some valuable jersey shore time. thank you so much for being here with us. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. president trump has sent a series of tweets. once again he referred to coronavirus as the china virus. plus, with infections on the rise, dr. anthony fauci warns united states is knee deep in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, and the prognosis is really not good. and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell opens the door to another possible round of stimulus checks aimed at helping low income americans.

good morning. it's tuesday, july 7th. i'm alicia menendez. we begin with president trump and his xenophobia. yesterday he amplified his message in a series of tweets, asking when nascar driver bubba wallace would apologize for the noose found h his garage, suggest nascar made a bad decision by banning the confederate flag. he again referred to the coronavirus as the china virus. he called out the cities of new york and chicago to stoke fear of immigrants and crime. he accused sports teams that are rethinking their names of giving in to political correctness. the "washington post" robert costa reported this yesterday. a trump adviser tells me this morning that many in the president's circle are eager to turn to biden and china, to make

that front the battleground. very little appetite for this continued focus on race. but the president in60s on driving his own message t adviser says. meanwhile coronavirus has left no state unscathed as cases continue to surge. so far the u.s. has over 3 million cases and reported at least 131,000 deaths. the u.s. has added 330,000 cases in the week of july. the surges are seen in tennessee, west virginia, and florida. hospitals have reported they're almost at capacity. yesterday morning arizona announced that 89% of the state's intensive care unit beds were full. meanwhile mixed messaging continues to come from the white house with president trump making the false claim that 99% of covid-19 cases are, quote,

harmless. meanwhile, dr. thounanthony fau said it's the beginning of the pandemic. he urged for the situation to be addressed immediately. >> the current state is really not good in the sense that as you know we have been in a situation where we're averaging about 20,000 new cases a day. two days ago it was at 57,500. so within a period of a week and a half, we've almost doubled the number of cases. so in answer to your first question, we are still knee deep in the first wave of this, and i would say this would not be considered a wave. it was a surge or resurgence of infections, superimposed upon a baseline, francis, that got down to where we never really wanted to go.

>> as the number of coronavirus cases climbs across the u.s., many states are implementing extra precautions to limit the rate of infection. in florida, the mayor of miami-dade county said he will reclose restaurants, dining rooms, gyms, and many other business businesses, but will keep beaches, stores, and hair salons open for now. the mayor of west virginia made face covering mandatory inside buildings when social distancing is not possible. and mayor ned lamont said he's keeping an eye on what's happening and paused reopening phase 3 indefinitely. atlanta's mayor keisha lance bottoms says she has contracted covid-19. the democratic mayor is often mentioned as joe biden's possible potential running mate. here's what she had to say about

coming into contact with the virus. >> i'm processing all of this. i just received my results. my husband literally has been sleeping since thursday, which is just not like him, so i decided that we should all get tested again. we were tested two weeks ago, and we were all negative. our results came back positive today, and it's a shock because what i've seen with him is not out of the ordinary for seasonal allergies, which are just about year-round allergies in atlanta. it leaves me for a loss of words because i think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is, and we've taken all of the precautions that you can possibly take. we wear a mask, we're very thoughtful about washing our hands. i have no idea when and where we were exposed. >> meanwhile, mississippi

governor tate reeves said yesterday he's awaiting results from his covid test tweeting in part, quote, it appears numerous members of the mississippi house are confirmed to have contracted the virus last week, only one of whom i was briefly in contact with. chuck grassley announced he will skip the republican national convention for the first time in 40 years concerned about the coronavirus. the iowa senator told reporters monday i'm not going to gond ai'm not going go because of the vie raus situation. he's attended every convention since he was elected in 1980. it was move id to florida. joining me now, jace caruso. most cases are harmless.

