looting starts, shooting starts. he had a opportunity this week in the interview with sean hannity on fox news to lay out what his goals are for a second term and to directly reach to the voters who have largely supported him up until this point given hannity's audience of older adults and the president gave a rambling answer and can't weigh out what his priorities were. so i think that is said, there is still time and as we saw during this election, trump performs best when he's backing into a corner and so i expect

that combative side to come out as we enter the convention and the crux of the election. >> the president also offering a tacit acknowledgment that he might lose to the former vice president. take a listen to this. >> i mean, the man can't speak. and he's going to be your president because some people don't love me maybe and all i'm doing is doing my job. >> all right. is there any part of you that doesn't believe that was a sincere thought that this might be tactical, maybe to energize his supporters to maybe flip around the bad polling. the cynic in me kind of thinks that. >> yeah, i mean, there is a part of me that thinks that because that is something that a politician might do. but i think that more often than not we've seen trump when he's seeking to -- [ inaudible ]. >> we're going to cut you off

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welcome back in. facebook is set to start the week lower after tumbling more than $56 million as several big name brands pull their advertising. >> as critics blast facebook saying it's not doing enough to keep hate speech off its platform. mark zuckerberg said they're working on a solution. >> a handful of a times a year, we make a decision to leave our content that would violate our policies because we consider that the public interest value outweighs the risk of that content. there's no news worthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses voting. even if a politician or

government official says it -- >> joining us now yahoo! finance reporter. is it going far enough? >> we'll have to see. because this ad boycott against facebook is about the way the company handles hate speech and misinformation on its platform. we're seeing that advertising, including large companies that spend millions of dollars a year for ads on facebook said they're not going to be running ads on facebook. they're going to stop spending money on the platform. this is significant because advertisers generate the bulk of facebook's roughly $70 billion in annual revenue. and the list of advertisers is growing. we're seeing unilever, one of facebook's largest advertisers, coca-cola, hershey, eddie bauer.

un unilever said it's not running ads on facebook, instagram and twitter doesn't believe that adds value to people and society and not in the u.s. for the rest of the year. and levy strauss said facebook's inaction is fuelling racism and violence and threatening our democracy and the integrity of our elections. >> not going to cry over this for mark stuckzuckerberg. he went down a step in the richest billionaire list to fourth place. let's talk about some of the advertisers. you mentioned them. there's huge names and i'm old enough to remember coca-cola was one of the significant companies to pull out of south africa after apartheid and take their money out. that was one of the significant blows to the economy there. do you get a sense when you see

the bold print names out there that facebook will finally realize, no we need to do a lot. >> right. these advertisers have facebook's attention but we have been through this before. facebook promises to do more and yet we see hate speech on the platform. so what facebook said they're going to do this time around is add labels to posts that it deems violates its policy from an important political figure about voting with a label to direct users to accurate information. >> we'll leave it there. thank you so much. and thank you for watching "h "msnbc's live." a new single-day record for new coronavirus cases for the fifth day in a row. alex whit has details. ow alex whit has details. you hear tha

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