that does it for us tonight on "the 11th hour." you can always keep up with us on the msnbc app or listen on sirius xm or our free podcast. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc, have a good night. this morning, new questions about when the president may have been briefed about reports of potential russian bounties. several senators are demanding answers. also with new coronavirus cases mounting in the united states, dozens of states are hitting pause on reopening. and a law was struck down in louisiana that could have left just one doctor who provides abortions.

good tuesday morning, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to get to. we're going to start on when and if the president was ever briefed on the russian bounty plot, continuing be hazy as various news outlets claim different timelines. two officials are telling nbc news trump learned about the matter only after it became public in news reports. officials are saying the u.s. received, quote, raw intelligence based on limited sourcing, suggesting russia was offering cash for american troops in coalition forces in afghanistan. the officials said the intelligence was not corroborated broadly within the intelligence community, and there was disagreement about its validity. the two officials said the information came up at a meeting of low level staffers at a national security meeting back in march.

meanwhile two officials familiar with the matter tell "the new york times" that american officials provided a written briefing in late february to the president, laying out their conclusions on the russian bounty plot. the officials say that the investigation has focused in part on april 2019 car bombing that killed three marines as one such potential attack. "the times also" notes the intelligence assessment was deemed credible enough to be widely circle l.a.t.e..ed by the cia's intelligence review in a may 4th classified summary. meanwhile the "associated press" is reporting the top officials inside the white house were aware of the 2019 plot, a full year earlier than previously reported, according to u.s. officials with direct knowledge of this intelligence. the "ap" reports the assessment was included in at least one of the presidents' daily briefings at the time.

and john bolton said he briefed the president in march of 2019, information the president tried to downplay the intelligence assessment. >> was he out of the loop by his own intelligence community? >> no. as i noted, there was not a consensus among the intelligence community. in fact, there was a dissentiment and it would not be elevated until the information was modified. a specific message for moscow, no, he was not briefed on the matter. >> you say he wasn't briefed. does that mean it wasn't in the pdb either? >> he was not briefed on the matter. so collegeman michael mccaul, one of the lawmakers briefed on the intelligence just yesterday said the white house were told that russian bounties

may have been included at some point in the presidents' daily brief but not raised yet because it wasn't actionable, however, they have both declined to say if the intelligence was included in the presidents' daily brief, but nbc's josh letterman says that's prompting speculation that the president may have s m simply not read the material. this morning a group of democrats will head to the white house for a similar meeting. joining us julia manchester. great to see you on this tuesday morning. thank you for getting up early for us. give us the reaction we're hearing inside washington, particularly on cloil, specifically from rbs aborepubl about the russian bounties. >> they want to know why the

president wasn't briefed on this. you have liz cheney saying the white house has to explain why president trump and vice president pence were not briefed. have lindsey graham, a staunch ally of president trump calling for answers. so definitely more calls from republicans who are normally very obviously defensive of president trump to get more answers from the administration. on the democratic side of the aisle, you actually have a number of democrats including kerstin gillibrand recacalling hearings on the matter. >> so this is interesting between president trump and russia and the relationship they may or may not have. are they stirring up some of those old questions about the president and russia and his

relationship with vladimir putin, and how do you think, julia, that this could actually impact his re-election campaign if at all? >> well, to answer your first question, yasmin, absolutely these are stirring up new questions. we know president trump in the past has signaled that he believes at least part of putin's account of whether they meddled in the u.s. election in 2016 or not. we know that u.s. intelligence says they did, so clearly a bit of a divide between the president and his own intelligence community on that. but moving to the 2020 election, we've already seen the democrats, including presumptive democratic nominee joe biden have seized upon it, calling it outrageous, saying this is yet another sign that the president and administration is weak on russia. you know, just four years after russia essentially, according to our intelligence agency meddled in our election to have this egregious report saying they were offering bounties to kill

