40 months not serve bed, trump commutes the sentence roger stone who is set to begin a three year prison term this month. >> this is a man who obstructed justice, lied to congress, threatened a witness and the purpose of that was to protect president trump. more than 70,000 coronavirus cases reported at the close of yesterday. that is the highest number of new cases in a single day. the united states is breaking records in all the wrong ways. >> when you compare us to other countries, i don't think that you can say we're doing great. i mean, we're just not. and a 7-2 vote, the supreme court rules on trunmp's taxes ad he wasn't happy about the decision. velshi starts now.

good morning. it is saturday, july 11. i'm ali velshi. the united states has reached yet another milestone. more than 70,000 new cases of covid-19 in a single day. hospitalizations and deaths are rising at a significant rate. icus in multiple hospitals in several states have reached capacity. and in an eerie echo from the spring, the city morgue in phoenix has become so full so quickly that officials have called in refrigerated trailers in which to store bodies. nonetheless, president trump felt last night was the perfect time to commute the prison sentence of his former campaign adviser roger stone. just before he was set to report to federal prison. in february, stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to congress about his efforts to contact wikileaks while russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. stone was also convicted of witness tampering and obstruction. during his trial, stone was

reprimanded to making a threatening post on social media aimed at the presiding judge. in a lengthy official white house statement, and what i'm about to read is not from judge judy or the people's court, it is an official white house statement, it begins, quote, roger stone is a victim of the russia hoax that the left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the trump presidency. such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of 92016 election. the collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations conducted at great taxpayer expense. now is the perfect time to note that trump's golf habit has cost taxpayers a lot more, about $100 million more than the russia investigation. and that official white house statement i was just reading goes on to include direct attacks on a member of stone's jury and on cnn before concluding, quote, stone has appealed his conviction and is

seeking a new trial. the president does not wish to interfere with his efforts to do so. end quote. which is exactly what the president is doing. but anyway, one more thing from the statement. quote, at this time, however, and particularly in light of the egregious facts and circumstances surrounding his unfair prosecution, arrest and trial, the president has decided to commute his sentence. roger stone has already suffered greatly. he was treated very unfairly as were many others in this case. roger stone is now a free man! end quote. wonder who dictated that. the statement also says by the way that covid-19 risks played a part in trump's decision which is odd continuing that trump continues to say that the virus will just disappear. if you wanted anymore evidence that none of this makes sense, last night stone while wearing a mask and a shirt both bearing his name had this to say and just a warning, none of what you are about to hear is based in reality. >> it is an act of justice.

people running around and screaming about the rule of law are ridiculous. they weren't screaming about the rule of law when loretta lynch and bill clinton were wiring hillary's missing email case on the floor -- on the tarmac. what about the rule of law when barack obama in the largest abuse of power in american history uses the authority of the united states and the capability of our intelligence agency to spy on the republican candidate for president? pardon me, folk, but isn't that what we removed richard nix nix for? so rule of law? we don't even come close. >> that was some wild stuff. joining me now, former u.s. attorney for the other than district of michigan, barbara mcquaid. she is a professor and msnbc contributor. thank you for being with us. you actually tweeted before the

sentence was commuted, you said trump will stall as long as possible but roger stone will never serve a day in prison because trump will pardon him before he starts his sentence. trump sgrus wants to avoid spending political capital if possible. and donald trump was running out of time because it looked like tuesday roger stone was supposd to report for his sentence. >> yes, and just hours before trump granted this commutation yesterday, the second circuit court of appeals declined to intervene in stone's request to delay the reporting. so he was due it report on tuesday and consistent with his 1980s pr style, president trump announced it on the friday night on the belief that no one reads the newspapers on a saturday morning. >> and so what is the difference, to your point about expending political capital, there are people around be donald trump who are reported to have been concerned about spending political capital on

this. is that why this is a commutation as opposed to a pardon? >> i don't know. i think the reason that he waited until the last minute to provide this is why -- to save political capital is why he waited so long. but i think that there may be another reason for the commutation. two possible reasons. one is a pardon typically brings with it an admission of guilt and some expression of remorse. it is forgiveness and a show of mercy by a president. whereas a commutation is simply a reduction in sentence, in this case down to zero. and i think there is another interesting strategic reason for commutation. this way roger stone by still facing his conviction and seeking a new trial, he maintains his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination. so one strategy that lawyers often use in organized crime cases is once a person has exhausted his fifth amendment rights at the end of his conviction and exhaustion of

