colleagues at the network of nbc news, have a good night. the united states hits a staggering new number in the coronavirus pandemic. 50,000 new cases recorded in a single day, but president trump is still insisting the virus will disappear. also, president trump calling the reporting about russian bounties of u.s. troops, quote, fake news, even as his administration briefs lawmakers on the administration. >> and new york lashes out, painting "black lives matter" on fifth avenue, the president calling it, quote, a symbol of hate. good thursday morning,

everybody. it us july 2nd, and, boy, do we have a lot to cover this morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. so we have new cases of coronavirus continuing to skyrocket across this country. the u.s. topped 50,000 new cases in a single day for the first time yesterday. that's coming just a week after topping 40,000 for the first time. among the states with the highest number of new cases, california, texas, arizona, north carolina, and georgia, all reporting record daily totals. the president blames increased testing for the surge, but data showcases are also rising in places where testing has decreased. at the end of february when the united states was investigating its first few cases, the president said the virus would, quote, disappear like a miracle. we're now at nearly 2.7 million cases, and more than 129,000 people are dead. and the president is still saying the same thing. >> i think that at some point

that's going to sort of just disappear, i hope. >> you still believe so. >> i do. >> and it seems, though, the president is changing his tone about one thing, face masks. yesterday during an interview with fox business he said he supports wearing them. >> i'm all for masks. i think masks are good. if i were in a group of people and i was close -- >> you would wear one. >> oh, i have. people have seen me wearing one. if i'm in a group of people where we're not, you know, ten feet away -- but usually i'm not in that position and even's tested. because i'm the president, they get tested before they see me. but if i were in a tight position, i would -- >> do you think the public will see that at some point? >> i have no problem. actually i had a mask on. i liked the way i looked. i thought it was okay. i had a dark black mask, and i thought i looked oklahoma. i looked like the lone ranger.

no, i have no problem with that, and i think people should do that. >> to be clear, he wore a mask once on a site visit and he wore it in an area where he thought the press could not see him. other than that, i don't think we've seen the president wear a mask the number of active military personnel infected with coronavirus has more than doubled in the last few weeks, according to new numbers published by the defense department. as of wednesday, nearly 6,500 servicemembers are infected with the virus. that's up from june 10th. in the last week alone, the number of cases in the air force has nearly doubled as well. on june 10th, there were 600 cases. by yesterday, the number of cases has jumped to over 1,500.

the uptick has happened mostly in states that have seen a surge in cases, florida, texas, arizona, and parts of california. we have new reports suggesting how much money russians were willing to pay taliban militants to kill american troops in afghanistan. that's according to "new york times" and afghan officials. it was up to 1$100,000 per soldier. the details of how the money was actually dispersed to those carrying out the fatal attacks and to what level the coalition occurred, those details still remain unclear. according to u.s. intelligence reports cited by "the times" the middle man is a businessman who say among those who reportedly collected the bounty cash in russia, which intelligence officials described as multiple

payments of, quote, hundreds of thousands of dollars. afghan security agencies, they carried out sweeping raids to arrest dozens of his relatives and associates six months ago but found he had fled the country and was likely back in russia. "the times" is reporting $500,000 in cash was found in one of his homes during the raids. nbc news has not confirmed bounty payments were made as part of the reported russian plot. and even as his own administration is working to brief lawmakers, the president is insisting the reporting about russia paying bounties for the united states troops is just another instance of fake news. >> on the issue of russia and bounties, if there's ever a scenario in which russia puts a bounty on u.s. troops, how would you respond. >> first of all, they'd hear about it. but we never heard about it because intelligence never found

it to be of the -- of that level where it would rise to that. when you bring something in to a president, and i see many, many things, and i'm sure i didn't see many things because they didn't rise to the occasion. this rose to the occasion. what i hear and i hear it pretty good, the intelligence people didn't even -- many of them didn't believe it happened at all. i think it's a hoax. i think it's a hoax by the newspapers and the democrats. >> all right. so yesterday morning on twitter, the president also called the russia bounty reporting just another made up by fake news and referred to it as just another hoax as you heard him say there. meanwhile the "washington post" is reporting that the "washington post" is not planning an immediate response to the reports about russian bounties because according to two senior administration officials, president trump does not believe the reports are true or actionable.

