chuck will be back next week and remember if it's sunday it's "meet the press." over the fourth of july weekend, president trump had polarizing themes. plus coronavirus cases across the country continue to surge with florida and texas each reporting a new record number of daily infections. and president trump falsely states that 99% of covid cases are totally harmless. that claim had a member of the white house coronavirus task force offering up a fact-check.

good morning. it's monday, july 6th. the president painted another dark and divisive picture of this country. in two speeches, one on friday at mt. rushmore, the other at the white house on saturday, the president denounced what he called the left wing cultural revolution. he also pushed back against the movement for racial justice, accusing his opponents of wanting to erase our history, indoctrinate our children, and in his words, overthrow the american revolution. >> the radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. but in truth, it would demolish both justice and society. it would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our

free and inclusive society into a place of repression, domination, and exclusion. they want to silence us, but we will not be silenced. >> those who seek to erase our heritage want americans to forget our pride and our great dignity so that we can no longer understand ourselves or america's destiny. in toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country and that we feel for each other. their goal is not a better america. their goal is to end america. >> we will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrine

eight our children, or trammel on our freedoms. we will safeguard our values, traditions, customs, and beliefs. we will teach our children to cherish and adore their country so that they can build its future. together we will fight for the american dream, and we will defend, protect, and preserve american way of life, which began in 1492 when columbus discovered america. >> the "washington post" reports that amid president trump's re-election push fueled by amplified racial intelligences are unnerved. on capitol hill some try to

avoid his racial wrath. according to a white house official and an outside trump adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity, trump avoids the outcry and ignores his instincts. he thinks the white vote eers will carry him to victory against joe biden. his adviser says, quote, it's the campaign of 2016 all over against trump tells the "washington post" his words and recollections are not racist but attentive to voters. in sharp contrast to president trump's tone, joe biden offered a message of hope and unity this july 4th weekend. in a video posted on twitter, biden focused on racial inequality saying despite america's deep divisions, the united states can still live up to a founding principle of

quality. >> there's been a constant push and pull between the two parts of our character. the idea that all men and women, all people are created equal and the racism has torn us apart. we have a chance now to give the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed, a full share of the american dreechlt we have the chance to pull the roots of the systemic racism out of this country. we have a chance to live up to the words that founded this nation. this independence day, let's not just celebrate the words. let's celebrate the promise, commit to work, the work we must do to fulfill the promise, remain locked in the battle for the soul of this nation. but believe me, truly, it's a battle we can and we will win if we act together. >> well, biden didn't mention the president by name in the video, he later criticized

president trump. it took his message even further writing part this. every day president trump finds new ways to tarnish and dismantle our democracy -- he ahas systematically gone after the guardrails of our democracy, the free press, the courts, and our fundamental belief that no one in america, not even the president is above the law. rebuilding and expanding our democracy are essential to the long term vitality of our nation. that's why as president, i will take immediate action to reverse the damage president trump has done to our core democratic rights and institutions. november's elections will decide whether we leave the house of democracy built to the arcs architects. joining us now, david mark.

i wonder what you make of the contrasting speeches from president trump and former vice president joe bide snoon it's really a distillation of the 2020 campaign. there we saw president trump with a rather dark ominous message, a zero-sum game saying if these group of people win, you lose. they're taking something away from you. former vice president biden had a rather contrasting message saying, you know what? we can all be lifted up. we can all do better. i think he was also careful not to seem threatening, not to seem like he was favoring one group or another, but saying when there's advancements for some people, everybody wins. >> david, you have some reporting about democrats going after vice president pence. what have you learned? >> well, it's interesting. the campaign of former vice president president, the campaign has in recent weeks put out a lot of press releases and

spent an inordinate amount of time attacking not just president trump but vice president mike pence. it seems in a way like punching down a little bit because he is not really the face of the administration, but it is pence who has been sent out to meet with these republican governors who have kind of downplayed covid-19, and he's become the political face of administration. not the current times the campaign has gone after a sitting vice president, but it is notable. pence has been kind of a secondary figure out there. >> all right. david mark, thank you all again, i'll talk with you in just a bit. still ahead, new developments against jeffrey epstein's associate ghislaine maxwell. later we'll dig into the troubling numbers as covid virus numbers surge in florida and texas. those stories and a check on weather when we come back. on weather when we come back.