we know the president's advisers want to extricate him from this messaging. why are they not able to do so? >> because the president, i think he signaled this months ago -- he was tired of taking advice from people around him and he was going to go with his gut instinct, and his gut instinct in times of crisis is to ignore it, pretend it's not happening. we saw this in february and march when he said the virus was going to magically disappear, go away one day. here it is. it's not july. things are still bad. 131,000 deaths later. and now he's out there, pretending that 99% of the cases are harmless, and it's just ridiculous. at this point, i don't think he's -- people are saying, why won't he change, why won't he do this. i don't think he wants to. he wants to be a trump that his instincts are going to guide him in 2020 as it did somewhat in

2016. >> and yet you have republican senator chuck grassley who says he's not going to go to the republican national convention, citing the virus as a big part of his rationale. i wonder if there are other republicans who will follow suit. >> there might be. as you said in your report, chuck grassley is 86 years old. he's one of the more vulnerable people to hospitalization and death from covid-19. so it makes sense that he doesn't want to go. there may be others as well as it gets closer, as we continue to see the seven-day averages rising, knowing president trump is not going to want to implement any kind of social distancing within the republican national convention, any kind of mask wearing. yeah, i think it would certainly be possible, especially amongst older senators. >> jay caruso, thank you. coming up, we wei in on the

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welcome back. the white woman in central park caught on tape calling the police on a black man who asked her to put her dog on a leash is charged with filing a false police report. >> please call the cops, please call the cops. >> i'm going tell them there's an african-american man threatening my life. >> please tell them what you'd like. >> amy cooper will face up to a year in jail if convicted. amy cooper issued a public apology in may for making a call that quickly cost her her job

and her dog at least temporarily. according to "the new york times," this is the first instance in the u.s. with a white person being charged with filing a false complaint against an african-american. in a rare unanimous decision, the supreme court held that fr that a state may require presidential electors to support its popular-vote winner. elena kagan writes the state instructs its electors that they have no ground for reversing the vote of millions of its citizens. we have with us legal analyst danny cevallos. is it as straightforward as it

seems? >> well, on the one hand the electors argue that the right to vote is so sacrosanct, so cherished, they shouldn't interview, but the states prevailed, arguing that the constitution gives them broad power to appoint electors, and that power to appoint including power to control and the power to fine or penalize if these electors go rogue. so it does stop chaos in advance of the election because those states that choose to regulate their electors can do so constitutionally. but keep in mind there are many states that choose not to regulate their electors, and so the decision does not require them to fine or penalize their electors. states are free to allow their electors to go rogue and change their mind and do whatever they want. so that could lead to some chaos for some states. >> on the amy cooper case, i wonder what you make of this

misdemeanor charge. >> it's a little different in new york. it's a ticket in the sense that she's given a ticket to appear, but it is a misdemeanor charge, and the charge is not a racially-based crime. it is for giving a false police report, and she has to do so knowingly. that means that it's more than reckless, more than negligent. she had to know what she was filing is false. i suspect that her defense is going to argue she believed in her heart that she was being threatened, and given that the default rule is they have to prove their case, the government, beyond a reasonable doubt, that reasonable doubt could favor the defendant in this case. so this is a defensible criminal case even though in the court of public opinion it is apparently very indefensive. >> danny cevallos, thank you very much. still ahead, new reporting

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south dakota governor christie nome joined trump onboard "air force one." despite close contact with guilfoyle the day before, she traveled. a photo shows the two women hugging. a spokesperson for nome shows she tested and the south dakota governor does not plan to get tested again. asked about why noem was asked to travel with the president in the first place, they said in

part, quote, they take the president's health very seriously. they would net put him in harm's way. for a first look at your forecast, let's go to meteorologist bill karins. bill, what have you got for us? >> good morning to you, alicia. the storms continuing right through the early morning hours. as we look at the radar, a lot of it is finally ending, but yesterday was just a mess. we look at the northeast. we look at the last 12 hours. each of these blue dots is a high wind report. each of the white dots is a large hail report. and yours truly, i got to go storm chasing yesterday afternoon. i took my 10-year-old son with me and we punched right into the center of what we call a hail core right in front of one of these large storms. it was the largest hail i've seen in the seven or eight years i've lived here. the largest i could see was