during a briefing yesterday, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany was asked about the concern of russian reports of russian bounties. >> what does the president have to say to the families of military servicemembers who are afraid their loved ones might have been killed due to the russian bounty. the families are saying we want the united states and federal government to call us. what is this president's message to the military families in this country? >> it's unverified intelligence. it's continuing be assessed. the department of defense has said they do not know of any americans who have been killed related to this unverified intelligence that's currently being assessed. >> all right. joining me now, white house reporter for politico, gabby yor orr. good morning to you. thank you for getting up for us. we appreciate it. what kind of reaction are we

getting over the president calling the russian bounties a hoax, especially when you have intel officials briefing congress about this, what the president is calling a hoax? >> well, quite a few lawmakers were briefed on wednesday by intelligence officials. the intelligence committee is one of them. a lot of members on the committee has said there's no reason for them to believe that any of this intelligence is actually not credible, that they believe after going through the briefing there is legitimacy to it and the president should be taking it more seriously than he is. representative adam schiff was another. they said the president should not be dismissing this simply as a hoax but instead explaining why he wasn't briefed on it if that is, in fact, true, though, we know based on what white house officials have told

politico and other outlets recently there was an inclusion in the presidential daily briefing of the intelligence and the president needs to explain what his administration plans to do about it. the explanation that we've heard from white house press secretary over and over again this week thatis simply unverified intelligence is not sufficing for these lawmakers and for the president's critics. >> yeah. it is astounding to say the least, considering the fact you have folks in congress being briefed on this intelligence, and yet the president is continuously saying he believes it is a hoax. he has to admit it in order for it to be actionable. it's got you scratching your head as to what's happening in the white house now. let's talk about the change in tone over the coronavirus, the president now supporting saying he's wearing a mask. he also says this thing is going

to disappear like he said back in february. now there are millions of folks who have contracted this virus. you also mention in one of your most recent reports the vice president and others are commending governors who slowed their reopening plans in some states. what more can you tell us about the shift in position? >> well, there's a lot of discussion inside the white house right now on exactly how much the president should be talking about coronavirus because as we've seen before, when he talks about things like masks, when he talks about the possibility of a vaccine, when he talks about state reese opening, oftentimes he contradicts himself. on the one hand he has mocked republicans for wearing masks. he has mocked his 2020 challenger, former vice president joe biden for wearing a mask, but on the other hand, he said yesterday he would wear a mask himself if he was in a group. so there's a lot of shifting happening in the white house messaging with regard to the coronavirus, and the big internal debate right now,

according to what my sources are telling me, is whether the president wants to resume these sort of daily or weekly briefings by the coronavirus task force, which is, of course, led by mike pence, that would give a lot of these states grappling with surges of the coronavirus on what to do, what the health officials encourage them to do, or whether the president should focus instead on the economy, on his re-election campaign, and just not talk about the disease as much as possible. >> and you can't help but wonder if this shifting mind-set, if this shifting focus has to do with the fact that the coronavirus is now hitting more republican states than it was before in the northeast. gabby orr, thank you. stay close. i'm going to talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, e about, an appeals court judge talks about

a book written by the president's niece can be published, but the legal fight may not stop there. also pfizer fights for a potential coronavirus vaccine. those stories, and, of course, a check of the weather when we come back. check of the weather e come back.

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welcome back. an appeals court judge has ruled that the publication of mary trump's tell-all book about the president and trump family, that it can move forward. so the decision reversed a lower court order that temporarily halted publication of, "too much and never enough," how my family created the world most dangerous man." he argued she's prohibited from

publishing the book as part of an inheritance from her grandfather's estate. but the court decided it's not part of it. he writes in part, unlike miss trump, s & s has not decided to relinquish any of its first amendment rights. the publisher may distribute copies while the case is being heard. so let's get into this now. nbc's legal analyst danny cevallos, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this is confusing to me, i've got to be honest. they're saying she can't publish this book, though, she can write it. but the publisher, in fact, can publish it. how does that distinction there work with regards to this nda. >> the appellate division here is not issuing a final order. they're just issuing an order that preserves or fixes the

status quo until there's a real and full hearing on the merits, and that's the key here. the court here is not saying that simon & shuster can never be considered an agent of mary trump. they're saying robert trump and the plaintiffs didn't show enough evidence here to say that mary trump and simon & shuster has an agency relationship such that they could be prohibited. in the future, there may be enough evidence that they should be considering an agent under this confidentiality agreement. for exam hello, her actual agent was enjoined under this appellate decision order. so this isn't a question of simon & shuster never being restrained. it's just that in this particular hearing or order, there wasn't enough evidence. so they may come up with enough evidence in the future, but, yes, you're right. now we're left with this very strange situation where mary trump is prevented from

publishing, but the publisher is able to publish what mary trump could not. >> but then you have the same issue that we have with the john bolton book, which is the book is basically out there. it's getting out there. is there any enforceable nda, nondisclosure agreement, at this point when dealing with the president, especially when the information is already out there? what's even the point of moving forward at this point? >> it's even stranger because the appellate decision order today tells us for now simon & shuster is enjoined. what if later on the supreme court says, hey, no, you can't do that. what are you going to do? talk about out there in the either already. simon & shuster is in a strange position already, plus the fact the appellate decision had changed because this originally was an agreement as to a real estate developer.