appeals, is to then put that person in the grand jury because they can no longer take the fifth and ask them questions about higher ups in the organization. so in this way, donald trump is doing the most to maximize his own protection against having roger stone squeal against him. >> the comments that we just played from roger stone, i would generally save my viewers from that, but they are important because they are not based in reality. roger stone continues to talk about other things, about barack obama, about loretta lynch and bill clinton and about hillary clinton. but in fact, he was quiktsed for convicted for a bunch of things outside of just the russia involvement. it was actually about lying to congress. >> yeah, and to the extent that people will diminish these as mere process crimes a if that means they don't count, process crimes are among the most serious in the criminal justice system. prosecutors have discretion in deciding which crimes to charge and which to not.

and they will process crimes when you lie to congress, when you threaten witnesses to prevent them from telling the truth, it makes it imponssible for fact fimders to come their job be. and robert mueller said one reason that he was unable to reach a conclusion about many things in his investigation is that people lied to him, people used encrypted apps. and roger stone connects the trump campaign to wikileaks and to russia. and by lying to congress, he was protecting president trump. >> barbara, i always appreciate you coming on and giving your analysis to our viewers. we're grateful for it. barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. and joining me now is member of house judiciary, mad lynn dean of pennsylvania. congresswoman, thank you for being with us. and i appreciate you being with us this morning. what is the -- what is your take

on what has happened here with the commutation of roger stone? >> well, it is another desperate attempt by the president to cover up his own wrongdoing and it is a lawless administration. we're not shocked that this commutation came down. actually he signaled it earlier this week. but this is a president who is desperately afraid as the walls close in on him with whistleblower, with mr. berman before our committee this week, with the supreme court saying he is not above the law, this is an administration desperately out of control and uts early lawless. >> and i want to bring up the berman situation. with all the news going on today, it is hard for people to recall what was going on roger stone, but the u.s. attorney for the southern district, berman, you commented earlier on twitter about this saying that trump and barr will do anything to rid the department of justice of oversight, including lying to the public and pressuring berman

repeatedly to resign. it is alarming how far this administration is willing to go to subvert justice. and berman testified that he was asked several times to resign, he refused to do so and then he was removed from office. tell me about how you think of this from your per interest he can difference of having oversight as a member of congress, how do we address this? time is running short, we're 115 days away from an election. >> time is running short. and we have to continue our oversight role. and the supreme court said that we have a duty of oversight and had the ability to subpoena. so we'll continue to do that. i want to tell you about mr. berman testifying. what he did by not accepting the attorney general's june -- i guess it was 19th -- attempted night friday night massacre of his position, was he made sure that his first deputy was put in control of the ongoing investigations because he worried about destruction or delay of criminal investigations into this administration or other investigations.

this is a patriotic person who came forward. i appreciate what you did, you laid the background here. we have covid burning across this country. we have people in economic pain. we have civil rights pain. and we have an utterly lawless administration. what mr. berman said is without disruption or delay, we have to continue with these investigations. i'm pretty sure that these things will go much more quickly. >> congresswoman, one of the things that may affect you, although there is some doubt as to whether it will come before congress in enough time do anything about it, was the supreme court ruling that the president is not immune to the examinations of the public and congress and other officials with respect to his taxes. >> he is not above the law. the president went in and argued before the supreme court in two different cases that he was above of the law, he was somehow special. the supreme court said in a 7-2 decision written by justice

roberts, joined by his two appointed supreme court members, that he is not special, he is not above the law. and so whether it is cy vance in new york pursuing criminal prosecutions against this administration or the oversight of congress, my own committee and the deutsche bank materials, this president is not above the law. he is corrupt, but not above the law. >> congresswoman, thank you for your time this saturday morning. madeline dean of pennsylvania. after week of decline, there has been a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases across tunite states. >> this is my third intubation of the day. and that is not typical for us. we have actually gone quite a while without having to put anybody on the ventilator. >> after a quick break, i'll speak to the mayor of miami about florida's rapidly expanding outbreak. panding outbk

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ncoronavirus cases are risig at a record pace topping 730,000 new cases on friday for the first time in the entire coronavirus crisis. surges in southern and western hot spots have pushed the numbering of americans infected to higher than 3.2 million. the overall u.s. death toll is hovering around 135,000 this

morning. over the last four months, this virus has taken a huge toll on the country's patience and the front line workers both physically and mentally. >> i don't think that we've hit that peak at all. so i think that we'll be seeing increased numbers. and the thing is, from here, we don't have a place to go out. >> it is scary. i've cried many a tears. why did i get it. >> there was a moment where i thought that -- i thought that, um, that i wasn't going to make it. so i called all my family and pretty much told them i love th them. but actually telling them good-bye. >> and meanwhile president trump remains in denial. here is what he had to say to my colleague last night.