-- or for the taliban to kill u.s. soldiers, i mean this is very personal for a lot of families of armed services in this country. so this is going to impact president trump at a national security level ahead of the election in a huge way. >> that is a really good point. julia manchester, thank you as always. appreciate you joining us this morning. so the house voted yesterday along party lines for the first expansion of the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act in ten years. house speaker nancy pelosi highlighted the issues between the parties on the issue of health care shortly before the vote. >> today the members of congress have a choice to strengthen america's health care protections and lower health care cost or be complicit -- once again i use that word -- in president trump's campaign to dismantle family's health care. make no mistake, a vote against this bill is a vote to weaken

americans' health and financial security. >> the white house announced it would veto the legislation were it to reach the president's desk, which sun likely, given opposition in the senate. key provisions in the report include skpajd eligibility for insurance subsidies for those with higher incomes and pressuring more than a dozen states to issue the mandate. it's in direct contrast to having the aca struck down in the supreme court. also, senator mitch mcconnell spoke on the senate floor yesterday and said wearing a mask should not be stick stigmatized, and wearing one in the country should be just routine. >> we should have no stigma, none, about wearing masks when we leave our homes and coming near other people. wearing simple face coverings is

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welcome back. the supreme court on monday struck down a louisiana that would have severely restricted

access to abortion in the state. it was the first abortion case decided with president trump appointees on the court. chief justice john roberts sided with the remember real members in the 5-4 decision. although the chief justice had previously voted to uphold a similar texas law back in 2016, he said respect for precedent said he was compelled to side with the supreme court's liberal wing. the white house statement calls it an unfortunate ruling today, the supreme court devalued both the health of mothers and the lives of unborn children. joining me now nbc legal analyst danny cevallos, good morning to you. they have remained unchanged. talk us through this most recent

decision and john roberts deciding -- justice john roberts siding with the liberal judges? >> this is a case where've when you have a conservative supreme court, you have precedence on the other side with roe v. wade and even a case four years ago which involved a substantially identical texas law. the issue here really is, as states whittle away and put little obstacles in front of people who want to have an abortion, for example, requiring doctors to have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles, does that create an undue burden by placing a substantial obstacle in the way of women who want to get abortions, and what's interesting here is that justice roberts -- this should not be viewed as a shift from justice roberts to the liberal side.

quite the opposite. as you said, he would have voted against the prior case, but now that that prior case is precedent, he's constrained to vote with the majority. you could say if justice roberts were king, he would not have voted this way, but because he's a supreme court justice, he must follow precedent. that's the key. roe v. wade and all the cases that come after it are precedent. not just precedent, but just firmly entrenched. people have come to rely on that, and people withe court wi consider that, wli they're conservative or liberal. >> the question of roe v. wade comes up a lot, especially if there seems to be an opening on the supreme court in the future. does that mean essentially that roe v. wade is essentially safe? >> i don't want to say it's safe, but you're absolutely right. it comes up every election

season. yes, it's significant only so far as the president appoints justices. the president is the branch of government that has the least do with abortion rights, but, yes, the supreme court could overturn roe v. wade. but as i said, roe v. wade is precedent. even though both sides, liberal and conservative, will agree that roe v. wade was wrongly decide or decide on the basis of the thinnest of legal justification, that case has now become something people have relied on for decades, and even the staun chest conservative texturalists have come to rely on it. be warned that because roe v. wade sansd on this kind of shaky foundation, it is always ripe for possible review. >> all right.

danny see vallcevallos, thank y. great to see you this morning. >> the supreme court held president is allowed to fire the chief of federal commerce. chief justice john roberts wrote this, the cfpb director has no boss, peers, or voters to report to. yet the director wields vast rule-making, enforcement, and ed a jude ka torrey authority over a significant portion of the u.s. economy. such an agency lacks a foundation in historical practice and clashes with constitutional structure by concentrating power in a

unilateral actor insulated from presidential control. democrats are fearing politics could feasibly influence this agencies oversight. in diggs sent, justice elena kagan wrote this. today's decision wipes out a feature of that agency they thought fundamental to their agency, a measure of independence from political pressure. still ahead, as major league baseball is about to get under way, some players are opting out of the season. that story and more coming up. . that story and more coming up. ♪ ♪all strength ♪we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪ ♪we can do it