now it's a book about the president of the united states and his family. the first amendmenti issues thee do change. >> danny cevallos, thank you as always. still ahead, majority leader mitch mcconnell breaks with the president urging him not to veto a massive defense spending bill that could remove the names of confederate bases. back in a moment. names of confederate bases. back in a moment a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. okay, jonathan, i'm listening. tell me more. just $9.95 a month for colonial penn's number one most popular whole life insurance plan. there are no health questions to answer and there are no medical exams to take.

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welcome back. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday urged the president not to veto a defense spending bill over a proposal that would require the pentagon to rename bases currently named after confederate leaders. >> well, i would hope the pretty really wouldn't veto the bill over this issue. i hope the president would consider vetoing the entire defense bill, which includes pay raises for our troops over a provision in there that could

lead to changing the names of some of these military bases. >> so the majority leader's comments comes after the president tweeted this. i will veto the defense authorization bill if the elizabeth "poke honor as the" warren of all people amend which will lead to the remanaming plu other bad things of ft. bragg, fort robert e. lee, and many other military bases is in the plan. >> they came up with a plan to rename at least ten bases within three years. all right. let's switch gears and get a check on your forecast with meteorologist janessa webb. good morning to you, janessa. >> good morning, yasmin. good morning, everyone wchl're seeing great conditions across portions of the east coast. we're still dealing with rain

across the south. people are not able to enjoy the heat as it's going to be stifling. this is currently what it feels like. 73 degrees in kansas city, lower 70s for st. louis. we expect it to rev up to the 90s in some spots. the feels-like temperature on your skin, in the triple territory. you're seeing the heat rise all the way across to missouri. new orleans, you start to get in on this as well as atlanta. we could potentially get up to about 30 million people this afternoon. so high heat and humidity going to be in place for today. cincinnati, you're at 90 degrees. we have record temperatures that are going to be in jeopardy for chicago. this is the ninth straight day that they've been in the upper

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this-hour with grim new coronavirus numbers, the u.s. hitting a new record high after adding 50,000 new covid cases yesterday. this is marking the fifth single-day record in over a week, bringing the cases to almost 2.7 million. new infections surged nearly 50% in june after states tried to reopen their economies. more than 800,000 new cases have been reported just in the last 30 days. now hot spots continue to emerge across the country, many coming from florida, arizona, texas, and california as reopening plans are being halted. in california, governor gavin newsome ordered a total of 19 counties to close down bars and indoor dining. in florida, jackson health system announced it's pausing

non-emergency and elective surgery as they continue to see an increase in coronavirus cases. also in florida, miami beach is reimposing a citywide curfew. in michigan, an executive order was signed to close indoor service of bars in much of the lower parts of the stateme. new york is halting indoor dining. mcdonald's says it will wait three weeks before adding dine-in services across the country. and apple says it will reclose 30 more stores to slow the spread of the virus. so an experimental covid vaccine being developed has shown promising results in early stages of human trials, triggering stronger immune responses in recipients than

those seen in people naturally recovering from an infection. according to reuters, the drug is one of 17 being tested on humans in an effort to end the coronavirus that has affected millions of people. it's the fourth drug to show promises. after 28 days they developed higher covid antibodies than seen in infected people it. has not been peer-reviewed and it's still unclear what immune response will protect a person from getting sick, but scientists praised the company for publishing the data and says it will lead to a larger clinical trial to test whether the vaccine is safe and whether it is effective. white house national security adviser robert o'brien has offered a new explanation

about why the president was allegedly not informed about intelligence, suggesting russia was paying the taliban to kill american forces in afghanistan, telling fox news yesterday it was the decision of president trump's intelligence briefer. >> the president was not briefed because at the time of these allegations, they were uncorroborated. the dod has come out, secretary esper, saying it was unsubstantiated. his career briefer decided not to brief him because it was unverified intelligence. by the way, she's an outstanding officer and knowing all i know, i certainly support her decision. >> however, current and former national security officials say it's almost always unverified and the idea that a career