>> is the united states losing the war against covid? >> no, we're winning the war and we have areas that flamed up and they will be fine over a period of time. they flamed up in areas where they thought that it was ending and that would be florida, texas, a couple other places. and they will have it under control very quickly. >> winning? under control? these are some of the worst numbers we've seen. in fact they are the worst numbers we've seen in terms of new cases. after months of steady decline, even the death toll began to rise again as expected. many states which saw hospitals flooded with patients pushed to capacity had to pause or reverse their reopening eftds. health care workers in some of the hardest hit locations say they are running short on protective equipment yet again. so where are we now, what have we learned? without a vaccine or treatment or cure, how do where e move fo? let's bring in an internal

medicine physician. dr. roy, good to see you again. i truly didn't think that you and i would be having this conversation months later about icus running out of space in terms of ppe running out. in terms of the stress and toll on physicians and first responders. and yet here we are again. i don't think that you and i guessed that in july we'd be talking about the highest caseload, highest number of new infections of the entire pandemic. >> good morning, ali. i was just thinking that same thing. you and i were right here talking about back in march, in april about ppe, about the burden on front line doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists. front line health care workers in houston, parts of the country that are being advised to reuse ppe and n95 masks. i do not leave my home without wearing a mask. people are perceiving mixed

messages still because our elected officials are still not leading by good example. they need to be wearing a mask all the time. certainly in public. and not only advising and encouraging, but just change that vow cab could you later to firm language. you need to wear a mask. we are from tare in the midst o pandemic. these are the only tools we have. covering the faces and physical distancing. >> yeah. so the white house has been saying and supporters of the president have been saying that the death toll is different this time. the relationship between infection and death, the ratio is different. and i want that to be true. but people like fauci and others have said that there is a lag and we're now starting to see the increase in death rates. is it possible that the new infections however are less fatal for some reason than the earlier ones that we were seeing? >> that is a really good question. i've been asked that many times. and i get the confusion because

actually when you to look at the graphs, the number of cases is surging up, but the number of deaths looks like it is kind of going down. but that is -- it is nuanced. so remember early on, who are we testing. back in march and april when we had limited tests, we reserved them for people who were asymptomatic and older and vulnerable. the chronically ill. now we're doing so many widespread testing, we're testing even including a lot of young people who aren't necessarily -- they are not the ones getting severely ill and dying. it is older vulnerable people and other people. so that is why it may seem like that ratio is going down, but as dr. fauci clearly explained, there is always a lag, right? people initially get infected, then they will get sick, then they will get hospitalized, and then the death happens. so there is that big lag. so i don't want people to unfortunately get a happy impression that, oh, deaths are going down, it is going away, or

that this is a less lethal version of the virus. we don't have evidenced to show that yet. >> and one of the things that i've seen a lot of criticismevi that yet. >> and one of the things that i've seen a lot of criticism particularly dr. redfield calling for mask wearing versus the cdc not doing that in the past for the flu, with the flu you get it and very quickly your symptoms develop so you know you have the flu. so you might be at best out there for a day or two highly infectious before you realize, wow, i have the flu, i better stay inside. with this, you could be out there for several days and asymptomatic spreading this virus. so the distinction is clear. you could feel nothing and be f. >> and that is key. this novel coronavirus we've learned is far more pathogenicv. and the key point that you mentioned is asymptomatic transmission, that is why we're seeing such widespread

transmission and without the testing, widespread testing, we just don't th don't know who is carrying the virus. so the focus is prevention. it is life-saving. that is the message to send to everybody. >> dr. roy, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. she's an internal medicine physician and msnbc medical contributor. turning now to florida, a state experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases. thursday the state recorded 120 covid-19 deaths, that is a record daily high. and yesterday they recorded more than 11,000 new cases. that is its second highly daily increase to date. and it also saw more than 400 new hospitalizations. another record high. president trump was in florida, his newly declared home state on friday for a briefing on drug trafficking and a closed door fundraiser. he made no public mention of that state's spike in cases. joining us now is mayor suarez of mayor. mayor, good to see you. i remind people that i think