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welcome back, everybody. days before players are expected to return, expected to start on july 23rd, a number of players have decided to opt out. most notably is washington nationals ryan zimmerman who said this yesterday. after a great deal of thought

and given my family's circumstances, three children including a new borp and the mother at risk, i have decided not to participate in the 2020 season. zimmerman who would have made $750,000 joins joe ross, mike leake, and ian desmond in the decision to opt out. in a lengthy post on instagram, desmond wrote in part this, with a pregnant wife and four young children who have lots of questions about what's going on in the world, home is where i need to be right now, home for my wiem, home to guide, home to answer my three boys' questions about coronavirus, civil rights, and life. he was expected to earn $5.5 million this season. according to "the new york times," based on regulations agreed upon by major league baseball and the union any player is allowed to opt out of the 2020 season, which is

expected to last 60 games, but only those at severe risk of veer illinois ps because of their medical history will receive pay and service time after opting out. let's switch gears and get a first look at your weather with mer merle. meteorologist janessa webb. good morning, janessa. >> good morning. yasmin. i don't know if you felt those wind gusts last night. wind gusts up to 60, 70 miles an hour. they're still happening for northern new england. this is the back edge of that storm subpoenaystem, and it's g move offshore by this afternoon. now we take our attention into the northern plains into areas of the midwest. right now it's a small section of the northern plains where we can see damaging wind, also hail that will be picking up in the afternoon. i do think this will start to be expanded throughout the day

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welcome back, everyone. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin with new cases surged nationwide. at least a dozen states and cities are pulling back on reopening plans. in florida where the daily counts soared, the city of jacksonville will require face masks in any indoor space where social distancing is not possible. the city is expected to host the republican real in in august. in georgia the governor is expected to extend the state's

pandemic restrigss for another two weeks which are due to expire tomorrow, and in kansas, the governor indicate shed will sign an executive order requiring most residents to wear masks beginning friday. also in the northeast in new jersey, governor phil murphy says the state is putting off further reopening plans, quote, indefinitely. meanwhile governor andrew cuomo said officials would make a decision on wednesday on whether or not to proceed. and amid a surge in covid cases, los angeles county health officials are warning that conditions there are deteriorating rapidly as fears grow that there may not be enough hospital beds to accommodate patients there. yesterday alone l.a. added just over 2,900 cases, hitting a new record. this happens as the total cases surpasses 100,000 with 30,000 deaths reports. in about a week, l.a. could

revert back to numbers reached at the height of the pandemic, and this is coming just weeks after the state began to reopen. the new data is also prompting officials to close l.a. beaches this fourth of july weekend. so far san diego county is also moving to pause its reopening plans, announcing bars that do not serve food will shut down until august 1st at the latest. at the earliest, excuse me. joining me now, clinical assistant professor at the nyu department of medicines and population health. she's also an nbc medical contributor. thank you very much for joining us. very much appreciate it. there was this sense that americans were going to get some breathing room after tin irritable height of the pandemic, that we were going to have a pause over the summer and then wave two would come in the fall. it does not look like that's happening as we are seeing cases surge across the country.

what do you make of the pause in reopening plans amidst the climbing numbers? >> good morning, yasmin. the numbers are quite disturbing. some key messages or a reminder, this virus is an infectious pathogen that does not respect, does not discrimination based on political affiliation, state borders. it just doesn't matter. in fact, we're creating an environment for this virus to thrive by congregating, by being indoors where there's low air circulation, and, you know, we knew that there was wide community spread of the virus, and unfortunately as communities reopened, when people did not wear masks or do physical distancing, we're seeing the virus spread and cases grow all over the country, and it's deeply concerned.

>> so what needs to happen here? what needs to happen to litigate the spread? is it that we need the vaccine? it seems as if there is a pattern going on here. >> that's a great question, yasmin. many people have been asking this, actually voigs their frustration, and who can blame them. so the studies have been quite clear. the countries that have been most successful and, nrkts right here in the united states, the states or regions that have been the most successful at not only plateauing but bringing the curve down nicely have practiced stringent social distancing. the local leadership here

including governor cuomo shut down the economy and mandated that people physically distance, actually stay at home unless it's for absolute essential reasons and now the numbers have come down nicely. if you think about it, yasmin, that never really happened. i think we really need our leadership to lead by example. not only do we need to mandate masks, we really need to have a shutdown, especially in regions where they're seeing rising cases, which, as you know, has been a burden to the health care workers, the hospitals, the doctors. >> dr. lipi roy, thank you. always great to get information from you. several are pressing the white house for more information following the report of russian bounties on american troops. some are imposing new sanctions and the senator of colorado is

asking a passing of legislation to determine russia is a terrorist. putin has made clear they're no friend to the united states. they've targeted our institution and our troops. the u.s. must respond. senator thom tillis also said they need to be treated as a state sponsor of terrorism. meanwhile other senate leader had little to offer when asked about this intelligence. according to the "washington post," senator mitch mcconnell declined to respond. senator marco rubio, the acting