about 1-inch hail. there's a lot of trees down and cleanup needed throughout the region. let's look at today's forecast and what we're going to be dealing with. later on today, we'll see strong storms through the northern plains coming out from the rockies. watch out montana, north dakota and could move to duluth, minneapolis. the building storms could become a big story by the end of the week frchl the southern plains through the ohio valley, yesterday was the hottest day of the year in many arias and today will be equally as hot. we're going to see a full week of 90-plus in the great lakes and hundreds will build in oklahoma through areas down to texas. the temperature forecast, the heat index this afternoon for i think the 13th day in a row, washington, d.c., will be over 90. chicago will feel like 95 to 100 along with areas of ohio. very warm from wichita to little rock. the heat continued through wednesday.

especially look at dallas there, up to 102 by the time we get to saturday. alicia, did you get any of those thunderstorms sunny say good because they didn't do too much damage. >> i did. loud, pelting against the window. it was wild. >> yep. yeah. for this region of the country, it was unusual. >> thanks. crazy. thanks. thanks, bill. major league baseball seems to be struggling to administer coronavirus for its upcoming season as several teams were forced to cancel workouts yesterday after failing to receive results. last year's world series participants, the washington nationals and the houston astros as well as the st. louis cardinals and oakland athletics all postponed practices over testing delays. the team collected its own saliva samples and mailed them to the testing facility in utah according to espn. the angels decided to hold an optional practice yesterday.

then there was a rain delay and they believe it was a short-range situation. the general manager found it much more alarming releasing a statement saying the mlb, quote, needs to work quickly to resolve issues with their process and their lab. otherwise summer camp and the 2020 season are at risk. the "washington post" wrote testing problems cast doubt on viability of mlb season, days after baseball's return. they're looking to add another lab and speed up streamlined testing. still ahead, president trump tweeted yesterday nascar racing fans have gone down. we'll have more on that. also trump falsely claims that 99% of coronavirus cases are totally harmless.

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welcome back. i'm alicia menendez. we begin this half hour with president trump's tweet yesterday attacking nascar driver bubba wallace, asking if wallace has apologized to those who stood by his side after discovering a noose that was hanging in his garage staal on june 21st, calling the incident a hoax. fbi concluded no hate crime was committed and the noose found in wallace's garage was a pull rope

installed last year. wallace, the only black driver in nascar's top racing series who led the sport to ban confederate symbols at tracks received support from fellow drivers. nascar said it, quote, continues to stand tall with bubba. bubba tweeted a response yesterday, to next generation, little ones following my footsteps, writing part, quote, always respond to hate being thrown at you with love, even when it's hate from the president of the united states. in his tweet yesterday president trump claimed the noose incident along with the decision to ban the confederate flag has historically led to low ratings with the sport. yahoo! says that's not the case. according to ratings, sports are up 8% and up 8% since the confederate flag ban on june

10th. this past weekend nascar shifted to nbc for a crossover event with indycar, and those two nascar races were up as well. with pennzoil 150 being the most watched since 2017. and viewership on sunday was up 46% compared to the same race last year. in an interview with fox news radio, senator lindsey graham broke with the president over his nascar tweet. graham, a staunch ally of the president who is also up for re-election this year, pushed back at trump's comments, suggesting that bubba wallace has nothing to apologize for. >> so what i would tell people from outside of south carolina, that nascar is trying to grow the sport, and one way you grow the sport is you take images that divide us and ask that they not be brought into the venue. that makes sense to me. i don't think bubba wallace has anything to apologize for.