that you were patient number two in florida with coronavirus. so you have been thinking about this for a long time and this presents a whole new set of problems for you because you realize as a mayor, as do governors and as does everybody in this country that continued shutdown is difficult. it is hard for people, it is frustrating, it is economically very burdensome. and yet you have this spike. how do you think about this? >> that is one of the reasons why we asked for an additional 500 contact tracers. because we need the information from contact tracers. we're thousand down at the beginning of this, the contact tracers were contacting about 90% of the people. we're now down to 17% in miami-dade county. and we're only getting a very small percentage, about 3% or more, to fill out a survey that we need them to fill out so they can tell us what occupation people are getting sick, what is the relationship to the person that they are getting sick and where they are getting sick. and we need this information to make very surgical decisions as to what we could down so we can

spread. we're seeing some evidence of the fact that we put in a mask in public rule is lnlalready diminishing the growth rate by about half. but we need a consistent message of wearing your mask, of distancing in public, of washing your hands, so is that we can get back troflcontrol of the vi. >> there are things going on in your regionis that we can get back control of the virus. >> there are things going on in your region, disney world will reopen, you have counties on the other hand that are scaling back from regular dining to outdoor dining. and i don't want to put words in your mouth because you've been very honest with us and you've been on with us regularly, you are conflicted about how to deal with this. on one hand, you want people about to wear masks and social distance, but you seem to be calling for businesses to reopen. >> you know, what i'm saying is whatever decisions we made, they have to be evidence-based.

and there has to be a consistency of message. you can't say we'll close restaurants to only takeout only to the next day say we'll open indoor dining, you know, we'll close in-do considdoor dining. you can't say close gyms one day and then the next say no, you have to open the gyms. the mayors want to be consulted, they want to be make sure that the decisions are evidence-based because they impact hundreds of thousands of people. once that happen, we'll be fine with it. i was the last city to open restaurants and i was criticized for that. we opened about ten days after the county. i was the first city to close large events. so i have no problem closing things when the evidence dictates it and when it is in consult tants wi consultation with those infected. >> and are you worried that the evidence doesn't dictate that right now? >> no, we need specific evidence from contact tracers. for example, one thing that

we're seeing is that very large percentage of the cases are coming from family contact or contact at home. so what happens is as your prior guest stated, somebody comes home, they don't know that they are sick, they don't know they are sick for two or three days and they could have an increasing viral load. all of a sudden they start it feel sick, they want to get tested. that takes two or three days for them to get tested because a ton of people are getting tested. then it takes three or four days for them to get results. at that point you are talking about 7 to 10 days before someone even knows that they are positive. by that timing they have infected everyone single member of their family. so we have to do a better job of isolating and contact traszing a tracing and once you come home, it is not necessarily a safe zone. we don't really enforce or message the fact that you have to take care of your loved ones when you get home and we're seeing a large percentage of the people who come home bringing it home and that is increasing the.

>> mayor, thank you for being with us. republican mayor francis suarez of america. i should say the mayor is a republican. the county is nonpartisan. and the protests and marches may be slowing down, but the fight for justice is very much aline. more on that in a moment. and check out this time lapsed video of a "black lives matter" mural being painted outside of trump tower on new york's fifth avenue. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams. spend less, get way more.

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breathe" more than 20 times as he was pinned to the pavement under an officer's knee. we heard the same words in police body cam footage from aurora, colorado released last month. >> stop. >> yeah, i'm sorry. wasn't trying to do that. i can't breathe correctly. >> "i can't breathe" also uttered by elijah mcclain right before he died at the hands of a police officer who seemed to have no remorse. thursday three officers were fired after participating in horrific photos that mocked the chokehold used on mcclain. and new new video after the brionna taylor shooting, one video shows just how startled taylor's boyfriend kenneth walker and likely taylor herself were at the moment police kicked down their door. >> what is it about? you fired shots. just said that you were --