chair of the senate intelligence committee declined to comment on specifics but said this. targeting of our troops by foreign adversaries by foreign proxies is a well established threat. also house speaker nancy pelosi condemned the president's failure to act in response to reports and raised a theory on why the president may have not been briefed. >> shocking intelligence it is. it would be my hope it isn't true, but it seems clear that the intelligence is real. the question is whether the president was briefed. if he was not briefed, why would he not be briefed? were they afraid to approach him on the jikt of russia? and were they concerned if they did tell him, that he would tell putin? >> still ahead, the latest controversy sparked by the president with his twitter account. this time after sharing a video of a gun-toting couple threatening protesters in st.

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the president tweeted yesterday and then removed. this morning you said he didn't hear the phrase "white power" in the video and when it was signaled to him that was there, he took the tweet down. so does the president retweet other people's tweets and videos without knowing the full context of what he's tweeting? >> he did not hear that particular phrase when he tweeted out the video. >> did he listen to the video before retweeting it? >> he did. and he did not hear that particular phrase. >> so that was white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany yesterday, addressing the video retweeted by the president over the weekend.

meanwhile two white house officials telling nbc news president trump's tweet set off a five-alarm fire inside the white house because aides could not reach him to delete it. the tweet remained online for three hours because they could not get ahold of the president to take it down. he was at his golf club in virginia and had put his phone down. they also reached his aide and were unsuccessful as well am come was pointing firearms at a group of protesters. a 30-second video shows the couple outside their upscale home on sunday brandishing a firearm and a pistol while protesters were protesting 30

feet away. my wife doesn't know anything about guns but she knowsing being scared, and she grabbed a pistol and i had a rifle. i was very careful. i didn't point a rifle at anyone. the only thing that stopped the crowd from approaching the house is i had a rifle that i was holding. that's the only thing that stemmed the tide. >> so sunday's demonstrations was in response to the city's mayor lyda crusen. on friday krewson apologized and the situation was reversed. let's take a look at the

weather with meteorologist janessa webb will w.h.o. will also give us an update on covid as we watch the numbers rise. >> mondays are really vital days because over the weekend we kind of see a decrease and then it heightens once again. new daily cases yesterday picked up once again. we were at 270 deaths on sunday. it has spiked up to 346 for the u.s. three-day average continues to increase, and it's almost near that heightened mark where we saw the peak of positive cases last friday on june 26th. taking a look at covid cases on monday, on sunday afternoon, we had an order in the lead with new cases of about 8,000, but yesterday, now california replaces that along with texas,

up to 6,000, near 7 thou,000 ne cases. on top of that, we continue to talk about the sahara dust. it's a huge problem because we have millions of people wearing masks and people with masks coming from west africa. this is another dose coming in from the gulf. we dealt with it last week, and going into your wednesday, thursday afterno thursday afternoon, we're going to see another surge through new orleans and across to the houston area. so people with respiratory problems, air problems going to be karen. on the other side of your country, the southwest, the four corners, dealing with dry conditions, a lot going on with the heat building. there's a fire risk. it includes west texas as well as we could see that rapid and critical fire danger in this area with temperatures above normal and the wind flow up to

35 to 40-mile-per-hour gusts. we're going to watch the storms that make their way onshore from the gulf of alaska to seattle. we have 66 and stormy conditions still for a new york city to washington, d.c., where temperatures are still very warm. lower 90s with humid air. and a high in boston of 71. >> thank you. still ahead, facebook taking a major hit as the pulling of ads hits nearly 100. meanwhile, there's a growing concern over hate speech. your business is coming up. concern over hate speech your business is coming up 's wh. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable.