i do say this about the drivers. even though it was a noose created to hold the door open, in the times in which we live, there's a lot of anxiety. so what did you see? you saw the best in nascar. when there was a chance that it was a threat against bubba wallace, aw all rallied to bubba's side, so i would be looking to celebrate that kind of attitude more than being woed about it being a hoax. coming up on "morning joe," jamie harrison will be a guest. white house press secretary caylkayleigh mcenany was repeat asked about the the presidepres

response to the confederate flag and nascar. >> i think you're mischaracterizing the tweet. >> the president said nascar saw bad ratings because they took down the confederate flag, banned the confederate flag. does the president believe they should fly the get flag and why not fly it here? >> the whole tweet was to state that it was not a hate crime. >> does he think nascar made a mistake by banning the confederate flag? >> i spoke to him this morning about this. he said he was not making a judgment one way or the other. the intent of the tweet was to stand up for nascar and the fans and those who have gone to this rush to judge by the media when the fbi report concluded this was not an intentional racist act. >> does he think it was a mistake for nascar to ban it? >> the president said he wasn't making a judgment one way or the other. you're focusing on one word at the bottom of a tweets. >> why is the president tweeting

that bub a ba wallace should apologize? >> because the fbi concluded it was not a hate crime and the president believes it would go a long way if bubba wallace would confirm that as well. >> in an op-ed from "think," joe biden writes independence day is a celebration of our persistent march toward greater justice, the national expansion of our founding notion from all men are created equal to all people are created equal, should be treated equally throughout our lives. our spokesperson took issue and accused him of trying to rewrite history. >> it's interesting that joe bideen in this op-ed has the audacity to literally rewrite the greatest foundational document in the history of

mankind. his staffers want them to rewrite it as all people. that's not a constitutional republic we were founded on. that's the same radical left socialism that has taken over the party and is not just eroding our foundation but rewriting it and out to destroy it. >> joining me once again, jay caruso. have you heard from any other national republicans? >> i haven't heard from any. i think it's probably -- the silence is probably more exasperation because this is a situation that was over a week ago. nobody's even talking about it anymore, and here comes president trump to like throw gas on the burning embers of a

fire that was already on its way out. and so it becomes part and parcel of another situation where instead of talking about issues, they're talk about these cultural issues that trump so desperately wants. it's what he needs -- he thinks he needs in order to win a re-election in 2020. it's probably going to be something that they're going to say, okay, if he doesn't bring it up again, it will go away where it had gone already as, again, the fbi determined it wasn't a crime. they did rally around him, which was good. they are trying to grow the sport. and so just move on at this point. there's no point in haranguing him. >> to your point, this all happens against the backdrop of the 2020 race. see president trump absolutely digging in, claiming it's going to be his re-election strategy, even though he trails in the polls. does he make a pivot, or is this

what we're going to see from now until november? >> he's going to try to change it to what is typically in a race there is an incumbent. it's a referendum on the income bechblt you saw liz harrington do. they're trying to make a choice election again. if biden is elected, socialism is going to take over the nation, and that's not the way voters are going to look at it. they're going to look at it the way they typically have looked at presidential elections in the past. you've been in office for four years, what have you done, let's look at your record and determine whether or not you deserve another term in office. that's what they're ultimately going to decide upon. but trump is going to throughout this campaign try to make the choice that the re-emergence of the, quote, '93 election is what they're going to try to do. >> jay caruso, thank you. still ahead, the president's push to reopen schools in the

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where you have mortality rate in italy and uk up here and across europe and you have the united states as a low case mortality rate, it's because of the extraordinary work we've done on therapeutics and getting ppe and getting ventilators and helping other countries. >> president trump is pushing for schools to reopen in the fall as governors nationwide struggle with the surge in coronavirus cases. trump wrote on twitter, schools must open in the fall, later pointed the blame at democrats, writing, corrupt joe biden and the democrats don't want to open schools in the fall for political reasons, not for health reasons. they think it will help them in november. wrong. the people get it. it was not immediately clear what schools the president was referring to. elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, or what actions he was considering. according to reuters, president trump has limited jurisdiction.