>> we were in bed. we were scared. we didn't know -- >> they didn't know who was coming in. yesterday protesters converged on the mayor of louisville forcing him to cut an event short. here is what he had to say about why the city is seemingly dragging its fit in delivering justice for brionna taylor. >> look at how fast things were able to happen after rayshard brooke be brooks, after george floyd. why is it taking so long? >> fundamental difference is there is no body camera evidence. the louisville police department has been a leader in the country with body cameras, but because these were undercover narcotics agents, they did not have body cameras. that has since been changed. but obviously if we had the body camera evidence, things would move much more quicker. >> and some cities have acted swiftly in charging officers at fault, butt in other cases it is

taking months. with me to discuss this, sly james, author of the opportunity agenda, a bold democratic plan to grow the middle class. it hits shelves next month. mayor james, good to see you. glad too s see the bow tie is sl there. and there is something in my book that caught my attention. sort of bigger than the 13,000 police forces and mayors around the city, it is the idea that we need a fundamental change in how we look at things. and you are talking about the democratic party here, you say despite the tragic consequences, the covid-19 delay sis doifd crisis is an opportunity for change. and the democratic party must become the party of opportunity. it cannot merely represent a pendulum swing are away from president trump and his failures before and during the crisis. it must facilitate policies that provide a ladder up to a larger swathe of americans. it must be the party of ideas that remain compelling long

after donald trump is out of office. mayor, do you believe that is what the democratic party represents right now? >> well, first of all, ali, thank you very much for having me and i watched your coverage of the minneapolis protests quite well, and have much respect. absolutely the co-author and i agree that if the democratic party is to be something more than a pendulum swing back and forth between partisan political ideas that we must provide opportunity for the people that we are elected to serve. as a mayor of a city, i have been able to see firsthand the impact and effects of ineffective misplaced politically made decisions and policies on the state and federal level. democrats have an opportunity through this crisis to change that. >> and i love the fact that you call it an opportunity because that is true. we think of what we're in right now as a crisis, but the flip

side are opportunities. but when you think of the opportunities, the things that we have thought were too heavy a lift to deal with like health care, like low wages, like systemic racism, like policing, like public education, they are big things. and now is a moment for big things. we are dealing with remarkable delay sis rig cries ci crisis right now. can we do better and say let's change this all for the future? >> absolutely. we can definitely do better. and one thing that we have to do to do better is when thinking about policy, add the words at the end "for you." for example health care conversations to people who have insurance do not resonate as well as health care conversations with people who do not have insurance. but if we look at things and we say we're going to help changes child care system for you, then that resonates with people particularly women who are particularly victimized by the lack of quality child care. if we're going to talk about

giving people opportunities, we must start at birth and work forward so no child enters kindergarten two years behind. and democrats can do that for you. and that is one of the things that i think if we focus on doing things for the people as opposed to the next election, we can make a lot of changes that are really impactful in people's lives. >> and i'm glad you brought up child care, another big thing that america hasn't solved that pretty much every other developed country has. here is my question to you as a political leader. on one hand donald trump will get a lot of democrats laenk s just because they don't like donald trump. democrats you are arguing need to not think about it that way, they need to not think that this is about a response to donald trump. they have to think about the fact this is an opportunity for the next four, eight, 20, 25 years to make indelible differences on the fabric of this country. >> well, reacting to donald trump is simply catching a

rebound. we need to get away from the rebound idea that we have a bad republican so we can rebound and have a good democrat. or we the republicans rebound from th from. that is nonsense. we need to talk about what will help people raise themselves up from poverty, from lack of educational equity, from lack of business opportunities. if we focus on the people we're supposed to seven, rather than t serve rarn on politic, we can accomplish a lot. but all too often things are made in the best interests of politician be and their next election. we need to start adding leadership and start doing things that work for you. for elected to serve. and then a lot of things can change. >> mayor, good to see you. let's not let as much time go by. thank you for joining me.

sly james former mayor of kansas city, co-author of the opportunity agenda, a bold democratic plan to grow the middle class. all right. can a system created 200 years ago still work in 2020? every four years we ask ourselves why the united states still uses the electoral college. we'll dive into the renewed scrutiny of the process which is 115 days to go until the election.