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welcome back. army investigators have identified a body that vanished two months ago. remains recovered last week recovered vanessa guillen. an american sold your took his own life last week. he was identified as arron david rob insorngs and another person was arrested and charged with one account of allegedly helping to hide the body of guillen. guillen's family believes she was sexually harassed by robinson and are calling for an investigation. prosecutors in new york asked the judge on sunday for a court appearance of ghislaine maxwell. she has been on bail since taken

into custody thursday and charged with four counts for transporting minors for sexual activity and two counts of perjury. the daughter of a punisher is considered an extreme flight risk. she has multiple passports in england, france, and the u.s. maxwell will be arraigned at a bail hearing which will also determine whether she remains in jail until trial. joining me now, nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. danny, can the attorneys use the suicide of epstein to argue against her being held until trial? >> maxwell was arrested outside of the southern district, so she's being transported her. her attorney has asked for a combined bail hearing/arraignment. it's at the arraignment she'll enter her not-guilty plea. so at the bail hearing part of it, that's where the government

is going to argue she poses a flight risk and she's charged with what's called a presumption case. although in the federal system in theory, the default position is that the defendant is released on bail, there's certain crimes that create a rebuttable presumption. in other words, the default position shifts and the defendant should be detained, waund of those crimes is one of the child sex crimes that maxwell is charged with. so she will be fighting to overcome a presumption, a statutory presumption that no combination of factors will keep her safe out of jail. >> in the guillen case, you have her family calling for a congressional investigation. is congress legally obligated to investigate the sexual harassment claims of this soldier who was tragically killed? >> they're not legally obligated burke as we've seen in the trump and mazur cases, for example, congress can investigate anything upon which legislation

may be had. congress may decide to look into the sexual harassment complaint procedure as compared to the civilian procedure, although, they're designed to track each other very relatively similarly. congress may determine that an investigation is warranted and possible legislation should be had on how that procedure works and whether or not it failed vanessa guillen. >> what a sad case. still ahead, scott gottlieb offer as new warning as coronavirus cases continue to spike across the country. that story and more next. county that sryto and more next into a smaller life?

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during the new york outbreak. the difference now is we really have one epicenter of spread when new york was going through its hardship. now we have four major epicenters of spread, los angeles, cities in texas, cities in florida and arizona. the case fatality rate is going down, although, we're not able to measure it right now because we're able to save more people who are hospitalized and get critically ill because of advances in critical care. the number of deaths has gone down because the number of infections went down for a period of time, but the total number of deaths are going to start going up as the number of hospitalizations start to spike again. we're going to see deaths creep up. i wouldn't be surprised to see deaths go over 1,000. >> the conservative pac, the lincoln project has high light trump's failure to protect americans' employment during the pandemic. i'd like to announce the spectacular news. american workers and american

families for our country as a whole has not been anything like this, record-setting. >> donald trump made history in june. more americans were out of work in june than anywhere june in u.s. history. more unemployment claims were filed in june than any june in u.s. history. more women were out of work. more men were out of work. more african-americans were out of work. more hispanics were out of woncht sin work. since donald trump took office, 8 million fewer americans lost work. donald trump's incompetence, ignorance, and indifference has made him the most deadly job-killing president in our history. with so many losing their jobs, isn't it time donald trump lost his? the lincoln project is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> republican senator joni ernst

of iowa appeared to distance herself yesterday from president trump's rhetoric over the weekend regarding nationwide protests and the removal of confederate monuments. >> senator, as somebody who's going to be on the ballot with the president in november, are you comfortable with that? >> well, i think that there is a great level of frustration across the united states all the way around, and as a combat veteran as you stated, someone who has served this great nation, i truly believe that we live in the greatest nation on the face of the planet waend do ha have blemishes in our history. and we need to come together to have hard discussions about our past. the great thing about this nation is we can learn from those blemishes, learn from the hard times in the past, and continue to evolve as a continually blessed nation and, again, we do live in the greatest nation on the face of the planet, and i hope that