many schools and universities have already decided to move fall semester classes exclusively online. however, florida yesterday required all schools in the state to reopen their buildings for in-person instruction for the coming school year. let's check in with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill? >> good morning once again. of course, this is the time we check in with yesterday's update on the covid numbers and fatalities. yesterday texas set their new record. they were about 2,000 more cases than their previous daily record. they were over 9,000 yesterday. that was one of the headlines. as far as the big numbers go, yesterday we were up there, 50,580 cases. i wanted to compare that because that was coming off the holiday weekend. i wanted to look back at memorial day weekend. that tuesday following it, we had a report of 19,396. that shows you where we've gone with this acceleration in the number of new cases since the

end of may and especially over the last two to three weeks. as far as the seven-day average goes, for the first time, we've jumped above 50,000. we're now at 51,363. we have doubled the average. april peek, we're more than 20,000 more than the april peak. but here's the flip side. we saw a low number. the current daily death rate is about 517. the rates are still falling but not as quickly. we've kind of flattened out if you look at the last two weeks, and we're waiting to see with the new cases if we start to see the fatality numbers going up. do not see that as of yet. let's return to weather. remember yesterday we talked a little bit about the tropical potential in the gulf, that we could see tropical moist? it's still spinning over the top of areas of georgia. we're not looking at any development at least in the next day or two, but by the time we get to, say, thursday, maybe

even friday morn, the hurricane center thinks this has a 40% chance of becoming a tropical depression off the north carolina coast, maybe the outer banks, and maybe potentially off the mid-atlantic. what does this mean. georgia, south carolina, north carolina, a minor risk of flash flooding. if anything, the clouds will keep the temperatures down, which will be appreciated by a lot of people. then by wednesday, it's still spinning near charleston. then it gets stronger. i think if it develops into a tropical depression or subtropical depression, it will be on thursday. notice the northern beach area, an ugly thursday. they think some of the rain will head up into southern new england, say the jersey shore and southern new england on friday and that will be an ugly beach day. hot in the middle of the country. very hot in the desert southwest. phoenix, 111. notice we're going to be much warmer in washington, d.c. if i had one pick city for gorgeous weather, boston is

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senate majority leader mitch mcconnell hinted yesterday that the next coronavirus relief package could provide stimulus checks for low income americans. >> i'm think the people who have been hit the hardest are people who make about $40,000 a year or less. many of them work in the hospitality industry. the hospitality industry as all of you know just got rim racked, hotels, restaurants. that could well be a part of it. >> in may house democrats passed

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t meanwhile princeton university announced yesterday it will cut tuition 10% in the coming school year and bring no mar than half of its undergraduates to the campus. it plans to bring freshmen and juniors to the fall turn and sophomores and seniors to the spring. most instruction will be remote. the immigration and customs enforcement agency announced yesterday any student on f-1 and m-1 sri sass will not be allowed to stay in the u.s. if their institution is only holding classes online in the fall. students who avoid paying compliance will face deportation. coming up on the morning joe, francis suarez, miami mayor, will be our guest. plus former presidential candidate deval patrick will weigh in on the 2020 election. "morning joe" is just moments away. n. "morning joe" is just moments away

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left eight dead, including a 4-year-old girl. the governor issued an emergency order. he issued it after threatening to take action if the mayor failed to put an unrest in the city. peaceful protests were hijacked by criminals with a dangerous e destructive agenda. this lawlessness must be stopped and order restored in our capital city. the national guard troops will be sent to three locations in atlanta. georgia state democrats have criticized kemp for the move, he is protecting buildings rather than the people of georgia. over half of americans disapprove of president trump's job performance as well as his handling of the pandemic according to a new poll out this morning. 55% say they disapprove of his

performance as president. and 67% independents disapprove. turning to the coronavirus outbreak. 55% disapprove of the president's handling of the pandemic. 60% say they approve of their state's governorer's handling of the outbreak. when asked who to trust when businesses should reopen, 70% say they trust their state's governor rather than the president. over two thirds of americans believe businesses are opening too quickly. 33% believe they're opening too slowly. as cases rise across states, half of americans are very worried there could be a second wave of the virus. joining me now with a look at axios' a.m., is deon.