government bureaucrat unilate l unilaterally decided to keep president trump out of the loop on the bounty matter is not credible. so while they decided not to present the president with unverified intelligence, he admit they'd took time to prepare options for the president. >> we did everything right here, and the real story should be what the united states did. we began running an interagency process bringing the government together saying, look, if this eventually is something proven or we believe, we need to have options for the president to deal with the russians. i can tell you this. if this information turned out to be true -- now we may never know, but if it turned out to be true, we had options to be ready to go and the president would take strong actions as he always has. >> but former officials told the "washington post" they would not have begun the process had they

not felt the information had to be taken seriously. according to the "washington post," sanctions and diplomatic censure were debated in late march. joining me once again, white house reporter for politico, gabby orr. let's get into some of this here because much of it is confusing here. who knew what when. this report has raised a lot of questions amongst democrats and republicans as well who are urging the white house, gabby, to provide them with more information on this operation. what are you hearing in. >> honestly, yasmin, this reminds me a lot of the impeachment trial on capitol hill because of all of the different strains of information that we're getting from the white house and national security council.

and i think over the next few days you're going to see a lot of democratic congressmen, republican lawmakers as well who have now been briefed on this intelligence ask more questions. they want to get to the bottom of why the president claims he did not receive any update on this intelligence, any briefing on this intelligence when it came to the awareness of our intelligence community. they want to know what exactly happened within the national security council and why, again, they were preparing a response to deal with russia if the president himself had not been briefed on this yet. there are just mounting questions the more that the white house provides their explanations for this entire ordeal, and i think over the next few days if not weeks, we're going to see a lot of questions asked of the white house to really explain exactly what happened here and what the president plans to do. >> yeah. let's hope those questions continue. so with all of this, we are

still inside of a presidential election. let's talk about that for a moment and how the pandemic and all the stories surrounding it are impacting the president's evangelical voter base. you actually wrote about this in one of your latest pieces. talk us through this. >> well, look. the president came out last month and said he was ordering every state governor to reopen churches, to basically treat them the same as non-essential business businesses. a lot of people saw this as him trying to reconnect with his white evangelical supporters. obviously they make up a great deal of his political base and will be an important voting block for him in 2020, and we've seen some erosion in his support among this demographic over the past few months. so the bid to reopen churches was to re-energize supporters,

but now it's raising questions about what they plan do with outbreaks at churches. you have these houses of worship where they're singing, chanting, being close together and they're hot spots we saw this in oregon where 200 cases were linked to a pentecostal church. we've seen this in florida, texas, and arizona. so the president and attorney general bill barr who's pushed states to reopen churches are going to have questions to answer as we continue to see surges across the u.s. in coronavirus cases about what they can do to prevent houses of worship from becoming more hot spots and sites of easy coronavirus transmission. >> all right. gabby orr, thank you so much. great to see you this morning.

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matter like things in a blanket fry like bacon, that's not acceptable. he believes all lives including two officers whose lives were taken during the riot, all lives matter, but he doesn't agree with the chant about pigs in blanket, fry them like bacon who are out in the streets protecting civilians each and every day. let's switch gears and get a check on the weather with your meteorologist janessa webb. good morning, janessa. >> good morning, yasmin. we continue to watch these storms across the southeast. we've been dealing with flooding for the past 24 hours. we're finally getting a bit of relief but seeing pop-up showers in arias wchl'r-- areas.

we're watching down in the south. tornadoes are possible with heat building in the area. what you're going to notice, though, is the temperatures. they're not going to back off. this hot air will really stay in place throughout mid-july. so this is that summer heat that's going to continue to build. so if you're just waking up this morning, good morning, chicago, 69 degrees. new york city in the upper 60s. but we're looking at highs today. they're going to reach the mid-80s to lower 90s in some spots, and the humidity will also start to build. on the other side of the country, still watching the pacific northwest. this is the first day we've been in an elevated risk for fire danger instead of critical. that's slightly better due to our temperatures cooling off. that's going to help that fire danger in our area. so going into your fourth of july weekend, many people are

starting their holiday early. tomorrow it's still very hot for fr. the mid-atlantic to the northeast. you'll be contending with a few showers for northern new england, but look at highs for washington, d.c. 91. you're going to go on that stretch for fourth of july saturday where we're going to continue to be in the upper 80s to low 90s. high and dry for the northwest. dallas to southern texas, 100 degrees. that's the air temperature. but when you factor in the humidity levels, we are talking about the stifling air. some spots are going to be feeling like 115 degrees. so cool across the coast. saturday is going to actually be the wonderful day to be out and about because then we'll start to deal with the severe storms picking up for the southeast and northeast by sunday. yasmin? >> out and about with a mask on and social distancing. thank you, janessa.