others understand that. >> senator, as somebody who did fight in combat to protect the freedoms that you just talked about, would you agree seeing what's happening out there, the protests, that the majority are actually peaceful and not the way the president described them? >> yes, i do think that there are so many peaceful protests, and that's exactly the kind of discussion and exhibition that we want to see, peaceful protests, and i support the peaceful protesters. but what we can't allow is violence and this type of disruption and destruction, whether it's personal or private property, public problem earth. again, we all need to come together, sit down, and have some very real, very hard discussions if we want to improve our country. we all need to come together. >> for a first look at your forecast, let's go to meteorologist bill karins. >> hey, good monday morning to

you, alicia. this is the month we watch three things happening. this is usually typically our hottest month of the year. this is when the fire season gets going, when we get the big blazes. by the end of the month, that's when the tropics get more active and we see tropical waves and we look in all different directions. we have one minor area that's of interest in the tropics. the hurricanes are attracting it and we could get a tropical disturbance or depression out of it by the end of the week. right now if you look closely at tallahassee, the "t" in tallahassee, there's a spin on the map. that's the center of the storm. we don't think there's a chance of a development over the next two days. the overnight update has it only at 1%. once it potentially moves off the coast, that's when we get to the 40% range. if it does verng likely it will be wednesday or thursday off the north carolina coast, possibly near the outer banks.

notice the bend toward the coast. a few of our computer models take this little storm and the areas of rain with it up toward southern new england by the time we get to friday. we'll have to watch it. it doesn't look like it will be anything horrendous. it's going to be humid with downpours we'll see 3 inches of rain in the next couple of days in georgia, south carolina, and areas of north carolina. during that time of year, the clouds and rain are welcome because it makes it not as hot. the heat is the story from the great lakes to the northeast. the little ridge is building. the jet stream controls where it's coming from. it allows the hot air to sit in the same place. it kind of builds and we get several days of heat. july can be epic. it's not going to be record-breaking, but it's going to be hot for a while and it won't break. the a.c. will be getting a workout from texas northward. today, one of the hottest spots, look at washington, d.c.

it's going to feel like 102. that's in the shade. not much better in chicago. as we look toward tuesday and later in this week, temperatures are in the 90s. alee shar alicia, it's hot. thank you. still ahead, trump claims 99% of the coronavirus cases are harm lgs. plus, president trump announces plans for a park featuring statues of historical american figures. we're back in a moment. isritoca american figures we're back in a moment ♪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 ♪all strength, no sweat treating cancer isn't just what we do, it's all we do. and now, we're able to treat more patients

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welcome back. i'm alicia menendez. we begin this half hour with grim new coronavirus numbers. more than 130,000 people have died nationwide and nearly 2.9 million people have been infected. over the weekend, both florida and texas reported their biggest daily rise in confirmed new cases. on saturday, florida reported their new cases. in california, sunday they reported 5,400 new cases while arizona added over 3,500. major concerns are now growing over the surge in hospitalizations. reportedly at least two counties in south texas say they have hospitals already at full capacity. and as florida reports record case numbers, governor ron desantis says he won't close

businesses again and he also won't take responsibility for the spike in cases. meanwhile former trump homeland security and counterterrorism adviser tom bossert issued a stark warning, we are in trouble. and there's a rise in new cases in some states, emphasizing masks are important but not enough. we need to live with it. that's the new message the white house is trying to prepare the country for. a shift to a sharper less conflicting message comes as multiple states report surging infection rates, and part of that new strategy is president trump himself. an administration official tells nbc news by keeping trump distanced from day to day, they can depoliticize the response. they argued the country must figure out how to suppress forward despite the virus while