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today marks 115 days until election day 2020. and as that date draws near and the trump administration continues to cast doubt preemptively over a possible election loss, more scrutiny is being placed on our presidential voting process. the electoral college system was created more than 200 years ago, derived by alexander hamilton in the federalist pachers which say that small number of selected by their fellow citizens from the general mass will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite. and it seems like every four years there are calls to remove this system that so many people is antiquated and have virtually no other country uses. instead opting for the more straightforward popular vote option to determine who is the commander in chief. an argument presented this week in a "new york times" op-ed after the supreme court voted

unanimously on monday that states may replace or punish so-called faithless elector errors who cast ballots for those other than their party. and the system may have been more suited back in the late 1700s. the constitution framers worried that most voters who rarely ventured far from home and had no easy way of getting information quickly couldn't know enough about national candidates to make an informed decision. with me now, kim whaley, former assistant u.s. attorney and also author of the book what you need to know about voting and why. kim, good to see you. thank you for being with us. and let's just talk high level. is it realistic to imagine a change in the electoral college system? >> not at a constitutional level. it would require to get rid of it would require a constitutional amendment which takes two-thirds of a vote of both houses of congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states.

and we just don't have the political will or a functioning congress to do that. but there are ways of changing how the electors actually have to vote for president. so that is determined by particular states. and in that decision you mentioned, justice kagan note that had there are two states maine and nebraska that don't do a winner take all voting system. right now most states whoever gets the plurality vote, most of the votes compared to the other candidates, gets 100% of the elector xwral collek toctoral c. so the voters that voted for the losing candidates, their votes get basically canceled out in the eelectoral college. so one poenlgwoone possibility,s a debate over whether it is better, but for more states to do a proportional vote counting. that is the ewhether he can tle voters have to vote for the number of percentage of ewhether

he can college votes that line up with each candidate. that is just one example of an alternative that doesn't mean throwing the xwababy out with t bath water. >> and i know viewers will ask where they can find the argument, and they can find it in an article you wrote called supreme court rules can punish faithless electors but it didn't mean that it knlts bit can't be. and the question was asked should the candidate with the popular vote get to be president, and 58% said yes, but 40% said no. so who is it up to, state legislators? >> yeah, that would be up to state legislators. and the other thing floating around is basically what is known as an interstate compact where the states agree that if the popular vote gets above a certain level, they will -- each state will pledge their electors

for that particular -- the winning candidate regardless of what happened in their particular state. so you and i have talked about this a number of times now. so much of our constitutional democracy boils down to the ballot box. it is not just elekting the president, it is laenelecting t will vote in ways that can change the system. and we shouldn't be -- >> that is the important thing. >> and when things go to the supreme court, it is set in stone. it is like amending the constitution. and the people's voicedrowned o. there are down ballot races, sheriff, judges on the ballot, all of these issues that we care about. we won't make a change if we don't go to the polls. so even should register and ask for the mail-in ballot. registration is down right now because of covid and we need to turn that around to 15i6 our democra

save our democracy, not just the presidency. >> correct. and the takeaway here is that it is not just your vote for president. your vote for your state ledg legislature and your state representatives. and it is worth asking people when you are out there whether they share this view. this is worth polling your state legislators or people on the ballot to say should the candidate who gets the most popular votes be president and then up know that that person is someone that you should vote for. kim, good to see you as always. former assistant u.s. attorney and author of what you need to know about voting and use. >> do we want to send children back to a public education system that has glaring inequalities? i'll tell you what i think about it after this quick break. ♪ don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there.

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as we get closer to september, parents, principals and politicians are weighing options for students. debates abound whether students should continue to learn repalo altoly or return to school wearing masks and social distancing. whether than facilitating or leelgtd discussion, donald trump has complicated it further by, again, ignoring warnings from public health officials and pushing for schools to reopen mostly it seems because that would allow their parents to return to work and help his re-election process. betsy devos has threatened to

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good morning. it is saturday, july 11th. i'm ali velshi. the united states continues to break new records for covid-19 cases, topping 70,000 new cases in a day overnight. hospitalizations and deaths are also rising significantly again. however, as has been the case during the entire pandemic, donald trump's focus is elsewhere. and last night he felt the time was right to commute the prison sentence of his long-time ally and former campaign adviser roger stone. stone was sentenced in february to 40 months in prison for lying to congress about his efforts to contact wikileaks while russia

was interfering in the 2016 presidential election. stone was also convicted of witness tampering and obstruction. taking to the same platform in which retweeted an apparent supporter white power, trump roo writes in part this morning, quote, it is the other side that our criminals, including biden and obama, who spied on my campaign and got caught. now, mr. president, the commutation is not a pardon and roger stone is still a convicted criminal and trump has never put forthny tangible nonconspiracyial evidence for the campaign which he first conjured up in his first month in office. it says, quote, wronger stone s roger stone is a victim of the russia hoax that the democrats perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the presidency. and also in part, stone has appealed his conviction and is seeking a new trial. the president does not wish to interfere with his