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welcome back. over 47 million americans have filed for unemployment in the 14 weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, and this morning's update is expected to be upwards of a million again. cnbc's karen tso is joining us from london again. what can we expect? >> yasmin, good morning to you. a huge focus on the jobs market. another 1.35 million americans are thought to have filed for unemployment benefits in the last week. that would be down from the prior week. have seen a fall for the past 12 weeks, which is certainly an encouraging sign, but there are concerns that businesses that have not hit in the first round

curve may be seeing a full-on demand, which is impacting jobs for workers across the united states. millions have been filing for unemployment in the past week e alone. we are expecting to see more than 300 jobs added. that would be up from 2.5 million. likely to tick down. workers bying marked as employed but absent for work. they will not be taken into consideration. meanwhile, stimulus checks. president trump said he supports another payment and he supported a bigger payment than the $1200 that the democrats were

supporting. the democrats have also been on board for that $600 supplement payment for unemployment to continue. the president says it is an incentive not to go to work, so waiting to see what further stimulus looks like. encouraging folks to wear masks, a lot of folks are trying to show the correlation between mask wearing and reopening. goldman sachs doing the math to see how much it could help the struggling economy. >> it is really interesting. the investment bankers found that the u.s. is suffering an unnecessary hit because there is not a nationwide mandatory wearing of masks. they say with the fresh clusters mask wearing could supplement

the need for more masks. that is a number to look at, 5%, jasmine. >> yes, folks want to get back to work and if they have to wear a noosk do mask, maybe they wil. next, a look at axios one big thing. and coming up on "morning joe" as the u.s. reaches another single day coronavirus number. and we'll speak to stephanie murphy from one of the epicenters of the virus. epicenters of the virus. , a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting

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welcome back, we have a nicholas johnson from axios for the one big thing today. >> today's one big thing is how

biden would handle the virus. with joe biden leading in a lot of the polls it is worth unpacking how they would approach the pandemic and the coronavirus. america would look different. one of the things vice president biden said he would do is insist on a nationwide order to wear a mask. some say that would be a big boost. that would be priority number one for a biden administration. he would centralize a lot of the testing responsibilities with the federal government. sending more policies to the federal government level. the trump administration has taken a state first approach on mask wearing, shut downs, closures, testing, data disclosure. the biden administration would centralize that at the white house.

more return of public health officials. there has not been a coronavirus briefing lately. there will be more of that in a biden administration. also more federal policies for paying for people's tests. the federal government making that a priority, and figuring out some way of federal leave for essential workers if they need childcare. if people are sick. setting up a federal system to provide them for a leave policy. some of those things would require acts of congress, but a stronger central government response from the biden administration versus the trump administration. let's talk about some of the coronavirus cases. we have been talking throughout the hour about the spikes we have seen across the country from california, texas, georgia, and florida. we have also seen a decline in certain areas. i know axios has been reporting

on that and following it. where have you seen that? >> we did another update of our map that we have done for the last nine or ten weeks. mo usually it is easier to say where it is growing but now case counts are going up and we had to change the diagramming of our map for places like florida. it is leading to the rollback of closures, the pausing, this is being driven by rapid increases in cases. the not so good one is that hospitalizations are also increasing. those are hitting records in many states. the one piece of good news is we have not seen death rates increase at the same pace.

many of that is people getting infected are younger and healthier. the mortality rates are ticking up similarly to the case counts. nick, quickly while i have you, i know that axios has told people in recent days that he regrets following the advice of jared kushner, some of his political advice, about criminal justice reform. >> yeah, he is souring from advice from jared kushner including criminal justice reform. trump thinks it's not good for his base and his voters and he doesn't like the way jared

kushner has been pushing on it. the hopes for that legislation have been dimming. >> all right, nicholas johnson t thank you. morning joe starts right now. looking like by april in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away. >> it will disappear, one day like a miracle, it will disappear. you have to be calm, it will go away. >> it will go away. >> this will go away. >> i think we will be good with the coronavirus. i think at some point that will sort of just disappear i hope. >> you still hope so? >> yeah. >> the last one from the president yesterday on the same day that the u.s. had a single day coronavirus case record for the fifth time in the past eight days. good morning and welcome to