female sizing the low risk most americans have of dying from it. officials plan to unveil a new study on therapeutics they claim will be, quote, market-moving. president trump addressed a crowd at the mt. rushmore fireworks celebration in south dakota on friday that raised several health concerns amid the growing number of cases of coronavirus. the fireworks comes three months into the coronavirus pandemic. about 7,500 people were expected to attend. according to local reporting, health officials are saying it's caused the covid virus to spread in the community. kimberly guilfoyle, a senior trump campaign official tested positive for coronavirus on friday. her boyfriend, the eldest son of

president trump tested necessaryive. both are self-isolating and have canceled all public i vents. neither traveled with president trump. they both had planned to attend. they never made it to the sooichlt according to the site, guilfoyle is the third person in possible proximity to president trump known to have contracted the virus. the personal valet who served food tr president and the vice president tested positive for the virus in may. president trump downplayed the severity of the coronavirus which has claimed the lives of over 130,000 americans and counting. >> we've made a lot of progress, our strategy is moving along well. it goes out in one area and rears back its ugly face in another area. but we've learned a lot. we've learned how to put out the flame. now we have tested almost 40

million people. by so doing, we showcases, 99% of which are totally harmless. >> meanwhile the fda commissioner refused to defend trump's claim that 99% of the cases are, quote, harmless. >> i'm not going to get into who's right and who's wrong. what i'm going to say, dana, is what i said before. it's a serious problem that we have. sweerch the surge in case. we must do something to stem the tide. >> so you won't say whether 99% of coronavirus cases are, quote, completely harmless is true or false, what the president said at the white house last night. >> dana, what i'll say is we have data in the white house task force. those data show us this is a serious problem. people need to take it seriously. >> on testing, president trump stayed on his message over the weekend, tweeting in part, quote, cases, cases, cases. if we didn't test so much and so

successfully, we would have very few cases, adding, new china virus cases up because of testing. the actual number of cases in the u.s. may be ten times higher than recorded. joining me once again political editor for the "washington examiner," david mark. the trump administration continuing to give mixed messages on this pandemic. how are lawmakers reacting? >> lawmakers, particularly republicans, want nothing do with the president's response. nobody wants to really stand by that statement that 99% of covid-19 cases are quote/unquote harmless. democrats, of course, have been hitting the president over this from the very start of the pandemic back in late february/early march, but this is a statement that i think is not going to get very many defenders on capitol hill other than the president's die-hard supporters in the house and

senate. >> what do you make of the nbc report that the white house will tell americans to, quote, learn to live with the coronavirus? >> in the sense it's not that surprising because that's sort of been the undercurrent message from the very start of this. remember, president trump at first said this is just another variation of the flu. then the white house has been pressuring states to open up their economies much earlier than it seemed like it was safe to do so. so this is the natural outgrowth, the extension of that line of argument. the problem, of course, is that you can't really have an economy unless people feel safe. going to a restaurant, a movie, gym, any of the other every-day activities that we took advantage of. i think that strategy has some real limitations to it. >> the president's campaign announced another rally, this time in new hampshire, talking about it being outdoors, talking

about it -- giving everybody a mask. is that a tacit admission that some of the rallies that they've had up to this point were not well advised? >> of course. we saw that tulsa, oklahoma, rally a couple of weekends ago where the president drew a lot of criticism, not taking any health precautions. then in south dakota just before july 4th, there was no social distancing, no precautions of any kind. so i think they're trying to find some kind of middle ground here. i don't know how happy the president is about this, having cameras on people with masks, but i think they realize they would face so much more criticism, even with an outdoor rally if they didn't try to have some kind of precaution. so probably a preview of things we're going to see for rallies for the rest of the presidential campaign over the next four months or so. >> david mark, thank you. still ahead, what historical

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c'mon pizza's here. whoa! is that shaq? this is my new pizza the shaq-a-roni and it's bigger than pizza because for every shaq-a-roni sold, $1 is donated to the papa john's foundation for building community. president trump on friday ordered a statuary park honoring national heroes. >> i'm announcing the creation of a new monument to the giants of our past. i am signing an executive order to establish the national guard of american heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest americans who have ever lived. >> the president signed an executive order to create the park shortly after delivering an

address at mt. rushmore that denounced anti-racism protesters who have been removing and defacing statues around the country. he's ordered a task force to expeditiously open a national guard of american heroes on a site not yet determined. it will be a group of figures. those listed in the order conclude evangelical leader billy graham, henry clay. frontiersman davy crockett, first lady dolley madison and conservative supreme court justice antonin scala. senator tammy duckworth of illinois has emerged as a serious vchl p. contender as joe biden gets closer to picking his running machlt he's being taken seriously by biden's team.