what is axios's one big thing this morning? >> it's wall street dump trumps. basically what's happening here is wall street investors who had been sticking with their expectations for the president to win re-election, even as poll numbers were shifting, showing joe biden with a lead are now abandoning that position. the folks i talked to on wall street are saying not only are they expecting joe biden to win but they're looking at the potential a lot more strongly now of a democratic sweep, them taking the house and senate as well. they're basically positioning for what that means. vice president biden said that he wants to reverse some of trump's tax cuts and take a number of other steps that would influence assets across the spectrum, including the u.s. dollar. >> what would a democratic sweep do to and for business?

>> well, essentially you got the opportunity to pass some very wide ranging legislation, the biggest impact of all this, if you did see that democratic sweep, would be most likely the end of the trump tax cuts pretty immediate. folks on the more liberal wing of the democratic party like alexandria ocasio-cortez have talked about that being a top priority. so certainly a different distribution of taxes. that could affect capital gains tax taxes, business taxes and that's been a boom for wall street because businesses rather than reinvesting their tax savings, hiring new people, they used that to buy back their own shares and that's a big boom for the stock market. >> axios' reporting in a new poll the longer the coronavirus pandemic lasts the further political parties are moving apart. what change has been seen the last few months? >> it's not just political parties. there's a clear divide among

republicans and democrats when it comes to things like worry over the pandemic, going out, wearing masks, things like that. but it's also this big divide in terms of race. you see black folks being affected more by the pandemic and latinos as well more than white people. you see poor people with a different set of circumstances than rich people. even those class divides along middle class, working class, things like that. so it's really what we're seeing is the coronavirus is creating a bunch of different realities for different people depending on who you are, where you live, what you look like, your reality in this pandemic is very different. >> the musical "hamilton" moved to disney plus on friday and sent downloads of the app so soaring with broadway closed until next year do you think more shows will make the change to online services? >> that's a great question. with the success of "hamilton"

you can see them start to push in that direction, unfortunately the high quality recording that "hamilton" had, the way they set up for this four years ago put them in a unique position to be able to produce this show in a way a lot of broadway shows were not. so it's not a brand new broadway just yet. don't expect to see every broadway show costreaming but there's going to be an emphasis from these companies to get broadway on their platforms. >> dion, thank you. i will be reading axios' a.m. in a while. i you can sign up at axios..com. i'm alicia menendez, i will see you in a second on "morning joe," which starts right now. thank you, we'll see you in a moment. good morning and welcome to "morning joe," it is tuesday, july 7th. with us this morning white house reporter jonathan lemire. nbc news shana thomas, the afore

mentioned, nbc weekend anchor alicia menendez and senior political correspondent for the washington examiner david drucker, also a contributing writer at "vanity fair." joe and mika have the morning off. joe let me begin with you, as you and i went off the air yesterday the president wrote the tweet about bubba wallace and nascar saying nascar's ratings are down, although they're not, because of its decision to get rid of the confederate flag and calling bubba wallace's claims of a noose in his garage a hoax. what was the reaction in the white house? we know the press secretary came out and tried to spin, but what was the reaction to those tweets as they tried to turn the corner to the economy and to joe biden? >> willie, this is the president yet again deciding that he is his own messenger and he's going to set the course, despite the advice from advisers.

over the weekend we saw in a pair of speeches, he certainly leaned in had on some of these racial grievances, sort of these divisive rhetoric. and, you know, he defended monuments, among them confederate monuments. so this is clearly a cultural issue that he wants to fight upon and flames he wants to stoke. but attempting to do so, his advisers thought, for him in a somewhat subtle way we can make judgment on that. there's nothing subtle about this tweet willie, to the frustration of the white house hoping to spend the week talking about the economy. the mexican president is coming in, they wanted him to renew attacks on joe biden with links to china. but now the republicans have to answer for this tweet. we saw the white house press secretary unable to take a position or unwilling to take a position as to