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welcome back. nearly 100 advertisers have now joined the stop hate boycott to hold facebook accountable for

its mishandling of hate speech. karen tso joining us. good morning, karen. give us the latest? >> thank you. y yes, there's a long list of companies holding advertising on the social media platform. when it comes to the messaging, very similar to other groups. first up, it will babb its u.s. advertising for 30 days, so the suspension is through july. clorox is one brand going much further. it will suspend its advertising globally on the platform right through december. that's quite significant when you think it goes right past the election. it's given the excuse that it expected hate speech to increase through to the end of the year. meantime investors are closely watching this, whether it extended from july across the course of this year and also whether it's just in the u.s. or

global. now they want the campaign to go globally. when you think of the amount of advertisers for facebook, they've spoken out. it has about 8 million advertisers globally, many of them small advertisers who have nowhere else to go. when it comes to market implications, you saw friday's selloff information. saw friday's selloff information. point and the stock recovered in trade yesterday. still worth about $628 billion the implications have also stretched across other social media platforms. some of the other companies are reviewing advertising across all social media norplatforms. so reddit and twitch has tried to tamp down on it

there's a move called the donald, this is a gathering place for sproeupporters. twitch, which is owned by amazon and streams out video content, it has temporarily suspended trump's account, it's had some campaigns in those eve violatednt its policies. >> karen live from london for us. thank you so much. next, everybody a look axios' one fwhing. and coming up, the latest on reports that russia offered bounties on american forces in afghanistan. also elissa slotkin and pramila jayapal will be our guests. jayapal will be our guests when our daughter and her kids moved in with us...

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president trump's campaign to dismantle family's health care. make no mistake, a vote against this bill is a vote to weaken americans' health and financial security. >> that was house speaker nancy pelosi highlighting the contrast between the parties on the issue of health care shortly before the house voted yesterday along party lines for the first expansion of the affordable care act in ten years. the white house announced it would veto the legislation were it to reach the president's desk, which is unlikely given republican opposition in the senate. key provisions include expanding eligibility for insurance subsidies at higher income and pressuring more than a dozen states to expand medicaid. the passage sits in contrast to the administration's effort to have the aca struck down in the supreme court.

joining me now with a look at axios a.m., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. good morning to you. great to see you on this tuesday morning. >> you too. >> give us axios' one big thing today. >> president trump's advisers sounding alarms about re-election pros tpects to a degree i have not heard in the three and a half years since he entered the white house. a number of things have happened, and i think it's fair to say, i don't use this lightly, a widespread panic set up. economic comeback has dampened because of covid outbreaks. optimism that rallies would bring back momentum dampened after the tulsa debacle. and a good number of trump's elderly base are more fearful of

the virus than previously recognized and less inclined to join these nonsocially distanced mask-free crowds. and also trump relentlessly keeps doing these self-defeating acts such as the latest being -- tweeting out that video of an elderly supporter chanting, white power. and there's a feeling among his advisers -- this has always been the case that there's really nothing they can do to stop these events from happening. but the combination of the three, the events plus trump's own acts, has really caused a pessimism to set in. >> jonathan, quickly on that, what sense are you getting -- i've seen reporting about the possibility that the president is trying to self-sabotage his re-election chances. what do you make of this? >> i think that's absurd.

i've seen no evidence of that whatsoever. i also would caution against fan fiction that trump is entertaining dropping out and some of this stuff, which is fevered fantasies among resistance types. i haven't seen any evidence of that whatsoever. some of his aides will say that in moments of frustration. they'll say i wonder if he wants to win this, what's he doing, et cetera, et cetera. but it's more out of exasperation. president trump hates to lose and the idea that he would deliberately lose to joe biden just runs against everything that -- certainly that i've observed covering him for five years now. >> so with that, let's make a turn to joe biden because i know you have new reporting on how he's essentially turning to a younger, more diverse group of

obama white house alums to fill campaign positions ahead of the election. talk to us about the significance of this decision. >> well, this is reporting from a colleague of mine, as you know, joe biden has been criticized for not having enough diversity among his advisers and you put them up on screen. these are four recent hires that joe biden has made from the obama administration. staffers who worked for valerie jarrett, president obama's most trusted adviser. they're trying to set up what joe biden's white house would look like and give some sense that he's taking seriously these concerns and he is trying to course correct as we head into the general election. >> jonathan swan, thank you as always my friend. great to see you. i will be reading axios a.m. in

just a little bit. that does it for me, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts now. the reversing of some of the openings dampen your enthusiasm for the recovery? >> no, at least not yet. overwhelming evidence we're in v-shaped recovery. we're looking at it closely, scouring all the numbers. i would say so far, so good. >> so far, so good for -- that from white house economic adviser larry kudlow amid a national crisis that has claimed over 125,000 american lives. joe biden is set to deliver a major speech today about the president's handling of this pandemic and ahead of that we have an exclusive first look at his new campaign ad. we'll also talk more about the virus with a physician who's been fighting