harry reid who's been in contact said in a recent interview said there was a lot of attention lately on duckworth who he called a highly decorated woman. she's a purple heart recipient and veteran of the iraq war. she's the only finalist with military experience. duckworth is one of several candidates of color under consideration. both the biden campaign and a spokesman for duckworth declined to comment to post. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill? ? >> good monday morning to you, again, alicia. over the weekend i was off. this is the time we track covid numbers every single day. i needed that last week to try to kind of ignore the numbers, but it was so hard when we saw the spike in cases. even over the fourth of jushlg florida reported over 11,000 new cases in one day. that was only 200 less than new

york city's max day. it gives you some perspective of where we've gone. yesterday we had 44,530 new cases reported. that broke our sunday record by 4,0 4,000. we're getting close to 1% of our country that has tested positive for covid-19. we should probably reach that if we continue with the current pace by the end of next week or the end of next weekend. so here's how we are with the seven-day average. right now we're averaging 49,486 new cases a day. you can see with the april peak. we thought that was going to be the peak. it was 2,000. the seven day average has doubled in the past two weeks alone. we'll wait and see if we continue on that upswing today. earlier in the show we were listening to some of our medical experts who say, yes, we have been seeing that fatality rate

declining. remember, that peak for the fatality, at one point we were report 2g,200 fatality as day. the current seven-day average for the death rate is at 511, and that's the lowest since late march, and we're waiting to see if the medical expert which they say begins to increase in the next week or two because we have noticed hospitalizations are increasing. let's get to that forecast. it's july. we expect tropical downpours especially in the southeast p we will get that especially through florida and georgia. watch out for severe storms in minneapolis, up to duluth, and isolated storms later this afternoon from philadelphia to new york city to d.c. if you get those storms, you're lucky it will cool it off. it's going to be brutally hot in the atlantic region and then the tropical rain threat along the carolina coast and that could sneak through areas of southern new england on friday. that's a question mark forecast. you notice the summer heat building in the middle of the country. near 100 by the end of the week.

in denver all the way through texas, and that heat will continue to alicia, this time of year it gets very hot. the third week of july is the peak for the hot temperatures across the country. usually that's the peak average. >> all right. thanks, bill. i was wondering. >> still ahead, europe's push to rein in u.s. tech companies. those and other stories driving your business day are next. r st your business day are next is boost high protein... and now, there's boost mobility... ...with key nutrients to help support... joints, muscles, and bones. try boost mobility, with added collagen. c'mon pizza's here. whoa! is that shaq? this is my new pizza the shaq-a-roni and it's bigger than pizza because for every shaq-a-roni sold, $1 is donated to the papa john's foundation for building community.

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through virginia and under the trail. but duke energy and the dominion who have been behind the program have decided to walk away after pressure from environmentalists and after regulatory hurdles. a $9.7 billion deal debt gave way. significant maneuvering around this deal. also it has meant that pipeline projects across the united states p in the past decade have come against significant opposition, trying to unlock the dividends from the fracking boon, but you've seen environmental activists, native american groups, and land owners themselves. it's the latest blow to pipeline projects. meantime big tech in silicon valley face opposition from the european commission. she's gone after big tech

companies before, but the latest, the likes of alphabet, google, facebook could face new complex laws designed to akle their market dominance and get them to pay more tax, also demand more responsibility for responsibility for content. they'll draft the new laws but the history has been they've come up with an anti-trust fine against google in the cost, demanded apple pay back taxes also the european data regulation designed here. so clearly there's history. stand by for the latest on that. >> also, uber set to take over one major food delivery service. what more do you have on that? >> you can expect more consolidation in the food delivery business. we're hearing reports that uber has inked a deal to buy the business postmates in a $2.65 billion agreement. we're waiting formal announ

announcement today. the companies themselves have declined to comment but you may also recall that postmates was meant to chase the i.p.o. this year so this is a fairly aggressive move to pre-empt that. also uber missed out on grub hub recently so it's a move to get in on the deal on the consolidation of food delivery, which is in high demand around coronavirus. >> thank you, karen. up next a look at axios' one big thing. and on "morning joe," more on president trump's address to the nation over the fourth of the july weekend. also dr. richard besser weighs in as cases of the coronavirus skyrocket across the country. "morning joe" is moments away. "morning joe" is moments away.

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go ga gathers over the weekend, in south dakota and again in washington. what example is that? >> in terms of the gatherings themselves, a lot of them were cancelled here in arkansas, fourth of july celebrations, just trying to minimize that exposure. when you look at a national level, i think it's good we celebrate our independence, it's a controlled environment, it was outside at mount rushmore. i think it inspired many, obviously i would have liked to see more face coverings there. >> there was no social distancing in south dakota there were thousands of people there sitting absolutely crowded in and no face coverings as well. >> they should have been face coverings. they should have followed guidelines there. that's republican governor hutchinson of arkansas saying there should have been face cofferings at president trump's

mount rushmore event late last week. joining me now with a look at axios a.m., alexi mccammond. good morning. >> happy monday, alicia. today's one big thing is john bolton, the former national security advisor, while most of us have kind of moved on from his memoir, "the room where it happened" various officials have fixated on details brought up in that book. this matters because the revelations in the book behind the scenes in the oval office is raising the blood pressure of our allies around the world who are already kind of worried about president trump's reliability to begin with. so we've seen in interviews and heard from directly leaders in venezuela, south korea, and

european officials who are nervous about the things that john bolton raised in his book. and the bottom line is that while these folks may have had their assumptions about president trump or thoughts of what was going on behind the scenes, it's different when the suspicious suspicions are confirmed by someone as senior as john bolton in this book. >> we saw the president delivering dark, divisive remarks this weekend. what are you hearing from the biden campaign about how the former vice president plans to campaign and what his message is going to be during the pandemic? >> axios learned that joe biden is taking a different route, rather than just doing virtual events they're mobilizing celebrities on instagram, we're told at times with biden himself to host live 20 minute

conversations on ina gram's platform to get younger people on the pages. we would expect musical celebrities as well hosting the conversations about different issues that they care about with the campaign again as a voter outreach program where the biden campaign is trying to reach the young voters where they are, during a global pandemic where we're stuck at home but using social media more than ever. >> on coronavirus i want to ask you for a fact check. do the president's claims of more cases being the result of more testing hold up? >> no, those claims do not hold up. according to our reporting at axios, the president said that the number of confirmed cases are getting higher because the testing is getting higher. but when you look at the numbers in places like new york and d.c. where testing has increased for the coronavirus, the number of confirmed cases has not

increased. but if you look at southern states like florida, texas, arizona, testing isn't actually increasing in those cases. so the president's claims about testing are debunked by the numbers we're seeing play out across the country. alexi, great to see you. thank you. >> thanks. i'm going to be reading axios a.m. in just a little while. you can sign up at signup.axios.com. i will see new a second on "morning joe," which starts right now. that's right, we will see you in just a moment. thank you very much. good morning, welcome to "morning joe," it's monday, july 6th i'm willie geist. with us we have reporter jonathan lemire. former aid to the george w. bush white house alease jordan.

michael steel and alyssa menendez. let's get you caught up. we have now in america surpassed 130,000 deaths nationwide from coronavirus. nearly 2.9 million people have been infected. over the weekend florida and texas reported their biggest daily rise in new confirmed cases. on saturday, florida added nearly 11,500 cases. and texas reported a record 8,300. on sunday california reported more than 5,400 new cases. while arizona added more than 3,500 major concerns growing over the surge in hospitalization. at least two counties in south texas reportedly say their hospitals are at full capacity. and as florida reports record case numbers, governor ron desantis says he will not close businesses again. we'll have